The Joe Rogan Experience - #1831 - Colion Noir

Episode Date: June 14, 2022

Colion Noir is a second amendment advocate, attorney, and firearms enthusiast. http://www.mrcolionnoir.com/

The Joe Rogan Experience. Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night. All day. Salud, my friend. Good to see you. Always good to see you. I wish I didn't see you so often after mass shootings, though. Yeah.

Because it seems like so many times when there's a gun control well you're the first guy i always call because uh i think you're the very best at um explaining gun issues from first of all from a second amendment perspective from an enthusiast perspective and also you're a lawyer yeah so you you understand like the law aspect of it better than anybody that I know. So I always want to talk to you when some shit is going down. But the current mass shooting, the most recent one, it's like there's so many of them that it gets to a point where you go, people almost just go numb. Like they don't know what to do. Yeah.

And then there's a lot of scrambling and crying out for legislation. I think it's, you know, one, no one can deny our media does a beautiful job memorializing everything about every mass shooting. In terms of the killer, what we know about him, you know, for the most part, almost sensationalizing it. And so there is something to be said that, you know, someone walking into a school, somebody walking into a building where you don't expect any shooting, a bunch of people deserves that type of attention. I'm not going to be so naive as to say that, you know, I don't get why anybody ever get why they cover it so much.

But there is an admitted sense of helplessness when these things happen where it's like, okay, so what do we do? What can we do? I think the scapegoat route is gun control because I think what it does is it gives us it gives us that the immediate gratification of, all right, we did something, we passed this. All right, let's move on and hope it never happens again.

The problem is though, it never touches the underlying issues about why people would do this. This is weird. It's fucking odd. It's not normal for people to want to go out and just kill as many people as possible. Not just that, just kill children.

That's even that, and that takes it to a whole new level. Yeah, and this guy, I mean, obviously there was something really wrong with him. Someone did, yeah. But the thing about killing the children is it's like it's – that's why school shootings are so fucked because they're the most horrific version of a mass shooting because you're going after innocent little kids. And this was the most evil. And then there's there's also so much to this one. Right. There's so much to the amount of time that the cops were outside that they didn't do anything because they didn't want to get shot.

But that's that's just it, too, though, which is the weird thing for me. So we can acknowledge that in this situation, the same situation that happened in Florida, right? The resource officer didn't go in in time when he could have probably stopped it sooner. But at least that was one guy. True. This is insane. I mean, how many cops were outside that school? Jesus.

Enough that they should have probably went in without saying. They were outside for 75 minutes. Could you imagine? But that's just it, though, if you think about it. Like the same people, not the same people, but then you'll have people who say, okay, well, we need to limit and restrict these guns. But all that does is force us to depend on people who we've already established and a lot of situations aren't necessarily incapable of being there to protect us or in situations like this, refusing to go in and protect us.

Now, I can see someone coming up on the other side saying something like, oh, so you want the kids to have guns there, too, so they can shoot? That's not what I'm saying. Well, that's crazy. Yeah. not what I'm saying. Well, that's crazy. Yeah. But what I am saying is that further justifies why we need to have the firearms that we do have. Because at the end of it, when it all boils down to it, the only person we can rely on to defend ourselves is us. Right. Somebody walks in his door right now and does something. The only people in a position to stop it in enough time to make a difference is me, you and Jamie. Yeah. yeah so from that perspective i try to keep things and

break things down to that simplistic level so people can understand that um instead of just kind of immediately reacting to all right let's ban this and let's ban that let's ban this but we are talking about like you said a group of officers who stood outside while kids were being shot and killed those guys should never be cops again i'm to have to agree with you in that regard. Now, this is me not being a Uvalde, not knowing all of the intimate details about why they stood down. But at the end of the day,

I have a hard time seeing what supersedes there's a guy in classrooms killing kids right now. Well, you know about that mom, the mom that was arrested? They cuffed her. She got, they released her. She went back in, got kids fuck yeah fuck yeah for her horrible that she had to do that but the fact that they cuffed her that that that's fucking

insane it's utterly unacceptable i don't understand i just don't understand i mean maybe i'm missing something but i nothing has been exposed no there's not there's nothing that's been explained. I think there's a part of me that wants to believe, right, that there was some extenuating circumstance that justified. And I don't see it. Even my imagination, as vivid as it is, can't think of something that would substantiate or justify why they hadn't gone in.

Well, it's a perfect storm, right, because we're in a terrible time for law enforcement in that, you know, perfect storm right because we're in a terrible time for law enforcement in that you know all this defund the police stuff has gotten people very skittish about uh like i know cops that don't want to do things because they don't want to get in trouble like they they don't want to show up for things they want to wait before they show up for things because they don't want it to be something they have to handle because they feel tied up. They feel like their hands are tied. It's a balancing act too, right?

Because it's like we don't necessarily want cops to go in there, not only just in this particular situation, Valdi, but just having to be completely let off the leash to the extent that they can do anything that they want anytime and they can't be held accountable for anything. While at the same time, we need them to go in without having to essentially be attorneys, you know, in the moment trying to decide. Like I was just in Wisconsin and I was with the USCCA, which is a concealed carry insurance membership program.

And what we were doing was working scenario-based training. So they set up this whole situation for me, like we're in a coffee shop, I have a girlfriend that I'm talking to, and then a guy comes in, robs the place, and a bunch of other scenarios that happen. And because of my knowledge base and things that I'm aware of from a legal perspective, even in that moment when I'm trying to decide do I shoot, do I not shoot, because you ever run Sims? No.

Sims are like the basically real guns converted into more or less fake guns, so to speak. So they shoot these cartridges that hurt like a bitch. They hurt and they sound really loud. The gun operates the same. Everything's the same except they shoot these. It's kind of like elevated paintball, right? And in this case, we weren't using the actual projectile. What we were using was what this did is it emitted a laser instead of actually shooting a projectile.

But everything else was the same. It was loud, recall, and all of that stuff. And so in that moment, I'm sitting there and I'm thinking, all right, when is it justified for me to shoot? Now, in that moment, in that scenario, you can only kind of mimic reality to a certain extent before, you know, you get overwhelmed with the thought of, okay, I might die. I have the benefit to some degree to kind of think logically through, okay, if I shoot now, is it justified? If I don't shoot now, and so forth and so on. Are you talking about like from a legal perspective?

From a legal perspective, yes. And so in that moment, when the guy's in there, he's already shot at one person, he's about to shoot another person. I'm like, okay, this is my time to shoot, but he's not shooting at me. And so I'm like, what do I do? Can I shoot him and be justified? So let's say if you go into a store and you see a gunfight in the store and you see a guy shooting at someone behind the counter and you're armed. Yeah.

Are you allowed to shoot him? It depends. If he's shooting at people that work at the store. Well, it depends, because if you find out later on that the guy behind the counter pointed his gun at him, said, I'm going to kill you. Right. Imagine if you shot him first. Exactly. Right. So you don't know. You walk into 7-Eleven, there's a gunfight. Yep. You don't know. And so in that situation, and I'm probably kind of giving away too much information because the video's not out yet, but I think it's necessary. So the guy walks in, he says he's robbing the place. He hasn't shot anyone yet.

But he starts arguing with another person. And the other guy is supposed to be like a new concealed carrier. And then the guy stands up. He's like, yo, what is your problem? What are you doing? He's kind of angling towards his gun, but he's not. He hasn't gone for it yet. The other guy has a gun, too, the guy who came in to rob the place. But he hasn't pointed his gun at anyone. He hasn't shot anyone. So at that point, theoretically speaking, you could argue that's just mutual combat. Yeah. Right.

So which one can I shoot? Who's actually endangering who? Right. Right. So I ended up shooting the guy who came to rob the place. The problem is I shot him in the back, too. But that was from the standpoint of when I decided to shoot, I know how to shoot. So I dropped four or five rounds just naturally into the guy.

He's like, oh, shit. He turns around because he's getting shocked as I'm shooting him. So he turns to run. So is it like a laser that sets off like a haptic feedback? Yeah, so you're wearing a vest. It's called a stress vest. So you're wearing a stress vest. And so it sends out a laser every time you hit that person,

and it shocks you. And does it shock you like a taser? It's as bad as you want it to be. Really? So you can get it to the point where it immobilizes your body? I don't think it gets that high. I think it gets to the point where you're like, okay, get this thing off me.

Have you ever been tased? No. I haven't either, but I've watched people get tased, and I'm curious. I'm not. Because some people can just fucking handle it, man. They can. Aren't they usually high?

I don't know. It's a good question. I think sometimes they're high. But how does that stop your body from shutting off due to the electricity? That is true. That I don't know. Because I've seen people just get zapped and they just stand there and they just pull the shit right out of the body.

Now I did see this one video guy did that. The cop was being very patient with the guy and he zapped him and he's nothing. He's like, all right. He zapped him again and he dropped. Really? Second time he dropped. So I don't know what plays, what part, you know. I don't understand.

That's outside of my wheelhouse honestly. My friend Dana White, he went for one of his shows they they all got tasered and uh they felt like they their body just shut off like they just fell over see I'm not the funny thing about it is I had the stress vest on too so when I was doing it so the whole time I'm like I don't want to experience this yeah so yeah so if he hit you he turned and hit yeah hmm yeah Yeah, I'm curious of what that's like. I'm sure it's horrible, you know? I mean, I'll put it like this. When I shot him, he yelled.

So I would say it was pretty bad. Yeah. But, you know, from that perspective, I still ended up shooting him in the back. Hmm. Now, is that legal? Because he's not, you are not in danger. You're just acting almost like as law enforcement or as protection. So in that particular case, once we broke it down, my shooting was justified.

Right. But it just goes to show you how thin that line is between justified and unjustified. And it doesn't it also like, well, in that situation, was there cameras involved? Yeah. Because it's in a store. Yeah. But what if you're in a school, like in in that situation was there cameras involved because it's in a store yeah but what if you're in a school like in a school situation like if you walked in and shot that guy who was killing those kids and you shot him in the back clearly you'd be justified because you're

that's in defense of a third party okay right um so at that point all bets are off you know like whether i shoot you in the back front side but i guess the argument that could be made in my particular situation is he was retreating. Right. Right. Because he was running out. That's why I shot him because he turned to run away. And so it was basically it happens really quickly.

Right. And the split times between my trigger pull pretty fast. So it's like bang, bang, bang, bang. Right. You know, that time period he can turn and catch one in the back. But you get an aggressive enough prosecutor. That's the argument they made. If I was a prosecutor, that's the argument I would make.

You know about the case in Austin where a guy was not, he was not charged for a long period of time, but it was at one of the protests during the pandemic. And this guy apparently was military and he was an Uber driver. He was Uber driving. I do remember that. and he was an Uber driver. He was Uber driving? I do remember that.

Yeah. So he pulled down this road. I think he was following his GPS. And he pulled down this road, and all of a sudden he's faced with the people that were blocking the road. Yeah. And this guy pulls an AK-47 out and points at him. Yeah. And he shoots him.

He's a veteran. I mean, he's used to being in live combat situations, and he just pulls out his gun and shoots him. Did he get charged? He did get charged. Did he get convicted? I don't know. Let's find out what the status on that was, because all my friends that are law enforcement or military were furious that he got charged, because this guy literally pointed the gun at his face.

Like, he's standing there pointing the gun. What are you going to do? It's like, how do you know if the guy's going to kill you or not? Like it's unreasonable to point a gun at a person in that scenario. But you know what that speaks to? What? Edufuckingcation. Education.

Dude, like in my videos, I say this time and time and time and time again. We have over 400 million guns in this country, man. You're not getting away from the guns. You're not. And if you take them away from legal, people that have them legally. The only people that are going to have them. Yeah, are the people that have them illegally. Exactly.

And so if we understand that this is the country that we live in, we have a Second Amendment, we understand the culture in this country. We understand the culture in this country. Why would we not spend just even a decent amount of resources on a federal level, on let's say local level, to teach people the dynamics involved with firearm ownership? Let me ask you this. One of the things about people that are pro-Second Amendment is they don't want to change any of the restrictions or any – the way it's set up right now, they want to keep it exactly the way it is in terms of what kind of background checks exist. They don't want to add any sort of additional checks, any sort of additional restrictions. Why is it so easy to get a gun license? Because efficiency. But why is it so hard to get a driver's license? Because people suck at driving. But don't people suck at shooting?

Some do. A lot of people do. A lot of people do. The difference, though, too, is we're talking about a constitutional right versus a privilege. When I got a concealed carry permit, I had to go through an extensive examination, which also involved showing that you are proficient at shooting. Why don't people have to do that? Well, because we are talking about a constitutional right. So the standard is a lot different than say, okay, we're giving you

the privilege to drive this car on the road. So like with the car, I can own any car I want. If I have private property, I can drive all over that private property without any education, without any instruction or any of that stuff. Now, the moment I want to step out into the public with this car and drive it on public roads, that's when I have to get licensed, get registration, and all of those things. Okay, I see what you're saying. So if someone wants to have a gun and they want to take it somewhere, then they have to go through these examinations.

Generally speaking. But not here. That used to be the case in Texas. Now, no. Now we have constitutional carry, which means that you don't have to go through those procedures in order to carry a firearm. So here's the story. Uber also released a statement. Unfortunately, we aren't able to comment on pending litigation. This is about the guy who's an Uber driver.

As we've released in the past, this incident is not related to the Uber platform. It says, for now, this gentleman, Perry, remains indicted on multiple charges, including murder in this case. In August, his attempt to get the murder charge dropped was denied. From what I understand, this has to do with the district attorney in Austin. We have a lot of very liberal district attorneys in this country. They just repealed the guy in San Francisco to screams and cheers of people who are dealing with unprecedented crime and homelessness there And you may start on San Francisco. Oh, you're the one who told me about it You're the one who explained to me the whole homeless situation

We've talked about it multiple times and credited you with explaining it you know since you're a lawyer and you understand like the You understand like the inner workings of the machine in a way that i probably don't i'll be honest with you you know what got me to understand it wasn't me being a lawyer it was me being on the ground and seeing this shit and talking to the people that's what really set it off for me because when i was with the nra and we were doing these mini documentaries going to these different places and talking to the people on the ground they were explaining stuff to me you can watch the video you see it my face. Like I'm like the same way you react is the same

way I reacted when I first heard it. I thought it was a funding thing. I thought like, do we need more money for homelessness? And then when I realized that it's a business, it's like a light bulb went off. When you explained it to me, I was like, of course it's like everything else. When you showed me the numbers and the people in LA.A. making two hundred and sixty thousand dollars a year to deal with the homeless situation and it's not going anywhere. I'm like, that person has a fucking great job. You know, I actually analogize that to the issue with gun violence in inner city. How so? So it's a theory. Do I have concrete data to affirm it? Nope.

It's a theory. Do I have concrete data to affirm it? Nope. But I think to a degree, a lot of these leaders and politicians in the inner city need that violence in the inner city to continue as a way to justify the necessity for them being in the positions that they're in. Like what kind of position? So if you think about it, the vast majority of the gun violence in this country is from the inner city.

Overwhelmingly so so the numbers are crazy like when when people talk about gun violence in this country maybe we should start with that right gun violence in this country when you look at gun deaths a gigantic percentage of them are suicides yeah right what is i would say about 65 63 to 65 percent are suicides okay so when we're talking about gun violence i mean i am not am not, clearly, I'm not in favor of suicide. You know, obviously, I want people to get help and live happy lives. But this is not my main concern. My main concern is people harming other people. So when we look at the numbers of gun violence, it's always exaggerated because they don't include the

fact that that is a large number. They're starting to do it now. They didn't before. How many of you are about it on Fox News? Yeah. Like, they legit, I remember, because this was like at the genesis kind of of my two-way advocacy when I was looking at the numbers. Because I kind of initially just took the numbers for what they were. And I just assumed, because you hear gun violence, you see, you hear gun deaths.

You're thinking people shooting at other people in the middle of the street and dropping dead, right? And then I started looking into the numbers and I started realizing, wait, 63 to 65% are suicides? And like I pointed out, it's not that I don't care about suicides, but then I also backed over and I said, okay, well, let's look at the suicide rate just as a whole in America versus other places that have strict gun laws. And I remember when I was on Bill Maher and I was sitting at the round table, we kind of started getting into that discussion. And you would think, considering we have as many guns as we have in this country in the hands of civilians, you'd think on the surface we'd lead the world in suicides.

We don't. We're not even close. So that stands to reason that the issue with suicides isn't a gun thing. It is purely a mental health thing. Yes. Right? So that's why I'm able to, okay, let's set this aside and now deal with what's remaining. Then you have a very small percentage that are accidental gun deaths, right?

We're talking about, like, maybe totality in a year, 1,000. And what percentage is that? I think it's like, if I remember correctly, it's like 3% to 5% or something like that. So we're almost at 70% then. Yeah. We're at like 68% somewhere. And that's including, and then there's another percentage that includes officer shootings, whether it's officers shooting a criminal or criminal killing an officer,

right? So we can put that here over here as well, because that's a different dynamic. What percentage are officers shooting? That's sitting somewhere in about also 2% to 3%. I'm probably flipping it. I don't know if the accidental gun deaths are about 2% to 3%, and the officers are like 5%, if I'm not mistaken. We could find out. Jamie will pull it up so we could get an accurate assessment of it. But to get to where we want to go is essentially homicides with firearms. That's where we want to be. And generally speaking, you've got a range of about 8,000 to 12,000 people every year die from actually being shot by another person.

That includes mass shootings, everything. Right. And then what percentage of those are gang-related? So because the whole gang-related, because now what's happening is they're taking a lot of the gang-related shootings and including them in mass shootings. It's just kind of like what happened in Philadelphia recently. Oh, I see what you're saying. They called the Philadelphia shooting that just happened recently a mass shooting.

What was the Philadelphia one? It was basically, there was a shootout between between I don't know how many people it was. But there was like I can't remember exactly where in Philly it was. But essentially I can't remember. A lot of people got shot. And they called it a mass shooting. It was street violence. That's what it was.

It was two parties going at it. And they called it mass shooting. That's what it was. It was two parties going at it and they call it mass shooting. I can I guess you could argue why that that's considered a mass shooting, but it's not. But in our minds, we think about it. A mass shooting is somebody you have an individual or multiple people who want to go and kill as many innocent people as possible. Right. Right. We're not talking about people who are shooting each other over disputes. This was a dispute that took place in the public between two people with guns, essentially. And so they want to call that a mass shooting. And I'm like, that's not fair because the way they deal with these types of things, they're different.

The same way you don't include the suicides and the homicides because they're different reasons for why they're happening. Homicides, because there are different reasons for why they're happening. Right. And so a lot of the vast majority of the gun violence, the homicide aspect of it is from the inner cities. That's where it's coming from. It's these kids. Literally, when I say kids, I'm talking like 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 year olds. They're shooting each.

They're shooting at each other. Now, I'm not dismissing that and saying that it's irrelevant and that we shouldn't factor that in. What I'm saying is it's a totally different reason for why it's happening. It's not a gun issue. It's a socioeconomic issue. Because if you take those same kids that look like me, right? I know a lot of black people, people of color who live in the

suburbs of America, and they're not running around committing drive-bys in their BMWs. They're not. So what's-bys in their BMWs. They're not. So what's the difference there? They have access to guns the same way these kids have access to guns. And these kids have access to guns illegally in the inner city. The difference is this prolonged exposure to poverty.

But nobody wants to have that conversation. The reason they don't want to have that conversation is because it is admittedly hard to deal with. It's hard. It's convoluted and it's difficult. So is that the vast majority? So outside of suicide, is that the majority of the shootings? Yes. So the majority of the shootings are- Are inner city gang, drug and dispute violence. That's what it is. Okay. The vast majority of them. And that is one thing that we both agree on in terms of

that's one of the most gigantic and ignored problems in this country is exposure to poverty and violence your whole life. Yep. And that these environments like the inner city, like South Side of Chicago, which have never changed. Never. They haven't.

