Tin Foil Hat With Sam Tripoli - #915: The Deification Of Augustus With Jeremy Ryan Slate

Episode Date: August 20, 2025

In this compelling episode of Tin Foil Hat with Sam Tripoli, special guest Jeremy Ryan Slate delves deep into his research on the deification of Augustus in ancient Rome, offering a thought-provoking exploration of how power is consolidated through narrative and symbolism. Slate outlines how Augustus strategically shifted the title of his position, shedding the image of a mere political leader to assume a near-divine status in the eyes of the public. By weaving myths around his accomplishments, commissioning grandiose statues, and manipulating public perception, Augustus not only solidified his grip on Rome but also laid the groundwork for a totalitarian regime. The conversation further explores how these acts of manufactured reverence and centralized control contributed to a legacy of authoritarian rule—ultimately sowing the seeds for the eventual decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Please subscribe to the new Tin Foil Hat youtube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@TinFoilHatYoutube Check out Sam Tripoli new crowd work special "Black Crack Robots" now for free. https://youtu.be/_FKugOeYaLc Check out Sam Tripoli’s 2nd New Crowd Work Special “Potty Mouth” on YouTube for free. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22j3Ds5ArjM Grab your copy of the 2nd issue of the Chaos Twins now and join the Army Of Chaos: https://bit.ly/415fDfY Check out Sam "DoomScrollin with Sam Tripoli and Midnight Mike" Every Tuesday At 4pm pst on Youtube, X Twitter, Rumble and Rokfin! Join the WolfPack at Wise Wolf Gold and Silver and start hedging your financial position by investing in precious metals now!  Go to samtripoli.gold and use the promo code "TinFoil" and we thank Tony for supporting our show. CopyMyCrypto.com: The ‘Copy my Crypto’ membership site shows you the coins that the youtuber ‘James McMahon’ personally holds - and allows you to copy him. So if you’d like to join the 1300 members who copy James, then stop what you’re doing and head over to: CopyMyCrypto.com/TFH You’ll not only find proof of everything I’ve said - but my listeners get full access for just $1 Want to see Sam Tripoli live?  Get tickets at SamTripoli.com: Kansas City, Mo: Headlining The Comedy Club of Kansas City August 28th-30th https://www.thecomedyclubkc.com/events/114717   Chicago: Headlining The Comedy Bar Sept 12th-13th https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/september-12-13-sam-tripoli-4497173   Tulsa, Ok:  Tin Foil Hat Comedy Is Headlining the Bricktown Comedy Club on Oct 10th https://bricktowntulsa.com/shows/310746   Oklahoma City, Ok: Tin Foil Hat Comedy Is Headlining the Bricktown Comedy Club on Oct 11th https://www.bricktowncomedy.com/events/112032   Austin, Tx:  Headlining The Fat Man At Comedy Mothership Oct 17th-19th https://samtripoli.com/events/?paged=2   Please check out Christopher Knowles's internet: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Jeremyryanslatepod Twitter: https://x.com/JeremyRyanSlate Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/JeremyRyanSlate Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyryanslate/   Please check out Sam Tripoli's internet: Linktree: https://linktr.ee/samtripoli Please Follow Sam Tripoli's Stand Up Youtube Page: https://www.youtube.com/@SamTripoliComedy Please Follow Sam Tripoli's Comedy Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/samtripolicomedy/ Please Follow Sam Tripoli's Podcast Clip Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samtripolispodcastclips/   Thank you to our sponsors: Home Chef: Home Chef delivers fresh ingredients and chef-designed recipes, conveniently to your doorstep to simplify your cooking experience.  Users of leading meal kits have rated Home Chef #1 in quality, convenience, value, taste, AND recipe ease. For a limited time, Home Chef is offering my listeners FIFTY PERCENT OFF and free shipping for your first box PLUS free dessert for life! Go to Home Chef dot com slash TINFOIL. Helix Sleep: Helix is offering 25% off all mattress orders AND two free pillows for our listeners! Go to Helix Sleep dot com slash Tinfoil. That’s helixsleep.com/tinfoil. This is their best offer yet and it won’t last long! With Helix, better sleep starts now.      

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He is a podcaster. He is the CEO of Command, your brand. Please welcome back for another time of hopefully many, many more. Jeremy Rineslake, how are you, buddy? Hey, man. Thanks for having me. I'm stoked to be hanging out. Very excited to have you. For those who may not be familiar with your last appearance, can you tell us a little bit about yourself where our listeners can find you?

Yeah, so you can find me over at Jeremy Ryan Slate.com or command your brand.com. And last time I was on, we talked about the Roman Empire's third century crisis and how a lot of that related to kind of the economic and immigration problems we're having right now. So it was quite a blast. I actually heard you on Shane Cashman not too long ago after that. So I guess I made an impact enough for you to mention me. 100% dude. And like when they were running Kamala, Camila, whatever, when they were running her,

I'm like, this is exactly what Jeremy was talking about. They're just going to put this mannequin in. She's going to, who knows how much power president actually has? I mean, if we've had a powerful president, I'm not saying he's doing a good job. But, you know, Trump seems to be like, like a guy who likes the power, but I don't even know if he's and has any power. But Harris would have zero.

We would literally have a Kardashian in the White House, just going around and just doing photoshop, drinking wine, hanging out with rappers. That's what, that's what our president would have been. So I think about that all the time, dude. An empire looks like, man, the person seeing is not the person actually in charge of the, the reference you had made is the last Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus, is a, is a teenage boy and he's basically in charge of this Roman general Odoaker and he finally says, hey, you know what, no more Roman Empire and you're going to retire. So it's kind of an interesting

period to be in looking at a powerless monarch or executive. And, you know, you bring up immigration, immigration wars. I mean, I had Mel Kay text me the other day. She was like, you know, um she sent me the article she has a you know a picture of the article uh where they're talking about how the supreme court is going to um here relook at gay marriage and you go if you want maximum chaos overturn gay marriage it's like and then the streets will burn in rainbows right and and that's that's what i could totally see happening pressure from above pressure from below and so it's like yeah And it's so crazy because, you know, I mean, when you think about an empire in decline, you know, you start going, okay, is it that they extended themselves too far? Is it just like over time?

It just starts to lose its magic and things start going back and forth. But like watching what's happening in this country, it's a purposeful demolition. that's what I see happening no I could definitely see that and I think if you look at it there's a similar way that empires and decline operate you know one of the biggest ways is this dramatic centralization of power and since 1913 in our country we've seen that right the executive a lot of the powers come on to them but they're not really the person running things so you have kind of this weird centralization and you have two problems that pop up a lot we were we were talking about immigration in the UK before we started recording here

And if you look at what happens in late stage Rome and also in a lot of empires, the thing that happens is border control becomes an issue and currency becomes an issue. And Roman emperors in the late empire were able to control the empire because they had the bigger military, right? It wasn't because they were the best politician. It wasn't because they were the most qualified for the job. They had the biggest sword and the most men and they would kill anybody that challenged them. So then the problem that you end up having is to get more soldiers, you need more people. And if you don't have enough people, what do you do? You import them. And that's one of the biggest issues that Rome starts to have, is it becomes less Roman, more militarized, and then they won't pay the

army more so then the money isn't worth as much. And this is a very similar issue you see in a lot of empires in decline. You know, even looking at post-World War I Germany, right? The Weimar Republic, the money was worth nothing, right? When a country or an empire loses currency power, it doesn't have to be from the exact same things that gets you there, but without currency, you do not have a country. And that's why, if you even look at a lot of the states in Europe right now, why is it functioning like it's functioning? Well, because they all have the same currency, right? I was there in, I'm thinking like four years ago. I went to five different countries in Europe, and you go to some certain places, and their economy doesn't support

the value of money, so it's really, really expensive to live there. Like, you know, you go, you you go to Hungary or you go to Bratislava or some of these other places, and our currency doesn't go as far. So it becomes a real problem. And I think that's the symptom of a system falling apart. So let me ask you, I mean, you kind of got into it here, but when people go, all the empire is failing, I think there's a part of them that believes that the United States is no longer going to exist. And maybe that is possible. But when I look at like Italy, I look at Germany, I look at England. I still think they're an empire.

I just think they're they're cloaking it and they're really good at getting everyone else to blame everybody else. But what does that look like to you? I mean, like, part of me is like, okay, let's say the empire falls, right? We know the empire is going to fall. Does that mean we're just not regulating the rest of the world? We're not stealing resources from other countries, which I don't necessarily think is a bad thing.

Like, I'm not so new, like, I love being American. I think being American is an amazing thing. I also don't think that means we should be robbing all these countries of their natural resources. So what does that look like to you? Well, I think the problem with it is when you look at it, right, the thing that a lot of us wouldn't like is the standard of living change. The standard of living change is going to be dramatic, right? And it comes down to the petro dollar that our dollar is what oil is currently valued at.

that ever changes, you're going to see your prices doubling, tripling, quadrupling overnight. So you're not going to be able to cheaply get a lot of the things we like and enjoy. So that is one really big downside. Now, the thing I would like to see, but once again, this hurts our standard of living is not to be the world's police force and not to be in all these endless wars and things like that. So I think the problem that you're going to see is the U.S. could end up like a lot of post-S.-soviet republics, right? Where it's a bit tyrannical who's in charge and who's controlling us and maybe we break down into smaller pieces. And because of that, we don't have the power on the world stage, but you're also going to see our standard of living

change dramatically. I think that's the thing that people don't consider. The direction we're heading how our standard of living changes, because it is dramatically different here than it isn't a lot of places in the world. Wait a minute. Wouldn't you say that us not policing the world would save us money and make our standard of a living a little bit better in a way? Yes and no, because here's here's the problem that would have to change and this is one of the things I was excited about tariffs with but it hasn't totally come to fruition is we need more industry here the problem we're suffering with right now is we have a totally service based and consultant based economy right like the thing that we outsource right now are companies like deloitte and consulting

we don't really and banking we don't really produce anything here now some of the positives we did see from the tariffs were companies talking about bringing production back here to America. So the standard of living change wouldn't be so dramatic if we had more manufacturing here and more things that we actually produced here. But on a service-based economy like we currently are, even with the savings and not policing the world, we wouldn't be in very good shape because we don't actually make anything. And I think that's a real problem. Yeah, I agree with what you're saying. I agree. So, but I think the world looks radically different to if America does fall um you bring up kind of like everybody who talks about secession

Texas seceding California seceding and I I'm against that because I think you start getting into the balkanization and then you start having wars between these territories and I think uh that leads to a lot of chaos um yeah I mean it's it's interesting dude it's just and it's so funny because it's so easily, no, I shouldn't say it's easily fixable, but it's easy for us on this show and people who follow the show to understand what's going

on, which is this fractional reserve banking system that is completely built on just fake money, bribing everybody with this monopoly money, and

just running the economy into the ground through these federal reserves. And it's just a, if people could wake up to it. Maybe we have a chance, but I just feel like people are so distracted. They're never going to be able to understand what's going on. Well, and that's why you even look at a lot of the the drugging that's happening and things like that. You know, people care more if they can get their their psych drugs in Obedemptic than if they can actually handle what's happening. People aren't aware enough of what's happening in the world. And at the same time, you know, I don't know how you guys

are feeling, but I was pretty excited for a lot of the policies that Trump was talking about the first quarter of this year. And Sam, it's been enough to drive me out of politics. It's, it's to me felt like an enormous letdown. Um, you know, a lot of the policies I was hoping, you know, the JFK files were a nothing burger. We still don't have the Epstein files. We, um, a lot of the things where the, the endless wars are still going on. So it's, it's more of the same. And that's the thing that really is a letdown to me. Yeah, it's, it's really crazy to me, dude. And it's like some straight up Anakin Skywalker to the dark side type of play. And here's the whole thing.

