#2273 - Adam Curry

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Speaker 1 I never got it until this year, but that's what they say. That's what they say.
You get it within a couple years, you get it, and then all of a sudden, you got it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I don't know who the fuck they are, but it's not bad. I could hear it the other day.
I heard it. Stuffiness? Yeah.
I heard you. Yeah, I had it for like four days.
I've had stuffiness.

Speaker 1 But the thing is, like, when I work out, I feel great. The way I can really tell, like, the way I judge whether or not I should even work out is when I get in the sauna, in the cold punch.

Speaker 1 If I feel tired and weak when I'm in there, then I know something's going on. It's not as simple as allergies.
So I thought for 10 years I had the Austin allergy. For 10 years, it was so bad.

Speaker 1 I go out to dinner. Even when we moved out to Fredericksburg, we come into Austin.
I thought it was Austin. Seriously, I'm like, Austin has given me this.

Speaker 1 We go out to dinner, start eating, and then my nose my eyes everything just and I have to always excuse myself always have to have tissues in my back pocket then I got my teeth done which we talked about I think the last time I was here and

Speaker 1 Maverick my periodontist he did one of these 360 MRIs he says you know ma'am you've got some low-level infection here

Speaker 1 and that could be responsible for a whole bunch of stuff now I'd had hearing aids for five years so when he did the initial extraction

Speaker 1 I think I took one or two shows off and then I went back in the studio, put my headphones on, and I'm like, whoa, I thought I'd hit something, you know, a volume knob or something. Came back because

Speaker 1 this was infected and it was basically clogging up my sinuses and that was affecting the

Speaker 1 hearing. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And a mouth infection like that's very dangerous, isn't it?

Speaker 1 People have no idea how important oral health is. It's really, really critical.
And also, I feel better because, you know, I'm not fighting infection continuously. That's crazy.

Speaker 1 So how did it all start? Like, what was going on with your teeth?

Speaker 1 That, like, made all these decisions.

Speaker 1 I had a bad start in life when

Speaker 1 I was two or three, we were living in Uganda, and my parents would put me to sleep with a chocolate cookie. So I had kind of a bad start, you know, and I had a lot of work.
I had

Speaker 1 just tons of fillings on my baby teeth. Everything was messed up.
Then I had the big outboard headgear, which really traumatized me for life taking that to school. You know,

Speaker 1 I was one of those guys.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. It was bad.
And

Speaker 1 about

Speaker 1 10 years ago, maybe a little bit more, I went to the dentist here in Austin. And he's like, you know, we really got to start doing stuff.
We've got to start looking at repairing.

Speaker 1 And then this dentist started hitting on me and texting me. And I'm like, that's okay.

Speaker 1 Guy or girl. Guy.
Damn.

Speaker 1 Like, no, no, no, no, no, no. So, and I knew that there was a Pandora's box.
How wild is that? Like, what a

Speaker 1 risky move. It was so dumb.
Like, you're a married straight guy. He's like, yeah, I think I can get him, though.

Speaker 1 He could be on our team. That is such a

Speaker 1 man move. It's such a thing that men would do.
It's so stupid. He's like, I'm here with some buddies of mine, you know, sending a picture.
I'm like, no, no, no, no, no. So I'm wearing all shirtless.

Speaker 1 I'm fucking wearing cowboy hats.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I'm not going back. I'm I'm good.
And then Tina and I, you know, we got together. We moved out to Fredericksburg and she and she's real big on, you know, preventative anything.

Speaker 1 You know, her car has the oil, everything on time, everything's all set. And her teeth, of course, are impeccable.
That's not like a good fit for you. Totally.

Speaker 1 You need an organized lady.

Speaker 1 I had a credit score of 350. Oh, no.
I didn't have credit card. I was just cash.
You know, like, I didn't care. Like, you know, I had cash flow.
Everything's good. I don't care.

Speaker 1 She straightened me out. Oh, yeah.
Oh, big time. You know, we disorganized men very much need organized women.
You just can't have one that turns into your mom. Oh, no.
No.

Speaker 1 That was my first wife.

Speaker 1 That does happen with some of them. Some of them, when you give them the reins and they start telling you what to do, all of a sudden then it becomes very non-sexy.
I will say...

Speaker 1 Props to my first wife. She kept me, I was the height of my show business fame, MTV.
She kept me out of trouble.

Speaker 1 I did not participate in the world. She was a good mommy.
She was a good mom.

Speaker 1 And she's a good mom to our daughter, you know, so

Speaker 1 for sure.

Speaker 1 Well, you know, you change, they change, you need a different kind of a mom. Things change.
Things change.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so then, you know, I went through it. Yeah, it was like,

Speaker 1 and that's also when I stopped smoking, you know, because

Speaker 1 Maverick called me up. He said, hey, man, I'm going to be operating on you in a week.
You know, could you do me a favor and stop putting fire in your mouth?

Speaker 1 And I've been smoking weed and tobacco since I was 15. And I quit.
At that moment, I haven't, I didn't ever, I mean, I vape like a crazy horse. Well, that's not good, is it? Well, that's a question.

Speaker 1 This is, you and I have gone over this, and we will go back to it. It's a nicotine

Speaker 1 delivery device. Yes, that's what it is.
We'll get to that. Yeah, but so

Speaker 1 just cleaning out the infections, what was going on that that was fucking up your hearing? It was like the whole area was inflamed. Yeah, it's right by your sinuses.

Speaker 1 And so that, you know, everything's connected. You know, if you hold your nose, you can hear.
Right. you hear differently.

Speaker 1 So whatever it was doing, and literally just a couple days after he extracted the, extracted more than that, but after he extracted those teeth, it just came back.

Speaker 1 And I didn't have horrible hearing loss, but it was enough where I was sick of saying, I'm sorry, darling, what'd you say? I'm sorry. And the moment you get to like, I didn't hear her.

Speaker 1 I'll ask her later. That's when I went, no, I got to get hearing aids.
I don't want to. And it's one of the biggest reasons men

Speaker 1 get depressed is when they can't hear and they kind of withdraw. And it's a real crisis.
Really? Yeah, oh, it's a real crisis. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Anyone, you need to go, if you think, just have your ears tested anyway. Why not? I mean, you get your eyes tested, get your ears tested, get your teeth taken care of.

Speaker 1 So if they find out your ears are not good, do they ever check for infections? No. Because it seems like now you should get in the medical book.

Speaker 1 Thank you. Actually, he's been writing a paper on this for this very reason.
And it's only because he did the 360 MRI that he saw it. And he also knew knew what to look for.
It's his expertise.

Speaker 1 When I met this guy, I was like,

Speaker 1 he's young. He's like in his 30s.
I'm like, so why did you choose this profession? He says, I like operating. I really love doing that stuff.
I'm like, okay, you sound cool.

Speaker 1 And it turns out he's a pilot, you know, so we become friends.

Speaker 1 But yeah, he says people have no idea. And so he has been working on a paper to publish about this very thing.
It's just not known.

Speaker 1 I talked about it on the podcast, and people from all over the world are like, really, man?

Speaker 1 You know, i've been having hearing issues get an mri get a 360 mri of your head this episode is brought to you by zip recruiter the hiring process is stressful there are so many different things to consider and on top of it all you need to get it done quickly it's like when you're trying to find a decent contractor for a home renovation project or even a new primary care doctor you don't want just anyone you probably want a person who knows their and will take your concerns seriously but also

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Speaker 1 And the goofy fucking solution that someone came up with along the way was putting fluoride in the water,

Speaker 1 which is so goddamned insane that you're taking a neurotoxin and you're putting it in the water. But

Speaker 1 it, and again,

Speaker 1 I don't want to take even a political position on this. I just want to look at it this.
I want to look at this from a human lens.

Speaker 1 There is something that people do where even if something is obviously stupid,

Speaker 1 if it's a part of a system

Speaker 1 and there's enough air quotes experts that have endorsed this, regardless of the fact that we've seen time and time again throughout history that experts are compromised, experts are, you could put in, you could have a court case for a murder and bring in experts that will tell you he definitely did it, and experts to tell you he definitely didn't do it.

Speaker 1 So we know this for a fact. But still, people argue on the side of the experts.
And I've seen this about fluoride. And it's so mind-boggling.

Speaker 1 There are conclusive studies that show a direct correlation between high levels of fluoride in the local water and lower IQs.

Speaker 1 And it's a neurotoxin. We know it's bad for you in large doses.

Speaker 1 And yet there are fucking people out there with college degrees who read the New York Times, who think they're sensible people that will get angry if you want to remove this neurotoxin from water because look at all the strides it's done in preventing tooth decay.

Speaker 1 And you just want to say, hey, man, fuck you.

Speaker 1 This is stupid. I went to dinner at Mitch's house.
I call him a house. I'm a little upset.
No, no, it's okay because

Speaker 1 we're sitting down. It's my wife, his wife.
You know, he has one of those houses right on the airport where this plane rolls out of the garage, you know, the hangar.

Speaker 1 Exactly. I paid for that.
I'm like, I pay for that hanger.

Speaker 1 And we're sitting down and we're having a good time. You know, we're talking about stuff.
He says, so what do you think about fluoride? I said, should not be in the water. He's like, you're wrong.

Speaker 1 You know what? And this is only a couple of years ago. And now he's come back and he said, oh, man,

Speaker 1 this was. I was apologized.
Yeah, of course. This was drilled into my head.

Speaker 1 What I understand is fluoride is a byproduct of aluminum production. And a lot of this, you know, they had this fluoride waste product basically they needed to get rid of.

Speaker 1 And from what I understand, it was Alcoa. I could be wrong, but I think it was Alcoa who made these deals.

Speaker 1 And who knows how they set that up with the American Dental Association, and that's how fluoride got into our water, and we got this kind of psyop of it's good for you.

Speaker 1 I knew it was wrong in

Speaker 1 2000, and there was a book that came out called Legacy of Ashes. It was written by a guy called Tim Weiner, who used to be New York Times.
And it was all about the CIA.

Speaker 1 And it's a a great book because my uncle is in it many times. Donald Gregg, he's still with us.
He's 95 or 96. And he was really high up in the CIA.
He was, you know, part of OSS back in the day.

Speaker 1 And in it, it talks about how the agents would go in, fluoridate the enemy's camp water so they could go in at night and they were docile and they could pull them out and they could kind of attack them.

Speaker 1 And I said, Uncle Don, is this true? He says, yeah, pretty much how I remember it.

Speaker 1 I'm like, well, of course this so the neurotoxin has been used in actual warfare in the water to make people docile yeah docile and the argument is so dumb because you know my friend Eddie Bravo had a great point uh he said when you get toothpaste uh do you ever see toothpaste that says fluoride free why would they say that and advertise it toms if fluoride wasn't bad for you why would they do that like why would that be a selling point if If we've always looked for fluoride in toothpaste my whole life, crest, oh, fluoride, got it.

Speaker 1 You know, when you're going through the CVS and you're grabbing stuff and throwing it back there, it's always fluoride. You're always looking for fluoride.
That's what kills the fucking germ.

Speaker 1 I don't want cavities. I don't have to go to the dentist.
Give me that fluoride. But

Speaker 1 they're selling toothpaste without fluoride. Why is that? And the guy who was saying it to like had this look at us, he was like, he was trapped.

Speaker 1 He was just trapped. Like, so you don't think fluoride is good for you? It's like one of those things.
Like, that's just what he just said. No.
just brush your fucking teeth. It's really that simple.

Speaker 1 As a kid, did you get those trays at the dentist? Do you remember those? What are the trays?

Speaker 1 And it would be, they'd say, We're going to do fluoride treatment on you. Oh, yeah, they did.
And it was like,

Speaker 1 it's fruity. You know, and this gun could be dripping back in your throat.
You're gagging with this horrible. It's like, that's not.
And you go to school,

Speaker 1 you get a D in English. You're fucking stupid.
Strip it. Pretty much the story of my life, Joe.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's so bad. It's really bad for you, and it's not necessary.
And we're being co-opted by something and someone. And I think we looked this up on the podcast, Jamie.
Didn't it come out of there?

Speaker 1 Was some town in Texas, I believe, that had naturally fluoridated water, which occasionally, you know, just like- We have it in the hill country. The water is definitely naturally fluoridated.

Speaker 1 Yeah, there's natural levels of different minerals, and there's different stuff. And this one area had

Speaker 1 a fairly high natural level of fluoride, and these people had like great oral hygiene.

Speaker 1 Whether or not that was a convenient study that they pointed to or a convenient case they pointed to to make the argument to get rid of all that fluoride, you know, there's like you got to look many layers into all this kind of stuff because they've been throwing fluoride in the water for how long?

Speaker 1 And how much money has been spent throwing fluoride in the water?

Speaker 1 And how many people have like built mansions and have fucking, you know, Mercedes-Benz they're tooling around them because they've been throwing fluoride in the water.

Speaker 1 And that's that's a deep system to try to untangle after 50, 60 years of it. What's doing? It's the petrochemical industry.
That's where all our medicines come from.

Speaker 1 I was watching the Grammys, and I don't know why. Why? What's wrong with you? I know.
Well, I usually watch for the Satan segment. I would say, oh, okay, there it is.
There's the Illuminati.

Speaker 1 There's the Satan. There's always one.
There's the Satan. They didn't have one.
That's crazy. Beautiful women in nice dresses.
Trump is president. Oh, nervous.
Oh, no.

Speaker 1 Presidents are important for the culture. It's very important for the Satan.
But

Speaker 1 they're in trouble. They're in trouble.

Speaker 1 Jesus is making a comeback, man. They're in trouble there.
You're going to hide now. Go back into the basement of Comet Pizza.

Speaker 1 Place that doesn't have a basement, by the way. We're reliably informed.

Speaker 1 And I hadn't really watched network television a lot, and there's a lot of commercial breaks, but the first 10 all had a pharmaceutical product, which I'd never heard of, a name I can't remember, and side effects literally included death.

Speaker 1 I'm like, what is going on with this? And like, ask your doctor, I'm like, do I have this? Should I have this? Do I want this? Is this going on with me? And people are all happy in the commercials.

Speaker 1 They're like, look, my skin looks good and I'm happy and I have a beautiful family. It's almost like we used to, you know, sell cars.
Now they're just selling the pharmaceuticals.

Speaker 1 Well, that will be an interesting thing if RFK Jr. gets in place.
If RFK Jr. gets in place and they stop this

Speaker 1 advertising on, we are one of two countries on earth that allows

Speaker 1 New Zealand and New Zealand's far more restrictive than us. We should be really restrictive about this because advertising works.

Speaker 1 You know, and there's advertising that doesn't bother me at all, like Chevrolet Corvette.

Speaker 1 You know, it's okay, it's fine. But when it can give you bloody diarrhea and suicidal ideology, anal leakage.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and you're just fucked up in the head and you're depressed and like you don't know why, but now your zits are gone. Like, hey,

Speaker 1 slow down.

Speaker 1 That was not in that commercial with the lady dancing in the field with her child and the people at the picnic and they're all smiling and laughing and having a good time together.

Speaker 1 That looked like fun. Like, where's that part? Well, of course, you know, this was,

Speaker 1 they've tried all kinds of things to stop this, and, you know, First Amendment comes up, although we have stopped tobacco advertisements, and there's all kinds of things that have been done throughout the years.

Speaker 1 But what happened with television is all the money, I mean, really 60, 70, maybe 80 percent of all the advertising income is from pharmaceutical companies. That's why there's also no reporting.

Speaker 1 Like, we're not going to bite the hand that feeds us. That's the real problem.

Speaker 1 That's the real problem. The real problem is that these news organizations are not independent.
Not just news. Not just news.
Right. Everything.
They're not independent. Like, even television shows.

Speaker 1 Like, could you imagine if, let's say, a network has a prominent news organization, and that news organization is very popular.

Speaker 1 and it's a big part of their ratings and it's a reliable source of information for you know people that believe them and they're sponsored by pharmaceutical drug companies but then they also have a crime show yeah on and this crime show wants to do a thing about an evil guy who promotes a vaccine that winds up killing a bunch of people and they hide the data and then they arrest him at the end of the the end of the show like no fucking way that's not getting made no green light for you no no no no no no no no no no no no no no that's not gonna happen no no no no no you gotta turn that guy into a meth dealer that's a meth dealer now let's just do a couple rewrites, simple rewrites of the script.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, this is a bad guy from Guatemala.
Let's come with us.

Speaker 1 It's definitely not from here. He's definitely not from Moderna.
And they definitely aren't working in conjunction with the government to develop this thing, and the government's profiting off of it.

Speaker 1 That's not real. Well, we've, I mean, I say that we're in the season of reveal.

Speaker 1 I've been saying this for about a year now, and it's really happening real quick with what we're uncovering and starting to understand. I haven't seen your talk with that.

Speaker 1 The brands dropped some fucking seeds yesterday. If we're in a season of flowers,

Speaker 1 he's blooming today.

Speaker 1 He was so nervous yesterday. Jamie was talking about it before.
He was making all these tweets like they're going to kill him.

Speaker 1 Probably, yeah, it's probably been discussed.

Speaker 1 Well, I think it's way too far beyond. And I think, you know, I look at Leave It to Beaver, I call her, who's the new press secretary.
She's 27 years old. Oh, yeah.
She's good, though.

Speaker 1 She's fantastic. Younger than my

Speaker 1 daughter.

Speaker 1 A gal. I don't think you should say Leave It to Beaver.
I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 That's how I remember her last name. All right, Caroline Leave It.
I think it's Leave It. Thanks, Joe.
Thanks. Thank you.

Speaker 1 Because we're old enough to remember when Beaver was a vagina. Most kids are like, I don't even know what the fuck they're talking about.
Leave it to Beaver. What are we talking about?

