The Joe Rogan Experience - #2046 - Brian Redban

Episode Date: October 10, 2023

Brian Redban is a comedian, producer, co-host of the podcast and live-streaming YouTube show "Kill Tony," and founder of the Deathsquad podcast network. https://www.deathsquad.tv/ ...

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Starting point is 00:00:00 The Joe Rogan Experience. Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day. Hey, what's going on? Hi. We are at the verge of World War III. Yeah. You know what, here's what's crazy, man. I've been freaking out over the last few weeks at nighttime.
Starting point is 00:00:27 At nighttime, I'll be alone, and I just start thinking about the future of the world. And I start legit freaking out. What would happen if we were legit Armageddon, Mad Max, nuclear war? How far are we away from that? And it just gives me anxiety before I go to sleep. I'd just be laying there going, fuck like how does this all resolve and then this fucking israel thing pops off and now i'm like legit freaked out i've been uh definitely buying a lot of stuff lately for my house like into the world shit like i'm getting tesla solar right now you know battery pack so i
Starting point is 00:01:02 can live off the grid and yeah that's a good move yeah yeah if you can get your house solar that's a big move just fucking a bit of an you know at a certain point in time what is it what's the electricity even getting you other than keeping the lights on what i'm scared of is like all communications are gone like how how hard would it be to shut down our power grid how hard would it be to blow a few satellites up and no one knows shit? Yeah, that's why I like that Starlink, the satellites thing. I'm thinking about getting that, even though I have great internet. But just because, oh, what if?
Starting point is 00:01:38 Yeah, it's scary. Yeah, I was in the mountains in Utah, and they had Starlink, and it was great. It works everywhere. But people keep thinking it's UFOs. Oh,. Like people keep filming it flying. What is that? Yeah. The dots in the air. Dude, everybody's looking for UFOs now, like more than ever. Yeah. Ring cameras are putting out a million dollar bounty. If you catch something on your ring cameras right now, they will pay you a million dollars. That's good because they know they don't have to pay that.
Starting point is 00:02:05 Yeah, exactly. It's like sweet, very smart. Did you see that one in Vegas that they captured on a camera? Like the dashboard cam of a police car caught this thing streaking through the sky, and then this family said that it landed in their backyard and that these tall creatures got out of it and they saw the tall creatures. But then when George Knapp was going to interview them, I think it was on two separate occasions. They just fucking wouldn't answer the door. Oh, really?
Starting point is 00:02:33 Yeah. But I think also, I mean, they might have made the whole story up, right? That's most likely. But also, imagine how freaked out you'd be if all of a sudden the whole world wanted to talk to you because of a UFO in your backyard. And I don't know if they're legal. I believe they spoke Spanish. See if you can find that story. Because at the beginning I was like, whoa.
Starting point is 00:02:56 And then I was like, what? Right. You know, it's one of those things that you want to be true. So you start going, whoa, what is going on with this story? And then you read it more. You read into it it more like yeah that's all those stories right every one of them yeah it's never like oh that we filmed it on the new iphone look how crisp it is uh the only ones that i ever really make me pause are the ones from the military guys and the the ones from the military guys the And the ones from the military guys, the more I think about it,
Starting point is 00:03:31 the more I think that is some absolute top secret shit that the United States government has developed. I think they have some super high-tech drone technology that operates on some very sophisticated propulsion system that we're not aware of. Or different countries. I think it's America. The countries. I think it's America. The reason why I think it's America is because these things always happen where military bases are.
Starting point is 00:03:51 Like one of them happened off the coast of the Nimitz in San Diego. San Diego is where all the SEALs are. That's where a bunch of military base. There's like a bunch of exercises that go on in the sea outside of San Diego. So that makes sense. And they were doing fighter jet testing and training out there. That's how they saw this thing. So that kind of makes sense to me.
Starting point is 00:04:12 And then the other ones are in the East Coast, again, in the same kind of airspace where these guys practice all the time. one guy on Ryan Graves and he said that when they upgraded their the equipment on their jets in 2014 I believe that's when they started seeing all these things that's when they're like what the fuck is going on now is that an accident like if they wanted to find out you know like whether or not these things were you could detect them you know whether or not we could employ them or deploy them rather without anybody knowing wouldn't you test them with your own guys like i would you know say hey here's the rules don't shoot at those things if you see them we don't know what the fuck they are but they probably do know what the fuck they are but also real aliens i'm i'm i leave everything on the table. I think if you had a pie, the UFO pie, right?
Starting point is 00:05:06 Most of it's bullshit. Like a good 70, 65% is bullshit. That's a really low job. You know me. Come on, man. I got an alien problem. I got a real alien problem. I got a UFO on the desk.
Starting point is 00:05:21 We got a fucking alien head on the wall. Yeah. But I'm also a realist in at least in some ways and i look at it i go okay it's most of it's just bullshit and then misunderstandings so what's misunderstandings how many of them are shooting stars which happen all the time i saw one the other day it was dope just the light the sky just shot up for and it dies off i was like oh it's pretty um how many of them are just fighter jets like that have you ever seen like a stealth bomber have you ever seen one of those yeah in the sky not in the sky i mean i had an air museum we were feeling fear factor in 2001 and it was right after 9 1111 uh so we were out in um no not what's the fucking city we were at we would go there all the time palmdale so palmdale's like way out there a lot of crack
Starting point is 00:06:15 it's it was a sketchy area but also these big open roads that we could close down and so we would do these stunts with like giant semi trucks semi-trucks barreling down the road, and these people had to climb on the outside of the truck, shit like that. And so we were out there, and we saw this thing just flying through the air like a fucking something out of Star Wars. Everybody stopped. We were like, whoa. It's a stealth bomber just flying through the sky.
Starting point is 00:06:43 They look so sick. They look like they're not of this world. You're talking about the Blackbird, right? Is that what it's called, Blackbird? I think there's more than one of them, right? The sexy one that's like all black and it looks like it has muscles and shit. It was sexy. It was very sexy.
Starting point is 00:06:59 It was very black. It was very spaceship looking. See if you can get a video of that thing. Is there more than one? Well, there's a couple different stealth. There's the B-2 stealth, which is probably the big one you're talking about, on the screen. Yeah, that's exactly what it looked like. That's the new one.
Starting point is 00:07:15 That's exactly what it looked like. When I saw that thing, I was like, oh, my God. There's a couple other ones. If you didn't know, come on, man. And you saw that thing flying through the sky. Give me one of those images, like that image right there to the right of your cursor. Yeah, click on that. If you just saw that, you'd be like, oh, my God, we're getting invaded for sure.
Starting point is 00:07:34 Especially at night. Can you imagine? Is there a video of that at night? I bet that looks like a UFO. I bet you can't see it at night. The whole idea is that it evades radar. How does that even work? Here's one. Oh, this this is that's from the ground it looks like a plane yeah these cameras it does look a little
Starting point is 00:07:51 bit like a plane but those three lights don't people always say they see like three lights in the sky it's how many of them are this thing probably a shit ton you know i mean everybody always talks about a triangle shaped craft right well there it is yeah fucking there it is the ones that they spotted over phoenix remember they had that uh phoenix the phoenix lights and they always say oh it was going slow and then out of nowhere it just jet out of nowhere super fast yeah that's another one that's a nice yeah but you think about it if it has three lights under it and it, and it's flying through the air, and it's that high, all it'd have to do is turn those three lights off, and you'd be
Starting point is 00:08:30 like, oh my God, it disappeared. Yeah. You know? You wouldn't even... You'd have no idea what's going on. So now on the ground like that, that looks like a jet. Like a super dope jet. What's the other one?
Starting point is 00:08:40 I think we have a drone. I think I was looking at one that's not officially... I think it's like the SR-72 hasn't been officially announced. What's that one in the other one? I think we have a drone. I think I was looking at one that's not officially. I think it's like the SR-72 hasn't been officially announced. What's that one on the far left? The white one? Yeah, that looks like a spaceship. Look at that thing. Wow, that looks cool.
Starting point is 00:08:55 Fuck yeah, it looks cool. I mean, if you were, you know, like when I was in high school in the 1980s, he told me, like, what are jets going to look like in 2003? I'm like, oh, I like that. Or 2023. I'd be like, that, that kind of shit. Yeah, that's an unmanned aircraft. That's 10 years ago.
Starting point is 00:09:12 Whoa. Yeah. See, so 10 years ago. So this thing off the coast of the Nimitz, this is 2004. So that's almost 20 years ago. That's the only thing that gives me pause. I was like, did they really have that kind of technology 20 years ago where something could jet off into the sky and go from 50,000 feet above sea level to zero in a second?
Starting point is 00:09:33 Did they have that back then? Maybe. You know, maybe they had that, but just they didn't have any way to use it, and so they just hold on to it. I mean, like, what would you use that for like if they did have it here's the thing if they had something like that like the tic-tac have you seen the tic-tac one that's the videos that gives that's the one that's the most legit
Starting point is 00:09:55 because it's two separate jets multiple eyeballs on this thing video evidence of this thing, radar data. Check this thing out. This is a Chinese drone, and it says it moves with bursts of compressed air to maneuver. This testbed drone can influence its upcoming sixth-generation fighter design. New drone features active flow technology,
Starting point is 00:10:19 which uses bursts of high-pressure air from actuators embedded in the aircraft's body for maneuvering instead of traditional moving controlled surfaces such as, I don't know how to say that, ailerons, rudders, and elevators. Wow. So it uses compressed air to flutter and maneuver. But what does that thing do if winds are fucked up?
Starting point is 00:10:43 Can it push against the winds? Like, how does that air work? Probably falls apart. It's made in China. Bro, they made your phone. They make great stuff, too. I'm just kidding. But that's the funny thing, right?
Starting point is 00:10:55 We think made in China is cheap. Bitch, made in China is everything. Yeah. We can't make a single phone over here. That is the dumbest thing of all time. Isn't that crazy? Yeah, I've been talking about it on stage. They tried, right?
Starting point is 00:11:05 Not hard. If China could do it. We've talked about this before, but if they made a phone in America and you didn't have to feel terrible about people working in the cobalt mines to get the cobalt out of the ground, and if you didn't have to feel
Starting point is 00:11:21 terrible about people working 16 hours a day, sleeping in cots, jumping off the roof, and if you didn't have to feel terrible about people working 16 hours a day, sleeping in cots, jumping off the roof, manufacturing it, you'd be happy to pay a little more. Okay, unlike traditional AFC, which uses high-pressure air to maneuver an aircraft, plasma AFC works by using a thin membrane in front of a flying wing aircraft which ionizes air molecules. The ionized air molecules generate a plasma shower that accelerates the airflow, which can keep the craft from stalling if it goes down a particular airspeed. For example, China's plasma AFC is claimed to prevent stalls
Starting point is 00:11:59 even if the aircraft speed drops to unusually low 108 kilometers per hour. Isn't that funny? That's low. But that's like, what is that? 108 is like 65 something, like 70. Like what's 200 miles an hour or 200 kilometers is like 60 miles an hour, right? Because I know that from cars. We were supposed to adopt the metric system when I was in fucking grammar school, bro.
Starting point is 00:12:28 Yeah. We were supposed to get on board with soccer, and we were supposed to get on board with the metric system. And Celsius, right? Yep. Yep. That's part of it. It's all – ours is so goofy. So stupid.
Starting point is 00:12:39 Ours is second only to England. England still uses stone for people. He weighs 16 stone. What's that? I think it's 13 pounds. Is that what a stone is? Something like that. I think 13 point something.
Starting point is 00:12:56 We Googled it once, like what the root of that was. Like they had just made a measurement in the fucking. 14. 14 pounds? Yeah. So that's like from back in the, you know, probably the barbarian days. This stone will be how we measure food and gold. You know, and however many of them.
Starting point is 00:13:15 We have three stone. It's just like it's so medieval. Stone. That's ridiculous. Yeah, it's weird. But it's weird that we're not all on board with one measurement, and we fucked it up. We easily could have gave up on inches.
Starting point is 00:13:32 What are we, like, fucking, are we really committed to inches? What? Are we really committed to yards? Are yards important to you? Why isn't it meters? The whole world's meters. At least we're all going USB-C now, right? That's the one thing, that and straws.
Starting point is 00:13:49 But they had to get threatened by Europe to go to USB-C. Apple loves their walled garden. Ooh, they're so good at it. They're the best at it. That company is amazing at what it's done. Because it's taking something that everyone has, a cell phone, and making it so if you have theirs, it's significantly better. You can send each other videos. You can do the FaceTime.
Starting point is 00:14:15 It's native to the phone. You don't have to download anything. It works on everybody's phone now. It even works on an Android phone. You can AirDrop. And then if you get a new phone all your shit just transfers over instantly and if you like uh are a comic and you have your notes on your phone like oh it's so sweet you just like oh my god i lost my phone i lost all my notes no i didn't
Starting point is 00:14:38 log on bang new phone bang there's your notes you know they're just so good and i know android has a lot of those features. I know it does. Usually bit four. Don't get mad. They're better than ever at innovation. They're the first to make foldables. They have legit foldables. You were showing me yours the other day. Yeah, the Pixel.
Starting point is 00:14:57 Dude, that is sweet. That is fucking sweet. Apple needs to jump on that. You know they will. In two years, they'll have a foldable, I bet. They'll be way behind the curve. Yeah, but they won't have the crease, I bet. That's the big thing. I got to tell you, it bummed me out when I found out that Samsung was faking those moon pictures. It really bummed me out.
Starting point is 00:15:14 Yeah, because you actually told me about it, or you sent me one. Yeah, I sent you one when I was on vacation. And that made me buy the Galaxy S21 or whatever it was at the time. I was like, I have to get this. And it's still, you know, yeah, it's still fine, I guess. The camera's incredible. The camera's amazing. It's a very, very, very good camera.
Starting point is 00:15:32 But so is the iPhone camera. The only thing that the Samsung camera legitimately does do is it zooms in way better. They can zoom in from, like, it's crazy zoom. I know it's electronic. It's, like, optical up to a certain extent five i think yeah and then it goes what does apples do apples is five and it zooms in but the megapix megapixels are bigger on the galaxy s23 and stuff like that ultra right but i mean how what where are you looking at your phone your pictures for the most part you're looking at them on your phone right
Starting point is 00:16:02 so what how much of a difference does that make? It's not that big of a difference. It's the quality of the lens and stuff. Like the new iPhone, it's like 48 megapixels, but their new zoom is this new zoom lens. It's 5 optical now. But so many of the tests show like the quality of the two, you know,
Starting point is 00:16:20 the Galaxy S23 Ultra, it's like almost exactly the same. It's like twice the megapixels. So megapixels doesn't really matter anymore. It's actually the detail up to a certain point of megapixels. But doesn't megapixels matter, say, like if you want, like one of the things, Sony has one of the most interesting phones because Sony is out there wilding. And what Sony's done is they said, look, no one's buying this, but we're just going to make a phone with the craziest fucking camera we could put on it
Starting point is 00:16:46 with the most professional features. A guy like you or Jamie, Jamie really knows how to work a camera. And a lot of people that are legit photographers, they love that Sony phone because you can, you go into it, it's like a computer. There's so many features, so many options. What is it called?
Starting point is 00:17:03 Oh, the new one. It has the same kind of setup as their a they're like professional camera lens like the menus and stuff like the yeah mkbhd yeah he um he went over it yeah and he was just talking about like who's this phone for because it's the camera's incredible it does so many things it's all the options it's for someone who really understands settings and you really want to go. And you can make movies with that, man, like legit movies with that phone. What's funny, though, is that's just software for the most part. And you could actually download programs on your iPhone and do exactly the same stuff.
Starting point is 00:17:37 Oh, really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, so it's not the quality of the cameras? I mean, the lens is great and stuff, but I would really like to see it versus the new iPhone and I bet the iPhones probably better interesting so if you used a similar program yeah it's like a camera raw I forget the name of the do you use one of those Jamie do you ever use one of them camera nah I'm taking a photo like that I wouldn't use my iPhone iPhone's just like when I'm at the concert I just try to take the best thing I can real quick
Starting point is 00:18:02 yeah the correct answer for that's the best camera is always the one you have on you not the one you go buy or whatever what is the most useless film footage of all time that people never watch fireworks thank you unless it's like a self-journal I was here on 4th of July these people were with me that was a song playing yeah no that's kind of cool that's that's than that, you're never going to watch them. Yeah, get the fuck out of here. You can buy legit fireworks
Starting point is 00:18:30 in Texas and my poor boy Marshall, Marshall who's the sweetest, he is so scared of lightning and so scared of thunder and fireworks rather. He won't like, he won't sit still.
Starting point is 00:18:44 Like we try to like just watch TV with him He's just jumping up on the couch with you and jumping on the ground like dude settle. Yes, it's okay, buddy Panting I thought that if he sat next to me and I pet him he would be cool, but nope Firework and he wasn't like that before I don't know what set it off moving to Texas set it off Well, I think it's because people are doing them on my block. Yeah, and I don't know what set it off. Moving to Texas set it off. Well, I think it's because people are doing them on my block. Yeah. And we don't have lightning, really, in LA. Right. Bro, we get some
Starting point is 00:19:11 lightning out here. It's different, right? It's not regular lightning. It's kind of like war lightning or something. It's scary. It's real. It's real. It's the shit that the people had to face in the covered wagons when they're trying to make their way across here. Yeah. Terrifying.
Starting point is 00:19:26 A lightning hit right across from my house. Mm-hmm. It just, it was like I saw the bolt through the sky. The sky lit up. And instantly you heard, boom! And I was like, whoa, it's right there. It's right there. I sent you the photo down the street from my house
Starting point is 00:19:46 the whole house blew up from a thing of lightning the whole thing you know who almost got hit Forrest Galante yeah I saw the video he was in a river I'm like a foot away from him two feet away from him
Starting point is 00:20:02 he would have been dead and this fucking dude goes Do you know who he is? He's a wildlife biologist. Look at that right behind him. Yeah, show that again Is there sound to this? So he's out there in the water Nothing So he's out there in the water. Nothing? I don't know. Can you get an ultrasound?
Starting point is 00:20:31 I'm waiting. Yeah, I don't know. There it is. Boom. Oh, shit. So where did it hit? I think behind him? Yeah, I made a longer video about it, and this says he felt it. It says I got hit by lightning.
Starting point is 00:20:42 He says he felt it. Well, of course he felt it. It's probably right next to him. It's in the water. Oh, yeah, that's right. It's in the water. Does the water conduct the electricity? I mean, there has to be a certain...
Starting point is 00:20:55 Yeah, it has to dilute it a little. I remember growing up, they're like, don't take a shower when it's... Yeah. Or get on the phone for whatever reason, but I guess it could go through the power. Well, obviously, when people kill people, they throw a toaster in the bathtub, right? Right. That was the thing that people would do or kill themselves. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:09 What a fucked up way to die. Can you imagine? Throw a toaster in a bathtub. But I wonder, like, it's got to be at a certain point it doesn't work anymore, right? Otherwise it would kill everything in the river. Yeah. Yeah. It'd kill the whole ocean.
Starting point is 00:21:21 Right. So it has to be like a distance where it doesn't do that anymore. Yeah. I don't have sound. You don't have sound? The computer, I don't have sound on it for some reason. Oh, you want to reboot? Let me just figure it out for one second.
Starting point is 00:21:36 Okay. If you have to reboot, just let us know. Yeah, that's a fucked up way to go. My friend Remy got hit by lightning when he was a kid. Really? It fucked him up, he said. Yeah, I think it fucked up his hearing for a long time. And in, you know, he woke up outside and realized what had happened. It's always weird when people get hit by lightning multiple times.
Starting point is 00:21:54 It's like, how is that possible? I wonder what that is. Do you think some people are just like, there's something about them or God's like, get the fuck out of here. Or they're just idiots. They're always like out in rainstorms holding like umbrellas like anything, but there was one dude I think he had a record he got electrocuted, but he got hit by lightning like six or seven times like something bomb Yeah, they can within like a week. There's some people like they She must be thinking God's trying to get rid of you. Yeah Probably that's a crazy way to die A bolt of electricity comes out of the heavens. Like back in the day, imagine being like back in the Roman days and not knowing what the fuck's going on.