They've gotten only worse. Yep. I was in Chicago a few years back. We were doing a gig, and there was a cop who was driving us around and he was Explaining what you know, we're like dude What is going on because it was like right after a big one right after a big weekend and he goes this is what happened They got very aggressive with arresting these drug lords

And when they did that they created a power vacuum and then these other guys stepped in to try to fill the power vacuum And a lot of them these young bucks they started clicking up yep so now I mean these kids are literally blocks away from each other yeah to each other and and so from that perspective I mean I saw it when I did my little mini docuseries in Southside Chicago how much of an effort has been put like there's almost no coverage of that no like when like in Chicago a couple of weekends ago i don't remember what the number was but it was something preposterous amount of people that

got shot well because it's and i think what it is it's self-contained in many people's minds it's kind of like that's why people are so and are so engrossed with mass shootings because with inner city violence it happens in the inner city right right and if you don't live in the inner city it doesn't affect you, so to speak. So it's easier to kind of just kind of push it off and not really pay attention to it. However, with mass shootings, it starts spilling over into your reality. And it's terrifying because now it's like, wait, so you mean to tell me I can't just live in a different neighborhood and be away from this type of gun violence?

Now I'm dealing with an element that's now shooting me in my area. Right. Because I guarantee you, these kids started crossing over and started engaging in the same violence in these other areas. That'd be shut down in a heartbeat. I mean, overnight, they shut it down easily. But in the inner cities, nah.

They kind of just let it flourish. And as far as creating the vacuum that it created, you could make the argument, well, they tried to do something about it then, and it just ended up getting worse, right? You have these things that you do, and sometimes it has effect that you didn't intend to have. And so, but the problem is, is that we always approach it from a singular focus. It's either ban all the guns or just arrest everybody on the streets. We never want to have that in-depth conversation about, you got to think about what type of environment you're living in,

where you come up as a child. When I say child, I mean, you're 16, 15, 16, 17, 18,

19. And you so easily can pick up a gun and just take another person, take another person's life that looks just like you. And you get a reputation for doing that. Exactly. And you don't get arrested you don't you know Well, do you know about the story about them the shootout where they released everybody because they said that it was mutual combat You don't know that no

Chicago wait when a few years ago no not even a few years ago I think it was one year ago. This is a wild story because two people died. I think two maybe three Multiple people shot shootout on video by the way people were filming it from their cars Dude, it's the craziest shit that Lori Lightfoot and her administration boy They should be examined for future like look look look who became the mayor of Chicago This is crazy when she wears that fucking superhero, that lady is out of her fucking mind. And also when she banned protests on her street. Remember that?

She banned protests on her. I have to keep myself safe. What about everybody else? That's just it. That's just it. That's just it. That's it right there. Some people get charged, it looks like.

But way later and not for a while. Well, probably after everybody talked about it. Yeah, correct. It says after the drama, there was charges announced. Oh, after mutual combat drama, Fox and Lightfoot announced charges in Westside Shootout. Okay, this is because they dropped the charges initially. So, okay, so it was over a year ago. So following the drama between Cook County State Attorney Kim Fox and Mayor Lightfoot

last year over a lack of charges in a deadly shootout on the west side, a man was arrested Thursday in connection. Thomas Dean, 20, he was 19 at the time of the shooting, I guess, was charged Thursday with three counts of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon. That's not... Even that's aggravated. I was aggravated. Back in October 1, a brazen shootout happened in the middle of the day during a quiet afternoon in North Austin. That's a suburb of Chicago. North Austin, Chicago.

The shootout allegedly involved two gangs and was described like the Wild West due to dozens of shell casings found at the scene. People believe a group of shooters targeted a house. People inside the house fired back, killing one of the gunmen. Following the shooting, I thought more than one person was killed. Following the shooting, CPD said the Cook County State Attorney's Office refused to pursue charges citing mutual combat. Imagine that. On the street.

I mean, this isn't even, like, in the woods. Mayor Lightfoot then... I mean, I'm saying, like, if you know that... Well, if it was in the woods, no one could get hit by strays. This is a fucking crowded street. They're just firing rounds. The evidence included DNA matched to a gun

Dean allegedly used during the shootout. Wow, I should've wiped your gun, bro. Fox said more charges may be brought in the future. Whoa, you're fucking threatening more charges? I might say someone else was aggravated. Dean is due in court on Friday. Well, you know, I don't have a lot of faith in this because the way it's going today, and I don't understand what happened in terms of the way DAs just sort of release people

that are accused of violent assaults. It's bananas. They just get them out of jail. Like in Los Angeles, it's off the charts. Los Angeles is what? That video that you sent me of you like talking to the or you playing that interview of the gang member saying he's getting the fuck out of L.A.? He's like, it's too hot for me. A fucking gang member is like, L.A.'s too crazy.

Dude, I'm telling you, man. I think, yeah, it was WAC 100. Yes, because he was talking about how the people are getting out. That they're going to release another 70,000 people early who were violent criminals because they don't have any room in the jails or the DA just seems to think it's a good idea. That's another thing too, that people are not factoring in. After COVID, the bottom fell out. That's what people aren't talking about. Like when you had all these shutdowns and people couldn't work and basically shut down the economy.

I mean, you got to understand what that does to a lot of people who are already sitting on the bottom. Yeah. So when the bottom falls out, what do you think is going to happen? Right. You know, people who are already in dire straits are now in desperate straits, and they're doing anything. Right. I'm not justifying the action by any stretch of the imagination. I'm just saying don't be surprised.

They don't think there's repercussions anymore. Yeah. And that's another thing, too. That's a big thing. Yeah. repercussions anymore. Yeah. And that's another thing too.

That's a big thing. And that's, and it amazes me how people don't understand this. And I think what it is is a lot of people just like to live in their own little bubbles. Right.

And they don't like to address things until that thing breaks into their bubble. And when it does, it's like, please government, do something,

make it stop right now. Yeah. And it's like, it's too late. It's already there. Right. Right. And the government, do something. Make it stop right now. Yeah. And it's like, it's too late. It's already there. Right. Right? And the government you thought you were going to be able to depend on, yeah, you could depend on them when shit ain't happening.

Yeah. But when shit starts happening in mass, it's not even always the fact that they don't want to do anything or they just choose not to do it. They can't. They can't. They're just not enough people. So at that point, they realized, shit, I'm on my own. And you should have realized that

in the middle of the whole situation, because when pretty much the world was shut down, you were on your own. When we were having protests and riots, every other day it seemed like, and another city was burning every other day, and they were like, yeah, cops were like, yeah, there's not much we can do.

You're kind of on your own. That that should have sunk right then and there and let you know that the only person responsible for your safety is you. The cops, the government, that's supplemental. You're not supposed to rely on it. You can't rely on it, even if you want to. The amount of time that it takes them just to respond. It's just it's not happening. Right. If someone's breaking into your house, if someone's on your property,

the amount of time that it would take for a police officer to get to you, even if they do choose to respond quickly. Still not fast enough. Not fast enough. The popular saying, when seconds count, help is only a minute away. And that's the whole

basis from, at least from me, I'm speaking from me, and I know there are a lot of people on the gun side of things that will agree with me. On the gun side of things? Yes, on the gun side of things. What's the agreement is that I have to be self-reliant when it comes to the protection of me, my family, and people

that I love. And that's why I want these firearms. You know, we talk about, and others talk about banning AR-15s and so forth and so on. And I'm like, no, I want an AR-15 because it is to me the best tool to defend myself with. And I don't want the struggle for my life to be a fair fight. I want it to be lopsided in my favor as best as I can. And the AR does the best job, at for me i can speak to my now you start getting into the weeds of it you know some gun guys will say oh no well this thing's better you get some old guys like oh you need a shotgun like joe like joe biden um all you need is a

double barrel double barrel shoot one in the air yeah you're gonna land on your neighbor while he's out mowing the lawn you idiot but i mean even and then then he'll back door and get up on the camera and say well the nine millimeter will blow a lung out yeahowing the lawn, you fucking idiot. But I mean, even, and then he'll back door and get up on camera and say, well, the nine millimeter will blow a lung out. Yeah. I'm like, have you seen the gunshot wounds of a double barrel shotgun? Yeah. What the fuck was that about?

But we're talking about a literal challenged person. Yeah. You know, a person who's got mental issues. No one's telling the emperor that he has no clothes. It's so crazy. But that outside of it. So there's two, there's a bunch of issues, right? But the big one is mental health.

Because this is what accounts for the suicides. This is what accounts for this person that is willing to go and kill a bunch of innocent people. I remember the Aurora shooting. The guy went to the movie theater. They showed a photo of the guy after they arrested him I'm like Jesus Christ I would have arrested him if I saw him at Starbucks you know remember his face I mean the guy was clearly ill I think too so I was I read an article and I've always I've always had this mindset I always like one of my first viral videos was how to stop a mass shooting, literally.

And in the video, I was like, stop the fantasy. And by stop the fantasy, I mean have people in place to shut down his ability to kill as many people as possible. Because at the end of the day, a lot of these people really are doing it for the clout. They really are. They're doing it so that they recognize exactly yeah and so because i mean i mean think about it like the mo is always the same right vast majority i mean i read an article and i that it even kind of blew me away a little bit that there was a study that found like if the media changed the way that they handled reporting these mass shootings, we could reduce mass shootings by 33 percent. Really? Yeah, because a lot of these mass shootings are copycat.

But let me ask you this. You have to record – I mean, there has to be some reporting of a mass shooting. Yes. And so what it's saying was focus on the people who were killed. Focus on what happened. But we go into a deep- sea dive about these people's lives. Like in the video I did, I did it like five, seven years ago. And I talked, I was like, no one can name the vast majority of victims in a lot of these shootings.

But you can name all of the shooters. You can name them. You know what they look like. We just talked about it. He showed them face to face. I was like, oof, wow. Rest of them at Starbucks. Like we know too much about them. and that's exactly what they want.

Take the guy in New York. He now gets to sit back. Yeah, he's in jail, but he gets to sit back and watch his work. He's a lunatic. We did a whole manifesto about why he did what he did. Now he gets to sit back and watch it. Right. And he gets clout in prison probably.

Exactly. And I even said that. And I Because he gets clout in prison, probably. Exactly. And I even said that, you know, and I think there's something to be said about that. Now, I'm not going to go so far as to say the government should tell the media they can't report on mass shootings. Not what I'm saying. But I do think there's something to be said about how we sensationalize these shooters. Right. And you know how I know for a fact? Because when Columbine happened,

I was still in high school. And I remember when Columbine happened, I did a deep-sea dive into studying both of those dudes because it was truly fascinating because it never crossed my mind that somebody would do something like that. So I'm trying to get a better understanding

about why someone would do that. And so it was easy as hell for me to get all the information in the world. It was plastered all over the news. Now, that was one of the most notorious school shootings that we had. So it's understandable that we were like, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, what's going on here? Like, let's figure this out. It was probably the first, right?

No, it wasn't the first. It wasn't the first school shooting? No, I don't think it was the first school shooting. I don't believe so. I think it was the first school shooting I don't believe so I think it was a first school shooting to that scale oh yeah I think these dudes will walk around the school they're just blasting at people and walking just killing people in the library like it was it's not so there's a lot of things that have to happen one we have to figure out what what happens to a person

like how far gone do they have to be where they can do something like that? And is there a way to stop that? And I think that's a conversation we need to have. What could be done, though? Have you ever seen a rational sort of plan for stopping anybody before they get to that point? I mean, one of the things that I've heard people talk about is that the fbi was aware of this guy but what do they what do you do do exactly right like let me tell you a story and i'm trying to be as vague about this as possible because i don't want to get anybody in trouble but there was a kid at a school um that someone that i know is connected to. And this kid took a photo and sent it to his friends of him holding a rifle, saying something about going to go to school, on my way to school now.

Something to that extent. And that photo got to one of the parents. And one of the parents turned the kid into the police. The police showed up at the kid's house and apparently he thought it was funny to say, this was a while ago. It was like, there was a break between mass shootings. The kid was only 11 and they said he didn't know what he was doing. He thought it was funny, either funny or he was being know being wild and you know he thought his friends would you know he was he was being a fucking idiot he's being an 11 year old who has access to a rifle and You know they moved in on him, and they

ascertained that he wasn't a threat, but How does that? Like when does one decide that someone is a threat? Like, this guy had not killed anybody until he killed his grandmother and then killed all his kids. So how do you know when a person's about to pop? I mean, do you monitor them? And how many kids are you monitoring? How many kids are bullied to the point where they're suicidal or homicidal?

How many people are like that out there? I think that's the natural restriction of our reality, right? It's because we do have these things in place as far as rights are concerned. But it's like, so at what point? And it's a high standard to remove those rights from somebody, especially when they haven't done anything. Right. So that's the question that I think our brainpower should be focused on trying to accomplish. While understanding it's no different than a criminal, though. Right? See, a criminal becomes a criminal once he does some criminal shit.

We don't necessarily know when that's going to happen. Right. So what do we do? We put ourselves in the best position possible to stop that criminal when he decides to try to do it. And that's where we start getting into the conversations about hardening our schools. How do we go about hardening our schools? They had no problem hardening the Capitol with $1.9 billion after what happened on January 6th. Right.

Right? So they understand on a fundamental level that they— They spent $1.9 billion? From what I read in the article. I would like to see an accounting of all that money. Just saying. Because I think that's a little high. If I was the guy running the capital, I'd be like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

What? What are you doing? Yeah. How much money? But again, what we're talking about is we're talking about people in positions of leadership who feel that their lives are more important than ours. It's just, I'm not going to say it's just natural, but that tends to happen. You start to kind of develop this sense of superiority

when you're in positions of power. And you're like, well, I need the protection because I'm a person of importance. Well, what about everyone else? Because a lot of these people are wanting these gun control laws and removing these guns because they don't want the common people to have them because they see them as a threat to them. Yeah.

That was one of the arguments about this money that's going to Ukraine where people were like, how are you sending $40 billion to Ukraine and you're not spending any money protecting schools? Like imagine, first of all, before we even get into protection, how about advancing education? Yeah. $40 billion would go a long way to improving schools uh 40 billion dollars would go a long way to providing security in these schools yeah you know i mean i mean did you do you hear about how he got in

no so and i'm not laughing because it's funny but it was just astounding to me so essentially what happened is he went through a back door that was unlocked and then he literally went so they had they had plans in place to deal with potential mass shooters like this um at least on paper the protocols that were supposed to be adhered to at the school yeah um and he went door to door he went to several different class doors they were locked he couldn't get in and then there was one door that was that was. And from what I read, by the time the teacher realized what was going on and she tried to go to the door to lock it, he grabbed the door and opened it.

And he was able to get in that way. And so my, and I've always said this, I'm like, okay, we understand that we don't want these things to happen in our schools. So what's the first thing you do? If somebody broke into your neighbor's house, say tomorrow, the first thing you're probably going to think of is, all right, how do I harden my house to make sure this doesn't happen to me?

That's going to be your first thought. Why would we not do that with our children in the places that they go to school? And I know people are like, we don't make it seem like they're living in a prison. You can have passive defenses where optically it doesn't look like a prison. You can have reinforced doors that don't look like prison gates. You can do these things. But we don't. And to me, those are the easier things to implement.

Before we even start talking about banning this gun and banning that gun, which will do nothing to stop these things. Because when we talk about school shootings, the worst one we ever had was Virginia Tech he killed 33 people with handguns so from that perspective we understand that there are gonna be people who are gonna try to do this whether they use ar-15s where they use handguns shotguns it doesn't matter the goal protect our kids right when Obama was in office and his kids were in school you think this kid would aim at getting in there and do what he did? I do not believe that would be the case. He wouldn't be. Why? Because that school where those kids are going to, it's going to be hardened.

It's going to be. If Joe Biden had younger kids now and they were in school, that kid would not be able to get into that school. Right. He wouldn't because that school would be hardened. So there's so many schools. There are. Right. And there's so many guns and there's so many people and there's so many potential crazy people. Yes.

It's like how much money would it cost to harden all of these schools? You're dealing with a lot of money. So I think there's a school, I forgot the name of the school, I forgot where it was, where they have a whole system in place. It's crazy. I put it in my Evernote

because I was going to go and do video on it, so I hadn't researched it thoroughly. And I think they said it was somewhere in the area of $400,000 for the entire system, but the system scales. So this is public? I don't remember if it was public. Public, private, or all? What do you mean?

Schools? Amount of schools? Well, no, this particular system at this school. This particular school. Yeah, so they had a whole system designed for school shooters. Oh, I see what you're saying. So you're saying that $400,000 was spent for the system. For this particular system, yeah.

And it scales, right? So you can have one aspect of it, make it cheaper, and so forth and so on. And I forgot, I didn't do the numbers. Jamie, are you able to pull how many schools we have total? That's what I was curious about. Are there any charges that are being brought up against the cops that didn't go in? Not that I'm aware of. How do you keep a job?

Schools and districts. How many schools in the U.S.? There are about 130,930 public and private K-12 schools in the United States according to 2017-2018 data. So expensive. Yeah. Super expensive. Well, yeah. But again, $40 billion goes to Ukraine like that in the middle of an academic downslide.

Yeah. So, I mean, but again again these same people that always telling us well how much is a kid's life worth right right so there should be absolutely some measure of protection that stops this from being some stops it from being available to someone that someone could just get into the school yes I mean I think that's bare minimum so the fact this guy got in through a back door and the only reason why he got into that classroom is because the door was ajar.

Ajar, yeah. So protocols have to be implemented. But the problem is people get relaxed. They do. After a while. They do. Like, nothing's happening. Which is why I'm-

You're fine. And I get a lot of shit for it, and I think it's crazy that I get shit for it, but I'm in favor of allowing teachers to own, to keep guns at school. Well, some places are now allowing teachers to have guns. And I watched this video where all these teachers pulled out their pistols and they had them. Did you see that? What kind of world are we living in? Listen, I want to live in a world where that's not an option because it's not necessary.

Me too. I think you do too. But we also have to live in reality and all of my liberal friends start screaming about gun control and then I say then what like what do you mean like when you talk about the amount of guns so we've got to take those guns like okay it's not realistic this is not realistic not only is it not realistic it's not smart it's not realistic. This is not realistic. Not only is it not realistic, it's not smart. No,

it's, I don't look, I don't want anything like this to ever happen again. We're all on the same page. And that's the thing. I think that's the point that's not being put out there because it's quite as kept. I'm tired of hearing how all gun owners are the blood of the babies. The killed hands are on all gun owners who don't want any more gun control laws.

That's fucking ridiculous. Like, we have guns because we want to protect lives. And the only difference is how you want to go about doing it and how we want to go about doing it. It's not like, well, we don't give a damn about those kids. We just want our guns so we can go shoot in the backyard and just be happy and merry. No, we carry guns because we want to protect lives. We just differ in how we want to do it. Did you see what Trudeau said today?

Wait, today? Did you see? I'll send it to you, Jamie, because it is fucking wild. He said you don't have the right in Canada to own a gun to protect your life. It is one of the most wild things I've ever seen anybody say because first of all I don't believe it's true I don't believe he is correct in terms of what what do they have up there they don't have a constitution it's not the same yeah whatever it is like I mean they're still part of

England yeah well they're under the rule of the Queen theoretically technically speaking fuck someone sent to me and I don't know if I saved it cause I was so disgusted. I think I might've like just fucking threw my hands up in the air, but there's a whole Twitter thread about it that someone had sent to me and uh, I can't find it at the moment, but essentially what he was saying was that that is not what's in whatever they have up there. That it says you have the right to own a gun for hunting and for shooting sports. You do not have the right to own a gun for self-preservation and to preserve lives. But apparently that's not even true.

Even if it was true, you have to think about what type of leader you're under who can open his mouth and say something like that as a justification for doing what he's doing as far as gun control. Well, it's the son of a guy who is a politician and a leader and a completely removed person from terms of regular society and the problems that other people face. Oh, you mean like Joe Biden? Yeah. Same thing, basically. They're the same people. Both corrupt, both full of shit.