Speaker 1 It's a dumb name for a vagina, a beaver.

Speaker 1 Because dudes didn't really have any derogatory names for dicks. It's just dick is the worst one.
Like, oh, you're a dick. Put your dick away, you fucking weirdo.
You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 It was like, but beaver. Well, we only had pecker.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 But pecker's kind of cute. Yeah, exactly.
It's just

Speaker 1 a pecker. Yeah.
There's no like real bad names for dick other than dick. But she comes out.

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Speaker 1 But I think our president is very smart.

Speaker 1 He's showing us things that enables people like Mike Benz and you and I to have these conversations about, you know, because it's not ideological that USAID, which is not USAID, this is like one of these, one of these psyops right up top, like Federal Express is not owned by the government, Federal Reserve is not owned by the government, USAID is the agency for international development, not aid.

Speaker 1 And we see on television, there goes another pallet onto the C-130, aid, U.S. aid from the American people.
We're being nice. Yeah, we're being nice to people.
We should be nice.

Speaker 1 We're the nice people of the world. world.
But

Speaker 1 what these, and I'm sure Mike talked about this, you know, like LGBTQ,

Speaker 1 these dance parties and things, if you look at, I'm looking at these countries, like these are countries where we want to keep them away from Russia, overthrow the incumbents. Yes.

Speaker 1 And the way to garner support is to

Speaker 1 and I really love how they added the cue. That just became so clear to me all of a sudden.
If you sponsor LGBTQ, these are outcasts. These are people who feel that they've been marginalized.

Speaker 1 Then you add a cue like, oh, wait a minute. I can be queer.
I'm different. I'm odd.
You bring more people in. Then you can bring the anarchists in.
You can get A. They have the A's in.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, the A's are so crazy. Everything.
But the A's don't even have a dog in the fight. But that's the point.
You want them to come to the party. Come to the party.
You're allowed to the party.

Speaker 1 It's been so long now. And I saw this, you know, AFD in Germany.
You know, this is the extreme right party, and they wanted

Speaker 1 to slow or remove immigration. And so now there was a protest against the AFD, you know, some they're getting ready to vote now.
And there's a hundred thousand people there.

Speaker 1 And I'm like, wow, do so I thought, because I know people in Germany, I have friends in Germany. They really are sick and tired of this immigration stuff.
So where are these people coming from?

Speaker 1 And in the news report, right up front, there's a dude in a blonde wig with eyeshadow saying, We just want to get along. We just want, can't we just be diverse? I'm like, that's the psyop.

Speaker 1 He's talking about himself. So he wants to feel included, which, by the way, in America, you can do whatever you want, call yourself whatever you want.
People really don't have an issue with that.

Speaker 1 But they've just taken this and abused these people into their political agendas all over the world. And of course, it sparked something here in the States.

Speaker 1 If you look at the Democrat Party, they're going to die on this hill. They're still like, oh, no, LGBTQ, they're taking away our rights because they know they can mobilize people to do that.

Speaker 1 And then you can throw in Palestine and all kinds of people. Did you join the city council thing in Worcester, Massachusetts yesterday that's gone viral today? Which one is that?

Speaker 1 Jamie, did you see it?

Speaker 1 I'm seeing it right now on Twitter. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Pull this bitch up.

Speaker 1 I haven't seen it.

Speaker 1 There's a compilation of these people, like absolutely freaking out. The best one's the compilation, if you can find the compilation.

Speaker 1 But it's all these LBGT people show up at this city council meeting to say there's like a transgenocide. It's one of those, dude.
We're going to round up in concentration camps.

Speaker 1 We're going to have five minutes long. Yeah, just give me.
Start from the beginning.

Speaker 1 Can you wrap up, please?

Speaker 2 Yes, I can.

Speaker 2 If you say that you're afraid of Trump and that's why you don't want

Speaker 2 the city to be a safe space for trans people, you better prepare for trans people to make this a very unsafe space.

Speaker 3 Oh, brother. I'm shaking right now.
I don't want to be here.

Speaker 3 I'm sorry. Am I taking too long pleading for my life?

Speaker 1 You remembered remembered how many children I have and how many, and that two of them are trans.

Speaker 1 There it is. Yeah.
I speak as both the B and the T in the LGBT.

Speaker 1 He's both.

Speaker 2 I'm multiply disabled. I have Ehlers-Danlow syndrome, which is a connective tissue disorder that causes me immense physical pain.

Speaker 2 I'm on the autism spectrum. And I have narcolepsy, and I couldn't drive myself here.
So I had to hide from my driver

Speaker 2 that I was in drag, which is not an easy thing to do in drag.

Speaker 4 I do not want to be here.

Speaker 1 It's my day off.

Speaker 3 I do not want to be in your DMs. I do not want to be in your email inboxes.
I do not want my creativity writing diss tracks like Kendrick.

Speaker 3 I don't want to spend an hour applying glitter on my face so that you will hear and see me.

Speaker 1 I want you to listen to me.

Speaker 1 Let us remember that the knot you've gone. No, that's enough.

Speaker 1 You made me put glitter on my face, you piece of shit. Because everyone knows when you go to court, you have to have glitter.

Speaker 1 These people need hugs. They need love.
I pray for them. The biggest way to psychologically manipulate people is, or there's three ways, old people, puppies, and children.

Speaker 1 And I followed this. It started around 2012, not coincidental.
When, you know, about Smith Munt, the Smith Munt Act? So that's, you know, there was a law that was put in since the church commission.

Speaker 1 You can't propagandize the American people.

Speaker 1 The Defense Department and others went to the government and said, Well, you know, like we're on the internet now, we might accidentally, you know, push some propaganda on people.

Speaker 1 It started with bullying in schools. I know because John Dvorak and I, we followed it on no agenda.
Started with bullying, then it was we needed anti-bullying laws.

Speaker 1 And we're literally going, like, what happened to sticks and stones will break my bones or punch the bully in his nose? No, no, no.

Speaker 1 Then the teachers, and then we got hate speech laws, not actually laws, but you know, hate speech punishments.

Speaker 1 And this kept building up until you guaranteed parents through the American Medical Association, the Pediatric Society, all of these different trade groups that if you don't transition your child, that child will commit suicide.

Speaker 1 Right. And that's just that is a horrible thing that they've done.
Think about these parents who may or may not one day wake up and go, what have I done?

Speaker 1 What have I done? Well, there was someone was talking about this the other day that this is the real problem is that so many parents have committed to doing this to their children and they cannot face

Speaker 1 the reality of what they've done and so they're going to dig their heels in forever and vote Democrats about gender affirming care.

Speaker 1 But the thing is that's a small percentage of people. in the general population.
Thank God. Thank God.
But they're overrepresented in the fact that they make it their whole life.

Speaker 1 And so they're very loud and very vocal and then they become a political beach ball. I talk about beach balls.
I heard you talk about that with Bridget. That's what it is.
Totally.

Speaker 1 The political beach balls at a concert. They chuck them up in the air, so we always have something to fight about.

Speaker 1 So we're not paying attention to the USAID stuff or a lot of the stuff that's really important.

Speaker 1 And this is just a part of this intertangled web of psyops that's been running our culture. I mean, I would say our government, but it's everything, right?

Speaker 1 So it's the government has established its hooks in us and put fear and law and rules.

Speaker 1 And the more law and the more rules, the better, because the more likely you're going to break a few of them and then you're going to shut the fuck up. And they've got these fucking things everywhere.

Speaker 1 And it's just allowing them to run this mafia business. And there's a bunch of people that are reasonable, educated people that have Stockholm syndrome.

Speaker 1 Like they don't want to admit that even their people, their cherished heroes like Obama, was a part of this.

Speaker 1 All these people that you think of as progressive Democrats, they were all a part of it.

Speaker 1 And fortunately today, we have the convenient access to YouTube instantaneously, where you could watch Obama in 2003 say some very MAGA things.

Speaker 1 Or you could watch Hillary Clinton go more MAGA than MAGA. About deportations.
Yes.

Speaker 1 Yes. And that if you stay, you have to pay a stiff fine.

Speaker 1 I mean, the whole thing is, it's cyclical, right? Like, this is why the left is now supporting war and censorship. It's not real.

Speaker 1 It's not that there's a good group of kind, compassionate, educated people and a bunch of fucking buffoons who are racist who want to bring that back to the Confederate flag.

Speaker 1 That's not what's going on.

Speaker 1 There's people that are nice, kind people that also understand the value of hard work and reality and kindness and also sternness and rule of law.

Speaker 1 And you can't just let violent criminals out in the street.

Speaker 1 And hey, maybe you should do some actual rehabilitation with the fucking billions of dollars you make in the prison industrial complex when there's no rehabilitation, like no real concerted efforts to completely change these people.

Speaker 1 And studies. It's a mess.

Speaker 1 It can be done. It could be done.
And it probably could be done with

Speaker 1 psychedelic drugs. They probably can do some things with people, especially nonviolent criminals that are trying to figure out, like, why have I been stealing from people my whole life?

Speaker 1 Like, what the fuck is wrong with me? That I,

Speaker 1 unless they're a legitimate psychopath and they have no empathy.

Speaker 1 There's people that can be kind of woken up to why they're in this horrific pattern of continual abuse in their life. And there's ways to do it.
And, you know, Rick Perry has been really

Speaker 1 brave in this case because he's a former Republican governor of Texas. That's right.

Speaker 1 And now he's advocating for ibogame therapy particularly for veterans for guys who come over they've seen the most horrific shit their brain is in a shambles and they want to do something and they they they have no no help in these pills that just dull their mind and make them feel detached from reality and all these fucking antidepressants and things they give them and they they want to fucking end their life and they can go and get therapy that it cures 80 of them with one dose, and it's like 95% with two doses.

Speaker 1 It's fucking nuts, man. And we've been hiding this because

Speaker 1 of the sweeping Schedule I Drug Act of 1970 that was put in place directly by Nixon to go after his political opponents.

Speaker 1 It was directly put in place to demonize the anti-war movement and demonize the Civil Rights Party and the Black Panthers and anybody who was a problem with the government.

Speaker 1 So So they just said, let's just make all these things that these people are taking on a regular basis completely illegal.

Speaker 1 Not only just schedule one, like with no medical use whatsoever, things that people have been using for thousands and thousands of years. And it's all the same shit.
It's all psyops. It's all psyops.

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Speaker 1 Well, the number one thing that happened around that time, of course, during Kennedy, is we realized that television was a big force. Television and radio.
Yeah, they got that handsome guy.

Speaker 1 And if you listen to some of the debates, like,

Speaker 1 you know, it would sound on the radio like Nixon did better. I mean,

Speaker 1 it's amazing how this worked between radio and television. But then newspapers, we know the intelligence agencies were all writing stories.
I mean, you look at CNN, you still see ex-CIA guy shows up.

Speaker 1 A little story. When I saw you sitting at the inauguration, and I think I texted you, I'm like, dude, I can't believe it.
I see you sitting there. You're texting me American flag emojis and stuff.

Speaker 1 And you and Trump, I'm like, oh, look at him, he's in the tuxedo. And I thought,

Speaker 1 so my life in 1983, um, I was still a teenager, and um, I grew up in Amsterdam, socialist country. The airwaves were controlled by the government, it was horrible, it was almost like Russia.

Speaker 1 Your phone was a gray phone, and that was your phone. You couldn't get a different phone, you couldn't, it was illegal to unplug it from the wall.

Speaker 1 And I was doing pirate radio at a place called Radio Decibel in Amsterdam. And we were playing.

Speaker 1 You were Christian Slater.

Speaker 1 In a way. You know what that movie is? In a way.
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
What was that called? What was that movie called?

Speaker 1 I don't know. Maybe it was called Pirate Radio.
It was crazy. They were trying to arrest him.
Remember? Well, so we all got arrested several times.

Speaker 1 And we were playing 12-inch imports from your Chicago warehouse. They got arrested several times.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh, they would always get

Speaker 1 behind you.

Speaker 1 We literally had the station name on the door. People would come around.
We'd be smoking weed or hanging out. You know, we weren't making any money.
We were basically paying to do it.

Speaker 1 You know, we had this huge antenna on the door. Did this ever come up when you got hired by MTV? Did they get nervous about that? Like, did they have to do a background check?

Speaker 1 Say, this guy's got a record. No,

Speaker 1 remind me to tell you my USAID story in a minute.

Speaker 1 So, no, but this is 1983. And I felt it was so, first I was a gawky, awkward kid.
I got ticks. You know, I got the wrong hair.
I got the wrong moped. Everything's wrong.

Speaker 1 But on the radio, people are like, wow. And I was was doing it in English.
You can do that in Amsterdam. People are like, wow, it's so cool.
You got that black guy on your station.

Speaker 1 I'm like, I'm black? Oh, cool. So I was John Holden, the 23-year-old black guy who drives a Harley.
But the point was, it was liberating. I could speak my mind, and everything felt so stifling.

Speaker 1 Now we go forward to 1993, and I'm on MTV. I'm the hair of Generation X.
I'm on Z100 in New York, number one station. And I'm also on the internet.
You know, I'd set up MTV.com.

Speaker 1 It was very, very sling we had dial-up modems at the time and it was so restrictive you can't they let me do my own material but they had censorship called a line producer like oh now we got to burn that segment you said something bad about Richard Marks oh you said something that was off color about Madonna oh we can't do that the radio was the same it was you know like read the liner card you know and then always end with Z100

Speaker 1 and there was a guy at Sun Microsystems in San Francisco and he said Adam I see what you're doing with MTV.com on the web. That's going to send you a computer.

Speaker 1 So he sends me this big Sun Spark workstation. He said, What year? 93.
So this is pre-Windows 95. So this is

Speaker 1 Windows, what is it, 3.8? Well, this was Solaris OS. It's Unix, basically.
So it wasn't Windows back then, right? Like what came before Windows 95?

Speaker 1 No, I had an early Apple II. 3.1, that's what it was.
Yeah,

Speaker 1 3.1. And Apple II.
I was more Apple guy at the time.

Speaker 1 And so I hooked it up to my 56K mode.

Speaker 1 Dial in. He says, watch this.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 I'm on the phone with him. He says, watch this.
And up on my screen pops a little player, and he's streaming in PC. We didn't have MP3s back then, PCM pulse code modulation, nine-inch nails.
I'm like.

Speaker 1 This is broadcasting. I'm going to figure out how we use this thing for broadcasting because think about how we can use this outside of all the systems.

Speaker 1 And so 2003, now we're 10 years later, I've been very involved with RSS feeds and blogs. And I see my first iPod, and it's like, snap, crackle, pop.
Hold on a second. This is amazing.
We can combine.

Speaker 1 This is a radio.

Speaker 1 This is not a music device. It's radio.

Speaker 1 So I cobbled together this program that basically takes this RSS feed and then puts a program onto, you know, as a, so the show was an album, and then each track was an episode number.

Speaker 1 And then I immediately started doing a show. I start, you know, what I do is just try to get people involved.
That's how daily source code started because I was trying to get software developers in.

Speaker 1 And then two years later, three years later, Steve Jobs is having a private conversation with me about putting this into the iPod and making it official, making a podcasting thing in iTunes.

Speaker 1 And I'm like, this is so perfect because now you have this RSS feed, which you control. No one else can control what you do with your RSS feed.

Speaker 1 And anybody can slurp that up and subscribe to your radio show. And then 20 years later,

Speaker 1 I see the President of the United States wrapping up his campaign with Joe Rogan on a podcast, completely being himself, being a dude for three, by the way, props for you sticking to your guns.

Speaker 1 I love that you did that. Now it's got to be here.
No restrictions on time. Well, he didn't impose any.

Speaker 1 He was more than willing to do it exactly how I do it. He understands it.
But at that moment, then I see you sitting there. I'm like, we just broke the elite messaging machine.
Phase one complete.

Speaker 1 All because of you, dog. No, no, you, dog.
You, dog, man.

Speaker 1 You glory to God. I think I was just you.

Speaker 1 I always give you your props. I think you were the first.
I was just a vessel. It makes sense to me now.
Well, I'm just a vessel, too. I think that's the case with all of it.
Absolutely.

Speaker 1 I say that to the guys at my comedy club. You know, like, well, they're always so thankful that I built this comedy club.
I'm like, I think this thing built itself.

Speaker 1 I think it was just, I was a thing that it did through me.

Speaker 1 It caught me because it knew that, you know, I was capable of doing it and impulsive enough and brash enough to like say, fuck it, let's just dump a bunch of money in this spot and see what happens.

Speaker 1 You were given gifts. I was giving gifts.
And you stuck with your gifts. And I know you're a very generous guy.

Speaker 1 I know you help a lot of people with all not monetary necessarily, but just helping them, getting them on their feet. You know, like even, you know, Parker, I'm like, can I bring this kid?

Speaker 1 He's a big fan. You're like, absolutely, bring him in.
You're a gracious guy. And so when you get whatever word it is to build a comedy club, you did.
I think you have to do that.

Speaker 1 I think that's the universe is testing you. And if you pay attention to yourself, you'll feel like, what's the right thing to do? Like, what's the thing, what is the greedy, impulsive thing to do?

Speaker 1 What is like the miserly thing to do? Save it all. It's my money.
Save it all. You know, that's the, you know,

Speaker 1 usually doesn't end well for most people. It's just, it's bad for you, too, because it's I always talk about this in terms of careers, like, and I really try to put this in young comics' minds.

Speaker 1 There's an impulse that you will have when someone's doing better than you, and you will be angry at them. It is a bitter, pathetic, jealous, normal instinct that people have.

Speaker 1 The enemy, the enemy talking to you. It's just you have to recognize what that is.
What that is, is you have a desire to be doing the same thing. This person is doing this thing.