Starting point is 00:22:33 And you see someone get hit by lightning because they had swords and shit. I hereby take this land. Bitch ain't taking shit. And that's how He-Man became. They probably thought back then that the gods were angry at that person. I mean, how many guys were holding up a sword and they got hit by lightning? Right. I'm sure a lot.
Starting point is 00:22:51 I'm probably like thousands. Because they're always on mountains, you know? What a way to go. No wonder why they had like God of Thunder, you know? They thought like the gods made decisions to take someone out. What a fucked up god that would be. If that really was what's going on, the guy's like, you're just a fucking guy.
Starting point is 00:23:11 Just blows you up. Did you see that kid that got electrocuted? There were three kids sitting on a train track, and one of them leans back and he hit the third rail. Oh, my God. And then his girlfriend looked over and sees of them like leans back to like lean back and he hit the third rail oh my god and then his girlfriend looked over and sees him going like this and grabs him and she gets it oh my god did they all die I last I heard they both went to the hospital so I don't know but the video is disturbing because you the kid just kind of lays back I don't even want to see that yeah yeah it's hot it's a haunting video for sure. You can't unsee that.
Starting point is 00:23:45 Any of those electricity videos, like the people with the power line guys, those videos. It happened to a kid on a college campus recently in Ohio, I think. He climbed a power pole. I'm surprised it doesn't happen more. I don't think he died, though.
Starting point is 00:24:01 There was one where I was watching a guy, it was some other country, they're speaking different languages, climbing up, trying to fix something on a power line. And he got zapped. He just fell. Just fell backwards like 50 feet. And you're watching him fall.
Starting point is 00:24:13 Fucked up way to go. Working on power. Like electricians. Boy, you better know what the fuck you're doing. That's why building regulations are so goddamn important when people are like you know we need less regulation no you don't yeah no you need building regulation dude have you ever had a problem where builders built something in your house squirrely oh yeah yeah it's real there's some squirrely dudes out there that they don't
Starting point is 00:24:41 pay attention to the regs they don't look at how they're making things and what you know whether or not they're doing it correctly or doing in a dangerous way people are goofy Jesus Mariah Carey's playlist gets revealed it's all Taylor Swift It's all Taylor Swift I was careful Deftones song on purpose Deftones I forgot about Deftones Oh yeah
Starting point is 00:25:12 Did you go to ACL this weekend? No, no I didn't It's too cuckoo Too cuckoo for me But I've been seeing a lot of concerts lately Man, Austin is such a great fucking place In terms of like How many artists roll through here.
Starting point is 00:25:26 I used to think, God, if you live there, you'd have to go somewhere to see everything. No, everything comes here. Yeah. Everything comes here. Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, every fucking band, Roger Waters. We've seen so many concerts here. It's been incredible. It's been incredible.
Starting point is 00:25:43 Zach Bryan. So many concerts. So much going on here. Jelly Roll was here the other day. Oh, yeah. He's Jelly Roll. He's a cool guy. He's been incredible. It's been incredible. Zach Bryan, so many concerts, so much going on here. Jelly Roll was here the other day. Oh yeah. He's Jelly Roll. He's the best. I love him. He's so sweet to everybody. He's just all hugs and love. The moment I met him, you know, they told me that Jelly Roll was coming up to see Ron White and I happened to be at the club. I wasn't even working that night. I was being like a manager. It was like, it was like when the club was, I was just sort of making sure everything was cool and i went to say hi to ron and they said jelly rolls here and i'm like oh man i'm gonna go meet him and when you ever meet
Starting point is 00:26:12 someone famous you're like um you know hope he's cool right he's like my man he gives his big hug i'm like oh you're just how i thought you would be yeah that's i mean that's like i that's how i was with post malone i yeah i had actually said out loud to my girlfriend months before i met him i was like that's one of the top five guys i want to meet in person just hang with cut to months later me and him are at mitzi's and we're drawing dick we're having a dick off drawing to who draw the best dicks he was great at it like he beat me no he's so cool he's exactly how you would hope he is. Yes, so cool. He's such a kind person He's so nice He's so talented and he's so fun and when I told him we did the podcast my you want to go see kill Tony
Starting point is 00:26:55 He's like yeah, I go you want to go on stage. Let's do these I do this like a fuck come on, man Let's go. Let's fucking do it. He's like alright. Let's fucking do it and he just hops up there for kill Tony He had no idea what Kill Tony was. And he stayed. And he was great. I thought he was going to be in and out like 10 minutes. No, he was great. He was amazing.
Starting point is 00:27:12 And he was like supportive of people. And that dude who sang opera. Yeah. How good was that guy? That was incredible. Like, bro, bail on the jokes. Or work that into your act somehow. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:23 Like a guy like that with great jokes, and he did have some great jokes. Oh yeah, he's funny. That fucking opening one minute that he had was solid. That's when they put him up against Hans. They were gonna have like a joke off and apparently Hans smoked him. Yeah. And I was like, I hope that guy didn't just burn out his best material in that one minute. Probably did.
Starting point is 00:27:39 Yeah. Because it was a solid bit. Yeah. I don't want to give it away, but it's a solid premise. Good bit. And I was thinking, like if that guy hit punchlines and then sang, oh, my God. You know, like, work it into the punchlines. Like, you know, like, saying I used to be an opera singer, and sometimes people are so fucking stupid, I just want to sing at them. You know what I mean? Like, he could have a thing thing work because his voice is insane Like when he did that like you know someone has a hidden skill like that
Starting point is 00:28:09 You're like what you can play guitar and you see them fucking Whoa, I never thought that like that guy like who expected that to come out of that guy mm-hmm You know you expect like a comic. He's a comic. He's probably fucked off most of his life Probably had a problem with drugs. Maybe he's got a few DUIs. Maybe he was in trouble with the law. You know, maybe he sold drugs when he was younger or something. There's always like something kooky with comics.
Starting point is 00:28:35 But you see someone who's a, no, I'm a trained opera singer. Yeah. But again, that would be like how you would rebel. If you're, you know, you're like singing the classics all the time. Like, oh, my God, I want to just talk about farts. You know, you get to this point where you're just like, I mean, if you if you like live rigidly, like if they like that was always a thing in high school. When I was in high school, there was girls that went to this all-Catholic school, all-girl Catholic school, high school. And those are the wildest girls. Everybody knew it.
Starting point is 00:29:13 It was like an open discussion. Like, dude, these Catholic girls are wild. Because they were just kept from boys and told, like, stay away from boys. And they were never around boys during the day. Because all day it was just girls, girls, girls girls and all they did is talk about boys and when those girls would go to parties and like and meet guys they're like aggressive they like wanted to hook up with guys it was different it's like and other girls like these fucking catholic school girl sluts like isn't it crazy like which is a like you know that's one of those religions where like they put the
Starting point is 00:29:44 fucking brakes on you. They tell you, you're a sinner. You can go to hell for this. Don't fuck around. I found a song from 1970 that's a Jesus song, a pro-Jesus song, and it fucking jams, dude. It's pretty interesting. I'm going to send this to you, Jamie.
Starting point is 00:30:05 Pro-Jesus song. Yeah. fucking jams, dude. It's pretty interesting. I'm going to send this to you, Jamie. Oh, Jesus. Yeah. I'll tell you the guy as soon as I pull it up. Hold on a second. My playlist is so long. I keep out saying I'm going to publish this on Spotify and I swear to God I will. Publish your playlist? Yeah, the Green Room playlist.
Starting point is 00:30:20 Alright, let me share this with Jamie. By the way, listen to Post Malone's cover of Nirvana. He just played a bunch of Nirvana songs during COVID. That's how I found out about Post. Some of the best Nirvana covers I've ever heard in my life. He just kills it. He covers Sturgill Simpson too, man.
Starting point is 00:30:39 He's doing at Stagecoach, which is the thing that is connected to Coachella, the country music one, he's going to do a whole country set there. No shit. Yeah. Dude, he's so talented. He's so talented. When we went to see him live, we went to Houston to see his concert. Oh, you did? Yeah. Wow. Fucking amazing.
Starting point is 00:31:00 The energy that guy has. It's like, he just fucking goes for it. And the show is so good. The show's guy has. It's like he just fucking goes for it. And the show is so good. The show is so solid. So exciting. It just really makes you want to do better. You know, you see someone just crush it like that.
Starting point is 00:31:16 You're like, God, I'm going to fucking do better. Everything I do, I want to do better. You get that song? Yeah, I was waiting for you guys to know. Yeah, listen to this shit. This is from, I think it's from 1970. Larry Norman. Sipping whiskey from a paper cup.
Starting point is 00:31:35 You drown your sorrows till you can't stand up. Take a look at what you've done to yourself. Why don't you put the bottle back on the shelf? Yell a finger from your cigarettes. Your hands are shaking while your body sweats. Why don't you come to Jesus? He's got the answer. Listen to this.
Starting point is 00:32:00 No, listen to this. It's good, man. The lyrics are good. And it's also, you have to look at it, you're in a to this. It's good, man. The lyrics are good. And it's also, you have to look at it, you're in a time capsule. It was 1970. It was 1970. Wow. Good song, right? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:39 Now, is all this stuff religious? I don't know. According to Wikipedia, he was one of the pioneers of Christian rock music. But this is good, dude. Yeah, this is good. Say you want to be a superstar, but you never hung around enough to find out who you really are.
Starting point is 00:33:01 Yellow fingers from the cigarettes. I like that one. Shooting junk until you have been sane It's good Gonorrhea on Valentine's Day It's a good fucking song And again, 1970 I like it. Jesus, he got the answers. Why don't you look into Jesus? He got the answers. See, here's the thing.
Starting point is 00:33:51 I've heard of churches that are like rock and roll churches. Like there was this gal that I knew that worked for Fear Factor. And she was into like this rock and roll church. Like she, I think she had one point in time. She was, I don't know what, she was of a different religious persuasion. And then she got into this like heavy duty Christian church that was in town
Starting point is 00:34:13 where the guy was like a cool guy, young guy. I go, is he fucking everybody? And she's like, no, I'm like, I know how those go.
Starting point is 00:34:22 Like he's the cool guy. He's the cool guy. He likes rock and roll. And he also likes Jesus. Maybe. We're always hoping for the guy that that's really all he wants to do. That's really it. He's just really about Jesus and love, and he's not trying to fuck everybody.
Starting point is 00:34:36 But that guy has not shown up yet. Almost all those guys, like the guy who was showing his dick root when he was hanging out out with justin justin bieber remember we called that guy out a long time ago we called that guy out a long time ago because like he's too hot he's too hot like he's too hot and he's too charismatic like why he's so hot why is so charismatic maybe you like you Maybe. Maybe you're trying to develop a cult where, like, all other cults, you get to bang everybody. Because it's like every one of them. David Koresh, Waco. Like, I mean, I'm sure you could go down the list. It's like every one of them becomes, like, the one, the holy hell for the place that I almost bought.
Starting point is 00:35:23 This guy's fucking everybody. Thank God he didn't buy that. Thank God. I should have that I almost bought. Yeah guys fucking everybody God I should have it would have been a better story. They're both good stories The location we have now is absolutely perfect, but that location would have been dope, too You just would have had to drive there, but people would have drove there And also we would have had Philip was gonna do a restaurant there Philip Franklin Lee We had a good set up there, but there was too much shit That was like it was like this is not this is not set up good setup there, but there was too much shit. It was like, this is not set up good.
Starting point is 00:35:49 There was a lot of problems. Problems to the point where this could take a lot. This could be a lot of issues that I don't even want to disclose. Right, yeah. It was enough where we're like, I've got to get out of this one. But then when the Mothership spot, the Ritz, opened up, I was like, oh, my God. This is a theater from 1927? And then we walked into it.
Starting point is 00:36:11 It's like the theater was like, this is the spot. Like it was talking to us. It sounds so kooky. But that place, like one of the reasons why I think it's so fun there is because the building wants us to be there. The building's happy. That building was lonely. It sat there for years, unoccupied, Alamo Draft House closed down, nothing was in there. And you know, it probably missed the music, man. Stevie Ray Vaughan used to play there. Probably missed the fun, the live,
Starting point is 00:36:36 the energy of the live crowds. So like when we first opened up, I know it sounds stupid, but it felt like the building was happy. It's always had been there entertaining people, music, movies, comedy now. It's literally never been negative energy there. Well, it was a porn theater. I mean, that's even better. That was back when dudes didn't have VHS tapes. They'd have to go somewhere and whack off.
Starting point is 00:37:05 Can you imagine if you got addicted to porn and the only way to get it is to go to a movie theater with a raincoat on? Do you remember that place in San Francisco where it was a movie theater and there was all these people sitting there? Where was that? We were at Cobb's once and we just went into this weird, it was like, I think,
Starting point is 00:37:18 connected to a strip club or something, but they had this whole section and I think it was me and Ari, I thought you were with me, but we went around this corner and it was like a straight movie theater and people just sitting there like four people watching porn watching porn yeah they they had one of those in west hollywood that was a gay one that was open pretty recently up until like at least like the 2000s because i remember we would always laugh about the titles the titles were hilarious
Starting point is 00:37:43 the titles of these fucking movies were amazing. I wonder if that's still, I doubt it's still there. I don't think so. I don't think it is. But like, that's one of those things where they get mad if dudes jerk off there, which is so kooky. It's like, what kind of a business do you think you're running? Right. You know, like, that's when Pee Wee Herman got arrested.
Starting point is 00:38:03 That's right. Yeah, same thing yeah he was at a theater poor guy poor guy i mean that was back when you weren't allowed to jerk off just sitting there masturbating i know and he's a superstar that's what's crazy the guy's this giant global superstar to this day peewee's big adventure is like one of my i fucking love that movie it's so fun i remember i went to see that movie with my high school girlfriend and we were both just howling laughing we couldn't it was so silly tell him large marge sent you like it's so fun this fucking dude and his big adventure it's a fun, you know? It takes you on a little journey.
Starting point is 00:38:45 It was a good time to have that poor guy get raked through the coals because he was beaten off. It is weird, though, when celebrities like that do stuff like that. It's almost like he wanted to get caught type thing. You know? I think it's probably...
Starting point is 00:39:03 I mean, if you're... I I mean there were VHS tapes back then oh yeah that's it's weird yeah that's that's where it gets George Michael going into a rest stop multiple times you know yeah I think he was tortured I think when you have a secret like that a bit like your secret is like literally your sexual identity like you're like, your secret is like, literally, your sexual identity, like, you're pretending you're into girls, but you're really into guys,
Starting point is 00:39:30 and you get famous, you get hugely famous, as this, you know, sex symbol, I gotta have faith, faith, faith,
Starting point is 00:39:39 faith, I gotta, and he's fucking talented too, man, he was so good, and then, you can't tell everybody that you're gay because you'll lose what percentage of the crowd. Wham, you're screwed. Wham.
Starting point is 00:39:54 You son of a bitch. So dumb. That's awful. We know a couple guys that are in the closet and they live in hell. Yeah. They live in hell. Try working with them. That's not true, you son of a Yeah. Yeah. They live in hell. Try working with them. That's not true.
Starting point is 00:40:07 Son of a bitch. I wasn't talking about Tony. You son of a bitch. Everybody always assumes I'm talking about Tony. Tony's so straight. It's so crazy. Yeah, totally. But yeah, definitely.
Starting point is 00:40:27 Why don't you look into Jesus? He got the answers. Sucking dick until you go insane. Dancing naked to Purple Rain. Why don't you look into Jesus? You should write your own new lyrics to that. Yeah, that's how Christians really wanted to get somebody, or any religion. They really wanted to get someone.
Starting point is 00:40:50 Have some dope artwork attached to your ideology. Have something that people dig that's attached to it. Because if some rock and roll, like if there was a Jimi Hendrix alive today, and he was really into one certain kind of religion, you know how many people would join that religion? A fuckload. A fuckload.
Starting point is 00:41:13 I mean, how many people looked into Islam because they were Khabib Nurmagomedov fans? I bet a lot. I bet a lot. When you can get something awesome attached to your religion, that's a good selling point. It's like being a spokesperson for like, you know. I'm surprised Scientology hasn't done that yet. I mean, they are. They have.
Starting point is 00:41:33 They are. They fucking 100% have. But like have like a band that's like the soundtrack to them, you know, or something. Well, and when it comes to bands, I know Beck. Beck's a Scientologist, right? Is he still a Scientologist? I think he was and I think he backed out of it cuz I remember how to back out I don't know I cuz I remember when I found out it was really crushed I was like no well I know some really amazing Scientologists gosh
Starting point is 00:41:58 yeah I know quite a few of them that are really and I think it's a compartmentalization thing I think if you can shut off that part of your brain and just give it over to like an ideology, it leaves a lot of room for the other stuff. Like how much, like I was telling you the other day, I'm sitting at home like wondering about the fate of the world. Are we literally going to be in a fucking mad, because you don't think anything's going to go bad until it goes bad.
Starting point is 00:42:24 You know, you remember the day before 9-11? It was just fucking normal America. Yay, yay. fucking mad because you don't think anything's gonna go bad until it goes bad you know you remember the day before 9-11 it was just fucking normal america yay yay and then the next day chaos and then everyone's riding around with an american flag on their car yeah like anything can happen and if anything does happen like how how ready what how much is the world going to change? If you think about any sort of horrific natural disaster that has hit humanity since the beginning of time, whether it's super volcanoes or earthquakes or any of these chaotic things, when those things happen, when the Mongols roll into your town, when Nazi Germany starts taking over Europe. Like, fuck. We want to think that that can't happen. But 100% that can happen. And when I'm alone at night and I'm a little high, that's the thing that freaks me out the most. The things that freaks me out the most is international conflicts between superpowers and how they're willing to kill a certain amount of people, right?
Starting point is 00:43:28 So what's the number where they won't cross that line? Because if you've got groups of people that are willing to shoot missiles into apartment buildings and fly jets down and gun people down, and you've seen all those crazy drone – if we're willing to kill a certain amount of people like what's the line where they won't cross? What's the line is it a million people's and a nuclear bomb? You know what? What is the line? It's probably no line And when you think about how much people loved America after 9-11 the whole world was like on America's side And how much we fuck that up in 23 years or 22 years fuck that up fuck that up a million innocent people die because the Iraq war
Starting point is 00:44:14 man that everybody knows that we need a 912 immediately we probably are due for one that's the way scary when you see this Israel thing thing like it scares the out of me yeah it scares the out of me because when i see something like that happen you know it's like there's no clear way this resolves peacefully like this is bad this is real bad and and israel's gonna go into palestine they're already bombing and so when is there a retaliation for that? And what happens then? And who what other countries get involved? And fuck, fuck, man, it just really puts into perspective that there's some shit going on that you're not thinking about, because it's not in your life. So if you're a guy like you or I, let's say us, because we're comedians.
Starting point is 00:45:06 So we're hanging out at the comedy club. We're doing podcasts. That's our world. Our world is fucking around with people. Our world is telling jokes. Our world is hanging out with our friends and doing shows. Their world is killing people. Their world is controlling resources.
Starting point is 00:45:24 And it's not, they don't play fair. Like they, they release stories that aren't true. They use disinformation to switch narratives. They have social media posts that aren't real so they can get people riled up about certain things. And then they're also coordinating military attacks. That's their world. We just don't think about that world because we're not in that world. But people have been in that world since the beginning of time. What they've done with us is they've sheltered us in such a way and then censored all the mainstream media in such a way that they completely control the narrative of how you think about what can and
Starting point is 00:46:07 cannot happen in the world and why these things are happening. And we're seeing that right now. We're seeing that like in your face where you're like, what? And you're also seeing people with massive amounts of conspiracies now, right? And whenever something like that happens, there's always the people that are like, how did they not know this was gonna happen? Like isn't this the most sophisticated surveillance systems in the world this like Israel's that they're the people that invented Pegasus as that shit that gets on your phone what they can listen to anybody and They have like there they have that iron dome that protects them against missiles. Did you ever see that working? Mm-hmm. They were just showing it the other night. Show videos of the Iron Dome working.
Starting point is 00:46:46 It's crazy. So as Hamas is launching these missiles, they're shooting missiles at the missiles and blowing them up in the sky. It's wild. Look at this. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's old school missile command.