And that's the thing that the other side, and when I say the other side, I mean the gun lobby, the anti-gun lobby, has done a good job of is creating this. Here it is. Other than using firearms for sports shooting and hunting, there is no reason anyone in Canada should need guns in their everyday lives. We need less gun violence. This is about freedom. People should be free to go to the super. Okay. But this is not the, the, the main thing. The thing that he said that was, uh, egregious was he said that they don't have the right to own guns, uh, for, yeah, that's not even it either. There's an actual video of it, uh, an actual, this is what what this is a little bit further long

longer ago when he was talking about um they made a ban on the purchase of handguns yeah the transfer of handguns the important importing handguns um yeah so it's funny so i get a lot of like even my my legal mentor this is literally the guy who taught me how to argue um and we go back and forth about this um because he sometimes he thinks I'm too extreme on the issue sometimes. And I think the problem is he doesn't understand that the ultimate goal is for them to ban guns. When I say that out loud, they think I'm crazy. And I'm like, I've been doing this long enough to see where this goes. And look at what's happening in Canada right now. You have someone who is literally, they started off by banning AR-15s, so-called assault weapons.

And now all of a sudden, now he's talking about people don't have a right to own a handgun. Yeah. If right now in our country, people killed with rifles is about 435 every year, 435, close to 500 maybe. More people die from getting beat to death than they do killed with an AR-15. So if the goal is, so people's rationale is, well, these school shooters, and I'm being very specific about school shooters because the vast majority of mass shootings are committed with handguns. Mass shootings. School shootings, it trends on the side of AR-15s. So let's say we ban the AR-15s.

Then what? Because people are saying that you guys are being ridiculous. We just want to get rid of these scary assault military rifles. And that's it. And I'm like, that's not just it. Because I know where this is going because I understand the data. The vast majority of people that are being killed in mass shootings are committed with handguns. It's only a matter of time before we have another one and we're having this conversation again. And now you're telling us we need to ban handguns. And you can't say them crazy because they're doing it right now in Canada.

And so that's the problem is people aren't being realistic about this conversation. Yeah. I'm trying to find the video. Oh, you're good. Sorry. See if you can find it, Jamie. It was people were freaking out reading it or watching it because it was just like it's such a crazy thing to say that you can't have a gun to protect yourself. It's nuts. You do not have the right to own a gun to protect yourself. It's just that you do not

have the right to own a gun to preserve your life. But this is the mentality. This is the mentality that our leaders have. Not only in Canada, this is a pervasive thought process in the leaders of our country. And this is further exemplified by the fact of how they reacted to the

Heller decision. The Heller decision What is the Heller? It's the Supreme Court case that said that you have an individual right to own a firearm. And the leaders of the country literally fought back against it. This is literally the Supreme Court case that says you have an individual right to own a firearm. And they were still upset with that ruling. So it should tell you everything you need to know about what they genuinely want to do. But no one wants to acknowledge that reality.

They're like, oh, no, no, no. We just want common sense, rational, reasonable, all these other amorphous, euphemistic words. And I'm like, that's not the case at all. It's not. They're looking at it from a position of control. You're looking at it from a position of protecting lives, which I agree with you. Let's try to do that. I don't agree with you about how to do it, but I can give you that. At least I know you're coming from a position

of, I just want to save lives. I don't really know how to do it. I think getting rid of guns might do it or banning certain guns might do it. I can respect that. But when it comes to our leaders and the people that are pushing this the most, and my biggest frustration, people are always like, oh, cool. You're so political. You're so super anti-left-wing. No, it just is what it is. The vast majority of gun control comes from the left. The vast majority. The vast majority. Why do you think that is? Because, you mean from the leadership standpoint or from the people? All of the above. I mean, even my left- wing friends, the ones that I know well, that just whenever a mass shooting happens, that I look on their Twitter feed,

and it's always like, gun control now, exclamation point. I put up a tweet not too long ago that kind of got people's panties in a bunch. But I said, half of this country wants to be ruled over. The other half of this country just wants to be left alone. The problem is the people who want to be ruled over want everyone to be ruled over. And I, by and large, think that for a lot of people on the left, and I'm not saying everybody because I know a lot of liberal gun owners, right, who are adamant about protecting the Second Amendment. But a vast majority of them really do overly rely on the government as far as keeping them safe and giving them everything that they need. And when you do that, your default is always going to be depend on the government.

The government inherently, from the standpoint of wanting, utilizing the government to fix all the issues in the country, you get that from the left side of the leadership aisle because they want to gain, they want the government to gain as much power as possible in order to gain control over the people. Whereas when you look on the other side of the aisle. That's it. Yeah, I just found it too. Here it is. Okay, play this. We have a culture where the difference is guns can be used for

hunting or for sport shooting in Canada and there's lots of gun owners and they're mostly lost respecting and law-abiding but you can't use a gun for self-protection in Canada that's not a right that you have in the constitution or anywhere else if you try and buy a gun and say it's for self-protection no you don't get that you get it for hunting you can get it for sports shooting take it to the range uh no problem as long as you go through our rigorous background checks but there's a difference around the culture and one of the things that we're seeing with the debate in the states is you get more and more of the american style you know right to carry self-defense arguments filtering up through through the uh you know the usual more right-wing communications channel.

Now, scroll down. Now, scroll down this thread because in this thread, it's exposed that that's not the case in terms of their laws. Someone pulls up the actual laws. If you keep going, let's see what it says here. There it is. Okay. Subsection 126.11 approve the transfer individual. Individual needs a restrictive firearm gun.

Okay, here it goes. Um, December 1, 1998 handguns. Only if the chief firearms instructor is satisfied a, that the individual needs the restricted firearm or handgun. I to protect the life of that individual or of other individuals, and I, I, for use in connection with his or her lawful profession or occupation of, or B, that the purpose for which the individual wishes to acquire the restricted firearm or handgun is, I, for the use of target practice, target competition.

Okay. So A, if you look at A, to protect the life of that individual or other individuals. So this is written in, go back to the top of this, please. So subsection 12, 6.1 in December 1st, 1998, handguns, only if the chief firearms officer is satisfied. So this is, it says under this gentleman, Mr. Romali, posts this on Twitter, our prime minister doesn't even know the law. Canadian Firearms Act, Section 28 AI. firearms act section 28 ai so it is it is in their law which is fucking crazy for a guy to say that i'm playing devil's advocate i think that is more geared towards elitism and here's what i'm getting

at in new york you can get a concealed carry license it's hard why is it hard who are they giving it to well they gave it to a friend of mine because he's hard. Why is it hard? Who are they giving it to? Well, they gave it to a friend of mine who's out of his fucking mind. So if you're famous. But he's famous, yeah. Or donating to police, you know, police chiefs. When I say out of his fucking mind, I just say it in jest mostly. Gotcha.

He's a great guy. But he's a firearms enthusiast and he's also famous. And it took a long ass time for him to get a great guy. But he's a firearms enthusiast, and he's also famous, and it took a long-ass time for him to get a concealed carry. They are handing them out more often now in Los Angeles. In Los Angeles now, yes. Because of that sheriff. I like that sheriff. But if you really think about it, that reads just like the New York law

in terms of being able to carry a firearm for protection. Yeah, technically you can. But he's saying own. He's not even saying, we're not talking about a license to carry. No, that's what I'm saying. See, they don't have a second amendment. Right. So the way that read to me

and listening to Trudeau and then reading that, it's kind of like, so when it comes to concealed carry license, you have may issue and shall issue states, right? May issue is if you can justify to the sheriff that you need this gun because of your business or your celebrity, somebody who needs to protect their life. Right. Then you can get a concealed carry license. But to a regular common person, there's no just that's not just that's not enough.

person, there's no just that's not just that's not enough. There has to be an extenuating circumstance, which usually falls on the idea of I'm famous, so I need I need to protect myself, or I have a jewelry business and I move a lot of cash and therefore I need a gun to protect myself. Well, that takes it even further. And it says, OK, technically, yes, you can own a gun if you can justify to the officer that you have an extenuating circumstance that you need to own that gun to protect your life. And so on its face, I can read it two ways. Yeah, you can justify it to the officer, but to the regular common person, if you're famous, you're a celebrity or you have a certain business, then sure, they'll give it to you. However, if I'm just a regular person, good luck actually using that to justify it, because they're going to say you just being a regular person doesn't justify you needing it to you however if i'm just a regular person good luck actually using that to justify it because they're going to say you just being a regular person doesn't justify

you needing it to protect your life and that's what he's saying regular people don't need firearms to protect their lives it's special people like him and celebrities and and every other elitist who may need these firearms to protect themselves. But regular people, they don't need firearms. But it doesn't say that. It doesn't say that. But it just says to protect your life. That's how they're executing it. That's why he's able to say with a straight face what he's saying.

But he's not even saying that there's an option if you need to protect your life. Because he doesn't believe there is one. Because I think he would rather have the population unarmed. Because I think he he would rather have the population unarmed and I think this particularly rings true after the demonstrations that were Those the trucker demonstrations when he demonized all the truckers as being racist and misogynist like just an open Generalizing statement as a leader you should be discredited like Instantaneously like you're not a fucking leader like for you to make a generalization on Hundreds if not thousands of people that you don't even know

But that is so wild and that you're gonna use that to state your point that you don't want these people To be able to protest which is crazy and that's it's a giant part of what a civilized democratic society Is allowed to do but yet here we are in America trying to do what they're doing. Yes. That's the thing that baffles me. Well, I think there's some people that want to do what they're doing. Yeah, of course. But there's a giant percentage of our population that's not having it. Yeah. A huge, huge percentage. A huge. And more so

that they don't know about. There are so many people that I know that got red-pilled over this listen you know I've had this conversation before I'm gonna say it again I am a liberal I am a liberal person I am very left-wing on almost all issues except gun control when it comes to the Second Amendment that's one of the ones you are very right-wing but I've been very right-wing on that for a

long time because I know violent people. I've experienced violence. I understand crime. I just know reality and human beings. And I don't like the idea of being unarmed. I don't. I don't agree that it's the safest way. And I don't buy into this nonsense that, you know, like if you live a good life and you're a good person, it's not going to come to you.

That's crazy. That's not how the world works. For Christ's sakes, we just had children. Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. Most innocent of people on the planet. Exactly.

So this is one of those issues where I have friends that they have this ideological wall and this wall, they hit the wall where they're not, there's nothing, no reasonable answer other than take away all the guns. Well, also part of it too is, and a good friend of mine once said this and I was like, yeah, you're right. The problem is a lot of those people only see themselves as possible victims of gun violence, never the defender against it. And when you can only see yourself as possible victims of gun violence, never the defender against it. Exactly. And when you can only see yourself as the victim, you have to rely on someone else to protect you, which is why the immediate response is government, take them away, make all those guns go away.

What's also why the stories where someone does protect people from a mass shooter, like the story that came out just a few days after, got no press. I mean, I saw a little bit of it on some right-wing websites. from a mass shooter, like the story that came out just a few days afterwards, got no press. None. I mean, I saw a little bit of it on some right-wing websites, but for the most part, it was ignored by the mainstream media, particularly by the left-wing media. I didn't see a fucking peep out of it. And the ones that did, it was just a small article written up somewhere like 5,000 links

down on their page. Exactly. Toss it away. But I'm telling you, a lot of my friends that were hardcore lefties got red-pilled over the pandemic when they saw cop cars being lit on fire and houses being broken into. Sick as brew. And when friends got their homes broken into and they called the cops and the cops wouldn't do a damn thing about it, they were like, holy shit, I had so many people call me up

asking me how to get a gun. Can I borrow one of their guns? Could they borrow one of my guns, rather? And you're like, nope, can't. I'm like, that's not how it works, buddy. If you move to Texas, I give you one, which is pretty wild. And so that getting to that, that's the whole background check thing. That's that whole thing where

and that's another thing that people don't realize is the way they talk about it, the way the anti-gun lobby talks about background checks, they talk about it as if we don't have background checks in this country. Right. We do. You buy a gun from a dealer, you have to get a background check. Right. But that 18-year-old kid passed a background check, which is crazy.

Because he doesn't, there's no criminal history. Right. Because he's only 18. Exactly. Now, the question then remains, so it's like, so I hear talks about, okay, well, let's include the juvenile records. Right. question then remains so it's like so i hear talks about okay well let's include the juvenile records right but if the juvenile record doesn't have an offense that's equatable to a felony that prohibits them from owning a firearm he still would get it what what did this kid have a juvenile record i don't know i don't know i don't think he had anything legally he's had some weird

acts on his part in the past well wasn't his nickname school shooter well i didn't hear that was it something i don't know if it's, but someone told me that his nickname in high school was school shooter. But so then the question remains, it goes, so what do we do? Find out if that's true. So how do we do it? So we know this, like this kid's nickname is school shooter. And so for all intents and purposes, we want to keep guns out of this kid's hands. However, the problem is, is once he turns 18, he's adult. Whether he's 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, once he reaches the age where he's legally,

constitutionally able to buy a firearm, he has it. The only thing that can preclude him from doing it is if he commits a felony or he's committed because of some mental health issue. Right. Right. So he hasn't done anything. We don't live in an age of minority report where we can arrest people before they actually commit crimes. So we have to understand constitutional rights have to have a certain bit. They're either rights or they're not. Texas gunman was nicknamed the Yubo school shooter on a messaging app. Yeah, so he really was. So look at it.

He also used to wear wacky clothes he was an interesting interesting kid what is youbo is that another social media app should i get on it that's all immediately i'm like should i i mean i jump on every social i get on immediately i jump on every social media are you on all of them yes though it's the only way to get to get the word out as much as possible because it's, you know, I'm always dealing with either being shadow banned on this platform for a period of time and then being shadow banned on that platform. Yeah.

I want to talk to you about that. Like how shadow banned are you? You know, it's weird. It ebbs and flows. It's really odd. So I think I'm worst shadow banned on Facebook and Instagram. Instagram. Yeah.

Instagram. They've hit the brakes on me, baby. Dude. I don't even do anything. Which is what's crazy and what's crazy is the only way I'm able to beat it is because people share my content so much

that's the only thing the algorithm can't fight back against is sharing content so the fact that I've been able to grow my audience the way that I have could you imagine if I wasn't shadow banned right exactly well this is what I was going to bring up I wanted to look at what it is now. Okay, yeah. I'm now at 9.1 million on Twitter. I was at 8.2 when Elon started talking about buying it.

Dude, mine has shot up too on Twitter. It's shot up. So they must have removed some of the algorithms that were in place to restrict people. It's the only explanation. It's the only explanation. The algorithms that were in place to restrict people. It's the only explanation. It's the only explanation.

Yeah, it's just then all of a sudden. Go ahead. I've heard of a few people that I know personally, and I got a few messages of someone saying an alternative thought is that people who were not on the platform liked that Elon bought it and joined. 900,000 just for me? It's not that many. It's not that many. It can't be.

You're suggested to a lot of people once they follow one person to follow these five or 10 other people, you know? I know, but it's so quick, Jamie, and it immediately happened right after Elon did it. I feel like it might be bots, too. I've had it confirmed from people on the inside. But he also didn't buy it. Like they've literally found that I was placed in a particular group of people that was designed to basically shadow ban me. Yeah.

Right? And then as soon as that person was able to move me out of there, floodgates open. And then somebody else gets, because people forget, these are individuals who are running these things. You know, it's not Zuckerberg isn't sitting behind the computer himself saying, we're going to shadow ban Joe, we're going to shadow ban Colleen Noir. No, these are just individuals and who with all types of different ideologies.

Right? There are people at Facebook who are exceedingly pro-gun. And then there are people who are exceedingly anti-gun. There's not a lot of them. No, there isn't. They've got to keep their fucking mouth shut. Exactly. And so that's what's happening. So you get these individuals who are inherently anti and they come across your page and they're like, fuck that guy.

Well, we wouldn't really have proof of any of this if it wasn't for project Veritas truth be told project Veritas And you know, I know a lot of people don't like the way they do business But that is the only way to get that kind of information. You'd be talking too much on the dates It's kind of a brilliant move you get these these single guys. You put tits in front of them. You get a hot lady in front of them or a hot guy. God forbid they start drinking, too. They start running. Yeah, some of them must be hot guys because a few of those fellas.

Oh, yeah, because they're the persuasion. Yeah. I mean, I don't want to be prejudiced, but I think they might. They're a little zesty. They're a little zesty. They're a little zesty. They might have rainbow underwear. There's a thing

that they do though where they get these people comfortable and then they somehow or another get them talking about their business and they start talking about how they're essentially communists about how they ban all these right-wing people or shadow ban them where they limit the reach of their their tweets and these are people making a decision. It's not like it's coming from the top down. These people are making those decisions unilaterally on their own. And so that's the problem. And so I've dealt with it countless occasions. The only reason why my account one day it's like floodgates open,

I'm getting 100 follows almost every hour versus what the hell, how am I losing followers at this point? So it's interesting how that works. But the losing thing, I always assume that they must be cleaning up bots. I'm not sure about that anymore. I'll show you mine. Sorry to cut you off. I have thousands of people that follow me and unfollow me every single day.

Then my number stays the exact same. Oh, yeah. Well, that's normal. That's normal because people just unfollow you and follow you. But I'm talking about like big numbers But and I'm also talking about the you know You could say that people decided because Elon was gonna buy the platform that this is not mass like that, right? And also it's disproportionately affecting people on the right even though I'm not on the right

but then I get lumped in that route I get lumped in that because I'm a Cage fighting commentator and the hunter and all that other stuff. The problem, though, too, is people who lean more left were losing a ton of followers also. Well, people, and this is what I was going to say, people who lean more left lost followers when Elon started talking about buying it. But to the extent that they were losing them, I mean, they were losing them in droves. Not that many people jumped off Twitter simply because Elon was talking about buying it even though they know because like Vox had an article like how to bail Like like there's a lot of people that decided which is really wild because if you go back to 2015

Elon was the left-wing superhero People are so goddamn fickle. Fickle, man. They're so crazy. Fickle. All of a sudden, they're deciding that he's some—and now he said he's voting Republican. And bah! They came for him.

You got massaged and tried to get jerked off. I just tweeted him. It was wild. I actually tweeted him because he made a statement. Somebody asked him about AR-15s. And he stated— What did he say? He stated something. AR-15s. What did he say? He's like, I think that there should be

an extensive evaluation for people who own AR-15s or mental health evaluation and so forth and so on. And so what I said to him when I was like, here's the problem with that. One, it's a constitutional right. And I was like, and two, understand who's going to be in charge of making those decisions.

That's the problem. I was like, right now, you are trying to protect the first on a platform, and they're trying to destroy you for it. So imagine what they would try to do to somebody like me, who is a Second Amendment advocate. And I say, I want to be able to own a certain gun and I have to go through these extensive evaluations. So there's no different than the write up than the law we just saw in Canada, where like the officer has to approve that it's for life-saving purposes. Well, the problem with saying that people are trying to destroy him is that there's a thing that happens whenever there's conflict, whenever there's any kind of conflict. And when you have a guy who is one of the richest men, if not the richest man on earth, and he does anything, there's going to be people mad.

Which is true. They're going to be angry. And when you're dealing at scale with, like, what are the numbers of people that are on Twitter? Let's take a guess. Let's take a guess. What do you think the number of people on Twitter is? How many people are, like, active on Twitter? Active?

Active. That are not bots? Let's just, I mean, we don't really know what that is. Because he thinks the bots might be really high. Because they said 5%. He thinks it might be 40%. Yeah, I agree. Really?

Mm-hmm. I think so. Sometimes I go into, like, I don't post much on Twitter because it's so toxic. But I examine it. I examine it sometimes for just not my own post but other people's posts just to see, like, what discourse is like. Like that post about Trudeau. And I go into it and and I see some posts. I'm like, what is this person saying?

