#2274 - Mike Baker

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It's good to be seen. Thank you, Mr.
Rogan. Thank you.
You're taking notes already? I am. He said, good to see you.
Yeah, I know. I don't know what, I do this.
So tell everybody what you were doing in the Middle East, because it's pretty crazy. Oh, thank you.
Yeah, thank you for that. Look, it all started with some colleagues of mine from the UK Special Forces Club.
And these guys are tremendous, right? But Howard Ledham and some others who came up with an idea. They said, look, we have to do something to help the Benevolent Fund, which is for the U.K.
Special Forces. It's like wounded warriors here in the States.
And I can say this because I'm a dual citizen with the U.K. The British don't tend to be very good at raising money or asking for money for very important causes.
So here in the U.S. where you've got 100,000 different groups that are advocating for veterans, over there it's not the case, right? But they have the same need, right? And they have all these wonderful people and their families.
So the idea was, what can we do? A big event, something massive that can really help to raise funds and awareness for the Special Forces Benevolent Fund. They came up with this crazy idea at the time, still crazy,

to recreate a 1917 epic journey that Lawrence of Arabia did

through what was considered the unpassable deserts of Saudi and Jordan

to go from essentially northwest Saudi through these unpassable deserts

and then into Jordan and then down to Aqaba to route the Turks, who at the time controlled the area. And with a small Arab army led by several sheikhs in Lawrence, they did this trek of about 1,100 kilometers.
Took them several months because they had to stop along the way, plus they were fighting Turks along the way. So we took off in January, mid-January, five riders, ten camels, and an incredible support team.
An incredible support team. Can I just type in there, is this your first time riding a camel? Well, we went out in December.
Spent about a week and a half. Howard lives out there.
I asked to do one of the other fellows. So you had to go through camel riding training? Camel riding training.
That's exactly what we did. Oh, my God.
What is it like riding a camel? It is not comfortable in any fashion. It's not like a horse.
A horse has, you can fall into sort of a rhythm and a horse has a much smoother gait. So the camel, basically, all you're trying to do there's the there's the crew uh wonderful guys howard james uh myself tomo uh there's uh there's craig in the back uh an amazing crew i've rarely worked with with guys that are just so impressive and and and again going with the support team everybody that was on that group a small group of eight or nine folks why does everybody ride with one leg to the side like that it's essentially a comfort issue and because you'll notice there's no those those they're not really saddles they're called shadads that sit on top of the hump that's a saudi shadad the omani shadad is different it sits behind the hump and is even less comfortable and things were probably designed some 2,000 years ago, and they've never felt the need to improve them.
They're basically just some wood, you know, tied together. And then you try to throw a couple of things on top of this piece of wood to make it comfortable.
And I think all the Bedouins and others were laughing at us because we just kept piling blankets on to try to see if we couldn't. Yeah, it was tough.
And so ass blisters are a real thing. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. So anyway, that's what you see there.
But there's no stirrups on these things. Like a horse, you know, you're riding on the saddle, you got stirrups and it takes the pressure off your legs.
You're just hanging on. So you don't want to ride with one leg on either side because it's just not comfortable.
So you hitch your leg over the front and then you kind of put your leg or your foot behind the other leg. Is it because they're too wide? Is that why you don't want to ride one leg on the other side or is it just a ball buster? I'll tell you it's a ball buster, particularly if that shed out shifts and it starts to like lean forward.
And then suddenly like there's these large dowels in the front, large dowel in the back, you you know they kind of basically look like big wooden dildos on this shedad and so if that shedad shifts forward as it did on occasion you're just your your package is just jammed against that thing and you have to cover these guys look i got injured uh i had some soft uh muscle injury and and uh there's there's the crew walking through. And I tore some muscles in my rib cage.

Just riding?

No, it was a rather inelegant dismount from the camel.

And so I twisted really badly and then went the other way,

and then the next thing you know,

I had fucked up some muscles along my obliques and then rib cage area.

And so I spent the next couple of days. We had a team medic, Jed, a wonderful guy, great sense of humor, as did they all.
And he eventually got tired of me, like asking him for painkillers and anti-inflammatories. And so eventually I had to tap out, which was more painful probably than the actual injuries.
And the guys just continued to grind it out. How far was left when you...
Oh, I was in the first 25% of the journey. And then I went back for the end, for the arrival into Aqaba.
There's the whole crew right there. I just can't say enough about these people.
Again, 25, 26 days, longer than that, actually a month, out in really bad conditions. People think, well, it's the deserts, right? Well, it's called the unpassable deserts for a reason.
Massive sandstorms, freezing temperatures at night, bitter cold, and we were sleeping in one-man tents, and then you'd get up, you'd get the camels ready. How much supplies did you bring? Did you have a supply camel? We had Land Rover did a wonderful job of helping to sponsor this.
So they provided vehicles that the support team used to kind of trail and then get ahead and help to establish the next. And Howard and Craig had done the recce.
So we had the camps mapped out because this is a long track, 1,100 kilometers. And so they were able to supply and do all the work that kept these guys moving forward.
Imagine doing that without them. Oh, it wouldn't have been impossible, but they'd still be out there schlepping.
Jesus, you'd have to bring several camels just to carry your food and water. Yeah, no, it's exactly right.
There's no water out there, right? No, no. Do you find spring occasionally? Yeah, you pass through a handful of areas near small.
I mean, when I'm saying small, I mean like there's nothing there, A little tiny village. Maybe there's a mosque, and the mosque would have a water supply.
So you could stop and maybe refill, let the camels drink. Are they getting water from the ground, or are they getting water from—are they bringing it in? They're getting from a well.
Yeah, from a well. Oh, okay.
So they have—I mean, because, you know, talking thousands of years, they've figured out where the wells are. And part of this, you know, from 1917, look, the Turks never expected these guys to come from this direction because who's going to do that? Right.
And they did it. These guys all did it.
I was just I was just honored to be a part of it, even though I had to tap out, which was God damn, that was. Jamie, can you show me what that looks like on a map? All right.
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Like what that area looks like? Yeah, I should have included a map of the route itself. Tell me where to look.
Look for Al-Waj, Saudi on the coast, sort of northwest Saudi. Look at Jamie spelling it correctly and everything.
This guy's crazy. Pretty close.
Look at that. No, he's right there, right there at the top.
So we started in Al-Waj. And then, yeah, there you go.
There you go. Now you click out.
And then you start heading northeast. You can see Jordan is up there above that area.
You start heading sort of on a diagonal northeast. You pass through all.
Just look at it. It's like, what the hell? And you keep going, you keep going.
Eventually you get, if you zoom out a little bit so you'll see the border with Jordan.

Okay.

You go up, pass, keep going in that direction. That whole place looks inhospitable.

There's not a lot there.

And then you come up to where Jordan is.

But anyway, at the end of the day, you see Aqaba.

We came down through Jordan and into Aqaba, which is at the tip there, right there.

Yeah.

Which is where the fort was, which is where they routed the Turks.

And then eventually that created all sorts of opportunities for the Arab states. Look at this whole area.
There's fucking no green. No, there's not.
This is tiny parcels of semi-green areas. Yeah.
No, when I say it's desolate and there's nothing, there's nothing. Jamie, zoom back out again.
Look how wild that looks. Like, what happened? So these...
Doesn't that all look washed out, Jamie? This is all Randall Carlson stuff, right? Yeah, and we went through the Royal Reserve. The Saudis were very good, and the Jordanians were amazing as well.
Jamie, what were you saying? In supporting this. It's like a basin.
Looks like it all washed down. Yeah, it totally looks like it washed.
Yeah, you'll find like all these wadis that are in there that, you know, essentially there's a lot of dried up riverbeds. And, you know, the danger is, of course, there are flash floods on occasion.
Not very often. But, so this thing took place and they eventually, the whole thing ended in Aqaba.
Again, the Jordanians couldn't have been greater about supporting this. I think everybody, I know the Bedouins when we got started, they were staring at us like, what the hell are you doing? They couldn't imagine that people would do this willingly.
Right. From their perspective, no reason.
Especially soft Americans and Europeans. Man, I tell you what.
Soft. Yeah.
I know when I got injured, I know every single one of those damn son of a bitches were laughing. They were like, what the hell? And they were looking at our Shadads with all these blankets and furs on them, trying to make it somewhat comfortable.
Those guys must have leather balls. Yeah.
Or they just had them removed. I don't you do it because – and then you have to trot.
You can't just walk. Walking was comfortable enough, but you have to cover the distance.
And the trot on a camel is not comfortable. And so it was – anyway, I just can't say enough good things about these people.
But the cause, the UK Special Forces Club Benevolent Fund, if people want to go and read more about this, they can go to, what is it, www.sfcbf? That's how old you are. You keep using the Ws.
Everybody else gave up on it. I guess I don't have to.
So that's three Ws. And then- I've never used to say that.
People used to say HTTP, colon, backflag.

I still do because I think that's what you have to do.

So it's sfcbf.org.

You can go there.

You check it out.

And if you're so inclined, there's even a button you can click on to donate, even if it's a price of a cup of coffee.

If you get enough people putting in a price of a cup of coffee, it makes a huge difference for these people.

But it was one of those bucket list items that I just can't describe enough. When you see some of the things that USAID fund, does it get you upset that they don't fund things like this? Yeah.
Yeah, it really does. It does me, too.
It does me, too. It's just, come on.
Because this is a direct, right? As is Wounded Warriors, as are all the other groups. It's a direct way to help people.
And it's not like they've got massive administrative costs, right? Like the government tends to. And so, no, absolutely goddamn right.
It seems to me, and so we were fortunate to have a lot of corporations that went in on it. There were some that looked at it and goes, okay, so let me see.

You're talking about five white guys on camels recreating what we think is a... It was still sort of the vestiges of that bullshit DEI thing, right, from a corporate

perspective.

Right.

So we were like, no, goddammit, it's sporting veterans and their families.

How tough is that to understand?

You're just taking a difficult trek.

It doesn't mean you support colonialism.

Yeah.

No, exactly. And by the way, the Arab sheikhs led the way.
It was their effort. They have to look at things through this lens of who in the furthest left kookiest perspective is going to be offended by this bunch of white people in the desert.
Yeah. Yeah.
If anything, it should give you a perspective on how unbelievably brutal the times were back then. No, absolutely.
And you also think that, honestly, it's just, look at the cause. Look at the reason for it.
But I do think, I think we are on the downhill slope of DEI. I think the grifters who built up that cottage industry are going to have to be looking for new jobs because I think most companies are starting to think, you know what, let's get off of this thing.
Yes, I think so too. And I also think that if you look at the overall body of work that they've produced, it's very obvious what many of them are doing.
I think there's some genuinely good people that are involved in this that really want to do good work. They're very sensitive, kind souls.
They probably grew up rich. Probably grew up rich.
But I think there's a lot of grifters, too, unfortunately. And the grifters, they've been so egregious and obvious that I think it's turned a lot of people up.
Even rational, kind, compassionate, progressive people are like, enough. This is fucking stupid.
Yeah. Yeah.
Especially when you hear the anti-stuff. It's not just pro-whatever-you-are.
It's anti-whatever-you're-not. Yeah.
And then you realize, okay, this is not rational.

This is cult-like thinking, and this is a thing where if you don't agree, the punishment

is very grave.

They'll go after you so hard if you don't agree with them.

Then you kind of realize what it is.

And then eventually they start to eat their own.

Yes.

You can never be progressive enough.

No, no, no.

The mob's always going to turn on, no matter who you are and how righteous you pretended to be um so and i agree with it yeah good people with good intentions you know in mixed in but i think a lot of people saw this as a terrific opportunity right and i also think that what it what it taught me was that, yes, I am racist. I hate elite progressive white people.

More than, I just can't stand them. It's the one group that I would say that I just can't stand because there's something about them.
I feel sorry for them. I feel like at this point in our culture, the divisions are so fucking crazy.
And it's so counter to what America should be standing for, which is a United States, united country, a community, a large group of people that all agree on a few very key rules, one of them being freedom. And I think that seems logical.
Yeah, we got to stop. This division is set up not by us.
It's set up by world leaders. It's set up by the media.
It's set up by the people who benefit from keeping us divided. Most of us agree on a lot.
And one of the things you're seeing is like from all these USA disclosures is the mainstream media cannot ever say that anything this administration is doing is positive. So even if they find unbelievable corruption, and they've found some really wild shit, like, what was the $4.7 trillion in untraceable money? Oh, yeah, yeah.
I sent that to you, right? yeah, you did yeah that was that was doge, you know was

digging through

the

You know essentially the way that money is audited within the government and they look at

the the the data sets and how things are divided and how you have to explain what's going on and

The idea is that there's there there's a lack of links to payments outgoing payments budget line items so this payment goes out what is it for right you I mean it would be the same thing if you had a well I do I have a business and in that business you have to know what you're spending your money on right I mean that's a logical thing I'm not a rocket scientist. But what they're saying is that they've, well, there you go.

Yeah, here it is. So it's a treasury access symbol.
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Did it go to pay a vendor? Did it go to pay rent? Did it go to pay staff? Who bought a jet? Who bought a jet? Yeah. By the way, when a company buys a jet, it's usually, that's a key fraud indicator.
If a company buys a jet, all companies? Not all companies. The UFC bought a jet.
Not all companies. Let me just make a note of that.
UFC, jet. No, what I mean is obviously it's not like if it's Nike or an established large business.
But you're making so much money you can buy a jet. Right.
If you've got a business in a space and it's a growing business or it's a new business or a startup, whatever,

a purchase of a jet usually is a fraud indicator on the list of all the fraud indicators. It means you cashed in your meme coin.
Yeah. I'm not cashing.
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The offer is for new customers only. Have you thought about a Mike Baker meme coin yet? You know what? It's funny you say that.
It seems like it's legal gambling is what it is.

And it seems like even though it's horrible to do and very unethical to dump it, to pump and dump it, it seems like that's legal for some weird reason.

Because I know that's the turmoil around the Hoctua coin and that's the fear about the Trump coin.

And I think – didn't the president of Argentina do a pump and dump as well? Allegedly. Well, allegedly.
What did he do, Jamie? That is getting way messy this week. I wasn't even going to speculate.
Tell me. There's all sorts of shit going on with that.
What do you think is happening? Papazilla had a video come out. Of course he did.
Late last night. He's the guy you do not want investigating your shit coin.
Yeah. Some guy's admitting to stuff that I didn't sound.
They're admitting? Yeah. That's right.
I was like, I didn't even watch the videos yet. I'm just seeing the stuff on Twitter.
We were trying to figure out is a way to do it where you don't pump and dump it because anybody can kind of make money now which is so strange. And we're like, we make a JRE coin.
What if we didn't dump it? What if we didn't pump and dump it? What would it be for? How can you just do that? The regulations have not caught up yet, right? No. Any new emerging business, industry, technology, I think there are people who look and go, there's an opportunity here because regulatory policy hasn't caught up.
Right. And so Bob's.
Well, Dave Portnoy's been paying attention to all this, and he's been buying coins and

tweeting about them and then selling them, and he's been making a lot of money.

And he's like, am I going to jail?

Like, what is this?

Because, you know, you're making real money.

Didn't he make like a million dollars off of one of them?

I don't know.

He's involved in this too now.

It reminds me of-

He's involved in what?

Which one?

The Argentina thing?

That's what I don't know. Well, fill me in, dog.
I'm trying to find out. It's called Libra coin, I think.
I don't know if that's the same as the Argentina coin. Libra coin! I think that's what it is.
They're going through whether or not he knew stuff before, or who told him, and what did he know. The Portnoy? And when did he know it? He's.
Yeah. He's pretty careful.
I doubt he did anything illegal.

I wouldn't assume so.

Also, he's so wealthy, he doesn't have to do anything illegal.

I was going to say.

But then again, people get fucking crazy greedy.

Yeah, they do.

How much is enough?

Well, they hang out with other billionaires.

That's the problem.

Yeah, and you're always comparing yourself to the guy who's got $3 billion.

You got $1 billion, and you're not.

How the fuck can you have that much money and not be happy?

That's the part I don't understand.