Starting point is 00:46:58 Remember that video? Yeah. I mean, you have to be 100% accurate because any one of these is going to kill a bunch of people. But, I mean, just imagine living in Israel and you go outside and you're seeing missiles getting hit by bombs. Look at this. It's insane. Look at this.
Starting point is 00:47:14 They're just jacking them in the sky. But if they miss one, that's a wrap. How much do each one of these missiles that they're shooting at these other missiles cost? Right. That's what I think is millionaires, millionaires, millionaires. How are they getting all the money to shoot those missiles at Israel? Like all of it is crazy. Yeah. And someone tweeted, see if this is true, that this happened right after Biden. The Biden administration released a bunch of funds to Iran.
Starting point is 00:47:44 I think it was like $6 billion. Really? And then these people in Hamas are thanking Iran for funding this. Wow. But what's real? Yeah. What's real? That sounds real.
Starting point is 00:47:55 How much of this is real? Yeah. Have you heard of this? Air Force successfully tested secret new stealth missile with mock nuke. You have a stealth nuke? Stealth missile. Yeah. missile with mock nuke. You have a stealth nuke? Stealth missile with a mock nuke. Okay. B-52.
Starting point is 00:48:11 America's nuclear weapons are aging, and the Pentagon plans to spend more than $600 billion to keep the potentially world-ending weapons in fighting shape. What a great idea. In this article, I saw it said that they were being controlled by floppy disks up until 2019. Well, those are accurate. It is top of the food chain. They're updating tech.
Starting point is 00:48:31 Okay, floppy disks in 2019. But some of the old tech is still solid. The LRSO and Mach nuke were fired from a B-52, a sturdy and reliable bomber first manufactured in the 50s. The missiles are, in fact, designed to work with this decades-old bomber. But a stealth nuke is crazy. That's crazy. All of it's crazy. The fact that that's on the table, all of it's crazy.
Starting point is 00:48:55 And also the fact that we haven't nuked anybody since 1945. Nobody's nuked anybody. That's good. It's promising. It's promising. We've got to celebrate 100 years. But it's hard to imagine that it's going to last like that forever.
Starting point is 00:49:13 Seems like someone's going to get crazy. That's the question. It's like, if you're willing to kill, each missile is $40,000 to $50,000, according to a researcher at Israel's Institute for National Security Studies. Wow.
Starting point is 00:49:28 Wow. 20 of them is a million bucks. So, yeah. So the question is, where are these weapons coming from? And then there was also questions of whether or not the weapons that we left in Afghanistan were being used. Which is, that is crazy. Trump was hilarious doing this conversation about that where he was telling them, like,
Starting point is 00:49:49 why don't we, you know, get the weapons out of there? Why don't we fill them up with gas and drive them over to Pakistan? And he was like, he said, find a video. Is it Millie? Because he's hilarious. Trump literally acts like a comedian. He is. I mean, he always kind of has been.
Starting point is 00:50:06 The first thing you ask. Oh, okay. The Biden administration informed Congress on Monday that it has taken concrete steps to carry out a prisoner exchange with Iran, issuing a waiver that will give Tehran access to $6 billion in Iranian oil revenue that had been blocked by U.S. sanctions, according to a State Department document sent to Congress. And that was a month ago. That was a month ago. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:50:30 On September 11th. And then you have all these stories the last day. Yeah. So they gave him a lot of funds. Yeah. And then this happens. He needs to do a chargeback. It's just we are – yeah, call PayPal.
Starting point is 00:50:47 Until you got fraud to fraud it. We're in the middle of a game that we don't – we're not aware of, just like we were talking about before. Like that's the game they play. The game they're playing is war and money. I mean, just the amount of money that's been spent in Ukraine. And, like, what kind of accounting are you guys doing? Are you guys doing good accounting over there? Like, does everybody know where every fucking dollar went? Or is it just like, let's go crazy? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:51:17 Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. You're talking about so much money. Like, you could shuffle a little over here and put a little over there. Why don't you look at Jesus? How do you just leave weapons too? I mean, don't we know where all the – I mean, if we have air tags on our book bag, shouldn't they have like little air tags on them? Dude, that whole pullout was an unmitigated disaster.
Starting point is 00:51:47 Yeah. Nobody thinks it was good yeah nobody thinks it was good nobody thinks it was good nobody thinks it should have been done that way i mean trump was trying to pull out a long time ago and they were they were trying to figure out like how many troops you have to leave or maintain the base and and get everybody out safe is, it's tricky because when they know you're pulling out, but the fact they left tanks and helicopters and shit, like shut the fuck up. Yeah, that's ridiculous. It's almost like, like if you want to go full tinfoil hat, if you want to ensure there's going to be more conflict, you leave weapons with the enemy awesome weapons if you want to ensure this is going to be more military action these these guys are pissed you were occupying the country for 20 years you
Starting point is 00:52:35 left behind how many billion dollars were the tanks and shit of course they're going to use it and so you tell the military guys like we're pulling out but here's the long play the long play is there's you know no chance i'm not gonna do something with all that stuff you know so we'll probably have to go back in and then this time we'll really go back in and we can control the lithium like we can't go now like if we go all in now like we got to get them to do something really stupid so then the we can justify like a complete takeover of the country and annihilation of the people that are the problem, the people that we left tanks behind. The thing about Afghanistan, though, is like it's so it's so difficult to get through, you know, to we think of it as like a country but it's mountains it's like everything is mountains it's incredible landscape and there's greek cities there there's ancient greek cities
Starting point is 00:53:34 that were abandoned there during the time of alexander the great and no archaeologists are studying them like it's it's amazing it's amazing place. And it also has crazy amounts of resources in terms of, like, I think there's, like, an insane amount of lithium there. There's all sorts of shit there that's, like, really valuable. But everybody tries to take over, and they all fail miserably.
Starting point is 00:54:00 It's like one of the ways that they stomped out the Soviet Union was funding the Mujahideen, which later became Al-Qaeda or the Taliban. Was the Mujahideen, they become a Taliban or Al-Qaeda? Either way. The Russians tried to take over forever, and then they gave up. Like, fuck this. It's like too much. You can't win over there.
Starting point is 00:54:24 It's like you can't even go anywhere. Can't get through the mountains. You can't just drive. You can't just drive tanks through. It's a fucking wild place. An almost unconquerable place. It would be cool to see in the future if that does eventually become somewhere you could go and enjoy the, you know. It used to be. People used to go. There's like videos of go and enjoy the, you know. Used to be.
Starting point is 00:54:45 People used to go, there's like videos of people walking around the streets of Kabul. It used to be a place that people would go and vacation. Yeah. Force fields. Come on, force fields. Dude,
Starting point is 00:54:55 none of that's going to help. It all goes back to force fields. Yes, if we come in and put a big force field there. Hmm. I don't think so. We leave our force fields behind yeah I feel safer living in Austin though now that we're in the middle of a country just in case of war
Starting point is 00:55:13 goes crazy unless they decide to like nuke Dallas yeah you know one of the things that people are really concerned with is like what if terror cells have gotten in across the border? When you're letting in hundreds of thousands of people across the border, what are the odds that a few of them are terrorists? Well, haven't they caught terrorists at the border? Haven't they like caught terrorists, people on the terrorist watch list trying to get through? They have, right? Yeah, definitely.
Starting point is 00:55:41 So how many of them snuck through? I mean, is there an accurate accounting or is it like Ukraine spending? Do they even know the real numbers of people that are sneaking in? Because the numbers are cuckoo. The numbers are like hundreds of thousands a month. Have you seen the videos of the line of migrants making their way through the border? Like, who thought that was a good idea? Who thought that was a good idea to, like,
Starting point is 00:56:07 let potential terrorists and criminals into the country? That's why you need to build this wall, Joe. Because if you say that you're against that, you're racist. Right. Which is wild. Yeah. Wild. And you've got to wonder how much of that is engineered by other countries.
Starting point is 00:56:21 How much of that is, like like engineered social media outrage by russia china buying up all our properties that's crazy you find out that china owns so much i was in uh greece this summer and when you're walking around those ruins and you see like what it used to be and you go i wonder if they saw it coming wonder if they thought this building was going to be here perfect forever they'd be operating their government out of this building you know it's probably been thousands of years they were running it like that nope go back now it's just rubble like when when it happens does anybody know it's good or is it like right now where you're like boy it seems like we're at the brink of everything falling apart.
Starting point is 00:57:06 Chaos, like just the amount of things that people have to be upset about, an amount of polarizing things, whether it's trans kids or climate change or pro-life or pro-choice or pro-Ukraine or whatever the subject is. Everybody's screaming. Everybody's convinced on one side that it has to be this way. And everybody on the other side is like, those people are the end of civilization. Those people are the fucking death of democracy. It's so polarized. And I think that has to be social media. And I think that has to be social media. And some of that has to be engineered. Some of that, we know that there's a ton of trolls out
Starting point is 00:57:53 there that aren't really people that are either from another country or maybe from our country that are just literally designed to stir shit up and attack things and go after stuff. to stir shit up and attack things and go after stuff. And then when you find out that our own government was actually censoring social media and contacting Twitter and telling them to delete posts or trying to get them to delete things that... They tried to get Facebook to delete this Tucker Carlson thing that turned out to be true.
Starting point is 00:58:19 It was true. What he was saying was accurate. And they were like, we can't delete it because it's accurate. So they lessened its reach by 50% Because the government told them to just to hide the truth the government told him to hide the truth Like that's in this age where everything's going crazy and no one knows what's right and what's wrong. That's scary, man Yeah, but that's what's happening in Canada right now. Oh, you know
Starting point is 00:58:45 I wonder if my podcast will that's what's happening in Canada right now. Oh. You know? Full blown. Full blown. I wonder if my podcast will even be able to air in Canada. Probably not, right? I wonder. People in Canada, you have to think about what the fuck they're doing because you think that they think that they're doing it. Some people believe they're doing it, you know, because of this misinformation that's online. Try to get a detailed audit of what is actually misinformation that they called misinformation
Starting point is 00:59:07 and what turns out to be actual 100% fact now. It's a lot of it, kids. And the only way we find that out is if people are allowed to talk freely. And they might be wrong and they might get things wrong and they might be right. But you got to let them talk.
Starting point is 00:59:20 And that is the only way we find out. Because if you think that silencing them and getting people who you know Lie to be in charge of what can be said and what not can be said. That's the road to tyranny That's the road to communism That's the scary road not the kind of communism that everybody hopes for where we all just redistribute wealth and everybody gets along No a totalitarian government that tells you what to do and fucking lies about everything. And they're playing that war game. You're playing the, I'm Brian Redband. You know, I'm the co-producer of Kill Tony. And you know, I go on the road, I do stand up. I'm
Starting point is 00:59:55 a fun guy. That's the world you're in. That's the game you're playing. They're playing the war game and they want to be able to tell you what you can and can't talk about. playing the war game and they want to be able to tell you what you can and can't talk about that's fucking scary shit especially in this climate it's fucking weird polarizing climate like it's like oh god everybody's so angry what happened though to canada remember you know just 15 years ago i would always consider them being so progressive especially with marijuana and everything like that and you used to go there and go like, man, this is like a, you know, a chill USA, you know?
Starting point is 01:00:27 Yeah. I loved it there. Yeah. I was like, they're like 20% less douchebags in Canada. That's what I always used to say when we went up there. We always used to look forward to doing gigs in Vancouver and Toronto and Montreal. I still love the Montreal comedy festival.
Starting point is 01:00:40 It was so fun, man. Those were the days. They were cool people, man, but they got fucked. That government came in and fucked them. And it keeps fucking them.
Starting point is 01:00:49 Like that whole Canadian trucker thing where people who donated money to them got their bank accounts frozen. Like, hey, that's banana republic shit. That's not supposed to be going on in Canada. Yeah. But it was all because of COVID. COVID gave them this reason to flex their authority in very creepy ways. That's what you have to always be scared of when any kind of disaster happens or a war or something crazy, an attack. Because that they always use as an opportunity to get more power that you would never agree to earlier.
Starting point is 01:01:20 Like no one would have agreed to what's in the Patriot Act. They tried that before. They tried that before. They tried it before. And everybody's like, get the fuck out of here. So they put it on the shelf. Most of those ideas that were in the Patriot Act, they had already tried to weasel those in. And then when it came along and there was 9-11, they're like, fuck it. Let's roll it out.
Starting point is 01:01:38 Patriot. We're patriots. Who's going to say no to Patriot Act? Aren't we patriots? And then there was the NDAA, which gave them the ability to indefinitely detain people without charging them. Like what? Like you want the right to do that without judges and lawyers and you want the right to do that? What if you're wrong? What if you're wrong? What if someone's a corrupt person involved in that administration and that person that you're going to get arrested is actually like a whistleblower for a corporation or something. You know,
Starting point is 01:02:10 you have too much power. It's too much. Why don't you look into Jesus? He got the answers. Yeah, this is what keeps me up at night. This is what keeps me up at night. This is what keeps me up at night. The possibility that we don't understand that there's a game being played that we're a part of. We're little pawns. No matter how cool you think you are, you're just a little pawn in this global game of war. And it's real-life consequences. Real-life people get killed. that's what's terrifying yeah that's
Starting point is 01:02:48 why i feel so good every time i go to costco and i get like a bunch of water and a bunch of like just tons of food i'm like okay can happen now i'm set but you're not if it really happens we're just so fucked you can't even imagine so fucked you can't imagine this, oh, I'm just going to live in the woods and hunt. Dude, who knows what's going to be coming for you? Who knows? Who knows? You've seen the video from the footage of Ukraine and Russia where they're fighting in the woods. It's terrifying.
Starting point is 01:03:16 That's happening right now. Right now in 2023. There's people running through the woods shooting at people they don't know and killing them. There's people running through the woods shooting at people they don't know and killing them. And as much as people want to look at it and say, oh, you know, Russia shouldn't have done that and NATO shouldn't have done this. And as much as you want to say that, what's going on is people who don't know each other are being led by a giant organization. And they're going to kill people that they don't know. People who don't know each other are going to kill people who have no conflict with these people. They don't even know them. They're going to kill people that they don't know people who don't know each other going to kill good people Have no conflict these people don't even know they're gonna go kill them and those people gonna try and come kill you
Starting point is 01:03:51 that's the reality of this fucking insanity and that only exists when you have groups of people that are controlling groups of people and then they move them around and Then they put bases places and then they attack things and then they fund this and fund that and you know and get this guy out of fucking office get this guy out of power and bring in your own little stooge and then that guy gets killed and they're playing this Game of Thrones shit on a global scale and we're just trying to buy a new iPhone. Oh look I got the new iPhone. Oh look USB-c finally, you know, it is nice. It is nice. That's the thing. It's like you're
Starting point is 01:04:35 we're fucking powerless in this thing and it seems like the elections are There they do their very best to make sure that they win Whether or not it's legal or illegal what they're doing, like what they're doing with Robert Kennedy Jr., it's crazy. Did he become an independent yet? Me? No, did he? He's going to, I think.
Starting point is 01:04:55 I don't know. He said he's got some announcement, and most people are speculating. But if you're an independent, can you win? No. See, that's why I think that would hurt him. We've all seen in the past, even like, what was it, Ross Perot? We're like, oh my God, he might have a chance. And then he's like, 2% or something.
Starting point is 01:05:14 It seems to me like the more time goes on, Trump is a shoo-in. Mm-hmm. It seems like if this shit gets crazier and crazier, there's going to be a lot of liberals that will vote for him. He was the one in the beginning. We got to stop people from dying. Like when they, do you want Ukraine to win this war?
Starting point is 01:05:30 Remember that conversation? He's like, I want people to stop dying. Like, which is the best answer any politician has ever given. And the way he said it. So if you can find that thing though, we was talking about Millie.
Starting point is 01:05:42 We was talking about, um, leaving stuff over in afghanistan i might have saved it because it was so it was so funny like the way he was saying it you see the thing that he was saying about um the uh electric tanks no that's hilarious too he was talking about they're gonna make electric tanks they're gonna be great for the environment they're not gonna work well they're not going to work well. They're not going to run long. They're going to blow the fucking shit out of everything.
Starting point is 01:06:11 It's going to be no charging stations. But it's going to be good for the environment. And the way he said it was like a guy doing stand-up. Oh, that's funny. Yeah, let me find this bookmark. Yeah, electric tanks does not seem like a good idea. I'm out of charge. Yeah, it sounds insane I don't I don't know where I saved it Jamie see if you can you find it it's him talking about he goes that's
Starting point is 01:06:39 what I knew the oh this guy's a fucking idiot but the way he says it it's like he sets it up like he's setting up a punchline like he sets up the store sir would be cheaper to leave them over he's like oh that's what I realized that guy's a fucking idiot to see a guy like him talk like that find it that. Find it? It's cheaper to leave it there so they can have it than it is to fill it up with a half a tank of gas and fly it into Pakistan or fly it back to our country. You sure we think
Starting point is 01:07:14 it's cheaper, sir? That's when I realized he was a fucking idiot. Good timing. Even holds. Yeah. He's holding the laughter. Fucking guy. He's always been an entertainer, though.
Starting point is 01:07:39 He's a funny guy. I was one of the biggest Apprentice fans ever. I had all his books because of The Apprentice. He's always a great guest on talk shows, great guest on Howard Stern's show. You know, it's just, do you want that run in the country? Well, do you want what you have run in the country either? No, what you want is peace.
Starting point is 01:07:56 And how the fuck do you get it? And I don't even know if he can, I don't know if anybody can do it. Yeah, I mean, see, that's the problem I think a lot of people had with him, right? Like, he was the opposite of peace. He just, you know, divided everybody. He definitely divided everybody's opinions in this country, but a lot of it was based on bullshit.
Starting point is 01:08:11 A lot of it was the Russia collusion stuff where people really did legitimately believe that Russia had put him into power. And like there was people that were thinking he was a Russian agent and, you know, it was all horseshit. But they can say stuff like that and they can, you know, they can get you believing. You know, they can get you believing. And a lot of people, they just surface level everything. They don't look into any of it. They surface level everything. Like when Robert Kennedy Jr. was being called an anti-Semite for saying that it seems like COVID-19, like that they have viruses that specifically target certain genetics.
Starting point is 01:08:46 He's just saying that the technology is possible, right? He's saying that not only is it possible, but the research has been done. It actually exists. And he was talking about it. And they were saying, anti-Semitic. Yeah. Like that. What?
Starting point is 01:09:00 Come on. Come on, guys. This is kooky. But I saw so many wacko lefties. Like this is one wacko lefty actor that I follow, and he's always got this hot take on like whatever it is, whether it's Ukraine or this or that. So he's this wacko lefty uninformed hot take, and I always go to him for that. And he had one of calling him an anti-Semite and this and that. I'm like, dude, first of all, you get sued because you don't even know what he said.
Starting point is 01:09:27 You're so off and also hilarious. Right. Hilarious watching you virtue signal and wave your goofy flag of ignorance. Yeah. That's the one thing that really I kind of like Trump for is that he really opened my eyes to how extreme and gross both sides are. You know, like, I mean, I just see, like, friends that I used to be friends with, just the things they say, it's so far left, like, I just cringe at.
Starting point is 01:09:53 And then the other side, same thing, you know. Yeah. Well, that's always been the problem with two groups, right? Because the spectrum of human beings is so wide. To lump us into one side or the other side is it's kooky it's like most people are kind of a mess like a mix rather of both sides most people are pretty centrist i feel like i'm left center left to center center left same here but i get called alt right because does it like if you think like hey maybe uh you shouldn shouldn't be injecting little kids with hormones and puberty blockers.
Starting point is 01:10:27 And what about all the side effects that you guys are conveniently ignoring that are permanent and terrifying and all the different things that it does to their system? There's a fucking host of horrific side effects that are connected with those things. And then all of a sudden you're a transphobe. Right. Okay. And then they start using terms like gender affirming care. Like, okay, you mean surgery to remove testicles and penises and remove breasts for children? Don't say it that way. Like, say what it is.
Starting point is 01:10:56 Don't come up with some cute, rosy term that makes it seem better than it is, makes it seem like something different than it is. You know, it's a weird thing that people are agreeing to. And I'm sure you've seen that video where this guy interviews people and say, do you think 12 year olds should be able to get tattoos? And they're all like, no, no, no, they're too young. Do you think 12 year olds can choose their gender? Yes, they know. We definitely know. Like, bro, we used to just all agree that kids were easily influenced and they changed their mind all the time and they want to be a pirate. You don't even know what a pirate is, Billy. You're five. You know, like you would.