Click on their profile. Zero followers, and it's all weird, random political stuff. And I'm like, oh, this is not a real human. I don't know if you get it in your comment section, because usually I see your post, and I'll either like or just go comment and be out. But are you getting a lot of bots in your Instagram comments? Oh, dude. Do I get bots?

I will post something within seconds. Okay, let's do it right now. We'll do it live because we'll do it live where no one will know that we're doing it. So look at me. I'm going to do it with you. Smile. Bam. Okay, perfect.

There's you. I'm going to immortalize you. Are you happy with that? I'm happy with that. I'm so used to dealing with you. Are you happy with that? I'm happy with that. I'm so used to dealing with women. Is this a good picture? I'm like, I don't care. I don't know.

Will you put it through a filter? Damn, you look jacked in this picture. All right, so I'm going to post this on Instagram. Well, Instagram is the real one for bots. That's where I get the bots. Okay. Fun time times talking gun control times talking gun control with my friend coleon here we go. Bam. Okay. So right now I'm going to put it up there right this very second. Ready, set, go. Share.

And now I'm going to look and we're going to check it out. Bam. Okay. No comments yet. So now. They don't follow me from here. What? Oh, never mind. That's my other page. They already have seven comments. Already have seven now. They don't follow me from here. What? Oh, never mind.

That's my other page. You already have seven comments. I already have seven comments. They're all bots. They're all bots. Are you fucking? That's fucking nuts. But it's way more now.

Look at it. Look at this. Look at all the comments. These are all bots. Look at it. Just look at that. Why does everyone always judge me after seeing my stories? But look at the language, too.

Why everyone always judge me after seeing my stories. That bitch is Russian. That's a man. Look at that one. Look at their booty. How long. Can you go make it so we can read the whole thing, please? How long and strong you make duration with me.

Why everyone always judge me after see my stories. Me or your girlfriend. It's all buts. Need help. I think women with BBLs just are naturally attractive to you. What is BBL? Brazilian butt lifts? Yeah.

Is that? That makes me sad that people are getting operations. I was telling you that I, look at this. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. Why everyone? It's all butts. I mean, you did post me, so the wow, wow, wow, wow, wow kind of makes sense with the hard eyes.

Look at your art. You look jacked, dude. Look at those guns, son. I've been trying. I've been in the gym, bro. Look at the guns. What's your, look at Faforit style. Jesus Christ, how bad is the English of these bots?

There's no greater joy. What does that say? They're having financial freedom. Financial freedom. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bot, bot, bot. Is he still simping for the NRA? That's a real person. That's a NRA? That's a real person.

That's a real person. That's a real person. That's a guy with a little dick, I bet. Thanks for coming to my rescue when I needed someone to help me out. Yeah. Quickest draw in the West. Oh, that's you. That's real.

I'll take it. That's real. I'll take it. I'll take that, too. My mother said, I'm too pretty to be ignored. Is that true? This is within 48 seconds. Joy of the heart.

Just received my profile. I can now clear up all my debt and start my own business. I'm paying five grand to seven people. Ivanka admitted there was no voter fraud. What is that? Is that real? I don't know. Yeah, that's more fake, too.

It's all bots. It's literally 99% bots. And if you go, none of them are following you. No? No. So how do they get it? Because I'm like, what's going on? So I was like, man, let me go see if they're following me.

They're not following me. Okay, let me check on this right now. Check this one. Not following me. 22 plus. Model. She's 20. She's 22.

I think she likes you, dude. I think she likes me too. Jesus. Is that even a human? I don't know. You don't even know. It could be artificial generated, you know? It could.

They're generating people now. Generate that, son. It's kind of crazy. But here's my question. What are they getting out of that? I don't know. I mean, people fall for it, though. But what do they do?

Do they click on the profile? Let's click on the profile. It's a numbers game. Right. That's profile. Let's click on a pro first game Right, it's just right, but what is like if they get a hit like what do they get you can fall into a trap? Do you give someone gift cards? Okay, let's go on one. I'm not No So it happens on YouTube too, so I'm having somebody so what they'll do is they'll take a thumbnail of me. Yeah.

And then they'll comment in all my videos and then tell them, call this number. And they're thinking it's me. Call this number and you've won this free prize or something like that. And so I got to get on there. I'm like, I make videos. I'm like, look, that's not me. Stop doing that. And then they'll send information or in some cases send money.

I got really bad at one point on Facebook. Facebook's done a better job of nipping that in the bud. Where literally people were getting scammed out of money thinking it was me. And I'm like, no, that's not me. And then people getting mad at me like, where the hell's my stuff? And I'm like, yo, what are you talking about? Yeah, I've given up on trying to stop all the fucking fake me's. Yo, what are you talking about? Yeah, I've given up on trying to stop all the fucking fake me's

There's the weird industry that has emerged of like scamming people online And it's really kind of fascinating. Yeah, how when you saying it's a numbers game. I wonder how many people As you're saying that online ago, but didn't they just used to do it by the mail before? Yeah It's just yeah, just transcended over online. But I think it's way more lucrative to see monkeys. Because you have access to such an enormous amount of people in a short period of time versus like Jamie was saying with mail. You know, it just takes a lot longer. Why not bring in another viewpoint, someone says.

Shut up. This is one of the rare times where I read comments. I want to go to one of these bots. Okay, I'm going to go to this bot. So it says... Oh, this is different. This is a cartoon maker. See, I think there's a lot of those that are fake, too. I've seen a lot of those that are basically the same

thing. They say, I make cartoons. I make an image of you. I clicked on one, for instance. Oh, that's a real dude. It's not. No, it's not. What they'll also do is then... How do you know it's not a real guy? It's not. What, it's not. It's not? Nope. What they'll also do is then. How do you know it's not a real guy? It's not. It's not. What a lot of them will do, they'll get access to someone's account on Facebook, take all

of their data, use their pictures to then create a fake account that looks like a real person, talks like a real person, knows things about that. The ones that don't even let you follow them are fascinating. Oh. You know? Like, you have to follow them in order to. Oh, in order to see, yeah. Oh, this account is private.

Like, look, that looks like a real girl, right? There's another one that's private. Her original account was deleted at 60K. She's real. Shut the fuck up. That's a real girl. Stop. She's my friend.

Don't be an asshole. That's not how it works. Can you imagine being a sad, sad- And then they'll say something like deleted at 60K to justify why their followers are so- Yeah, but there's a 12-year-old, 14-year-old, 15-year-old that hasn't been online that long That's not how it works. Can you imagine being a sad dude? And then they'll say something like, deleted at 60K to justify why their followers are so low. Yeah, but there's a 12-year-old, 14-year-old, 15-year-old that hasn't been online that long that doesn't know these games, and they'll fall for it one night.

Okay, I want to click on this link, but I don't. It says adults only, hottie, adult performer, musician. You might not want to click on that. I do, though. I don't, but I do. Like, I want to know what the scam is. Let me click on that one. It's going to take to another more link, but I do. I want to know what the scam is. Let me click on that one. It's going to take to another link.

Do you have some sort of a block? Oh my God, that's her butt for real? This is a real girl, Jamie. You should apologize to her. That might be a boy. By the way, today, they do a great job on those fake butts that they put on biological

males. If you click on things, is it, do you have like some protection? On this one, no. That's why I'm not clicking that. Yeah, don't, don't, don't, don't. But that's what, that's the game. So they get you to click on that and then it's like an OnlyFans type deal? Or is it something else?

At the end of the day, it could be getting a track, like the way trackers you set up on your computer, they get a key logger on there, they'll find your information, or they're just trying to trick you into putting it in somewhere. Or trying to trick you into an OnlyFans account, like if you sign up for an OnlyFans account. Even if you're a sucker and you go, oh, this is bullshit, and you pay. I think in those cases, those girls are kind of real because what they're doing. Some of them. Yeah, because what they want to do is get, you know, they actually want people to sign up for their OnlyFans, right? Right.

And you have to have the content there to actually keep them there. But don't they steal content from someone else's OnlyFans? You know what? They also pay for people to engage. I don't know if you know about that. I do. I heard about that. I was watching an interview where this.

What happened? These girls hire men to write to other men with their photos. So, like, they'll have a manager, and the manager will handle, like, all these different women. Gotcha. And then they sign up for OnlyFans, and they give them a piece of it. They're like, look, I'll take, you know, X percent.

You take the rest. Well, I'll write all these things, and we'll hire people that engage with these guys all day long. And they're thinking they're engaging. Yeah. So they think they're having, like, a text buddy relationship with these girls, and they're sending them heart face emojis and clasping hands and the whole deal,

and they think they're in love. That OnlyFans stuff is interesting, man. That's some nutty shit to me. It's wild because there's so many sad guys out there, man. There's so many sad, sad, sad dudes that that alone is like to be able to interact with a woman like that. Well, I mean, I think it's just the reality of the dating market now. How so? Social media.

It's different. Like girls have access to men they otherwise never had access to before. So you're getting this cluster effect of they're only going to go after the guys they absolutely want. Where before you had it where you only dealt with the people in your environment. Right. At a club or wherever you went exactly yeah you had to meet people in real life because before it's like like take for instance let's say Michael B Jordan right the girl was really into Michael B Jordan before the only way she could possibly get his attention is to what maybe

happened to run into him somewhere exactly so psycho leave the soccer post this psycho exactly full psycho to leave the house post this yesterday that where people met online the couples i don't know how long they were dating in this case but as of 2020 it's like the most most people meet online yeah well according to every other well how the fuck was anybody meeting online in 1940 what was that well comparatively okay so met online so in the the olden days, back in the day, they met through friends, right? Is that what it's saying? Yeah, like that was the most popular. Most people met through friends, or they met in a bar or restaurant, or, yeah.

And now most people meet online. Wow, look at the numbers. It is a rocket ship towards meeting online. Family set it up. That was before 1940. That was the highest It's like Wow marriages, or you know I've got a nice or a son exactly Look all the people that used to

They meet through church or they meet as co-workers cohort a lot of fucking going on that office Work wives look at like once people started getting in trouble for that look look at the drop in people meeting as coworkers. Isn't that wild? Yeah. That's nuts. The 2010 to 2020, look at that. 2010 to 2020 drop off. It's a crazy drop off.

They're too risky. Yeah. Wild. Well, shit what you eat. But what's interesting is, though, guys are still vulnerable to that. Oh, absolutely. They're not trying, but if a girl still are still vulnerable to that. Oh, absolutely. They're not trying, but if a girl still tries, we're dumb. Guys are dumb.

Oh, we dumb? Oh, so dumb. There used to be a move where a girl would get a job as a secretary to meet a guy who's an executive. I mean, girls did it in college. Girls, like, what are you studying? I'm studying my MRS. What's MRS? My missus.

Oh. They used to say that? Yeah. There's a girl who's kind of famous on YouTube because she talks openly about submitting to her husband. Do you know this girl? I think I know who you're talking about. And she talks about how, you know, people submit to their boss, you know, all the time. But they don't submit to their boss.

Yeah. And that, you know, we have a great relationship and we cooperate together and I'm essentially a professional wife. I mean, feminism has turned the word submission into a bad word. I mean, this is what it is. I mean, it's like who are you submitting to? Are you submitting to someone who loves you and cares for you and is looking out for you genuinely? Or are you submitting to some guy who's an asshole who just has money? There's that, too. I think there's a, I think that's why, I've always said it too,

like, anytime I deal with anyone, I only ask you two things. Is loyalty and respect. I don't need your love. What? You don't need love from a girl? Loyalty and respect. Dude, you're a rapper. No, I'm being dead serious. Because, I mean, think about it like this.

You're a gangster. That's such a gangster thing to say. There are things people won't do because they respect you. Okay. There are things

people will do even if they love you. It's different. I'm not saying I don't want love at all. I'm just saying I prioritize that low to you in respect.

Well, also, what's your standard for love? There's some people that think of love, they right away love people. And then there's people that you got to really, really earn the word love. That's how I am. I think in most cases that's true,

but if I'm drunk. I think that's a different L word. I love everybody from drunk. Yeah. It's funny. I think I do a pretty good job monitoring myself when I'm drunk. Yeah. The problem with drunk is then you sober up.

Yeah. If you could just maintain. Imagine if there was a drug that you could take that had no side effects that just kept you buzzed all day long no i've i've gotten my drinking to a science on that level really yep how do you do it i just know how my body reacts because you know you know how many i'm like i won't smoke weed i won't do anything right except alcohol which is probably the worst but whatever it is like it is but um i think what it is is i i hit a certain level where I don't like the feeling. And so I don't like feeling shit-faced.

So for me, I'll hit a point where I'm floating. Right? And once I'm there, I'll stop. Maintain. I'll shut it off. I won't drink anymore. Are you aware of glutathione? Yes, I am.

Yeah, liposomal glutathione. I think we talked about that. Yeah, I think we did. Yes, I am. Yeah, liposomal glutathione. I think we talked about that. Yeah, I think we did. But for people that didn't hear that, it has a really significant effect on your body's ability to process alcohol.

I mean, it's not, I think it's been exaggerated by some people, you know, but there's a real legitimate effect, documented effect, liposomal glutathione has on your body's ability to process alcohol. And there's a lot of people that take glutathione when they're drinking to manage your body's processing. I don't remember the last time I had a hangover. Really? Yeah. I told you, I have it down to a science. A lot of it, too, is when I'm so, like, especially, like, when I come to Austin. Because I do, actually, most of my partying in Austin. Really?

Oh, yeah. This is where you get hammered? Yeah, pretty much. Why? Sunday fun days, man. Sunday fun days, man. Sunday fun days, man. But why up here? Why do you come up here to get drunk?

I just like the energy here. It's a fun town. I just love the energy here. It is a fun town. It is very fun. Very fun. And so for me, but I'm always, like, when I'm drinking like that, especially during the day, you'll notice.

And some of my friends get annoyed with me because they're like, shots. I'm like, no. Really? Because I'll shut it down. Because i know when i hit my point right so and then at that point they'll give me a shot and i'm drinking water well you're a good person to talk about gun control with then because you're like a controlled guy like you know you know i'm saying like that's control like that kind of control and awareness of like limitations and being smart about things and seeing where things go bad i think also too there's a component where i mean like i know there are a lot of eyes on me as well too not that i honestly but that's not even you talk to my friends who knew me before i

kind of developed this platform i was always kind of that way too and so but i'm very cognizant and aware that like i can be out and people know me and i don't realize that they know me there's a limited amount of people in that space in the gun control space, that have not just a voice but also an intelligent perspective and can have these really reasonable, even-keeled debates and discussions of things. Maybe I'm an idiot because I know I got a lot of friends who are in the gun space who are like, man, I can't do what you do because I don't want to deal with it. Well, I don't think you're an idiot. I think you just are better at handling that kind of shit than a lot of friends who are in the gun space who are like, man, I can't do what you do because I don't want to deal with it. Well, I don't think you're an idiot. I think you just are better at handling that kind of shit than a lot of people are. Yeah, maybe to my detriment. Do you have conversations with people?

Do you ever have debates with people that think that we should take away all the AR-15s? It's funny you bring that up. So before I came here, I went to the hotel restaurant that I was staying at. And there was a bartender. She was there who was taking my order. And so she was looking at my shirt, and she's like, if you know, you know, because that's what the I, the K, the Y, and all that stuff stands for. What does it say? If you know, you know. That's what the acronym IKYK stands for.

What does it say? On the inside, it's the actual verbiage of the Second Amendment. Oh. Yeah. So the whole basis of the shirt is well-regulated militia. Being necessary to the security of a free state. People to keep in bare arms shall not be in front. Is this your

t-shirt? Yeah, it's my t-shirt. Oh, from your company? Yeah. And so that's the point. All of my designs, all of my t-shirts and merchandise. Is that a Glock hat? No, this is my logo. Oh. It looks like it. It looks similar to the Glock logo. No, they stole it from me.lock hat? No, this is my logo. Oh. CN. It looks like it. Cologne Noir. Yeah. It looks similar to the Glock logo.

No, they stole it from me. Did they? No. How dare you? You got me for saying that. No. But my designs are designed to kind of evoke curiosity, to have the conversation. And so literally, I'm sitting at the bar, and she's like, if you know, you know.

And I'm like, oh, I'm surprised you picked up on that. And then she was like, well, what does that say on the inside? And so she reads it, and she's like, if you know, you know. And I'm like, oh, I'm surprised you picked up on that. And then she was like, well, what does it say on the inside? And so she reads it and she's like, oh, the Second Amendment. And so I was like, yeah. And so in my mind, I'm like, I'm in Austin. I'm like, I'm not sure how this is going to go. This can go fuck yeah, she can give you knuckles or she can call you a piece of shit. Yeah.

So it actually fell in the middle. Really? Yeah. So so we actually we conversed for about 30 40 minutes um you know i sat there stuffing my face while uh we sat and we talked because they were they just opened so it was pretty slow and um she was like you know i just think there needs to be some some laws and i'm like you know well there are laws it's not like starting from zero. You know, we have like 300 federal gun laws and then close to 20,000 on the state and local level. And so she's like, yeah, but what about background checks? We need background checks. I'm like, we have background checks. And oddly enough, like in that moment when she said background checks, I knew she didn't know that we already have them.

But I didn't want this to turn into an argument. I wanted it to be a conversation. So I was like, how do I retort that without making it seem like I'm being combative? And so I'm like, well, so I saw that. I'm like, you know, well, we do actually do have, we do have background checks. You know, anytime you buy a gun,

you, from a dealer, you have to get a background check. She's like, but do you really? I'm like, yeah, you do. And so the conversation went from there. We didn't fix the world's problems in that conversation, but we had an open enough conversation where I could tell she was more open minded about certain aspects of stuff and realize some of the things she didn't know. While at the same time, I let her speak to me in a way where I got a better understanding of where someone like her is coming from on the issue so that we can have that conversation in a productive manner. It wasn't from the position of you want to ban guns? I don't want you to take mine. Just my

right. And it wasn't that. It was, okay, but here's the reality. Here are the facts. And then this is where your stance on it is. And that's my ultimate goal for what I do, especially with my videos. Like a lot of people, not a lot of people, but I've seen the comments sometimes who was like, well, stop, you know, stop making these videos. Not stop making the videos, but there's like this pointless calling on because they're never going to change their mind. And I'm like, this video isn't for the extreme. It's not even a lot of times for the people who are extremely in agreeance with me. It's for the people in the middle. There's a lot of people in the middle. Like a ton. And they're really honestly just looking for adequate information to make the decision on.

That's what they're trying to do. And that's what I'm trying to give them when I put my videos out. So that's who I'm speaking to. Now, sometimes I get a little fruitful. Fruitful? Fruitful. When it comes to like some, not zesty fruitful, but you know. Zesty. I like how you use it.

It is pride money. Zesty is a good one. Zesty is positive. It's a positive expression. I think it's an money. Zesty's a good one. Zesty's positive. It's a positive expression. I think it's an awesome term. It's a great term. It's a great term. But, you know, it's for me, you know, like sometimes with certain celebrities, I'll get a little fruitful in the way I kind of handle the video.

But for the most part, I'm trying to educate the masses of people in the middle who are looking to get information. part, I'm trying to educate the masses of people in the middle who are looking to get information because a lot of them either get straight up lies that is being pushed by the anti-gun lobby, or they just are just ignorant on all the laws, the gun conversation altogether, because this has been the biggest conversation that, this is the biggest conversation that's ever gotten with respect to the gun conversation in America. And a lot of it has to do with social media. Social media did not exist to the degree that it does right now. The state of gun rights in this country would be nil. You think so? I absolutely agree. So you think that social media has actually accentuated gun rights? Absolutely. Until they realized how

powerful it was and then we started getting shadow because what happens is because before most of the information was coming from the mainstream media that's where all the conversations were being had cnn isn't running to get koh-i-wan to come onto their pro onto their platform now in all fairness i will say this recently i think cnn did a uh did a piece on ar-15s and somebody somebody from cnn reached out to me and wanted me to be a part of it. I was traveling. I couldn't do it. But even then, I was a little kind of hesitant.