I mean, if you go, Sam, what do you think, you know, Trump's second administration's, his second point? I would go, there's going to be a lot of Zionism in there. There's going to be a lot of pushing the, you know, the pharmaceutical drugs. There's going to be a lot of him lining his pockets, It's because a lot of this is what politicians do. But, I mean, like, the, how hard he's gone in on, like, just Israel and all that stuff,

it's just absolutely insanity. You know, the Jeffrey Epstein stuff, you know, because Whitney Webb was calling it years ago. And I'm like, I go, oh, man, I hope he's on it. Whitney Webb's like, he's on. I'm like, oh, he's on it, you know. And so, like, his hard push on this is just, I mean, push back on this is going to, I think going to destroy his legacy. It's going to be one of multiple things.

Well, you mentioned Whitney Webb, and I, you know, I haven't finished the second volume of her two volumes, but I'm halfway through the first volume of One Nation under blackmail. And the thing, and this was kind of, I started reading this when the Epstein files were more in the news. And the thing that was surprising to me is the more you read about Trump's connections before being in office, the more concerned you are. because I'll be honest, I was a bit unknowing to some of these things, but I didn't realize Roy Cohn, who had been his lawyer in the late 80s and 90s, was very mob connected, was working with the FBI, supposedly was going to the same parties with J. Edgar Hoover when Hoover was wearing a dress. And a lot of these, these got, their blackmail operations were being run throughout the 50s through the 80s and 90s. So to me, the Roy Cohn,

connection, which I didn't know a ton about, is a little bit concerning. And, and, yeah. I mean, Roy Cohn goes all the way back to McCarthy. Correct. And basically everyone believes that Roy Cohn kind of got him to put on the big show that he did because they knew Marxism was coming out, you know, and they wanted to make everyone go, oh, it's just a red scare again, a stupid guy, even though McCarthy was totally right about everything.

I mean, he totally nailed at this, this kind of like, you know, this secret shadow group of Marxists who are also weird capitalists. It's a weird thing there. They're really socialist, right? They present themselves as capitalists, but they're really corporate socialists. And that is the country we live in right now, pure social, pure corporate socialism at every level. Yeah, and honestly, my concern is now that I don't think. think he's going to do anything. And the thing, the thing that shocks me the most same is when he's talking about, you know, it's the next Democrat hoax or, or, etc. It's, to me, it's like,

why did you care so much when you were running? You campaigned on it. You spoke about it. And now it's a big hoax. I don't, I don't understand. And I think that's the thing I'm really concerned about is why. Why did we get here? I think best case scenario is he knew about it and just didn't do anything about it. Like, he wasn't on, he didn't, wasn't on the island. He wasn't, he didn't really do anything. He just knew about it and didn't tell or act upon telling anybody on it, which is still really fucking bad. Yeah. Well, even Virginia

Geoffrey had, uh, Virginia Geoffrey had worked at Mar-a-Lago and that was where, um, Epstein had actually ended up hiring her from. So you have to figure he knew something. He knew something. Yeah. Dude, that's just hopeful. That's just you being hopeful. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. That's like, you know, it's like, that's like

what you tell your girlfriend. You're like, yeah, we were a strip bar, but I just was eating the, the, the, the, the, the, Faye. I don't know where this glitter came from. It's not mine. That's what you're just hoping for, XG. I mean, it's like the letters, he says they're not real. Maybe they aren't real. I mean, that's the whole thing right now. It's like we are in sci-op season and sci-op season takes no days off. But that's something as old as time, right? Like, it really is the ability to control the minds of others control the thoughts of others you know the the the first roman emperor convinced people he was

god right so it's like people have been doing these things for a very very long time and and if you look at it the tools people use maybe the technology changes but the techniques don't change and i think that's the thing to consider all right so you know this is kind of what you want to get into this is a great segue into it so where do you want to start well i think when people by the way i just got say you've got great hair oh thank you man it's that shit is fire you can't see the back it is not doing so hot back that's fine all we're doing about is the front but um we talked a little bit last time when i was on the show that that rome's three periods in time right it's a kingdom first then a republic and then an empire and the the period people talk about the most is the empire

which is the kind of later stage of it and that's the last 300 years of rome but if you look at Augustus, he's the first Roman emperor, and he's the adopted son of Julius Caesar. So he's a very interesting individual. I don't know how much you guys know about the last hundred years of the Roman Republic, but it's a really- Whatever you told us last time, that's what we know. It's a pretty tough time. It's called the Roman Civil War, and during that period of time, there's constant strong men basically using political position and military power to put themselves in charge. So for 100x years, it's chaos. So when Caesar's assassinated in 44 BC, the thing that's most shocking to people is when

his will is read, he names his great nephew, Augustus, who at this point in time is known as Gais Octavius, his successor. And everybody's kind of like that guy. He's 18 years old. He doesn't have any political power. He doesn't have any military power. Why this 18 year old kid? Now, there's some other things we could get into because Caesar did have a reputation for the possibility of some man-boy love, but we can't really prove that with Augustus. But in his youth, there was a Greek king that they used to call Caesar his wife. And that's why the thing people, the quip people would say about Caesar is he was a wife to every man and a husband to every woman, because he was also known as a woman.

but anyway. So he's basically Andy Dick. Pretty much. Pretty much. So he names this 18 year old kid his successor, right? At this point in time, there is no emperor yet. There is no king yet. Historically, Rome hates the idea of kings and they actually kill their last king, a guy named Tarquin the proud. So when Augustus takes power, he's observed a lot of things. And he's actually become very shrewd through a lot of this observation. So the two guys that are known for killing Caesar are these guys named Brutus and Cassius. And along with Augustus at this point known as Octavian unites with a guy named Mark Antony that we all know pretty well for his love affair with Cleopatra, etc. So the two of them chased down Cassius and Brutus and have them killed to basically

avenge Caesar. And then they start this process. It's called a proscription. And what this means is they all got to make lists of all the guys they didn't like. And they killed. And they killed. all of them. There's thousands of people that are killed as part of these prescriptions. So then Augustus, being the smart guy he is, realizes if he wants full power, well, he can't be splitting it with Mark Antony. And during this period of time, Antony is actually living in Egypt and partying it up with Cleopatra. So Augustus starts a smear campaign to basically say that he's become, Mark Anthony is becoming effeminate, and he's becoming Eastern, and he's not really Roman. And because of that, he's able to push him out of political power and ends up

the Battle of Actium in 31 BC. He uses a Roman army to basically end Anthony's army. And then we have Anthony and Cleopatra commits suicide as what we kind of historically know about it. So he very well sets himself up. So then what he does in the year in the year 27 BC is he does the ultimate mind trick. You have to think these people have been through civil war for 100 years. The civil war starts in 133 BC. So in 27 BC, he says, all right, guys, I've solved the problem. I'm going to lay down my power and I'm going to go like farm or something like that. So how do you think people would react that have been in civil war for 100 years? They freak out. They're like, no, you can't leave us. You cannot leave us. So they end up giving him this title of Augustus. And Augustus means majestic or

revered. And he takes this other title, the, I guess, Speaker of the House, the person that controls the Roman Senate, is this guy named the Prince Sanatus. So he gives himself this title of Prince. That's where we get the word prince from. So he uses kind of this word salad of different titles to have all of these powers without really calling himself king. And obviously there's a lot more things that we can discuss that he does, but he's brilliant in terms of being a tactician to convince people, number one, to demand he take power. And there's a whole other list of things that he does to convince people he's God. Hey, guys, real quick, you know, the, the crypto market is doing great. I'm into some crazy-ass coins. I love it. It's a lot of fun. And listen, if you

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while simultaneously, like driving us off a cliff. well that's that's the problem though because it goes back to when you look at what augustus does he knows where people are at right and you know love trump or hate trump he knows where people are at right now right they don't want to lose him and augustus knew that people had been through civil war for 100 years they didn't want to lose him so he was in a very good position to take over and also the political system by this point had broken down so much that it was very easy to do what he did right? And that's why the power of words, you know, not using a word king, using a word like preencaps, where we get the word prints from. These are things that allow you to take those powers

and take the powers you want, but not use words that are going to make people not want that. So another thing that he does as well is there's many different political offices in Rome and we don't have to go into all of those, but there's a few that are really important. There's the Tribune, and tribunes had powers like proposing laws. Their body was what's called sacrosanct, meaning if you tried to hurt them, you would face a death penalty. They had the ability to veto laws and also force the Senate to meet. So he takes that power. So now he's preenkeps and he's tribune. He also grabs another power called the censor. And censors are interesting because that's where we get our word census from, because they're responsible for counting people,

but they're also responsible for the moral standards of the country. So they would decide, what's moral and what's, and what's not moral and we're allowed to do it, and what's not moral and we're allowed to do it. And they could actually remove people from the Senate. So he takes that power. And he also takes the power of the chief priest of Rome as well. So he's also totally in control of religion. And that's something he's going to actually use to deify himself, right?