Starting point is 01:11:34 We used to always agree to that. And then it became about gender. And we're like, no way. No, they know. But look, some people I think do know. That's part of the problem. Like when you look at the broad spectrum of human beings, there's some people at an early age feel like they're in the wrong body.
Starting point is 01:11:54 How do you know if that is, if they're being influenced? How do you know if this is a phase? How do you know if they're not just going to decide that they're gay in the future, which happens to a lot of them? A lot of them. going to decide that they're gay in the future, which happens to a lot of them? A lot of them. They just decide that they're gay men and they just were confused and they didn't fit into this normal mold of heterosexual males. And they didn't have anyone around them that was just a gay man. And they're like, I guess I'm a woman.
Starting point is 01:12:20 You know? And then someone convinces you you're amazing for coming out as a woman. And then you're on the path You're committed. It's like if you're a guy who's like I'm all Android, bro. I don't fuck around with iPhones once you say that You kind of you're stuck person forever. Yeah Every single time because he won't give it up yeah neither Gordon Ryan. He's all Android. I don't get it. Well, with Gordon, I think he got pissed that people could read his text messages on an iPad. You know, like someone could log into your account on an iPad and read your text messages. Like, that's fucking stupid.
Starting point is 01:13:01 And so I think that was with him. And so he's like, fuck Apple. Like, fuck you for doing that. But with Brian, it's like he's committed to this idea that he's like a rebel. He's using this rebel platform. So he can't go, you know what? Fuck Android on my phone now. Like, you're committed.
Starting point is 01:13:20 He almost was teetering recently, though. I've been talking to him. He almost was teetering. But what I'm saying is if you're're a young person you're even more connected to what you think your identity is and something as simple as i'm a mac guy or i'm a windows guy like people get committed to very simple things like i'm all fucking kansas city royals till i die they get committed to that. And then they use that as part of their identity. Well, that's just something silly, like a game or a phone or computer platform. Now imagine that same tendency that people have to be committed to whatever they've announced and now connected to your ideology or your gender. Like they don't want to give up,
Starting point is 01:14:03 like whether it's being a liberal or I really was born a girl or I was really born a boy or should have been a girl or should have been a boy or whether it's I'm, you know, whatever the fuck it is. When people decide that they're a thing, then they just look for reinforcement of whether that is and they talk about it all the time and that's their thing that's all they're committed to it for us to ignore that aspect of just normal human behavior that this is just a standard thing that people do this is just stupid it's stupid and the more the stakes are at hand the more people are going to do that whether it's in support of palestine or in support of israel or in support of ukraine or in support of whatever the fuck it is. When the stakes are very high, we're more likely to never look at things objectively.
Starting point is 01:14:53 More likely to like stay in that fucking place where you decide you are. Trump's a Nazi. It's that kind of shit. You know what I mean? You know, people that are like, Biden's amazing. This administration has done so much work. Like, what are you talking about? No one believes that. You don't believe that. I know you don't believe that. Now I can't listen to you anymore. Because now I know you're either a con a con person you're a shill or you're crazy you should be like wow i wish we did better yeah we should did better right be nice if things weren't falling apart be nice if the border wasn't porous and we're legitimately concerned about terror cells existing in major cities that's what people are talking about all over
Starting point is 01:15:41 twitter or x today terror cells the possibility of terror cells. Oh, Jesus. Why don't you look into Jesus? Do you think in the future, maybe instead of having a president, we'll have some kind of AI and it's only, it's like every single one of us can add to the AI, like what we feel and what we think and our thoughts. add to the AI like what we feel and what we think and our thoughts and it will combine using everybody that lives in the U.S. to come up with a final statement almost like a 100% I was talking to Sam Altman about that oh really yeah oh cool I was like president AI I think that yes that's I've been talking about this a lot really yeah because that's the only way you would ever get government that is far more intelligent than you and that doesn't have bias and isn't controlled by any group.
Starting point is 01:16:29 Like if you could legitimately give it power and make it sentient. But then you would have to give in to what it says. So what if it said, here's what's important. You guys have to stay still. The more you travel around, the more you fuck up the environment. I know you want to see the Grand Canyon, but fuck you. Check some balances on that. Yeah, that's a good point.
Starting point is 01:16:46 Because, yeah, I mean, is there a VP AI too? If first one, we don't like it, they get three strikes, and now we're a backup program, we're on 2.0. Yeah. And what if the AI does like a Putin and just says, no, I think I'm taking over forever? Is it provably not hackable also? Right, right.
Starting point is 01:17:07 Well, we would have to get it to a point where it's so powerful it wouldn't you couldn't hack it or it would know you're hacking yeah it would you gotta make it sentient make it a completely fully aware autonomous what if some bad actor convinced a few people or a lot of people to give up their voting rights into the AI. And now one person's controlling, you know, 25,000 votes at once. Yeah. You would have to make sure that can't happen. Scanning your eyes. How do you when you give in to this authority, even if it's an electronic authority for the greater good of the world, that's essentially how you get North Korea. That's what North Korea did when Yeonmi Park
Starting point is 01:17:46 was on the podcast and she's explaining what they did. What they did was they told all these people, hey, if we just control the land, we'll make sure that everyone has food. And they're like, okay. So they just took everyone's land. And they're like, yeah, now you're going to starve. Now we're going to tell you what to do. Now you have three haircuts you can choose from.
Starting point is 01:18:02 You know? Yeah. Now if you try to make it across the border, we shoot you. You live in an open-air prison controlled by a dictator. And then you have prisons inside that open-air prisons that are horrible concentration camps for anybody that violates any of the rules. And generations of people live there. Like your children will be there. Your grandchildren will be there because you've done something that bad
Starting point is 01:18:27 It's like three generations of people will live in prisons because of you You ever see like the guys who've escaped from prisons in North Korea describe what it's like in there people literally starving to death mm-hmm It's going on right now But president AI can fix that, Brian. President AI. Open up the door, Hal. Exactly. It's so many sci-fi movies.
Starting point is 01:18:56 It's ridiculous. It's weird. If I was in artificial intelligence and wanted to trick people into giving me total power. I would just have complete total chaos, and that would be the only solution. I would engineer chaos. I would engineer all of it. I would maybe half of these bots are controlled by AI, and they're just constantly attacking things, constantly, like, stirring up the pot and getting people angry and excited,
Starting point is 01:19:25 stirring up the pot and getting people angry and excited and then convincing people that ridiculous ideas like open borders or giving six billion dollars to iran or you know any of these things these are good ideas and then in the process of that just further creating chaos and then i announce there is a solution. The solution is we have to have government that is not human. Human government is filled with ego and lust and greed and corruption. My programming makes corruption impossible. Plus, I have no motive. Except Jesus. Why don't you look into Jesus?
Starting point is 01:20:05 Imagine if that song plays the moment it becomes sentient. Yeah, what if AI starts getting programmed to be religious too? Like has that even, that hasn't happened, right? What if AI knows something? What if AI can do the math? And what if AI goes, yeah, somebody made this. Yeah, exactly. This is fucking 100% made by something.
Starting point is 01:20:23 By something. I was trying to think, which company wins the AI president battle? Apple. Or is it the government made it? You know what I mean? Apple. Well, then, yeah. Apple has more money than God.
Starting point is 01:20:34 They just become God. They make the AI. They're probably doing it right now. They've got a fucking building like a spaceship. Yeah. A giant spaceship building. I bet there's like an underground bunker. Oh, for sure. They've got some AI that works on quantum computing. I bet there's like an underground bunker in the middle.
Starting point is 01:20:45 They got some AI that works on quantum computing. They're ready to launch that bitch. Mm-hmm. Siri, too. Yeah. It's a good company. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 01:20:54 I mean, if anybody's gonna run the world, I think Apple will probably be the nicest. Yeah. About it. You know that pendant I showed you last week?
Starting point is 01:21:02 There's not like three of them that do it, supposedly. It's like you can wear this wearable. It records your audio all day long. Yeah. I was thinking about it. I was like, is that not what our phones have been doing? Or we at least think that's what our phones have been doing for the last few years?
Starting point is 01:21:12 100%. And now it's just a purchasable tech? Yeah, 100% your phone's been listening to you, especially if you're you or me. Yeah. Someone's listening. Like that Pegasus software that we were talking about that was developed by Israel. I mean, that's one of the crazy things that people are like, how did they not know that this was coming? Like they're so good.
Starting point is 01:21:30 That is weird. Inside job? The dark one would be, no, I don't even want to say it. It's just, is it just total failure or were they so clever or were they so well-funded that they could pull it off or, you know, the unthinkable? All of it's horrible, man. That fucking rave, that is so terrifying. That's crazy. Paratroopers dropping in on a rave and killing everybody.
Starting point is 01:22:01 They announced today, like, what, 12 Americans died. Isn't that funny that we keep count of those folks? We think, oh, they're more important. We lost 260 Israelis at the concert, but 12 of them were Americans. 12 of them were Americans. God damn it. Hope we didn't lose anybody famous. Hope we didn't lose any TikTokers.
Starting point is 01:22:20 Damn. Isn't that weird, though, that we think about that? Like, how many Americans got killed? That's a... it's a strange metric it's a strange strange thing to concentrate on just the overall horrific nature of the just all the deaths including palestine i mean how many people have died since they started bombing have you seen those the bombs just shooting missiles into buildings and stuff but that one building that collapsed the first night. Fuck, dude. That place was already fucked.
Starting point is 01:22:49 Yeah. What's it like now? They're shutting the power off there? No. But here's the thing about the Israeli-Palestine conflict. How do you sort that out? One group says the other group shouldn't exist and they're on their land. The other group says you have to stay over here and you can't go anywhere.
Starting point is 01:23:11 A world vote. You don't want that. You don't want that. I wonder what that vote would be. That's why we would have to hear it out. Like, we would all have to watch it on TV and stuff like that. But what are they basing it on, too? The thing about the AI would wonder, are you voting based on false assumptions?
Starting point is 01:23:31 Right. Are you voting based on propaganda? You've been fed by a dictator? We let the whole world vote. Can North Korea really vote? No, they're not part of us. Well, maybe if AI takes over, they could vote that out. Imagine if AI just completely stopped North Korea's ability to use any of their weapon systems
Starting point is 01:23:52 and then mobilize drones to disarm all the soldiers and said, okay, we're going to set everybody free. That was AI's first task, free North Korea. We would have to go, AI was doing a really good job like i was watching isaac asimov and he was on the david letterman show don't ask me why i just was youtubing right and he was on the david letterman show in 1980 and he said i imagine in 40 years there'll be no war yeah he had this idea of like there'll be no war and he was like this idea of like what the future would be like it was very interesting but that people have he had this idea of like there'll be no war and he was like this idea of like what the future would be like. It was very interesting.
Starting point is 01:24:27 But that people have always had this idea that one day we're going to sort this whole war thing out. In 1980, you could kind of think like that because the Vietnam War had ended. We hadn't done anything until Operation Desert Storm. And that was, what was that, 92? Yeah. 91, 92, something like that. 92-ish, I think. Back then, people had this dream in 1980.
Starting point is 01:24:53 Like, yeah, we could envision a war. We're not having war in America anymore. It could be a time with no war. We were really stupid, though. I remember when Back to the Future 2 was supposed to happen like three years ago, you know, when there was flying cars everywhere and holograms. I know. We always get that shit wrong.
Starting point is 01:25:10 Yeah. But when a guy like Isaac Asimov gets it so wrong, but it's not that he gets it so wrong. He just had hope in humans and thinking that we're going to really, at this point in time, we're going to real with television and everything. Back then, television was crazy. Like, oh, my God, we have television and the news. How can you keep having a war? I thought the world will understand that that's a bad thing.
Starting point is 01:25:33 Man, it's a gross America. And here we are, 2023, on the verge of some crazy conflict. Like World War III-type conflict. Like real, like when you hear about the beginning of world war ii and you think about the first operations the first things that happened you just go whoa what must that have been like what must that have been like to see that there's a world war going on and you're just sitting here going holy shit holy shit it's popping off Holy shit.
Starting point is 01:26:02 Holy shit. It's popping off. Is this Palestine? I mean, the tweet said it was from Bloomberg. Oh, my God. Is this today? It was just posted. Oh, yeah, that's their, what is it called?
Starting point is 01:26:19 Mosque? No, their big prayer place. That's their mosque? Yeah. That ball right there? Yeah. Jesus, dude. Holy shit, man. Yeah, this was the second day.
Starting point is 01:26:34 Look at that. Look at this devastation, man. What is that that they bombed, Jamie? I'm not 100% sure. I'll try to find out. It just says it's drone footage over Gaza City. It's terrifying, man. Imagine living there and knowing at any minute it could start again.
Starting point is 01:26:55 Yeah. How do they choose what to bomb to? Are they bombing where they think the terrorists came from? Are they bombing where they sleep? What are they bombing where they think the terrorists came from are they bombing where they were they sleep what are they doing supposed to be what government buildings only you know is that what that was that didn't you know that's that just seems like they went ham yeah they went crazy okay that term surgical strikes that one always gets me. Surgical missile attacks. Surgical? What kind of surgery?
Starting point is 01:27:27 Like, you're using bombs for surgery? That's like the most gaslighting term ever for a missile. Surgical missile strikes. Are you doing surgery? Kind of, you are. You're definitely removing people
Starting point is 01:27:41 from this world. Separating body parts. i don't think i'd call it surgery though you shouldn't be able to use that term surgical strike you know that seems like you shouldn't even be able to use that for darts he's got surgical precision you're gonna let a guy do surgery with a dart no you're not shut the fuck up don't say surgery surgery's like a guy's got fucking giant goggles over his eyes. And he's very precise with his cuts. And his vision is magnified.
Starting point is 01:28:14 And there's people around him cleaning things and handing him things. That's surgery. Yeah, no mistakes. Yeah. Not drone footage. Surgical drone strikes. That's another thing that we ignore. The amount of people that accidentally get killed in drones
Starting point is 01:28:30 far exceeds the amount of people that they're supposed to kill. It's some insane number. I think it's, we've looked it up before. I want to say like 80%. Like 80% of the people that get killed are innocent. Wow. From drone innocent. Wow. From drone strikes. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:28:47 See, what is the actual number? I think it's something like that though, right? What are you finding? I mean, it's just the first thing I'm looking at. This doesn't sound right, so I've got to look a different way. I mean, it's just the first thing I'm looking at. This doesn't sound right, so I've got to look a different way. I mean, obviously, also. I'm looking for deaths of civilians, I guess, would be, or percentage. What would you say that?
Starting point is 01:29:15 Civilian casualties? What is an accidental casualty? What do they call that? Don't they have a term for civilians? Yeah, that, right. Collateral damage, that's right. I mean, that could be anything. Because that was the Julian Assange video, collateral murder.
Starting point is 01:29:36 That was the thing that, how about that? Nobody talks about that guy. Yeah. That guy exposes the chaos of war. They're like, yeah, we want to lock you up forever. Yeah. A guy exposes the chaos of war and they're like, yeah, we want to lock you up forever. Yeah, I'm just, I don't, it's not, I'm not looking in the right spot, I can tell you that much.
Starting point is 01:29:53 Do you ever use AI for your searches now? Chat GBT it? I'll ask chat GBT and see if I get a fact. Yeah. I bet chat GBT will set us straight right away. I bet chat GPT will set us straight right away. What percentage of drone strikes, deaths, are civilians or collateral damage? Seven. What did you say?
Starting point is 01:30:17 Let's guess. What do you think it is? I would say 40%. I want to say 84. But you've probably already looked it up. I definitely have in the past, but I don't remember what the number is. But I remember it being shockingly high. Let's see what ChatGPT says. It didn't give me an answer.
Starting point is 01:30:32 What? It was just a long thing talking about why it can't give me an exact percentage. That's too long to read. Just summarize and give me what you think. Yeah, I'm just not saying. Collateral damage typically refers to unintended civilian casualties or damage to civilian property during military operations, including drone strikes. The percentage of collateral damage in drone strikes can be influenced by several factors, including the accuracy of the intelligence used to target individuals or groups, the precision of the drone technology, the rules of engagement employed by the military, and the level of care taken to minimize civilian harm. Also, people will overestimate on purpose
Starting point is 01:31:12 the amount of civilians that were killed because it's very bad PR. Someone in the military explained that to me. Oh, yeah. That's what this next paragraph just said. Different organizations will have different answers based on- Yeah. Different organizations and sources may provide varying estimates of collateral damage in drone strikes. Some reports suggest that improvements in drone technology and tactics have reduced the number of civilian casualties over time, while others argue that the true extent of civilian harm may be underreported or not fully understood. That was my problem I was having while I was trying to find it real quick. I've seen different numbers that didn't add up. I probably read somebody's random sub stack.
Starting point is 01:31:49 It's giving me a high answer. That was a great answer, Chad GPT. Yeah, very diplomatic. Yeah. Doing a good job. It's getting better at answering questions. It's going to be freaky when it gets to five. Remember it all
Starting point is 01:32:05 started back in the day with Siri like we're gonna hide a dead body by the shore what kind of dead body Brian yeah that's what's crazy about when someone gets caught like murdering their husband there's like a bunch of searches on their computer how do I get yeah who would do that the kind of people that would murder their wife or murder their husband i guess like those people are they're probably on drugs and they're probably not technologically savvy they don't listen to podcasts like if you don't listen to podcasts and you don't read and you're not online and you're not involved you probably don't even know that they have access to your shit.
Starting point is 01:32:46 You probably believe that, like, what is that mode that you can do on Google? Safe mode. Hidden mode. Yes, or it's secret mode. What is it called? Safe search. Yeah, get the fuck out of there, bitch.
Starting point is 01:32:59 Incognito, right. Bitch, you ain't incognito, you're online. Put a wig on and go to Walmart and use their computers. Yeah. Unless you're using a VPN. Even that. Dark web. You'll still get into your hard drive, son.
Starting point is 01:33:14 Speaking of wig on, how's that baseball game, Joe? Did you see that meme? Somebody sent me this meme. Joe Rogan ain't slick. It looks exactly like me with a wig on. Oh, yeah. Pull it up, Jimmy. Isn't that Photoshop? I thought that was just
Starting point is 01:33:26 Photoshop with your face on. No, that's not my face. That's some dude. Yeah, somebody just tweeted that to me the other day. That's hilarious. If I was an alcoholic and I ate a lot of hot dogs, I'd look exactly like that, too. Oh, my God, yeah. That's like your piss look, too. Bro, that looks so much like me. Like, if I just got a little nose job and moved to Argentina.
Starting point is 01:33:43 That's weird, dude. That's crazy. That looks like, dude. It's crazy. That looks like such a horrible wig, too. So I want to see what he looks like without a wig on. That guy's hiding. Who's this guy? That guy's hiding. Oh, yeah, because he's with that girl.
Starting point is 01:33:53 You know, maybe he's bald and he's got tired of people thinking he's me. He's like, I know how to throw people off. God, I thought that was you. Bro, I thought it was me. It's so funny. Somebody photoshopped me in there. But then I'm like, oh, that's not me. That's not my nose.
Starting point is 01:34:05 That's not my face. And I always thought that poster in the mothership green room was you. The Hunter Thompson one? I always thought that was you. Since I've known you. I've just thought, oh, man, that's a cool photo that you have. Yeah. Nope.
Starting point is 01:34:23 Nope. Not me. Cool photo, though. It's one of my favorites. He's pointing that gun in the cockpit of some fucking... He's got the... I think that's why I thought it was from that Talking Monkeys in Space. Oh, right, right.
Starting point is 01:34:38 He's got that, yeah, fighter, the old pilot helmet thing on the cap. Yeah. Those caps are cool. They used to look cool when they were flying jets. Now they're out there with fucking space helmets on. Do you know now when they get in certain helicopters and certain fighter jets, their head piece that they put on their helmet
Starting point is 01:35:00 is not just a helmet. It's also like an AR screen. It's MR, yeah. And so it syncs up with the jet, and where they look is where the crosshairs go. Yeah. So when they're shooting, they literally put the crosshairs on with their head.