Speaker 1 They are in the movie. They are on the TV show.
They are headlining at the club. And you feel bad because it's not you.
So you decide that they are bad.

Speaker 1 And so you start looking at them as a source of negativity towards you.

Speaker 1 And you don't do all the logical, objective reasoning that allows you to go, oh, no, no, no, no, no, they didn't do anything wrong. It's just me.

Speaker 1 And then those people who get really super big and famous oftentimes get very defensive and very elitist because they do understand that people are mad at them now.

Speaker 1 So then they're like, fuck those people. Those people are fucking losers.
And it's bad for everybody. It's bad for everybody.

Speaker 1 The correct way to do it is to go, wow, look at what this person has accomplished. That's fucking amazing.
That's inspiring. I want to do something like that with my life.

Speaker 1 Which is what America used to be. People would come to a certain amount of people.
Yeah, I think it is. I think it is.
It's been covered up. It's been papered over by media, basically.

Speaker 1 That's why I'm so happy that we've broken through that elite messaging system.

Speaker 1 The way I was raised is in America, you can look at the guy with the Rolls-Royce or the Cadillac or whatever and go, I want that, and you can be that.

Speaker 1 And we've kind of devolved into a, you know, it's international now, into a victim mentality.

Speaker 1 There's good and evil. Well, it's just a ploy.
It's again the same thing as Florida in the water. It's a fucking psyop.
It's a ploy.

Speaker 1 And it's a way to keep us, instead of empowering people to recognize that all these people that are successful are inspiration. That's what they are.
They're fuel for you. You can use them.

Speaker 1 Whatever that person is singing at the Grammys, when Kendrick Lamar is doing the halftime show, when someone wins a fight, that's supposed to be inspiration. That's a fuel.

Speaker 1 And you can use it correctly.

Speaker 1 Or you can fuck your whole life up by paying attention to other people and comparing yourself in a negative way. This is part of the problem with kids and social media.
Oh.

Speaker 1 Because kids are supposed to see like, oh, look at Bobby. He's nice to everybody and everybody likes Bobby.
Be like Bobby. Like, look at Mark.

Speaker 1 He's fucking awesome at the guitar and everybody wants to go see him play. I want someone to come see me do something.
I gotta, I wish I was as good at something as Mark is at guitar.

Speaker 1 And that's what's supposed to like raise us all up. But instead, we see a thousand followers and likes on someone blasting somebody in a funny way in a video.
Yeah. This is a big part of the problem.

Speaker 1 But sometimes funny way blasting is important too, because that's my line of work.

Speaker 1 You've got to be shit. You are shit as you are.
You are a professional, Joe. You're a professional.

Speaker 1 How do you become a professional? You start off as an amateur. You start off with shit.
We can't all be a comedian or a comic. We just can't.
I think a lot more can than you think.

Speaker 1 There's a lot of people out there that have the inclination that just don't get that spark, which is also one of the things we're trying to do with the club, which is also why we have two nights of open mic nights.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's cool. Yeah, we want to make it accessible.
We want to make this like a place where there's a real path.

Speaker 1 You can work on your act, and you're going to see guys like on a daily basis, guys like Ron White and Shane Gillis. And they're people coming in and out of town that are doing my podcast.

Speaker 1 They're like the best of the best in the world. And they're coming to the club.
Oh, this is the center of the universe now for comedy. It's amazing.
It's amazing. It's amazing.

Speaker 1 And again, I think this place, I think it built itself. I think I just had to do it.
I was like, I just got to tell you: no, no, no. God loves you, Joe.
He is at work in you.

Speaker 1 He's all over you and has been that way for a long, long time. There's no doubt in my mind.
Well, whatever it is, I'm listening. You'll accept it.
Yeah, I accept it and I listen and I go with it.

Speaker 1 But I think it all, like, too many things had to happen. Like, if you want to believe in fate, if you really want to believe in fate, I should believe in fate.

Speaker 1 Because especially with like this move here, too many things had to happen in line.

Speaker 1 It had to be the pandemic and it had to be me with young kids who just was very uncomfortable with the direction that LA was going. And then it had to be the George Floyd riots and the lockdowns.

Speaker 1 And then I had to come to Texas and go, oh, there's other ways that people live. And I had known you for a long time and you lived here and you spoke very highly.
And then my good friend Gary,

Speaker 1 Gary Clark Jr.,

Speaker 1 he came here

Speaker 1 like before the pandemic. And I remember talking to him on the phone.
I'm like, why did you move back to Texas? He's like, man, I just cannot fuck with those people in L.A.

Speaker 1 And Gary's like the realest dude I know. It's like one of the realest.
Like, he doesn't give a fuck about fame.

Speaker 1 About that guy cares about playing that fucking guitar and playing songs as good as he can. And that guy just locks himself up in a studio.
He's got a studio on his house at his house.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's what you want. He locks himself up in there for 12 hours a day.
And it's just, that guy only gives a fuck about the art. Like, he's about the craft.

Speaker 1 And like, so all the bullshit that came along with living in Hollywood, like, he would just come hang out at the comedy store all the time. That was just, because it was like, oh, you guys are real.

Speaker 1 Like, I can hang with you. We'd just be be cracking up.

Speaker 1 So when he came out here, I was like, fuck. And then Ron White came out here.
I'm like, God damn it. And then, you know, it's like, oh, I fucking love it.
It's fucking airports, a breeze, no traffic.

Speaker 1 Everyone's nice. It's the middle of the country.
I was like, fuck. And then the pandemic happened.
And it just, it was like, it all pulled me to the spot. And then it had to be the Spotify thing.

Speaker 1 And then it had to be the comedy store shutting down for a year.

Speaker 1 And then it had to be all the comedy store employees that I loved were all unemployed. And so then it was like, okay, let's fucking do this.
Exactly what I'm seeing.

Speaker 1 I'm seeing that with every, that's why I started in 1983. I'm like, I see where the path was.
I've always been doing it. I've always been doing this stuff.
And that's the thing about

Speaker 1 podcasting to me, too. It was oddly compelling.
Like, it didn't make any sense. I was making no money and I was busy.
It was costing you money probably on bandwidth and stuff.

Speaker 1 It was definitely costing some money. And I had young kids and it was just like,

Speaker 1 why am I spending my time doing this when I should be spending my time maybe doing something to make more money because especially back then

Speaker 1 it was like I wasn't doing Fear Factor anymore so I wasn't really making the kind of money that I was making when I was on television so I had to tour a lot so I was doing stand-up and I was doing like way too many dates with the UFC the UFC although I love it to death it's I mean that's the only job job I still have.

Speaker 1 I still work for somebody. But it's because I've been there for so long.
But it was like 22 dates a year. Do they send you a W-9?

Speaker 1 I don't know. I think I'm an independent contractor.
What's a W-9? How does that work? I have accountants.

Speaker 1 I was just messing with you. I'm like Joe Walsh.
I have accountants pay for it all. That's right.
I got a Maserati does 200. 185.
185. I lost my license.
Now I can't drive.

Speaker 1 I have a limo, ride in the back, lock all the doors in case I'm attacked. Yeah, great song.
Life's been good to me so far. So far.
That's right. It's a great song.
I use that song all the time.

Speaker 1 Everybody's so different. I haven't changed.
You know, he's a ham radio guy, Joe Walsh. Really? He takes his rig out on the, he doesn't go on the road that much anymore.

Speaker 1 When he's out on the road, he has this huge ham radio rig. And that's like, you know, I've been a ham for a long time.
And that's like the, if you have a,

Speaker 1 we call it a QSL, QSO, that's a, that's a ham code for a conversation. Oh, okay.
With Joe Walsh. Oh, man.

Speaker 1 Look at that.

Speaker 1 Joe Walsh is the fucking man, dude. Awesome.
Life in the Fast Link. That's going to change the Eagles.
The Eagles on their way to killing your testosterone and making women cry all day.

Speaker 1 And then all of a sudden, Joe Walsh comes along, and now you got Life in the Fast Link.

Speaker 1 Give me that riff. Give me the beginning of Life in the Life.
Doom Doom

Speaker 1 Joe Lim Dum.

Speaker 1 It was wild rock and roll guitar attached to this beautiful voice and lyrics and songs and songwriting.

Speaker 1 Give me this, Jamie. Give it to me.
See how accurate it was. Diddle limp dumb, did a little limp to me.
But there was a...

Speaker 1 There's a, you know, guitar, like I was talking about, Gary, like, here it, oh, close, close.

Speaker 1 Boom, bomb, bomb. Oh, okay.
All right, that's all we can do. We have to get in trouble, too.
Get in trouble. Get in trouble.
Is that already going to get us in trouble? Probably.

Speaker 1 Probably.

Speaker 1 You're screwed.

Speaker 1 Because here we have all these podcasts. There's 4.5 million podcasts.
Really only 400,000 update regularly. So it's not even that much.
And that's global.

Speaker 1 Oh, how dare you.

Speaker 1 You're teasing me. We can't play music.
in podcasts because of all these different

Speaker 1 entities that own it.

Speaker 1 And so, you know,

Speaker 1 if you perform something on the radio or in a live stream, that's a performance right, which the club plays for that too, if you're playing in music. So that's ASCAP BMI.
Then you have

Speaker 1 the publishing right. Now, because you download a podcast, well, all of a sudden now you've made a copy of it.
So that's another group over here.

Speaker 1 So you have the publishers, then the record companies, you have all the, and they just could never agree, and they've locked themselves in so tight that the biggest opportunity for music would be to play it on on podcasts.

Speaker 1 They've just, they've painted themselves into a corner.

Speaker 1 And it's so, and we all know now that most artists, you know, you get 10,000 streams on Spotify and you get a, you know, a penny after a couple of years.

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Speaker 1 For this? Oh,

Speaker 1 I'm sure it's horrendous. He got a thousand bucks.
Billions of streams, and you got a check for $45,000. And Taylor Swift gets all the rest of the money.
I mean, it's very good.

Speaker 1 Isn't that because Taylor Swift owns her music? Isn't that the whole deal? Like, if you own your music, if you're the publisher, right?

Speaker 1 I don't want to get too deep into Spotify and all that, but people are starting to move away from that and what I call the value-for-value model, where

Speaker 1 we actually built this with Podcasting 2.0, where you can say you can send a boost like I want to send some money to this person straight from the app so you can play it you can play a song in the podcast as long as they've agreed to the to the license they own all their stuff you can send the money we just did Suzanne Santo we had a I invited you to that yeah I couldn't make it unfortunately I all I had to say is I invited Joe that was all I needed to say

Speaker 1 and you know we had six people on stage six different bands and they all made between six and eight hundred dollars coming just from out there.

Speaker 1 There was maybe 50,

Speaker 1 at the end of the night, maybe 50 people left. It's a Monday night.

Speaker 1 But they were all making more money than they had ever made on any other platform in their life just because people can send it through the internet. We actually use it.

Speaker 1 Isn't that crazy that $600 for a performance that goes on the internet is the most they've ever made from the internet? Absolutely. Isn't that crazy?

Speaker 1 Like, you think about how many times he streams, like I found out about Suzanne from

Speaker 1 online. Some dude named Balls of Steel sent me a message and they said, this is your new favorite song.
And I was like, what? And it was Honey, Honey, Angel of Death.

Speaker 1 They did an acoustic version on the top of a roof in downtown L.A. And it was incredible.
And I was like, oh, my God. And then I became friends with them.

Speaker 1 Yeah, she and Nick are great. And their baby is super cute.
Yeah, it's like Doro. It's like Doro.
It's so cool to see her mom. I love it.
But it's like that. There's been so many streams on the radio.

Speaker 1 And the fact that you never made more than $600 is crazy. Like something's broken.
Well, that's because the publishers are getting all of that. Right, exactly.

Speaker 1 But then on the other hand,

Speaker 1 you can get really famous. Like people like Tyle the Creator and all these different people that have blown up just from being on the internet.
And then they do live performances. Yeah, but

Speaker 1 I still feel that

Speaker 1 someone's making money. Well, we know the publishers are making money.
People say the record companies, but it's the publishers.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they can't call them record companies anymore if they don't make records.

Speaker 1 Thank you.

Speaker 1 I was in my garage the other day, and I put my wall of fame in the garage. I'm like, time to move this out of the house.
Like, I'm old enough now, and I'm looking at, like, there's

Speaker 1 a platinum record

Speaker 1 with a cassette, with a platinum cassette on it.

Speaker 1 Like, do people even remember these days where you got a platinum record with a cassette on it? That's crazy. Five million copies sold of a cassette tape.

Speaker 1 Jellyroll gave us one of his platinum records. We got it out there there in the heart.

Speaker 1 That guy is awesome. He's the biggest.
Jellyroll is

Speaker 1 what a story. He's such a sweetheart.
He's such a nice guy. He's a big crossover artist.
You know, the Christians love him. The country guys love him.
The rock and rollers love him.

Speaker 1 It's like he's the perfect, perfect crossover artist, or an evil record executive. He's the perfect.

Speaker 1 He's the perfect crossover artist. Joe, we need to sign him.
That's what I like. He's also like most unlikely looking to be the sweetest guy ever with all the face tattoos and everything.

Speaker 1 Just goes to show. Yeah.
You can't tell a book by its cover. No, you cannot.
Ever.

Speaker 1 Ever, ever, ever.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 anyway, back to that. It's just it's a shame that we've, you know, the right the music industry has moved it into this protectionist place.

Speaker 1 And it's, I mean, even if you have a spin studio, you know, the Gestapo comes around like, you know, you've got more, you've got more than 75 people a day here. You need to pay us more.

Speaker 1 And it's, you know, they're very litigious. The whole thing is just a mess.

Speaker 1 It's a mess.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I mean, law is great because it protects you from scumbags, but law is great.

Speaker 1 But who's it protecting now? Because the artists are making no money. Exactly.

Speaker 1 Although it's become easier to

Speaker 1 do your music at home.

Speaker 1 I remember going to the hit factory in New York and hanging out, watching people record records. That was amazing with the big machines and lots of people running around.
That was cool.

Speaker 1 I think YouTube and social media presents very unique opportunities where a guy like Oliver Anthony can all of a sudden explode out of nowhere with one song. He's another sweetheart.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you had him on, I see. Yeah, he was at the club the other day, too.
We were all hanging out. Where does he live?

Speaker 1 I think he still. Is he down south? Maybe he doesn't want people to know him.
Okay. Well, he lives in

Speaker 1 around. But he was,

Speaker 1 I mean, back,

Speaker 1 he was in Virginia? West Virginia? West Virginia. Okay, yeah, West Virginia.
That makes sense. Richmond.
Because Richmond, north of Richmond, was the song. Right, right, right.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's where he was. I don't know if he's in the middle of the day.
And God bless him because

Speaker 1 he stayed away from the system.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we had a phone call. Yeah, I called him up when it all started popping off for him.

Speaker 1 I'm going to sign you, boy. I'm going to sign you to mine, Rogan Records.
You're going to make millions. Here, take this Cadillac.
It'll be great. Yeah, I sent the Cadillac right to his house.

Speaker 1 That's the last thing you want to give that guy. You want to give him like a 1983 exact Chevy that's redone, you know, a pickup truck, like an F-150 from the 80s.
It's like redone, the boxy ones.

Speaker 1 Yeah. That's your track and the dash.
Good to go.

Speaker 1 No, he's a genuine guy. He's a really nice guy.
And we had this conversation over the phone. He said, people are offering me millions of dollars to do this and that and this.
I go, stay independent.

Speaker 1 And he goes, they keep saying I got to strike where the iron's hot. I go, no, no, no, no, no.
Listen to me.

Speaker 1 You've already made it. All you have to do now is just keep doing what you just did, and you can do that, right? I'm sure you have other songs.
He goes, oh, I got a bunch of other songs.

Speaker 1 Then he sent me some of his other songs, which are just as good, if not better. And I was like, dude, you have talent.
Talent is what you, that's what everybody needs.

Speaker 1 All this other stuff is people just trying to take advantage of your talent. Stay independent.
That's what I mean about you, Joe. You are, you're a good guy.

Speaker 1 But I was already.

Speaker 1 I was already past that

Speaker 1 spot where he's at. Like, I'd been in that spot before where people are offering you deals and stuff like that.
I know what the trappings of that is.

Speaker 1 You're You're broke, and then all of a sudden you have money. And for me, it worked out great.

Speaker 1 That happened to me in 1993. I got this big development deal with Disney and I moved out to California to do a sitcom.
But it was like, but it was, I wanted to be a comic.

Speaker 1 And then all of a sudden, I've got all this money that's coming from TV. I'm like, this is so weird.
Was that news radio? No, that was hardball.

Speaker 1 It was a baseball show that was on Fox that never made it. I was an MTV man.
I wasn't paying attention to any of that stuff.

Speaker 1 It actually started at MTV because I got a development development deal with MTV first. Really? Yeah, but the development deal on MTV was like 500 bucks to do a pilot.
I'm not kidding.

Speaker 1 And then if it sounds like MTV, I'm not kidding. It was like 500 bucks.
It made me 5,000. I don't think it was, though.
I think it was $500.

Speaker 1 And if I did the pilot and the pilot was successful, they would have me locked in for some exorbitant amount of time. I think it was like five years where I couldn't do anything other than MTV.

Speaker 1 And it was because

Speaker 1 they had a few people that became really famous off MTV and then left. And so they had decided that MTV is going to keep all of their talent.

Speaker 1 Which is

Speaker 1 the funniest thing because when I got there in 87, VJs were expendable. They're like, you know, you're expendable.
Shut up. You know, we can we can exchange.

Speaker 1 Now they couldn't because they brought me over from Europe and had a two-year contract. I think the first year was $150,000.
The second year was $175,000. And I got a car service.