Because if you're now somebody that becomes godlike, you can't really challenge somebody. that becomes godlike so it's interesting when you look at the position of emperor because he builds this position that over the next 500 years will become the thing it is right and i think that's what's really interesting well you know i'm uh currently still reading i got a little off track uh but i was i'm reading about alexander the second and you know his father nicholas was basically the pope of the russian orthodox church so then he kind of has this this somewhat godlike energy to them, you know, as the way the Russian people look at them. The czar is basically, you know, right under God or God.

So you see that a lot. And there is, you know, I think Russia kind of painted themselves as the extension of the Roman Empire. Well, a lot of countries and a lot of empires did that in a lot of ways because, you know, the, the Russian words are a lot of the different words come from the name Caesar right and that's what you have to really look at you know the German Kaiser which they use for for King comes from Caesar so it is a lot of countries we're patterning on that and I think an important point you made there Sam is there's a very fine line between love and worship it's a very fine line and I think that's been part of the scary thing about some Trump rallies and also the positive

a thing about it, right? Like, it's such a razor's edge. And I think when you, when you look at that, going back to the world Augustus lived in, he lived in a world where things were seen differently, but in some ways they weren't, right? Because if you look at how people look at celebrities or how they look at social media influencers, to some people, you know, regular people that live in a trailer in the middle of America, they're deified in a lot of ways because they can never reach those people. There's distance between them and those people. So they're deified in a way. This was deification of the process of becoming a God is a tool that powerful individuals have used for a long time to build their own power. And at the time when Augustus lived, the Greeks had seen

God and men really is walking on the same ground all the time. So if you look at the first worship of Augustus, it starts in a city called Pergamum, which is in Greece. And Alexander the Great had managed by the time he dies in 323 BC to create an entire worship. cult around him through this entire Greek Empire. And a lot of Eastern influence comes into to really supplement this as well. So the worship cults to Augustus's divinity start in Greece first because they would have been more accepting of seeing someone as a God. And then by the time they come into the empire, it's not going to be till his death. But the things that he does during life is in 43 BC when they're celebrating the funeral games for Julius Caesar,

there's a comet that goes across the sky. And he'll be like, like, and he says, that comet is my deified father going to heaven. Well, Julius, he's God, does that make him? So he's saying a thing without saying, and I think that's a really important thing. And also, there's this work called the Skestai Divi Augusti, or the, in modern language, we call it the works of the divine Augustus. For him, the title would have meant the things that I did. And it was originally written in Rome, but the temple that it was written in was lost. It was later found in Ankara, Turkey.

And it describes all of the accomplishments in his life. So one of the things he starts doing is controlling the press, controlling the media and controlling what are people reading. This sounds like Kim Jong-un. But as I said, it's a playbook that powerful people have used for many, many, many years, right? So he does that. He also starts using the power of the government. to be funding writers. So he's going to fund Virgil's Aeneid. He's going to fund writers like

Horace. There is... Wow, that's crazy. There's a writer called Ovid, and Ovid was famous for writing what's called erotic poetry. It's some wild stuff if you ever get to read it. He had a girlfriend named Lesbia, and he's actually removed from Rome, and he lives the rest of his life outside of Rome by Augustus, because moral reform and controlling the message is really important. So August, or Ovid wasn't on point, so he gets kicked out. He also starts creating new marriage laws and laws about how you rage children and laws around the family. So he's realizing he's establishing basically a new Roman lore and he's establishing things

around himself. There is a huge he could face on every little coin statues across the entire empire. So someone that understands propaganda, you could see, as you mentioned Kim Jong-un, you could see these tools everywhere people use them throughout the centuries yeah i mean and then you get into kind of like where do we see that in america and um i think it's operation long leash what's that i think that's in the like the 60s where they completely you know fund the counterculture you know they funded oh out of like california and everything like all those all those like kind of like artsy fartsy 60s you know like warhol and all those guys they were all funded by the CIA and then this is

exactly like Operation Mockingbird where you're basically funding everything now here's a very interesting thing that's happening right now and I don't know how we get to roam to Howard Stern but here we are Howard Stern you know suddenly now his heads on the chopping block we just saw Stephen Colbert gone and you know we're seeing other other these kind of what has become which is crazy when you talk to Stern a progressive brand I mean there the guy was allowed to do whatever he wanted like with impunity like oh he got fined yeah okay but he just kept going my open Anthony get ran out of radio yeah but now we see the end of USAID USAID and then suddenly like yeah we don't think we're going to keep Stern anymore you're like

well because you probably can't afford him nobody. Does anybody here have serious radio? I know there's only four of us. I'm the only one that I know that has serious radio. I used to have serious radio when Opie and Anthony first got on the XM virus, but I haven't listened to me years. I moved

over to Sirius in 06 or whatever it was for Stern. I was one of those guys. I got it to listen to Stern every day. It was the greatest thing. And then I mean, God, really after already left, he changed. I actually when I was before I came here to LA Sam

there was this turning point on the Stern show and I applied for a job in the office there you know just trying to get out of journalism and I interviewed with this woman called Marcy Turk and she came over to Stern's organization from this kind of organization cult that he got bra in a spot. Oh you talked to his cult leader? Well it's I can't remember

remember the name of it but it's all about staying like task oriented and they describe it as kind of cultish it's kind of like you know it's all consuming it consumes your life and he was all about it it was like organized

his thoughts and he brought one of the top people over this woman Marcy and I remember the interview was very strange it was because it was clear that what they wanted to make the show was not what was good about Stern she was asking me questions about like do you think there should more celebrity interviews and i was like

not really you know yeah whatever you want me to say to get to job yeah but but that was clear that the answer was the correct answer was we wanted more celebrities on the show now and and that's what it was all you i could tell from that interview like they were going the complete wrong way and from that time on the show was just all you know it was like softball interviews for celebrities he didn't he never went hard on anybody anymore uh well you know like they used to say this about joy George Carlin, like, oh, he lost his edge. I'm like, he's 75.

He's not men. Whoever said that didn't listen to his last. I remember people saying, dude, he's not supposed to be leading to charge of art. There should be other people picking it up and going farther than he is. So they just do it. The problem is, and Stern is your typical new progressive, old school liberal, becoming progressive, who just shuts the door. on the people behind him trying to do along the lines

where he are in the same vein you know it's like mark marron's on a tour terror right now going after everybody and they were like they were talking about how like rogan had to take down an episode that mark marron was on because he dropped the end bomb and now he's like you know there's podcasting's out control and where you know you know they're going after the you know these like these these um demographics that can't really defend them but whatever the whatever he's doing. Can you explain that? Marron dropped it? Or Rogan did? Marron did. But is it that or just kind of knowing where their bread is buttered? Do you know what I mean? Like they know,

like, you know, if you look at Howard jump into Sirius for bigger money, you look at Colbert was making an obnoxious amount of money to host a nightly show. So like, I guess the question is they have certain people or organizations that are telling them what to say. No, I agree with Just knowing where their bread is buttered. I think you're totally on point with that, what you're saying. But I've just seen it happen where like maybe their bread and buttered. Yeah, totally where their bread is buttered. But I also think like there's something about when you get to the highest levels of entertainment,

you just are surrounded by these kind of rich kid, super progressive, trust fund kids. and you just start to drink the Kool-Aid and you start thinking like that and you just start shutting doors behind you and I just find it just absolutely ridiculous and it's such a bad look when you made your bones talking and acting certain ways and then suddenly you turn around

and now you're like, oh, well, people's feelings and we shouldn't be hurting people's feelings or is Adam Crowe called chick think, right? We start worrying about, well, oh, that person's feelings, might be her. And it's just like, dude, you were like, there's a clip going around right now where Howard Stern is absolutely getting murdered because he has this hot chick on and she takes out the bag and all these ugly motherfuckers in the studio are like, you're so ugly. You're like, you would be lucky to drink that chick's bathwater. It was the butter face competition.

Yeah. That was what they were doing. And she was really hot. I mean, today she would have an Instagram. Like, Johnny, that's a pretty attractive chip. Sam, some of the things you. It's, they have her made up like, like no makeup on i mean it's meant to make her look at her worst but i yeah she's fine i mean some of some of the quote tweets you post on x sam with with the words wood uh kind of kind of worry me sometimes man thank you join the wood army dude join the wood army you know that show wouldn't fly today though there's no way they'd have a butterface show well i totally disagree it wouldn't be on serious obviously but i mean that's just basically i'm not there's not many things that would fly anymore. Tropic Thunder is one of my favorite movies of all times and they

couldn't make it now. Oh yeah. Oh they could make it and they could totally yeah but it's the movies are going to go the way of everything else completely independent but you can make I mean like that's kind of what the legious gangs do right like they do that kind of in the van I'm not saying they're doing stern but I'm saying they're in that vein where they kind of go for it and they're getting a lot of love for as they so deserve. I'm waiting for my episode to drop. I'm waiting to see how people react to me doing story wars. But back to Augustus.

Yeah, man, it just seems like they just keep playing the same playbook over and over again, you know? Well, it's similar tools, right? As I mentioned, language is really important. So you have to watch how people use the words they use, right? What are they trying to convince you of with their language?

And at the same time, how do people create praise right like if you even look at um you know i don't know if it's like monetization on x and some other things you can make a lot of dissenters quiet by paying you right and i think that's very similar to um you know the way people would look at what an emperor could do for them so i think you have to really be astute and observe for these things because they do happen they are still happening and i guess you have to question the culture we currently live in right it's it's interesting as well. This goes back to the Howard Stern point is looking at where we are now,

have those people lost the culture? And I guess how do we define our culture now, right? Because there is still this really hard push to control it. But I think we do see the cracks and the brakes in it from things like podcasting and from things like the ability to have these streaming shows. And I don't know about you guys, but you can also say a lot more things on YouTube than you used to be able to. So I do think there's things changing.