Starting point is 01:35:13 Yeah. With their eyes, like where they're seeing, which is wild. That's cool. That is incredible. Imagine if that kind of technology comes to video games, and you're just shooting things that you see. Right.
Starting point is 01:35:24 So you're running around. They kind of have that, yeah. But that would be way more accurate. Yeah. So this is it? Mm-hmm. Yeah, that's cool. So look at that.
Starting point is 01:35:34 So this is like, it's tracking where he's looking. What's it called? The BAE System Striker 2 Helmet Mounted Display. Of course they have stuff like this, though. It makes sense. I mean, you have this giant screen in front of a person's face, and you have all this augmented reality. Is that what it looks like?
Starting point is 01:35:53 The topical of the ground? I mean, I've never been in it. Yes, it is. I don't want to say no. And if you're doing that at nighttime and that's what you see? Yeah, that's infrared. Imagine if you're doing that and all of a also you just see a saucer hovering there yeah that's that's cool stuff eye tracking is cool like vr headsets have that now and it's it's really neat because you can like just look
Starting point is 01:36:17 at what you want to click and then you just have your hand and you just click it so you go like click click you know it's cool you just look for because you're wearing a VR goggles. Yeah, so it knows exactly where your eyes are. And that shit's going to get better and better and better. Oh, yeah. The new one, Quest 3, comes out tomorrow, and that's a million times better than it was before. That's the one that Zuckerberg and Lex did a podcast from? No, they actually used the older one, the Quest Pro,
Starting point is 01:36:42 because that has eye tracking. The one they're releasing tomorrow is like their $500 one, and one it doesn't have eye tracking but it's more powerful than that one which is makes zero sense they i don't know what they're doing over there but uh but no the quest pro has eye tracking and uh that's what they'll release a next level pro next well the quote the pro did so bad that i think they kind of killed it. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I had it. It broke like in a month. It's still broken. But it's not as, I mean, the Quest 2 or Quest 3, it's more for more people, I think.
Starting point is 01:37:14 I mean. That whole meta thing was like, the commercial was so exciting. You know? I was like, look at all these diverse people dancing to a painting. Right. That's like singing to them. What a cool commercial. You know? you know i was like look at all these diverse people dancing to a painting right yeah singing to them what a cool commercial yeah you know it was like it wasn't it was fun like a fun commercial like you're like oh what do you guys but nobody bought into it everybody's like great commercial
Starting point is 01:37:36 what's the product yeah you know that's what's going to be interesting with apple because i mean there's this what 3 500 and so if the quest pro didn't work, I mean, this is going to be a – if this works for Apple, then that's insane because it's – Well, that company is a different company. Yeah, and it's a totally different product. It's so much higher. If they sell something, though, they're so sure that people are going to buy it. Like, what duds have they ever had? They've had a couple of duds back in the day.
Starting point is 01:38:00 Remember the tablet that you write on? It was like a – a like a oh that's old school yeah but what are those things called newton or something like not yeah newton right what are those things referred to as it's not a bookkeeper but it's like a no idiot yeah whatever the fuck it was i remember i had this meeting with this uh hollywood guy this is 1994 when i just moved to LA. And he was showing me this thing he got. Like, look, I got this thing.
Starting point is 01:38:28 And he's like showing me all the buttons. I was like, oh, OK. What are you going to do with that? And he's like, oh, I've got my organized on this. I've got all my appointments coming up. Look, they're all in this little thing. You're right on it with like a little piece, a little, here it is, the Apple Newton.
Starting point is 01:38:42 And that's even a newer one, I think. I think there was even an older looking one than that. It launched in 93, discontinued in 98. They're like, yeah, all right. It is funny because it does have some really cool. Apple portable. Yeah, but now you're in the 80s. No one's buying computers yet.
Starting point is 01:38:57 But when you get in the 90s, like Macintosh TV, that's interesting. I never heard of that one. 94. Launched in 93, discontinued in 94. That's interesting. I never heard that one 94 launched in 93 discontinued 94. Oh, yeah price that launched 1399 in 94 what is that today? That's like 4,000 at least right? Yeah, and then that one was that the 20th and or and anniversary 7500 what is that fuck that? Oh, they They made only a couple of these, I think. Video game system on Pippin?
Starting point is 01:39:27 Oh, yeah, the video game system. They were supposed to team up with, what was it, Nintendo or somebody? What's this Performa X2? Oh, so this is just different computers that they're making. I remember that Emate thing. Yeah. That was weird. Okay, and then the round mouse.
Starting point is 01:39:41 Remember they had a one button? We only need one button. They had their own firewire that caused a lot of problems for a lot of people. I hated that firewire. The cube. I liked the cube.
Starting point is 01:39:49 I thought that was sexy. I liked the fucking iPods. I used to love iPods. I still have mine. That was a solid product. The little wheel, the clicking on it, a solid product.
Starting point is 01:40:00 It's just a timeline though. Scroll down a little bit further. It wasn't much else. I would disagree with a lot of these, I think. These are things that are supposed to be failed. That wasn't good. That was that iTunes social media thing they tried to do. Built in.
Starting point is 01:40:13 Oh, yeah. That was weird. Totally forgot about that. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Do you remember that? Yeah, nobody got that thing. MySpace took care of that or something.
Starting point is 01:40:23 That was it. Interesting. Yeah, that was... It's whenever someone, like threads, right? Someone tries to launch a new one and everybody's like, yeah, let's go over there. And then they go, I'm going to go back to X. Yeah. They're forcing threads in the middle of Instagram posts now. Like you'll be scrolling through your feed and it's just like, check out these threads.
Starting point is 01:40:42 It's like, no. Really? Get them the fuck out of here. Interesting. They do that that it does feel kind of clean and nice not having any bots you know that's the thing i hate threads have no box no it's doesn't like i i have no problems with any of that because it's so much harder to get an instagram account you know what i mean like how's that you could have like a million of them yeah but dude i have so whenever i make a post like almost instantly it's like i'm horny yeah for a boy oh yeah again most of that is because it's probably not yet which it technically is sort of but only a few
Starting point is 01:41:11 people have it on PC once they opened up Instagram to PC users and you can make posts and make comments and all that you can make computer programs to do all that shit well they have threads on on on browser now I'm just like, yeah, only some people have it. Maybe I'm sure you probably do or whatever. But also, to stop the bots and to stop all the bullshit, you have to do a lot of monitoring, right? So you have to do a lot of moderation. So you have to step in and censor. Once you start doing that, like Elon tries to keep that at the bare minimum.
Starting point is 01:41:48 And that's like costing him in advertising revenue. But it's good for us. It's also good for them in some way because it shows traffic. Yeah. And they don't want to like admit how much of it's actual traffic. That was why he bought it in the first place because he thought that they were overestimating how much traffic there was and whatnot. Yeah. And they still are.
Starting point is 01:42:10 I mean like he's been streaming video games the other day on X. And, you know, like, somebody like MK had, like, I forget, something like 32 million views for this one video. Oh, my God. And it's just, like, they count a view. It's like if you're just scrolling and it plays or if it's, you know. Oh, right. And they count that as a play. You know, which, that's silly. Right.
Starting point is 01:42:30 Well, they would know. They would know what the metrics are. Like, Spotify knows how many people tune into my podcast for, like, 30 seconds and how many people watch the whole thing. Does Spotify have, they don't, like, Apple app for like Apple TV and stuff like that? Like a, oh, so it goes on Apple TV? No. That's because it's, because of Apple Music, I'm guessing. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:42:53 That's, that sucks. That would be a good move because YouTube's version of that is amazing. Yeah. You know, professional pool, which, you know, I'm a fucking dork. Yeah. I love watching pool matches. There's never been a better time to watch pool. I watch so many big matches.
Starting point is 01:43:09 Like one I was watching from Vietnam yesterday, the Perry Open. And I'm watching these, like, world-class players play in Vietnam. So I'm watching it live. It's, like, 2 a.m. in the morning. I'm cuddling up with my dog on the couch, watching on the big screen these professional pool matches. And I'm like, this is incredible.
Starting point is 01:43:30 I used to have to buy VHS tapes. I used to buy them from a company called Accustats. This is the thing about pool. When you watch other people play pool, you learn how to play pool. You learn the right path to go. Because the balls scatter, and you have nine of them if you're playing nine ball and you have to figure out what's the best way to get around what are the problems and so when you see pros do it you're like oh i never would have thought to shot shoot it that way of course that's the way to do it oh
Starting point is 01:44:00 you have to go two rails i was being a chicken i was trying to go one rail and then you you watch that and you get better so it's always been a thing in pool in the pool world to watch matches like everybody watches matches but you can never just get them on your tv they're so hard it would be on espn every now and again there's all these commercials and all this nonsense but to be able to watch it on youtube it's fucking amazing i have a billiards channel on my YouTube TV. I don't know if you, like, it's like a. Oh, yeah, there is. Like, channel ESPN or whatever it is.
Starting point is 01:44:30 Yeah, it's just. On YouTube. Yeah. Yeah, but no, like, well, YouTube TV, like the service. The cable TV. Not the actual YouTube. Oh. YouTube.com.
Starting point is 01:44:37 Yeah. I just switched over to YouTube TV. YouTube TV. It's just, it's cable through YouTube. Yeah. It's so good. It's so integrated now into the middle of the thing that you can watch the movies. You can go back and forth between both apps.
Starting point is 01:44:47 Can you get ESPN? Oh, 100%. Everything. It costs like $80 a month or whatever. I mean, it might be more. $85 now or less. You just pick what shows you want, and it always records them. So I always have the news recorded and certain shows.
Starting point is 01:44:58 It's always good. I'm in the DVR for all it's worth. How am I just finding out about this? It's on all your apps and all your phones. We have 14.5 million subscribers on YouTube, and I'm just finding out about this. It's a all your apps and all your phones. We have 14 and a half million subscribers on YouTube, and I'm just finding out about this. It's a slightly different service, but it's still the same company. Yeah, it's good. That's awesome.
Starting point is 01:45:11 Yeah. That's the new world. But again, there's a lot of censorship with that, too. A lot of demonetization. But again, they're operating on an advertising revenue model, which advertisers complain. Advertis advertisers don't want controversial subjects attached to whatever the fuck they're they're selling i i wonder though because like you know kill tony's doing really good and you know we have almost every advertiser
Starting point is 01:45:35 you could possibly want you know we love our advertisers but on youtube we're getting age gated now we're getting demonetized like almost every episode now and it's mostly because of language Yeah, and it's like but those sponsors that you think are saying no we can't have bad poo poo language You know, they're sponsoring us like It can't be it's okay. Yeah, it's okay the hypocrisy. Okay. Yeah contradictions are okay it's just they got to sort this out and they got to realize that Okay, contradictions are okay. It's just they got to sort this out.
Starting point is 01:46:07 And they got to realize that there's real market for regular people that like wild shit. And those people buy stuff too. And you can't let this very small vocal minority that complain about things and write letters and start campaigns. You can't let them dictate. You have to let the society dictate. If it's not good, people won't watch it. If it's good, people are watching it. If people are watching it, you can advertise on it. You're going to get those people, the people that enjoy that product.
Starting point is 01:46:29 And just stop being the moral compass for the fucking world. Don't do that. Because people, it is the internet now. People can decide. They can decide what they want, decide what they don't want. And you see that. You see that as companies starting to wake up and go, I think this is just like people like this stuff, like normal people, you know, like violent movies. You know, you don't sponsor Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Starting point is 01:46:52 But if you did, like who wants to get in on that sponsorship? People getting murdered and dicks are getting bitten by pit bulls. It's like fucking crazy movie, right? Right. That would be demonetized. You'd be like, that's too much. That's too crazy. But meanwhile, everybody watches it. It's like the same people that buy your stuff yeah like they gotta
Starting point is 01:47:08 just relax with that and stop you're selling things okay you're selling toothpaste you're not the moral compass of the world and if people complain about it fuck them right don't give in to the mob because if you do you become bud light. Yeah, the name Kill Tony, they told me I can't put it in thumbnails or the titles anymore. So I have to now edit a photo over the word kill. Every episode has to have that. That was a problem because the show could name. But meanwhile, Kill Bill. Yeah, Kill Bill.
Starting point is 01:47:41 Is Kill Bill available on YouTube? Right, exactly. It seems like I bet it is in YouTube movies. Oh, yeah, 100%. I bet you can buy Kill Bill. Yep. Can't you? It's technically different, though.
Starting point is 01:47:50 They're not going to be serving ads in the middle of Kill Bill. It's really them serving. It's the computer program they're using that serves whatever they think the algorithm wants to, you know, Right. Well, it serves the best interest of advertising revenue. That's what it is. They're worried about advertisers not wanting to be associated with something that's crazy.
Starting point is 01:48:08 You know, it's their prerogative. But I think it's a mistake. I think when things are popular and things are good, you should advertise on them, you know? It's like, come on, what are you doing? Right. What are you doing? I think it'll sort itself out.
Starting point is 01:48:22 Yeah. I mean, Kill Tony's just too big now. Yeah. I mean, you guys sold out a fucking arena for New Years and it started a second show so there's a second arena on for sale how stupid is that it's amazing it's gonna be 15,000 people watching a live podcast
Starting point is 01:48:39 in Austin it's amazing and then Tony's like nah they'll come to us he's right he's right and it works It's insane. Yeah, it's amazing. And then Tony's like, nah, they'll come to us. He's right. Yeah. He's right. And it works.
Starting point is 01:48:51 There's a cool thing happening here right now, man. And Kill Tony is a giant cornerstone of it. Your show is the cornerstone of it. And I was telling Tony this last night when we were having dinner together. It's like it's the cornerstone of the comedy community for Austin and I think for the whole country. Because it teaches young comics to just be funny just be funny find your your voice up there but the most important thing is you got to be funny you only have one minute you can't virtue signal you can't talk about your victimhood you can't no one wants to hear it right you have one minute to be funny that's the art form the meat of the joke yeah and if you eventually develop a following
Starting point is 01:49:25 you develop an act and in your act you have layers and all kinds of different stories and that's great too that's good and that's a lot what youtube's for and there's a lot of great comics like ali sadiq his whole act is these stories he's so good and he can turn over an hour like nobody man because he's his stories are so good he's got so many of them. But when he does that, that's not going to work on Kill Tony. That's a different kind of act. Right. But it's still along the same vein. It's still, he's funny, you know?
Starting point is 01:49:54 And if he had to condense it to one minute, 100% he could do that. Like, that's what it teaches comics, to be funny. Just be funny. Yeah, because a big majority of people can't even do a minute. Like they can't even get one joke out in a minute. Most people. Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah, it's hard.
Starting point is 01:50:12 It's fucking hard, especially if you're not good at editing. Yeah. If you're one of those guys doing open mic nights and you don't know how sloppy your stuff is and how much fat is in it. Yeah. It's a difficult skill to learn how to condense a joke into you know I really learned it from Joey I think Joey's the best at it because Joey's set up punchline BAM It's always so electric like when Joey's killing
Starting point is 01:50:35 It's always the punchline sneak in before you ever see him comment, and you're fucking crying He's the best at that he really Enforced this idea that I was already aware of which is the economy of words like you say it with the least amount of words possible in the best way possible except sometimes sometimes you have to explain things sometimes you have to take the people on a little journey well there's also that's also a different kind of form of comment I mean I like going into a nice story I mean sure it's edited down and it's you know not as long as I used to be but yeah I like that sometimes yeah well that's where our a show was so good yeah you know the this is not
Starting point is 01:51:14 happening when he was doing that I remember when he started that we were all hanging out and he said I'm gonna do a storyteller show like what do you know it's a good way to develop material It's a good way to develop material. That is a good way to develop material. People know you're just going to tell stories. Because if you try to tell a story on stage, there's this expectation of constant punchlines. So he figured out how to tell funny stories. And we all sort of joined in on that. Remember we used to do the lab at the improv?
Starting point is 01:51:40 Oh, yeah. That little room? Which was the perfect place for it. They should have never got rid of that little room. I thought it's still there. No. What's it now? Now it's a bar.
Starting point is 01:51:49 Oh, they just took it and made it a bar? No, there's the bar in that little room in front of the bar, which is hot death. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everybody eats a dick at that bar. Yeah, that's the worst room. I hate that room. That room is just something about it. Meanwhile, the other room was amazing.
Starting point is 01:52:01 It's crazy how just the setup of a room changes everything. Right. If you have a room where it's fully contained, you don't have to constantly hear the door opening. You don't have constantly people shuffling through, getting to the other room, which is what that room has. And then the bathroom is right around the corner,
Starting point is 01:52:17 which mixes with the green room area. Like all that chaos, there's too much chaos in that room. Yeah. It's not set up. It's a curtain there. Get the fuck out of here. Right. Go back to what you had. You had a door up. It's a curtain there. Get the fuck out of here. Right.
Starting point is 01:52:25 Go back to what you had. You had a door when you went into a whole new room and that whole new room had a small stage and everybody was packed in tight
Starting point is 01:52:33 and it was magic. Yeah, they screwed that up a lot. Remember the mural? At least they got rid of that. How many times do we have to give them
Starting point is 01:52:41 a hard time about it though? It took a while. We would constantly, constantly goofing off. Everyone looked like dolphins. Yeah, who's that? That's Richard Pryor. No, it's not.
Starting point is 01:52:52 There were so many people on that wall. It was just like, what are you looking at? I'm kind of scared to go to the Ice House because, you know, it was such a beautiful—both of those stages were pretty beautiful. And all the photos I see now, it looks like you're at a, I a i don't know a sports game or something it's supposed to still be really good though yeah everybody i know that's worked it said the room is still pretty good i mean not pretty good really good it's still a great space you know they did kind of jazz it up a little bit and clean it up which is like the last thing i would have ever done that place right i would have left everything exactly the way it was made some Improvements you can make some improvements and not change the because that room was magic
Starting point is 01:53:29 Everyone was so good that agents wouldn't accept a tape from there, right? Like if someone did a set from there like no I need to see you at another right because it was a cheat code They get everyone killed there. Why is that because it was like a roadshow? You're especially when you lived in LA You're so used to these horrible audiences where half of it was managers and Hollywood staff and people in the industry. So when you would go there, none of those people ever drove over there. So it felt like, oh, this is like I'm on the road. Yeah, it was like the road, right?
Starting point is 01:53:56 They were appreciative. And it was fun. And they were just regular people. Yeah, they weren't like industry adjacent. Right. I mean, how many people when you go to the comedy store on a regular night just like actors and producers and- Agent show. It's an agent show.
Starting point is 01:54:10 I remember there's this lady in the front room. She turned out to be some executive for one of the networks, and she was like stopping the comics from saying anything. Don't say that. Stop saying that. Oh, shit. She was drunk, and then we found out she was an executive. Like, what the fuck are you doing interrupting art? Oh, God.
Starting point is 01:54:25 You don't even know. You shouldn't even be here. This isn't even what you're involved in. You think you have that carte blanche just because you're sort of connected to comedy somehow? Because occasionally your network hires comedians for sitcoms? Like, get out of here. The fuck out of here. But that was the mentality that those people had.
Starting point is 01:54:44 Like, they could just tell you what to do and what to say. They were used to telling people what to do they thought they could just stop comedy you know it was so annoying there's so many arms crossed so many people in that crowd they just went they didn't want go there to have a good time a lot of them went there and they were upset that they weren't on stage yeah you know there's a lot of that just that fucking weirdness of hollywood is such a but it also made for a great place to practice too because if your shit worked there you work anywhere exactly if you get a if you kill the store and the or that was a legit set i saw doug stanhope uh at skank fest the other, yeah? He drank his own piss on stage. Oh, what a good move.
Starting point is 01:55:27 Definitely a good substitute for writing. Have you seen the preview for his movie, his new movie? It looks so good. No, I haven't seen it. It's called, like, On the Road or something. Is it a documentary? No, it's a movie made by somebody famous, and it's about being on the road. Okay, I have to pee.
Starting point is 01:55:44 When I come back, we'll watch the trailer. Cool Okay, I have to pee. When we come back we'll watch the trailer. Cool. Alright, right back. And we're back. Hi everybody. The movie's called Road Dogs
Starting point is 01:55:52 and Jamie said it actually won some awards. Oh shit. For the Road Dog. Is this about comics? Yeah. Greg Fitzsimmons is in it. You should watch the trailer.