I think that subject is too multifaceted and complex to be handled in a five-minute segment. I agree. Especially there would be you, and then there'd be someone on the other side that is the anti-gun person. Funny thing, it wasn't even like a conversation type piece. It was one of those kind of like investigative kind of deals.

Oh, so they wanted to interview you and then edit you out of context and take the worst shit that you say. Exactly. And that's why typically I only like to do things live. If I'm going to do anything from an opposition standpoint, and I don't mean I'm calling people who disagree me the ops. I know what you're saying. standpoint, and I don't mean I'm calling people who disagree me the ops, but I like to do it live so that there's no misconstruing of what I'm saying or what I'm trying to communicate. I'm not too prone to doing pre-recorded with them because I know how things can be taken out of context. They've done it to me for years without me even being part of their program.

They've taken what I've said and then just kind of completely taken out of context purposely. And so I'm a little hesitant to do pre-recorded stuff, even though sometimes my arrogance will want to. Because I've been doing this for so long, I think, oh, no, I can navigate all the tricks and stuff. And I had to pull myself back because I'm like, there are people who are way more experienced at this

and they still get caught up in that. So I'm not going to be so arrogant as to assume I can navigate the pitfalls that come with doing something prerecorded with people who are legitimately trying to trip you up. I've seen people take answers to a different question and apply them to a question that makes that answer look horrible. I've seen people do that. I've seen that on

television, on regular television, where I know, in fact, I've seen the original video. Yeah. It's horrible. And there's nothing you can do about that. Nothing you can do about it. And those kind of deceptive practices have always been a part of the media. I have an opinion that I've been developing more and more lately that I feel like, almost like news should be non-profit. I know that sounds crazy, but I feel like there should be a rigorous examination

of the objective facts, what we absolutely understand, almost by like a third party that's completely unbiased and that's regulated and then you shouldn't do that either because like then you have right-wing politics there's left-wing politics they've done it to me right i literally i remember when we um remember the cow written house yes right cow written house i remember when i did the cow written house actually that's a different situation that was facebook banning me for just doing a legal breakdown of the actual situation banned you yes facebook banned you for just doing a legal breakdown of the actual situation. They banned you? Yes.

Facebook banned you for doing a breakdown? Temporarily, yes. What did they say? They banned the video and then they said, because remember, that's when Zuckerberg got up in there and was basically like, we're treating him like a mass shooter. Oh, my God. Yeah. So they immediately banned the video and then they were like, yeah, we're banning your account temporarily because you posted a video about Kyle Rittenhouse. we're banning your account temporarily because you posted a video about Cal Rittenhouse.

Now, I also did another video where I said, I think it was about background checks, right? And I said 90% of Americans do not agree with universal background checks because most people don't understand the distinction. What does that mean? So universal background checks. So there's background checks, and then they've coined this term universal background checks or what else do they call it? Extended background checks, right? So when they talk background checks, they're talking about universal or extended background checks, which is they want to require background checks for private transfers. So, for instance, like if I came here now and wanted to give you a gun here in Texas, they want it to be federally required that you and I would have to go to a gun store.

You get a background check before I can give you the gun. You still we have background checks. Like if you were to go to a gun store and buy a gun. Yeah, you have to get a background check. You go to a gun show, get a gun. You got to get a background check. But what is this? The loophole for gun shows that people always talk?

It's not loopholes. What we're talking about right now. Oh. So if you and I said, hey, I was like, hey, I have this gun. You want to buy it? And you're like, yeah. All right. Where do you want to meet?

All right. Meet me at this gun show. And then we exchange it there. But if a person sells a gun at a gun show at a stand. At a stand. Yes. They are a dealer. Therefore, they need to have a, you need to run a background check on everybody who buys the gun now.

But if someone bought a gun legally at a stand and then brought it to you and said, you want to buy it, they could just sell it to you. They could technically sell it to you. Because they're an individual. However, they would run into the straw purchase aspect of the law. Because then what that does is that gives you constructive intent to say, hey, look look this person bought this gun to sell it to somebody else that is a strong purchase now is that universal in

terms of all 50 states no so some states you can't have private transactions oh what states are those i don't know all of them but they're like first california new york kinetic uh what else what else i can't remember all the ones new y York makes it very difficult to get a handgun. Is that correct? Yes. California, you can get a handgun pretty easy. You just can't carry. You can't carry.

I mean, they're loosening up some of the restrictions as far as carry. Like you talked about handing out permits in some places. L.A. County is a different story. But I think some people are. I think they're even loosening up. They're loosening up in L.A. County. They have no choice, though, because L.A. is turning into the fucking purge. Yeah. But

literally. Yeah. But there are some states where you're allowed to have private transactions without requiring a background check and then there are some states where you can't do that. That's universal background check. Yeah. That are extended background checks. That's what we're talking about.

The funny thing about it is most these mass shooters not getting their guns through private transactions. That were extended background checks. That's what we're talking about. The funny thing about it is most of these mass shooters not getting their guns through private transactions. They're getting background checks and then acquiring the firearms. That's the weird thing about it. But a lot of people think that we just don't have background checks at all. Or they're getting them from somebody else who got them from illegal means. Exactly. Right. Like one of the guys got it from his parents, right? Yes, exactly. He stole it. Like the Adam Lantz.

I don't want to say his name. I make a point not to say their names. But yes, he stole it from his mother. Right. Right. And so for a lot of people, they see that and they go, well, like, yeah, we need background checks. Well, we have them. And then when we talk about private transactions, I have a problem with requiring background

checks on private transfers because I know what it takes for them to be effective. You cannot enforce a universal background check basically requiring you and I have to go and get a background check before I can give you a gun. You can't enforce that unless there is a national gun registration. There has to be a registry with all the guns in place that the government has with all the information, location and everything in order for them to effectively enforce that. Because if I give you if I pull out my if I pull a gun out of my bag right now and hand you a gun. Right. And I say, this is yours. You can keep it as a gift from me to you. And then you go about your life and the cops pulls you over and says, hey, did you get a background check for that gun? Yeah, I did.

How would they know you're lying? Unless they have a database of every transaction that took place with every firearm that they can go and say, well, this particular gun belongs to Coyne Noir. But is it unreasonable to have that? What do you mean? Yes. It is unreasonable. I absolutely believe it's unreasonable. Why do you think it's unreasonable to have that?

Every registration that this country, this world has ever had has resulted in the confiscation. Australia, they had a registration. Then they subsequently used that registration to confiscate firearms. And they don't even have to go door to door to do it. That's what people don't realize. All they have to say is, you don't turn that gun in, we're going to come arrest you. They would have to literally arrest almost everybody. Unless everybody complied.

Exactly. But see, here's the thing, though. Do you want to be the person they make an example out of? So think about it. All they would have to do is this. Make an example out of a few people, high-profile people. They'll come to my black ass in a heartbeat. Cora Noir, you didn't turn your guns in.

Yes, I did. No. We have the registration. We have all your guns right here none of these guns were turned in we're taking you in you're now you're in i'm in i'm in fucking prison because i didn't turn in my firearms now everybody else who's not me is looking at like damn it's kind of like remember napster when they were like charging certain people with stealing music oh i do remember you did that that's right same concept Some people went to jail for that. Exactly. And it scared

me. I stopped downloading on that. I'm like, I don't want y'all coming over here in my college dorm room arresting me because I'm fucking downloading. Well, I stopped downloading because I'm a good person. Shut up, Joe. I didn't stop downloading. I did make a point of buying

CDs if I liked the music that I downloaded for free. Fair enough. But that's kind of rude. You're just kind of making yourself feel better. Exactly. I'm a piece of shit. That was a piece of shit move. But that was one of those things where no one knew, is this stealing? Is it not stealing? It's weird.

I mean, I really honestly, I love music so much that I didn't even want to let my brain go there because I know that I probably wouldn't be able to justify it. What they have done is pretty fascinating though like with subscription services like Spotify and Apple Music I love it. I love that I can like you can tell me about

a song and I can just go oh okay bam and then I get it and it's on my phone like instant. I'll pay a little money for that Oh I have Spotify I have Apple. I have other streamings like I had Tidal for a Oh, I have Spotify. I have Apple. I have other streamings like... You have Jay-Z's?

I had Tidal for a while. Is that good? I didn't like the interface that much. What's the best one? I'm still a Spotify user. You don't have to say that because you're here. Huh? You don't have to say that because you're here.

No, I'm being dead serious. I forgot you were on Spotify. Me too. Truth be told. But I started using them initially. Right. And I love the interface. And so I just got entrenched in it.

It's like me and Apple. My whole ecosystem is Apple now. Right. So I don't have a desire to go anywhere else. And everything else works just fine for me. I wish Apple came up with a keyboard that's worth a fuck. Oh, yeah. We talked about that. You like the long throw. I'm a writer. I wish Apple came up with a keyboard that's worth a fuck. Oh yeah, we talked about that. You like the long throw. I'm a writer.

I write. I like the short though. I can go faster. No. Yeah, I remember you telling me. No, you don't go faster. You never used a ThinkPad. No, granted, I do most of them. They're the best. ThinkPads have a curved keyboard. Are you talking about the...

No, no, no. the actual keys have a curve to them where your finger sits in it and it recognizes exactly where you're at it's genius i've never used lenovo thinkpads are the shit they the writing experience when you're writing is so much smoother really yes you it's like statistically proven to have less errors. They've taken people that type, you know, X amount of words per minute, and they can improve the number of words per minute that they write just using a Lenovo, just using those long throw keys. See, but that's only PC.

Yeah. Yeah. But you can get a keyboard like a Bluetooth keyboard that will mimic that. They have some hardcore ones like mechanical keys, which are incredible because they have a clickety-clack to them. And you know exactly whether or not you pressed a T or an R. And when you do it like that, man, it's like your errors. It's like for me, when I write, 65% of the time I'm stoned. When I write, I'm drinking. I don't need to think where the keys are. I just want to% of the time I'm stoned. When I write, I'm drinking. I don't need to think where the keys are.

I just want to think about the ideas. And that allows me to let my fingers flow over those keys in a natural way. As a matter of fact, one of my Apple laptops is a 2015 laptop that I had refurbished because the keys were better. They had more throw to them back then. And everybody's going with sleek. Everybody wants good looking and sleek. I know you're an aesthetics guy. You're like, when I see your fucking pocket dump,

you got everything lined up, it's all pretty, and you like the way shit looks. I do. I guess I kind of do too, but I mean, I'm more, look, obviously, look at this garbage all over this fucking table. I mean, a function. You're more of a static guy than you actually like to let on. In which way?

I mean, just kind of, there's a certain aesthetic to this place. It doesn't necessarily have to be like ultra modern, clean, minimalism. But it's organized chaos. Yes. There's some organization to it. Yours is like, yours is like rustic chaos. Yeah, there's a little rustic to that. Yeah. There's some organization to it. Yours is like rustic chaos. Yeah, there's a little rustic to that. Yeah, there's a little of that.

But I also like function. And for me with writing, I need a keyboard that functions. I was actually talking to my friend Lex. I was over at his house the other day, and he has one of those keyboards that are separated and then concave. That miscellaneous drives me. Like the thought of that. I don't know why. You don't have to move your hands. It's just everything's like.

And I go, how is that? I go, I used to have one of those. I haven't used one of those in a long time. He goes, oh, they ruin you for other keyboards. Well, I think the reason why I don't like that is because I'm constantly going back and forth to my mouth because when I'm writing, I'm researching at the same time. So I'm like writing. Go in here.

Go in here. Click. You know what I mean? Right. So I don't necessarily need to have a static position on the keyboard because i'm constantly moving my hands anyway i see what you're saying um i just like it to be the the thing i think about the least one of the things i really love about um both i have a samsung phone too and i could do it on that

as well is that i can talk into my notes and um i can you know, like I can, like if I'm out and I have an idea, I just like a lot of like all this, a lot of this shit. These are ideas that I have for material. A lot of that shit, I just talk into my phone and it types it out. It's amazing how good it works. Because usually what I'll do is like I have the same setup except I have my reminders and then I'll have like different lists and then I'll just go type it. So like if I'm working with – Here we go. Collier Noir.

Bam. So it's actually pretty accurate. Yeah. And it's reading you saying it's actually pretty accurate. Oh, wow. That's nutty. Yeah. So I clicked on the keyboard before it said accurate, but it heard you say that.

Like, say something right now. Wow, I think it's pretty nutty that you're able to accurately dictate exactly what I'm saying. Okay, that's creepy. That's amazing, right? It's in real time. Come on, that's amazing. That's Notepad? That's Notes.

That's Notes on Apple. That's not a new application. See, I've been using Evernotes for everything. Evernotes is great. I haven't used the dictation on Evernotes yet. Evernotes is great. But the thing is that this is native on Apple. That's just not a new application. See, I've been using Evernotes for everything. Evernotes is great. I haven't used the dictation on Evernotes yet. Evernotes is great. But the thing is that this is native to Apple. Ah, gotcha.

But Samsung has Samsung Notes, so you could do it on that. And Google has the same kind of thing. Okay. But the voice recognition software is fantastic now. It's really good. See, I just left it in the dust because before it would just be too nerve-wracking. It just wouldn't write what I told it to write. Just some of that. Like I sent a text out to

a friend of mine today and it fucked it up and I didn't realize it until after I sent it. Do you send like voice texts? Sometimes, yeah. I hate people that do that. No, no, no. Not a voicemail text? Like voice message? Yeah, voice message where it's not writing it out. No, it's like an audio that you have to listen to. Yeah, that's weird.

Yeah, those are annoying. No, I don't do that. I notice people in California do it the most. Really? Yes. You got to become friends with Alex Jones. That's how he communicates with me because they all disappear. But no, you can talk into it. I can send you a text message.

Like instead of saying, hey, go around to the right-hand corner of the building, and there's a red door. Knock on that. We'll let you in. I can just say it. Gotcha. Go around to the corner of the building. There's a red door. I'll let you in.

Bam. Press send. And so I don't have to fuck with the thumb thing. I'm dumb. You're right, because I do it in my Apple CarPlay. Oh, yeah, I do that. Yeah. I do that all the time, like when I'm driving.

Yeah, yeah. You know, I'll say, you know, text Jamie. Yeah, and it'll do that. So now that I think about it, yeah, I just never did it outside of driving. It's so good. It's so accurate. It's incredible how accurate it is. But for me, it's so accurate. It's incredible. But for me, it's like

Ideas like if I have an idea for a joke Like those ideas are so fleeting and sometimes like I'll convince myself that I'm gonna Jim who uh, excuse me Who was it? Mitch Hedberg had a bit about how he kept a notepad by the bed Mm-hmm, and you know, so if he had an idea in the middle of the night, he would wake up Or if I'm lazy, he would wake up. Or if I'm lazy, I'd convince myself it wasn't funny. But it's like...

I have, in my shower, I have one of those, like, notepad things in the shower that are, like, waterproof. And it has a pencil I got on Amazon. And so later, because I get a lot of my ideas

on, like, topics to talk about in the shower. Really? Uh-huh. And so I'll be in the shower, do-do-do-do, and I'm like, oh, yeah. I'll pull it out, write it on a little pad, and then you can just rip it off like a Post-it.

Rip it off and then take it and do what you need to do. I get a lot of my ideas in the sauna. Okay. And I'll just – I can't have my phone in the sauna or it'll shut off. Yeah, because it gets hot. It gets too hot. But the AirPods, this is – I put this up on Instagram the other day, but if you're a person that gets in the sauna, get yourself some AirPod Ones,

the first-generation AirPods. Don't get AirPods 2, don't get 3, and don't get the Pros. I have the Beats. Which ones do I have? Those are good, too, but they're good in terms of sound, but in terms of the ability to withstand sauna. Oh, okay. It's just the heat of the sauna.

The problem is it cooks the microphone. Gotcha. It either cooks the microphone or the sweat kills the microphone. Because I'll try answering the phone like, where the fuck are you calling me from? No one can understand me at all. So I have a pair of AirPods that I have killed that just died recently. But I cook those motherfuckers four or five days a week for like the past two or three years,

and they just, just died. One of them, the left one, I sit with my left side near the heater, and it just tapped out the other day. It's just like... Yeah, I was telling you, I just started doing the sauna thing. I haven't really...

It's fucking amazing. It threw me for a loop the first couple times. I was like, oof. You got to come in with me, buddy. Come in with me. We got one right here. It sounds a little zesty. That's not what I meant.

I didn't mean it's zesty. We're going to be clothed. No, and I have noticed. I did notice an improvement in my sleeping. Oh, yeah. It's an improvement in the way your muscles feel. You feel looser, more relaxed, stress relief.

And if you do that and the ice bath back to back, the Russians know what the fuck they're doing. No ice baths for me. Ah, you say that. You say that.

I can barely watch people do that, much less me do it. Really? Yeah, dude. I'm like, it just, I don't do cold very well. Once you do it

a couple of times, you get used to it. The first time I did it, there's a video of the first time I ever did it. I fucking panicked. I was out of there in like a minute and 30 seconds. I was like, fuck this. Yeah, me and cold don't mesh very well.

And then the second time I did it, I did it for like four and a half minutes. And then the third time I did it, I did it for 20. Because I just wanted to convince myself. Gotcha. Damn, 20 minutes in a high speech. Yes. Well, that's not good. Don't do that. Listen to me. Listen to me. Don't listen to me. That's that's not good. Don't do that. Listen to me.

Listen to me. Don't listen to me. That's what I tell people. Don't listen to me. Don't listen to my advice. I will say, being out, like I remember I did this shooting course, and it was like shooting at extended range, so we're shooting out to like 600, 700, 800 yards.

And it was just white just all snow nice and that was just amazing that i love but then again i'm like decked out in these super yeah that's different like you're feeling cold but it's like it's not real yeah it's like no the cold plunge is an existential threat to your existence you get in there and you're like what the fuck am i doing your body just once I get out of there yeah I mean it's but it's so good for your body it's so good for your muscles and for your joints and and it's not cost prohibitive all you need is ice cubes in a bathtub I mean just get a couple of bags of ice from the grocery store the gas station and throw in a bathtub how I'll Fill it up with cold water.

How often do I do it? Almost every day. Really? Yeah. Oh, crap. Almost every day. Damn. Yeah.

The only time I don't do it is right after I lift because apparently it has some sort of an effect on hypertrophy, which limits your muscles' ability to grow because part of the inflammation is actually good. The blood circulation, your body breaks down, you get that pump, it breaks down the tissue, and it swells up and inflames, and it's your body saying, okay, we've got to heal. This guy's trying to get swole, you know, and then you want. Lifting is annoying to me.

Why is it annoying? It's like, no, I love it. I do it at least three or four times a week. But it's the, especially when you're lifting for – Hypertrophy. Hypertrophy. It's the set rep, all that stuff. It's gotten to – and you know what I think it is?

I follow too many fitness pages. And so there's just so much different information being thrown at you from different perspectives. Right. So I got the point. I was like, I'm doing three sets of ten, call and dig it out. Yeah. I'm like, I'm not playing this of 10, call and dig it out. Yeah. Like, I'm like, I'm not playing this game anymore. Three sets of 10 still works.

The thing that works more than anything is consistency. Yeah. Be intelligent about your lifting. Don't hurt yourself. And consistency. That's the key. That's pretty much what I'm trying to err on because it's, I mean, there were times where, I mean,

another thing too is I'm trying to maximize time. So I try to make my workouts as intense and as short as possible. So I'm like, when we get in and get out, I'm kind of doing this full body stuff. I'm trying to figure out how my body likes that. When you say full body stuff, like what are you doing? So what I'll do is I'll do lower body

and then everything else the next day. And then I'll do that, have a rest day or two in between, and then that's what I'll do. And so that, and then my lower body is consistent of like right now I'm doing plyo and a lot of knees over toe stuff kind of combined. And so that's what I do for my lower body. That sounds like what I'm doing.