A bit of winning going on that. You know, like the notion of canceling somebody is somewhat dead. Cancelling is canceled. And if a company does that, they face big backlashes. And, you know, so we have the UFC going to Paramount. And everyone blamed, you know, Trump for getting for getting Steve Colbert fired. But I'm wondering if this huge $7.7 billion deal that they're doing with the UFC has something to do with trying to get rid of the super progressives off of CBS

because CBS always played to Middle America. That's why they always had the best numbers. They weren't like NBC or even ABC. That was playing to New York and to maybe I'm wrong on ABC. Well, not with Letterman though. Letterman was kind of seen as the alt guy. Leno was the guy who played the middle of the road, right? Yeah, but if you kind of go like over, yeah, like 20 years ago,

maybe NBC. It's a little more, but, you know, once these, like, you know, I remember when, and I've talked about this before on the show, but when, when, like, Parks and Rex came in and the office that we now kind of see at these, as these cult classics, but really, those shows weren't doing well. Maybe the office was. No, it wasn't. The office almost, I remember campaigning for the office not to get canceled during season three, they were like, people, you got to get behind the show, or it's going to get canceled. I've gotten into huge arguments with people. I'm like, those shows were so bad or the ratings were so bad that NBC was ranked fifth out of four networks because like Tullumundo or whatever one of them had jumped NBC into the fourth spot because those those comedies were were going were rated so poorly. I mean like nobody was watching them because it was again.

this beginning of like nerd comedy like what what hollywood goes through you know i've been through so so nerd comedy then it got into female comedy now it's in diversity comedy now it's kind of just figuring it out because it won't admit it's just going to do like popular podcast which have a lot of white guys in it but that was the beginning of like the kind of crazy and then cbs was always doing mike and molly you know those kind of like you know super fat white couple that middle america could totally relate to and they're getting huge numbers. And when you're playing in New York and L.A., that's not middle America.

And they lost a giant, a giant portion of the population when that happened. But, I think streaming is changing that big time because you even look at what Shepin has been able to do because others have been able to do because streaming is driven by who's watching. They're not going to push it if people aren't watching the stream. So I think that's the one really interesting point

about where we are in media now. is things are being created for what people are actually watching. And I think that's the really exciting part because there's a few series that I've watched that I thought were pretty good and they don't make a second season of them, right? Because not enough people watch them.

So I do think that a lot of these big companies are looking at and they're looking at their pocketbook and they're saying, well, what am I losing money on? What am I making money on? And I think that's the reason you're seeing the culture swing so much is people really weren't willing to put up with this, but they also weren't watching a lot of this trash TV

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And you're like, is every character got to be non-binary? I mean, every one of them. I mean, like, this silo show, you just got wave model non-bionary chicks beating the shit out of everybody and it's like crazy but the show's really good the writing's great it's glistens it's beautiful but it's going to it's going to be interesting to see how long a apple tv can keep putting out this super woke stuff i think the difference between then and maybe before trump got elected for a second time is that they don't brag about how how woke it is like usually they would they would brag oh my god look at this diverse cast it's so diverse

they don't do that anymore they just kind of put out the show they give you the storyline of the show and they don't tell you that you know you're going to see a bunch of non-bionaries. Apple TV loves the non-bionaries. It's like almost like they have to pay them less. That's why there's so many on the TV show. But yeah, I mean, it's like we're definitely in a culture war for sure. I mean, it's very interesting. Do you think it's breaking though? Do you think that? Because I think when we look at it, you know, we talk about a lot of these control mechanisms. We talk about how things are changing. I think the last election was a big deal. But we we talk. We talked. about early on we kind of been let down in a lot of ways but do you think this is a transition in culture and like because you look at the 80s for entertainment man the 80s it was incredible and you know the early 90s are pretty good and as we went to the 2000s we started to kind of go downhill yeah you think we're in a changing period deregulates go on sorry no i was going to say do you do you think we're kind of going into that that next era in media that's more controlled by people uh you know so i think about this a lot i talk to myself a lot and some of the stuff I talk to myself about is how are they going to be able to

control and push the people out that they want out and it all comes down to reach right but they can only do that for so long you remember that one chick bobby whatever name is her podcast came out the the mom with the big tits and like with the like it's just such a great example of like how some people can't handle fame So she gets a little fame. She gets Drake on first episode. I think she bangs him first episode. Just bangs Drake.

And like within a month, she's abandoned her family, her children, and now she's just chasing rapper dick and pro athlete dick. And now her show is, she just ended it because people stopped watching it. Because I think that there was some segment that locked,

she was a mom. They wanted to watch it. This mom talking to, all these really, quote, quote, cool celebrities. And then she banned her family and don't want to listen to her. So they're going to push people out. And as we're seeing right now, with people who get super Zionist,

once they go there, their brand starts to die. And then they'll throw them under the bus or to the side of the road. And they'll keep throwing someone else out. So it will go down to reach, who they're allowed to see and who they're not allowed to see. Like, you know, anytime someone says, dude, you were on my front page of YouTube, I'm like, somebody mess. stuff at YouTube. How did they let that happen? But it's a blessing and that's how they're going to control it. It's, it's interesting though, too, because I think if you look at, and this kind of

pulls us back to Rome a little bit, but if you look at a lot of the worship cults that they had in Rome were kind of wild, but in some ways you look at it, like one that's interesting to me is this one called the cult of Ella Gabble. There was this conical black rock, you know, there's a word that we don't hear very much black rock. And, and, And it was basically, they would worship this rock and do a lot of weird things for that. And I think that's what you see with a lot of these large organizations in our culture, right? You see organizations like Black Rock controlling what we think and controlling what we do. But I think at the same time, they've realized we've caught onto the code words now.

We've caught onto things like DEI. We've caught on to things like ESG. So I do think right now we're in a period where they're getting ready to roll out their next round of code words. right, because we've caught on to all the old ones. And it's, it's like that game where there's the three cups in the table and they're moving the ball around, right? So, so we're in that point now where we have to look for what are the next words. Well, you know, bringing up Rome is a, I mean, we just live in bread and circus right now.

I mean, we are just living in bread and circus, whether it's sports, whether it's entertainment, just anything, you know, like Instagram is just, I mean, I'm a grown-ass man, you know, and I'm just like does it have to be all tits and ass 24-7? Like Instagram has got me almost to be like oh okay tits and ass yay I mean I do a joke

now about how like I hosted this this bikini contest and this chick showed her monkey to everybody and the place went nuts and I go this was in 99 when seeing a girl's like private parts meant something it was like a spiritual moment now it's just like

everywhere like pussy's like the dollar it's just they printed too much and it's just not worth what it used to be and it's just and it's just like kind of what it is not but again if you get into what i i've studied the algorithm and what they push they push four things they push they push dumb sex violence and are you going to piss people off yeah those four things that's all bread and circus right there but that goes back to cultural decline that goes back to cultural decline, what we were talking about earlier, right? If you look at kind of where an empire is when it's not really healthy, it's over militarizing. It's destroying its money, right? Like, you look at the banking system and what it's doing to things. And at the same time, and that's

not to say we need to be like, I don't know, puritans or something like that, but you kind of look at what's happening to kind of the moral system of society and it gets destroyed. You know, going back to that cult of Ella Gabel, it came into Rome. from this teenage emperor named Elelagabalus, and he's a very interesting guy. Before he arrives in Rome, he sends a picture of himself to the Senate, dancing around the rock to kind of show everybody

what they can expect when he gets there. He's carried around by a chariot pulled by prostitutes. He marries a Vestal Virgin. He makes his hairdresser in charge of the grain supply, and he would basically advance men in their position by how long their dong was. You know, the longest don got the best job. What?

Say this again, dude. Say this again. So Ella Gavillus, this teenage emperor, would advance men in their position by the length of their member. It wasn't by how qualified there were. It was how big their bait and tackle were. And I would never get promoted. I would never get promoted. So the reason.

And he's measuring like he personally needs to measure it. Apparently so. That was how it was done. And the reason that he's actually killed by the Praetorian Guard, he only rules for about two years but the reason he's killed by the Praetorian Guard is orgies had become too prevalent in Rome and the Senate was not so happy

so you look at kind of the morality of where and this is in the middle of the third century they'd only last another 150 years so it really is towards the end of an empire where we're at and I look at where we're at now we're able to burn through money a lot faster because of the technology we have

you know imagine if Romans had computers how quickly they would have destroyed their money and that's what we've been able to do dude that is so crazy your boss like whip it out do you want promotion whip it out don't give us that many ideas no dude i would never get promoted man i would be still in the office still in the mail room i take a boner pills come on man get an agent in here so i can get promoted but i do i mean are you promoting the best guys or are you just promoting the big dick dudes? Because I've seen some homeless guys

with fucking hammers on them. And like if you're being protected by a bunch of big dick dudes who are dumb, you're going to get assassinated. I would see that happening. Yeah. But if you kind of look at culture and how it is on the decline,

and that's the interesting thing about Rome is by the end of, by the time Rome falls, it's a bunch of religious zealous, which is kind of interesting. But they did so much damage during the time period of, you know the the third century and onward that you do have a lot of this really strangeness

happening and I think that's what you look at in our society now and once again it's not to say we have to be puritanical and it's not to say that you know sex isn't a permitted thing but it's to say how it's used is an indicator of where you're at no no you're right like that bonnie blue shit someone fucking a hundred dudes in one day like it's too crazy like what's the point of that I don't understand. I'm telling you, dude, it's a humiliation ritual. I don't get it. It's women have no clue.

Women have no, like, obviously the women who listen to show are brilliant people and they know and they're so smart and we're so blessed that they listen to the show. I'm talking about the women who don't listen to the show, okay? There's a lot of power that comes with pussy. And if you don't have your head on straight, you can get very much into the, you can get very much into the, the instant gratification and the understanding and the not understanding that, you know, when these porn stars are like, I'm the filthiest bitch on the internet. I'm the filthiest chick out there. Like, that's admitting to humiliation.