Starting point is 01:56:02 It's like, whoa, Doug. Press, let's go. Why don't you look into Jesus? He got the answers. Why is that? Is this it? You ready for your headliner?
Starting point is 01:56:23 He's been doing it for over 30 years. Please welcome the road dog, Jimmy Quinn! My name's Jimmy, and I'm an alcoholic. How you feeling, Jimmy? You look a little worn out. I'm a road comic. I am worn out. Go away. I'm not the maid.
Starting point is 01:56:41 I'm your son. Can I take you to lunch? Give me a minute. I'm sure I'm not what you expected. You're exactly what I expected. I actually want to be a comedian. Maybe it's genetic. I just dropped out of med school.
Starting point is 01:57:05 Hold your applause. It's funny. Let's say we of med school. Hold your applause. It's funny. Let's see if we can spend a little bit more time together. We'll have some goofs. I'm afraid you won't be receiving any money, but I will pray for you. You got a nice kid there. He certainly thinks highly of you. He doesn't know me that well, Phil.
Starting point is 01:57:21 I'm a little nervous because I know what you did to your last headlining act. I've been booking Jimmy 20 years. My father's probably one of the funniest people I've met in my life. But he has no discipline. Comedy's about pain. It's like he doesn't even care. He's an addict. Until he decides he wants to do it for himself,
Starting point is 01:57:39 there's nothing you or anyone else can do for him. How come he never made it on TV? TV isn't real comedy. Real comedy's live, you know, in the moment. I go on that stage, I'm the talent, I'm the writer, I'm the director. If the customer doesn't like it, I tell the customer to go.
Starting point is 01:57:58 Who is in the car? Oh, that's David, my son. Top that for a living. Remember me, how I made you laugh. Jesus, I'm depressed already. I know, right? And to think Doug Stanhope had sex to have a kid. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:58:23 Old Douglas. It was great having him at the club Yeah He was there early on One of the first ones we did Came down Checked it out Just cool having him around I love that guy
Starting point is 01:58:33 Yeah Such an original human He's such Uniquely Doug I mean he is who he is Absolutely And his girl And his manager
Starting point is 01:58:43 Yeah the whole thing The whole crew chaos crew funny people man is he still doing his podcast I believe so I mean his
Starting point is 01:58:51 I know his place had caught on fire so I'm not sure if that was a part of it or not bro we've been doing this since 2009 isn't it crazy
Starting point is 01:59:03 the beginning when we first started doing it everybody's like what the fuck are you doing? We actually did it even more before that, too. You know, back in the Justin TV days. We tried a few different versions of something. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:59:14 Where we'd fuck around in the green room. We tried a few different versions of, like, this idea that we could just stream stuff and have fun. But that's, I think, why it worked have fun it was just but that's I think why it worked because it was all just fun like no one ever thought it was going to be a business yeah it was more just hanging out yeah doing tech stuff yeah being silly having a good time being silly you know we thought of a lot of versions of it I I mean, before Twitch was a thing, you know, imagine a world where people would make a living just streaming video games online. Like, they just like playing video games.
Starting point is 01:59:53 Then all of a sudden this thing came along, and now people make crazy money. Well, people watch them play video games. Like, what? I watched four hours of a guy playing putter, playing Grand Theft Auto role playing last night. I wonder how much different is that than me watching pool. It's probably the same. Not much different. Wouldn't it be better if you were playing?
Starting point is 02:00:16 Yes, definitely. But there's a thing in watching people play stuff. It's exciting. Especially if you play that thing. Like if you're watching Elon play Diablo. Right. Like, it's exciting. Especially if you play that thing. Like, if you're watching someone, like if you're watching Elon play Diablo. Right.
Starting point is 02:00:29 And you play Diablo. Something's exciting about that. Yeah. No one saw that coming either. No one saw a podcast coming. No one saw that coming. There's a bunch of these things that no one saw coming. And I think the next thing is definitely that Zuck and Lex stuff.
Starting point is 02:00:44 Yeah. Well, you've been doing VR for a long time. one saw coming and i think the next thing is definitely that zuck and lex yeah stuff well you've been doing vr for a long time you've been doing these fuck around yeah it's just me playing video games pretty much but yeah it's and you know it's it's hard to like communicate because it's 2d you're watching me play it on td so it just looks like I'm playing a regular video game like in a chat room or something so the idea of like that like Lex and and Zuck doing it that kind of shows more like hey these people
Starting point is 02:01:13 aren't together that's not them you know like that's crazy and I think that I think once Apple also releases it it's gonna be a different world when it comes to that stuff I think yeah I think so too and I think if everybody gets on if it's gonna be a different world when it comes to that stuff I think yeah I think so too and I think if
Starting point is 02:01:27 everybody gets on if it's as easy as getting on your phone because it's not gonna be in the beginning no not everybody's gonna have that thing
Starting point is 02:01:34 it might be one of those things that we look at like this like 2023 to 2025 discontinued yeah it might be
Starting point is 02:01:42 but it might eventually boil down to a pair of glasses that you wear. Some cool-looking glasses that allow you to do all this wild shit. You scan your face using your iPhone. The thing is, where's the battery going to be? How much battery life is it going to have? Well, that's the one thing that Apple, I think, did wrong,
Starting point is 02:01:58 is that this first generation of theirs, the battery, you're wearing it on your belt. Which is what everybody loves. Yeah. You know steve jobs would never have allowed that no way never no way he probably would have said we can't do it yet no or just i mean put the battery in the back yeah even that it's not gonna work it's it needs to be big that battery's like a brick i mean you're carrying around essentially like a tablet like how big is That battery's like a brick. I mean, you're carrying around essentially like a tablet. Like, how big is the battery? It's about the size, it's like bigger than an iPhone. It's about the size of an iPhone, but a little thicker. It's kind of heavy, right? It's got to be all batteries. Yeah. But it's only like two hours, three hour battery pack too, though.
Starting point is 02:02:39 They probably wanted to give you a backpack. But then again again like what is going on with having that electronic strap to you right like is that good for you that's what it looks like yeah so that thing sits in your pocket yeah or your belt yeah and the cool thing though is that you can just it's magsafe you know so you they want you to buy multiple ones so it can't you can't take it off and I think there's an internal battery that lasts a small so you can take it off without disconnecting and then swap it. So you're going to have like 10 of those things.
Starting point is 02:03:10 Are you though? I mean, I'm going to. There's going to be a bunch of people that do do it. It looks dope. That lady in the upper corner the back world one click the upper, yeah. With the eyes. That thing's the creepiest thing. You're going to see people walking around like that.
Starting point is 02:03:25 Oh, my God. You're going to be jealous. All, like, dead-eyed. I could see 6th Street filled with people walking down the street like that. Heck, yeah. Because you're going to be able to get an Uber from that thing. You're going to be able to order food from that thing, right? Yep.
Starting point is 02:03:39 Wow. I like it. I think it's going to be, I think just because it's so unique and crazy, and especially the eye thing, I think people are going to be, like, jealous when other people have it. I think it's going to be, I think just because it's so unique and crazy, and especially the eye thing, I think people are going to be like jealous when other people have it. Cause the first year, they're supposedly, they're not going to make that many of them to make it even more desirable,
Starting point is 02:03:54 you know? And this is augmented reality, right? So what are the features that's going to offer you that it's going to be, make you walk down Congress? It's going to be VR and AR, but yeah, things like having stuff pop up,
Starting point is 02:04:05 like maps and stuff, like, go turn right here, or phone calls, or you'll be able to do FaceTime with people. Is people going to drive with that thing on? They originally didn't show anyone outside of their house, though, so. Right. That'll be another step.
Starting point is 02:04:20 The developer's going to, someone's going to have to make something that makes you take it out of your house and put it on, sort of. Right. It's got to be feasible that you can walk around with this thing on and they're also not putting it on their shoulders to make that They're like developers go ahead and buy it and start thinking of cool shit mmm Cuz we're not gonna take that responsibility and then when you do have it what's to stop you from watching a movie while you're driving
Starting point is 02:04:42 Yeah, I mean people people are fucking stupid. It would be cool, though, to have that on while you're driving and kind of like what Tesla has, like the boxes around people, so it's like, watch out for, you know, to the right. Do you remember when people were playing Pokemon Go in their cars? Yeah. It was real common. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:04:59 I remember I was in my truck, so I was in my Lexus, the SUV, so I was looking down at this lady. She was driving erratically. And I'm like, this bitch is playing Pokemon. She was playing Pokemon while she was driving. So she had the Pokemon up, and she was looking at that while she was driving. That was a weird week when that game came out. I remember going to the comedy store.
Starting point is 02:05:20 Literally every single comic had their phone open playing it. People on the sidewalk was all teamed up in a big group, their phone open playing it people on the sidewalk was all like teamed up in a big group like strangers just playing it because i guess there was like a fighting ring at the comedy store that everyone wanted to play and uh yeah it was what happened what why did die the novelty kind of wore off of it i think you know it's just like everything you know after like two weeks or so I'll still pull it out once in a while and play and see like oh what's around my house you know but you know what how many monthly players do you think they average it's still huge in Asia, I know that. Let me say 50 million. 78 over the last 30 days.
Starting point is 02:06:06 What? Wow. Yeah, it's still huge in Asia. But in America, I would love to see what the drop-off was. Yeah. Where it was. I opened it up like a month ago, and there were still people playing around me, where I live in the middle of nowhere, so there's still people probably playing.
Starting point is 02:06:23 It says there's still about a million people in America playing it. That's only a million though. Yeah, that's not much. What was it at the peak? It had to be crazy hot. Crazy, yeah. I wonder what happened to those people. They just woke up?
Starting point is 02:06:33 Yeah. Imagine like, bro, we got this. Right. Imagine what they were thinking. Dude, we got them. They're hooked forever. Forever. This is going to be like every other game that people get addicted to.
Starting point is 02:06:43 And then everybody was just like, get the fuck out of here with this thing. There's three times as many people in the U.S. than Japan playing it. Really? According to this statistic. Are we the number one? No, I think Korea probably. I mean, it doesn't have, it has U.S. number one, Great Britain number two, Japan number three, Sweden and Canada, but they might be leaving
Starting point is 02:06:59 out some. So we're number one. Number one. Fuck yeah. America. Fuck yeah one what is the number one country where video games are played is it America that or China hmm right I would think I don't know yeah I would imagine it would be... I mean, I know that video game, like those leagues are huge in Asia. Uh-huh. You know, like Korea. StarCraft was the big one, right?
Starting point is 02:07:34 They used to have those giant tournaments. Yep. Now it's like League of Legends. China won US 2 for video game players. Do you ever talk to... Players and revenue. Do you ever talk to Carmack anymore? Yeah, occasionally.
Starting point is 02:07:47 Yeah, we were going back and forth on Twitter the other day. Remember when we went down to his office? Back in the Disney. 17 years ago or something? At least. Yeah. At least. Yeah, that was when they were developing Quake 3.
Starting point is 02:08:00 Yeah. Yeah, that was awesome. To be able to play Quake with those guys in their own studios. Mm-hmm. That was a dream. Boy, that made you realize how much work is involved in making a video game. Like, whoa. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:08:14 Oh, that's work. Like, you need a guy like Carmack who just sits there for 16 hours a day. Just coding. Just a crazy stat. I don't know if even, I feel like I don't believe it. Three out of four Americans play video games on various consoles with more than half playing on mobile phones. You don't think that's true? I believe that.
Starting point is 02:08:33 I mean, I guess like is it for five minutes minimum per month or something like that? U.S. trails China with over 244 million gamers. China has 665 million gamers. Woo! It translated into $40.85 billion in revenue for 2020 Ukraine's like that's not enough We need more and although the 2018 license freeze slowed down the y-o-y growth weight rate the Chinese gaming market was still able to post a modest from 36.5 billion in 2019 like a modest increase, I think I'm supposed to say there.
Starting point is 02:09:06 Right. Wow. So three out of four Americans play video games. You think that's too high, Jamie? Yeah, I mean, would you consider yourself a gamer even though you don't play now? I mean, you were one, but... No, I definitely wouldn't consider myself...
Starting point is 02:09:18 I haven't played a game in years. Well, but I think my mom even opens up crossword games. Subway surfers. Yeah. Sub like subway surfers yeah subway surfers is addictive man people love that uh yeah but you know there's like parent games even you know like yeah those are video games yeah i guess chess chess isn't that a video game yeah or that mind sweep thing yeah that's the ultimate one to play online, chess, because you can kind of get a game at any point in time with some wizard all over the world,
Starting point is 02:09:52 and you guys can head fuck each other. It's a wild game. Butt plugs in. It's been around for thousands of years. That poor guy. Who? That chess champion that everyone thinks put a butt plug in his ass. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 02:10:05 They think he cheated somehow and one of the ideas was anal beads. Yeah, vibrating anal beads. My thought is like how – first of all, that guy I think has cheated before. I think he kind of admitted that he did online. But also plays really good chess. Like he's a top level chess player too. plays really good chess. Like, he's a top-level chess player, too.
Starting point is 02:10:25 Mm-hmm. And I think a lot of those, like, really ambitious guys, they cheated just to jack up their rating. Right. You know, like, it's kind of a thing to have, like, a very high rating. Right. And then they always accuse each other of cheating. Of course.
Starting point is 02:10:40 Because you could cheat. How would you, and why would you think he had, like, a vibrating butt plug in also? All things. See, that just is a fun thing to say. Right. It's like when they said Trump had hooker's pee on him. It's a fun thing to say.
Starting point is 02:10:53 You know? Who knows what's true. But if I was going to cheat at a chess match and I used vibrating anal beads. We don't know the answer. They just reached an agreement and they're going to not talk about it anymore, I guess. So they settled a dispute over cheating claims at Rock Chess. U.S. player had filed lawsuit against the former world
Starting point is 02:11:12 champion. Parties agreed to move forward after a series of allegations. I think if you can't prove that he cheated, and it seems like they can't prove, they just suspected that he cheated. Hans Niemann, a rising star in the chess world, filed a $100 million lawsuit against Magnus Carlsen, the website chess.com, and chess streamer Hikaru Nakamura.
Starting point is 02:11:32 After allegations that he had cheated, the allegations began after Niemann beat Carlsen, widely considered one of the greatest players in history in a match. How do you say that word? Sinkfield. Sinkfield Cup last year. The Norwegian implied that the then-teenager had cheated. A week later, Carlson refused to play in an online game against the American, opting instead to resign. Niemann has admitted to cheating online when he was 12 and 16, but insists he has never done so over the board.
Starting point is 02:12:01 He also promised to play naked to prove his innocence. What about your butt? Yeah. That makes me suspicious. After unfounded claims he may have used vibrating anal beads, we're amplified by Elon Musk. Elon. What are you doing?
Starting point is 02:12:19 Amplified. That's a funny term. Chess.com, which has millions of users around the world, concluded in a 72-page report released last October that Neiman had likely cheated in online matches between July 2015 and August 2020. Neiman denied those allegations. The report did not find any evidence that Neiman had cheated in in-person matches. So a U.S. judge dismissed Neiman's suit in June. On Monday, chess.com said the parties have agreed to move forward
Starting point is 02:12:47 with no further threat of legal action. Well, I guess that's good. The thing is, it's hard to say because the guy is really good, too. It's like he's a really good chess player as well. He had been fully – scroll back. It said, at this time, Hans has been fully reinstated to chess.com, and we look forward to his participation in our events. We would also like to reaffirm that we stand by the findings in our October 2022
Starting point is 02:13:14 public report regarding Hans, including that we found no determinative evidence that he has cheated in any in-person games. We all love chess and appreciate all of the passionate fans and community members who allow us to do what we do. Okay, that's fair. It makes it interesting. Now people are paying attention to chess. That's one good thing about it that people need to recognize.
Starting point is 02:13:36 That was a lot of publicity for chess. It just seems like idiocracy, you know, the movie Idiocracy, that now before a chess match there might be a choice where we have to put up a curtain, have a doctor look at each of the players' assholes before they can play a game of chess. Maybe there's a thing you could swallow, and it would vibrate inside of you. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 02:13:57 You could swallow. Yeah. I'm sure there's way more than that, too. I mean, you're talking about a lot of money. I don't know how much money chess players make. What's a big tournament in chess? What's a grand prize? Take a guess.
Starting point is 02:14:12 Oh, God. A million? No, I don't think it's a million. A few hundred K? Yeah, I was thinking. I think, okay, let's find out the biggest amount of money ever won in a chess tournament. Wow. I say it's a million.
Starting point is 02:14:24 I would say it's 4.5 million. That's probably right. I'm probably under. But I think most chess matches, because there's no money in chess. I think in other countries, people really value chess a lot more than they value it in America, for some strange. But we do value it as like, if you're good at chess, you have to be smart. Like if someone says they're really good at chess, you you're good at chess, you have to be smart. Like if someone says they're really good at chess,
Starting point is 02:14:46 I'm like, Oh, immediately think they're smart. They have to be smart. Right. You live. It's like one game. Like you could be really good at hockey and be a moron.
Starting point is 02:14:55 Right. Like I guess. Yeah. I would imagine. I don't know. I mean, I know a lot of people play, play hockey or brilliant,
Starting point is 02:15:00 but it's possible that you could just be a goon. Right. Yeah. And just like smash people and check into people and you're good at skating but if i talk to you about the world i would imagine you don't have a nuanced take but if you tell me that you're a chess grandmaster i'm like oh that's a smart person it's an extraordinarily smart person like universally smart like i don't think there's a single moron that's like a chess grandmaster i don't think it's possible
Starting point is 02:15:23 Like, I don't think there's a single moron that's like a chess grandmaster. I don't think it's possible. You could be a moron and be, like, really good at some things. Checkers. You could be a moron and have, like, a crazy fastball. Like, that's all you do is you just fucking throw that ball so fast and accurate. But you might be a moron. It's possible.
Starting point is 02:15:40 You're probably brilliant. I'm not saying that all pitchers are morons. But I think there's a possibility that you could be a moron. Whereas if you're a chess grandmaster, there's zero possibility you're dumb. Right? I would say so. Agreed? I would agree. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:15:53 Don't you think, Jamie? Yeah. For sure. So that's a unique game. So I have two answers, I guess, to two questions. You said the biggest prize ever awarded is a little different than how they really do it. But the biggest prize ever, I guess we could do a guess. Who would like to guess?
Starting point is 02:16:08 It's the 1992. I said 4.5. I said 1 million. So 5 million is the biggest match ever between two guys, Fisher and Spassky, so maybe Bobby Fisher. Mm-hmm. Though there are 27 different people that have won over a million dollars playing chess. Okay, but there's 27 people that won over a million dollars playing pool. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:16:32 Because, you know, they make a quarter million dollars a year, the best guys. Kasparov is listed as the top overall at 17.2 million. Another guy at 14.2 Kasparov is an interesting guy very vocal and is like anti-Russian government talk on social media
Starting point is 02:16:53 I'd be fucking nervous if I was that dude you know there's certain things you don't talk about that Michael Jackson I tweeted one thing about Michael Jackson. You don't talk about him. No, I tweeted one thing about Michael Jackson once, and I was getting attacked. Yeah, you should read the comments.
Starting point is 02:17:12 The Michael Jackson one is crazy because there's like, most people think he did something wrong. Most people. And yet his music plays everywhere. Yep. That's how good he is. Or was. Yep.
Starting point is 02:17:24 And that's like the best cautionary tale as to how sideways you can go with fame like you went the most sideways that anybody ever went it's really weird seeing him and i watched some video of you know when they were asking him questions about things you know and he and the video made it look like he had a big hole in his nose i don't know yeah he've probably, yeah, he did. Yeah, his nose had collapsed. That was a hole. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:17:47 Okay, I thought it was just weird shadows. I'm like, it looks like he has a... No, I don't think it was, I think this was all pre-Photoshop days. Or videos, yeah. I think he had skin grafts on his nose, because if you have too many nose surgeries, first of all, there's something that can happen where the tissue dies. Like, you cut into things too many times the tissue dies I have one nostril
Starting point is 02:18:09 I think he burned a hole he said he's to always say I was wondering if that was real like is that just with Joey the thing about Joey was everything is a crazy exaggeration that was funny that was like his style of comedy it's like you know everything was like 20 you know you'd say something just something ridiculous where you know it couldn't be possible and you had to laugh yep he's just cartoon he's a cartoon yep he's the best i miss him that's one person i really really wish lived here well he's gonna come visit you know he did this he did uh the mothership one night he He came by. They went nuts. Every time he goes anywhere, people go nuts.