I'm doing a lot of that too and a lot of sled work. Yeah, that's what I'm doing too. Man, that knee over toes guy, he's changed my knees. Yeah. My knees are so much stronger. Like, they feel more stable. Like, everything about it. I noticed a big difference.

Because, like, I started noticing it when I was shooting. Like, I just think in my videos when I'm doing gun reviews, I like to just run for no reason. But as I got older, I just started, like, why am I moving so just stiff? Like, I'm just, like, nothing feels tight. Right. It just feels kind of sloppy. Right. And then I started doing that, and now I've kind of gotten the youth back in my legs,

where now it's like I can take off at a moment's notice. But like I was telling you also, since I've been doing kind of like this plyo stuff, plyometrics that I've been doing, I think my body's shocked. So now I'm dealing with some Achilles tendonitis in my Achilles. You need a cold plunge. You know what? It's funny. You actually might be right.

Get in there. Come on, man. Let me film it. Dude. Let's do it right after here. Not right after here, but I might let you in the future.

Okay, let's do it. I might let you film it in the future. Okay, next time you come to town, we'll make a day out of it. We'll work out and then we'll get in the sauna and do the cold plunge

and make a video. I should start an OnlyFans. Oh, boy. And that'd be the first video. I. You should start an OnlyFans. Oh, boy. And that'd be the first video. I think if you start an OnlyFans, automatically you're going to get zessed. If people are going to sign up for it, they're going to want a little zest. What percentage of OnlyFans is gay guys? I have no idea.

Because I would feel like that's so available for free. I don't think it's the same. I don't know why I think it's the same. I doubt it the same it's not the same because girls will like hold back yeah you know like for a girl to show you like her pussy it's like a lot of work i would imagine is it i would imagine i mean with some girls i mean a lot of girls on only fans that are doing just that right but like how many guys like if're a girl, if you're a hot girl or if you're a hot guy, how many guys will show you a picture of their dick? A lot. I won't.

You won't? Well, you're smart. You're also public. But if you're like a regular dude trying to get laid and a girl says, show me your dick. And you're like, all right.

So, okay, maybe I lie. And... Right, because... I had a girlfriend back in like, I think it was like once I was like right before I started college. Right, my freshman year in college. She would like send me a picture of it.

And I was like, what? She was like, especially when we weren't together. Sounds like a good girl. I mean, I guess. Sounds like a lot of fun. It didn't last very long. Sometimes. Well, I had to get away from that one.

I got a little real toxic. Sounds very male. Sometimes? Well, I had to get away from that one. I got real toxic. It sounds very male. Show me your dick. I mean, it was very, no, real talk. Aggressive. And I was like, okay. And this would happen like, not on a regular basis, but regular enough where I'm like, started feeling normal.

And then I'm like, yeah, I'm going to have to stop doing this. So there may or may not be pictures of my dick floating around on the internet. I'm sure there are. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, listen, it's, some people don't like it, but some people like it. Right? I think it's weird.

It's weird. I think it's weird. Some girls will tell you, like, why do guys send dick pics? And then other girls will be like, send me a dick pic, motherfucker. Yeah. Like, I don't know. Now you will, you're not getting one out of me good good for you yeah not happening yeah i think it's one of those things where it's like the the variation of human beings in terms of like what they like and what they don't like it's so extreme so all over the place all over the place so all over the place. So all over the place. It's so crazy. Yeah. Even just among my friends, like the stuff that, like the type of girls we're into, so

forth and so on. Oh, yeah. It's all over the place. Oh, yeah. I have friends that just like to be in danger. They like, they don't, they're not happy unless they're doing something that could ruin their entire life if someone just decided to. I'm the complete opposite.

Me fucking too. No danger, full discretion. I don't want to be out there. I'm like, no. Thank God dick pics weren't a thing when I was 15. Think about when you first started getting laid when you were 16. Imagine if there was dick pics. Like I said, there may be or may

not be some floating around though so well if the thing is with deep fakes it doesn't matter anymore like it's deep fakes there's like every beautiful woman that has ever been in a movie or a television show could easily be in a porn yeah just through a deep fake now i remember like i remember at the genesis of that where it was like so so-and-so famous actress in porn scene. And you're like, wait, what? Not me, but. You get sucked in.

Yeah, right. Well, imagine when they get to the point where they can create robots. Like when they can create a sex robot. I mean, they're pretty damn close. They're pretty damn close. Pretty damn close. But if they did decide to come up with a sex robot that looked exactly like Jamie. This would be an interesting place to live.

And then Jamie has to watch videos of all these dudes just plowing his fields. Now, there is something to be said. Hey. There is something to be said. Hey. Easy. I wonder if there's something to be said about them kind of, you know, reaching that level of technology. And a lot of guys transcending from OnlyFans over to those things.

Oh, it's going to happen. That's going to happen for sure. But then it's going to be like, how many robots can you afford? You're going to have a house filled with fuck robots? I mean, they'll become vacuums at that point. Yeah. I mean, there was one story about a guy, he had like, I think, what was it, a store? I think it was something I saw on Instagram where a guy was talking about like, he went

to a guy's house because he was doing some cable work or something. And he walks in and he's like, all these sex dolls. And a slight smell of fish. What the fuck is that smell? It's just rotten jizz everywhere. is everywhere i think there's there's gonna come a time where um it might it might actually never even get to that because virtual reality might get to a point where they have you know they have these um haptic feedbacks it's like you were talking about the the guns getting zapped but i think they're going to get to a neural interface where they're going to be able to recreate the

sensations like if they can if they can figure out talking about pacifying a society right well that's the matrix i mean the what's crazy about the matrix is when the movie first came out which is like when was it was it was in the 90s correct 99 so when the movie first came out we're like we were fascinated by it like whoa cool but it was pure science fiction yeah not even close right like now you watch the matrix one now you're like how far off are we not that far within our lifetime i expect there to be a dilemma where people do not want to go outside they only want to lock into a thing and experience it i like real yeah for now no i mean like that's just how i'm built right but do you think that like i mean i also like

talking to people on the phone right i don't i don't want to have to go somewhere to talk to someone i like if i have a friend who lives in california i like to be able to call him up hey what's going on so so i'm weird so when it comes to my friends, I throw on AirPods, talk to them on the phone all day long, right? When it comes to women, I prefer to be in person. Interesting. Yeah. Why is that? I don't know.

I've yet to really truly understand it. But if I'm going to engage with a woman, I'd rather prefer to be in person, face to face. Well, that makes sense because there's no misconstruing what you're saying. Like, text is the weirdest. Because you could text someone something and they don't know what you're saying. Text is the weirdest. You could text someone something and they don't know if you're joking. Yeah. And I don't really care too much

for like excessive texting back and forth. Largely because I'm just one, I'm just so busy. So it's hard for me to stay in the moment of the conversation. And then what will happen too sometimes is if, and this is just general purpose, not even just women,

but I will forget to go back and respond because if you send me something that requires an extensive explanation I don't want to just give you a half-assed answer right then oh yeah so I'll wait and then sometimes I'll just forget to go back yeah dude I have to change my phone number I have so many texts that I can't respond to I'm gonna check my right now. I'll tell you how many texts that I have. What does it say here? I have 96 texts. Look at that. Not bullshitting. 96.

What do you got? 430. Jesus. 433. Well, you're just delinquent. Look at the emails. How's that? It's insane. Oh my God. How do you have so many people texting you? Dude.

You have no idea who's texted you. I don't. Do you just give that up to random people? No. Almost folks? The funny thing is, so what happened is this started off, this was supposed to be the business phone. Oh. And so this is my personal.

So what happened is I didn't realize I don't remember this number. So when people would ask me who I would normally give the business phone to, I would just err on the side of my default and just go, okay, here, take this number. That's funny. Yeah, so now they're basically contaminated. I have a general rule that when I remember my phone number, that's when I change it.

Okay. Because I never know my number. I've gone places, they go, what's your phone number? I don't know. I don't want to know. I can remember my wife's number, I can remember my number. I've gone places. They go, what's your phone number? I'm like, I don't know. I don't want to know. I can remember my wife's number. I can remember my daughter's numbers. I can remember a couple of my friends' numbers, and that's it.

The only numbers I know is my mom and my aunt. Memorized. That's the only numbers I know. I used to be a wizard with phone numbers. Yeah. Well, because you had to be. Yes, man. I was so good at it. I could remember booking agents and comedy clubs and

friends and i remember my number from high school you know but when my my home number but now now so like yeah i have there's it's just rap i can't remember it but isn't it just like a work like what you need to remember like you you don't need to remember it anymore so you just don't don't yeah it's like brian just it's kind of like getting around now. Right. It's nuts. Navigation. I legit do not know how I was able to get around without navigation.

I still navigate to my house in the city that I live in. Isn't that wild? But it's also good if you're using something like Waze because it tells you if shit goes sideways. I see people hitting blinkers. I'm like, oh, these people are like Waze, because it tells you if shit goes sideways. Like, you get to, like, I see people hitting blinkers. I'm like, oh, these people are on Waze, too. They're going off on these weird side streets. I remember in New Jersey.

And cops. And cops? Hell yeah. Oh, where the cops are. Yeah, that's true, too. Yeah. Waze has gotten me out of situations that my radar detector wouldn't have gotten me out of.

Isn't that interesting? Police officer ahead. Like, whoa, Waze. I will not. Yeah. Anytime I'm doing, like, when I'm driving to Austin, I have my Waze. One of my favorite things that people do

is when you're driving and they flash the lights at you. Cops are ahead, bro. Oh, yeah. We're in this together. We're in this together. I like that. I like that. Thanks, bro.

Yeah, I love doing it to people and they give you the thumbs up. Like, yeah, we're in this together. I sometimes am a bit of a dick. You don't do it? Well, no. So, like, sometimes when, like, somebody's, like, riding me a little too close, and we're both speeding, and it gets slightly annoying.

So then I'll just move over and slow. And I know there's a cop ahead. I'll slowly back up. Oh, you bait them. Yeah. Every once in a while. But generally speaking, if you're not being an ass, yeah, I'm, like, I'm going to a cop ahead. I'll slowly back up. Oh, you bait them. Yeah. Yeah. Every once in a while. But generally speaking, if you're not being an ass, yeah, I'm like, I'm going to let you know.

Yeah. Like, I'll tap on the brakes for you or, you know. How long do you think we are from completely automated automobile travel? I don't want it to get there. Yeah. I don't want it to get there. I'm not sure if I want it to get there either. Yeah.

But I mean, like I was just telling you, I am like, remember, last time I was on here, I was talking about how much I would never get a Tesla. And then now, coming in today, I'm like, yeah. Do you want to drive mine? Do you want to drive mine for a little bit today? I'd apply it, yes. Yeah, drive it around. Drive it around.

You might change your mind. I do miss the sound of the engine. You know, I love engines, obviously. I'm a gearhead. I love a V8. Yeah. I love the rumble of an American muscle car I love that sound

but god damn that Tesla is a preposterous vehicle I'm not gonna lie so I'm in so right now where I am if I get a Tesla for an Uber I'm happy there's something about them I don't know why it's just a quiet it's just a clean space it's just different very minimalist I think

too much so like I've said this about the new one with the wacky steering wheel. The steering wheel sucks. I don't like it. It's okay when you're driving straight because the ergonomics of the Tesla are fantastic. You're holding on to it. Your elbows are rested. It's very good. And it actually makes you have two hands on the wheel more often because I would drive with my one hand.

That's me, yeah. Which is not the best. The best way is two hands like this. Now, as I've gotten older, I've noticed my hands starting to slide more to the side. Because I was wondering, like my uncles I see driving and stuff. Ten and two, Coleon. Ten and two. So I'm becoming a little bit more responsible as I age.

Yeah. Even though I'm still 12 in my mind. But it's not good for turning, like when you have to turn in parking spots and stuff. Oh, because you kind of have to find the wheel? Yeah, it's weird. It's kind of like the paddle sometimes where like, do you prefer the paddles mounted to the steering column or you want them like where they're static or do you want to mount it to the steering wheel so that when they turn, they turn?

I've had cars that have paddles. I have never used the paddles. Really? I keep it in automatic. Let me tell you, that have paddles, I have never used the paddles. Really? I keep it in automatic. Let me tell you, there are some cars you really want to use the paddles. You say that, but I like shifting. I like a clutch.

Oh, I'm talking about when you don't have a, you don't have a standard transmission. If I don't have a clutch, I fucking keep that bitch and drive. I'm like, I'm not pretending. I'm a speed racer out here. That stupid paddle, that's nonsense. Yeah, I'm i'm the speed racer well you have a very fast car but we should talk about that here's the crazy thing about that okay so the other i want to say

about a few weeks ago my friend because i'm starting slowly starting getting into this like going to track days and stuff friend of mine was like he's like yeah i just bought a miata miata is a dope i didn't know now i realize it now but when he told me i was like, he's like, yeah, I just bought a Miata. Miatas are dope. I didn't know. Now I realize it now. But when he told me, I was like, that's zesty. It's more feminine than zesty. It's like, you know.

Zesty is kind of a universal kind of term. Yeah, it can go a lot of ways. And so he's like, I'm gonna bring it over and i'm like okay so he's like he brings it over it's like this convertible zesty ass miata and then it's a standard and he's like drive it i don't drive your zesty ass miata and he's like drive it so i get in there get sitting i'm like god this is super zesty. And then I start driving it. And I'm running through the gears. I'm like, this thing is awesome.

It's a go-kart. It's so fun. So fun. It's so fun. There's a reason why Miatas are around for as long as they have, and they've barely changed. I'm like, I literally started contemplating, all right, should I get a Miata? And I want to get it in a standard transmission. Gordon Ryan has a Miata.

Gordon Ryan is the greatest jujitsu athlete of all time. He's as manly a man as is humanly possible. He's got a Miata. And he's got a standard Miata. It's a great fucking car, man. Look, consider me converted because I'm telling you. You ever heard of the company Flying Miatas? No.

They take a miata and they put a v8 in it but see i don't want a powerful miata really i know no no no no there's just because i want to be able to run it to its absolute like right limit right right um and so without having to worry about you too much power or having to navigate the power, I can just run it ragged and just focus on the driving experience. Exactly. Yeah. I used to have an Acura NSX that I loved that for.

I wanted an NSX so bad. They were great. And it's only like 290 horsepower. Yeah. It's not a lot of horsepower. I've only heard excellent things about them. It never fucked up. It's not a lot of horsepower. I've only heard excellent things about them. It never fucked up. It's a Honda. It's crazy

because it's a Honda sports car. What is that? There's a, oh, that, is that a flying Miata? Yeah. Watch this. That car is so fast. This is the flying Miata Habu. Look at this. Habu being a small venomous

snake from Japan. Why is that appropriate? Well, because this is an MX-5 with a Chevy small block V8 in it. What? 6.3 liters of V8. 525 brake horsepower. What?

It's an old recipe, but it's a very good one. In a Miata? In a Miata. Just listen to how it sounds. That's not enough. I think I might have to get one. The world's smallest muscle car. But it's a very good way to be on in the Miata just listen to how it sounds I think I might have to get one the world's smallest smallest muscle car keep that rolling Look at that LS3

Okay, that's kind of badass my distribution by 53 percent to the front now 47 percent of the rear is both 52 to 52% in the standard car, which is incredible, really. It's only 1% difference. Only 1% difference in the weight distribution. It's a proper, proper V8. But how much weight is it adding, though? Oh, my God. Anyway, as far as it is, it's only 1% in the front.

It can't be much. Well, as far as distribution of weight, but... It's not. What's amazing is those LS engines are not heavy, Matt. Because I know when they dropped that. I had twice the number of cylinders. To Willow Springs. That makes my dick hard.

Look at that. And it's kind of cool looking. I actually agree with you. That's a cool looking car, man. I mean, I wonder how the tires deal with the amount of torque. It wouldn't matter, though. Look at those skinny ass, bitch ass tires. The tires are so cheap to get, though.

It really wouldn't matter. Just run through them. Right, but I'm saying in terms of handling. Oh, handling the. Like, handling that amount of torque and power. I bet it drifts like a motherfucker. Yeah. You stomp on it.

Look at that thing, though. Let me hear some of this. The grizzly engine always makes its presence felt, whatever the situation. You're also always aware that you're in a relatively short wheelbase, so slides can start and stop very quickly. But the Fox Racing suspension,

and being probably more associated with motorbikes and mountain bikes, is impressive on both road and track. That thing looks wild. You know, nothing relaxes me more than watching car review videos. I love car review videos. If you look in my YouTube feed, a lot of it is car reviews. I love watching them, man.

Who's your favorite reviewer? Matt Farah. Really? Smoking Tire. That's my boy. I used to watch a lot of Matt Farah. I don't know why I stopped. There's no reason for it. Smoking Tire. That's my boy. I used to watch a lot of Matt Farah. I don't know why I stopped. There's no reason for it.

But I know Matt personally. He's a friend. So there's that too. He has a car I really want. Which one? He has an Aston Martin Vanquish that he converted to manual. That he sent over and converted to manual that I think is fucking, it's hot shit. You know what I want?

They just converted it as a company. See if you can find this. It's hot shit. You know what I want? They just converted. There's a company. See if you can find this. A company that just took a modern 2021 plus GT500, which has only been paddle shift, and they converted it to manual.

And I'm thinking. Think, think, think. I'm thinking. I'm an old school meathead, man. I see. I see. I love those muscle cars. I get a lot of shit from my channel whenever I do my car reviews because you know i do car reviews from time to time so i like i like

sleek sexy european i do too yeah that's that's kind of but i still want i still want a chevelle i want to like an old school yeah i have a 1970 like john wick yeah so yeah there i didn't i'm a little torn about the one in Batman oh yeah now the opening scene was probably one of the greatest scenes ever for the introduction of the Batmobile

I enjoyed the new Batman movie I fell asleep how dare you who am I talking to it's too long it's too long really

and it was too so okay did you watch it at home no I watched it in the movie theater really yeah you fell asleep in a movie theater. Really? Yeah. He fell asleep in a movie theater.

Yeah. That's a well-armed man. So comfortable he falls asleep in a movie theater. Well, I'm a Christian Bale Batman kind of guy. Like, that is my, to me, when you say Batman Bruce Wayne, it's Christian Bale. I think so, too. I think he was the most believable in terms of, like, a bad motherfucker who was Batman. Like, he was jacked. He looked like he could fuck people up.

He's a big dude. And it was a lot of contrast between him as Bruce Wayne and Batman. He had a voice. The voice bothered me. I'm Batman. It's like, man, you're going to lose your voice talking like that and then everyone's going to know. You're going to show up at work the next day talking all fucked up.

Hey, man, what have you been up to? I was out partying. Partying? You got a black eye. What happened? Well, I mean, he owned Wayne Enterprise, so he didn't really have to go into work. Batman is kind of the lamest superhero ever because he's basically just a rich guy. Don't say shit like that, Joe.

What? Who's the best? Batman. Batman's the best? Batman. Batman's the best? Yes. Really? Yes. Really?

Yes. Which is odd because he doesn't use guns. And that should be the reason why I don't like him. Yeah, he doesn't ever use a gun. No, he doesn't. That's kind of crazy. I never even thought about that until right now. He doesn't kill people either.

He never kills anybody? But doesn't he in the comic books? There's one where he does and it's actually pretty badass. I can't remember the name of it, though. And he has a gun. I think he's shooting his ass at Eagle in that one, too. Well, I used to like the Punisher for that reason. Punisher fucked everybody up.

Punisher was beautiful. The real Punisher was built like Batman. The real Punisher was like Batman without the suit. He was jacked. Which is true. Which is true. And he had a great origin story. Just a soldier.

Just decided to fucking go on a rampage and kill all the organized criminals. Because all the other superheroes were trying to arrest people. He's like, fuck that. Fuck that. Killing everybody. Did you see Top Gun? I did not. I heard it's great, though.

It's phenomenal. So, Batman is your favorite superhero? Yes. What about it? I literally, there's a running joke that I, like, in the community, that people know. If you follow me close enough and long enough, you know, I think I'm the black Bruce Wayne. That's the exact reaction that I want.