Speaker 1 And I could do radio,

Speaker 1 any radio I wanted to do. And so, and they just, they, a lot of the people, not they, but a lot of the people at the office really disliked me because they'd be like, cut your hair.

Speaker 1 I'm like, no, I'm not going to cut my hair. Why do they want you to cut your hair?

Speaker 1 New creative direction for the channel. I'm like, no.
And, you know, I've had different lengths of hair throughout the years. That was 80s, man.

Speaker 1 That hair was like cold. Have you seen the artists were playing? Let me give you a photo of Adam Curry in 88.
It's It's glorious.

Speaker 1 Glorious. I have the hair of Generation X.
Don't call me a boomer. Look at that.
Come on. Who the fuck would tell you to cut that Farrah Faucet? That's a beautiful head of hair.
That's an amazing.

Speaker 1 Good times, brother. Good times.
Imagine someone telling you that

Speaker 1 probably that was like a huge hook, too. Probably a lot of the literature.
Well, you know what Merv Griffin always said? Merv Griffin always said, people with big heads are successful on television.

Speaker 1 That's why he had Pat Sajak and, of course, Jay Leno. Jay Leno.
Big heads, right?

Speaker 1 I don't have a big head yeah I had big hair so I had a big head exactly the formula works right there's no like little tiny-headed dudes that are like wow no no

Speaker 1 no that works on YouTube now but on television it doesn't work on YouTube he's got a tiny head

Speaker 1 and anybody can be successful on YouTube right I mean it's all kinds of doesn't that show you that the formula is bullshit then you know like you got a guy like Mr.

Speaker 1 Beast who is not like a classically good-looking guy who's got the biggest show in the world that guy has I mean so I don't people say he's a creator. I think he's a creation

Speaker 1 He he is a creation of YouTube and how it works. You don't have this Because you're you know, you're so established, but they

Speaker 1 his team and he's talked about this micromanage every second of each video every cut every the poster images all these things and it's all about time spent viewing if one video does a minute 38 and the other one does 140 that other video is more successful.

Speaker 1 I mean, it's really, in order to

Speaker 1 hook the algos, get everything rolling, you have to bring that down to a science. And of course,

Speaker 1 this is not for you and I, I don't think, is you have to always keep feeding the machine. You got to keep feeding it, feeding it, feeding it.
You have to make your life a part of your YouTube channel.

Speaker 1 Otherwise, you know, you drop off very quickly. Yeah.
Well,

Speaker 1 I just think he has a different approach. I mean, his approach is very scientific.
He's very, very intelligent about it.

Speaker 1 And I'm a feel person, which is why when I get people as guests, I never think, like,

Speaker 1 sometimes people think, oh, you try to get like the biggest name guests because that'll be the most popular videos.

Speaker 1 I don't do that at all. I only, who do I want to talk to? That's exactly how I've always done it.
So that's I'm going to always do it.

Speaker 1 Do I want and if it happens to be Mel Gibson, you know, and he's got a lot of people. He was great interviewing.
He was great. He was I mean, I'm like, that's it.
For me, me, he's always Mad Max.

Speaker 1 When I was a kid,

Speaker 1 we'd play hookie from school. We'd go back, and someone have a VHS.
No, I had a Betamax. He had a Betamax.

Speaker 1 And we're watching Mad Max and then Diana Ross in the round.

Speaker 1 Diana Ross in the round. We love Diana Ross.
You're like, oh, she's so awesome. But the Mad Max, man, that original, and he's standing there with his boots in the desert at the beginning.

Speaker 1 It was a fucking movie.

Speaker 1 He had a bunch of bangers. But he's just, he's an interesting guy.

Speaker 1 And that blower on top of the engine, I mean, the whole thing was just,

Speaker 1 we just loved that. That was a fun movie.
And then later Lethal Weapon.

Speaker 1 And I didn't realize, because I'd seen The Passion, which is, you know, as a, as a Jesus freak myself, like, that was like, whoa, that was a heavy movie to watch.

Speaker 1 And when he said it, I didn't realize that, oh, the whole thing was in Aramaic. And it was the subtitles that you were basically reading the subtitles.
And his theory that

Speaker 1 it penetrates you differently, the story, I think, is so spot on. I think so, too.
I mean, it's really, really interesting.

Speaker 1 Well, he's a very underrated filmmaker, and I always point to Apocalypto as another example of that.

Speaker 1 There's no English in that movie, and it's a masterful movie.

Speaker 1 It's a great movie. That guy has a calling, man.
He's doing amazing, and talent.

Speaker 1 And he fought the system. He really, really fought the system.
Well, that was what was fascinating about talking to him about what happened when he made the Passion of the Christ.

Speaker 1 Because it was really, it wasn't that it was an anti-Jesus reaction to that film.

Speaker 1 It was an anti-Jesus reaction to that film that was really made by the motion picture industry because he had gone outside the normal distribution system.

Speaker 1 So in creating that movie, he financed it himself. He went outside that, he got a smaller distributor and it did really well.
And they were like, $800 million or something. Exactly.

Speaker 1 So they're like, we got to make sure this doesn't fucking happen again. And that's where the attacks came.
And that's also where Jim Caviesel, his career completely stalled out.

Speaker 1 You would think the guy's in a gigantic blockbuster movie like that. Like he's going to be in blockbuster movie after blockbuster movie after this.
No, they kind of blackballed him. Yes.

Speaker 1 Well, and so you have smaller studios now like Angel Studios, and they're in Utah. And they did, they crowdfunded

Speaker 1 The Chosen, which is, you know, the story of Jesus. And it's, I mean, unbelievable.
They're in their fifth season now, completely outside outside the studio system, completely away from it.

Speaker 1 And it's all crowdfunding. At the end of the season, the credits are like 15 minutes.
Oh, yeah. Everybody who donated and everybody who donated, you know, X amount, they get to be extras on the set.

Speaker 1 I mean, it's a whole new way of looking at producing stuff. Interesting.

Speaker 1 Then, of course, they went on to do an apocalyptic movie called Homestead, which is a... dog.
It's so horrible. It's like, oh, what is this? I mean, it's...
Oh, it's a bad movie? Oh, bad acting.

Speaker 1 Is it bad enough to watch watch it? No, no. Tina and I were watching.
We're like, do we bail? No, 10 more minutes. Do we bail? No, no, it's going to happen.
And it's like, no, no. It's too bad.

Speaker 1 I mean, just like, what? It's hard to make a good movie. Of course it is.
Well, imagine the amount of people that you have.

Speaker 1 If you have a bunch of idiots telling you to cut your hair, imagine how many dumbasses you have in the background of the movie that are telling you what to do.

Speaker 1 All the money people, all the executives. Like, it must be so hard.
You have to be like a Quentin Tarantino who's like, they just leave him alone, leave him alone, let him do his magic.

Speaker 1 He's an interesting fellow. Have you met him? Quentin Tarantaro? Oh, yeah.
He's been on a couple times. Interesting fellow.
We hung out with him the other night.

Speaker 1 We went out to dinner with him, him and Roger Avery, who's also awesome. And then we went to the club and we hung out at the club.
He's an interesting guy. And that's what

Speaker 1 he requested to come to the club. Was he wearing his tracksuit? No, he was just normal.
I saw him in L.A. when I was there for about a year.
I was like, you see him like tracksuit, track suits.

Speaker 1 Tracksuits are comfortable. Track suits.
I get it why the mob guys wear tracksuits. Yeah, of course.
They're just wearing mob guys. They know.
This is the way to do it. Adidas,

Speaker 1 adidas that's my uniform i think the move is like stretchy jeans because stretchy jeans give you all the feel of a tracksuit but you don't look like a weirdo i become a hoodie guy much much to my my wife's chagrin she's like you know i got friends of mine saying hey fetterman i'm like

Speaker 1 really right

Speaker 1 wore a hoodie to the fucking inauguration that was a little wild i mean the hoodie was one thing but the shorts i'm like well you know that's fedderman i guess that's really who he is i mean it's kind of weird in that, like, come on, everybody else is wearing a suit.

Speaker 1 But it's also kind of like, well, that's how he dresses 24 hours a day. Yeah, but you wore a tuck suit.
Dude, you wore a button-down for the president being in your studio. I was impressed by that.

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 1 I felt like I had to. The vice president, too.
Yeah. I was like, I got to wear something nice.
It's because, you know,

Speaker 1 it shows a little bit of respect. Yeah, I didn't even clean the table off, though.
Well, you know what? My friend, Harlan Williams, was very happy that Dimitri was on the table. Oh, you snake.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he gave me a giant hug. He goes, Dimitri was on the table.
when you were interviewing the president.

Speaker 1 This is a gag that Harlan did. He said he had a tapeworm.
And then three hours into the podcast, he pulls out this fucking snake out of his pants. You got to see Harlan.

Speaker 1 He's fucking, he's so funny and so unusual and so eccentric that like for him, like that was, it was such a huge thing to see the snake on the table that he pulled out of his pants.

Speaker 1 I get it. I get it.
I mean, it was so interesting where, you know, you've talked about the Harris campaign and all the stuff that they were saying.

Speaker 1 And, you know, was like, well, we talked to his people. I'm like, his people? I think it's Jamie and then maybe one other guy.
Well, I do have managers, and they did talk to them.

Speaker 1 But what they said just wasn't true. But it's not like you have a super big team here.

Speaker 1 Even the team outside of here is not that big. But it's

Speaker 1 just...

Speaker 1 It's just normal political bullshit. They just lie.
They cover their ass and they lie. I would have been very happy to have her on.
And like I said, the goal was to release both of them the same day.

Speaker 1 I was trying to figure out. That was a great idea.
It would have been great. That would have been fantastic.
Yeah, I was trying to figure out if that would be possible to do.

Speaker 1 And that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to put them out both at the same time.
But that's it. That's where we broke the elite messaging system.

Speaker 1 We broke it because they could not put her into the new system. They couldn't because they knew that she would fall down.
Well, they just got scared. They could have.
They could have put her in.

Speaker 1 I would have held her hand.

Speaker 1 We would have had a short conversation.

Speaker 1 Not that I need to hold.

Speaker 1 vice president's hand. But what I meant was, no, I wouldn't have done that.
I wasn't going to win more.

Speaker 1 I don't know, Joe, she might have charmed you. But I was more than willing to strongman or steel man all of our positions to try to like.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 I wanted to know what would be the good in this and why, you know, and let the, even if it doesn't make any sense, express it the best way possible that you can. I will help you do that.

Speaker 1 And then I will ask you questions. But I'm not going to be antagonistic.
I'm not going to be a shithead. I'm not going to be, I have no desire to turn this into a viral clip thing.

Speaker 1 I'm not trying to do that. I don't think you've ever done that with anybody.
No, I don't want it. I never wanted that done to me.
So why would I do that to somebody?

Speaker 1 That's why I wore this hoodie, iron sharpens iron. That's what you are, brother.

Speaker 1 You get, bring people in.

Speaker 1 Iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. You're always, you know, I come here.
I come here because I want to learn from Joe. I want my iron to be sharpened by Joe.

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Speaker 1 Well, I just want whoever's in that seat. to do the best they can, right?

Speaker 1 So like whatever it is, whether you're talking about quantum physics or whether you're talking about human psychology or ancient history, I want the best version of you and I want to like kind of help you get the best version out.

Speaker 1 And if you're running for president, I'd like to get the best version of that from you. And I think that

Speaker 1 the whole system of

Speaker 1 debates and public speeches and interviews is so bad for getting to know a human being. And I guarantee you, I've seen interviews where she's really funny.
I've seen this one.

Speaker 1 I talked about it before, but I'll say it again. This is one interview.
She's talking about meeting her mother-in-law for the first time. And her mother-in-law grinds.

Speaker 1 Jewish lady, oh, you're so beautiful. It's very funny.
And she laughs, and she laughs in a genuine way.

Speaker 1 It's not like that sort of defensive laughter that she does sometimes where it seems like it's orchestrated. It was a genuine laughter, and it was fun.
Well, she's a prosecutor. That's why.

Speaker 1 She kept going into prosecutorial mode. The same with the so-called debate with Trump.
She was prosecuting him. So she has a switch that she just flips and then becomes an authority.

Speaker 1 And then she, whereas our president, you know, he's kind of him all the time. They're eating the dogs.
I think that won him the election, too. That was awesome.

Speaker 1 I mean, that's one of my favorite jingles of all time. They're eating the dogs.
They're eating the cat. Are you kidding me?

Speaker 1 That's fantastic. Well,

Speaker 1 it's very interesting to watch it all take place.

Speaker 1 It's very interesting. to

Speaker 1 watch this shifting of the consciousness of the country. The culture.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but also to see the reaction on the left, like to see see the really crazy people, like those people at that Worcester Town Hall thing.

Speaker 1 Like that, it's interesting to see that too, because you're going to see these like

Speaker 1 really exaggerated grasps at retaining relevancy. Like really exaggerated.
Well they're crying out for help is what they're doing. They're crying out for help.
They've been psyoped. I mean,

Speaker 1 I'm only on X. I gave up Facebook and Instagram.
I'm not interested. And X I really only use as kind of an inbox.
You know, people will send me stuff and things for the show.

Speaker 1 But early on, when

Speaker 1 Blue Cry was still

Speaker 1 a secret project within Twitter that Jack Dorsey was running, I knew some people who were in that secret project.

Speaker 1 And so I have an account. And I went on there the other day.
I'm like, oh my lord, this is horrible. These people are spinning up and spinning out and just going nuts with each other.

Speaker 1 And it's like,

Speaker 1 I don't know how

Speaker 1 we have to figure out a way. And, you know, President Trump says success will bring us together.
And I think that's probably true. But, you know, we can't just,

Speaker 1 I'm a little worried that we're all going to be stomping on them. You know, it's like, ah, look at these stupid libs.
Looking, you know, they're idiots. They're crazy.
And I just feel that

Speaker 1 you got to love them and not hate them.

Speaker 1 You don't have to forget what they've done or what they've said, but they have been abused by multiple entities and systems within our own government and political organizations yeah also they're in this feedback loop this echo chamber and they they don't have outside people that are kind and you know everybody outside is the enemy and they're they're trying to like

Speaker 1 They're trying to make their way through life like all of us. But without forgiveness,

Speaker 1 you have nothing.

Speaker 1 You have to be able to forgive people. Yes.
You have to. Without that, there's nothing.
Well, you remain trapped in your own prison.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and you're also, also you have enemies forever that could have been your friends.

Speaker 1 There's no reason for it. It's not good for you, it's not good for them.
And it's just like this stubborn inclination that a lot of people have to stick with that.

Speaker 1 Like, fuck those people forever, for life.

Speaker 1 You really shouldn't do that. It's not good.

Speaker 1 Especially if those people feel bad. If they apologize and they realize they've made mistakes.
Yeah, like that's what life's about.

Speaker 1 You you gotta be able to uh understand that in the past you've made mistakes and grow.

Speaker 1 And if we, the people that have made mistakes and grown, do not accept the people that are currently making mistakes and growing, well then we're hypocrites. Well that's the same with COVID.

Speaker 1 You know, I know many people who either lost their job or were forced to take something they didn't want to take and they will never forgive them. Like I won't forget.

Speaker 1 Now forgiving is not the same as forgetting, obviously, but they can't bring themselves to forgive those who were caught up in a massive psychological operation

Speaker 1 and they're held in their own prison of anger. And it's with their own family members.
I mean, that it's almost like, did that happen? That just went, we're now back. What are we doing?

Speaker 1 All these things have gone so fast.

Speaker 1 We had an attempt on

Speaker 1 a president's life, and it's like we don't know anything.

Speaker 1 I mean, we're like, our heads are on a swivel spinning around. Like, what is going on? And I think.
And the drones. You know, the drone.
What about the drone?

Speaker 1 so the drone thing for me it was so odd first of all there's a base over there and they they're testing some some drone technology but people in the United States but really around the world this is how we go through life we go through life looking down I'm a pilot I fly helicopters airplanes I'm looking up at the sky all the time there's a lot going on there's a lot happening in the sky and then the minute some

Speaker 1 all kinds of things Joe

Speaker 1 I've seen the Starlink satellites go over my house that's trip people out it's amazing it's like whoa and you know, like eight or nine in a row.

Speaker 1 Like

Speaker 1 fast. Very fast.
And they seem pretty low, actually. Only like 60 miles up.

Speaker 1 But, and of course, you know, once it becomes a story, then every, I know all these people with drones are like, dude, I'm going to get in the news. I'm flying my drone.

Speaker 1 They got six-foot diameter drones flying around. Of course.
I mean, aliens and Chinese drones, they always want to have their red and green anti-collision lights on. It's important.

Speaker 1 It's like, I was like, no, no.

Speaker 1 And of course, there was some, you know, some actual legislation that they wanted to pass, which happened that same week, which was to get Chinese drones out of America, the DJI drones.

Speaker 1 They don't want them. They want to give.
They passed that the same week. This is the first time.

Speaker 1 Dude, same week.

Speaker 1 Same week.

Speaker 1 That's why they psyoped all of these local people. And they're all.

Speaker 1 Yes. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 It was the... These motherfuckers.
Yeah, they wanted the DJI drones no longer to come in,

Speaker 1 but really for law enforcement to also have local authority over drones, which they didn't have. And now they're going to have that as well.
So they can say, hey, you with the drone down.

Speaker 1 We're doing something important here.

Speaker 1 So it's always to remove your freedom, trust me.

Speaker 1 Whatever the sign. Yeah, that was the same time.
And all I had to do, I looked at this and like, okay, I'm trained myself. Like, oh, let's go take a look.
What's going on?

Speaker 1 Oh, that's interesting, isn't it? Look at this

Speaker 1 argument for deregulation, too, because when it comes to innovation, the issue with drones is that if you want like a really high-level, sophisticated drone in America, you have to have a pilot's license.