Well, that's what gets weird, but I get it. if i hang out with elon musk i feel poor so does everybody else on the planet yeah yeah you know he's still the richest guy when you meet like really really rich people you feel poor even if you're really wealthy well that's the funny that's the funny thing with him i always think like right now the past couple of weeks in particular it seems like people are just losing their shit and dropping onto the feigning couch over the idea that he's accessing your your your private information right what's he gonna do he's accessing your private information you think okay well first of all i don't think the guy is is looking to scam you out of 500 bucks right yeah the argument's good like he shouldn't be able to scan your information but yeah also is there any any evidence that he's doing that? And here's the other question.
Who else has access to this? Well, it turns out- Just about every company out there. Turns out a lot of people have access to this.
Even students that are interns who work in the department have access to this. Yeah.
I think what they're doing is they're- They're making an argument, and it's a good one, right? If you have a- Look, if he was evil, if you do have this evil billionaire who wants to control the world and has access to everyone's credit card and just steals all your money or does whatever didn't that used to be jeff bezos i thought i thought he was the guy who they were focused on who was it you know for a while but he's just balling jeff is just like hanging out on his yacht it's bagging his wife. Like, he's having a good time.
That sounds a lot better than like chasing government waste and fraud. Yeah.
I remember when Elon Musk was criticizing him for not working hard enough. I'm like, wait a minute.
What is work for? That guy's got $200 billion. I think you can chill.
Yeah. When you get $200 billion, then it's time to get that fucking crazy yacht.
Yeah, once you start launching your own rocket ships. Yeah, you got a rocket ship like a dick.
You're literally trying to fuck space. That's Austin Powers.
Yeah, have a good time. I like the way Jeff Bezos is doing it.
Yeah. I mean, but I appreciate the fact that Elon is so psychotic in his drive.
It's bizarre, but also in the face of overwhelming hate. Oh, my God.
It is... I mean, part of me finds it very entertaining.
Part of me just looks at it and goes, oh, you got to... I mean, I think they...
What they're having a problem with is two things, is the messaging and the means of doing this, right? Everybody, you would think, would agree that, oh, you're going to go through government spending with a fine-tooth comb?

You're going to fine the waste and abuse and fraud?

Fantastic.

Well, this is one of the things that Clinton ran on and implemented during his first term.

Actually implemented.

Very effectively, by the way, and it was a huge boon to our economy.

But again, the messaging was different and the means were different.

The Democrats were different.

That was a different kind of a Democrat. That was the kind of Democrat I would vote for right now.
I'd vote for Bill Clinton, despite all the blowjobs and all the crazy shit. Well, but you weren't involved in that, so- I think that they all did that.
I think you get two types of people who want to be president, pussyhounds and warmongers. I prefer pussyhounds.
Well, but you could be both. Yes.
You could be Genghis Khan. Yeah.
You could use both. Good use of the pronunciation, Genghis.
Well, I'm actually listening to an amazing podcast. I'd love to recommend to everybody because Elon recommended it on X and I've been listening to it.
It's fucking great. Fall of Civilizations podcast.
They're doing a series on the Mongols right now. Terror in the Steps.
And I am listening to it right now, so that's why I'm saying Genghis correctly. Okay, no, that's great.
Alright. They even explained the pronunciation.
They explained where it came from and how it got fucked up over the years of translation into languages that didn't have cheng and they didn't have a sound and so cheng is Khan Became Genghis Khan, you know, especially when European languages started translating it. Yeah, that makes yeah Everything I know about Khan I learned from Mulan, you know, I didn't even fucking know about this whole story until the 1800s They they found a Chinese book and the Chinese book was written they thought it was nonsense they couldn't figure out what it was saying because it was written where the Chinese characters made the Mongol sounds of the words and so they had to translate it from Chinese to the Mongolian language and then they realized this was the history of Genghis Khan and the Khan Empire.
Okay, yeah.

It's fucking the secret history of the Mongols.

It's fucking amazing.

This podcast is fantastic.

Yeah, that does sound great.

Because, again, I think when you consider how we're all apparently carrying some of his DNA around.

Not us.

Yeah.

Not us.

Not Europeans.

Mostly Asians, right?

Okay.

Well, I have a little Asian. I mean, I have like 1% Asian.
Really? Yeah. Yeah,.
Not us. Not Europeans.
Mostly Asians, right? Well, I have a little Asian. I have like 1% Asian.
Really? Yeah, 1% Asian. Close to 2% African.
But I'm from Sicily. My ancestors, and so I think those are the ones that got raped by the Moors.
That's in the movie True Romance. Remember? Oh yeah, remember that scene? Yeah.
Christopher Walken. Christian Slater? No, not Christian Slater.
Christopher Walken. Who was it with him? True Romance.
There was a whole series of people. Bruce Dern.
Right. Who's laying there? No, Dennis Hopper.
Dennis Hopper. Dennis Hopper.
That's right. Christopher Walken and Dennis Hopper, right? Is that who it was? Yeah, that's who it was.
I remember they had a scene together that I remember.

Fuck, that movie's good.

Yeah.

Fuck, that movie's good.

That is a great fucking movie.

But yeah, I think if they had come in, if the administration had come in and said,

here's what we're going to do.

We are going to root out waste and fraud.

We're going to go after every dollar that's not spent on behalf of the American public and our national security and advancing American interests. And we're going to do it in this efficient, you know, manner.
But, you know, and again, don't get me wrong. I think sometimes, you know, the disruption of fast action is extremely beneficial at times.
And sometimes you can't see the benefit until other things happen Outside the bubble that we may be looking in but I think that If they had if they had messaged it a little bit differently and then with the means of rather than taking a blowtorch to everything Because and again not saying that it can't be effective, but what I'm saying is that they're losing They're losing I think important Opportunity from a goodwill perspective. And I know they probably don't give a fuck anymore.
But all those people who voted for them this time around gave them that chance that didn't the previous time. They said, oh, fuck it.
I'm so tired of the Biden administration and all this bullshit. they you know they need to see i think more stability less chaos and i think the democrats

are very good i think we all thought perhaps that the the progressives the democrats were just going to go into a cave and hide but they're regrouping right and they're they're they're starting to come back they're growing they're all getting on testosterone yeah yeah that's right suddenly the toxic male is is very attractive uh you know shame they don't have any but um i any. But I think that if you give them ammunition, obviously they're going to take advantage of it.
Yeah, for sure. And I think some of the approach to this, again, not saying it's wrong in the sense of let's find that waste and fraud, but they're giving them opportunities to start firing back.
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I think the problem is they're trying to do it very quickly because they want to get a lot done before the midterms, right? So they only have 24 months to enact real change. And, you know, did you see Kevin O'Leary talking about on CNN? He was saying they're not doing enough.
They should cut more. He's like, if you want to, because he's talking about it from an entrepreneur's perspective, if you're taking over like a failing company that's filled with bloat and waste, and he's like, that is the government.
He goes, you've got to cut more. He goes, cut everything.
Cut it all out, and then find out what's necessary and rebuild it from there. Well, I would argue.
He's saying on CNN, and CNN, they're like, oh, oh, pennies are in a wad. Oh, my God.
Well, the five people that watch CNN still were probably. There's probably 20 Yeah, the thing about it is they're all united in their message whether it's MSNBC See I watched MSNBC the other day in the gym.
Oh my god It was awesome motivation to work out because these people look Morbidly obese and they were given they they had this language that they were speaking It was like like, almost like they were translating from another language.

Like it was all like,

it didn't make sense.

It's like,

you know,

we're in danger.

You know,

we're,

it was the way they were talking.

It's like,

my people feel,

my people feel like they're in danger.

Like they're being criminalized.

We are,

you know,

we're being,

we're being pushed out of society. We're being told we don't exist.
And then you, of course you have to say you're an ally of the LBGT. You have to be an ally.
They're digging their heels in on all that stuff though, which is, that's not going to win anymore. That's, that's too crazy.
Even like kind progressive people realize like, you know, you've done a weird thing with women's sports. You've done a weird thing with the safety of women in bathrooms.
And it's not to say that some of these people who are legitimate trans people who really do just want to use the women's room and be treated like a woman. That's true, too.
But you open the door for perverts and you're not admitting that. You're just allowing guys with beards and hard dicks to wander around the women's room and how tough is it to just have a have a Whatever a unisex bathroom right most places a lot of places do right so you can find as long as it's not a big bathroom The problem is a group if it's all single bathrooms, but that's not economically feasible at like a stadium, right? You know and that's that's where it becomes a problem And then it's also this like weird cultural line where be like which bathroom do you get to use is like this is like a thing in congress right because that one trans person in congress who by the way said that they do not want to use the women's room so it's not even an issue yeah no i and i think that's how i said they that was very good right you're you're you're that's the line you're very sensitive say that.
God damn, Rogan is so sensitive. But I think if most folks, right, who are in alternative lifestyles, however you want to put it, I think, yeah, they just want to get on with it, right? They want to be accepted.
They don't want to make, you know, people make a fuss over and they just want to move on. And then you've got a small minority That just can't seem to get enough attention and when they can't get enough attention then they do something You know even more wacky I don't it's a problem with a lot of the people that are quote-unquote leftists in general is that they've been Bullied and picked on all their life and they've been fucked with and now they have a gang And now they're gonna go fuck with other people.'s not much of a gang though.
Is it really it's online? That's true. The words they use online.
They say it's like very attacking. Yeah, you know, it's like this is like a core aspect of Progressives right now online is that when they're tweeting about stuff and when they're posting about stuff It it's very aggressive and very angry and insulting.
Yeah. And that this is their way to demean, whether it's Pete Hegseth or Cash Patel or any of these people that are involved, or RFK Jr., any of these people that are involved, even Tulsi.
It's like the way they're doing it. It's not about policy or agreeing or disagreeing about perspectives or the way they're choosing to govern.
It's not that. Well, I think they're angry because for a while, the mob rule was working.
And everybody was being silenced from the bullying or the fear of being bullied. And it lasted for so long.
It lasted for years. You think about it.
It lasted until Elon bought Twitter, really, realistically. Yeah.
Because if he hadn't done that and they were all controlled by the left, do you think Facebook would have loosened up their grip? No. I don't think so.
Well, look, Meta, Alphabet, they're all kind of rewriting, toning down their DEI policies, right? I think that's also because Zuckerberg started doing jiu-jitsu. I really do.
They started taking testosterone for a change. Yeah, shout out to Jacques Machado.
Yeah. Jiu-jitsu changed your mind, man.
It'll change who you are. You'll realize there's reality in this world.
He's looking a lot more manly. He does.
He looks a lot more manly. Yeah.
He's got a thick neck now. I think that has a lot to do with it because you start looking at things from a more libertarian perspective, from a merit-based perspective.
Well, also, you're burning fuel. You're feeling better.
You're focused on something other than your own inner angst or how do you fit in with this? Again, look, everybody just should be able to live their life. Absolutely.
That's we all need to concentrate on everybody just live as long as you're not hurting anybody else with the way you live your life exactly live your life if you want to wear a dress god bless you yeah yeah god bless everybody but just be nice and i think most of the people the reason why they're not nice is because people have been not nice to them you know that's that old expression hurt people hurt people yeah and the way to to fucking unite us is not to keep hurting people it just doesn't make any sense to me no i think and it's simple enough i honestly i don't i don't care someone's got an alternative lifestyle now i don't need to play along with their the imaginary idea that a dude's gonna have a baby or can you know i like breastfeed or whatever there's this one uh tiktok person who trolls oh god and i don't know if it's a biological woman, because that's one thing that the trans people are very upset with. There's a lot of like really hot OnlyFans girls that are pretending to be trans, and they put like a fake dick in their underwear.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And they're like super hot.
And so the actual trans people are very upset, and get ready for this. Their argument is my identity is not a costume for you to wear like wait a minute hold on a second hang on because that's a real woman bro you're already doing that with her like and like she's just got a rubber dick in her pants for money there's no there really is no i keep waiting for jamie to throw one up on the screen.
I'm like, oh, my God. Yeah, there's no self-awareness or sense of irony.
So this one lady who's like, I think it's a lady. I think she's a lady who's a troll.
And she said that she went to some country and got a chromosome change and a uterus installed. And she's pregnant and she like and i just read the comments and people are fucking going crazy it's a bunch of like sub 90 people iq people in the comments just fucking having strokes that's that is the best part when somebody throws some shit out there and people buy into, right? I love it.
Well, I buy into some of the dumb ones sometimes.

I have to send them to Jamie.

Me and Jamie have to sort out what the fuck is real now.

It's so hard to tell.

I see things from myself that aren't real.

I saw me doing, or I didn't see me.

I heard my voice over some narration of something, of some TikTok story.

And I was like, I never saw this.

I never, this is not me saying this.

It's all done through AI.

I'm like, this is crazy.

You're a prime case study for the impact and effects of, and the sort of the, you know,

the downside of AI.

Oh, for sure.

With my voice.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know, I guess now with video as well, you know, if you wanted to have a podcast video of me doing something. Oh, absolutely.
Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty wild now that, I mean, we have a little bit of a problem where a bunch of people are selling like cheap things online and using my voice and we have to get them removed.
Okay, yeah. But that's just, you know, that's his opportunists are taking advantage.
You know, I'm selling protein powders that I've never seen before, all that kind of shit. Right.
They're doing that with my voice. I mean, there's very few.
We've talked about it before. There's very few because the idea was always sort of detection, right? Okay, we've got to create better systems to detect deep fakes.
Right. But now I think the focus has rightly shifted from sort of the detection to more proactive protection of material, right?

So get it at the moment of creation.

Embed the ability within the video clip, the audio clip, whatever, to show that you've got proof of whatever you want to call it, reality, credibility, authenticity.

And that's the way it's all going because you just can't keep up.

If all you have a question, that you've got proof of whatever you want to call it, reality, credibility, authenticity.

And that's the way it's all going because you just can't keep up.

If all you're doing is trying to create better systems to detect deep fakes, it's a losing game.

It's like battling terrorists because you're coming up with an idea to prevent a terrorist attack based on the last terrorist attack,

and they're on to something else.

Right.

So it's an interesting world. There's not that many companies out there that are doing a great job of it, but there are some.

It's going to get to a point where it's impossible to tell. I think that's not far away.
I think we're there. Yeah.
Honestly. It's pretty close.
Most people aren't curious, right? Most people are, or they don't have time, or they're not cynical, right? And so most people are willing to look at something and go, yeah, you know mean unless it's just clearly bullshit but for the most part if it's if it's a half decent uh fake right i think most people are will accept it and move on i like the ones that are they're obvious they're really good but they're obvious fakes like you see the one with kamala harris after she lost presidency she's wearing a bikini top walking with a beer it says unemployed yeah yeah that's good i mean but it's obvious that it's not real yeah so it's okay like the ones where trump's playing the guitar and then there's all these other people like putin's in the background with the drums have you seen that one that is good there there's there's one where i haven't i don't think i've seen the one with him playing the drums but i've seen them where there's a whole series of world leaders and they're in a ballad together. It's fantastic.
The one with Trump playing guitar, I think they're doing, it's Fortunate Son, right? It is, right? I think it's on my Instagram, right? Creedence Clearwater Revival. It's so good, and it's obviously fake.
That's why I like it. It's like, it's not tricking me, but I'm like, wow, that's really good.
And it's interesting. Again, talking about regulatory policy not catching up, what do you do? If you were in Europe, you could be fined and jailed in a case for pushing something that's disinformation or whatever.
Or you're just goofing. Yeah, you can't goof.
But you can you know if it's an obvious into your point if it's an obvious goof then okay you can probably get away with maybe not if you're in Germany or somewhere but Germany's going crazy they are going crazy and then and they were happy with JD Vance's speech I'll tell you that much they wonder why nobody in the EU was happy the head of the Munich Security Conference literally cried after the speech when they were addressing EU leaders following the speech, right? Talking about, you know, the impact and what it might have meant for U.S.-EU relations and everything. Literally tears being shed over J.D.
Vance's speech. What was it about his speech in particular that was offensive? Well, I think what they were anticipating at the Munich Security Conference was he was going to come in and he was going to talk about, obviously, the number one topic on the table for them was Ukraine.
And where are we going with that? Because obviously, the EU leaders are now very concerned about US commitment to NATO. What is the Trump administration planning on doing in terms of further support for Ukraine, really further support for NATO? They look into distance themselves.
And Vance instead came in and didn't really focus on any of that shit. He turned it on to the European Union and to EU countries in the UK, the UK in particular, talking about how their biggest threat isn't necessarily Russia or China.
Their biggest threat is what they're doing to themselves in terms of suppressing free speech from all the various groups out there, including conservative groups, far left, whatever, determining that, you know, this this type of speech is illegal. We're going to pursue you.
We're going to find you. We're going to jail you.
Armed raids against people that are pushing content online. So he made the anti-immigrant content, anti-immigrant content.
But to be fair. Right.
I mean, most of Europe at this point is pretty fed up with the immigration policies that their leaders. Which is why they want to suppress the dissent online.
Exactly. They're not doing it because they genuinely think this is a moral and ethical thing to do.
They're doing it because they sense an uprising. Yeah, and they rightly should.
Look, Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor, he's not getting reelected. And their election is coming up here shortly.
Yeah. And so he's not – it's not going to happen for him.
So I think, yeah, they're rightly – not rightly, but they are concerned about their own political power. That's not – That's what it is, and that's what people need to understand.
It's not rocket science. It's not that the Europeans are the kinder, more progressive.
No, it's like they understand that it's coming, and they want to do everything they can to stop it because most people are fed up. Most people just want to be left the fuck alone.
And if you tell them that they can't put a flag meme on one of their Facebook pages, or they get arrested, which is what happened in Germany. Yeah.
So if you talk about the immigration problem, and you say, look, we got to stop this, we got to maybe secure borders. If you talk about the Ukraine war and say, I don't think we should be supporting dumping more resource into Ukraine, all those things, or reproductive rights, if you're on the wrong side of that from a European perspective, you know, they're coming after you.
And so that's what J.D. Vance came after.
He turned the tables on them and focused on that. And that was, A, it was completely unexpected.
And B, I think, you know, the reality of it, the fact that it's truthful, I think upset a lot of them. It's truthful, and it also appeals to their citizens.
That's the thing. The citizens say this is the way we want our government to talk.
Yeah. And I think it's funny because a lot of people on, you know, there's a lot of people on social media right now going, oh my God, you don't realize how hated, you know, you are now as Americans and the U.S.
is so hated. And I think like I spent most of my time overseas, right? And most people are going, yeah, it seems like it's common sense.
You guys are finally coming around, right? And so I don't think they're going to win the argument that somehow the U.S. is more hated.
Look, we've been hated in a variety of locations. Well, we definitely are hated in Canada right now.
Oh, yeah. Is it a hockey game? See, we're booing the national anthem so hard.
They get in three fights in the first nine minutes. Yeah.
And then we kick Canada's ass. Sorry, Canada.
In Canada, which is not good because that's their fucking sport. That's basically their only shot at beating us at anything.
Yeah. Curling.
Curling. They might be able to win at that.
But if we practice it, we'd be better at that too. Yeah.
They make great mixed martial arts fighters. One of the greatest of all time.
George St. Pierre is from Canada.
Yeah. But after that.
Let me think. Get your football team.
Come fuck with America. I'm trying to think of other things that I could throw out there.
Maybe baseball. They got Blue Jays really good.
Molson. Yeah.
They have strong beer. Yeah.
They have great people. I love Canada.
I love the people. Likewise.
Yeah. It's just they're too nice and they let communists run their country.
Yeah. And that guy's a communist.
Well, it is one of those moments where you think, okay, I understand. I get your point.
The talk about turning Canada into a 51st state. That's a little crazy.
That's a little crazy. It's a little crazy.
He's serious. He told me on the phone he was serious.
At first I was joking around, but then I was thinking maybe it's not a bad idea. Now I think he keeps talking to him, refers to him as Governor Trudeau.