Like, that's how goofy it is. That's how much I love Batman. But what about Spider-Man? What about him? He can climb walls and shoot webs and shit and perform superhuman feats of athleticism and strength. Spider-Man is zesty. Oh, Jesus.

Okay, what about the Hulk? I do like the Hulk. What about the Hulk? I like the Hulk, but he's not my thing. I like it when he comes in, destroys shit, and then leaves. Right? Just the chaos. But other than that, he's forgettable to me.

Well, the Hulk makes all the other Avengers useless. Because when they're on their own, when they're on their own, why don't you just call the Hulk? Just call the Hulk. What are you doing? What are you doing with your bow and arrow? That fucking guy with the bow and arrow is the dumbest.

And I love Jeremy Renner. I think Jeremy Renner's awesome. But that character's the wackest shit. Like, if I was him, I'd be like, man, I really want to be an Avenger. But fuck, why you got to make me the guy with no strength at all, no powers whatsoever. I just have a bow and arrow, which is the dumbest weapon. At least Black Widow has guns. Yeah, and this is coming from a guy who's an archery enthusiast.

I have a fucking archery range at my studio. And I think that guy's whack an archery enthusiast. I have a fucking archery range at my studio, and I think that guy's whack. It's so dumb. I mean, I think Batman is the best, and he doesn't use guns, so I guess that kind of... But I mean, how many arrows do you have, bro? How many times can you do this? You can only do this so many times.

He'd be flicking the arrows, though. He does mean... Do you know that this whole idea of the quiver on the back is not really how they really traveled with arrows Really where they travel well They didn't like pull arrows off their back and they used to carry them in between their fingers for the most part and they used To be able to shoot multiple arrows, especially the Comanche They would carry these arrows and there what is that?

Who's that gentleman that has that YouTube page that? these arrows and what is that who's that gentleman that has that YouTube page that he figured out like from looking at old images and depictions of archery from like thousands of years ago realized that our idea of them having a quiver and pulling an arrow out and see he keeps them all in his fingers like that and this guy figured out how to shoot multiple arrows in a second but what do they do how did I carry my traveling that's a good question i don't know where maybe they had a quiver for that but the idea that they reached back and pulled an arrow every time they wanted to shoot like that hawkeye guy basically an assault arrow yeah like this guy this the way

he did it this is how they think like the comanches did it and the Mongols did it. They carried multiple arrows in their fingers and just transformed it or transferred it rather to the string, like with each finger. Like see if you get a video of how he does it, how he shoots multiple arrows, because it's pretty wild. Anytime I see arrows, bone arrows, I think Hunger Games. Yeah, that's, well, that got a lot of people into archery, too. What is he doing here? So watch how he, so he's recreating how the Comanche did it. See how the Comanche would carry multiple arrows in their hands. Like, there's images of them holding multiple arrows.

But if you can see how he did it, so, like, only one movement to shoot each other. This is, he's saying that this is bullshit. So, see how he's doing it? Oh, shit. Yeah, look how quickly he's shooting all these multiple arrows. Okay, that's impressive. Yeah, he's showing, like, how this would take so much time to do. Only one movement to shoot each arrow.

And he's saying this is, like, kind of ridiculous. Which makes sense. So, he can throw these things up in the air, and he can shoot multiple arrows. See, get to the point where he's doing that. He's doing it on the left right there. He's exaggerating the goofiness. I skipped way to the end already.

Oh, okay. He's showing how he would do it. There's a few other. Oh, so he can do this. Watch this. Watch this. This is crazy. So he can shoot like three arrows in a second.

Three hours and one and a half seconds, which is pretty crazy. So this is why the Comanches fucked up all the early settlers because the settlers had muskets. And it wasn't. Did you see the images that we have outside? One of the images is Jack Hayes. And Jack Hayes was the original Texas Ranger. And what he did was incorporate pistols, like a revolver. He was the first guy to incorporate a Colt revolver,

which had individual cylinders that you would replace. They didn't have like a regular revolver where you'd put the bullets in. But they would carry multiple cartridges. So it's kind of like some of the reloading mechanisms for wheel guns now. They're not actual revolvers, but they're like these little push it in and click. They used to do that for revolvers before they figured out

semi-automatic pistols. So the Colt had this and nobody wanted them. Which is wild. And then he figured out how to use them against the Comanche. Because they had to do a bunch of different things to deal with the Comanche. And that's the gun. And then he figured out how to use them against the Comanche, because they had to do a bunch of different things to deal with the Comanche. And that's the gun.

And see if there's a video on that. That's Captain Jack Hayes. That guy right there, that's the image that we have outside, along with Quanah Parker, who was the guy who his mother was captured by the Comanche, and he was the chief of the Comanches. He was half Comanche and half white, and he became the last Comanche and he was the chief of the Comanche's he was half Comanche and half white And he became the last Comanche chief, and it was interesting because he was half European So he's a big fucking dude as opposed to most of the Comanche's were like five foot five five foot seven

They were tiny which allowed them to ride horses better Okay, which is interesting too right so this is okay, so this is how that gun worked. So this original revolver, he was the first to implement this in war because they did, where's the trigger? That's what I was just thinking. Did it have no trigger? Did you have to like trigger it with the back? How's he using this?

So did he like have to push the hammer forward? How did he do it? I thought it had a trigger. That is wild. Does this guy shoot this thing in this video? So he pushes it. Oh, the trigger pops up. Oh, interesting. Interesting. And then the hammer bust forward and it ignites the round. Huh. and so he would have to like break it down pull that cartridge out put a new one in but it would take five rounds and look at how these balls wow wow that is wild i think man those balls are nasty things man i know it was you know it was brutal back then just the fucking way that they existed on the fucking plains. And they also implemented what they call cold camping,

where they would camp without any fire because the Comanche would find them. Because these dumbasses would light fires. I'm going to cook my beans by the fire. I'm one-handed, particularly. Oh, wow. Look at that. Well, that's pretty fucking good in comparison to a musket. Yeah.

Because having those five shots made all the difference in the world. Yeah. Because the Comanche would run up on them and the Comanche also figured out how to ride sideways. So they would hang off the side of their horse and shoot underneath the neck of the horse with their bow. Oh, okay. Which is wild, right?

So they would be able to be protected by their fucking horse. And they were also the first of the Plains Indians that figured out how to breed and how to maintain large populations of horses. So they had the most horses. Yeah, I don't trust horses. How so? I just don't like all the times I've ever ridden them. Because when you're riding a horse, you understand what you're dealing with as far as an animal. Yeah.

And it's just at any given moment, who doesn't want me on here, I'm not on here. Well, that's true too. But back then you had no choice. Yeah, no. I mean, that doesn't stop me from riding a horse. It's just that's always kind of in the back of my mind. Can you imagine? I mean, here we are in 2022.

Imagine that 150 years ago there were no options. You had to ride a horse. That's it. That's so recent, man. That's so recent. That's nutty, man. I mean, think about it now. Your Tesla does 0 to 60 in what, 1.9 seconds?

Yeah. And it's so crazy. Like's nuts yeah and then it can drive itself yeah like that's that's where we're going and how fast we're going which is all just you know from the gun perspective it's weird sometimes because you know people look at the second minute like talking about muskets yeah it's not talking about muskets oh i need to shut the fuck up everybody says that it's it's so okay so you want to relegate me to to a musket while every while the government and all the criminals are using modern firearms i'm supposed to only have a musket yeah and then there's the

argument like what you would never take up arms against the government why would you ever need to take up arms against the government we say that because everyone's armed but if only the government was armed you would wish you had a fucking gun. At the end of the day, and I was talking to my friend about this, and I was like, if you think about it, so Tiananmen Square. Yeah. Right? They pretty much bulldozed right over those people. And then you go counter that with the American narrative.

Say, for instance, what happened in the 1960s with the Black Panthers showing up on the Capitol. You had a group of black men in the 60s showing up to the Capitol and all they could do was have a standoff. Different world. You get what I'm saying? Yeah, of course, they subsequently passed some laws and you can debate whether or not that was racially motivated. But at the end of the day, that demonstrates to you the necessity of the Second Amendment. It's not always about let me go out here and overthrow the government. It's about keeping it in check.

That's what it's designed to do. Because even now, the government has to kind of tiptoe with the citizens, with the citizens in the United States, because they understand these people are armed. We can only go so far with the way we try to be heavy handed about certain things. Which goes back to Australia during the pandemic. Exactly. Where Australia is unarmed. And they were like, you can't go outside. You can't work.

You can't go to the grocery store. You must comply. And they forced everyone into compliance. And there's nothing there because there was no threat of any real resistance exactly and people will say you know well that's crazy you shouldn't do that anyway but the bottom line is like you can't rely on human beings to have that much control over human beings this idea of the government is so it's it's this abstract concept because the government is essentially comprised

only of human beings. That's it. And when human beings have that kind of control over other human beings, we just have a fucking natural inclination to tell people what to do. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. It's just the nature of being,

which is why things were set up the way that they were set up to be checks against. So we have three branches of the government. They were supposed to all be a check on each other because they understood human nature. It's just hard for people to recognize that when we live in times of general peace. That's really what it is. What it boils down to. It's the idea, like for a lot of people, like conceptualizing the idea that they would have

to deal with a tyranny, especially here in America. Yeah. To deal with the tyrannical government in their minds. And then people see that like, don't tread on me flag, and they start fucking panicking. Oh, you want to fucking take over the government? That's not what they're talking about. Oh, it's bad. Oh, it's bad.

It's talking to the government the same way the Constitution was talking to the government. A lot of people misconstrued that. The Second Amendment wasn't telling us what we can do. It was telling the government what it can't do, which is infringe on our right to keep and bear arms. Yeah. You know, there was a video that Samuel Rivera put out about a rant that I made. A lot of people got their panties in the water about it because it was talking about freedom. And I said essentially that every single civilization up until 1776 was a dictatorship.

And they were like, what about Greece? They all fell apart, man. They all fucking fell apart. These ideas are great until Greece is actually a great example because there's a guy named Brian Marorescu who wrote a book called The Immortality Key that's all about the ancient Greek societies and the Enlightenment and that this is most likely due to the fact that these people were all taking psychedelic drugs

until it was shut down by the Roman emperors. Like they came in and shut everybody down. And the reason why they shut everybody down is because you can't control people who are tripping balls and inventing democracy. Isn't that kind of what happened here in America? It's very similar, you know me about I'm like super like I try to any psychedelics, but I also Why do you say that? It's just a control freak at me. But what but you got to let that go dude I mean I do but control is strength I'm gonna your set you have control because you have discipline. And that discipline is a strength.

But there's a lot of strength in understanding that there's paths to different ways of looking at things that you just need to let go and find those ideas and concepts. I don't disagree with you. I don't. You're just going to have to do better. Well, why don't you try the isolation tank first? I exposed you to that today. As soon as you told me about that shit, I was like, yep, I'm not going in that much.

But it's so easy. You can open the door. You open the door when you don't like it anymore. It'd be worthless. I'd literally open it in three seconds. No. Once I disappeared, I'm like, You would relax and you'd settle in and you'd be fine.

You'd settle in. I'd put a gun on Velcro, right? Attach it to the wall. So if some shit went down, so you'd be like lying down in the water. You'd go, there's my gun. There's my gun. If things got sketchy, you started having hallucinations, reach up and feel that staccato right there on the wall.

I'm like, okay, we're good. Okay, we're good. Okay, we're good. I mean, that might help a little bit. Yeah. Control is good, but it's also you've got to realize there's some control in not being in control, like being able to let go of that control. I think what it is, too, it's so like, you know, I'm an only child.

And so I've spent a lot of time with myself. And so one thing about, like, I'm not really big on trying to control people. Like I'm very big on like do you, right? My control is always kind of of myself. It's a matter of since I've spent so much time with myself and what goes on up here, I don't like the idea of anything interfering, what could possibly interfere with that. I understand what you're saying.

And so that's what, now, I will say, I'm not saying that there aren't things that could make that better, right? That could help enlighten and elevate. I just don't know right now if I'm at a point where I think the benefit is worth a potential risk. I know what you're saying. Yeah. Well, there's a risk.

And that's something that needs to be stressed with anything when you deal with the, yeah. Yeah. Well, there's a, there's a risk and that's, that's something that needs to be stressed with anything when you deal with the human mind. Yeah. You know, people, some people have a tendency towards schizophrenia and psychotic breaks and there's all sorts of weird things. It's a delicate balance. Yeah. Yeah.

Look what happened to Keith Moon. You know, like there's a lot of people that have taken acid and lost their fucking mind. That's real. I know guys who've taken pot edibles and lost their fucking mind. That's real. I know guys who have taken pot edibles and lost their fucking minds. You know, I know them personally where they used to be this way and now they're that way. Gotcha. Yeah. And for me, it's like, like I hear I'm aware of all the potential positives.

I'm just like, I don't, some reason I just, it hasn't reached the point where I felt like it's kind of worth exploring and taking that risk. Well, here's what's worth exploring is microdosing. I've heard about microdosing. I think microdosing is the future for a lot of people because the amounts that we're talking about are essentially like, it's a very mild feeling. It's not even like being remotely high. It's very mild, mild elevation and reduction of stress and relaxation. That's all it is. And it makes you like just nicer.

It makes things feel better. It makes the world feel like a better place. Isn't that kind of the equivalent of like secondhand high? No, no, no, no. Secondhand high can get you paranoid. I remember I got high once in a room with my dog and she's hiding under the couch. I was like, what the fuck's wrong with the dog?

And then I realized, oh, the dog, not under the couch, she was hiding under one of the corner tables. And I was like, what's going on? And I realized,

oh my God, she was in the room with us when Joey Diaz and I were doing bong hits. And then this poor dog, who was a rescue dog already, so she was already a little sketched out.

She got paranoid, poor little girl. Yeah, me, that's the thing, me and we don't get, I fight the high. Like the time that, I mean, I haven't smoked weed since college. Yeah.

And it's just because I know me. I'm going to fight it. It's an ego thing. Yeah, I mean, and I don't mean ego in a bad way. I mean, it's like your body's trying to protect you. Yeah, your mind, rather, is trying to protect you. But that's also because you're a disciplined guy who gets things done, and you don't want that to fuck with you.

And I understand that. That's how I was before I started smoking pot. And I think also it does – so I think there's some people who are very high-functioning who smoke. And then I think there are some people – like, even back then when I was kind of getting a little high, because it's like – like, I noticed that I kind of of the contrast was too much for me. So I started becoming a little more lazy, so to speak. And it's not I'm not saying weed makes you lazy. I'm just saying for me, I knew that I'd like it didn't make me as productive as I normally am.

Whereas I know other people who it's it's it's a perfect balance for them. And they can just they high're high-functioning people. Yeah, that's, I'm too crazy. I need something to just take some of the chimpanzee edge out of my brain. That's what it does for me.

It just gets me to a better place. And I don't do it all the time, but I do it enough and I'm comfortable enough with it that I know that there's some benefits to it. But when everybody says that pot makes you lazy, I'm like, bitch, keep up with me. Let's go.

Come talk crazy. Because you can't say that because everybody has a different reaction to it. And I'm not saying that everybody would have that same feeling that I get from it because I don't think that's true. And I don't think it's for everybody. The irony, though, is, like I said before, you're also talking to a guy who drinks. Right, right. And I know why I drink.

But it's so controlled. We had one glass of whiskey during this podcast. Yeah. That's it. One glass. Because I know how it affects me. Yeah. Nice.

Also, part of it, too, is even writing. I can only do half of a glass. Because the moment I go full glass, my writing starts to shit. Then you start getting crazy. Right, yeah. But at the same time, I largely drink to relax. Right? That's why I say I stop at a certain point because past that point, I'm no longer relaxing.

I'm just fucking drunk. Partying. Yeah. You're getting hammered. Yeah. And so that's not something that I really kind of enjoy. Now, have I done it? Of course.

Yeah. And I've had a great time a few times doing it. It's a different thing, though. Yeah, it is. Yeah. done it of course yeah and i've had a great time a few times doing it it's a different thing though yeah it is yeah and so for me i need it's because i'm so like i don't say like on not on edge but just 100 go i'm always like all right i gotta do this this when i when it comes down it's hard sometimes to get a point where i'm just like all right just relax well alcohol is so regulated they're like if you like a glass so regulated. Like a glass of whiskey

is consistently a glass of whiskey. It might have a different taste to it, but the impact it has on your psyche. It's pretty much the same. Wheat is so variable. And edible, so I'm like, God. Dude, I've heard horror stories about edibles. I'll tell you my own.

I've had wild fucking paranoia when I've gotten too high before. But I think there's a benefit even in that. And then I come off of it and with an understanding of things that are bothering me. Gotcha. Like these things that I got paranoid about, it's probably like some unresolved issues or some, some thoughts that I have in my head that I need to really work out. Yeah. Fair enough. But it's not for everybody, man. No, it's not. It's definitely not for people with a tendency towards schizophrenia.

That's a fact. I had a debate once with this guy, Mike Hart, who's a cannabis doctor from Canada, and Alex Berenson, who is a guy who used to write for the New York Times, who wrote a book called Tell Your Children that's all about the dangers of marijuana. And I was on his side. I was not on the cannabis doctor side in some ways because i don't like people when people talk about it like it's only beneficial it's only good i don't think there's anything yeah you know some people die when you give them peanuts right everything is the same thing with alcohol some people should not drink oh yeah it's the complete opposite yeah i had a friend who quit drinking but he would get to a point he would but when he

was drinking he would drink and he would get gerbil eyes. Like he was gone. It was like talking to a gerbil. Like, where are you? Like, you're not there. Like shark eyes. You know what I mean? Like, you're gone.

Like now you're just like an automaton just running around. Like you don't even know what you're doing. And he would black out. You know, cigars relax me too. Yeah. Which is weird how that works because I'm like, I hate cigarettes. Right. know cigars relax me too yeah which is it's just weird how that works because i'm like i'm like i hate cigarettes right but cigars it's a nice cigars give you a nice like ah yeah relax now do it probably i smoke a cigar like i think last time i smoked cigars with you

ah that was well they're good for conversations yeah i think they're great for conversations they give you this like when you smoke a cigar it's just like uh it's it it's also it's like a manly thing you have a cigar a glass of whiskey talk some shit you know it's nice it's a relaxing thing but it's um you know i want i like people to be able to make their own choices the thing that drives me the most crazy about weed is the fact that it's illegal because i think that if it was legal then we could have regulated marijuana where you knew exactly what the fuck you're getting and that's a crazy thing i don't want to like i can't i don't like the secondhand smoke of weed i don't like being around it however

i do think it should be legal i think almost everything should be legal and i think the argument against that is is kind of silly because you look at the amount of cocaine that makes its way into this country that's laced with fentanyl and people start dying left and right because it's unregulated. That is getting crazy. No one's talking about how fucking bad that is right now.

One thing they're talking about is the amount of people that have died of overdose, 18 to 49. It's the number one killer of people 18 to 49. And no one's talking about it. And no one's talking about that. While they're trying to ban guns, what are you doing to stop the cartel from bringing fentanyl-laced cocaine in?

Because, and this is an uncomfortable state, and this is coming from a person who's never done cocaine in his life. If you had legal cocaine, you would kill most of those deaths. Excuse me, you would eliminate. That's a bad word, kill. You would eliminate most of the deaths due to overdose from fentanyl. And that's a lot, man. It's a lot.

You would save 100,000 lives probably. It's crazy how this shit is decimating people. And it's only been in the last 10 years. That's what's nuts. I mean, I think fentanyl started making its way into the country somewhere in the 10s, right? Like the 2012 or 13 years. That's recent. Recent.