It's a humiliation ritual. You know, that's why when these girls are tired, they want all their videos off the internet. That's why when they somehow get married and have kids, they don't want anyone knowing about all the stuff they did. They just don't understand that. And that's what's all about. convincing women like only fans is a giant sigh up yeah like this one guy said the other day that chick who got who had one one guy gave her 40 million dollars and she still hasn't met him

yeah because he's a CIA spook using you to promote this lifestyle like look at you look at you man you could be like her you could be making 40 million dollars an hour shoving dragon dildos up your be hole you know what I'm saying like that's like kind of that that that that That's what the promotion is, but most of them, like, the numbers are like, most of them make $200 a month if they're lucky. Well, even that, it's like in some ways, gender roles have changed a lot, which is, which is kind of weird, which is kind of weird. Like, it used to be wrong to promote things like that. And if you look at it now, the statistics show that a lot of guys aren't getting married, a lot of guys aren't having sex. It's, you're kind of seeing the gender roles change dramatically.

where now something that would have been, you know, 20 years ago, you would have been, you know, she's a slut or this or that. Like those things are promoted and it's called empowerment. And to me, it's degrading. Yes, you're so right. And they just, okay, Xavier, what do you want to say? Defend the sluts. No, I wasn't in defend the slut.

I was actually going to be on kind of your side on how like now men are saying don't sleep around. Like Andrew Tate's telling you like don't really sleep around. He's like pick up, pick a kid. Yeah, but he's doing it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They want women to be promiscuous whores. for men to be monogamous Puritans. That's what they want.

But you know what's interesting about that, Sam? You know what's interesting about that? Is a society like that, and this goes back to how late-staged societies are, a society like that doesn't procreate, right? So a society like that does not continue and it doesn't continue to produce itself. Yeah, I mean, well, I mean, let's just take a look at the populations that have very educated females. And I have two daughters.

I am never going to sit there and say, I have daughters. I'm not going to sit there and say women shouldn't be educated. That's not the point of this. I have three of them. I would agree with you. It's what is being edgy. What are they learning in their education that is getting, again, going into programming? What are they being programmed that makes them think they shouldn't have children?

Which, you know, back in the day, that's all women wanted were children. They dreamed of having children. They dreamed of being a mom. I brought my kids back home last week. I mean, the aunts and the grandmas and the cousins just doting over the children. Like, that's a primal drive in females. So we look at the West. We look at the East, not the Middle East, but the East.

They have very highly educated females and they're not having children. What is going on with that? Why are they? You look at a lot of, like a lot of Muslim countries and a lot of, a lot of them, their birth rates are really high. If you look at a lot of, you know, like America and a lot of European countries, the birth rates are going down, right? And that is why immigration problems like we were talking about in the U.K. earlier are happening because just the birth rates are just higher. Yeah, I mean, but that goes, that goes again into, you know, we've had debates on the show about the West versus, you know, Islamic ideologies and which is more healthier for women. and you know it's a real debate you know and obviously the females of of Islam want to have children

they want to have tons of children the women of the West don't want to have children because nobody ever sits there and goes this this amazing life that you're living as a 20 year old woman isn't going to go on forever and it doesn't mean you're not beautiful it doesn't mean you don't have value it just means like this is the cycle of life not sure to be fair not sure the is long women have much choice in the matter but just to put that up here we go just i don't disagree with you johnny yeah yeah okay okay it's okay it's okay i get it i get it you guys i totally get it no nobody wants to look at data nobody wants to look at any of that stuff no no but there i mean the birth rate can be high and it's still not be a good time for the people having the births okay but the low birth rate

is detrimental to your country no i would agree with that that's I think that's the bigger that's the bigger drink your hand sanitizer bottle that you have right there that's the bigger point though is you're seeing a lot of western countries um not live in replacement this goes back to to kind of later stage rome you know later stage rome they weren't having as many children the children they were having weren't living as long right and then you're having a lot of tribes and the borders were having children they were growing and that's why if you look at something like the immigration issues that we're having here in America, it is, you know, it's not the same thing, but it's a similar process to what happens. That's

why I like to say, you know, history doesn't repeat, but it rhymes in a lot of ways. You can look for patterns and you can look for similar things that happen. Yeah. I mean, yeah, I mean, the more things change and more the same, same, right? And it's just, I don't know what the future is in this country. I don't know. It's just, yeah, I mean, we're basically Rome at this point. it's like so crazy to me it's just crazy just everything and you you just like you go why is this happening can we stop it to happen you're like well i'm sure rome was kind of like why is this happening can we stop it happening and it just big wheels keep on turning well then and then you look at the power structure changes right because the thing that happens then as you know it changes

from a roman empire to barbarian empire is that same empire morphs into a lot of the power structure of what the Catholic Church becomes, right? So it's the thing you look at is empires don't really change or don't really fall. They morph, right? They change and they become something else. So I guess the question you would have to ask is, what does this Western Empire become? Like, where is it going? And I think that's the bigger question.

Yeah, I mean, what do you think? I think that's a tough question to answer because you see, you know, the rising power that is China, but you also see our government wants to prop up the rising power that is Russia, right? So it's like at the same time, who's the real enemy? I think that's the harder point to know is do we even have an enemy, right? Like, are we just made to be afraid of that? That's kind of the indecision where we're at. Like, could we even stop it if we wanted to? I mean, are we so divided right now and that people are just like just locked into their ideology they're just hunkered down could you get anybody

to change their i mean you see people a little here and there pop that suddenly they wake up but just seems like people are just set i mean they through algorithms and these news channels like you're only getting confirmation bias all the time well that and then it could you know think of how weird it is to to be around people you haven't seen in a while and you it's that's the weird part about social media is you you get to see people and you know everything that's been happening in their lives so now you don't have anything to talk about and and people are just sitting and watching their reels when they're hanging out together so it's like we we have kind of lost a lot of what makes us human and it's about finding what gets back to making us human it's really a weird place to be well you're you're so right I never thought about like that I thought about it more like the school reunion because people we don't have school reunions anymore because what's the point I know exactly what you're doing because I see you on Instagram but that's the same thing that's the same thing with family now

even when I go hang out with my sister I don't really talk to her because I know her I know the kid graduated I know he can read because it's all on Instagram so even when I'm still like instead of asking her hey how'd your kid go because I don't I just saw it on Instagram so it's just repeating yeah wow we're so social that we're we're so social that we're unsocial

right and I think that's that's the thing to consider about where we're at and here's the interesting point people that aren't social they don't congregate they don't do things together they don't operate in groups 100% they're very easy for for bankers and multinational corporations to control right because they're they're not going to unite they're not going to work together because they're they're too happy sitting in their pod and eating the bugs and it's only going to get worse i don't see any amazon i mean like improvement sorry good job jen no no i just don't see any improve do you see improvement like i don't

see. I mean, the technology that is on the horizon is not technology that physically brings people together in common spaces more. It's going to isolate people more than anything. Well, I know, like, in the podcasting and marketing world that I, that I kind of live in, most of the big events don't happen anymore, right? You know, like, you know, social media marketing world that used to happen in San Diego every single year. And it was one of the biggest events that happened in our industry. This was the last year they ran it. A lot of big events aren't happening because people aren't going to events anymore. They'd rather sit on Zoom and, and, you know, eat their Cheetos, right? So it's like we are being pushed apart by being pushed together. And that's the really

strange part about it. Yeah, I mean, like, dude, malls are dying. Could you imagine, like, if you went to the 90s and you told everybody, high school kids aren't going to go to the mall. The mall isn't going to be full of high school kids, boys chasing girls around. at the mall. The mall would be dead. It would be a, you know, a great place to go power walk because there's nobody there.

Yeah. Like, it's crazy to me. Like, I love the mall. And we had tiny malls where I was from, but whenever my mom would bring us up to the mall, I would just walk around and just stare at all the, all the goth chicks at Hot Topic, dude. I would fucking love that.

Right? And they don't do that anymore. And, like, you know, we've even talked about it, like, with all the comedians. There's so much stand-up on the internet. that now that people almost feel like they don't have to go see it live even though it's just 10 times better right yeah wait think about boredom think about how much creativity and and uh skill like learning skills that used to be inspired just by boredom do you remember i yeah when's the

last time you were fucking bored bro do you know what i mean it never kids are never bored now i was just watching a documentary about noll galliger how he learned to play guitar and he was just like bored out of his mind his dad had a guitar his dad couldn't even play guitar and so So he just picked it up and learned to play to the radio, like over hours and days and weeks just taught himself to play because he was fucking bored, man. Yeah. Like kids, zero children today, 0.0% of kids will ever have that chance to discover something like that. Even now, Johnny, I want to go get my tags at the DMV. And I remember actually looking at the clock because that was so boring.

You know how you're a kid? You keep looking at the clock. Yeah, it never happens again. That will never happen again. You will just be on your phone. You'll be bored. I mean, it's bored because you just don't want. want to be at the DMV, but you don't know what boredom is.

Well, I think as well, that's what the danger is, you know, in cities as well, right? Because if you look at that, there's manual labor and the ability to actually do something. You know, it's not a huge area I live on, but I live on, I live on like five acres with a bunch of chickens. I have pigs. I have a bunch of dogs. So it's like at the same time, there's always something for me to do, right? And I think a lot of people are losing their capabilities and not just losing.

their socialness. So I think at the same time, skills are important too. And we're losing those because we're filling that area with, you know, veging on Netflix or sitting on on the internet or doing whatever it is we might be doing. And we're not building skills and we're not seeing people. And we have no idea what the effects of that are on a society long term. We have, I mean, it's a total experiment being done on the entire population of the planet right now. it's never happened before the brain yeah it's people have into people have individuated and they're not members of a group right if you think of if you think of the kind of the way religion is always operated religion has always been a group

thing and I know I think after COVID there's been a bit more of a revival to it but for the most part people are less religious they're less spiritual because those used to be gathering places where you know public speeches would be there all sorts of things were there. If you look at the first Continental Congress was held in a church, right? So a lot of those gathering places were religious places. And I think that's one of the biggest reasons that we're losing those as well, because there's no reason to gather. Yeah, I wonder if there will ever be a swing to the other side, you know, that people start to get over it. And because, you know, granted, I'm an old man, but I'm over the internet, dude. I'm like,

over it uh i like it i want it in little pieces not all the time like i you know i've been on it for the last 15 years i'm kind of over i wonder if you're going to see that you know because i think you are because there's kids are on it all the time it's like maybe they're like i'm over this i want to go like my daughter's right my daughter loves youtube they love youtube but when you give them something to do they do it that's the biggest problem i think with my daughter generation and she granted she's only they're only five is that they are um they don't seek it they're okay with just sitting down watching youtube videos all day whereas i was a kid was like go outside and find adventure okay but you have to have kids like that okay so i started snowboarding

last season i did not see an ipad in sight these kids were so stoked because they were in love with snowboarding and all they want to do goes back on the slope, you just have to make these kids fall in love with something. Yeah. And that's it. You have to make them fall in love. Like, this is what they want to do. And you can you can punish them. We're like, hey, if you keep paying on the iPad, no more snowboarding. And they'll start buying, but it's what you want. But I think as well, it also, and this is once again, you know, not to say I'm the greatest parent ever, but I definitely try. Like, I think it's to not use technology as much as a crutch as a parent, right? Like it can become hard, especially when you're running a business and

have a lot of things going on. But you look at a lot of these iPad kids. It's like a drug, man. You take it away from them and they freak the hell out. So I think at the same time, it is. Yeah, my daughter does that sometimes too. If there's nothing to do, she freaks the fuck out. So you have them do things.