It's so funny.

You know what I love is I was just out of the Middle East for some things, including the amazing trek with the guys from the SF Club. And it was right during the period of time when President Trump announced his idea during that press conference with Netanyahu about, look, we're going to own.

The U.S. is going to own Gaza.
Did you see a look on Netanyahu's face when he was saying that? Yes. Netanyahu's like, what in the fuck did I get into? And now you know what they're all doing? The Israeli cabinet is fully on board with the idea, in part because I think they understand that, okay, look, this is probably not going to happen, but if we take this position, right, it's going to create chaos.
It's going to create some movement, right? And maybe that leads to something of interest. And I think when being out in the Middle East, when that idea came out and hearing some of the responses from people out there was amazing.
But what I like about it, look, you're not going to move 2.3 million Palestinians out of Gaza, right? Because none of the Arab states want them. The Egyptians have fought against this idea for years and years and years.
That's a good point. And some, maybe a lot of people aren't aware of, is that the wall on the side of Egypt is way bigger than the wall on the side of Israel.
That is an impenetrable wall that's heavily guarded. They do not want Palestinians coming into Egypt, which is kind of crazy.
Well, from their perspective, look, it's a security issue. And there's a lot of Palestinian refugees in Jordan, so it's not like Jordan hasn't tried to do their part.
But they also, what are they going to do, absorb another million, two million Palestinians? No. So the problem from an operational perspective is it's unlikely to happen, right? And also, do you really want the U.S.
buying and owning Gaza, right, and then being out there? You think that the cost of supporting Ukraine is high. Wait till you see what the cost of not only the reconstruction, but the security of the reconstruction, right? What that's going to mean.
You think there was a boon in private security contractors during the Iraq incursions? This will make that look like nothing. Right.
Because they got to guard their investments. Exactly.
So the costs involved, the potential for just never ending trouble. But what I do like about it is, look, now that the Arab states are responding by having a summit, right? They're having a summit at the end of this month, and they've been having little mini discussions amongst themselves, but all the key players in the area are now meeting to discuss what's an alternative, right? What is the way to make this happen? And, you know, it's not going to be by the U.S.
owning it and building the Riviera, right, or a series of casinos. But the Arab states are having to react.
And so what that means is nothing's worked beforehand, right? Nothing in terms of two-state, you know, option, other security agreements, peace agreements that have held for some period of time and then fallen apart. None of that shit's worked.
So I think the sort of the disruptive aspect of sometimes of what Trump does, even though you may look at the idea on the surface and go, it's not going to work. You have these other effects, right? And so now you've got the Arab states having to respond, coming up with these ideas.

They're already, over the past couple of days, saying, well, Hamas can't play a role.

If you had said that a year ago, Egypt and Qatar and some of these other Arab states out there would have gotten on board with the idea that Hamas has got to go, that wouldn't have happened, right?

I mean, before the 7th October attacks.

Right.

They're also talking about rebuilding it themselves. They're like, we'll do it, we'll do it.
Just back off, we'll do it, we'll take care of it. Which is great.
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That's because they know what the problem is. And they haven't been willing to admit it before.
But because the Trump administration has thrown stuff at the wall to see what sticks, they've got to respond. And so now they're coming up with these ideas.
Look, Hamas, you know, they are a shell of what they were, right? But they're still supported by the Iranian regime, which is a big problem, right? And the Iranian regime, you know, do you think they don't want peace? They don't want stability, right? That's not in the books. One of the benefits from their perspective of the 7 October attacks was that it completely scuttled the normalization talks that were going on between Saudi and Israel and the U.S.
at the time. So, you know, they're going to continue to be a problem.
But Hamas, you know, is now kind of on its back foot. The Palestinian Authority is saying, well, we'll come in and we'll govern Gaza.
Well, the Israelis are saying no no that's not gonna happen either because you guys are You know peas in a pod right and and you know Palestinian Authority has a program where they actually pay the families of people who killed Israelis, right? What's it's called the pay to slay program. Really?

Yeah. Oh, yeah.
That's what it's called? Yep. Pay to slay.
How much do you get paid? You know what? I'm not sure what the going rate is now, but for out there, it's a payment, ongoing payments to families who have family members who have attacked, wounded, or killed Israelis. And so, you know, that plus, you know, other ties between Hamas and the PA.
And look, there's been animosity, obviously. Hamas drove the Palestinian Authority out of Gaza years ago.
But, you know, the Israelis see it as the same. And so, you know, my point being is the Arab states are now reacting, and you could end up with something that actually works works as opposed to all the bullshit in the past that never did work and always continue to provide nothing for the Palestinian people.

And if you say, look, all this is about is we want the Palestinians to live a better life, then you should want new ideas thrown at the wall.

And you should want something that eventually is going to work.

And from a U.S. perspective, you should want something where the Arab states actually take it on board themselves.

The other thing is, should want new ideas thrown at the wall, right? And you should want something that eventually is going to work. And from a U.S.
perspective, you should want something where the Arab states actually take it on board themselves. There's also a problem with the reality of the region at this point, right? It's like, what do you want to happen to that area? Because someone has to rebuild it.
Look, absolutely Israel shouldn't have done what they did and kill who knows how many innocent people and literally destroy most of the buildings there. We all can agree that's a horrible thing, but it's done.
So now what? Yeah, and we can also agree that it was not. Look, yeah, I agree.
It was a very aggressive action. I would argue that the U.S.
would engage in that same aggressive action if we had had a proportionate you know attack from Mexico yeah yeah yeah so or Canada right goddamn Canadians they're plotting something I just know

it so if if if you know so that's true but again it was a war that Hamas

started right they you know I think you have to go back to the beginning of this

one and yes there's fault on both sides of of course. But Hamas now at times has been acting like the aggrieved party.
It's fuck around and find out in the worst way possible. Yeah.
That's what it is. I mean, they gave Israel the green light to just go ham.
And now when you see the overhead drone footage of what Gaza looks like now, it's hard to even believe that it's real. Everything's gone.
Yeah, which I get it. I mean, from a real estate developer's perspective, I'm sure he's seen overhead imagery.
Going to turn it into the Mediterranean, the Middle East. This looks like a demolition site.
So let's clear it out. The real question is, if that doesn't, okay, then what? If you don't want that to happen, then what? If the United States doesn't take it over or who should and what do you do with it? And how do you get the money to rebuild it? And where does it come from? And how do you do it? Who do you bring in to rebuild it? Who governs it? How does that work? Who gets what building? How does it work? Yeah.
You know, it's a very complicated thing when you destroy an entire fucking city. Yeah.
Which is a... See if you can find some of that overhead footage, Jamie.
And when you're talking about, you know, moving out 2.3 million people to other areas. Yeah.
But look, I think, again, the answer is that the Arab states have to take this on, right? They finally have to address this issue. They've used the...
Some of them them have used the Palestinian issue to their own devices without doing anything to their benefit of the Palestinians. Look at this footage.
This is unbelievable. I mean, this looks like they got hit with an asteroid.
Yeah. It's unbelievable, the scope of it.
It's just insane. Yeah.
It's insane to see yeah dave smith had a very good take on this he

was on one of those pierce morgan everybody yells at everybody panels which are really fun for about five minutes but let me uh send jamie what dave said because dave had in my opinion the best take on this where it's like you see you you're like, okay, yeah, that's correct. This is the way to look at it, I think.
Yeah. Because it's like, yeah.
Look, again, I think unless, I don't know who would be on board, take it from beyond this sort of the initial sentence of the U.S. will take ownership.
Oh, here we go. I'm guessing if this is it.
I don't know if I... Is that Dean Cain on the right? No.
Yeah. It is? Yes.
Superman. I don't know if this is the right rant.
I didn't click it from you. I'll click the one you sent if you just said it.
Yeah, click the one I said it might is probably the same one

I thought sometimes I love these Pierce Morgan panels. You never know who you're gonna show up in one of those boxes and It's a bizarre mix of people Okay Yes, it's just like the commentary for Wimbledon where we just don't say anything I think.

Pictures of Gaza?

Are you telling me there was Hamas, there were Hamas missiles in every single one of those buildings. That's the entirety of the story is that Israel just had to blow up this building, which, by the way, still, I don't think would be morally justified.
But like, come on, man. Look, like it's just again, even to Dean's point, I always find this fascinating because somehow Americans could say this about the people in Hamas and go like, you know, like you said, yeah, I wouldn't like to be kicked out of my neighborhood.
But if my if my government had done October 7th, I'd accept it. Your government, Dean, destroyed Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, the drone bombing campaign in Pakistan.
So, like, what can you get kicked out of your house now? Is it not ethnic cleansing if we were to kick you out of your neighborhood? This is so ridiculous that we impose these standards on these poor people that we would never dream of holding ourselves to that standard. It's just it logically makes absolutely no sense.
And it doesn't really matter what Hamas's approval rating is in the same way that it doesn't matter that George W. Bush had record high approval ratings.
That doesn't mean that the innocent civilians in the United States of America are fair game and neither should any other group of civilians. Perfectly said.
Yeah. Yeah.
No, I mean, look, if you could do surgical strikes and do nothing but kill Hamas terrorists. Great.
Yeah. But, you know, that's not the real world.
Dave's talking about a world that we don't exist in but I would argue like and that's this is where we would differ I like Dave Smith a lot and I think he's incredibly intelligent but you know we fundamentally look at things sometimes in a different worldview because of our experiences right and my experience has been dealing with a lot of hostile actors who, you know,

you may look at and think, okay, well, can't we just, I don't say we'll get along,

but they exist and we exist and do we really, that's not the world we work in, right?

And urban combat is really ugly.

It's not dismissing, you know, the horrific nature of it and the fact that, yeah, sure, in a perfect world, it's morally repugnant. And it is, you know, but it's the world that we live in.
So I think, okay, on one hand, I get what he's saying, and I don't disagree on that moral side of things. But, you know, from my background, I don't tend to live in that world.
I tend to live in sort of the operational side of things. And, you know, sometimes you have to do things that are not good.
But even as extreme as that? Well, yeah. That's the thing.
It's like, it's so extreme. Oh, I know.
And I don't disagree. And they have, they went above and beyond.
There's no doubt about it. But to my point, and I think to kind of what he was saying, look, we, you know, if.
We went above and beyond from a proportionate standpoint. And we felt certainly justified in doing it.
I mean, we did. America finally came together as a group, as opposed to the partisan way that we live now.
But we were justified based on a lie, which is even crazy because they used that justification and went after a group of people that had nothing to do with it based on a lie of weapons of mass destruction. Yeah.
Which is even crazier, right? We went to a completely different country. Yeah.
Well, I think Hamas also – these are disjointed statements and I'm not really tying it all together very well at all. But there's also this element that Hamas doesn't give a shit about the Palestinian citizens right the civilians I mean and you know if they did they wouldn't conduct their their operations their methodology would be different right they wouldn't they wouldn't bury themselves in their operations and their command centers and everything that they do right there their depots, their missile weapons supply centers within the public environment, right? They just wouldn't, right? Well, they probably never expected this.
Yeah, I don't know. I don't- There's no way they would have done October 7th if they expected this response.
Well, there's no way that the Iranian regime, I think, would have allowed them to do this if they anticipated they would get this sort of response. So I think you're right.
But, you know, and again, you know, this is the problem. People only hear what they want to hear, right? So they hear me say from an operational perspective, I kind of, I understand that they had an aggressive response, but then they stopped listening, right? So what I'm saying is, was it over the top? Well, yes, it was over the top.
And could they have been more surgical about this? Well, yes, they certainly could have. Could they have prevented some loss of civilian life? Well, yes.
Would that have been a difficult? Well, yes. Why? Because Hamas puts themselves in the center of civilian life there.
They know this is what's going to happen. This is their currency.
Dead Palestinians, that drives their narrative. And they always know it's going to turn against the Israelis as we're having these discussions.
That's what happens. And they've got enough of a track record to know that's what's going to happen.
So they use it to their advantage. But, you know, again, it doesn't excuse the killing.
I keep coming back to that same thing. You could have, you know, disparate multiple thoughts in your head at the same time, right? You can feel bad about that.
And at the same time, you can go, yeah, it was fucked up what they did on 7 October. You're going to go after Hamas.
And then what you're going to find is urban combat is really, really fucking ugly, right? And you're going to have casualties that you really, really regret having. Were there more than needed? I would say yes.
They didn't need the extent of their response. But I understand their mindset for why they went so hard after Hamas.