Holy crap, that's recent. Like when did fentanyl overdoses start making their way into the United States? And by the way, like all the precursors for that shit come from China and they all go into Mexico and people are profiting. precursors for that shit come from China and they all go into Mexico and people are profiting and and it's it's a dirty business man where billions and billions of dollars are being generated and they're being generated exclusively by illegal drug cartels and there's nothing you can do about that and the amount of resources they have because of that I mean you've seen some of the fucking warfare that they have the cartel warfare holy shit Holy shit. The irony behind it is, like, if you want to talk about how gun control doesn't stop criminals from getting guns, look at Mexico.

Yeah. You can barely own anything in Mexico. Yeah. And we all know what goes on there. Yeah. Like, that means, of course, people will dismiss it and say, well, it's not a third world country and so forth and so on. It's basically connected to us in a way that you could get easily across.

It's like the idea that it's hard to get from Mexico to the United States is nuts. Have you ever gone to the coast? Go to the coast near San Diego. All you have to do is swim over here. Literally. You could just jump in the water, swim over around the little barrier,

and you're in the United States. I mean, I grew up on the southwest side of Houston. I know all too well. They're coming in by the droves. There was a number they had the other day where they were talking about the number of illegal aliens that make their way through the southern border every day. And it's astounding. It's in the thousands every day. So if you have a thousand every, let's just say it's a thousand, that is more than a quarter million a year. But I mean, it demonstrates how porous

it is like so if that many people are coming over here you have to think about how easy it is for the people we really don't want over here right over here right and how many people are coming over here with fentanyl exactly a lot yeah i mean fentanyl is so crazy that the tiniest amount will kill you that's so creepy about it yeah it's it's like a tiny little fucking little pinch and you're dead. It's nuts like what are the What did I ask you to Google? Okay, I mean when did it start? Yeah, when defense and all start there's an event in 1959 or 1960 but went drunk overdoses Maybe in like 2013. I can't tell exactly. Yeah, so somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 years ago it started happening.

That's pretty damn recent. It's pretty damn recent. And the fact that they just put it in other stuff. They put it in ecstasy. They put it in street Xanax. What's-his-face died? Mac Miller. Tom Petty.

That's how Tom Petty died? Prince. That's how Prince died yeah who's the other kid who I actually listen to a lot Juice WRLD Juice WRLD

a lot of people man a lot of people died from that shit it's a scary drug Lil Peep yeah it's just scary because it's so potent

and there's apparently something that's way more potent than fentanyl yeah I thought I heard something about that too yeah there's some new shit I'm like God like yeah, like it's like someone saying I want a better nuclear weapon I want a nuclear weapon that blows a planet to smithereens instantly

Yeah, yeah, it's like that's the problem with technological advancement is that they can create things that are better that are already horrible Yeah, I mean better and more effective. It's twofold. Yeah. It's a double-edged sword that a lot of people don't. What does it say here? Tallahassee. Attorney General.

Okay. Listen to this. There's stuff called ISO. Isotanitazine? Isotan... Say that. Try to say that for me. Isotanitazine? Is isotonitazine isotonitazine okay commonly referred to as iso according to reports reports iso is approximately 20 to 100 times stronger than fence that's a nuke

yeah that's what that's who's out there snorting that's a nuke who's out there snorting? That's a nuke. Who's out there, bro? This fentanyl ain't shit. He's doing Scarface piles of fentanyl. That is. I mean, how much dopamine do you really want? I think people are just trying to die. I don't know. Or escape. Yeah, there's just so many people in pain, which is really sad. Which is weird because it's like we just want to sweep it.

And I'll be the first to admit, dealing with that stuff and getting to the other line issues of it is extremely hard. Which is weird because it's like we just want to sweep it. And I'll be the first to admit, like dealing with that stuff and getting to the underlying issues of it is extremely hard. It's complicated. It's complex. It's hard. However, we've got to start somewhere.

They're so eager to say, let's start with banning this. It's like, okay, but even if you got to where you got, you're going to have to deal with this issue no matter what. And so why not take the energy and the focus in dealing with that? How do you deal with this issue yeah no matter what and so why not take the energy and focus in dealing with that how do you deal with it though like what would be the move to stop fentanyl from

getting into this country i mean the the real hard truth is people don't want fentanyl that's not what they want they want to get high and they want to get high in a way where you know you know dr carl hart is carl. That sounds so familiar. I've had him on my podcast several times and he's a brilliant professor, um, at Columbia who also does drugs and talks openly about, I mean, it looks like a guy who does drugs, got dreads and, but he's, but he's brilliant and he's unusual in the fact that he was a clean, straight-laced research professor who, upon his examination of these drugs in a research setting, started realizing that our ideas of them were completely exaggerated and screwed. And he enjoys heroin. But he'll snort a little bit of it and, like, have great conversations and have a wonderful time with his wife.

But he talks bravely about it. If you're a fucking professor at a university, who the fuck is out there talking about doing Schedule I drugs? I mean, look, I'm not at all near anywhere that shit. But I mean, I know how I feel when I drink this shit in the morning. So I can't really judge someone who does that personally. Well, I've never done heroin either, but I get it. I understand what he's saying because, you know, and he's talking about how if we did have access to clean cocaine where it was just cocaine, which very few people have.

He's like, yes. You would have an understanding of what it is. It's like it's way better for you than alcohol, probably. Like, if you, I mean, I don't know. I mean, I'm no fool to understand what the abuse of this can do. I mean, so, like I said, like, everybody has their vices. Yeah. And some people can handle their vices better than others.

And so that's why, for me, I'm not really big on the, you know, make all drugs illegal family. No, that's stupid. me, I'm not really big on the, you know, make all drugs illegal. No, that's stupid. But who's to say? The problem, like I always use this analogy. I'm like, if there was only three people on earth, you, me, and Jamie. And then Jamie decided, alcohol should be illegal. We're going to lock you all up.

And we'd be like, what the fuck are you talking about, dude? And Jamie wants to put us in a cage because we drink alcohol. That would be crazy. Well, why is it? Because the real numbers of people that want it to be illegal, that enforce it, are so small in comparison to the general population. I mean, but it's literally creating an economy that is more destructive than the actual drug itself. Right.

And you're propping up murderers. You're propping up this fucking cartel violence. That's what I'm getting at. It's like literally. It doesn't work. Like a lot of the violence in the inner city is because of the narco is driven by the narco economy that exists there exactly but how would you ever transition to making it legal it's like once that genie's out of the bottle about that how do you

put it back in how would you ever how would you ever does it really matter it's already out of it's out there as is right but if someone's child died of an overdose because they made cocaine legal and they just started doing cocaine and they had a heart attack and died, you'd be like, blood is on your hands. I'm like, are you sure? Because it's not like it's hard to get it now. We would have to have that kind of really uncomfortable conversation. I think a child could overdose on this.

It's pretty hard to – I mean, that's not hard to overdose on alcohol. I shouldn't say that. you don't mean yeah I mean you got there's a quantity level of consumption that's required and all you write to that point and you can always throw up yeah it's like I don't think I don't think it's an easy solution I think making drugs legal it would be a very difficult growing period or or you or learning period. Because even me, I'm more apathetic to whether or not they should be legal. That's kind of where I stand.

I'm kind of just apathetic to it. Because largely, I don't have the answers as to how do we regulate that? Right. But at the same time, I can't see how destructive they are as far as being illegal and the economies that are created around it because of the illegality. It's no different than when we were dealing with the prohibition

of alcohol. Well, that's what made all the fucking mafia guys rich. For Christ's sake, that's where we got the genesis of our modern day gun laws. Really? Yeah, because of the violence that was taking place during that time period. That's why full autos are borderline illegal for any of us to own. Because of what was happening during that time period.

No shit. Yeah. Huh. Well, it makes sense. They had those old ones with the circle thing, the circle magazine. Dromax. Yeah, that is a wild time. You think about the amount of money that was transferred to illegal organizations just because people wanted alcohol and the government had designed. What was the genesis of that? Who decided that alcohol should be illegal and how'd they pull that off because it was only illegal in America right it wasn't illegal in

Europe was it I don't think so I remember watching a documentary about this and I forgot I looked into this too a few times temperance movement they tried to start it a few times and it didn't really take hold and then some of us somewhere in Ohio that it clicked all roads lead to Ohio there's a spot lead to Ohio. Yeah, there's a spot called Temperance Road. You can still go visit the area. But when I looked into that, I found out it wasn't just happening there. It was happening in a few places.

I don't know if it was a religious thing or a political thing, but it was one of the two, which could have been at that time the same thing. Right. Well, people were just kind of dumb back then too in terms of like the repercussions of things. Like they had no idea.

They probably thought they were going to make a better society. We're going to build a better society. There's an oversim repercussions of things. Like they had no idea. They probably thought they were going to make a better society. We're going to build a better society. There's an oversimplification of things. And I think, too, to a certain degree, like especially when we talk about the gun stuff, too, I think we create the problems because we're always looking to our leaders to give us oversimplified solutions to complex issues. And we don't give them the leeway to try to figure it out.

We want the answers now. So we kind of almost, to a certain degree, force them to say, let me grab on to the easiest, most visible way to say I'm solving this solution so they can get off my back. Or I can look like I'm not incompetent. Because we want our solutions now, we want them fast and we want them easy. And that's, I think, the major problem that we're having in terms of our dynamic and relationship with our leaders and the public as a whole. It's because we always want an oversimplified solution to very complex problems. And we don't give them enough time. We don't even give ourselves enough time to work through the problem. We just don't.

We have so many unresolved, super complex problems in this country too, like extreme poverty, you know, what's happening in certain inner cities like the south side of Chicago, like Detroit, Baltimore.

There's many of them that you could point to that have never changed. They're the same as they were decades ago. If anything, they've gotten worse and there's no effort

to really have a comprehensive national conversation about it. Superficial. Oh, we're going to be tougher on crime. When Ukraine rolls around, we've got all the fucking hands on deck. It's wild. And we send guns and shit to our friends. Yeah. Fucking missiles and shit.

People of America, no, no, no, no, no. We're not giving you guns so that you can hold us accountable Right and also it's like what are we doing? I go what is happening over there like how was what is what is gonna? How is this gonna escalate like I'm fucking terrified that this could escalate to nuclear war Terrified I mean I just did a video about Taiwan where they're there's the their people are starting to learn to train how to use guns. I mean,

they're using airsoft guns to do it, but they're learning how to use firearms in the event China decides to invade, which is also an interesting thing.

And I keep telling people this all the time when we talk about, you know, respect to the Second Amendment. Like, people forget the Second Amendment wasn't written for hunting.

It wasn't written for sports shooting. It was written so that people had a means to check potential tyrannical government, foreign or domestic. Right, because they came from a tyrannical government. That's why this country was formed. Exactly. And people

hear this argument all the time. They're like, well, it was talking about the militia. And I'm like, let's say that just take it outside of the political realm. It makes no sense. If the purpose that it was written was to allow the people to have the ability to check a potential tyrannical government, domestic or foreign, why would they write in the Constitution telling the government that they have the ability to own firearms? It makes no sense.

Right. And if it's designed for the people to be able to check a potential tyrannical government, foreign or domestic, does it make sense that the people would have to go to that government that's being tyrannical to get the guns to fight back against that government? Right. That makes no sense. Doesn't make any sense. Doesn't make any sense at all.

No. So I find it odd when people try to make this argument. And I'm like, just even on the intellectual level, right, there's the operative clause and then the operative clause and the preparatory clause. People don't understand how that works. It's like they're basically saying in the beginning of the statement. Well, regular, well-regulated militia being necessary to secure the free state. This is why we're about to say what we're about to say after this. Right. The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed

because we understand that a militia, which is comprised of the people, is needed in order to protect the security of the state we just created. Yeah, and when they say that's when people had muskets, yeah, the government too, you fuck. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, the government had muskets back then too. And it was the top of the top weapon at the time. I'm just trying to say that as simple as possible.

Their musket was the equivalent of our AR right now. Yeah. And what scares me is that people think that the people that are in the military would never turn on the citizens. I'm like, you don't know people. People, you don't. They could other people so easily. They could decide that those people that are against them are the enemy and the enemy of the state, the enemy of the government.

Who did, like, Tiananmen Square, and always I say Tiananmen Square because I just recently watched a video about it again because I was just refreshing my brain about it. Who do you think the people were who came in and killed the people who were protesting? Right. It was the military. Right. the same military yeah and you could there was a video of a girl woman by the way who was talking about taking arms up against the people and this was about lockdowns during covid and she was talking about

if you don't think that i would take arms against you and shoot you, that you're crazy. I saw that. Did you see that video? I'm like, bitch, are you out of your fucking mind? Like, what a weird power trip you're on. You're talking about shooting people that don't want to get vaccinated? Think about that. Wild. Yeah.

And then you're going to tell me that I'm supposed to trust the government to protect me without firearms. Because when you give a person a gun and you give a person a sense of power and then give a person this sense of entitlement that they're entitled to tell people what to do and enforce laws. Like there's just a natural tendency that people have. Which is why the founding fathers understood that. So the only check against that is for the people to have firearms too. But we still have this problem with mass shooting. too. But we still have this problem with mass shooting. So what the

fuck is the solution to temper that, to stop that, to mitigate that, to do something to keep evil, destroyed, disturbed people from getting their hands on guns? So let's put things in the framework of the reality we are in. The vast majority

of the people who are committing mass shootings are getting their guns legally. It's not like they're getting them off the streets legally. They're getting them legally. And the way they're able to get them legally is because they're passing background checks. The vast majority of mass shooters pass background checks to get their guns. They're passing background checks because they don't have criminal history. They don't. So if you're just going to look at this from a gun control perspective, your only option is to ban guns. That is your only option. If you're only going to look at this from a gun control perspective, because we already have everything in place to prevent this.

We have background checks. They're passing them. Right. So the passing background checks because they don't have criminal histories and they're getting these guns and they're committing violence. And any event that they do have a history that could have prevented them from doing it, the system failed. The Charleston shooter, he shouldn't have ever had the gun. But the way the system was executed, the way they conducted the background check, there

was a mistake. He got his hands on a gun. What are you going to make the background check more back checkier? No, because the system is run by humans that are inherently flawed. So what do we do when the system breaks down, even though we have things in place to stop it? You have to be in a position to deal with the threat immediately. Nobody likes that because the idea of self-defense in the moment is ugly. It's nasty.

It sucks. You fight. You understand what that's like. It sucks. You fight. You understand what that's like. At the end of the day, first and foremost, you need to put yourself in a position to protect yourself and stop it immediately. Then we can start working our way towards, all right, how do we deal with the even more complex issues? Because telling me that I just can't own this gun or that gun or this gun, it's lunacy and it's moronic. We have over 400 million guns in this country.

You think you're going to write a law that says we're not allowed to have AR-15s anymore and now you're no longer going to see mass shootings where AR-15s are involved? It doesn't make sense. And then even if you do, AR-15s make up less than a fraction of the guns used in actual gun deaths. So what is the solution if these people are passing background checks and they are getting guns legally and they're still committing these horrific mass murders, what's the solution? The solution is to empower the people to stop them when they show up. That's it? That's what people don't like.

You think that's it? Well, think about it. There's no mental health solution. There's nothing we can do in terms of. We can have the conversation about what type of evaluation would take place that would preclude some like what type of diagnosis would be required to preclude somebody from their Second Amendment right to own a firearm, even though they've actually never committed a crime. That's the question. That's the question we have to address. Where where where's that line? So somebody who has anxiety, are we going to prevent them from owning a gun? Somebody who has transient depression, are we going to prevent them from owning a gun because they get depressed sometimes?

Where does that, where does that, where's that line? And so that's where things start getting excessively complicated and incredibly subjective. Because which, which doctors are going to make this decision, right? Well, one doctor who's like, I mean, people who have anxiety or borderline depression or the case may be, they're not violent people. And then Well, one doctor who's like, I mean, people who have anxiety or borderline depression or the case may be they're not violent people. And then you have another doctor who is on the payroll of some big timer who has who is incredibly anti-gun and says, nope, I need you to find that anybody who has anxiety won't be allowed to have a firearm. But then the whole mental mental health spectrum is so broad and so complicated that you're not going to get anything as definitive as anybody who has anxiety or depression can't own guns. You're not going to get that. It has to be action-based or potentially action-based. If you're in the process of, say, like you can be charged with attempted murder because you took substantial steps to go and murder somebody.

You may not have been able to do it, but you took substantial steps to do it. So therefore, we can charge you with attempted murder. Now, somebody, for instance, there have been numerous stories where people have said, they've written, I'm going to kill these people. They have lists of names they're going to do. They've acquired firearms. They've shown behavior that says that they're willing to do these things. You can take a substantial step enough to say you are a potential mass shooter. And you can be charged with that.

We have laws to deal with that. So I don't understand why people don't understand the reality of that. It's not as simple as saying, well, everyone just needs to have a mental health evaluation because where's the standard? Right. It is subjective. Like someone can decide if you like certain movies, if you listen to certain music, you play video games. And that puts the power in the hands of the government who have already demonstrated really don't want us to have guns to begin with. And that's the problem. And then there's this thing that when people want to have a solution, then all of a sudden it becomes political. And it doesn't become political in that there's necessarily like some sort of some sort of an interest to get the people unarmed as much as there is to come up with at least a paper solution that makes people satisfied that doesn't get done very well is putting and i hate boxes but for the sake of making the necessary distinctions of the people having the conversations

right you have the politicians like they don't really don't want anyone to have guns that's they're there then you have people who just hate guns don't want to be a part of that the people who really just want solutions right they're like look people are dying we need to do something this seems like the easiest thing to do because I think it'll work. There are a lot of people like that. Like their motivation, everything about it is positive. It's good. They have the same desire that people in the gun community have to figure out a way to save lives.

But at a certain point, we do have to understand we have to confront reality. 400 million guns in this country. We have over 300 million people in this country. Just those numbers alone, they're going to be substantially more crazy people who haven't done anything crazy than other places. People always want to compare us to the U.K. So the U.K. as a whole is about the size of New York. So naturally, you're just going to have more people willing to do crazy stuff like that because we have so many people from different backgrounds and just so diverse in terms of upbringing, you name it. So we're going to be more exposed to people who are willing to do things like that.

So as a result of that, we need to empower the people who aren't like that to be able to stop it when it arises. And you don't do that by making people defenseless. It just doesn't work that way. So what you're offering is a pragmatic solution to deal with the very real problem that we have here. Not looking at it in terms of like a romantic version of how we're going to take away all the bad guns and all the bad violence is going to stop. You're looking at it in terms of a romantic version of how we're gonna take away all the bad guns and all the bad violence is gonna stop. You're looking at it in terms of what are the actual facts, what are we actually dealing with, and what is the only actionable solution.

Yeah, because if you tell, because if you ban AR-15s, or let's say in some cases, and Joe's actually said he wanted to, ban semi-automatic weapons, cool. But it means nothing when the guy shows up to my house to kick in my door, has one. Oh, you need a double-bound shotgun. You try to shoot one off into the air. And what was I talking about?

There's 100 billion people with guns. And over 500% of them are from jail or something. But Joe is also a FUD. He just has a very antiquated way of looking at guns. That's a funny thing, the Fudd. People don't even know what that means. I know what it means. Elmer Fudd. Like, that's how people talk about people that hunt

and use bolt-action rifles. People like you, real gun enthusiasts like yourself, they always, yeah, they call him Elmer Fudd. But that's why he's always equating everything to the idea of hunting. Because that's his only perspective. The second has nothing to do with hunting. Absolutely nothing to do with hunting.

Yeah. But he needs to process it through that lens because that's the only way he's been in politics his entire life. He's been surrounded by protection his entire life. That's the thing, right? They all want protection. They all want armed guards, which is wild. The people that are anti-gun also want armed guards, which is fucking wild. Here's the crazy thing.

We say we want AR-15s to protect ourselves and protect our life, right? The people who are protecting Joe Biden are protecting his life. And they also have AR-15s. So how can you then turn around and look at me and say, I don't know why you need an AR-15 to protect your life. You have nine dudes around you with the goddamn same gun that you're telling me I shouldn't have to protect my life. Fuck you. I'm sorry.

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