Speaker 1 You do. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's a big deal. And the FAA is very involved in the policing of.
Well, you need that. I mean, you need that for our skies all the time.
100%.

Speaker 1 China don't have that, bro.

Speaker 1 They've got a social credit court

Speaker 1 system. And

Speaker 1 I talk to to a lot of guys who do, our audience, who just got people in every, you know, we've trained them. You're producers.
You know something about one particular topic.

Speaker 1 You have an obligation to let us know. So we have all these guys drone for hobbies, drones for law enforcement, drones for news.

Speaker 1 And they all said, you know. These DJI drones, they're so much better than the U.S.
drones. They're just better.
They got better stuff, better technology, better cameras. So

Speaker 1 they're like, I don't want to lose this. And I guess you can.
Well, the thing is, without the free market, the innovation is going to be stifled.

Speaker 1 If the innovation is only available to the highest-level military contractors, that's crazy. Like, especially when it comes to drone technology.

Speaker 1 Like, you're competing with China, and they're doing these enormous light shows with a fucking dragon flying through the sky. Have you seen some of those? Yeah, I've seen them fall out and hit people.

Speaker 1 Got to crack a few edges if you want to make an omelette out of it.

Speaker 1 I'm glad I don't go to drone shows for this very reason, Joe. I'm careful.
I'm curious. Yeah, that's probably like those air shows where they fly jets around.
Like, I'm not going to be on the ground.

Speaker 1 No, I don't go to those. That's why I like Starlink, because Starlink is really, first and foremost, a military system.

Speaker 1 And very smartly, I think Elon is very good at marketing. It's like, let's give this to the people.

Speaker 1 I have it as a backup at home. I have fiber, but I have a Starlink.
Of course, I want to have this. But it's really a military system.

Speaker 1 Dude, I took one with me to the mountains in Utah when I went hunting. Work perfect.
It's the size of this package. Yeah, the to-go, the little

Speaker 1 to-go. It's incredible.
You can make phone calls, you can do FaceTime, all from the mountains, the middle of nowhere. I know.
I know.

Speaker 1 We used to dream of it. I think I had data belt.com at one point.

Speaker 1 I dreamt about, you know, wouldn't it be great if we have all these satellites and they're circling around and we call it the data belt and we'd have all this stuff and you know all these things.

Speaker 1 I can just see the delight of, and of course a lot of, it's, you know, SpaceX, these are very sophisticated NASA people. You know, there's all kinds of the best of the best is in there.

Speaker 1 I think he knows how to hire the right people.

Speaker 1 But he's smart at how he markets that. He really is.
I mean, well, the newest thing is they've teamed up with T-Mobile. So they're.
You saw that. Yeah.
Yeah. So you have Starlink.
Compatible phones.

Speaker 1 Compatible phones only, Joe. Right.
So you've gone to flip phone now? I've gone to flip, yeah. So are you texting me on that thing? No,

Speaker 1 we do it on signal, so I do that from my computer. Oh, boy, you're a weirdo.
So now you've gone completely flip phone. So you don't text anybody anymore? No, I can text message, but we've...

Speaker 1 But it's like T9.

Speaker 1 No, no, there's actually. So

Speaker 1 I still have my Graphene OS, which is the D-Googled stuff. And that? No, you can't put that on here.
So this is Android, but all I really have on here is text messaging, RCS. That's it.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 So I'm still a green bubble. This is a big flip phone.
$63.

Speaker 1 And it's from Caterpillar, baby. Whoa.
So this is like for job sites. Yeah.
Yeah. Your battery lasts a year.
How long is the battery? Literally two days if I don't charge it, it keeps going.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, it's no problem. So this is Android, and you have a

Speaker 1 touch screen. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 If you text, it pops up. Now,

Speaker 1 the whole thing is, it's hard to use, and that's why I like it, because I don't want it's a trap. Well, reading your text messages is a trip.
What am I saying? No, they're so small.

Speaker 1 This is crazy. How do you get back?

Speaker 1 Use the back button on the keyboard. Oh, my God.
That's hilarious.

Speaker 1 This is hilarious. In a pinch, I can bring up a web page.
In a pinch, I can bring up my email. Right, but it makes it complicated.
Yeah, so

Speaker 1 I'm hindering myself so that I'm not enslaved to it. And actually,

Speaker 1 I hear from

Speaker 1 our daughters, you know, that there's a lot of kids who are doing this now.

Speaker 1 Because they want to be more present, particularly the... You want to send a text message.
If you want to get into your messages, what are you using to send a text message? Well, here, I'll show you.

Speaker 1 Are you doing like T9? No, no, no, no, no. So you're typing, you have a little tiny keyboard that you can see.
You can't even do a little emojis. Little emojis for my wife.

Speaker 1 See, you just hit that, and then up pops the keyboard. But you can also swipe.
So you can just swipe

Speaker 1 around.

Speaker 1 Keyboard's hilarious.

Speaker 1 You can also do... Try to write hello.
Hello. My wife will be like, what's going on? Yeah, it's probably auto-completing.

Speaker 1 It's terrible. Yeah,

Speaker 1 I have it in swipe mode. Yeah.
So just swipe along the letters. I don't know how to do that.
Yeah, just swipe. L-L-L.

Speaker 1 Nope. High sense.
Nope, didn't work.

Speaker 1 I have fat-ass fingers, too, man. This is not going to work.

Speaker 1 It's not easy.

Speaker 1 And,

Speaker 1 but I, you know, it's like, I just need to. I like talking to people now, too.
Like, it's a great phone for talking to people. Yeah, talking to people is better.
And you know what's cool?

Speaker 1 Do you have navigation on this thing? No. Well, I could put it on there.
But then the game would be following it. It won't work.
But, you know, you talk to someone like, eh,

Speaker 1 yes. Satisfying.
Yeah, that is satisfying. And look, has little alerts.
I get a text message so I can see. So if somebody tells you, hey, the meeting got moved to 10 p.m.
I don't have meetings, Joe.

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 1 whatever. No, our dinner reservations got changed.
You'll get it.

Speaker 1 Yeah. You know, it's Dvorak, my partner, on No Agenda,

Speaker 1 he literally has a phone in his drawer, and he never takes it out. He has decided, no, I don't use navigation.
He lives in San Francisco. He

Speaker 1 wants to keep his mind sharp by driving around. He says, whenever I need a phone, I just turn around to someone and say, hey, man, can I use your phone for a second?

Speaker 1 There's always someone with a phone, he says. So if I really needed to look something up, I just ask him for it and good to go.

Speaker 1 You get the feeling that you need this thing, but you really don't. Well, you definitely don't if you have a laptop.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And spend dedicated time doing certain things. Right.

Speaker 1 Especially like if you, I can't keep up with emails. It's impossible.
It just doesn't make sense. Yeah, see, that's basically all I do.
I can't do it. It doesn't work out.

Speaker 1 I have filtering and all kinds of stuff. There's like people who will email me 15 times a day.
Okay. And well, the thing is, of those 15 messages, there's one gem in there.

Speaker 1 Right, but you have to check them every day. Otherwise, in three days, you've got 45 fucking messages.
Well, it doesn't make any sense. How many? 45.
100.

Speaker 1 45, 100 messages. From that one guy.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 I put him in his own email box. Oh, I see.
And so then, you know, like when I'm prepping for the show, like, no, no, no, no. I can just see.

Speaker 1 Boom, maybe. Check that out.
Yeah. So

Speaker 1 I'm a real information manager. That's, by the way,

Speaker 1 I am not a big believer in the benefits of AI at this moment.

Speaker 1 But if it can fix my email, then I'll believe it. And so far, no one's done that with me.
How could it possibly fix your email?

Speaker 1 It should know what I want to see and what's relevant to me based upon how about the transcript of my show or, I mean, all these wonderful inputs I can give it. How come it can't do that?

Speaker 1 No one has fixed email for me. When you do that, then I'll be a

Speaker 1 little more of a believer in AI. Right now, I think it's a great parlor trick.
I think it's keeping the stock market afloat.

Speaker 1 You know, we've gone through three AI winters. Even has its own wiki page, AI winter.

Speaker 1 It comes and goes.

Speaker 1 At a certain point,

Speaker 1 List was the programming language, and then that went away, and then funding dries up. And

Speaker 1 now it's like, what? We don't really need $100 million to build a model. Oh, but wait a minute, they stole that from you, so you can copy.

Speaker 1 I run

Speaker 1 these models at home on my own computer. I run the LLAMA model, which is Meta.
They've open sourced it.

Speaker 1 I've run the French one, whatever their frog model, whatever they call it.

Speaker 1 And then DeepSeek. You can also just load that on your own computer.
And it's not very impressive. I mean, it's just not.
The error rate is too high. So I'm skeptical of it really taking off.

Speaker 1 And I certainly don't think it's sentient or anything of that kind. I think it's on its way.
And I think also the versions that we're getting are not the versions they're currently working on.

Speaker 1 And the people that I know that are in the loop. at the highest levels of AI are alarmed, including Elon.
I had a conversation with Elon. We went to,

Speaker 1 we were in line together to go to church the day of the inauguration. It just happened to be right next to him.
And we just walked through together. I'm like, hey, what's up?

Speaker 1 And that's all I wanted to talk about was

Speaker 1 the leaps that Grok AI is making. And he's like, it's like weekly.
We're shocked.

Speaker 1 And I think this thing is exponential. And

Speaker 1 when they start attaching large language models to quantum computing, it's going to get very, very very weird. That's the pivot I'm waiting for when people start.

Speaker 1 It's coming, man, and that's going to be like an asteroid hitting the Yucatan.

Speaker 1 You know, we've been waiting for quantum computers to actually work for 30 years, and it's always 10 years away, and right now it's 10 years away.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but right now they're able to do things with them. You know, they're able to solve very complicated algorithms.

Speaker 1 One, there was

Speaker 1 I'm not an expert in this, but there was one computation they did, and that may be a computation it could do it's not necessary that you can give it any computation but you know that the computations that it's doing are are so insanely complex that they believe it's proof of the multiverse yeah i've heard this yeah you're not you're not buying it no not at all really not for a second

Speaker 1 because i how dare you i know i'm a luddite i'm a luddite look at me

Speaker 1 i believe in this yeah i've got no smoke signal in my car

Speaker 1 for a number of reasons one is i'm not using it i am i am the techno guy. I've always been early in computers, early in the internet, and I just can't find a use for it.

Speaker 1 When I find a use, it does some simple things. It's very good at language.
Honestly, if I'm look if I was like, okay, here's my situation. I'm looking for Bible scripture.

Speaker 1 It'll come up with something good. And then I can say, and read it to me like a Baptist pastor.
And it'll go, hey, brother, you know,

Speaker 1 he'll do all that stuff. But okay, you know, it has all of the translations of the Bible in it, and so it can predict reasonably what scripture will work.
It's usually not all that great.

Speaker 1 It can do term papers. It can do, you know, we're in a position now where people are putting their resume into chat GPT, sending it off.
You know, thousands of people are sending off for a job.

Speaker 1 And the other end, the people are taking that resume, putting it in a chat GPT, and saying, please summarize this resume. I mean, that's insane.

Speaker 1 It's like, what are we doing here? That doesn't make any sense. If it can fix my email, they'll be very impressed.
That's all I want. That's

Speaker 1 not a particular puzzle, though.

Speaker 1 Everyone's email is a puzzle. It's like, you know, if the spammers get around stuff and they figure it out and you say, report a spam, and then it comes back in a different way.

Speaker 1 And how many older people, especially, but even people our age, who get scammed by,

Speaker 1 you know,

Speaker 1 these emails that look pretty convincing. And then the minute you click, you know, then they're like, oh, I should put my password in.
And then you're gone. You're done.

Speaker 1 There was, there's a phone scam going around right now, which is unbelievable. They had me going for 15 minutes.
I got a call, it was 8 o'clock in the morning, right at 8 o'clock.

Speaker 1 And I'm about to walk the dog, so I press it to voicemail. I come back, I listen, this is the sheriff

Speaker 1 from

Speaker 1 Travis County, and it had a 512 number. And, you know, I need to talk to you urgently.
I'm like, okay, this is kind of messed up. I call back.

Speaker 1 I get someone. Oh, I want sheriff so-and-so.
Yeah, hold on a second. We'll transfer you.
I'm hearing

Speaker 1 police radio chatter in the background. The guy gets on, and he's saying, well, you were an expert witness.
You were called to be an expert witness in a case.

Speaker 1 I just happened to, and maybe this is not coincidence, I was asked to testify on someone's behalf in a case. And so you were supposed to be an expert witness in this case.
You didn't show up.

Speaker 1 So, you know, you've basically broken federal law. And, you know, we have to come and pick you up and we have to, you know, or you can pay a fine.
And then I'm like, okay. And it just kept on going.

Speaker 1 And I'm like, whoa, hold on a sec. It sounded so real.

Speaker 1 And then at a certain point, he's like, well, you need to go, you need to get a coupon to send this money. I'm like, I'm going to call my lawyer.
You can't call your lawyer. I have a do not hang up

Speaker 1 order. I have to walk you through the whole process.
I'm like, okay, now I got it. But that was 10, 15 minutes later.
And a lot of people have fallen for this one.

Speaker 1 It's good. It's super sophisticated.
Very sophisticated. So is that overseas? Are they like spoofing a number? No, I mean, these were American voices.
It sounded like a sheriff. It really did.

Speaker 1 And the deputy sounded like a deputy. I mean, it was sophisticated.
It's good. Wow.

Speaker 1 How much was the fine? Like

Speaker 1 $3,000 for this infraction and $2,000 for that infraction, you know, for these two different things. And then you're going to bank transfer, so they're going to get your bank numbers.

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Speaker 1 At that point, I caught on. I'm like, no, hold on a second.
How'd you get off of it? I said, I'm going to call my lawyer. And he's like, no, no.
I'm like, you can't tell me I can't call my lawyer.

Speaker 1 This is bull crap. And then, and I had to calm down.
I'm like, I said to Tina, I said, listen to what just happened to me. This is crazy.

Speaker 1 Some people I know in our, in our, in our, in Fredericksburg actually went all the way. Wow.
Yeah. The older people, you know, and they were afraid.
They're like, oh,

Speaker 1 it's authority. That's how they get you.

Speaker 1 I'm sure you've got the one that says,

Speaker 1 this is my favorite Bitcoin scam.

Speaker 1 It's like, okay, I've installed spyware on your computer, and I saw saw what you were doing looking at that porn site, and I've recorded everything, and I'm going to release it all to your friends and on your social media.

Speaker 1 If you don't send me $2,000 in Bitcoin right away, don't even think about contacting the authorities if you've gotten that one.

Speaker 1 They've sophisticated it even more now.

Speaker 1 They'll use your name and your address.

Speaker 1 Like, I know you live at this address.

Speaker 1 It's freaky, man. So that kind of stuff would be nice if we could have AI protect us from that.
Yeah. If it can do all these wonderful things, focus on that.
Help people. Save people now.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Cut out the scamming. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Speaking of scamming, what do you think about shit coins?

Speaker 1 Like, what's your take on like Hoctua coin? Okay. Melania coin.

Speaker 1 Those are more meme coins.

Speaker 1 More meme coins. Chitcoins, right? Isn't that what a meme coin is?

Speaker 1 So the only coin I believe in is Bitcoin. And we've talked about this before.

Speaker 1 In fact, I looked it up hoping you would bring it up. Two years ago when I was here the last time, Bitcoin was around $40,000.
Today it's close to $100,000.

Speaker 1 This will continue to go up until we're long gone.

Speaker 1 It's very interesting. So I don't believe in shitcoins at all because if you have, Bitcoin has no CEO, there's no one in charge of it.

Speaker 1 It's literally tens of thousands of people around the world who run these nodes that make it open and make it run and keep it at this 21 million coin limit. I'm totally down with Bitcoin.

Speaker 1 I'm with you. Good.
But I think the shit coin thing is fascinating that anybody can create a coin. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You know, like Jamie has a pull-it-up Jamie coin. I don't know if you know that.

Speaker 1 I did not make it. Don't put that on me.
You did not.

Speaker 1 It's out there now.

Speaker 1 Now that you just said it, now that we just said it, because we brought it up yesterday with the Boneyard guy, with John Reeves, and we said, you should have your own coin. Get it, the Boneyard coin.

Speaker 1 And now apparently, somebody made one. So this is, you bring this up in context of scams because they are scams.
The way it works.

Speaker 1 So if I wanted to make a quick quick amount of money, I'd have a shit coin and I'd have my bots ready and I'd say, hey, Joe, have you heard about my curry coin? And you'd be like, no, wait a minute.

Speaker 1 And it would come out and it would skyrocket. My bots would sell it.
I would make a lot of money and it would be dumped right away. It's a scam over and over and over again.

Speaker 1 But what if you don't sell it? Yeah, then you'll have empty bits worth nothing.

Speaker 1 So it's only available for pump and dumps.

Speaker 1 That's the only thing it's good for. It's not good for anything else.
What about if you wanted to use it to finance charity?

Speaker 1 Is it possible? Bad idea.

Speaker 1 Is that a bad idea? Yeah.

Speaker 1 You know, a lot of charities now, they will accept Bitcoin. And why is that good? Because people who have Bitcoin, and I have some Bitcoin, you know, I've been saving my Bitcoin for a long time.

Speaker 1 Instead of selling it, to which I then have to pay capital gains over the difference between what I bought it for and sold it at, I can give it to the charity.

Speaker 1 I can still take my tax-deductible write-off. They can do one of two things.
They can convert it right away into dollars, no capital gains, because it's the same minute.

Speaker 1 So I've actually been able to give more than I would have.