This is decades and decades, you know, built up saying no more. Right.
We can't put up with this anymore. Now, again, the problem is, you know, the problem is not that it's not really Hamas.
I keep coming back to the same thing. The problem is that the instigator of all this trouble, the instigator of the vast majority of chaos and instability and violence and death in that region is the Iranian regime.
Most Arab states will agree to that. Maybe not the Yemenis, right? But most of those Arab states are not going to be sad to see the Iranian regime fall for this very reason.
Everybody wants a better life, right? However they perceive it. The Iranian regime, you know, the mullahs and the IRGC, you know, they've got a stated objective, and they are pursuing that.
As long as those people are in charge, right, you know, ultimately we're not going to get a big sea change here. We're not going to get a huge shift in the way things go.
But if you want a better life, then you got to look to the whatever you want to call it, the head of the snake or the top of the mountain. There they are, the Iranian regime driving a lot of this chaos.
So anyway, I'm getting away from the point, but I don't disagree with Dave. I always like a lot of the things that he says.
I just think that we come at it sometimes from a much different perspective. I don't tend to believe that the world is full of of uh good actors who are just trying to create a community of nations perspective either i don't i well yeah um yeah i'm not putting it i'm not putting it well but i think what i mean is that there's it's not what i was having a conversation the other day and it was about U.S.
involvement in a variety of groups, activities, associations over the years looking to topple governments, looking to change the direction of a government. All the nefarious things that the CIA has been accused of over the years.
And I was like, well, god damn, what did you expect? Of course that's what we're doing, right? Of course we're trying to influence hearts and minds. Of course we're infiltrating organizations to try to influence the direction of a government that, you know, you go all the way back to the Cold War, right? We were convinced the Russians or the Soviets were going to blow us to hell, right? Of course, we're going to be doing a variety of things.
You want a government over there that's more friendly to you? Okay, how are we going to go about doing that, right? If that means VOA or Voice of America or that means infiltrating some organization that's going to try to win them? Yeah. So, you know, is that morally repugnant? I don't know.
But you think it's necessary i think there's there's a i think it's understandable uh and i think also um so what imagine a world without that yeah so if that is a vacuum and we stop doing that entirely altogether does that vacuum get filled up by another power yeah yeah that's i think this is the problem that's the problem is that we don't live in a world of benign nations who like if we're not the police you know at the top of the the food chain nobody needs to be there someone's going to fill that that gap and they're and you know what um maybe i'm maybe i'm wrong i'm but i've been around a long time and i've spent most of it overseas in unusual places um we a lot of mistakes as a country. It's a human endeavor but we do try to Correct and it can take time right it can take a lot of time.
We make a lot of mistakes. Of course we do but I've seen a lot of players out there and I'd rather have us and our allies Trying to direct traffic rather than some of the hostile actors that are out there because this is the best case scenario perspective worst case scenario perspective is that these policy changes that we are initiating and that we are influencing is for corporations to make more money it's to control resources and to control areas and to make things friendlier for business.
That's the worst case scenario is this is done in a mercenary fashion. But is that...
But that's what... I mean, that's what...
The Chinese regime? Sure, right. That's what...
But is that... Here's my question.
Is that just what happens? Like, when you do have the ability to control other regimes, isn't it almost logical that you're going to need a lot of money and you're going to need a lot of influence to do that?

And so there's going to be a bunch of people that say, actually, we could use some of those

minerals.

Actually, that natural gas is very valuable.

Actually, if we could destabilize Russia's energy systems and pump up Ukraine's and control it, that'd be pretty good. And so then we start initiating things and we start the coup in Ukraine in 2014 and a bunch of different things.
We started helping things along that would benefit us both geopolitically, but also geopolitically in the sense that you're controlling the geology geology of the land which is the real term geopolitical right yeah that's the real term right doesn't it have to do with like controlling regions well sure yeah and I think that it's yeah you're talking about national self-interest right I think in in the world that we actually live in every country is acting in its own self-interest So then it's also a national self-interest. That's kind of prostituted by corporations This is what people are worried about is that we engage in certain activity.
That's avoidable simply for profit Yes, absolutely. I don't think there's any doubt about that.
I um it's just what happens when you have a system like this right when you can influence foreign governments and you do have enormous amounts of resources and you do have the ability to change things and install a government that's more friendly to but if you're if you're not going this episode is brought to you by Call of Duty. All right.
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I'm going to do that. Let me go back to that.
I'll go to the cold war because that's probably our best example of what happens when you get, because you actually had, it wasn't just a unipolar world, right? You had the Soviets and you had the US. Yes, there was concern over life itself.
There was this concern over mutual destruction, but there was concern over influence. So the Soviets were busy in a variety of places.
Let's pick Africa, right? So in the mid to late 50s. Right.
As Africa was moving, you know, clearly strongly away from colonialism. Right.
And independent states started, you know, sprouting up. then there was this concern over, well, okay, the old colonial era is gone, right?

The Belgians aren't going to own the Congo, as an example.

The Congo is rich in resources, right? Uranium, cobalt, you know, diamonds, obviously. But let's take uranium.
The Belgians were running Congo when we were developing the bomb. And almost all that uranium came from the Congo, right?

So that's a good example of the U.S. looking and saying,

okay, are the Belgians good stewards of the Congo?

Well, no, right?

They were enslaving people and having them work in the uranium mines.

And we were taking that uranium and using it to build the bomb, the Manhattan Project. Now, all those years later, I mean, the Congo, you know, realized its independence, you know, Patrice Lumumba and all the rest of that history.
But now the Congo is wrapped up in conflict still. Why is it still in conflict? Because of its minerals.
Cobalt now is the key, right? I mean, uranium you can get from a variety of places, Australia and elsewhere, Kazakhstan and a variety of other locations. But cobalt, they've got maybe 60 percent, don't quote me on that, but I think it's about that, of the world's cobalt supplies.
What do you need cobalt for? Well, electric vehicles, batteries. So now the Eastern Congo is still in conflict.
That place is a mess. So if it's not the poorest, it's like the second or third poorest country in the world.
And isn't most of those mines, they're controlled by China? Well, a lot of them are controlled on the Eastern side by militias, right? Congo's been a difficult place for everybody to try to wrap up licensing agreements, right? But, you know, you've got 100-plus militias out there vying for control because it's money, right? And so I guess my point is, I mean, you know, it's good you brought up China because, yes, they've been busy trying to lock up a variety of locations in terms of critical minerals. And they've got a monopoly on refining those minerals essentially at this point in time.
But I just think it's, yeah, maybe what I'm surprised by because I'm so fucking cynical is the idea when you say it's corporate interests, it's government interests, it's self-interest of a nation to pursue and do these things, I'll be honest with you. I look at it and go, well, yeah, of course it is.
I don't know any other world, right? I don't know that we're not going to walk that dog back over a couple thousand years. People have been doing the same same fucking thing all human existence i would argue right so i just kind of look at it and i and i and i you know maybe because i'm not wired that way i don't sit around and go that's fucking wrong we have to rail against this yeah i'm a very simple person so i look at it and go yeah that's how it works and goddamn right i'd rather be on the top of the heap than you know not and you know as long as we're so this is like a pragmatic perspective i guess based on your experience overseas and your understanding of how these things are done is that if we don't do something if we don't act in some way to influence these governments and control these regions and do whatever we can to make sure that our interests are being, that we are the ones that are kind of directing the way things go.
Right. I would rather be directing how things are going than not.
And those are the two options. I think those are the two options because we're not going to live as a community of nations.
What are we going to do? I mean, hold hands and say, okay, everybody's going to live as a collective, right? Right. You know, so I know that, you know, I'm sure there's all sorts of flaws in the way that I'm thinking, but I'm a very civil person.
When I was in operations, you tell me what to do, I'll I'll do it right I never sat around and got angsty about anything because I just didn't see any point in it and so again pragmatic yeah yeah or just being a douchebag well there's a lot of people listening to probably come to that conclusion yes I think you're right yeah this is the reality of that job right and this is the reality of that job, right? And this is the reality of international relations. Yeah, I just, you know, and look, I'll tell you something.
Look, there are people over the years, I think, you know, the CIA leadership at times over the years. I'm talking, you know, all the way back to World War II and, you know, beyond certainly during the Cold War.
Alan Dulles is a good example of that where, you know, they legitimately would sit around and say, well, I, you know, as far as I know, we're not in the business of overthrowing countries, you know.

And you think like, well, that's bullshit.

Of course, of course that's what, you know, we're trying to do.

We're trying to influence countries because we want them on our side.

We want to create friendly governments that, yes, will be beneficial to our national security, our economic interests, all those things. So I've always been puzzled also by people who try to minimize that in a sense, right? I mean, you know, if you're doing something, then goddammit, maybe own up to it.
It's like John Brennan, who was a director at the agency, right? He's a relatively well-known former CIA official for a handful of reasons. He was very tight in the Obama administration.
But he said one time, I forget what year it was, but anyway, he talked about the business of the CIA. He says, we don't steal secrets.
God damn it, of course we steal secrets. That's the point of the exercise, right? You think the FSB or the Chinese intel apparatus isn't stealing secrets? What the fuck? Why was he saying that? Oh, you know, it's a kinder, gentler nation, right? He's trying to, like, sugarcoat.
That was a laughable statement, right? Well, why would you say something that's objectively true? I have no idea. Well, I mean, because, again.
Or objectively false, I should say. Maybe it's the world you want to live in, you know, instead of the one that we actually do have.
Right, but when you're doing it publicly, that's not what you're doing. It's a PR exercise.
It's a PR exercise, yeah. You're kind of pretending that we're different than what we are.
Yeah, or you're trying to convince yourself. Who knows? I don't understand the thinking.
I just know what he said. But I think it's an interesting comment from you know the director of an intelligence organization you know that is in the business of secrets so I'm sure you you've seen Mike Ben's take on USAID and what USA was really all about and yeah his perspective is that it's for everything that's too dirty for the CIA he sent USAID do you think there can be a rational though, that a lot of these things that seem ridiculous, like sending all this money to influence the votes in Pakistan or in India, and then we look at it like, why are we spending $21 million on education here and $2 million there? And these things are actually beneficial to the United States as a whole, because even though we're spending exorbitant amounts of money,

the results we're getting is we are maintaining peace

by being in control of certain areas where someone else would come over,

and then you'd get a regime that's not friendly to our interests.

Yeah, yeah, look, I mean, USAID traditionally,

like they were set up, what, during the Kennedy administration as an independent organization. Because at the time, I think that the thinking was, and they're not the only one that's set up as an independent agency.
But at the time, the thinking was we don't want it to be seen as like the U.S. administration is picking and choosing and driving sort of where the money's going, which, again, is kind of a strange way of doing things, right? It's coming from the fucking U.S.
government, right? So people aren't going to parse words or discern somehow that, okay, well, it's an independent agency. So I guess it's not really what the administration wants.
It's what the USAID wants. So, you know, is it, you know, were dollars going into programs that the idea was, can we turn this country around? Can we change, you know, is it, who is in charge? Is it Lumumba? Is it Sukarno? Is it, you know, God, pick any number of folks during that period of time and create a government that's more friendly to our interests? Again, I look at that and go, well, yeah.
Is USAID also projecting whatever they call it, soft power, diplomatic power? Well, sure. And that's another way of phrasing it, I suppose.
Were they also doing things like feeding the poor, providing medicines out there, doing actually legitimate things that I think sometimes people in a righteous world are like, well, that's exactly what they should be doing. Well, yeah, they should be doing that.
We should be. The USAT has got a lot of important programs that they run that actually help people around the world who don't have many options.
I think what the perspective of this administration has stated is that they're going to review all these programs and keep the useful ones. Yes.
And I think they're going to run it through the State Department, right? Is that the idea? They're going to run it. Yeah, they're going to slim it down.
They've already started. It'll be run through the State Department.
Great idea, right? Take off that. Don't pretend, right? I mean, it's a U.S.
government agency that people are going to assume. Some people will assume the worst no matter what, right? But yeah, fine.
Again, under the same theory that what you do is you go in and you say, we're going to go through every program, we're going to keep the ones that are important, and I would argue that's food aid, health aid, you know, whatever it may be. And, you know, shit can, all those others that are, you know, being really helpful.
You mean like the $251 million on transgender animal studies? Yeah. Is that helpful or not? Well, they have to figure out how to do those operations.
Yeah. No, I think, yeah.
So is there a waste in there? Of course there's waste. And are there programs in there that were designed to- So it's the baby with the bathwater? Is that what it is? Yeah.
That's the point is I think going in there and calling it all waste and fraud and a criminal organization, I think, is not the right messaging. I think that the American public would be fully on board if you simply said, again, we're going through, we're going to find the waste, we're going to focus on those programs that help people around the world legitimately.

But I think the problem is the people that are opposed to this administration are never going to see the good in anything that comes out, even if it does uncover undeniable fraud. I think we're just so dug in now, especially the fog of war post-election, which seems real in this country.

This fog of hate on both sides, gloating on the right and bitterness and anger and hyperbole as to the extent of what's happening on the left. It's all a constitutional crisis and a destruction of democracy and a real dictator that's in place.
And all the things that they feared coming into this election now have come to light in their eyes. Yeah.
No, I, again, I, yeah, that's, and that is the messaging that's gone out. You can see them coalesce around it.
You know, I think the first weeks after the election, there was confusion and, and, and, you know, sort sort of a they were going through that grief cycle on the left.

But now I think you're seeing that they are coming together on that messaging.

I think that now they're starting to get more focused.

They probably understand they'll probably take the House in two years.

So they're getting their shit together again.

But I think that, you know, and on the right side, I think, you know, you'd like to think that, you think that the gloating is a bit unnecessary, right? You, one, focus on getting shit done now. Not only is it not necessary, it's counterproductive.
It's counterproductive, yeah. And it just fuels the other side.
It's stupid. It's like this should be a uniting time for our country.
Well, again, and you would think that creating a more efficient government would be a uniting concept. Right.
And I think it could be. But I keep going back to that same thing.
I've never been particularly impressed with the messaging. And I get it when I say that people always, you know, on the right, come after me and go, oh, God, well, that's what makes Maga Maga.
You know, that's what makes, you know, Trump Trump is, you know, just and and and I don't disagree with sort of again, the benefits sometimes of being disruptive. But I do think that, you know, you you can't just look at USAID and say it's all it's a big old criminal organization.
Right. You should be a little bit more.
I mean, Kevin O'Leary, you mentioned him earlier. You know, for all that talk, I guarantee you, if he was, you know, if he had a large company, he wouldn't just shit can everything right off the bat.
I know maybe that's his implication. I think he's talking about failing companies.
Failing companies. When you take over a failing company that's filled with bloat and waste, you cut more out than even you think is necessary, and then you figure out what you need.
But there would be a thoughtful initial review phase in a corporate environment i think i would argue that that even he would do that he's not just gonna pull the pin and throw it in the room and say okay now let's see what we actually need well isn't what this administration has done is putting a pause on everything and that now and then they're doing an audit of things and then a review but that's not the way it comes across because in part because the media is not like you said They're not gonna give them a break right so even if they said that that's what we're doing And here's what how we're doing it here are the people on the transition team I mean, you know who are the people on on Elon's Doge team right I mean can you name half a dozen of them big balls big balls? Okay, it's all right fair enough. There's big balls.
There's the kid who deciphered those scrolls from pompeii using ai yeah genius i mean they're very it's very interesting because the approach is essentially uh he's mimicking the approach that elon used at twitter just you're you're saying okay i'm going to cut out 90 of this and see how it works yeah i just think that um and and again you know you got to go after the waste the fraud is there blow to course and blow it works. Yeah.
I just think that, and again, you know, you got to go after the waste, the fraud. Is there bloat? Of course there's bloat in the government.
Go after it. So your perspective is that, of course, there's waste, of course, there's fraud.
But if you don't understand international relations, if you don't understand this long tradition of supporting regimes that have our interests in mind, if we don't do that, someone else will. They'll gain control of these areas.
This is just the reality of the world that we live in, and we should be influencing other countries. Yeah, that's said a lot better than I could say it.
But yeah, that's what I'm saying on the international front, on the domestic front. I'm just saying, you know, go through all these organizations, right? But, you know, don't give the other side the ammunition to say, you guys are firing useful people, right? I hear this all the time now in the past few weeks.
It's like, oh, my God, they let this entire group of people who are going working on women's health issues. And, you know, and they're just, they're, they're giving them, um, ammunition that, that they don't need to by virtue of the way that they're, they're going about it.
And again, go about it, do it. That also, all I'm saying is it's, it's, it's the means of which they're doing it.
You can accomplish the same task and you can accomplish it quickly, right? It's not like your review process, you know. Well, how could you review USAID while this is all going on, while they're still able to spend money? Because they're still able to, if there is corruption, if they're still able to dump a bunch of money into a bunch of different projects and funnel stuff around and move stuff into these areas where it can't be traced, which is apparently where at least some of it goes.
Yeah. I would want, look, if you're doing a corporate fraud investigation, you don't walk in and say, there's fraud everywhere here, right, where everybody's going.
No, you don't. You go in and you do your investigation because you don't know what the iceberg looks like.
You don't know what's underneath the surface. So you want to be able to go through it in a methodical way.
And if you walk into the World Bank and say, we think there's fraud here in this department over here, right? And the World Bank, just as an aside, they have to ... If they think there's fraud somewhere, they have to notify the people that they suspect of fraud that they're going to initiate a fraud investigation before they do it, right? Right.
How fucked up is that? Pretty crazy. It's pretty crazy.
So anyway, that's- That gives them a little time. Gives them a little time.
So, you know, I don't know. Again, I respect the fact that they're actually making the effort.
I think that's great. I just, I'm not sure that it's, you know, there's an object in Washington, D.C., made up of lobbyists, defense contractors, self-interested politicians.
They're all like this. And Doge is obviously bumping up against them, particularly when they start now talking about Pentagon spending.
So I guess my point is it's complex. I don't know that blowing it up and then saying we're going to rebuild it.
It's like when Kash Patel or anyone else, you know, for an organization, they talk about the FBI. Let's raise it to the ground and start over.
What? You've got thousands and thousands of hardworking street agents out there doing very important work, right? You can't just say, okay, you know, we're suspending 30% of them, right? You got to go through and say, okay, well, where is the problem here? And is there enough time to do that? This is the question. Is this a more time-effective way of confronting the reality of what they're trying to accomplish, which is government efficiency, right? It government efficiency.
We don't believe the government is efficient We do see that there's at least some waste and some fraud, but it's not being chased down. They're gonna chase it down Mm-hmm.
Yeah, well, I think I would argue that you know They're gonna find this is a years-long process anyway no matter how much of a You know jump they get at the at the starting block that- Well, Mike Benz thinks it's going to take 50, 60 years. Yeah, I think he's right, right? I mean, well, okay, I don't think it's going to take that long.
I think if you're persistent about it, and I think your timeline is that you mentioned the midterms, that would be my focus, right? I want to get it well done before the midterm elections. Right.
Because I'm be concerned about losing the house. So you've got that runway to work with.
Then then go. But don't feel like you got to get it done in the first four weeks.