Like my six-year-old, she's been skiing since she was two and a half. So she's incredibly good. You know, she's doing double black diamonds at six years old. But it's like at the same time, you have to as a parent foster that a bit. And I think it does get hard when, and this kind of comes back to the money system, right, to both parents are working. You're barely scraping by with both parents working. So it's like, as parents, we're trying damn hard to make things go right, but it's not easy, man.

So we try to do what we can do to help our kids. So it's a cultural issue, but it's an economic issue, really. It all comes back to being an economic issue because, you know, you look at the 1950s, both parents didn't have to work. Our money was worth a lot more than it's worth now. and you know you look at kind of the culture we lived in at the time it was very different yeah i mean it's it's so crazy it's just so crazy uh and i just don't know what the future is you know because again you could be like get your kid off the pad okay but what is the future going to be

it's just going to be more computers more AI more that stuff right so you've got to find that compromise between you know them i'm sorry but it's like i always go back to my father my father when i was kid was like get off get off that video game you're not you're never going to make money playing video games those are literally his words now i was a little and had a time before streaming services happen but like my daughter's crushing PS5 right now she crushes it and she's five and she's playing games that are a little older for her but she's so good at it like what what what what is she grows up she's like this dominant female gamer compared to these guys are like yeah my kids never on the pad well i'm like they might

be amish at this point because they're going up against kids or just crushing the internet right now so it's like this real fine line yeah yeah i can't say much because i know my my six year old kicks my ass in mortal combat four so it's like at the same time there's there's there's there's not much I can say about it. We live in a technology world, but I guess at some point in time, it's it's finding the balance. To me, honestly, the biggest thing I didn't consider, right, is so back when I got out of school 20 years ago, I was a high school teacher for a couple years. The thing I didn't consider now is how hard teachers' jobs are trying to figure out, is this AI, is this real? And the thing to think about there is it's driving our literacy rates down,

right? Because people aren't able to think and aren't able to write and articulate. So there are new problems we're going to have in the future that we have to think with how do we deal with those things now before they happen i would say let's go back to handwritten are you really going to ask are you going to really ask a i to write it for you and then go handwrite it no you're not you might well just write it i would go back to old school handwrite that shit no more i do it every day i write my jokes in handwritten like i'll write like if i have a premise i'm out i got right down or else i'll lose it into my skull so i have to like write it down then i go home and i handwrite it and i write like a chicken that had a heart attack.

That's my writing right now. Chicken scratch heart attack font, you know, and, but it is important to be writing, you know, like they were going to try to get rid of cursive forever, and there was a giant pushback, and so now they're still teaching cursive. But, and that's another thing I want to say, like it's very easy to get into doom and gloom,

that there's no hope. And I'm not going to say the end of the empire, isn't coming you know our our leaders have overstretched ourselves we're we're we're beyond our capacity in this desire to police the world so that corporations can rape everybody um but you know when they they pass that they try to pass a bill which said you couldn't get fema funding if you didn't support israel that died on the vine there was such a backlash to that they revolted they just pulled back so I think people need to really start to understand like the the bickering between us is is going to be the biggest downfall if we don't start coming together and

understand that you know it's not like these the war isn't this every this group versus this group but it's like this economic level versus this economic level that's really where the war is at and if you know It's like, well, it's a war for your mind, man. You know, I guess to, to quote Alex Jones from what he's been saying for for years, but like it's a war for your mind. You look at the problem with the Second World War is the same banks we're funding both sides. You know, if you look at in the kind of the social media and war for your mind that we live in now, it's the same people funding things that drive money for them.

And I think it's understanding where the division comes from. When you understand where the division comes from, you can actually pull yourself out of it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's it. It's like, you know, the point, I get into a debate with my friends all the time. You know, some, some, some my friends think that this show, from a religious point of view, could be having more, do more damage than good. And that was before now this time, we kind of had to talk. And he was like, I get what you're doing. You know, the point of the show isn't to save you, but it's to give you to. the data for you to save yourself and the way you save yourself is not falling for these siops that they do over and over and over again and it's getting harder and harder for them to pull siops on us because we're being more and more educated more you know you got Alex Jones you know you got Eddie Bravo you got you know Adam Curry great Carlwood people have been in the game for a very long time this show came around people really like this show and you

You know, it's fostered a lot of other people who start shows. And so this conspiracy content is everywhere now. Yeah. And I love it. And people are consuming it because they no longer can look to the news to tell them what's really going on. They've got to look to a YouTube channel. And people are waking up. And I was saying this on Rogan when I was on it.

You know, the No Kings thing was a giant flop. They wanted an immigrant. immigration riot and you know XG's cousins were all telling their neighborhoods do not go to this thing. This is a trap and they want us to

rye and burn shit down while they Pelleteer gets our faces and puts us in the data and that's why it crashed and burned because everyone woke up to once they found out that the Walmart Air was funding the whole fucking thing. They woke

up and I think that's a wonderful full sign for us and I think we're in deep trouble if this gay gay marriage thing gets overthrown because for some reason for people who play themselves as outsiders the gay community they literally can't stop deep throating fucking uh government sciops I mean you tell them there's a disease that's the first one in line to get the Vax they're showing up a BLM or LEs they're wearing masks they're doing what is that you think is that just the party

affiliation that they're that they've come to identify as democrats is that or do you think it's deeper than that i don't know man it's like it's very weird because if anybody should be skeptical the fucking government it's them right well if you go to the a gay person hey man age isn't really what you think it is and they killed them with a zt watch them freak to fuck out yeah thanks dr fouchy freak to fuck out they you know it's like they're pushing The Vax pushed by the guy who was the bad guy in Dallas Byers Club. And they just can't even comprehend that. They just can't even understand that.

And they carry this, their version of their like genocide, which I, you know, I would say, yeah, man. I mean, for that, that size community, that was a big, big event in their history. But yet they still trust the pharmaceutical companies that were based. lying to them and getting them to take this bio weapon that killed off so many of them. Do you think it's because the truth never came out to them as early as it did for COVID

for us? As in they live with AIDS being so deadly and so horrific for so long. Yeah, I'm sure that's part of it. Yeah. But I don't, I don't, I don't it's very weird dude. It's like are they just are the really flamboyant um

cheerleaders of the gay community? Are they mostly rich kids? Because rich kids love to conform. They love it. They love to conform to their dads and even though they act like they hate their dads or they really do hate their dads, for some reason they love to conform. They love the big city. That's a big thing too. Most of your gays congregate and live in big cities and gay communities. And once you live in a big city, you're probably working in some sort of corporation, whether it's a small restaurant or a giant corporation, You're in some kind of office structure where group think is rewarded.

And if you sit there and go, hey, did, I don't think COVID's real. Good luck getting a promotion. Good luck. Well, the libertarian part of me says that, you know, funny enough that the government doesn't have the power to regulate it either way. Well, yeah, but, but they get you to conform through this, this sciop to that there's this giant disease. Rachel Maddo, shiny lesbian ass, who is now pushing MRNA vaccines, even though there's compilations of her completely and utterly lying about the COVID-Vax. She's right there back doing it because she's a road scholar. Like, they can't fire her.

They pulled her back for a little while until her brand kind of healed. And then they're pushing her back out. I mean, she was making like $30 million a year to do one show a week. I guess how do they do that with the numbers they have though that's what doesn't make sense to me you know why are they you know for the most part of these channels don't have the viewership there was a stat I had seen a couple years ago that they took the nightly primetime lineup of Fox News MSNBC CNBC and they said what all combined they didn't beat one episode of Rogan so it's like at the same time how are they able to keep coming back like where's the money

coming from um i get this i think that goes in that usa a i d at us a u s a u s a u s aid you know that is to me where so much of this money is coming from i i've always said this like everything you hate in the world was funded by the federal reserve it's all astroturf fake false reality on god's reality and that's why and then they figured like okay we're not going to make money maybe on the

presentation on the television but we're going to take it we're chop it up and we're going to get YouTube's going to promote to everybody and put it on the front page of YouTube and they're going to get a ton of views that way like 3 million views 2 million views and to them they'll run ads

through that whole thing and try to make their money that way but they need the propaganda and then you can get into my theory about laylines and how they're kind of amplifiers and you've positioned these news organizations on these laylines they kind of promotes this into the ether into the inner into the universe because you're totally right you're like if nobody's watch this why are these talking points everywhere correct correct other than control right and they wouldn't be able to do it if it didn't work it's been able to they've been able to push out control for a really long time and that kind of goes back to what you're saying earlier about project mockingbird right but i i do think that that simulation is breaking you know and they kind of get back to the original discussion of like gods and people making themselves gods like we just had a woman on uh hidey love talking about the cabala and its influence on on uh Mormonism and then you start getting

into, like, are these people funded by bankers and corporations and what's a role of intelligence? Like, Scientology to me is just a giant naval intelligence operation. I'm a Scientologist, Sam. Are you really? And it is not a naval intelligence operation. Well, I mean, okay, but, okay, let's get into it then. Elrown Hubbard was straight up a naval intelligence agent, 100%.

no that's not true that is totally true it's 100% true he was naval intelligence and he was said listen i don't want to offend you and your your beliefs okay you can believe whatever you're allowed to believe whatever you want but he was 100% a naval intelligence agent and he was sent in to the jack parsons and the the the dark occult of of um jack parsons and that whole stuff going with the rocking scientists in california he was connected to he was connected to um what's his face uh what's the guy we always talk about johnny the old the uh uh what is this fuck i can't believe we always talk about him the old guy that's barbara bush's father who do we say it is um i can't believe it nobody on this fucking i i i don't

fucking retards on this fucking show you're the one i can't remember yeah i mean we talk about him all the time what is his name the old occult fucking witch fucking witch at the top that everyone is in, in, in, uh, music worship. Crowley. Crowley, yes. And his connections to Crowley. Crowley warning Jack Parsons about Elron Hubbard. You know, I'm not here to offend you.