Speaker 1 Or

Speaker 1 they can sell some of it and hold some of it for a longer term. I really, really believe in Bitcoin and what we're seeing now, there is something interesting going on.

Speaker 1 Our dollar is in big, big trouble. And President Trump knows this.

Speaker 1 This falls into kind of the tariffs talk.

Speaker 1 Have you heard about stable coins? No. Okay.

Speaker 1 Do you mind if I just give you a little?

Speaker 1 Our monetary system, it really started after World War II, 1944.

Speaker 1 We were nearing the end of the war. D-Day was coming.

Speaker 1 We were getting pretty close. And

Speaker 1 Europe in particular was very worried that after the war, they would fall into the same Great Depression Depression that happened after World War I when we had the Great Depression.

Speaker 1 So they brought in all the all the economists and all the money that people had got on the Queen Mary and went to the States to Bretton Woods. You've heard of Bretton Woods probably.
No.

Speaker 1 The Bretton Woods system? Okay. So Bretton Woods is just this resort.
They all got together and they decided that they would have a new monetary system for the entire world.

Speaker 1 I'm not an economist, but I've looked at this long enough to understand it.

Speaker 1 And when they came out after two weeks, he said, okay, we're going to have this thing called the International Monetary Fund, the IMF, and they're going to manage the interest rates, or they manage the currency exchange between all the individual countries with the U.S.

Speaker 1 dollar as the reserve currency. So we became the money of the world, and we backed by gold.
And the idea was one dollar could always be exchanged for 35 ounces of gold.

Speaker 1 And, you know, when you're the reserve currency, everyone has to have the dollar. So everybody wanted our dollar.
What did we do? We signed the Marshall Plan.

Speaker 1 We sent tens, just billions of dollars over. All our companies went into Europe, started building factories.
And

Speaker 1 so the dollar kept going in. All these other currencies kind of came a little bit weaker because we were so strong with our money.
And then people got a little worried about the dollar.

Speaker 1 They looked around and went like, hey, do you guys have the gold to back that up in Fort Knox? Of course we didn't because we just kept printing money and sending it over.

Speaker 1 And then you get into this thing called the Triffin dilemma. And that means that when you are the reserve currency, your currency is basically overvalued and you can't export anything.

Speaker 1 And that's exactly, and I'm skipping over a lot, but that's where we are today. Our products are too expensive to ship to China and sell in China because of the value of our dollar.

Speaker 1 This is why President Trump is saying, hey, All our money is flowing out towards you. We need to get some of that back, so we're going to raise tariffs.
I think it's a short-term solution.

Speaker 1 So, I think two things will happen.

Speaker 1 One is we have this sovereign wealth fund, which you've heard him talk about, the sovereign wealth fund.

Speaker 1 So, in that will be the value of

Speaker 1 our public land that the government owns and all kinds of other things. It'll be valued at this astronomical amount.
And in that will also be the strategic Bitcoin reserve that the president promised.

Speaker 1 Now, we get stable coins. This is a crazy, crazy thing that's happened.
There's this, so a stable coin is a digital dollar.

Speaker 1 It's pegged to the dollar, so it's always a dollar. And you can pay with this through the internet, through apps and everything.

Speaker 1 It's already being used all over the world. The only reason it's worth a dollar is because the stablecoin company that creates it, they have debt and paper to back it up.

Speaker 1 So they buy America's debt, they get treasury bonds or T-bills, which actually pays a dividend. So you get interest on that.

Speaker 1 And for each dollar they have bought in treasuries, they can create a stablecoin. So if you look at the company Tether,

Speaker 1 They have bought more of the United States debt than most countries. They have $160 billion worth of U.S.

Speaker 1 debt, and for each of those dollars, they've created a stable coin, which now people can use all over the world transacting.

Speaker 1 And what's their business? There's like 50 people in the company. So they have $160 billion at 4% interest annually.
They're making bank just for holding this debt.

Speaker 1 So I think President Trump is very smart, and he's seen that we can flood the world with our stablecoin, and you kind of get a two-for-one. So

Speaker 1 you create a dollar of debt, but then you create another dollar on top that can be used all over the world as the reserve currency.

Speaker 1 And that should probably result in, I don't know, the Mar-a-Lago Accord or some new monetary system that we're going to have to come up with to really have our dollar be valued properly, but also still remain the reserve currency and remain the strong export country that we need to be.

Speaker 1 Because

Speaker 1 what do we do? We don't make anything that we sell abroad.

Speaker 1 We can't all be

Speaker 1 serving each other burgers and fries and washing each other's cars and cleaning each other's homes.

Speaker 1 We have to build something. And all of that went overseas.
Everything, everything we got, all of the stuff on this table. This, you know, it didn't come out of his butt.
This is from China.

Speaker 1 Although, I don't know.

Speaker 1 So there's something big coming, really big. And it has to happen.
And

Speaker 1 Trump is a very meta guy. People misunderstand.

Speaker 1 He's going to refi the country.

Speaker 1 He's a real estate guy.

Speaker 1 He's going to figure out a way to refi it, and it'll be digital. And a lot of the Bitcoiners don't like this because they like Bitcoin to be the money that the whole world uses.

Speaker 1 You know, that may one day happen, but now it's more like the digital gold.

Speaker 1 You can keep your value in it. And I can send a billion dollars.
If I had it, I could send a billion dollars to another country, to another person in 10 minutes, and no one can stop me.

Speaker 1 So it's a very useful tool, but it hasn't quite turned out to be money or currency the way it was originally intended. But it's going to be a very important part of it.

Speaker 1 I think you'll see Bitcoin be a part of that strategic reserve.

Speaker 1 It's easier than sending gold, than oh, I'm going to ship you a billion dollars worth of gold. I need armored cars, I need dudes, everything,

Speaker 1 security, and ships, and whatever.

Speaker 1 So it'll be a part of it, and you'll still be able to use it between people.

Speaker 1 But it looks to me like stablecoin, Tether in particular, is going to be the future of the US dollar payments.

Speaker 1 And this is where a lot of people on the right, certainly, are very afraid of

Speaker 1 control grid, you know, because a stable coin is not necessarily like Bitcoin. You can stop it.
You can control it. You can see who sent what to whom.
There's a lot of fear about this,

Speaker 1 and particularly

Speaker 1 although I don't see any maliciousness, this fear that Elon and the PayPal mafia and Peter Thiel, all guys you've met, all guys you've had on the show, I think are actually quite nice people, that they're going to bring in the new with AI and we're all going to be locked in and Stargate will bring cancer mRNA vaccines that'll be mandated.

Speaker 1 I mean, people are spinning up over this stuff.

Speaker 1 And I'm not saying that they're necessarily wrong or there should be no concern, but we are moving towards a digital dollar, and it will have aspects of control, which is why I like the backup of Bitcoin so I can still transact and do things without anybody being able to stop it.

Speaker 1 And you're going to get none of that with a shitcoin. Nothing.
When FTX, that scandal, what were they trading in? Was that all meme coins? Was that different cryptos?

Speaker 1 Is there a difference between meme coins and established crypto coins? Well, an established,

Speaker 1 anything but Bitcoin has someone who can change the ledger, who can change the blockchain. Bitcoin, you can't do that.

Speaker 1 It's a beautiful system. The checks and balances are immutable.
I mean, that's the beauty of Bitcoin. Any other...

Speaker 1 blockchain that is owned or operated by a company or people can be and will be manipulated. And FTX was one of those.

Speaker 1 What I believe FTX was really used for was slush fund into Democrat Party and politicians, not just also to some Republicans as well.

Speaker 1 That kid, that Sam Bankman Fried, he got abused by his parents, I think. I'm just alleging this.
I don't want to get sued over it.

Speaker 1 But when you see what was going on there and the money that was just being

Speaker 1 slushed right through into different foundations. Democratic operatives, right? Big time.

Speaker 1 They had nonprofits and all kinds of.

Speaker 1 And he was the number two donor to the Democratic Party. That's right, which is Christian.
That's right. And you're doing that to kind of buy your way through this.

Speaker 1 That's what it seemed like to me, yeah. Because you're doing shenanigans, you know.
Big time. And they're all also doing amphetamines.
And

Speaker 1 polyamborous relationships in the Bahamas. It's a polycule, Joe.
It's just a polycule. I mean,

Speaker 1 it was sad for these kids because they were just all excited and doing stuff. And, you know, I mean, when I've been in, I've raised money from Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia Capital.

Speaker 1 And, you know, when you get them all googly gaga over, oh, this guy was so cool. He was sitting in the pitch meeting and he was playing a video game.
He's such a genius. I mean, what?

Speaker 1 Are you kidding me? Right. Venture capital investors are not necessarily the most sophisticated.
Well, they want results, and if they're getting results, they'll put on the blinders.

Speaker 1 What I

Speaker 1 was just reading about Elizabeth Holmes. Oh, yeah.
I love that story. She got screwed.
She got screwed? Oh, yeah. How so?

Speaker 1 Well, okay.

Speaker 1 So she was in a situation where the so-called smartest investors in the world, which included Colin Powell and, you know, everyone was in on this deal.

Speaker 1 Everyone's like, you got to get your money in now. You know, bring everybody in.
We got this big fund. This is going to be it.
This is the blood test. It'll change medicine.

Speaker 1 And, you know, they hyped her up. They put her in the magazines.
They got on, you know, she was looking like the female Steve Jobs. And she got caught up in it and false.

Speaker 1 Agency away from her. She changed her voice.
She started dressing like Steve Jobs. She started lying about results.
This is. She fired people that didn't go along with it.
Yes.

Speaker 1 But does she deserve to go to jail for 10 years for ripping off people who were stupid? Yes. Really? Well, you can't rip people off.

Speaker 1 I think you have restitution and things like that. Hundreds of billions of dollars people lost.

Speaker 1 Like, that's not restitution. You don't have that money.
You're not going to pay it back because your product sucks. So they've dumped all this money.

Speaker 1 It's a civil crime, and there's definitely some blame on the investors, but the investors were too big to look stupid. So I think they pushed a little bit more on her than she does.

Speaker 1 I'm not trying to defend her feelings. She should go to jail at all? Yeah, but not for 10 years.
How long? A couple days? Yeah, just a couple days. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Just enough to transition, Joe. Yeah, just enough to become a dude, and then we're good to go.
No, I mean,

Speaker 1 it's just another example of big money being stupid. And

Speaker 1 maybe they could just admit that. You know, like, they pushed her.
I know how it goes.

Speaker 1 I remember we had a pod show,

Speaker 1 which was, you know, a lot of sophisticated investors, Kleiner and

Speaker 1 Sequoia, you know,

Speaker 1 same people, Elon. I met Elon when they launched Tesla.
I was

Speaker 1 at the hangar where they did the first test drives. It was interesting.

Speaker 1 And I was like, this guy seems like on the spectrum. He's not really talking much.

Speaker 1 It's like, what's going on here?

Speaker 1 What's happening with this?

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 so we were doing podcasting. So this is right after, maybe a year after Steve Jobs put it into iTunes and the iPod.

Speaker 1 And so there was money coming in. And the first thing they said is, you've got to be in San Francisco.
Well, if you want a media company, where's the last place you want to be is San Francisco?

Speaker 1 You need to be LA or New York. No, no, no, you got to be here.

Speaker 1 Why did they want you to be in San Francisco? So they could come and see the office and check out the operation and make sure their money's being spent well.

Speaker 1 How often are they going to visit? Oh, you have no idea. They're always dropping by and like, what's going on? And so you're doing reports.
No, they just want to hang out with the cool guy.

Speaker 1 Yeah, well, that too, maybe. But then, you know, it was definitely a struggle.

Speaker 1 We were actually kind of profitable for a bit there but it was you know like go daddy ads with promo codes you know code bono i mean it's like you know it was like yeah is it are people really listening are they just using the codes and there was there's always a lot of scams the honey scam well no not like that no there's there's scams of you know when companies need to we didn't do this but when companies need to raise more money in silicon valley then they'll buy some traffic from bots and i'm sure it happens on with comedy videos too.

Speaker 1 People are like, I need some traffic on this video. Let me buy some bots on Silicon Valley.
Oh, you definitely can do that, right? Right, of course. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But then at a certain point,

Speaker 1 YouTube had come out, you know, and oh, YouTube. Everyone has to do video now.
You got to do video. You can't do audio.
You got to do video. And then it got even worse.

Speaker 1 Like we sat in a board meeting and like, have you seen juiced? Juiced. I'm like, do you remember juiced? No.
J-O-O-S-T?

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. It was the guys who built Skype.
They built this video platform that was basically a peer-to-peer streaming television shows.

Speaker 1 And there was no doubt about it. You've got to go video.
Be more like juiced. Make your interface like Juiced.
So at a certain point, you're like, well, what am I going to do?

Speaker 1 Am I going to risk running out of money? Am I going to listen to what they say? Do they really know what they're talking about?

Speaker 1 And ultimately, you know, the company ran for 10 years and no one exited. You know, it just kind of got folded into other things.
So it was not a great

Speaker 1 of their money or my time, honestly. Well, it's kind of amazing that the big video platform is still just YouTube.

Speaker 1 And now, you know, YouTube just passed Netflix now is the most watched thing on television. Oh,

Speaker 1 they're not even counted in the streaming data, in the streaming wars. But yeah, they're the big.
I have YouTube TV.

Speaker 1 I cut the cable.

Speaker 1 I don't have cable anymore. It's like I've just.
I watch YouTube on TV more than I watch anything. Because there's so much variety.
There's so many different things you can search.

Speaker 1 The fact that you could essentially find anything, like if I'm interested in

Speaker 1 some particular region of the world of ancient history, I just punch that into YouTube and I have hundreds, if not thousands, of videos on it.

Speaker 1 It took them a long time to get, I think, to make that profitable inside of Google because

Speaker 1 if you see how many videos are being uploaded daily and transformed into digital video, and I mean, it's crazy the amount of computation that goes into YouTube and the amount of bandwidth that is being sent.

Speaker 1 So I think it took a long time. They never really reported the numbers.
They've only done that in the past couple of years or how much revenue. Now, of course, YouTube is making bank.

Speaker 1 I mean, it's really, it's an incredible thing. It's shocking that no one has come up with anything even remotely close.
It would take too much money. It's so much investment that goes into doing that.

Speaker 1 It's a lot. I mean, you remember your bandwidth cost back in the day, pre-Spotify.
You know, think how do you solve that when you have 100 million videos being posted every single day?

Speaker 1 Yeah, you can't. I mean, you'd have to have billions of dollars in startup money, and then you're still struggling to get people to use your app.

Speaker 1 Like, you remember that one company that came up? Was it

Speaker 1 Quibby? What was it?

Speaker 1 Yes. Was that what it was? They spent so much money.
Was it Katzenberg? Katzenberg. And I do not remember.
It was a Hollywood thing. It was a Hollywood thing.
I think it was Quibi J.

Speaker 1 And they got a bunch of famous people to do short videos. Short drama.
And they put $2 billion in and

Speaker 1 gone. They blew it real quick.

Speaker 1 Because you can't.

Speaker 1 You can't manufacture something that's viral. No.
You can't. And that's kind of like TikTok.
We talked about TikTok last time. I think I was here.

Speaker 1 And obviously, it's not an issue now that China is spying through TikTok because it's still here.

Speaker 1 I think, as I told you then, I think it's because they were eating Silicon Valley's lunch, doing $4 billion, taking away revenue from them.

Speaker 1 And just looking at the people who sponsored the bill, it seemed like they had a lot of donations from Google and Amazon. You know, that just seemed to me like there might be some issues there.

Speaker 1 But what people misunderstand about TikTok is it's not just about the videos and the format and how it flies by. It's about the shop.
The shop is their magic sauce. If you look at the back end,

Speaker 1 the influencers who get paid on TikTok, they have this whole back end with rankings and who sold more stuff.

Speaker 1 Half the videos on TikTok, once you get out of your algo, half of them are about products and people are, you know, just selling products.

Speaker 1 And it's all from China and it's all been coming in under the $800 de minimis

Speaker 1 tax regulation.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 there's no import duty or anything paid on it. They actually have, I think TMU now has warehouses in America.

Speaker 1 So it's just chinese crap that we're buying over and over again is wildly successful it's not really about the ads on uh on do you get ads on tick tock a lot of ads i don't use a tick tock okay good yeah i got so when it was going to go away i'm like i got to get this app i got to see what happens you know it's like this is going to be crazy so i get the app and i'm using my uh my graphene os phone so i can lock off all access all it all it had was my location can't hide that from the ip address and my name

Speaker 1 You can get TikTok on a graphene phone? Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, and you can actually block it from accessing your contacts, black equipment. But still, that was too much for you.

Speaker 1 You had to go to a flip phone. That's interesting.
Well, that was my, it's my experimental thing.

Speaker 1 And so all it knew was Adam Curry in the Hill Country. And I think it went Curry, black name, Hill Country.
There's probably about 50 churches where he is. Boom, right away.

Speaker 1 I'm getting black preachers,

Speaker 1 Hellstone, Brim. Oh, yeah.
And it's just like, and on and on and on. It's been phenomenal.

Speaker 1 And some of these guys are pretty good.

Speaker 1 The ones that fall back, you know, and the guy catches them every single time. And so their algorithm is just give that person more of what they want.

Speaker 1 They're not trying to do like us, like in, like, you know, meta or I'm not sure about X, how that works, but. Let me inject some people who are against it or have

Speaker 1 a counter argument. Like

Speaker 1 when I was on the last time and I talked about my coming to Jesus, dude, there were TikTok videos with millions of views of just this, you know, this one bit.

Speaker 1 And if you looked at it one time, just you get the same over and over again. They get all kinds of Jesus stuff back and forth.
That's all. Not anyone going, yeah, you guys are crazy.