So there's a lot of messaging that you hear online that you've got to kind of decipher.

And one of them is the price of eggs for whatever reason.

The price of eggs is a big one that gets bandied about.

People need to understand what the price of eggs is all about. Well, one of the things is they killed a lot of chickens during the Biden administration because of this bird flu thing.
So they killed millions of chickens because the fear is that these chickens are going to, it's going to hop over to people. And right now I think it's only in geese and ducks.
Is that correct? Did it move to cattle? I think it has in some cases moved to cattle. Yeah.
But the question is like what happens? Is that treatable with antibiotics? Is this overblown? Like what is the actual reality of this pandemic, so to speak? This is why egg prices are so high. But then, unfortunately, it becomes a political talking point.
And so it's hard to get to the bottom of it because you're just trying to use it to cast blame. So they're trying to blame this administration on the price of eggs.
They're fucking up. Regular people are going to starve.
Yeah. Yeah.
Look, he's been in the office for 23 days. Egg prices haven't come down.
You guys were lied to. Well, guess what? It takes a long time for a chicken to be able to grow from a chick to an egg laying.
It takes months. Yeah, yeah.
So you're not going to get any discount in eggs anytime soon if they killed millions of chickens, which they definitely did. Oh, no.
It the old mad cow disease years and years ago, right? Sure. England had a big problem with that.
Yeah. Beef prices.
I had a buddy of mine who went to England and was living over there during the mad cow crisis. And to this day, he can't give blood.
Wow. Because it's a prion disease.
Okay. The idea is that if he does have it, what is it called? Jakob's Cruxfeld disease? I always fuck that up.
But what that disease, that prion disease is, is from cattle eating cattle brain tissue, which is so crazy. Or sheep's brains.
Yeah. Somebody at some point thought, you know.
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What we could do with all these sheep parts is we could feed them to the cows. Jesus Christ.
Grind them all up and then the cows eat them and get the prion disease and then they're fucked. Yeah.
The same thing, which by the way, happens to cannibals. It's the same thing with Papua New Guinea.
and the cannibals get that same sort of problem where the neurological, their body breaks down. Good God.
Yeah, good God. Yeah.
Did you ever hear the story about Rockefeller's kid? Was it nephew? Was it nephew that got killed and eaten by the- Yeah, he went over there to live amongst them, I think. Well, he went twice, and apparently the first time he went, he insulted them by trying to acquire one of their sacred things.
And the second time he went back, they decided to eat him. And they didn't find out about it for a long time.
I think he went missing in the 60s. Yeah.
We covered it, Jamie. Do you remember what year it was? I think he went missing in the 60s.
I remember that story. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There was debate over whether he was actually killed and eaten by the cannibals or not. Yeah, now they're pretty sure he was.
Yeah. And at least that's what they're saying.
Who goes back a second time? You piss them off once and you get away. I don't think he thought he pissed them off.
Oh, okay. I think he felt like they just couldn't come to an agreement on whether or not he could take home whatever sacred object he was trying to get from them i forget what it was but it was something that they would never sell or trade and he was insisting on it and they're like oh fuck this guy and then i think they had some time to stew on it yeah while he was gone and then when he came back like this dumb motherfucker's back can you imagine how surprised they were when he showed up again oh boy we're gonna eat him yeah they're probably.
Yeah, they're probably thinking of me. If he comes back, I'm going to fucking eat him.
I get the haunch. Yeah.
Yeah. Well, again, this is, you know, rich liberals.
Yeah. That's what he was.
He was a rich liberal who wanted to fix the world and travel around and went to a world that he didn't understand. Like, literally didn't understand.
Didn't understand what they were saying. Didn't understand the culture.
It fairly you know yeah i'm here to help you confusing you know in my own way yeah i'm gonna bring enlightenment to you yeah and also what a great story when you get back to the university oh yeah what i did yeah i went to papo new guinea he's so interesting you gotta wonder about his family who said yeah sure you should go back to papo new guinea yeah can you can see this cat? I'm just looking on Wikipedia. There's photos of this cat, like, with the people.
Yeah, I remember this. I remember kind of his...
Yeah. There we go.
So, 62. Hold on.
Go back up. It says, the first public report that Rockefeller was killed and dismembered.
Scroll up. And his long bones turned into weapons and fishing equipment yo wow was uh published by the associated press in march of 1962 a second investigated investigation later that year by a patrolman named wim van de wal on behalf of dutch colonial government came to the same conclusion van de wal was given a skull bearing no lower jaw and a hole in the right, the hallmarks of the remains that had been headhunted and opened to consume the brains, which he turned over to Dutch authorities who never asked him to write a written report and never asked him to verbally report his conclusion.
The information was apparently deemed politically sensitive, in part because of the fragile state of the Dutch Empire in the Indonesian archipelagoago and in part because of Nelson Rockefeller's Political celebrity in the United States the findings of Vander Waal's investigation are Restated in the written memoir of Anton van de Waal a success Successor missionary to van Kessel. Hmm the famous van Kessel I know I just added that because I thought he deserved it wow you'll get that you can find photos of that dude that's crazy because there's photos of him uh hanging out with the people that ate him i love that go out and investigate right oh this isn't the conclusion we wanted don't don't bother giving us a report keep that to yourself.
There he is. Yeah, I remember this guy with the glasses.
There he is. Go to that one right there.
No, the third one. The third one.
Yeah, that one. Look at that.
He's like, I'm going to eat you. Those classic 60s glasses, right? And look at the smile on his face when he's looking at that dude.
Oh, I know. Oh, look at them all.
Look at the guy behind the front guy. He's looking and he's going yeah and eventually they ate him oh crazy he looks such a nerd yeah what a moron well back in the day he thought he was being look at him soy boy even back then yeah yeah oh look like oh i'm having such a wonderful time with all of you people yeah yeah they're gonna eat you bro that is that is the we to cook you dance right there.
Yeah, you're fucking around in a place you don't understand and you don't understand that they have a long history of that. You think about his family.
Wouldn't his family have said, look, I got to tell you. Oh, God.
What is that? I don't know. I was just looking around.
Is that supposed to be him? I don't know. Oh, God.
Click on that. It could be anything.
Yeah. What is that image of? Does it say? Michael, that is him? No, no, no, no.
It says Michael Rockefeller. That's probably a picture that he took.
Oh. Yeah, it could be that.
Even more fucked up. Like, he already knew they were doing that? Yeah, I know.
That's right. Jesus, bro.
I'm sure this wouldn't be me. Someone brings out that.
Like, hey, check this out. We did that to this guy.
Yeah. Like, look at that fucking skeleton.
That is so creepy. I got to tell you, they look well fed.
I would worry about that, too. Yeah, that one guy on the right.
He's got a big old belly. Yeah.
Just been eating people. Yeah.
Well, a lot of them, they get bloated because of parasites, too. Yeah, that's true.
Yeah, tapeworms. 30-foot tapeworm.
Oh, God. Well, there you go.
Click on that one where the guys are holding the arrow right below that. Right below your cursor.
Yeah. Look, how fucking terrifying is that? Yeah.
Jeez. Imagine that guy.
You show him on the beach, and that guy's there. You're like, oh, fuck.
You think they do like a movie that gives you a a 10-second head start into the jungle and then track you down? I mean, honestly. Lenez Perce used to do that.
If I was in the tribe, I would do that, right? Why wouldn't you? I mean, it's entertaining. Yeah.
There's a famous story of a guy where they killed his friend, chopped him up, threw his guts on him, and then they gave him like I think a 30-second head start and he escaped. He did.
He hid in a beaver den. Nice.
That's smart. I think this is in Montana.
A couple years ago? When was this? The 1800s. Oh, okay.
I believe it was the Nez Perce, and I think he hid in a beaver den and made his way naked all the way back to the fort. God.
I think it was like a couple hundred miles, too. Yeah, people were tougher back then, I would argue.
They had to be. They had to be.
Yeah. Wow.
What? Here's the story on what happened to him. Michael reportedly told his companions, I think I can make it, and jumped into the water.
That was the last time they saw him. Oh, this is when he swam to the shore.
1961, Michael Rockefeller was traveling to this dangerous area of dense rainforest, mangrove swamps, and crocodile-infested mudflats known as the Land of the Lapping Death, when a small catamaran capsized in rough seas. This is the—so Michael Rockefeller, a strong swimmer, immediately jumped in the sea and began to swim to shore.
But this is the second time, right? This is when they killed him. It says they don't know.
No one saw him after he jumped in the water. So they don't know what happened.
Right. Now, here's an interesting thought.
If you're offshore from whatever, the Lapping Island of Death, right, and your catamarans, you know, he capsizes. And so it's still there, right? It's still floating.
And you've got your shipmates, and they're there. And your decision, the way that you process this is to swim to the Lapping Island of Death.
That doesn't show a lot of thought there. Well, he thought he could make it, and he's already visited them before.
There was another article that I had read, Jamie, that actually recounted the moment he was killed, that they picked him up in a canoe and speared him in the canoe. That's what I was reading through the Wikipedia.
There's been multiple times, starting with seven years later, to try

to investigate what happened, and I don't know how

you would really go about doing that. Yeah,

the most recent article was like there was some

recent revelation,

some information that

was given to them by the tribespeople about what happened.

The first one said that they sent a guy down there, a private investigator,

who came back with three skulls, and they said one

of them was the skull, so I don't know how they would prove that. Well, yeah.
Why they have skulls laying around. You know what's going to solve this problem is going to be the newly formed U.S.
government agency for the declassification of documents. That's going to solve this problem.
Federal secrets. Which one's that? Federal secrets.
Federal, federal secrets. Is that the JFK UFO one? Yep.
Epstein files, COVID. Are that hot ladies running it? Anna Polina Cruz.
Why is she running it? Because she's hot. I don't know.
I think maybe they should just release the documents. Like, if you're going to release the documents, release the documents to the people on the internet.
They'll figure it out. They don't need you.
I know. They've got this new committee, and they're going to sort of—COVID is also on the table.
UFOs, now Michael Rockefeller, I would argue. I'm hoping that's where the $4.7 trillion went.
Yeah. Wouldn't that be good, though? I'm hoping that's what it is.
It's all these government crashed retrieval programs and re-engineering and back engineering. That's what I'm hoping.
Developing our own technology that we've kept secret. Yeah, I think that's what a lot of it is.
I could absolutely be wrong, but I think that's what a lot of it is. I think we have some super sophisticated propulsion systems that are way ahead of our time.
And then also, I think we're being visited. I think there's a bunch of different things happening simultaneously.
Well, I think 4.7 trillion. Okay, when you think about that, it sounds like a lot, but in terms of government spending, we could blow through that pretty quick.
So I'm thinking, you know, yes, I do. Well, it's over how long though? How long is the 4.7? When they say 4.7 trillion, they don't give you a timeline.
Yeah, that wasn't's like that was the thing about uh politico right like there was this talk about we gave politico eight million dollars well sort of what the real story was there's a subscription model for politico where you get news like instantaneously and it costs like 10 000 bucks and there was a bunch of those subscriptions that were in many different agencies. Right, right.
And this is over the course of eight years. Like that $8 million was from like 2016 to today.
Right. So, I mean, so say that, right? Roll that out rather than saying they've been funding political.
Because in a short burst, it sounds much worse. Right.
You still can argue, is this really necessary do you need to be doing this well i don't know if you want information instantaneously which would be very beneficial to someone in government yeah yeah you're paying for a database for for information that that's going to hopefully inform better decision making the problem is when the way you say it if you say we gave politico eight million dollars oh those motherfuckers that's why they're fucking that that's why they're biased. And then you realize like, oh, that's not exactly what happened.
So I think the people that are doing this have to make sure that they're not hyperbolic. Well, I'm sure – yes, exactly.
And that goes back to this whole thing that I've probably beat to a death is the messaging idea. But I think – Well, this is too, because today now they're talking about Social Security.
Yeah. And that people are receiving Social Security that are 150 years old.
But I don't think that is the reality as it's being explained by people who understand COBOL, the language. And this this computer programming language they use is ancient.
Right. Which is Which is kind of crazy that they're still using that, right? It's the government.
Right. So some guy who understands it was explaining that if certain factors aren't taken into consideration or certain things aren't entered in, you know, like date of birth or when, there's certain things.
Or date of death. Right.
But it doesn't even necessarily mean that all these people are receiving checks. Right.
Right. They're just listed on the files.
Right. And it doesn't mean money's going out to them.
And so, yeah, again, from a message perspective, you know, does Elon need to like, you know, screenshot that and then send it out as a tweet or whatever we call X nowadays. And then suddenly you you've got a couple million people going, oh, my God, we're paying dead people.
Right, right, right. That's the problem with being hyperbolic.
I'm going to send this to you, Jamie, because I would confuse myself. And so I was like, what exactly are they saying? Because it seems like the people that understand that programming language are the ones that aren't jumping on board and saying, hey, this is what's happening.
Vampires exist amongst us. There's 300-year-old people getting Social Security.
That's not what they're saying. The people that actually understand it are saying that's not really the case.
Although how cool would that be if vampires existed among us and we found out the 300-year-old people were making benefits? That would be crazy. Like, how crazy.
So I'll send you this, Jamie. This is this guy's explanation of it.
But that 4.7, I'm sure we're going to find the trillion. Of course, some of that money goes out.
And I think if you follow money in the government, it's always more effective and interesting than anything else, right? You always get to the bottom of things by following budgets, depending on how it's hidden, right? And so a lot of that money is going to be, you know, perhaps it's in black budgets for, who knows, for Defense Department activities. It's worth digging into because it's always fascinating.
So in that, this is a guy that explains it. I'll read this.
I hope he's correct. There's a gentleman named House of Carter on X.
He said, this isn't a vampire conspiracy. It's just COBOL, C-O-B-O-L.
Legacy government systems, especially social security, still rely on COBOL, a language designed before anyone thought databases would need to track people beyond 99 years old. The numbers you're laughing at aren't literal ages.
They're most likely misinterpreted categorical codes or data artifacts from outdated formatting. Social security isn't paying 150 year olds.
The system uses fixed width fields. And when modern databases misread them, they mistakenly interpret grouping codes as real ages.
This happens when old mainframe logic isn't properly translated into newer systems. So, no, there aren't thousands of people over 150 getting checks, but there are a lot of outdated systems that need modernization, maybe focus on fixing that issue instead of hyping up a non-issue.

So there's multiple people that have said the same kind of thing.

This guy says, I'm an old programmer, coder in today's parlance.

As many old programmers know COBOL, young coders don't.

When Musk claims that Social Security is paying thousands of 150-year-olds, I think someone should let him know that in COBOL, if a data is missing, if a data is missing, the program defaults to 1875.

Example, 2025, 1875 equals 150.