You know, I can't say I have any knowledge about that. So I'm not really going to. Okay. I respect that. I respect that. I didn't know you were a Scientologist. That's fine. I still, I have my beliefs.

But we see that throughout so much of these, these movements. government connections. I mean, I think Hubbard even said himself he was part of intelligence. I mean, I think he's quoted. Again, that's not something I'm aware of, so I'm not going to comment. That's fine. That's fine.

Yeah, I mean, there's, there are quotes about him saying his work is classified. Okay, we don't need a, okay, I mean, I just, it's it is what it is, you know, I mean, you got people saying that Jesus is a Jewish agent. So, I mean, like, everybody, you know, we did something on conspiracy social club about you know mohammed and like the shady past of him so i mean i i you can go into any of these things on anybody you know so you can you can find anything on

the internet about anybody man it's it's it's kind of how it goes um but i do believe that they're there but would you would you say that there seems to be some kind of thing with maybe not you and your beliefs, but there are some stuff with Scientology and Hollywood and a lot of guys are supposedly closeted. Would you say there's a little bit of pattern of that? No, once again, I wouldn't say that. I'm going to know where that claim would come from. John Travolta, Tom Cruise, a bunch of the big name people and when people try to leave. Once again, man, that's not something I really wanted to talk about today. I respect that. It's all good.

um what else do we got we got anything else i mean like we can get into did we cover it all yeah i think we kind of hit everything that that i had okay perfect so yeah i mean what we're looking at right now is a uh um we're in the middle of a um controlled demolition of of this country so the question is how do you save yourself? How do you position yourself? So even if everything just goes completely crazy, how can you position yourself?

I think you're seeing giant movements right now. I think you're seeing people leaving big cities to go to small cities, maybe position themselves outside the big city. So if they want big city, kind of like energy, like I want to move to Austin, but I don't want to live in Austin.

I want to live outside of Austin. in a tiny town and I could drive in, get that kind of big city juice and go that's a great way. Get land, get guns, get gold, silver, precious metals. And that's why I keep telling everybody, like the key is

like when you get into precious metals, your money is kind of stable at that point. Sure. And it only goes up. Well, I think it's that and I think it goes back to what we talked about earlier. It's not overindividuating. It's getting back to having groups. It's getting

back to being literate, a lot of these things are what destroys a society. So having those things existing despite what is happening to us is one of the biggest ways we survive. Yeah, I think that that is the future. I mean, family is the future. Again, everything culture tells you is not your friend. I've learned that through recovery. Like everything I ever learned in recovery is the exact opposite that our culture is telling us. You know, you know, quick, quick self-indulgence, instant gratification, blaming everybody for your problems. All those things, to me are giant, giant, giant red flags.

And you're being programmed into the, into the material. And when the key is to get away from the material. And, you know, obviously you have religion. A lot of us have religion. I see people going back to the church. I think that's a great sign that people are getting more spiritual than they ever did. I think it would be, no matter what. What you can say about the progressives,

they can bitch and moan about everything and yell about fascism as they completely omit any of the data, which says that Biden sent FBI agents to board of education meetings, to scare parents from questioning what's going on at these schools, to, you know, and this is both sides making people get the VACs, you know, the White House telling these social media people to censor people talking shit, you know, whatever you want to say, progressives, you had your shot.

You had your shot. You got to implement everything you wanted and nobody liked it. Well, and they also don't procreate though, too. You know, if you look at they're not having kids and that's why their biggest thing has been trying to get, you know, more conservative-minded people's kids because they're not having children. And that's why they want to get so early into. into the education

and if I can fight Albert Kinsey I would do I would fucking go back in time to go triple you got time machine what are you doing I'm fighting three fucking people I'm going there with a bat and I'm going to fuck them up and he's one of them it's Woodrow Wilson Mayor Rothschild and Albert Kinsey

and I would fuck that I would smash their skulls get back in and go back in time and see how I say if I saved humanity you know hopefully it doesn't go worse but you know all of them were you know awful people and you think this sex education you think before they had sex education kids didn't know what they were doing

like you know when teachers are bringing butt plugs to school like what kind of fucking world do you live in that you're not a fucking predator bringing butt plugs to a school to educate children on butt plugs they're everywhere now like dude butt plugs are everywhere now it's like crazy to me it's like or dildos they're on basketball courts as well Yeah, and these chicks are getting mad. They're getting dildos thrown at them. Like, hey, dude, you love dildos.

The betting market on that was wild, by the way. Yeah, dude. Because you imagine the risk somebody's taken that they're betting on it and trying to win, but they're also the one like throwing the dildo on the court to make sure it happens. Yeah, this is $30,000. It's worth it, dude. And you just throw it and then all of a sudden you see your money get fucking deposited. The security got real tight on that, but like, it's real easy to hide it.

Just hide it in between your pants. It's that easy. It's not, you don't need that much. all right jeremy this has been an excellent episode every time you come on it's a fucking banger buddy one more time tell them where they can find you yeah so uh my companies command your brand and obviously i don't want to see people's companies decline and fall like rome so i put together a great resource called command your empire get over to command your empire dot com you can grab that now all right buddy this has been great great episode uh let's break it down did

uh okay guys what did you think zavier bill board boy what do you think yeah uh i'm scared how much longer do we have in this empire in this country we got what three four more five more presidents yeah it's kind of crazy now you're going to have to sneak back over the the so you know it's really interesting guys not to get too far off topic but so you remember when we should had shepherd on he's like dude it's free mexico it's free that they just passed a law that everybody must be biometrically tracked Yep, I wouldn't doubt it I mean, that's the whole thing

You think you move here You think you move there It's all good No dude It's gonna be everywhere The key is just getting to A small enough town Where they don't focus on you

Look what he's This is what's going on in D.C. Is a trial run 100% But again What the left is going to tell you Is this is a Donald Trump Like plan

It's like no dude This was all started in BLM Defend the police Pressure from above, pressure from below. It's like, it's two wings of the same bird, dude. It's the same bird, dude. This is all, you know, it's very interesting because what it used to be, dude, is they would get a bunch of Republicans in, Republicans would do war, spend money, all this stuff.

And then they would give them a Democrat to be like, listen, man, we got to calm down love everybody. I think it's flipped now. I think that is Trump's role because everyone loves him so much to be like, dude, you love it. me trust me you love me trust me right and everyone's like you trust you honestly it started kind of flipping i mean did you see on ron paul's 90th birthday that clip that was going around of him in the debate in 08 where he was had the gall to criticize the iraq war and everybody on stage was like i can't believe uh what are you what are you saying our boys don't aren't fighting for american freedoms over there and ron paul you know all he was saying was like hey

maybe we should investigate the motivations of the people who did this because it might have something to do with our foreign policy. And that was just the biggest insult. Like Rudy Giuliani was like, I'm going to demand you withdraw that remarks, sir. Yeah, they're just such pieces of shit. But that's totally flipped. The Republican Party's done a 180 on that.

And it's down to Trump partly, I would say. Well, you know, Scott Horton just had a great clip. He had that guy that everyone's pissed at because of the Hitler shit. I don't know if we're doing a podcast together right now. I don't know. Are you talking about the guy who's like, you know, Winston Churchill was as bad as Hitler. That guy, Darren something or Derek's, I forget what his name is.

Cooper, right? Cooper, right. And they're, because I think Cooper was in the military. And he was talking about like, kind of like how he feels and how the military vets feel. And Cooper was saying that basically, most of the vets are like

I don't know why we were there I don't know what the purpose of and he was bringing up that there were people within the military that just thought hey you know we got this military we need to run some military exercises and what a better place

to do it than Afghanistan right like hey dude the Taliban's down the fight let's go fucking get these guys some experience which is kind of like the old kind of like mixed martial arts dojo thing it's like dude you've been you know you're you know

you've been doing this long enough you got to go fight some people go go just see if this shit works or not like how crazy like in a weird way it's the comedy store like if you've been at the comedy store week in week out for decades you've you've failed you're not that's not what you're supposed to do you're supposed to go there master the art and then go try your kung fu out which was very interesting because when i started headlining dude because there was a time and it kind of still is now that if you were in L.A. comic everyone wanted to test

you. So I remember when I was I was playing the Dallas improv, the Addison Improv and the GM picked me up at the airport because this is way before Uber. And he's like, yeah, man, we got our best feature for you. We want to see how you

do. And I remember thinking to myself, why are you like testing me? Like what is the purpose of that? And I realized because everyone was jealous of L.A. And they always thought their comics were better than Los Angeles comics because that's what they would do. Like New York City was always great of that. You know, New York City would be like, dude, David Tell would crush Joey bananas. They would always take it the worst one and put up against their best one.

And you're like, yeah, because everyone crushes Joey bananas. You're like comparing literally apples and oranges right there. But that's how it used to be. So you would leave the comedy store and go test your kung fu. and that's what they were talking about in the military and it's like kind of fucking nuts that that's their mentality that's like that Hicks bit about them

just pulling out the magazine you know with the different missiles and like how about A-13 launching scud missile? Yeah dude it was I don't I mean yeah I don't know what the I don't see things getting any better with that either

because what the next administration as far as you can tell buy the available options it's going to be right back to business as usual right like think about who it could be like vance new newsome i guess i don't know any of the other gaggle of retards uh there none of them are going to be it's going to be back to normal right like back to just insanity although i mean things are crazy right now do you don't you think sam like who don't you think it's just going to be right back to the way it was with

Biden and every other dip shit before that? I mean, it just seems like it's just, you know, little things change, right? Little details change, but they all do the same shit. I mean, at least now things are fucked, but in a different way. You know what I mean? But we're just going to be right back to... Well, there seems to be this understanding is that the internet, you can't make people watch something they don't want to watch.

There's so many options. You can't make them watch something. back when there was only television and so what's going on right now dude the left completely has captured television the left controls television and the right controls the internet and and the left is losing their mind because the right has the narrative has the message has the eyeballs and you know the shit with anthony jeselnick and mark marin kind of going after these podcasts when it's so obvious that the left was way more political than the right.