Speaker 1 You know, this is no good. None of that.

Speaker 1 So it's a very friendly, it's kind of the Chinese model.

Speaker 1 You know, it's like, give people what they want and don't try to interject them or spin them up or get them angry and then throw an ad in their face when they're all emotional. So it's very different.

Speaker 1 It's a very different kind of I don't know if it'll be worth anything to anyone buying it unless you have the shop portion. Without that, I don't know.
Don't you think they'd have all that too?

Speaker 1 I mean, it's just a lot of fun.

Speaker 1 You got to have the products. You've got to have the cheap Chinese products.

Speaker 1 That's the problem. It's like, do you have that stuff? You have to be buying them from China.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's fun for

Speaker 1 us, like, oh, you know, different crazy people. I mean, Dvorak uses it all the time.

Speaker 1 He's in an algo of just nut jobs. You know, he's like, blue hair, look at this.
He plays clips on the show. I'm like, dude, you gotta do something else with your life during the day.

Speaker 1 It's just amazing how many of those kooky people are getting so much traction.

Speaker 1 And that was the thought that it was a Chinese psyop, that they were accentuating all these people and that was like ruining the culture of America.

Speaker 1 because it was showing you all these blue-haired psychopaths with beards and lipstick and

Speaker 1 it's really so i heard the same thing from i heard people saying dude you're wrong they want to get rid of tick-tock because that's where maga lives i'm like huh and then it was because that's all they got they got me

Speaker 1 and because that's what offends them so exactly exactly so it's just it's just it's very social media the internet in general was kind of a bad idea

Speaker 1 it's kind of hurt it's good for many things but there's two sides of the same coin there's good and bad i mean um why would you say it's a bad idea, though? I think it's a great idea.

Speaker 1 Well, I mean, you were just talking about it to shift the balance of agency

Speaker 1 because of the psyops. If we're not aware of the psyops, you know, the DARPA, the Defense Agency Research Project

Speaker 1 Agency.

Speaker 1 I had too many agencies in there. DARPA.

Speaker 1 Since the 70s, they've been looking at social networks and really in the there's ah there's a guy he came up with the law of large numbers and they they figured out that that in a computer network, regardless of the content,

Speaker 1 depending on, if you have enough nodes, you can predict where the information will flow.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 if I'm talking about something here, if they boost the right nodes, they can predict where that information will go. And that's how, yeah, I don't think even Elon can stop that from happening.

Speaker 1 It's not an algorithm thing.

Speaker 1 It's literally like a law of nature thing that just that's the way it will flow and you can start injecting things through the right nodes and you'll propagate some message.

Speaker 1 And I mean, I think it's happening all the time everywhere. I mean,

Speaker 1 once you start looking, it's like, well, where's that coming from? Well, I think we need to educate people on

Speaker 1 how to digest social media. And, you know, I think you should treat it the same way you treat junk food.

Speaker 1 You know, and I think there's certain aspects of social media that are really interesting, and I like them. I mean, most of what I get on social media is what my friends send me.
So

Speaker 1 that's how I do it. And this is how I stay sane.

Speaker 1 It's like my friends send me wacky things, and I go, oh my god, what is this?

Speaker 1 Like me and my friend Christina Przitsky, she sends me like the nuttiest, like trans activists screaming and nutty guys who think that they're women.

Speaker 1 And then me and Tom Segura, we exchange murder videos. Murder

Speaker 1 and car accidents and animal attacks. And then, you know.
Before breakfast?

Speaker 1 No. I try not to in the morning, but sometimes I have to check my text message because I have business stuff.
I have

Speaker 1 things going on, you know, guests and this and that. And so I do check.
But, you know, it's just it's very intoxicating to just sit there on the toilet and just start scrolling. Toilet scroller.

Speaker 1 But you gotta, you know, you gotta develop discipline. And discipline's important for every aspect of your life.
You You have to know when you've had too much. But that's not easy for young kids.

Speaker 1 Right, it's not. But I think they can learn just like they've learned everything else in this world.

Speaker 1 But you need parental guidance, and most of the parents are hooked on it themselves. Well, I think they need a message, you know, and I think this conversation is part of that message.

Speaker 1 You know, I think kids need to realize, like, you are wasting time. Like, if you spend two hours just scrolling through TikTok, you have wasted time.

Speaker 1 And there's stuff that you probably should be doing, and you're going to be depressed if you don't do those things. You're going to feel weird.
You're not going to feel satisfied.

Speaker 1 You're not going to feel like you're on a good path. You're going to not have a lot of respect for yourself if you just

Speaker 1 sit on the couch all day and scroll through TikTok, which many people listening to this have done a whole day. Just sitting there eating chips, scrolling through TikTok, and just wasting your day.

Speaker 1 That is possible to do. I think there's ways that you can incorporate it into your life where it's interesting.

Speaker 1 You know, and I've got good algorithms now, especially on YouTube, but pretty good algorithms on Instagram too, where most of the stuff it's showing me is stuff I'm actually interested in.

Speaker 1 Do you get those videos when you're interested in a topic and then there'll be like five different videos that are being suggested to you and about five minutes in, you're like, this is just an AI voice that's that's cobbled a whole bunch of old things together and it's a new version of it.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, I'm not learning anything. Yeah, there's always a lot of that.
There's always those too.

Speaker 1 I think YouTube is the best because like I'm interested in specific subjects right like I'm a car nut I love old cars in specific particular this by the way

Speaker 1 lots of people love restored things people love restored cars we love you have I think do you still have your car which one the Corvette oh yeah I mean beautifully restored just just peak last time I saw it which was I think in LA

Speaker 1 this is what I think the president is doing. He's trying to restore us back to being that great American muscle car.
And I think people, everybody loves a beautiful, restored muscle car.

Speaker 1 You know what I mean? Well, America's making real muscle cars right now. Like, this is one of the rare times where America's got very exciting automobiles that are out now.

Speaker 1 You know, we've talked a bunch of times about the Corvette ZR-1, which is breaking all these laptops. Is that the mid-engine? It's the mid-engine 1,000-horsepower Corvette.

Speaker 1 Tina won't let me buy one. I'm like,

Speaker 1 you got to put your foot down. No, no, I'm good.
I'm good. No, no, no.

Speaker 1 No, no, no. She's like, that's a douchebag car.
So, yeah, for me, it would be kind of douchey. Why? Yeah.
I mean, that's awesome.

Speaker 1 Don't think that way. That's silly.
Ever since I started flying 350 miles an hour, I don't care about how fast I go on the ground. It's not even how fast you go.

Speaker 1 Well, that's why I like old cars because it's not even how fast you go. I had a C5, though.
I did have a long time ago. Those are cool.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 They were a little shitty, actually. They really got good around C7.
C7 was nasty. That heads-up display was cool, though.
Oh, C5 had a heads-up display? Yeah, it had a heads-up display. Look at that.

Speaker 1 That's the new one. That's the ZR-1.
Come on, son. That is not a douchebag car.
That's a goddamn American working bar. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's a fucking American working bar. Yeah, yeah, it's nice.

Speaker 1 Can I get my dog in it, though?

Speaker 1 Can I get my dog in? How big's your dog?

Speaker 1 95 pounds. What is he? She is a a

Speaker 1 Great Pyrenees Akbosh Rescue Mutt. Oh, that's cute.
Completely white. I didn't mean to misgender your dog.
Yeah, she's very young. Look how awesome that looks, man.

Speaker 1 You don't have to take your dog everywhere. Reward yourself, Adam Curry.
You're the pod father. Get a fucking Corvette.
Look at that thing. That's beautiful.
That's a cockpit inside of that thing.

Speaker 1 That is beautiful. And the performance of that is unparalleled.

Speaker 1 It's an amazing automobile. A friend of mine, he just, because he's a real American

Speaker 1 car.

Speaker 1 He just bought

Speaker 1 a Tesla Model 3, and he bought it for the autopilot. He says, I wish this came in 16-cylinder multi-turbo.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. But he says, the autopilot, he just loves that.
He loves the autopilot. I have a S, the plaid.
I have a plaid, Tesla, the four-door larger sedan plaid. Does it have the autopilot? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Full self-drive? It's incredible. It's incredible.
I don't use it that much. I like to drive.
But just the capability of the car is amazing.

Speaker 1 The speed and the effortlessness in which it merges with traffic and just takes off

Speaker 1 with no sound.

Speaker 1 It's beautiful, man. It's beautiful.
Yeah. But it's different.
So

Speaker 1 I like old air-cooled Porsches. I had another

Speaker 1 long time ago. They're not fast.
They're not fast in. Because you're a manual? Manual.
Yeah, with the truck clutch. Like, oh, you got to push that thing in.
Well, they're floor-mounted, too.

Speaker 1 They're different. The old Porsches are different.
But

Speaker 1 what they are is a physical experience. It's like a ride.
It's a fun, exhilarating experience where you hear the

Speaker 1 you hear the engine, you're shifting the gears yourself. It's exciting and engaging.
And that is more important to me sometimes than just speed. Like, I don't need to go fast.

Speaker 1 It's not even about going fast. It's the

Speaker 1 whole

Speaker 1 experience. Yeah, you're feeling the rear end break a little with your ass.
You know, as it is. You can't do that anymore in these modern cars, man.
It doesn't work anymore.

Speaker 1 We used to put Porsche engines into VW buses back in the day. Oh, Jesus.
That was awesome.

Speaker 1 That was probably awesome.

Speaker 1 You can fit it in a Beetle, too.

Speaker 1 You can fit a Porsche engine into a bus. Oh, yeah.
A lot of people have done crazy Beetle transformations where they've hyped up Porsche engines and put them in the back of those things.

Speaker 1 Yeah. There's a whole modding community of Beetle freaks that take Beetles and they're Volkswagen.
They're Volkswagen. Remember how many there were in the 70s coming in from Germany?

Speaker 1 We all had a, I had a 1303. I loved my Beetle.
It was a good thing. Yeah, when I was I was a kid, my friend Jimmy had one.

Speaker 1 He had a Beetle. It was just cheap on gas.
It was easy to drive. Mine was like,

Speaker 1 I had to jumpstart it because the lock had broken.

Speaker 1 You jump-started every time. You jump-started every time you got in, and then I'd lost my gas cap, and so I just had a rag in there.
Oh, God.

Speaker 1 And if I went

Speaker 1 around the highway to the right, and if my tank was too full, then gas would leak out, and my front tire would start to slide off. That's easy.
It was the experience.

Speaker 1 Back in, you know, when we were were 18, you know,

Speaker 1 you know, just like, eh, I got to drive this thing. It was great.
I loved that. Was a good.

Speaker 1 We weren't scrolling on TikTok, Joe Rogan. We were doing dangerous stuff.
That's true. We were jump-starting our cars and we were.
Well, I think we're lucky that we've seen both.

Speaker 1 We've gone through, we grew up in a time where there was no internet and you were going outside to do things and people did physical activities.

Speaker 1 But then as we got older, we recognized that there's this new technology that's connecting the whole world in this weird way, and we're getting to experience it as people who know the world before that.

Speaker 1 I think we're real lucky. Well, you're a big part of a change, certainly, in young men.

Speaker 1 I mean, I've seen so many young men who follow you and follow your workout regime and follow, you know, listen to you. They listen to you about what you're saying about health, about food.

Speaker 1 And that's a really, you're an important voice in that regard. You've really, really helped a lot of young men in our country and far beyond.

Speaker 1 I mean, I know you you don't take compliments like this well, but

Speaker 1 it's very important what you're doing. But I'm very happy.

Speaker 1 Very, very important what you're doing. There's a lot of young men that just feel like real disconnected to the world.

Speaker 1 Nothing seems to be anything that is interesting to them, and they're being pushed into this box where someone's trying to turn them into a fucking chihuahua.

Speaker 1 You know, like this is like the evolution of the wolf into the dog. That's what's happening with men.
Like, for some reason, men are supposed to be neutered. You know,

Speaker 1 there's

Speaker 1 in the 60s, so I've been, ever since

Speaker 1 I got saved and become a believer, I've really learned about our American history, and I've been blown away by how much, because there's a lot of, you know, you can talk about the 60s and when they outlawed psychedelic drugs and put it on Schedule I.

Speaker 1 That was the exact same time when the Bible was basically taken out of school and it was, you know, and

Speaker 1 I think the church in general you know, kind of went into itself and kind of, you know, became a thing you do over there on Sundays. Can we pause real quick? Because I have to tell you about

Speaker 1 it. You got to peace.

Speaker 1 Let's pause. We'll come back.
We'll talk about Jesus. We'll be right back.
Yeah. All right, we're back.
Yeah, yeah. Oh, man.
Much better, right?

Speaker 1 Thank you. Thank you.
So we were going to talk about the vaping thing because you were saying that there's nothing wrong with vaping. Well, I didn't say there's nothing wrong with vaping.

Speaker 1 So what is that?

Speaker 1 Can I see it? Yeah. Can I hold it? Yeah.
So this is a brick. You could hurt somebody with this.
If you wanted to fuck somebody up,

Speaker 1 if you get a good grip on the bottom of the bag. Yeah, yeah, no, you just grip it.
It's like brass knuckles almost.

Speaker 1 Like holding a roll of pennies. Yeah.
No, you wouldn't do that. You're going to break your hand.
That's all silly. That's why I carry my gun.
That's probably better.

Speaker 1 That's the battery. The battery.
This is heavy.

Speaker 1 So when I gave up, I've always. You can take a pull of this? Yeah, yeah.
So it's the top. Take it.
The top button. Press the button.
Yeah, press it and just suck. What was the flavor of this?

Speaker 1 Tobacco-ish. Tobacco-ish.
Yes, tobacco, basically.

Speaker 1 That was a little hit. Yeah, you kind of.
You take a big one, right? Let it warm up a little bit.

Speaker 1 You press the button, and then, yeah, there you go. It's cracking.
Yeah, yeah, go. Go, go, go, go.

Speaker 1 There you go.

Speaker 1 Woof. That's definitely different than the gas station ones.
Oh, you don't want those. This is organic juice.
It's got 0.3%

Speaker 1 nicotine. I wind my own coil made out of silver.
The cotton is America-made cotton, not from China. No, I've got into this.

Speaker 1 Cotton? What's the cotton for? So if you look at the mechanism.

Speaker 1 See? Okay. So the cotton sucks up the juice and then the coil warms up.
So the cotton's like the filter?

Speaker 1 No, the cotton has the juice in it and then when the coil warms up, it creates the vapor from the juice that's in it.

Speaker 1 So do you have to constantly refresh the cotton yeah and so you just dunk your cotton in the juice no no no no it's uh the juice is inside it's in the tank yeah it has little wires in there so you just crawl it new cotton in every now and again yeah and winds a new coil from time to time how long do you have to wait before you put new cotton in it depends i do it usually once every couple of days that doesn't give me the weird head rush that the gas station ones do that's chinese crap that's what i like though i like all right well good luck to you i like the first hit That's what you like off those gas station vapes.

Speaker 1 It's like you're chasing a dragon. You get that first hit and you're like,

Speaker 1 the first hit's like, ah. So

Speaker 1 relaxing. And then after that, you never get that again.
So I really got into this. There was a store in Fredericksburg called Vaporlicious.
They've retired now.

Speaker 1 They've retired. Jerry and Kathy, and they're two old hippies from...

Speaker 1 Why do they make it so unwieldy? Well, you can get all kinds of different versions, but I'm a serious user, so I need this whole battery. I have a whole kit with me, man.

Speaker 1 I got a screwdriver to open this up, and then the battery is not with your lungs or your health or anything like that. No, I've never felt this good.
Okay, and so this is different juice.

Speaker 1 So, what is the juice? Because the thing about the actual oil is the issue, right? Yeah. And this is a thing like a lot of these cheap ones that you're buying off the gas station.

Speaker 1 You don't know what's in there.

Speaker 1 This is glycol, which is essentially the same stuff that's in the theatrical mist machines,

Speaker 1 only much watered down.

Speaker 1 And all it does is just produce vapor. And so what is vapor? Well, it's mainly water.
And of course, you're mixing it with nicotine. And nicotine, you know, that's the piece that I've always liked

Speaker 1 about smoking. But now I don't get the tar, I don't get all other contaminants.
And I also don't get high. You know, I stop.
I kind of stopped. I used to smoke a lot of weed.

Speaker 1 I stopped. It's just, I haven't felt like doing it anymore.
You know, like a glass of wine. But, yeah.
And so, this, I do have gorilla grip on it. It's like everywhere I go, I'm like, where's my vape?

Speaker 1 Where's my vape? So I'm fully, fully aware I'm addicted to more the

Speaker 1 motion of it because, oh, I mean, I would, I would roll up, you know,

Speaker 1 I could roll them with one hand behind my back. I'm doing it so long.
So I have a real spliff with tobacco, with weed, and then it would go out and I put it down. I come up, pick it up again.

Speaker 1 At a certain point, it was like three in the morning. I'd wake up, like, I think I'll go

Speaker 1 roll a joint. You know, I smoke a whole spliff, go back to bed.
I mean, it got to be a little, I was smoking a lot. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And without it, I'm very productive, Joe.

Speaker 1 I got to tell you, I'm super productive. I'm nicotine.
It's very good for productivity. And for me, it's caffeine.
It can work. Well,

Speaker 1 those are my two drugs, you know, caffeine and nicotine.

Speaker 1 I kind of dig it. I really do.
They're very good for productivity. Yeah.
Is there any bad stuff? I mean, I know that it constricts your blood flow in your mouth and in other parts probably.

Speaker 1 I mean obviously you're putting something in your stream, so it I don't know. But you like those uh those pouches? Yeah, I do.

Speaker 1 But I I wanted to see what happens if I took time off and I went out of the country for five days and didn't bring them. I mean I was fine.
Didn't bother me at all.