So for some reason, if data is missing, the program defaults to this ancient date, and it's just a problem with data. Which makes more sense than 150-year-olds.
Exactly. But again, so fine.
I dig into it, find out. And you know what? If the end result is, you don't have 150-year-old people getting benefits, but the end result is that you modernize the way that we store information, right? Then great.
There's a benefit to Doge right there, right? Yes. We've created a more efficient system for tracking and paying out and good.
So, you know, everybody, again, everybody should not have a hard-on about an organization called the, you know, Department of Government Efficiency, right? You know, and I think, ultimately, I think they're going to do a very good job. I just think let's...
So this is something to think about with Social Security, though. So there's that, which is probably a misinterpretation of data.
Right. But this other one that I just sent Jamie, so there's this woman who's a whistleblower, and she's saying they were incentivized to qualify illegals for long-term disability, to qualify illegals for Social Security for life.
So they were set for life. And in quotes, she says, they wanted us to try to identify them in such a way that they would qualify for long-term Social Security disability.
Now, long-term Social Security disability is for life. So if they got identified and qualify for long-term Social Security disability, they're as good as set up for life.
That doesn't sound like a refugee to me, she's saying, just being honest. It sounds like someone who's planning on staying here.
So they're instructed to try to identify, to try to get the client, because once they arrive here, now they're called clients. So they told us that we needed to talk to the client and ask them if they had any headaches, reoccurring headaches, or any lower back problems.
Anything that would qualify them for Social Security long-term disability, which is crazy. Yeah.
Yeah. And then – but again, trackable information you would think, right? So you can go in.
If you're serious and persistent about it, you should be able to go in and identify, yes, we have the following. Let's listen to this lady talk about this.
So this is something that, you know, when people are talking about the problems of Social Security, this seems, if she's telling the truth, this seems real. Right.
Just being honest, that sounds like somebody who's planning on staying here. A refugee stays until the problem's over and then goes home.
Well, that's right. And so they instructed us to try to identify, to try to get the client, because once they arrive here, they're now called clients.
They're now called clients. Okay.
Because clients pay. Sure.
Sure. I'm starting to see where this is leading.
So they told us that we needed to talk to the client and ask them if they had any headaches recurring headaches or any lower back problems excuse me anything that would qualify them for social security long-term disability wait wait wait wait wait so let get this straight. Part of the screening is supposed to be, are you sick, maimed, injured, whatever? Right.
No. Okay, good, you can come in.
Yeah. You get on the airplane, are you sick, maimed, injured, whatever? Yes.
Good, so we can give you disability. Correct.
What? Yes. This is insanity.
Yes, it is insanity. But in order to get Social Security disability benefits, don't you need a Social Security number? Well, we were instructed in the meeting that one of the first things we were supposed to do was sign them up for Social Security.
Yeah. Wait.
This is unbelievable. So they come over here and they get a Social Security number.
Right. They become legal.
Correct. Are you pulling my leg? No, I'm not.
And then after we process them for a Social Security card, then we were to process them for a U.S. passport.
No, you're not. Yeah, I think, again, fascinating if it's true.
It's outrageous. Fascinating if it's true.
If it's true, but you need corroboration on something like that. Why is that lady? Yeah.
That's odd. Due diligence.
She's every time we've seen her whistleblower the last few weeks. She's rushing disinformation.
They show who they are, what they did. Right, I don't even know where that came from.
See if you can find that out. I don't even know what that's.
I mean, that's just due diligence, right? Okay, who, you know, let's, so I think that's great.

And the obligation then is to say, okay, well, who is she?

Why does she have this knowledge?

Is she credible?

Can you corroborate it with other sources?

And if you can, then yeah, you've got a serious problem.

When she, at that moment where she said, you know, get them a U.S. passport, that's where I started.

That little flag went off and I thought, hold on a second. You know, wait, wait, wait.
Let's dig into this and actually see. Is that possible? That video's from 2017.
2017? Wow. It's a radio show.
A Missouri woman is interviewed by radio show Josh Tolley. Wow, that's 2017.
That's crazy. Yeah.
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If you are in whatever party, whether it's the Republican Party or whoever it is that allows this to happen and hooks these people up and sets them up,

you would think that those people are going to vote that way for life because those are the people that gave them American citizenship essentially gave them Social Security for life like all you have to do is like tell them look you get this check for life all you have to do is keep voting and you know how to vote you know the right way to go right I want you to vote with't vote with your fucking conscience. I want you to vote with, you know.
Yeah, I mean, you know. Yeah, and we'll regularly remind you who to vote for.
Yeah, we'll tell you. We'll send you newsletters.
Yeah, I mean, that would be, and that is the theory, the narrative that, you know, says that's why, you know, the last four years we had essentially an open border policy was to bring in, you know, 10, 11, 12 million new voters, right? I mean, that's the way that that story unfolds. That's one version of it? That's one version, yeah.
The other version is cheap labor, right? Cheap labor. Also, just sort of the, you know, then there's the soft, well, it's the way the world should work.
You know, we need an open borders world. Yeah, I'm not buying that version.
Yeah, I don't think that's... That version's horseshit.
Most people don't follow along the lines of I'm doing things for ideology Most people have other more base motives. My take is if you got a place.
It's awesome And you got a system that's awesome Expand awesomeness don't bring in people that aren't awesome and don't bring in people from places that aren't awesome So the problem is if you bring people in that are criminals and then have a lifelong history of selling drugs and being involved in the cartel Like they're not to come over here, you know what, I need to join the union and be a pipe fitter. They're going to fucking continue to do what they've done their whole goddamn life.
So the problem is not that. The problem is where you're from sucks.
So I think the best way, and I'm not saying we should take over all these countries and run them, but the best way is to get— Now you're talking. That's probably the only way that it would really work.
But the way to do it is to somehow or another encourage those countries to become more like the United States. Well, yes, and then you would do that through soft power and, you know, organizations that could influence hearts and minds.
So I'm trying to look at this from a bunch of different perspectives. This is a very complicated situation.
It's not as simple as we need to stay out of the way of other countries' businesses. Right.
No. Again, and that comes back around to it would be lovely if we were all working on the same team.

That's not how I don't think human nature is.

So, you know, I.

Well, that's not the state of the world.

It's not the state of the world. And it's in the last four years.

And I would argue during the Obama administration, they they oftentimes from a national security perspective seem to run it based on how they they hoped the world would be, right, as opposed to how the world actually is, right? And so, you know, like them or hate them, you know, again, the current administration tends to, you know, I think, look at things in a more pragmatic way. Do you think they'll be able to do that with USAID? Do you think they'll be able to convince some of these other people that are all these USA first people that don't think we should be spending any money overseas yeah that maybe some of this money is well spent for our best interest yeah if yeah that's a good question yeah right because yeah well are you even allowed to say what you're actually doing then because how do we discern whether or not how – how are you going to tell people that $20 million for Iraqi sesame tree is actually a really good idea? And here's why.
But how are you going to tell them that buying and owning Gaza is a good idea? I really don't think he's going to do that. I think that's one of those things.
Yeah, I don't think so. Turning candidates in the 51st state.
But to the people on that side of the fence who say, no money spent overseas. Right.
How are you going to justify that? Yeah. What are they going to do? Look at that and go, well, that's a fucked up idea.
Right. But it's still President Trump.
So, yay, we got to support it. I don't know.
Do they discern or do people on the base, do they just say, yeah, everything that comes out of the White House is a great idea because that certainly runs counter to the idea that we don't want to spend money overseas. What are you going to do? Substitute Ukraine now? Because we don't want to spend money in Ukraine.
You've got to substitute it for Gaza? Right. Again, that's— Is the idea that we would protect American interests better if we were in control of that? And so, like, if Israel did something, if someone did something, we'd be able to respond in minutes versus in days.

Well, that goes against the idea that we don't want to be involved in foreign wars, right?

I mean, if President Trump doesn't want to be involved in foreign incursions and wars, he's picked a hell of a spot to not be involved in foreign...

You're going to drop yourselves in Gaza?

No, he's going to fix it.

He's going to fix it.

Well, I know.

He's going to make it nice.

Yeah.

Big old Trump hotel.

Yeah.

So, I mean, but again, hey, look, I think it's great in the sense that I never thought I'd see the day where some of these Arab states would turn around and say,

I hope you enjoyed it. Nice.
Yeah. Big old Trump hotel.
Yeah. So, I mean, but again, hey, look, I think it's great in the sense that I never thought I'd see the day where some of these Arab states would turn around and say Hamas has got to go.
I mentioned it before, but that's a sea change. That's a big goddamn sea change.
And it's kind of like with Ukraine right now, right? He comes out and he says, you know, OK, we're going to start these. they finished already.
Earlier today, they finished conversations in Riyadh, in Saudi Arabia, between Sergei Lavrov and Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff on the U.S. side.
And to start the discussions about peace in the conflict without Ukrainian representation or the Europeans there. NATO wasn't represented either.
So how do they have those kind of conversations if they don't have Ukrainian representation? A lot of people asking that question. Yeah.
But now that they've done it. Right.
Again, under this idea that, yeah, you can't you have to bring them in. But the fact that you just just jumped into the breach and got started.
Right. I mean, you think about it in the previous administration or or in a normal administration, I'd argue, getting to the table where you'd sit down and talk, look, this is the first time we've talked to the Russians really in a serious way since the invasion back in 2022, right? So the fact that most administrations would have taken a year just to map out, okay, well, this is what the talks are going to look like.
And this is, you know, we're going to and this is where people are going to sit, and this is what we're going to be able to say. And it would take months and months and months to get that.
These guys just said, ah, fuck it, let's go over, we're going to sit down, we're going to talk with them. Now that's forced, right? That's forced the Europeans to say, okay, how do we get involved? We got to be relevant.
And they do but the European nations and European institutions have Allocated more money to Ukraine than the US has right? I mean they're up to Depending on numbers you look at they're up to maybe 130 billion dollars allocated in Financial and how much have we allocated probably about 119 120 billion. I thought it was way more than that I thought it was a hundred and a hundred billion where Zelensky said he hasn't received it.
No. Well, when I say allocated, not all of it's been dispersed, right? Right.
So now the U.S. is the leading military provider of military hardware gear.
But if you combine humanitarian, financial, and military altogether, EU institutions and EU countries have actually allocated more than the U.S. has.
Oh. And that, you know, logic would say buys them a seat at the table for any peace talks, aside from the fact that they're sitting right there, you know, close to Russia.
They've taken in a vast number of Ukrainian refugees. You've got Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania sitting right there on the border with Russia.
They've got a real reason to want to be involved. But, again, Trump saying let's just start the conversation with Russia, it's forced the EU to say, okay, how do we get involved? How do we rethink? Much like the Arab states with the Gaza issue.
So now they're saying, well, Keir Starmer over in the U.K. is saying, you know, we'd be willing to put boots on the ground for some sort of peacekeeping force.
You know, and other are pushing back, Poland, Germany, they're not about deploying troops to Ukraine to enforce some sort of peace deal, but they're talking, right? And that accelerated the process. So they'll have to be involved and Ukraine will certainly have to be involved.
What are you going to do? You got an invaded country. Right.

And they're not going to be involved in the future of what happens to the invaded country. So they'll be involved.
And Marco Rubio has said as much. But I think it's good.
I think people are really up in arms over the idea that they've started the talk without the Ukrainians sitting at the table. but I don't think there's any intention in any plausible scenario where the US doesn't get them involved here in the very near future,

because otherwise it's going nowhere. When Zelensky says that he hasn't received

$100 billion, what does that actually mean? Does it mean it just hasn't gotten to Ukraine yet?

It means, yeah.

It doesn't mean it's missing?

No, it's not missing. So this is the thing that people are saying it's like tucker carlson was talking about this and he was essentially saying that there's a bunch of people that are spending money and he went to some wealthy ski town and these ukrainians they're all super wealthy and he thinks that some of that is is you know yeah he's he's not going out on a limb there, right? I mean, look, Ukraine, one of their big problems over years and years has been corruption and fraud.
And one of the reasons why, you know, there was pushback against, you know, this idea of NATO, even though back in 2008 or 2009, 2008, you know, at a European summit, they actually said during the NATO summit, they said, yes, at some point in the future, Ukraine and Georgia, you know, will become members of NATO. We're not going to give you a timetable, you know, when I could tell you what that's going to look like, but you can become members of NATO.
But one of the problems has been the level of corruption within Ukraine. So is some of that money, both from the U.S.
and from the EU, gone missing and lining pockets? Oh, absolutely. There's no doubt about it.
Look at Iraq, the money that we spent in Iraq and how much. I mean, just any time you've got government disbursement of that size, look like fucking COVID fraud, right? Right.
Any time you've got money going out in large buckets from the U.S. government, you're going to have some fraud.
Absolutely. Yeah, you're going to have people who are going to take advantage of it.
So yeah, that's not a surprise, you know, and Tucker's right for pointing it out. I'm just saying it's not rocket science.
How much? Well, that's, again, you would like to think that Doge, one of their jobs would be to go, you know, and I think if there was more transparency in how the money is spent, as there should be, right? I mean, then maybe the taxpayers would be a little bit more understanding or lenient, you know? But they're not going to be lenient or understanding for any fraud where people are getting rich off of this. Right.
There are people that are getting rich off of this. I remember there was one guy that had to resign because it turned out he had somehow or another moved around a billion dollars that he shouldn't have.
Remember that story? Billion dollars. Yeah.
And he's like, well, I'll just step off. And so he kind of went away.
And he's living on a yacht. There's these stories.
And it's so confusing because we're getting the mainstream media version of what's going on versus boots on the ground. Where is the money actually going? What is actually happening? Why did Russia actually invade in the first place? Well, my company was out in Iraq, you know, shortly, actually a little bit before, but then, you know, following the 2003 entry of the U.S.
into Iraq. And so we were there for a handful of years, right, providing security assistance to a variety of organizations.
And, you know, you didn't have to look hard or far to see, you know, there'd be some group coming into town saying, hey, we just started up this company, you know, and it's an 8A company. Look, we're owned by Eskimos or, you know, handicapped women or whatever.
They just set up some bullshit company to get government contracts. No experience, no other.
And yeah, so, you know, we watch that unfold. Anytime you have an environment that's steeped in chaos, you know, yeah, that's, fraud's, fraud is definitely going to happen.
So you have to, you have to be incredibly aggressive and, and, and willing to hunt it

down. Right.
Um, but I think sometimes the problem is in government, there's like an

accepted loss concept, like with, uh, you know, credit cards or retail operators, right?

We ain't got an accepted loss. We know we're going to lose a certain amount each year to

fraud.

Columbia Rickard and Tea Club. Yeah.
Remember that? yeah I do I was a member I was too I think I still owe the money I'm still getting notices I have not received my people don't remember that that was when you used to get cassettes and CDs in the mail now and you sign up and you get like it was a bit it was a big hustle with the music industry to sell more copies yeah and you can never unsigned you can never get rid of it you can never get rid of it yeah but it made it look like they had a lot more people buying albums than they were they weren't really buying them they're getting them from Columbia record and he get like 10 of them for a buck yeah everybody's like oh this sounds great and then you get them for regular price afterwards like well fuck this they'd send you a little cow and you'd check off which ones you want everybody defaulted nobody nobody paid yeah it's like all my friends did it oh god completely weird scam that went on in the 1980s that was i remember netflix started by mailing you oh yeah yeah oh yeah i. Oh, yeah.
I remember that. And, yeah.

You used to get a CD or a DVD in the mail.

Yeah, I told that to my boys the other night.

They put on Netflix.

And I said, you know how this got started?

And they were like, they couldn't believe it.

I mean, they're still amazed when a postman walks by the house.

They think it's incredibly quaint that some guy walks by and leaves you with some mail. I wonder what they would.

I mean, imagine taking a kid to like 1988 and bringing them to a blockbuster video they would walk around and go what is going on well we don't have the internet anymore i mean yet so this is how you get movies they'd be like shut the fuck up you don't watch it on your phone like we don't even have phones yeah no no no one had a cell phone yeah yeah your evenings were spent with a bowl of oflled nuts, walnuts, and you'd crack them, and that was your activity while you talked to your mom and dad or something. Have you ever showed someone a phone back then and say, someday, people are going to jerk off looking at that? They'd be like, what are you even talking about? That's the dumbest prediction of all time.
That's not in Star Trek. You'd get a phone call.
I remember some girl would call and my privacy was only as long as the cord on the phone. Oh, yeah.
Right. Because everybody was in.
You'd have to go to the closet. Yeah.
If you had one of them ones that had a little portable one with the cord attached and you'd hang it up on that like a desk one, you could bring a long cord if you were lucky. If you were lucky.
But we had the wall ones. And so they had the little curly cords.
Oh, that was the worst. I could go around the corner and then, you know.
And the cord's always fucking tangled. God.
You know, spin the headset around to untangle the cord. That's right.
Because people don't know. The cord you should drag to the ground.
Yeah. Do you remember your landline phone number from when you were a kid? Yeah.
Yeah, I do. Yeah.
I do, too. It's the craziest thing.
I can still, I can't remember what I did two and three hours ago. And I could still, you could put a gun to my head and I could recite the phone number I had when I was eight years old.
Yeah, isn't that weird? We used to be able to remember so many numbers. I only know like three or four numbers of my friends by heart.
Yeah. You know your kids' numbers, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And my wife's, maybe a couple of my buddies that have had like my friend Eddie's had the same phone, but he's got a new one now. So it's, it's weird that we don't have any numbers in our head anymore.
No, I, I, I will say, uh, and I know this because just a day and a half ago I was, I was, uh, I was doing something. I was filling out some application for one of my boys, the middle boy, a scooter.