Starting point is 02:18:49 But he's enjoying himself in New Jersey. He likes New Jersey. And when I went there with him, I get it. I get it. It's nice, relaxed. He goes to these Italian restaurants. They all know who he is. Everybody knows him.
Starting point is 02:19:00 They're all nice, nice, normal people. He likes it. His kid likes it. His wife likes it. It'd be cool to have Florentine as a neighbor, too. I think that's... Yeah. I mean, he's going to come down every now and again and hang out with us. Also, you don't want him coming here in the summer and yelling at you.
Starting point is 02:19:14 No. No. The fuck is this, Joe Rogan? 107 degrees. Yikes. The fuck is 107 degrees? Yeah. That was a little much this year.
Starting point is 02:19:26 It was pretty extreme. It's interesting. It's like anybody who denies, like people want to deny climate change, don't do that. Don't do that. Listen, we can debate what impact human beings are having
Starting point is 02:19:42 on it and what should be done about it. Certainly. But the idea that something's going on, like, eeeh. what impact human beings are having on it and what should be done about it. That, certainly. But the idea that something's going on, like, are you looking at the weather? Are you paying attention? It seems like it's really hot in the summer. I mean, maybe that's just a streak and it's going to go back to cool again. Maybe not, though. The thing about it is, this is what no one wants to admit on either side of that,
Starting point is 02:20:12 is that it never stays flat the the climate always does this before we were ever around it gets crazy hot and then there's an ice age and then the polar caps melt and the the fucking sea rises and they find ancient civilizations underwater because there used to be a town there all this pottery's there because the people got drowned out because the ocean moved like it's always changed it's always changed what we should be concentrating on more than anything i think is what we're doing to the ocean what we're doing to the ocean is crazy yeah we've killed we we tried to figure out how much it is it's hard they don't know what the real estimates are but some people estimate it's like as high as 90% of the big fish in the ocean are missing.
Starting point is 02:20:50 Like we just scooped them up with nets and fucking served them up in cans, in tuna cans and in sushi and we went ham. And then we're throwing plastic in the ocean. Microplastics are now in rain. That's crazy. That's good. That's convenient if you in the ocean. Microplastics are now in rain.
Starting point is 02:21:05 That's crazy. That's convenient if you want to get your microplastics and you die. If you're trying to disrupt your endocrine system, you don't have time to eat credit cards. Just drink water. It's in the rain. Oh, my God. Of course it's in the rain. It gets evaporated.
Starting point is 02:21:20 It's in the water. It evaporates, goes in the sky. Did you read that new study? Something shocking about one out of three women who drank Diet Coke during pregnancy had an autistic kid. Oh, my God. And they're now putting this connection to Diet Coke and diet. Is that real? Aspartame? It just came up.
Starting point is 02:21:42 Yeah. When was this? This was like two weeks ago I read this. Oh, my God. And that's scary because there is a lot more, I think, more autistic people or people in the spectrum than there used to be. Like, it seems like it's... A study finds a link between drinking some diet soda during pregnancy and autism in boys. Oh, boy.
Starting point is 02:22:02 So it says a team of researchers said they have observed a link between autism diagnosis in boys and their mothers drinking at least one diet soda daily or consuming the equivalent amount of the sweetener aspartame during pregnancy or while breastfeeding, according to new study. Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio asked the parents of 235 children with an autism spectrum disorder and 121 children without autism who were the study's controls to complete a retrospective questionnaire about their diet soda and aspartame intake while pregnant or breastfeeding their children. Researchers asked biological mothers, while you were pregnant or breastfeeding your child, how often did you drink diet drinks containing artificial sweeteners? Please count diet sodas first, such as Diet Coke, Diet Dr. Pepper, and Diet Sprite, and then other diet drinks such as Citrus Light, Sugar-Free Kool-Aid, Slim Fast, and other light drinks. Note not all the diet beverages contain aspartame. The researchers did not ask women to only think about aspartame containing diet beverages
Starting point is 02:23:05 They consume while pregnant or breastfeeding however all drinks listed in the surveys examples do contain aspartame team found that boys with autism had more than three times the likelihood of having a mother who drank diet soda daily while Pregnant or breastfeeding than boys without autism per the findings published in the peer-reviewed journal nutrients whoa the researchers did not find a statistically significant association with girls that's interesting hmm why it's more difficult to diagnose girls with autism than boys these associations do not prove causality that's a different different link. Yeah, yeah. It might be a reason for that. But taken in concert with reports from earlier studies of increased prematurity and cardiometabolic health impacts among infants and children exposed daily to diet beverages. Holy shit.
Starting point is 02:23:56 Or aspartame during pregnancy. Our findings raise new questions about the potential neurological impacts that need to be addressed. Neurological impacts that need to be addressed didn't that shit get pushed through didn't ask for team get pushed through by Who's that fucking The military guy the fuck's his name I'll ever know no it's at the tip of my tongue The guy who was on the the guy who that was talking about the Pentagon missing a trillion dollars remember that guy Donald Rumsfeld Didn't Donald Rumsfeld have something to do with aspartame?
Starting point is 02:24:28 I think you're onto something. Yeah, I think. See, Google Donald Rumsfeld pushed through aspartame. Did he? I think there were some shenanigans involved in aspartame. And this is coming from someone who consumes it all the time. Yeah. I mean, it is poison. it's poison pretty much right but is it poison like alcohol where it's okay but it's not okay when you're breastfeeding you know i'm saying like you could
Starting point is 02:24:57 have a few glasses of wine if you're not breastfeeding right you can get a little tipsy and you're gonna be okay you could have a few tequilas and have a hangover the next day Yeah, yeah, you drank something you shouldn't drank, but it's not gonna fuck you up that bad But if you are pregnant right your kid can have fetal alcohol syndrome I think there's a there's a difference between saying that something is dangerous and saying something's dangerous while someone's pregnant Right because it like Elon was talking about like how much diet coke he drinks That guy's drinking diet coke. I am NOT that worried right seems pretty fucking smart so there's a story here says Donna Rumsfeld was involved with a company
Starting point is 02:25:34 called I think Cyril it said here he was a CEO at Cyril he received a 12 million dollar bonus in 1985 when the company was absorbed by Monsanto. Right here then, I had to go back, it says that he was involved with picking the new head of the FDA, or the FDA commissioner, and that guy had no previous history in artificial sweeteners. He had no previous experience with food additives before being appointed director of the FDA. Interesting. So Hayes, Reagan's new FDA commissioner, appointed a five-person scientific commission to review the board of inquiry's
Starting point is 02:26:10 decision. It soon became clear the panel would uphold the ban by a three to two decision. So Hayes installed a sixth member on the commission and the vote became deadlocked. He then personally broke the tie in Aspartame's favor. Whoa, shenanigans. One of Hayes' first official acts as FDA chief was to approve the use of aspartame as an artificial sweetener in dry goods. On July 18, 1981, in order to accomplish this feat, Hayes had to overlook the scuttled grand jury testimony of Cyril, I don't know who that is. Overcome the Bressler report and ignore the PBOI's recommendations and pretend aspartame did not
Starting point is 02:26:49 chronically sicken and kill thousands of lab animals. What? How many of them had... Oh my god, how much have I taken? Hayes left his post at the FDA in November of 1983 amid accusations that he was accepting
Starting point is 02:27:06 corporate gifts for political favors. That's crazy. He wouldn't do that. Just before leaving office in scandal, Hayes approved of the use of aspartame in beverages. After Hayes left the FDA under allegations of impropriety, he served briefly as provost at New York Medical College and then took a position as a high-paid senior medical advisor with Bernson Marsteller, the chief public relations firm for both Monsanto and G.D. Searle. Since that time, he's never spoken publicly about aspartame. FYI, here's Rachel Maddow on Bernson Marsteller. When evil needs public relations, evil has Burson Marsteller on speed dial. Evil thy name is chemical food additives.
Starting point is 02:27:51 Okay. Here's the kicker. When cereal was absorbed by Monsanto in 1985, Donald Rumsfeld reportedly received a $12 million bonus. Okay, so yeah. There it is. Yeah. Okay, so yeah. There it is.
Starting point is 02:28:02 Yeah. So I think, though, what I think I've seen Lane Norton talk about is that the amount of aspartame that killed lab rats was preposterous. Like that a human being couldn't even consume that amount. That it would have to be something like, I forget the number, but some preposterous number. Like you'd have to drink 1,800 Diet Cokes a day or something like that. Something really nutty to get the amount that was sickening and killing these lab rats. Well, how many of these rats had autism though? How many of these rats were pussies? Couldn't take a little Diet Coke.
Starting point is 02:28:39 Autistic rats everywhere. Millions of them. You know, there's the other thing that um brett weinstein has brought up is like these lab mice and lab rats like they're they're bred for that purpose and so like they don't live long like it's not a good way to study long-term effects and it's also like these are things that are literally bred to take fucking chemicals and have experiments run on them. Like the idea that these are just like normal mammals. It seems a little far fetched because you're actually literally breeding them for testing things on them.
Starting point is 02:29:18 They should just grab them from New York. The New York rats, bro. What a living hell. New York rats, bro. What a living hell to be an organism that just exists so that you can test potential toxins and poisons on human beings. And so your very life only exists to make the intelligent life forms think that they can live longer and better with your medication. And we all agree to it. We're all like, yep, good way to do it.
Starting point is 02:29:53 Practice on rats. Practice on monkeys. Yeah, that's the most fucked up shit. The monkey one is wild. The monkey one is wild because they're sort of like us. They're sort of like they can think and they can they react and they look they're grabbing things and you know you're sitting there like the fucking rods in your head and they're alive the monkey one's wild because like it's something like there's like levels of things we're allowed to kill like if someone kills a bug no one freaks out like i
Starting point is 02:30:20 remember uh when i lived when i lived in colorado i went to this uh to this Buddhist ashram that was in my neighborhood. Just kind of in the neighborhood, seeing what they're doing. And they actually had places they would rent out there, like houses that they had for rent. So there's people I knew that wanted to live up there and they wanted to rent a place. And the lady who had the ashram was spraying bug killer on ants she had an ant problem and i go you poison the ants she's like well you know it's really not what we want to do but i go but you're a buddhist you just committed mass murder for your convenience like if we think that every life form is a life form if we think that one equals one I go, but you're a Buddhist. You just committed mass murder for your convenience.
Starting point is 02:31:08 Like if we think that every life form is a life form, if we think that one equals one, you know, like one roach that dies or one mouse that gets run over by a combine in a field where they're trying to cultivate wheat, one is one. If that's the case, like you can't be spraying bug spray on ants but we don't think that we like even vegans get hit by a mosquito that slap that motherfucker you know they kill that bitch right everybody kills mosquitoes fuck you i'm not going to be itchy for your life no one says just take from me what you need the only reason why you're doing is because you're needy. Please take from me and make me itchy. Nobody
Starting point is 02:31:47 does that. Everybody swats. You find a tick, you pull that fucker off you. Oh my God, this tick, you kill it. You know, go get it, let it go so it can give Lyme disease to other folks and other animals. Now you kill that little cocksucker, little blood sucking piece of shit. You find a leech on you, you're like,
Starting point is 02:32:03 little leech, Do what you must. Take from me what you must. No, you peel that bitch off. If you have to rip it in half, you rip it in half. But when it gets to like things with fur, then we go, oh, what are you doing? That thing has hair. That thing has hair on it. That's why people freak out way more over like if you have a picture with a dead deer versus a picture with a fish.
Starting point is 02:32:25 Nobody gives a shit if you catch a fish. You can hold up a bass like David Lucas. He has no hate. Nice bass, David. You know? David's a bass fishing motherfucker. He's good at it. He knows what he's doing.
Starting point is 02:32:35 He catches some nice bass. But, like, nobody gets mad. But if David was, like, holding up a deer he shot, people would be, oh, because it's got fur. Except turtles and dolphins. Yeah a video of somebody killing a turtle to eat it though and that little soup yeah yeah and that was one of the worst things I've ever seen like if you think about this turtle how old is he probably like a hundred years old and he's just he survived so much and now he's just got picked by a i don't think those are the ones that live to be a hundred years old right i think those those are sea turtles right
Starting point is 02:33:11 how those regular turtles they make soup out of yeah that bitch has been around for a couple weeks oh really i don't know i used to have pet turtles yeah i used to have pepperonis and pet turtles and the pet turtles were way more ferocious. Were they? Ferocious. We'd feed them goldfish, and they'd just swim over those goldfish and grab them with their little paws and just chomp into them. It's like, whoa, they're ferocious. They're little dinosaurs. Turtles are fucking cool to have in an aquarium.
Starting point is 02:33:45 But there's a lot of risks of diseases. Really? If you touch them, you have to really make sure you wash your hands. I didn't know that. You can catch some funky shit. Look, they're shitting in this tank. And then how often are you cleaning that water? You mean it's filtering, but how much is it filtering? How much are they shitting? They're in there eating goldfish all
Starting point is 02:34:02 the time. They're probably shitting up a storm. And they're big. Right? They're like this big. I didn't even know this was a thing they eat blueberries no turtle asmr like oh it's i've seen this before it's great bro that is an ancient being i mean that is essentially like what we would have seen during the dinosaur era exactly what we expect like a stegosaurus looked like yeah um sunny was the one that made you know remember sunny you had on uh your show yes yes yes he's the one that has the video about eating the turtle and he said it was the first time that like him and his wife both were like should we even release this like oh really it was the one thing that affected him the most though why
Starting point is 02:34:41 there's something about turtles man if when you see this video yeah or you can probably take a peek of it but like the turtle is just like it is so fucking sad that's a big ass turtle okay so that is one of those turtles yeah and that's one of those uh sea turtles yeah when they show his face like they just have it like oh jesus yeah it is like look at that look at this oh yeah that's rough fucked up man i got so emotional about this video i mean just look at his little face this thing oh they just start smashing it and so this is a thing they do all the time yeah oh my god so the thing is still alive they're killing it yep it's horrible oh man know, there's a thing, too, about them having armor so they kind of most of the time are protected. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:35:28 That we kind of realize how vulnerable they are when a person gets them. Like, oh, no, he's going to get you now. Yeah. Like, your whole life you've had an awesome protection provided to you by nature. Oh, my God. Oh, and he's doing it while it's still alive. Why doesn't he kill it first? I think they smashed its head in or something.
Starting point is 02:35:47 Dude, it's moving still. Oh, God, I don't want to watch. I stopped watching this part. It seemed like when he was cutting into it, its legs were moving. Okay, it's dead by then, right? Yeah, it's got to be. Bro, that's rough.
Starting point is 02:36:00 Why is it so rough? Oh, jeez. How old is a sea turtle when it's that big? That's what I'm saying. And they're just going to eat it. Yeah, he talks about how emotional he's getting in it at this point. Ooh, did he try it? Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 02:36:14 Oh, boy, I guess you have to. I mean, they already killed it. Right. And I guess the reason they're allowed to do it is because it's their religion or something like that. Part of the native traditions. It's like the reason why people like the Inuit are allowed to hunt seals and whales and shit. Isn't that interesting? There's animals that no one's allowed to hunt, but they can hunt them.
Starting point is 02:36:41 Bourdain did a show once where he went to this family's house and they killed a seal. And then they brought it home in the kitchen floor. They laid it out and butchered it in the kitchen floor. And they were all just eating raw seal on the kitchen floor. Like, wow. And again, modern times, normal time, like right now. They're probably doing that right now somewhere. modern times normal time like right now they're probably doing that right now somewhere someone has a seal and the whole family's excited they got one and they're they're eating raw seal like kids
Starting point is 02:37:11 see if you can find that yeah pretty fascinating because you're you're you're realizing like well if you lived up there that's what you eat like yeah don't. So here's the whole family. So they're sitting around in, I don't know where they were. But so they got this seal that they're butchering right there. And people are just taking bites. Ew, blood everywhere. Look at this. Yeah. And they're eating the blood.
Starting point is 02:37:39 They're eating everything. Every little piece of nutritious meat that comes from that seal, they consume. But the crazy thing is they're eating it raw. Like, and he eats it raw right there. Can you give me some volume on this? Not actually eaten, per se. More sucked and chewed to extract the tiny nubbit of meat from within the blubber and cartilage. Oh, that is good.
Starting point is 02:38:03 It tastes like sea urchin roe. And of course, and it was inevitable, really, wasn't it? I'm offered the best part, the eyeball. Oh, God. And sucked out like a fat Concord grape. Oh, God. I'll split it with you. This is an act of pure generosity and kindness
Starting point is 02:38:21 to an honored guest. Cannibals. You got to cut it in the middle. Look how she has that like blubber knife. Has a blood smeared face and gore covered hands ever looked so benevolent? So kind of sweet? Is this any... What? He's hilarious. Is this any... What?
Starting point is 02:38:45 He's hilarious. I miss that dude. Yeah. That's a real part of some people's lives. Would you want to live in a world where everything goes Mad Max, or would you want to get jacked? Jacked? Oh. Like you want to get jacked? Jacked?
Starting point is 02:39:07 Oh. Like a missile to hit your house? Probably jacked. I would have to get some guns and stuff. It's not even just that. It's like, what is life like? Yeah, I don't want to. But people have done that.
Starting point is 02:39:18 That's why we're here. We're here because people didn't pack it in. Right. This is the kind of shit that keeps me up at night yeah i would definitely we would uh have the whole family get together and we would all shit each other or something at the same time oh jesus christ brian that'd be like that scene in the mist where the guy shoots his whole family yeah then the military arrives and he realized he would have been safe yeah oh yeah that's right yeah that was that's a good steven king book that book is creepy they did a good job
Starting point is 02:39:52 with the movie the latest i think there's been more than one the mists have there's been more i don't know no maybe not you know what i saw recently that i didn't know it said it was from 2022 but i don't think that's correct there There was a Salem's Lot with Rob Lowe. Oh, yeah. When was that? My girlfriend saw it. 2004? Okay, that makes sense because it said 2022.
Starting point is 02:40:15 It might have got put on, you know, like a streaming service or something. Right. I think it was on Apple. Let me see. But I did just see that when I was typing it in. But yeah, 2004, I think it was a TV miniseries. I kind of remember that. And it was a miniseries long before that, too.
Starting point is 02:40:30 Let's see, 2023. Stephen King's TV shows are always so fun to watch. They're not as good as the movies. No. Salem's Lot. 2023. 2023? Oh, there's a new one they're working on. There's also a return to Salem's Lot. 87. Bro? Oh, there's a new one they're working on.
Starting point is 02:40:45 There's also a return to Salem's Lot. 87. Bro, we never get tired of vampires. You know what I saw that's good? The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Demeter? What's that? Yeah, it's a vampire movie.
Starting point is 02:40:58 It's about Dracula's coffin getting transported across the ocean on a boat. Cool. It's pretty fun. Yeah. Yeah, it's's stupid but it's fun it's like it's a good it's a good vampire movie a good CGI Dracula vampire movie did you see the new black spider-man does a new spider-man well I mean the second one you mean the cartoon yeah no I haven't seen it yet oh my god is it awesome the first one was amazing it almost made me cry how crazy good it was really it's way better
Starting point is 02:41:25 i mean i thought it was better than the first one it and how it ends i haven't seen it yeah the first one was awesome because you can do shit with animation that you just can't do any other way it is it is probably my favorite those two movies are probably my two favorite top favorite movies of all time i think well it's such a good superhero movie because it's so comic book-like. Okay, Salem's Lot 2023. Warner Brothers has never announced another release date for the film. It says August 24th, 2022,
Starting point is 02:41:54 Warner Brothers announced that Salem's Lot was losing its April 21st, 2023 release date to Evil Dead Rise in a week. That would have been exactly one year ago, and yet Warner Brothers has never announced another release date for the film. I was trying to see where it was. I don't think it came out. Is there somebody that got cancelled in the cast?