Like they were having political talking points in kids television shows. Like pushing narratives in these shows. So they're upset. They don't play fair. They don't want to play fair. They just want to dominate. And they

have no real way of doing it anymore. You cannot, you cannot control it. Because the minute you censor somebody, everyone on the internet loses their fucking mind and comes after you and you have to install them or else your brand dies and that you know it's like when jeremy was talking about youtube seems to be letting go and that's because what the what the people want they started seeing rumble and twitter started to get traction and they're like if we don't allow that in we're going to lose all these people to these platforms

god i hope that i hope that lasts we may not be able to control what washington dc does but we can control what happens in our neighborhoods and what you spend your money on go to rumble don't don't go back to youtube because they're straightened out if you can get what you want on rumble or these other websites go there i just don't understand why it's so hard to get people off youtube i just don't understand it hey if you go to samtriplea dot com i'm not bringing that up right now but if you go to samtriplea dot com check it out you can't hold all the dates are there. I've added new dates, more dates. We're making it happen. Things are great. I'm in Huntington Beach on Sunday. I'm in Kansas City at the end of the month. Big week for me there. Chicago,

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capitalist conspiracy video If you go to Twitter You can see that You go to Rumble You can see that And it will eventually be on samtriplea.com Cash Daddy's Johnny, talk about it Talk about it

Yeah, Howie has been On top of it I was just looking to see if we He was putting the previews In the headlines Yeah, go down a little bit I saw one but I go I don't know if that is

No, he's doing it He's doing it, yeah, good job Howie Yeah, howie, no Howie's Well, he's got something there he's backing up the truck i gotta check that one out dude back up the truck back up to truck uh but yeah he's you know if you if you're curious about how it works

he kind of puts like uh you know he has a lot of educational segments and we're trying to do more of that um but he's also uh he puts like a rating a star rating on the picks that he has and you know kind of how confident he is in them and dude i just mostly play the you know the the ones he's most confident in three stars or whatever the hell it is now five stars and uh very very successful doing that all right uh and then again uh new t-shirts going up real quick go down in a t-shirt oh the chaos twins we're coloring it right now we're finishing it up and um we're finishing it up so episode issue two is coming out and then if you go to t-shirts.com here we go let's see if it

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if you're watching this on youtube hit the subscribe button okay comment review hit the like button i need to start saying that really early in the show but uh we're starting to get a tiny been to Numbies here. We're going to keep growing it. Little Numbies here, little Numbies there. Look at dangerous. You put dangerous, dude, gets a ton of views. It gets the most views.

Yeah, you know, you should just put dangerous every time. Outside that, yeah, that's anything else, guys. Hit that live by and subscribe. Go to Xtre Marks and spot. I got new poker vlogs and I got a poker game coming at Hustler. So if you play poker, hit me up on Instagram or Twitter or whatever. Thank you guys. Johnny.

uh yeah go fuck yourself no okay man that's sassy john that's hero john no you know what it is i heard what you said last time you're like oh and check yourself at check johnny on on twitter and whenever and uh i would i didn't want to do the the thing you said damn you guys have a fuckload of five stars over here two thousand three hundred what is it i'm wish i can't see where you're looking on uh my bad on um on podcast the podcast thing well which chat which show i mean what give me a second i think you're talking broken sim yeah yeah we have a lot of five stars yeah yeah all right we read five star reviews on that show in fact yeah now i'm back we're gonna get back into we want to do a live second episode of broken sim we're working on it look at that

2,300 holy fuck that's good people congrats yeah people love it dude and we love them um real quick did you see the guys like are you guys sciopping us uh right there you guys yeah look at are you guys sciopping us? Well, yeah, by telling us that you're going to do two shows and then... No, we're going to, dude. It's just like I had the... The end of this show or the end of... I'm going to do a conspiracy social club later tonight. At the end of

that is the end of a crazy two weeks. Yeah. Yeah, and I mean, I've been overseas, so it's... So, it's just been like nothing other. Finally, I want to get into the end. Jeremy, we had him on. He's a Scientologist. And I just want you guys to know that

you know I that's something my show is in a gotcha interview it was a reaction I wasn't expecting because I didn't know he was a Scientologist it's obviously very important to him and I respect that you know I try not to get into attacking people's religion I know we had Adam green on talking you know about Jesus and the only reason I did that is because I feel like that was a topic conspiracy that we can get into we've talked about about Elron Hubbard and all the stuff that we thought he was in, involved in, you know, so we, we have talked about that stuff, you know, I just, you know, our show is about just letting the guess shine and we want to make them look good. And so I'm not really into

getting into an argument like that or a discussion. If somebody's not comfortable with or didn't want to discuss, I totally respect that. I think he does, he does a great job every time he comes on. I had a fun conversation. And, you know, so there's that. And it is what it is And makes him happy Then that's all I really care about And that's why we respect it So that's my opinion

I don't know if you guys have anything Your thoughts Positive No he's a great guy I mean we didn't really expect it I mean if you watched the reaction We're like we thought we I mean even Johnny said we thought we're kind

He was kind of messing with us for a while But no I mean we obviously respect his The thoughts It was just Randomly Okay I hope you guys enjoy the episode And again

Hit up Tim Fall Hat YouTube on YouTube at Tim Fall Hat YouTube and enjoy these highlights. Here's a clip from the latest Broken Sim. Okay, so there's this actor who is, it's been in a lot of movies. His name is Neil McDonough. Have you heard of this guy? Probably. I'll show you his picture here.

He won't kiss anyone on camera, but his wife. And he was on a pretty big TV show. And they had him coming in doing a nude scene. And they were like, you got to wear a sock for this. and he's like oh no i i'm fine with my socks and they were like no no a dick sock and he's like i'm not doing that because he's like he's like pretty religious uh no i think i know the guy you're talking about i mean i'll show you him right here uh but now he's finally starting to get some work again thanks to the yellowstone guy it's this guy right here do you recognize yeah yeah uh he says

he was shut out of hollywood for refusing to kiss anyone other than his wife i've always had in my contracts. I wouldn't kiss another woman on screen. My wife didn't have a problem with it. It was me, really, who had the problem. I was like, yeah, I don't want to put you through that. I know we're going to start having kids, and I don't want to put my kids through it. And Hollywood has normalized this behavior of just rubbing bodies on strangers, even though you're married. He likes Amazon's too. Look at that. And it's funny because he really had a big comeback when the Yellowstone guy started putting him in a lot of his stuff. and he's a great actor.

The guy's a great actor. But he lost, he had a big, ugly tailspin, he said, in his career for a couple of years after he got fired

on that TV gig that he had. And now he's in a movie. It's one of those Angel Studios movies, you know, that it's kind of like a little conservative,

a little Christian focused about, it looks like a bull rider. Anyway, so yeah, it's, in the kind of the angle here is that it seems that we have now,

and like a, a legitimate Hollywood alternative that's developing. It should be. And he probably can't stop talking about it. He's like talking about people once AI gets good enough, you're going to start seeing a lot of anti-woke stuff. People are going to be able to make their own stuff. And that's what it should be.

Do you think that's one of the reasons Hollywood is going so hard against AI? Well, I mean, Hollywood's going hard against AI because the actors, the writers, the voiceover people are done. I mean, that's over. Oh, forget it. it's done that that occupation is done but you know what man nobody cried for anybody when they got rid of the horse and buggy i mean it's just adapt or die that's really what's going to be and i'm sorry dude but it's like hollywood did to himself dude hollywood did it to himself by by by just going

so woke and harden the pain and nobody wants to see it dude people are over again it goes back to you know when we were talking about when we had is he Griffin on talking about corrupting archetypes. That's all they're doing. They just want corrupting archetypes. They want you to believe like women in movies and women in television can kick everybody's ass. Women in real life, it's like words are violence. I had somebody in here tell me that there's sister-in-law or somebody told them to stay away from Sam Trippley because he's anti-women.

It's just like the dumbest shit I've ever heard in my life. I have two daughters, you idiots. Not to all the good people in the chat. It's actually ridiculous. It's the point where either you're with us or against us. And dude, go to YouTube. I know everybody's algorithms nuts, but it's all just like people going,

modern women are in trouble. Okay? They're too soft. They don't want to hear the truth. They disconnect when you tell them the truth. And they think that, see, the problem right now is that everyone's gotten stripper hot. Okay. Like the strippers have won the cold.

culture war with women right they've won the culture war dressing like a sex worker is in you can even do it at work now so it's in right yeah and that brings certain energy with it and it doesn't mean you deserve anything but everything's energy okay i'm not saying you deserve anything i'm just saying the energy you putting up it's like female comics who get really mad after they do an hour of talking about their pussies and guys want to go up there and fuck them because Because they think that they're, you know, and they're like, oh, well, you know, it's like, that's just jokes. It's like, no, dude, that's the energy you're putting out.

I remember one time I was hosting a show and this female comic, I'm not going to say her name, but she literally did 15 minutes on how she's a whore. Fifty minutes of how she's a whore. So when I went up because I was hosting, I go, and give it up for the horror, everybody. I got off stage, and the owner of the club with her standing behind her told her, you can't call her a whore. I go, she just called herself a whore for 15 minutes. You can't control the energy you put out.

You can't tell them, I'm going to do this and not expect certain energy. It's just not, should you be able to? Yeah, but that's how the world works. Should I be able to walk through Central Park with a fistful of $1,000 bills and not get mugged? Yeah, but I'm an idiot if I do it. It's like energy, dude. It's all energy. And you can't tell people.

how they can react to energy. That's just the way it fucking is, man. Another F on there. Okay, so speaking of AI, there was extensive AI used at the end of the last South Park episode. Did you see the one with Trump? No. The first one that came out.

It's got him naked going through the desert as like a fake promo ad. It's hilarious. Check it out. South Park, that episode, it got so much. If you'd like to hear the rest of this episode, subscribe to Broken Simulation in your podcasting app or check us out at YouTube.com

slash Sam Tripoli. We go deep, home, boy. Aaron, open your mind. Drink from the fountain of knowledge. There's lizard people everywhere. That's some interdimensional shit. Wake up, Aaron. This is only the beginning.

Dude, you just blew my mind. Thank you.