And it asked for his phone number.

And I had to look it up.

So I was thinking like, well, I don't know.

I just pushed the button.

I have to look up mine sometimes.

Does that change it?

When I give someone my number, I have to go, hold on.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I fuck it up.

I haven't changed my number in fucking generations. I don't know.
Yeah. I don't know.
It becomes an issue. Yeah.
Well, yeah. Yeah.
For you, I think it's different. At a certain point in time, you're just getting bombarded by people that you don't want to talk to.
And you're like, okay, there's only one way out of this. I've got all the friends I want.
I've got a van. Yeah.
Yeah. It's not even the friends you want.
Yeah. It's all transactional.
That's the problem. Yeah.
The problem is like problem is you realize this person only texts me when they want something. Yeah.
And the texts before they want something are bullshit. The say hi texts are bullshit because it's coming.
Yeah. Here comes the thing you want.
Yeah. And then that comes.
Yeah. I get that from- It's interesting.
I've got a startup. Oh, fuck.
Yeah. Here it comes.
Do you want to invest? Fuck off. Yeah.
I don't get the investments because nobody thinks I have money. But, you know, I'll get like sort of a request for, you know, how about a hookup with, you know, somebody in some part of the country or government there, you know.
Oh, boy. You know, so, and I'm like, I'm not going to put you in touch with anybody.
I don't know. Yeah, those are the worst.
Yeah. So it's interesting.
But you know what today is? You know what today is? What's today? Today is my 20th wedding anniversary. Congratulations.
Thank you very much. Thank you very much.
I was thinking about that. I know.
It was funny because you proposed the 18th for us to get together. And immediately I thought, well, that's our anniversary.
And then I thought, well, she loves Austin. So I could combine the two.
There you go. And I don't know that I got credit for it.
I'm not sure. You won't.
If you combine work with anything, even if it's the most awesome vacation, but it's also work, you don't get credit. Yeah.
Oh, you didn't even go out of your life to do this. No.
Yeah. You know, you kept doing the same stuff and then you added a thing.
And here it is. Yeah.
20 years and yeah 20 years and here you go yeah I don't know what but we do a nice restaurant yeah yeah we are and and we had a we had a dinner in in in Boise with a bunch of folks on Saturday night that was really lovely so we got everybody together and you guys have wolves out there uh yeah yeah i i saw you you put something out about wolves been near aspen 30 minutes outside of aspen my friend has a ranch and they just released wolves there a couple weeks ago yeah and he's already finding he i took a photo of it and put it on my instagram he found a dead elk leg the neighbor spotted the wolves and they're on his property and he has, I mean, they've released them on his ranch. No one let him know that's the leg we found in the snow.
No one told him. And these are big Canadian wolves that they got from BC, by the way.
Oh no, the repopulation program, look, the way you feel about it is entirely jurisdiction based. What do I mean by that? If you live in New York Cityago yeah you love the wolf repopulation program if you're if you're a rancher or you know you you live out in the in the northwest or the west you're like what the fuck where he lives it's all ranchers this is what's crazy it's like they've released the wolves where the fucking livestock is what's crazy is they had a mandate to release wolves in colorado so the first wolves they released, they got from Oregon, who they took out of areas where they were killing livestock.
So they got wolves that were accustomed to killing livestock and then reintroduced them to Colorado where there's livestock. And what do you know, they start killing livestock.
Yeah. Kind of crazy.
And it's true. And what you said is absolutely true here.
Give it a short period of time, and they're going to start laying on wolf hunts, right?

You're not going to find them.

Yeah.

Here's another thing my friend said.

You can shoot them if you're killing your livestock or if they're killing a working dog.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

But you can't shoot them if they're killing your pet.

Yeah.

I can't.

This is what he said.

I don't know if that's true.

I can.

You can in Idaho.

Well, in Idaho, you can kill them. Yeah.
In Idaho, they're giving out tags. Yeah.
And is what he said. I don't know if that's true.
I can. You can in Idaho.
Well, in Idaho, you can kill them. In Idaho, they're giving out tags and they're giving out tags in Montana.
And this is what people need to understand. When they first reintroduced them, there was no way you could shoot them.
And then it got to a point, they're like, okay, this is not just sustainable. This is a large population of animals that is doing a lot of damage.
Oh yeah. And they do surplus hunting.
So place in i think it was wyoming they had killed like some crazy number of cow elk like 15 or 16 of them type a predators man they're incredibly efficient and they work together they're the only animal in north america other than coyotes which are actually wolves too they're a small wolf yeah but they're the only animals that work as packs and they're so good at it they're so good at and they're so fucking smart they're so smart they're all psychic they all fucking think together and they're like a hive mind yeah their hierarchy is amazing the way that they yeah we I did a several days out in Yellowstone one time for a TV show an episode and you know following or trying to anyway the lives of a family out there and it was it was amazing right it was really it's just incredible they're amazing animals it's just this ballot box biology these people that are in Denver and Boulder they're the ones who are the big population centers they're the ones who are voting for this but you're not gonna release wolves in the middle of downtown Denver right no you're gonna have released them out in the area I wish that they're the ones that are voting for this. But you're not going to release wolves in the middle of downtown Denver, right? No, you're going to release them out in the area where these people voted against it.
I wish that they would, though. The area where they released them first were areas where people voted against the wolves, which is like a big fuck you to those people.
Yeah, well, it always is. And if you're a rancher, I mean, even in Idaho, right, and you're constantly fighting for just kind of common sense decision-making.
And, you know, luckily, you know, the statehouse is very, you know, favorable. You know, who knows? I mean, maybe that changes in 10 years.
But for right now, you know, they understand, look, this is what's important to this state. Right.
And why it's such a great, it's a great place to live. But yeah, so I don't know.
I saw that and I, you know, it's front and center, but I know exactly who's voting in favor of it. Because I've talked to those people who don't understand at all how it operates.
Well, apparently it's a pet project, no pun intended, of the governor of Colorado's husband. His husband is big on wildlife, which everybody should be.
Who's the governor of Colorado again? I don't remember. Oh, well.
Yeah, not important. Not important.
It is important if you live in Colorado. The reality is it's already started.
The wolves are there. They were coming into Colorado anyway.
There's Colorado wolves that were moving in from neighboring states. Colorado borders Wyoming, of course.
And they don't stop at the border. It's not like they go, ah, fuck it, it's Colorado.
Oh, they travel hundreds and hundreds of miles. You know, we showed a video on here once of a friend of mine filmed a wolf in Bakersfield, California.
And I was like, well, these people that live out there, the ranchers that live out there, talked to me about it. One of my buddies who actually works on a ranch filmed it, filmed this wolf.
We actually played the video. It's a big black wolf that's in a cattle field in fucking Bakersfield.
It's just outside of Bakersfield. It's like off the five.
Well, we had Diane Boyd on, who is a wolf reintroduction specialist. She studied wolves her whole life, and she's not in favor of reintroduction of wolves.
She thinks they should reintroduce to areas naturally, and they were going to do that anyway. They were going to migrate into these areas naturally, and that's the best way to let it happen.
But she said they can travel hundreds and hundreds of miles, and that this wolf probably came all the way from Oregon and just made its way down.

It probably wasn't even, because their fear was that some crazy wildlife group is like,

we're going to reintroduce the wolves ourselves.

And they're capturing these wolves and then bringing them to California.

Fuck you, rancher.

You should be eating soybeans.

And they just release them.

She doesn't think that.

She thinks those wolves actually probably made it from the wild all the way down there because they really travel insane distances. Yeah.
I mean, no, that makes sense. And I'm glad to hear that she's, after all that experience, she's not in favor of a program.
I mean, that shows a lot of common sense. Well, it just throws a giant monkey wrench into whatever ecosystem there is.
But the reality of the ecosystem in Montana, where they did reintroduce wolves, was that they were very overpopulated with elk to the point where, well, she was explaining this, they used to have these winter seasons for cow elk. And, you know, it's basically shooting fish in a barrel because they're stuck in deep snow.
And you could just pick them off. And they did that because they were heavily overpopulated.

The land couldn't sustain the numbers.

And so they offered opportunities for hunters.

Hey, it's great.

You shoot an elk. You get even a cow elk.
You get like 150 pounds of meat, 200 pounds of meat. And it's great.
That's your meat for a year almost. I remember a park ranger out in Yellowstone told me one time.
He said he was driving. He was out just sort of like checking things and came across a large, I forget what he called it.
It was a van of some sort, but it was like a VW, you know, hippie van of some sort. And there were four young folks, he said, early 20s, and they were trying to herd this little baby bison that had gotten separated from the herd, right, and was now all on its own.
And they'd been driving along and they saw it off in the distance in the fields. So they decided they were going to rescue this thing.
Oh, God. So they were out there trying to get this thing to come towards their van.
I had no idea. He says, I don't know.
What were they going to do? Put it in the van? He had no idea what they were trying to do. But he stopped and said, what are you doing? He says, well, we got this baby thing.
We're thing we're trying to save it he said what the fuck get in your van and drive off he said this is this is how this works right but it's not gonna find its mother have you ever seen the Instagram page tourons of Yellowstone oh it's one of my favorite tourons tour like morons or tourists tourons. I'll check that out, definitely.
It's all assholes taking selfies with deer and selfies with bison. German tourists, yeah.
It's people trying to feed bears. And it's all people just getting fucking thrown through the air by giant bisons.
Yeah, I love that when they're like this and it's right behind them and they're just trying to get that picture. And once that bison starts staring, right? Once it starts staring at you, you've got problems.
This is one I saw the other day. Holy shit.
These people are right—this black bear is eating fish right on the edge of this lake. Holy shit.
And they're getting right up to it. I mean, these kids are literally 15, 16 inches away from this fucking thing.
And he gets closer, too, by the way he said yeah get our picture come on I got my thumbed up yeah one of them winds up touching it totally yeah he reaches over at the end of this stupid fucking video and touches it and the bear is just like the fuck out here I'm trying to know they don't care but they're so to being around people. No wild bear, a truly wild bear would ever allow this.
No. This is just a bear.
They start eating people's garbage. They start taking fish from fishermen and that kind of shit.
And look at this kid taking this selfie. Oh, my God.
He gets closer. This fucking dumbass.
Look at this fucking stupid kid. Look.
Holy shit. Look, he's going to move in and touch it.
Oh!

That could have been the end of your life, buddy.

Holy shit. And look, he's got flip-flops

on. These kids, they're so silly.

We go up fishing in Alaska

and I'll tell you one thing we're not

going to do.

A bear comes out of the brush,

we're not going to stop and take a selfie.

No, don't take a selfie. No, not at all.

Alaska, though, they are scared of people because they hunt them in Alaska. It's the only state yeah in the United States and they want to open up a season in Montana and there's arguments about that right now because of the interactions that people are having with bears Yeah, this is part of what the governor of New Jersey ran on that he was gonna stop the bear hunt and people like yeah Stop the bear hunt That shit lasted one year.
And there were like, yeah, stop the bear hunt. That's right.

That shit lasted one year.

And there were so many problems with bears.

They said, all right, you're right, you're right.

And then they reintroduced the bear hunt.

Most of those are black bears, right?

Oh, that's only black bears.

But New Jersey has more black bears per capita

than any other state in the United States,

which is nuts.

Yeah, you always forget that New Jersey,

A, how big it is, but also just how green it is.

It's fucking rural. Yeah.
New Jersey is like Newark and Hackensack and those places, and then rural. It's all pine flats and all the rest of it.
Oh, mountains. It's like you get into the woods of New Jersey.
It's fucking real woods, and it just doesn't seem like it should be because New Jersey's the Sopranos. In our mind, it's, oh, it's Tony Soprano.
It's Newark. There's nothing green about Newark.
Yeah, that's what we think about with Newark. We think about- Is that your Soprano voice? Yeah, that's good.
Big pussy. Yeah.
You excited about the JFK Files release? We haven't even talked about that. You know, I feel like Charlie Brown when lucy keeps pulling that football away you know like today's the day i'm gonna kick that football and then she fucking yanks that football and charlie goes flying through the air and lands on his head yeah that's how i feel it's gonna be the way it is too i mean i think i think they'll actually kick out the door i don't think they this time around i don't think they can hold any more documents and they don't have that right? Well, here's, I think they just found thousands of new documents.
They found 2,400 more. That is actually a good way.
They found, the FBI says, oh, look at this. You know, we, what they did was they did a, they did a review.
They started in 2020 and they said, okay, all our closed cases, we're going to start, you know, compiling all of them in one place. Why weren't they doing that 40 years ago, 50 years ago? How do you not do that? Have a central repository anyway.
So they said, but this is what we're going to do. So they did and they said, we're updating the way that we digitize and hold on to all our records.
And during the course of that, then when Trump issued his executive order about the release of the files and also for RFK and MLK, Then the bureau says, well, we were able to because we'd done this digitizing and this way of tracking our records. We were able to find 2,400 documents that are related that we just didn't know about.
So there's those. And then there's maybe 5,000 other documents left that haven't been released.
Well, Trump was quoted as saying that if you saw what they showed me, you wouldn't release it either. Right.
What does that mean? You know, it's a really good question. Here's what I think.
I think, and I don't, obviously, I don't know what's in those documents either. Wait a minute, you don't? You know, remember, I was a toddler when he was shot was shot.
Although that would have been the perfect cover. Nobody's fucking looking for a toddler to come behind that.
A microphone magnifying glass. Come off that grassy knoll.
But what could, I mean, it's not like they're going to say in the documents, we did it. So what could the documents have that would be so incriminating that they wouldn't want to release them like yeah

What would you document if you assassinated the president? We'd say well me and Mike were sitting over here on the grassy knoll

And then we this is yeah, I think I think some of the documents the redactions are

Really pedestrian like they've redacted in the old days. We redacted a person's name who was an investigator or a social security number of somebody who was interviewed.

But there's whole pages that are redacted.

Right.

I mean, so there's like...

Those are like weird.

Yeah.

What's going on there?

I think they held on to...

Biden administration held on to like 2,000 some odd documents.

Well, in 2017, they were supposed to release them.

Right.

And then this was when the Trump administration didn't do it and that's when people got mad yeah like hey you said you were gonna do it and this time they are saying they're going to do it and then they got this hot lady who's involved in all this yeah which is odd it does well again why'd they pick her yeah why'd they pick Is she a JFK expert? I think she's an assassination expert.

Well, it's not just assassination.

She's in charge of UFOs too, right?

Right, and Epstein and all the rest.

I think what we're going to find is, this is just me speculating, obviously,

but I think what we're going to find with the released documents is,

A, there's no smoking gun.

B, it's not going to stop people from believing what they believe. It's not going to put anything to rest.
And I think also there probably will be one of the reasons I think some of these things were withheld was because it's embarrassing perhaps to the CIA and the FBI also in terms of their collaboration. Look, Lee Harvey Oswald was on their radar for good reasons, right? For, you know, counterintelligence reasons.
He had lived over in Minsk. He defected to the Soviet Union.
He'd lived over there for three years, came back. And so that alone puts him on the radar, right? Now suddenly he's a CIA concern.
So the CIA is definitely monitoring him. And then he goes down to Mexico.
He goes to the Cuban and Soviet embassies, right? He's desperate to get involved in the revolution, even though he's, you know, the Soviets by that time had decided he's a complete loser. And I think- Is that the narrative, though? I mean, do we know what they really decided?