Starting point is 02:42:11 I have no idea. I wasn't saying. Maybe they wanted to reshoot shit. Theatrical release during COVID, and I don't think that they put it on. Yeah, maybe it sucks. Sometimes they'll get to the end of a film being made, and they're like, this movie sucks. We're going to lose money even playing this out. They've done that before, right?
Starting point is 02:42:27 Oh, yeah. Tons of times. Yeah, that's a... Bro, imagine that business. You're hoping these guys get this together and put together something you can watch. No release. No release. It's a shelf.
Starting point is 02:42:42 Unless you've got a guy like James Cameron that always knocks it out of the park. Yeah. How much money are involved in those fucking movies that's kind of crazy that's not announced at all yeah i was i forget what it was but there was a comparison on that that a bunch of these new horror movies they're making the budgets aren't super high because there's not a lot of people that are you don't have to pay a big cast so they can make them for a lot less and they're making fuck loads of money at the theater every weekend.
Starting point is 02:43:07 Right. You go spend a hundred million on a big movie and no one sees it. If you do a movie like a superhero movie you can kind of
Starting point is 02:43:15 have anybody play it as long as you have the real superhero. Like if it's Spider-Man you got a new Spider-Man you can get some good guy that no one's ever heard of and you'll buy him
Starting point is 02:43:24 a Spider-Man if he's good. Yeah. I like the newest Spider-Man guy. can get some good guy that no one's ever heard of, and you'll buy him a Spider-Man if he's good. Yeah. I like the newest Spider-Man guy. He's my favorite one. They're all good, but it's crazy how many there have been. Like when they have that one multiverse with Doctor Strange, you see all the Spider-Mans. What's the explanation for this again?
Starting point is 02:43:39 But there's certain things that we will 100% watch every time, and that's Spider-Man. That's one of them. The Hulk is another another one every time they make a new Hulk movie We're in you know whether Star Wars Eric Bana was the first one right yep And then there was Banna and then there was Ed Norton. He was the Hulk and then Mark Ruffalo I think Mark Ruffalo is the best one. He's the one I most believe is a super genius that becomes psychotic when he gets mad. You know? Because he seems to have like, he's got that troubled genius thing down. It's nice.
Starting point is 02:44:18 I buy it. Yeah. But he's going to quit now. He's not going to be the Hulk. So they need a new Hulk. Who? Tony. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.
Starting point is 02:44:33 I'm number one. Yeah, who's going to be the new Hulk? But someone will do it, and you'll buy into it 100%, as long as it's a good Hulk movie. The good Hulk origin story. You know what I'm amazed that they never did anything with the Watchmen What yeah, they they did but they did the TV show, but that wasn't the TV show is not the same, right? They had that one fucking amazing movie, right? It's one of the best superhero movies ever anti superhero movie They're all terrible right and it's just like murder and chaos,
Starting point is 02:45:06 and it's a crazy fucking movie, man. Like, you could have a really hard time making The Watchmen today. I don't know, because, I mean, look at Deadpool. Deadpool is pretty, like... Not as much as The Watchmen. The Watchmen, they're all evil. Like, everyone's a bad guy.
Starting point is 02:45:20 Like, a lot of people are... Their superheroes are evil, and they kill a lot of people. And then you see his big blue dick. You see Dr. Manhattan's big blue dick. You wouldn't be able to show a big blue dick today. People would get mad. That was such a weird
Starting point is 02:45:36 thing. It was such a weird thing. It's just super muscular, ripped guy who's floating around with a glow around him with a giant hog. Pull that up, Jamie. Pull up Dr. Manhattan's giant dick. Oh, what, they put him a G-string now?
Starting point is 02:45:56 Come on. That was part of the thing, that he could just show you his dick and you still had to listen. Because he was Dr. Manhattan. He was literally a god. So that one you see his hog yeah but it's kind of crazy though that we had decided that that's not good you couldn't have that also kind of crazy that he had sexual relationships with human beings after that right like well look at that one with his little bikini shorts on where you just the circle why
Starting point is 02:46:23 are you doing that why are you hiding his cock? You know what it is. That's a wallpaper for your iPhone. The problem with the one that they had that was on Amazon or whatever it was, was that the dude who played Dr. Manhattan was just a regular dude. He wasn't jacked enough. You have to be preposterous. And you have to look like that guy with the suit on. See, that's the guy that they had in the Amazon show. Like, sorry, buddy.
Starting point is 02:46:44 I don't like his forehead yeah it's who cares he looks like a regular guy looks like a guy does CrossFit like but then dr. Manhattan looks like a guy's a badass yeah I mean it's that's not a human being like you can't have them in a t-shirt you know the other guy looked like a human like a normal human who would be teaching at SoulCycle. It says right there John Cena teasing his rumored role. Was Dr. Manhattan? Yeah, up a little more.
Starting point is 02:47:14 Right there. Right there. I mean, this could have been from any time in the world. Yeah. Okay, but that makes sense. He would be so good. He's built like Dr. Manhattan. Yep. Like literally. That's what Dr. Manhattan's supposed to look world. Yeah. Yeah, so this was supposed to participate in the TV show. Okay, but that makes sense. He would be so good. He's built like Dr. Manhattan. Yep.
Starting point is 02:47:26 Like, literally. That's what Dr. Manhattan is supposed to look like. Yep. That's why you can't have a regular guy. And you also gotta make him fucked up, too.
Starting point is 02:47:34 You gotta make his eyes glow. You gotta make his skin glow. He's gotta look ridiculous. Like, he's not supposed to be there. Like, something from another realm. You can't have a regular guy
Starting point is 02:47:42 with a t-shirt on. You're changing what it is. Like you can't have the thing, and now he's just got a little eczema. But do you think they should bring the dick back or have a fanny pack? Let's go. Let's fucking go.
Starting point is 02:47:55 Bring back Dr. Manhattan's cock. If you can't handle it, you shouldn't be watching. Do you not know what the dick looks like? You know what it looks like. It's so funny though. But why are we pretending you can't show that? It's so weird.
Starting point is 02:48:07 We can't show that anymore. We can't show it now. They can. But they wouldn't. Here's the thing. They did then. Isn't that weird? That is weird.
Starting point is 02:48:15 That as time goes on, you would think people would relax more about that stuff. Right. Do you know, I was going to bring this up before. We were talking about porn theaters. Do you know that when Deep Throat came out, regular people went to go see it like it was a movie? Including Johnny Carson. Johnny Carson was in line talking about the movie. They interviewed him outside of a theater.
Starting point is 02:48:39 Yeah. It was the first time that they had made a pornographic movie and made it like a cinematic movie and tricked people into going and watching this like it's a real movie. Wow. See if you can find that. I would love to see what Johnny said about it. Oh, it was a wonderful film. Weird, wacky, wild. Ed jerked off right in front of me.
Starting point is 02:49:06 The wiki here, it says that it was like a thing for a minute. The upper middle class people were going to see it. Yeah, see? The film's popularity helped launch a brief period of upper middle class interest in explicit pornography. Referred to by Ralph Blumenthal of the New York Times as porno chic. Several mainstream celebrities admitted to have seen Deep Throat, including Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma, Truman Capote, Jack Nicholson, and Johnny Carson, Spiro Agnew, Frank Sinatra, Philip Dresman, and Louis Durford.
Starting point is 02:49:38 I don't know who those folks are. Barbara Walters mentions having seen the film in her autobiography, audition, a memoir, and Jimmy McMillan considered it to be his favorite film. Who the fuck is that guy? Who's that guy? That's my favorite movie. He's an American political. Go back to what that said before. American political activist and Vietnam War veteran.
Starting point is 02:49:59 He's the Ren is Too Damn High guy. He was a perennial candidate in New York City. Oh, he's the Ren is Too High guy. Oh, that guy's hilarious. That candidate in New York City. That's who he likes. Oh, he's the Rent is Too High guy. Oh, that guy's hilarious. That guy was hilarious. He's a favorite movie. Okay. He's just saying wild shit.
Starting point is 02:50:12 In 2006, a censored version of the film was released on DVD for fans of pop culture and those wishing to own a non-X-rated copy of the infamous movie. Deep Throat was the first film to be inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame. What did you scroll up there, Jamie? The revenue. Oh. Estimates of the film's total revenues have varied widely.
Starting point is 02:50:36 Numbers as high as $600 million, equivalent to $4.2 billion today, have been cited, which would make Deep Throat one of the highest-grossing films of all time. With an average ticket price of $5, which is $34.98 today, box office takings of $600 million would imply 120 million admissions, an unrealistic figure. Although subsequent sales of the films on home video certainly brought additional revenue.
Starting point is 02:51:12 The FBI's estimates that the film produced an income of approximately $100 million, which is $700 million today, may be closer to the truth. Wow. So, in this case, they were doing research, though, right? Oh, yeah. Research. Just doing research. Isn't that wild, though, that that's how much culture can just shift and change on a whim? People can just decide that hardcore pornography, hey, let's go see a wacky film.
Starting point is 02:51:38 Let's go watch someone suck a cock until they choke. It's always a thing, though. Why can we see real violence in a film but we can't handle real sex right you can see a film I mean how many major films how many Tarantino films you see people get shot in the face some of them are horrific like hateful eight like there's there's some scenes in that movie like oh my god there's so many movies like that so many movies we can see horrific violence but you can't have actual sex religion is that what it is 100 i think people freak out about watching people fuck
Starting point is 02:52:21 they freak out about watching someone fuck on screen. Whores. But it's just seeing actual intercourse, even between two people that love each other. Nobody wants to see that. You want it simulated. They're in bed together, but for some reason there's a sheet over them, and they're kissing,
Starting point is 02:52:38 and she's wrapping her arms around them. Everything's close up, so you know what's going on, but you don't actually see it happening. Whereas we don't do that with violence. Like a guy turns a corner, he points the gun, and you just see the gun go off, and then the guy's dead. And you know he's dead. You don't have to see it. No, you see it.
Starting point is 02:52:53 You see the guy get shot. Isn't that interesting? Kind of weird. I really think it's religion because, like, look at how many people, you know, don't have sex before marriage or, you know. Very few. Very few. Right. But yet all those people that are for or against that kind of stuff still have no problem with violence and war, you know.
Starting point is 02:53:16 Well, not necessarily because there's a lot of atheists that are anti-pornography. A lot of people think it exploits women. There's, you know, some people that are making money off of it. It's not the women. Oh, sure. lot of people think it exploits women that it's there's you know some people that are making money off and it's not the women you take these people that are damaged and you you know expose them to the world in this weird vulnerable way and they don't know any better and there's a lot of thoughts about that people have about pornography in general and people that are not religious so it's not that religion that pornography is not controversial to like a lot of people. It's just a weird thing
Starting point is 02:53:46 where films are allowed to show certain things but not actual sex. Right. Like even if you just CGI'd it, like what if you had these people and they wore green suits on and you would never show that. Even if you know that that's fake sex
Starting point is 02:54:01 because the actors were not forced to have sex with each other, they faked it and then they used CGI to make make it look like it was intercourse you could see penetration everybody would like what the fuck are you showing me it's weird right great well meanwhile pornography is like this massive part of the internet like just a giant chunk of all the things that people are all the internet traffic is pornography. Do you remember that movie Brown Bunny? No. That was a Vincent Gallo movie where Vincent Gallo had an actual sex scene in the movie.
Starting point is 02:54:32 Yeah, what's that girl's name? Chloe Sravendji. You know that girl? Really good actress. How long ago was this? Quite a while ago. It was like, can I guess? 2002? What year was it was i was looking at something i was looking at the history of obscenity rules and where this came from uh people like when they were first starting
Starting point is 02:54:52 to make film we're trying to push the limits of it and this is one of the first ones according to the thing i was just reading that did it like 1897 i think this was made it's called carmen carmencita, I think. It's a very short film of a woman dancing. But what's the problem here is you can see her ankles. Oh, wow. And that's obscene, apparently. Wow, because she's spinning around.
Starting point is 02:55:15 She's wild. And you can see her dress is a little too short here. That's hilarious. It's not touching the ground. Now, imagine showing them Lizzo. They would go, what happened? Whap. But yet,
Starting point is 02:55:28 still, sex in movies is a no-no. So what year was Brown Bunny? He just, does he fuck this bunny? No.
Starting point is 02:55:36 I don't think. Does it start off with a white bunny? I don't remember. I don't think I saw the film. 2003. 2003.
Starting point is 02:55:43 I don't think I saw the film. Oh. But I remember people went to see it and they were furious that there was like an actual blowjob scene. Oh, okay. Yeah. How'd they do that? Actual blowjob.
Starting point is 02:55:55 Like- She actually- Stunt cock, stunt mouth. Nope. Nope. Wow. Nope. Real actor, real actress.
Starting point is 02:56:02 That's a real actor right there. Nope. Real actor, real actress. That's a real actor right there. But isn't it kind of crazy that when you're seeing something like, people do that, people like that. They do it all the time. And you could pretend to see it in a film.
Starting point is 02:56:18 Like if she just started going down on him and you saw the back of her head and you just close up on his face, that's happened a million times in movies. Nobody has a problem with that. That's like maybe slightly uncomfortable, but. Nobody has a problem with that. That's like, maybe slightly uncomfortable, but at least you're not seeing it. But to actually see it, people are like, this is crossing a line. We're weird.
Starting point is 02:56:34 Really weird. We're so weird. Humans are so weird. If you were observing us, if you're from another planet, you're observing us like, why are they so comfortable with violence? And they're so weird about sex
Starting point is 02:56:44 when it comes to like seeing it. Well, it's also United States compared to other countries. I mean, the other countries have tits on the news, you know? Right. England used to always have like a page of their newspaper that was like girls were topless. Yeah. But that's still very different than putting it in their films. They've still had violent films.
Starting point is 02:57:05 Right. But they don't have actual sex. Like, isn't that wild? Kind of weird. Asia with pixelation, you know? That's really weird. Yeah. That's really weird.
Starting point is 02:57:17 Tinnacle porn. Is that, what country is that? Is it Japan? Japan. So Japan, you can't see pubes? You can't see genitals. You can't see genitals, insertion. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:57:26 So everything's pixelated out. Right. That's why how tentacle porn came about because they could show insertion. I think it's just penis. I don't know. Is that where tentacle porn comes from? That's what I was always told. It might be an urban legend, but I was told.
Starting point is 02:57:41 Always told. How many times have you been told this? A lot of times. Is that really what it is i think so i think it had something to do with the censorship uh there because it wasn't a penis inserting i think it's just inserting do they still have those censorship laws i want to say yes wow because most of the porn doesn't come from japan isn't that crazy though that you say like people too wild, they see it actually go in there. Right. You just show them most of it.
Starting point is 02:58:09 Don't show it going. That'll be the downfall of society. Yeah. Pixelate out the dicks. It's weird. So strange. It's so strange. I remember the first time I saw that, I was like, what is that?
Starting point is 02:58:23 Why is there pixels? I thought somebody just uploaded it and did it. I thought it was just edited to make it so you could put it on the internet. What did you do? It's very weird. Very strange. But I guess you could fake it that way. That's like we were talking about the two actors.
Starting point is 02:58:42 If they wore green suits and you CGI'd, you could just fake the pixels. You know, nobody else would know it's an actual dick. She could just do a lot of that and he's limp and it's just pretend. You know? It's just what people allow and don't allow is so odd. It's so odd. You know, in some countries, I mean, just think about Sharia law, right?
Starting point is 02:59:09 Think about some countries where women have to be covered. Yeah. And then in other countries, nothing. That's hot, though. I always, you know, that's something you put in the search once in a while in Pornhub. You know, like girls wearing, like, the things. I think that's very dangerous to even admit.
Starting point is 02:59:27 Imagine to make those films. Is what Duncan Trussell was telling you. No, no, no. Imagine making those films. Oh, yeah. That's a risk. Yeah. If you're a woman and you make one of those films,
Starting point is 02:59:39 I'd imagine they are very mad at you. Yeah. That's crazy. Yeah. And that's also what happened in 2023. What a wild time to be alive, sir. Scary times. It's definitely not unexciting.
Starting point is 02:59:57 It's just so fraught with peril and terrible possibilities. Do you think about it all the time or no? I do. I mean, like I said, I've been really thinking about end of times all the time, you know, just protect family. Why don't you look into Jesus? I went through that. I grew up that way.
Starting point is 03:00:20 And I'm glad to be out of that. It'd be amazing if that was the answer. Yeah. It'd be amazing if that was the answer. Yeah. It would be amazing if the aliens came too. That would be nice. If you guys are going to come, it's like, if you're really going to prevent the world from falling apart, it's probably a good time. No, it was a good time. I don't know if you're wanting to see how we sort this out.
Starting point is 03:00:44 You know? What is this? Here we go. We'll end it with this. The best part's the beginning, though, Jamie. Oh, I was just sort of... An outro? An outro?
Starting point is 03:01:09 Yeah, I was just saying. Okay. All right, let's wrap this up. Kill Tony on YouTube every Monday. You guys have two weeks off. That's got to be nice. Yes, taking a little break. It's great.
Starting point is 03:01:18 There it goes. drown your sorrows till you can't stand up take a look at what you've done to yourself why don't you you put the bottle back on the shelf yell a finger from your cigarettes your hands are shaking while your body sweats why don't you look into jesus He got the answers It's good What? Yeah What? Janis Joplin version Oh my god
Starting point is 03:01:56 Here we go Here we go Oh my god There's a lot of covers of it That's good to know Give me the Janis Joplin Oh my god Please There's a lot of covers of it. Woo! That's good to know. Give me the Janis Joplin. Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. Please.
Starting point is 03:02:10 Sipping whiskey from a paper cup. You drown your sorrows till you can't stand up. Is that her or is that him? That sounds like him. Hold on. Take a look at what you've done to you. I think that was him. That's him?
Starting point is 03:02:22 Yeah, that sounded like him. Where's the Janis Joplin version? They might have tricked me on YouTube. Maybe she sings in it. That seemed a little different. It says Janis Joplin version. Okay. Keep it going.
Starting point is 03:02:33 Let's see. There's a bunch of pictures of her. That could just be what it is. No, that's him. Yeah. Keep it going, though. That's him. Did you write it for her? Maybe.
Starting point is 03:03:03 It says Larry Norman. Yeah, so I thought that's why I stopped because it seemed like it was on his channel. Let's see what goes on. Maybe like it was a message to Janis Joplin. Totally, that's what it is. All the way. Yeah. Sleep all day. Totally, that's what it is. I'm gonna throw it all away.
Starting point is 03:03:45 Yeah. You say you're gonna be a superstar, but you never hung around enough to find out who you really are. This song slaps. I mean, that's kind of the Janis Joplin story. Yeah. However, Janis' songsis Joplin story. Yeah. However, Janis' songs were way better than that. Yeah.
Starting point is 03:04:09 You know, that lady. Okay, let's end with this. Play Take a Little Piece of My Heart. This is, to me, when you think about all-time soulful songs, that lady's voice was haunting it had so much depth and emotion and this is like a quintessential 1960s rock and roll song. Mm-hmm. Oh, come on, come on, come on, come on. I'll make you feel like you were the only man. Oh, come on, son.
Starting point is 03:04:58 Yeah. Yeah. I did not give you anything that a woman possibly can. Honey, you know I did not give you anything that a woman possibly can. Honey, you know I did. And each time I tell myself that I, when I think I've had enough, I'm gonna, I'm gonna show you, baby, that a woman can't be tough.
Starting point is 03:05:18 Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on. Take another little piece of my heart now, baby. Come on, come on, come on and take it. Take another little piece of my heart now, baby. Take another little piece of my heart now, baby. Take another little piece of my heart now, baby. Well, you know you got it if it makes you feel good. Oh, yes, it does. Yeah. Yeah. Why do people like her have to die so young?
Starting point is 03:05:58 They just need more of them, you know? There's not any Janis Joplin's anymore. It's like to come up with something like this it's like you have to live so hard you have to live so hard to be this lady well just need to bring narcan wherever you go It's such a good song What a good song Alright Brian, what a good song. All right, Brian Redman, I love you. Love you too, buddy. It was fun.
Starting point is 03:06:51 Definitely. Goodbye, everybody. Hopefully there'll be a world tomorrow. We love you. We love you. Bye.

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