Well, I think—I'm just speaking again from experience in the intelligence community. At a certain point, you look at somebody and go, there's nothing here.
This person is more of a liability than an asset. Well, wouldn't that be the perfect person to make a patsy? Well, unless they decided the guy is just unstable.
Look, I mean, reportedly he was finally granted permission to exist in the Soviet Union after he tried to kill himself. When they said they were going to send him back, he couldn't stay there.
How did he try to kill himself? What did he do? No idea. I don't know that part of it.
So my point is that I think he was on the radar. And I think what happened was in the documents we may find that the CIA at the time was not proactive enough.
And they didn't work well with the FBI. There was real friction between those two.
And I think that if they had brought in the FBI, informed them, said, look, we've got the Cuban embassy and the Soviet embassy down in Mexico under observation. We've had this guy on our radar for some time.
He's now come back to Dallas and New Orleans. He's back in the States.
We've got to keep an eye on him. I think if they had done that, maybe history changes.
But I don't think they did, obviously. Yeah, but this is assuming that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, which I'm not buying into.
Under this scenario, yes. I'm not buying that at all.
But I think that's what we're going to see in some of this documentation. Well, if Trump really did say that, that if they showed you what they showed me, you wouldn't release it either.
It has to be something. And that something might be a second shooter.
Well, it's not. Or more.
I agree because Trump has never been known to say anything hyperbolic. So, I mean, there's a chance that he was, you know, I don't know.
He attempted suicide, a striking indication of how much he desired to remain in the Soviet Union. Showed how willing he was dramatically and decisively when he faced an emotional crisis with few readily available alternatives at hand.
He was shocked to find that the Soviet Union did not accept him with open arms. The entry in his self-styled historic diary for October 21st, 1959 reports, I am shocked, two exclamation points, my dreams, exclamation point, I have waited two years to be accepted.
My fonds dream, I don't even know what that means, fondest? Fondest. It's probably, they forgot the T.
He can't spell this. Fuck.
My fondest dreams are shattered because of a petty official. I decided to end it.
Soak fist in cold water to numb the pain, then slash my left wrist. What a pussy.
Uh, the then plague wrist. Oh, plug then, then plunge, plunge wrist.
Boy, I can't spell plunge either. Then Plunge Wrist.
Plunge. So he spells plunge.
P-L-A-U-G. I guess it's plunge.
Wrist into bathtub of hot water. Somewhere a violin plays.
As I watch my life whirl away, I think to myself, how easy to die and a sweet death to violins. Oswald was discovered in time to thwart his attempted suicide.
He was taken to a hospital in Moscow where he was kept until October 28, 1959. Still intent, however, in staying in the Soviet Union, Oswald went on October 31st to the American embassy to renounce his U.S.
citizenship. Mr.
Richard A. Snyder, the then second secretary and senior consul officer at the embassy, testified that Oswald was extremely sure of himself and seemed to know what his mission was.
He took charge in a sense of the conversation right from the beginning. He said he presented the following signed note.
I, Lee Harvey Oswald, do hereby request that my present citizenship in the United States of America be revoked. And then they let him back in the United States.
So this is why the more tinfoil hat wearing amongst us say this fucking guy, he was working for the government. This is all bullshit.
They were setting it up and they were using him as a patsy. Oh, no, I know that.
I mean, there's obviously like there's a strong belief that the CIA was involved. The mob was involved.
And again, hey, I haven't seen all the documents like Trump has.

So everything's on the table.

I wonder if he's even seen them all.

Everything's on the table.

I don't know if he's seen everything either.

What, has he gone through all the files?

Yeah, is he sitting there in his office drinking Diet Coke, reading the documents?

Who knows?

But I think, you know, and who else said he's...

Kash Patel said he's seen all the files.

Oh, okay.

He said he's seen everything.

Now, I'm not sure how, in what capacity.

Right.

Was he part of a review committee, perhaps?

I don't know.

Interesting.

We'll find out, right?

Yeah, we'll find out.

Well, you have long said that you think that the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination was fishy.

Yeah.

Yeah, I really do.

I believe that.

And also, it's interesting that his family doesn't want this released. They don't want the remaining documents released.
And I think the reason there is because, look, they, you know, Hoover and the federal and state law enforcement had a real hard on for Martin Luther King, obviously, right? And they were covering him three ways to Sunday. So including wiretaps, some that were signed off by RFK, right, by Robert Kennedy.
So as attorney general. So I think, you know, the family is like, look, do you really need to release these these records? Because I think they're worried about, you know, embarrassing information about their perhaps about his lifestyle.
Hasn't a lot of that already been released? Yeah, it's been talked about and everything. But I think if you dump it out there, you know, whereas with JFK's documents, look, they've released some 5 million pages of his, right? I mean, estimates are like, oh, we've released like 99% of the documents.
It's not that high a percentage with MLK. So I think there's a potential for embarrassment, but I also, same thing, I don't think in those

documents, because I don't think anybody's going to, they're not going to self-incriminate,

right?

And I do think that there was something going on.

Look, James Earl Ray is a much more interesting case study, I think anyway, than Lee Harvey

Oswald.

James Earl Ray and his behavior leading up to the shooting at the Lorraine Motel, kind of going off the radar, disappearing. The guy couldn't keep himself out of jail.
He was a failed petty thief, right? And he was just a fuck up. And then suddenly he disappears off the radar screen and he shows up and he looks like a college professor.

And he's kind of got his shit together. And then after shooting him, he ends up in Belgium.
He got money and guns. Yeah, he got money and guns.
He had a bag full of cash to go buy himself a Mustang, which he used to drive around the south and kind of be off the grid. I don't know.
That one strikes me as, and then sort of the interplay with federal and state and local law enforcement. To me, but again, my point is that when they release the documents, what do you think? There's going to be some note in there saying, must kill MLK.
Yeah. Somebody talked to Hoover.
That's why it's fun to think, like, what's the JFK document? What's the MLK?

What are they going to tell us about UFOs?

But how much are they documenting?

If someone is involved in killing the president, I would imagine they wouldn't write that down.

Yeah, you would think.

You would imagine.

Kyle, we're going to need you to make a statement here about shooting.

So I think that there's probably, I don't know why I picked the name Kyle.

That seems odd. Good name for a shooter.
Yeah, it it wasn't a popular name I don't think back then but I just so I I think you like release everything if they don't release all the documents at this stage if they say we're gonna we're gonna hold on to a redact a thousand pages what the hell is that doesn't make any sense doesn't make any It's 1963. Just put it to fucking rest.
And if there's embarrassing things in there, then own it, right? Accept it and fucking move on. But again, it's not going to change the narratives that are out there, I don't think.
I don't think it's going to – it's not going to satisfy anybody. Wasn't it also a problem with so much time has passed that the waters are so muddy in terms of like trying to see clearly exactly what happened and when it went down and how it went down? Unless they did somehow or another document everything, which seems insane that they thought that they would just tuck that away somewhere.
Yeah. It doesn't seem realistic.
It doesn't. No.
It seems much more likely that that would be something that you would have a conversation about in a closed room and you would, you know. Yeah.
If there was actually a cadre of people that did that, it's not in the documents, right? Because those documents are like interviews of people on the grassy knoll, interviews of people who knew Jack Ruby in his life. My friend Evan Hafer has an interesting perspective on it, you know, special forces guy.
He thinks that those guys who got fucked over at the Bay of Pigs when they didn't get air support from Kennedy, that if you were going to find a group of hardened individuals that were essentially assassins for the government, those would be the guys that would have a bone to pick with jfk yeah yeah i mean again until everything's visible and out there i think everything's on the table yeah um he's not wrong in the sense that they they hated kennedy you know but a lot of people hated kennedy the mob hated you know rfk immensely yeah oh yeah because he wouldn't play ball well also he fucked them over because they got him elected in Chicago and they turned on them and then they started investigating them and like hey motherfucker yeah and then and depending on you talk to Jack Ruby was either mobbed up or he did it because he was Jewish and he and he didn't want you know the or Jewish community to take that or MK ultra version is best version. That's Sirhan Sirhan, Charles Manson, everything.

Yeah, yeah.

I say it again, but read Chaos by Tom O'Neill, ladies and gentlemen.

Yeah.

No, MKUltra, that is a dark history or chapter in the history of the agency.

There's no doubt about it.

And again, it's one of those cases where you can't – it's like we talked about with Alan Dulles saying, as far as I know, we've never overthrown a country.

It would be like if I sat here and said, well, as far as I know, we never did anything. Of course it was.
We've never done any mind control experiments. Why would we do that? Of course they did.
Yeah, it was like the experimentation that went on and that was outsourced. Did you see the most recent thing that people are saying about China? I think Kurt Metzger sent it to me, so I know it's got to be accurate.
He's not out of his fucking mind. Something about some new thing that they found, some Chinese mind control thing where – you saw that, Jamie? The stuff that – yeah, they burned the ether, that thing? I don't know.
They burned the cryptocurrency, and the guy said that they were being taken over by – yeah, that has to be it because it was going viral like yesterday. Oh, my God.
How would I miss this? I was not on Kurt Metzer's email list. Actually, I just checked.
It wasn't Kurt. He spent like a million dollars to do that or like wasted.
That's how people saw it, I guess. It's a better way to put it.
Wait a minute. What are you talking about? What I'm talking about is some mind control thing that they're involved with, with their version of a neural link.
Oh, okay. There's more than one different scenario that they're picking.
This is crazy because what goes around comes around, right? Everything that's old is new again. Because when we talked about MKUltra, the whole reason behind MKUltra was fear that the Soviets were engaged in mind control.
This is a different one. Someone burned 500.
Yeah, this is it. ETH to accuse Chinese head fund CEOs of using brain computer weapons.
Allegations of mind control tech spark a crypto donation spree amid intrigue in Chinese finance circles. Yeah, this is it.
So this dude, how do you say that name? Hu Lezi? Hu Lezi? Hu Lezi burned 603 ETH to allege Chinese hedge fund CEO's use of brain computer weapons. Large donations totaling of 1,950 ETH, that's Ethereum, were made to various addresses including WikiLeaks in Ukraine.
A self-identified Chinese programmer has burned 603 ETH, approximately $1.65 million, and donated 1,950 ETH, approximately $5.35 million, through a series of blockchain transactions while making allegations against executives of a Chinese hedge fund. And and so this guy I don't understand why he's donating the money yeah I'm not getting this so people would see it essentially okay sent 500 ETH to the burn address with this message the CEO of Quan Day investment feng jin and Jews...
Yu-Zhi. Yu-Zhi.
How do I say it? Yu-Zhi? I don't know. Yu-Zhi, yeah.
Used brain computer weapons to persecute all company employees and former employees, and even they themselves were controlled. Like, what? Okay.
The individual, identifying as Hu Le-Zhi, sent multiple on-chain messages accusing Quan Day Investment CEO Feng Jin and Zhu Zhu Zi of using what they term brain computer weapons against employees and former employees. Quan Day Investment, known as Wizard Quant, is a hedge fund specializing in quantitative trading.
That old story. Yeah, so scroll down.
It says, this is a new mode of crime in which the victim is gradually deprived of his senses of desire until he becomes a complete slave to the digital machine. And if one day I become a victim of the final stage, I will leave the world.
As the brain-computer interface and mind-reading technology keeps developing, there is a new mode of crime in which wild animals become puppets or complete slaves to the digital machine. I saw this on South Park.
It was the human caterpillar episode. Wow.
Okay, so I don't understand, and Jamie, maybe you do, why burning through and why, why putting all that money, just to get it seen? It would draw a lot of attention to it that someone just literally lit a million and a half dollars on fire. So that's it.
That's really, yeah. Yeah, yeah, just getting, same reason people light themselves on fire, I guess.
Wow. Get their message, get attention.
Wow. Whether or not it's true, that doesn't.
Right, right, right. It doesn't mean it's true.
Well, it could be just China bullshitting us and saying that they have this yeah well but again the amazing thing is is that is it like everything kind of repeats itself I suppose if you could look at it that way I'm not gonna go into some grand thought but look I mean you know we're engaged in World War one style warfare and in in Europe now right with trench warfare between Ukraine and Russia. This, we're talking about mind control from the Chinese regime, right? That was what started MKUltra was fear of the Soviets and the North Koreans at the time getting engaged in mind control and the worry that we were, you know, somehow behind the curve and that they had this technology, capability to control minds.
And so next thing you know, you know, MKUltra is born and, you know.

I wonder what's the method they're supposedly using to control these people's minds.

Like it was pretty vague.

Slaves to the digital machine.

Like what?

There's a different article saying the same kind of stuff we said with a couple more of the messages.

Elaborates and elect activities they're engaged in, which include deploying brain chips to control all citizens until they become complete complete slaves to the digital machine. Ximini distraught Lazy who described himself as an ordinary computer programmer and entrepreneur.
That's what I would say too if I work for the Chinese government. Claims he's been controlled by the mind control organization from the time he was born but only discovered he's being manipulated in October 2022.
So from the time he was born, they had a chip in his brain? Is that what he's saying? That's not real. No.
Because they didn't have that back then. Yeah.
I'm concerned over the legitimacy of this. Or if they did, how would it still be active in your brain? Like, how do you not have brain cancer? Yeah.
It's been a very painful. I mean, maybe it's real.
I'm just fucking around here. It's been a very painful in the last two years.
Lazy wrote, now I have completely lost my dignity as a human being. I have decided to leave this world.
I hope this ugly world will be destroyed soon. Oh, well, that guy sounds like a whole bunch of fun.
Yeah. He just did it just to give the story some credence, which that doesn't, I don't know.
Yeah. That's the problem with today.
It's like there's so many bullshit stories. It's like, that sounds fun to say.
Mind control. Well, that's it.
If you throw shit out there and you couch it in a certain way and you, you know, oftentimes you'll see some of this and, you know, I'm using big words and I'm talking about the, and, you know, it's like the fucking UFO hearings up on Capitol Hill, right? I don't know how many times I've had to sit and listen to, you know, I've seen some stuff. I can't tell you what the stuff is.
Yeah. It's hidden stuff.
But I've seen some stuff. I know.
I get so tired of it all. Yeah.
And and I think there's I think there's there's something out there. Right.
I'm not, you know, again, I, you know, I agree with you in the sense that, you know, we we're certainly not the only ones out here floating around. I don't know what it means.
I don't know whether we've been visited or anything like that. But every time there's a UFO hearing, it's sort of that same thing.
It's that tantalizing, like, oh, look, he's talking, he's talking. And then it's, ugh.
The thing about the release of those documents, though, that seems to me that that's something that you would document. Yes.
Rather than say, I killed JFK, where do I sign? Instead of that, that's more tangible. Like if the government had recovered some crash in 1947 in Roswell, New Mexico, and it really was an alien spaceship, that seems like something they would document.
Yeah, I agree. And I think that's worth pursuing in a big way.
They should, it needs to be more transparency about it. But it's also the same like with the COVID files, if there's such a thing as COVID files.
But sure, go through and look. I mean, transparency, you know, to the degree that you can where, you know, you're're not releasing national secrets that are going to get people killed, great.
But the Epstein files, you know, so I think there's real value in saying we've got, because the government always overclassifies, always overclassifies. And, you know, it's unnecessary and it creates this distrust, I think, half the time.

For sure.

Yeah. They're just like, what the fuck? We don't believe anything you're saying now.
Yeah. So release everything.
Let the chips fall. Because I don't think, honestly, I don't think there's a lot of, you know, information there.
But I do think with the UFOs, all the documentation and the investigations that took place of unknown sightings, but it's still going to not convince people that we're not holding on to,

you know,

crashed. Investigations that took place of unknown sightings, but it's still going to not convince people that we're not holding on to, you know, crashed spaceships.
Well, when you've got guys like David Grush, you know, who's the whistleblower that comes out and says, not only do we have these ships, but we have biological entities. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, well then, you know, maybe explain yourself a little more, right? Right. You've already come out.
You kind of like opened your kimono a little bit. You know, just fucking say what do you know and then put it to rest.
Maybe you got an obligation to do that, right? I think he wants to, according to him, but he has to get clearance. He's already pushed that door open, right? I don't know.
As an individual, right? He explained on the podcast that he's authorized to say what he's already yeah he's already he's already pushed that door open right i mean i don't know as an individual right he explained on the podcast that he's authorized to say what he's already said but nothing more and he has to be very careful but then again it's like how do i know yeah i don't know that's not horseshit i know it's and that's and that's the problem and that's going to be the problem with the release of the files is also it's just going to be unsatisfying obscure some sort of a government propulsion system that's like 50 years ahead of anything we could imagine, that's how I would do it. I'd obscure it by saying, oh, there's some fucking alien technology that's available and we don't really know how to use it.
But they do visit us from time to time and occasionally they crash. They came over to New Jersey.
Remember the drones over in New Jersey? Right. But now the Trump administration has said they were running some tests and those were ours.
Yeah. Yeah.
So why wouldn't the Biden administration say that? What the hell? Fuck. I mean, what's the point? You know.
Maybe you should tell me. Well, I do know, but I'm not authorized to say.
We've got to get you in a skip. Yeah.
But I know some stuff. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
I just can't say the stuff. Anyway.
Well, listen, Mike, it's always great to talk to you. Thank you, man.
It's been a blast, as always. Tell everybody about your show, where they can watch it.
Oh, thank you. Yeah.
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Plus, a real need for something like that today.

Well, you know, it's doing really well because I think people actually want that nowadays.

And they also like the brevity of it, right?

Nobody wants to listen to me for, well, I don't know, hours.

But anyway.

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Hey, thank you, Mike. Thank you, Mike.

Appreciate you.

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