Speaker 1 I was like I was I was wondering if I'd be like itching for one. Like I'm okay on the plane.
I can fly to Europe. I'm like, you know.

Speaker 1 I'm okay. I don't need to vape.
Can you go in the bathroom and just get a quick one in there on the plane? You know, this is a very bad idea.

Speaker 1 You do not want to be caught vaping on the plane. Oh, really? Yeah.
Of course, I have. Did that set off a fire alarm?

Speaker 1 I don't know. Can you blow it right into the toilet?

Speaker 1 You can do what they call

Speaker 1 zero vape, which is basically you inhale and you just hold it in

Speaker 1 until nothing comes out. Oh, wow.
Yeah. Or, you know, I've done one of these, like.

Speaker 1 And they go under your jacket. Yeah, I know.
I've seen people do that at the movie theater.

Speaker 1 That is not approved behavior, so I do not condone that. You know,

Speaker 1 it's okay. I can handle not vaping for eight hours.
So what's in the gas station ones when you're getting that's in the oil? Who knows?

Speaker 1 Who knows? That's maybe what killed some people early on in COVID. You know, it might have been bad, a lot of THC, of course, these pre-made cartridges.
You just don't know what's in it.

Speaker 1 It's like, no, don't, don't vape that stuff. Do not vape the pre-made things.
I mean, this is fun.

Speaker 1 you get to learn how to do it it's manufacturing you know it's you get into i could really get into it like i got this this diameter silver wire and five you know you do five um

Speaker 1 five loops or six loops for different impedance oh yeah there's a whole i mean this tank you know this thing is like it's you try different i've had must have 18 different vapes that i've tried and like this is the one somebody gave me one at one point in time it was like it was carrying around a phone it was like i was carrying around it was the size of your flip phone.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And I'm like, this is ridiculous.
That's me, baby.

Speaker 1 That's me. I don't want to have another heavy thing in my pockets or in my fanny pack.
It's like, yeah, no, this is okay. I mean, it's all right.
And then this thing, that.

Speaker 1 But you decided that the phone was too invasive, even with the graphene OS. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, because you could still do everything, just not being tracked. And so I used to go to bed.
We go to bed at the same time.

Speaker 1 We always watch some stupid, like we're in season seven of Seinfeld right now. So we'll watch a half hour of stupidity and

Speaker 1 then we go to bed and I used to be on my phone

Speaker 1 for half an hour scrolling stuff or whatever. And then, okay, I'm tired.
Yeah, because my brain has been working overtime on whatever inputs I'm giving it.

Speaker 1 And now I'm like, well, there's nothing to scroll. So I just go to bed and I'm out in three seconds.
I'm like, I sleep. And I sleep all the way through.
And I wake up in the morning. I'm refreshed.

Speaker 1 I feel good. I don't look at social media the first hour I'm up.
I mean, I do Bible readings and stuff and devotionals. I might text a buddy of mine, and I'm ready, man.

Speaker 1 Do you do social media in the morning? No.

Speaker 1 Almost not at all. So when you do it, you do it from a computer?

Speaker 1 Do you check it out at all? Yeah. And when you do that, one of the questions I had about that, does that do voice-to-text? It can.
Andrew? Oh, that's a game. However,

Speaker 1 of course, when you do that, Google is basically keeping your transcript. There's a company in Austin called Futo.
Wait a minute. So if you just text, it doesn't keep your transcript?

Speaker 1 Oh, I'm sure it does. But if you I'm not sure what, how much of that it does, but when you read, when you speak into it, it goes to the Google servers.

Speaker 1 The Google server then transcribes it and sends it back to your phone. It's not happening on the phone.
It's happening on Google servers, and they probably keep all of that, or my voice, or whatever.

Speaker 1 There's a company in Austin called Futo, F-U-T-O, and they have an open source voice-to-text system. They don't keep your transcripts.
And they're some good guys. I've been messing with that.

Speaker 1 It's not quite as fast as you can. And will that work on that phone? Yeah, you can install it.
Yeah, just as an extra tip.

Speaker 1 Do you ever send messages with Google Voice or with voice-to-text on that phone? I've been using Futo. Oh, you have? Yeah.
On that phone. Yeah.
So I use it on my phone all the time.

Speaker 1 Like when I'm in my car, I press the little button to Apple series. Yeah, so

Speaker 1 who knows what Apple's doing or that? You don't know. I'm sending it right to China.
All the memes. Maybe, maybe.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 It's all right. It's okay.

Speaker 1 So I went to Boston. You lived in Boston, didn't you? So we went to go see the Doobie brothers.

Speaker 1 When was this? Last year. Really?

Speaker 1 They're around. Yes.
And it was wild.

Speaker 1 It was in Massachusetts. It was one of these

Speaker 1 amphitheaters that's half covered.

Speaker 1 And we were the youngest people there. And people were sparking weed.
You could smell the whole place. They're like 80-year-old dudes smoking doobies.
It was like amazing.

Speaker 1 And the Doobie Brothers play, and it was like, what? It was the first 45 minutes is

Speaker 1 them do it. This is from our album from five years ago.
Dude, we want China Grove. You know, give us long train running.
So eventually they get into that.

Speaker 1 But then they would, like Michael McDonald's, What a Fool Believes, you know, I love that song. He would do it syncopically.

Speaker 1 Like, instead of doing the song, like we all remember it, you'd do, what what a fool believes like no no don't do that it was really disappointing but the opening act was Steve Winwood Steve Winwood's now almost 80 years old and I get goosebumps just thinking about it he railed he wailed he did you know Mr.

Speaker 1 Fantasy from Traffic sure which that three quarters of that song is

Speaker 1 guitar solo and he's just like banana nana nana nana and go and the crowd is going nuts and he has all these young kids with him and you could you see the close-up on the screens and they're like

Speaker 1 dude look at look at what he's doing it was amazing i bring it up because the next day did you go right up to plymouth did i go to plymouth yeah massachusetts plymouth rock right so Plymouth Rock is kind of disappointing because it's like, it's a rock.

Speaker 1 It's just a rock. And there's a structure around it.
And like, okay, you know, it's a rock. And there's a little sign sign next to it that says,

Speaker 1 we don't know that this was really the rock, but some guy in church who was 90 years old at the time said, yeah, I think this was the rock. So that's the rock.

Speaker 1 You were talking about the Georgia Guidestones a few episodes ago with somebody. Did you know that we have an actual guidestone in America in Plymouth? No.
It's called the Monument to the Forefathers.

Speaker 1 I'd never heard of this. It's about two blocks in, and it's, I think, arguably the largest granite structure in the world, in America, certainly, but maybe in the world.
It was completed in 1890.

Speaker 1 And it is the guidestone of America.

Speaker 1 How do I not know about this? No one knows about this. This is,

Speaker 1 check it out. It thing is huge.
Wow. And it's literally in a cul-de-sac, a residential area.
Really? There's no road.

Speaker 1 It was completed in 1890 after 50 years of building it. Wow.
And so this is the formula for America. This is where I was going before our P-break.
The formula for America.

Speaker 1 So they constructed this so that if we ever lost our way, we could find our way back. You know, when they talk about America was built on Christian values.
I'm like, what does that mean?

Speaker 1 What does that even mean, Christian values? I mean,

Speaker 1 even the word Christian is like, that was actually a slur back in the day that they came up with for Jesus believers. So in the middle is faith.
That's her name, faith, and it's four sides.

Speaker 1 And one is law, education, morality, and liberty. And it has all these cool inscriptions.
It's really something amazing to see. And I believe that's the formula that we need to get back.

Speaker 1 You actually, you live like this.

Speaker 1 Joe Rogan lives these four sides. You live, you understand law, morality, education, and liberty.
And if we can get back to that,

Speaker 1 you know, that would be just, in fact,

Speaker 1 so all of our, all of our early presidents, all of them live by the Bible, every single one of them. They wrote about it, they studied it.

Speaker 1 1778, the first act, one of the first acts of a Congress was to print a Bible for everybody. So I brought you,

Speaker 1 this is done by a group called the Wall Builders.

Speaker 1 And David Barton, he has all, these are the receipts. So it's a Bible, but it has

Speaker 1 three quarters of that book is writings by our early presidents, all the way up through Reagan. And this David Barton guy, he has all of these originals.
I think he lives in Alito, Texas.

Speaker 1 And it shows you what our code was in the early days up until the 60s. And that's when

Speaker 1 we got this big argument about, well, we can't have, you know,

Speaker 1 the whole, the First Amendment is the right to establish a religion.

Speaker 1 And that has been perverted throughout the years to say, well, you can't have the Bible in schools and the government can't tell you to do this and you can't be talking about...

Speaker 1 The Hall of Congress used to be a church. I mean, that's how we started.

Speaker 1 And you don't have to necessarily be a believer or saved by Jesus just to understand where we came from and the basic tenets of law where those guys created it from.

Speaker 1 You know, the receipts are in the Declaration of Independence.

Speaker 1 Our Bill of Rights, our amendments, are rights, not that the government gives us. You know, they all say the government shall not infringe, the government may not do this.

Speaker 1 It's what the government could not do because we had rights given to us by our Creator.

Speaker 1 And I think if we got back to a little bit of that in America, we might get a bit more on path, which is why certainly all the Jesus freaks are like, wow,

Speaker 1 President Trump is talking about God. He says God saved him to save America.
I mean, this is, a president is a big deal when he does stuff like that.

Speaker 1 And you can see, just look at the people around us, Russell Brand, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens. I mean, there's a lot of people who are now starting to see this.
And I know you love history.

Speaker 1 That's why I bought that for you. Because when you see where it comes from, a lot of things start to be clear.
And that sculpture, that was like, I had no idea it was there. I'd never heard of it.

Speaker 1 It's not in any books. But it's kind of a template for where we came from.

Speaker 1 And I think it's kind of important that we look at that as well as all the other things that we're looking at now with AI and social media.

Speaker 1 And we can't just be sitting around for four years going, yeah, Trump, yeah, Elon, stomp the libs. We've got to find some spirituality one way or the other.
It doesn't have to be God.

Speaker 1 I would like it to be, but people got to find that.

Speaker 1 I think you're saying some wise things. I think that people need some sort of a moral and ethical structure to live their life through.
Jordan Peterson always has this thing.

Speaker 1 Whether or not if you believe in God, if you live like you believe in God, you follow but you will live a better life and that is true

Speaker 1 I believe it's true I believe it absolutely and it's it's very simple

Speaker 1 scaffolding yeah it's very simple things you know it's the Ten Commandments aren't that hard you know it's like that's your that's your law if you believe that government I mean you government is an extension of of God if you believe that he instates governments.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 I think that God gave us Joe Biden for four years.

Speaker 1 I really do. He said, y'all got to take a look.
He has humor, too, by the way. Like,

Speaker 1 you should take a look. And there's a story,

Speaker 1 I think it's Daniel, about King Nebuchadnezzar. And King Nebuchadnezzar, he did not follow God's law.

Speaker 1 And so God turned him into a donkey, basically, and he was out grazing for seven years eating grass.

Speaker 1 I'm like, that sounds a lot like President Biden, that he just turned him into a grass-eating donkey who had nothing left, you know? So this.

Speaker 1 Well, you have to see what happens when things go sideways to really understand it.

Speaker 1 That's why people who grow up in poverty really can appreciate success a lot more than someone who's a trust fund kid, right? Of course. You have to know what it's like when things go bad.

Speaker 1 And our country just experienced four years of being governed by people other than the elected leader. And it's pretty clear now.

Speaker 1 And, you know, the way Mike Johnson laid it out that Biden didn't know what was in some of the executive organizations. I didn't sign that.
Yeah. Oh, it's kind of crazy.
It's crazy, man.

Speaker 1 I mean, it's interesting because some of that, like, how much can you attribute it to faulty memory and how much of it is actually they passed things by his desk? I don't know.

Speaker 1 But at the end of the day, we got to see that this was not a good direction. This is a terrible direction.

Speaker 1 And I think that was like one of the biggest mistakes that Kamala Harris did was when she went on the view and they asked her what would you do differently? And she said, nothing. Nothing.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Which is crazy. But also, look at President Trump.
I mean, can you take a more wrong guy in the auspices and the opinion of presidential and everything? And he learned a lot during his first term.

Speaker 1 I mean, this was a turnaround of epic proportion, epic proportion.

Speaker 1 And I know that. What's the biggest political comeback

Speaker 1 in the history of the world?

Speaker 1 It'll be in the history books.

Speaker 1 This show will be a part of that.

Speaker 1 It's going to be incredibly important for us to look back on this because, you know,

Speaker 1 like it's, it's often the misfits. You know, that's that's who we've got to love the most.
So when I see the blue-haired people, I'm like,

Speaker 1 I really want to love them. Yeah, they probably

Speaker 1 wouldn't understand it, but crazy, chaotic energy. If they just found something they loved and pushed it into that, they'd be better off.

Speaker 1 But it's also, it's like, what damaged them up into that point?

Speaker 1 Like, what kind of a life did they live that left them in this place where they're 35 years old weeping in front of a city council meeting? Like, who are they? And what went wrong?

Speaker 1 And this is the thing, is like, we kind of encourage this victim mentality. We do.
And we reward it. It has social credit to it.
And

Speaker 1 you get to be in a special class of people. And you get to say outrageous things.
And people allow you to. And that's not good for anybody.
Just like you have kids. You know what it's like.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's not good for kids. Like, you got to tell them, like, well, that's not real.
You can't do that. That's not yours.
Like, there's things that you have to learn.

Speaker 1 And if you reward victim mentality, then people people look to become victims. And so that, like, when that lady laid out all of her fucking physical ailments and all of her problems,

Speaker 1 as if that makes any of the things she's saying make sense because she has all these problems. Like, no, that's not, that's not how the world is.
But you're right. It's been rewarded.
Rewarded.

Speaker 1 And it's been rewarded by political operations, mainly to get votes.

Speaker 1 These people have a vote, too. You know, they can vote.
So bring them in. This is a part of the psyop of U.S.
aid.

Speaker 1 And the psyop of just the government in general, these

Speaker 1 control structures that are essentially put in place to make sure that they remain in power. You know, John Perkins? Yes.
Have you ever had him on? No, I have not.

Speaker 1 Oh, man, because he wrote about this.

Speaker 1 Economic hitman. Yeah, Confession of Economic Hitman.
Wow. I mean, basically, USAID, that's what they do.
But also State Department. So, you know.
Marco Rubio seems like a good guy.

Speaker 1 I'm kind of liking him, but

Speaker 1 they've got intelligence units inside there. There's all kinds of things things that happen with State Department.
So I hope that also gets uncovered. Well, Mike Benz was explaining yesterday.

Speaker 1 I was like, this seems so intertwined. Like, how are you going to, what can be done in four years? He goes, no, this is going to take 50 years, more.
He's like, that may be true.

Speaker 1 It's going to take forever to unwind. He goes, you have to understand how deep these tentacles go.
And he laid it out in... Four and a half hours yesterday.

Speaker 1 Wow. I probably talked for three minutes for the whole podcast.
I'm not kidding.

Speaker 1 With Mike, you got to like, can I get the transcript of the show and go over it slowly? Because he goes fast. Well, he's

Speaker 1 the thing that will happen is viral clips of specific things that he highlights and says that are very significant are going to go out. And those are already out.

Speaker 1 And I'm sure they're all over X right now as we're speaking. And I love that

Speaker 1 Doge is, I was skeptical because we heard this during the Reagan administration. Reagan wasn't going to do all this.
He was going to make government efficient, and of course it didn't.

Speaker 1 When I hear that they're going to do the same thing to the military, amen, man. Well, they have to be accountable to an audit.
Yes. You can't.
They haven't done one ever.

Speaker 1 Well, the Pentagon's failed seven of them. And the thing is, like, fraud's real.
We know it's real, and we know people are pilfering.

Speaker 1 And if you go unchecked for long enough, that becomes a part of the way people do business.

Speaker 1 And once that's established and it's been established for decades, then it's very difficult to stop because as soon as you start investigating it, people go to jail.

Speaker 1 And so they're going to try to stop you from investigating it.

Speaker 1 They're going to try to bury records. And it's going to get wild.

Speaker 1 As I'm sure Mike told you, and I can't wait to see it, it's not just fraud.

Speaker 1 It is the actual system. Instead of us being open.

Speaker 1 And I think like Trump is doing, like, hey, we're just going to have terrorists on you. NATO, you don't like it.
Boom. We're not going to protect you.

Speaker 1 You know, we're going to be fair about this. You can't just be ripping us off.
We've been doing all these subversive things with money that's just going to NGOs NGOs and non-profits.

Speaker 1 I mean the whole Ukraine thing. He highlighted all of this.

Speaker 1 Did he play the Victoria Newland recorded phone call? No, he didn't.

Speaker 1 He showed the Biden thing where he said, you know, the prosecutor had to be fired or they wouldn't get the billion dollars in loans. Right, right.
And son of a bitch.

Speaker 1 Well, Victoria Newland in 2014, the Russians, I think, they released it. They recorded a phone call and she's literally talking to the ambassador.

Speaker 1 Okay, we want to put this guy in the government, that guy in the government, this guy in Senate. Clitch, leave him outside.
He can be the mayor or whatever. I mean,

Speaker 1 that's not cool. We have some stuff to repent for when all this comes out, and we should pick ourselves up and move forward and just be honest.

Speaker 1 I think we can do it with a lot of honesty, too. I hope so.

Speaker 1 But the problem is there's a lot of people that are going to be in deep trouble, and they're going to try to stop that from all this accountability. Was Mike bullish or bearish on it?

Speaker 1 Well, he's, you know, he's in the storm. You know, it's like no one knows exactly what's going to happen when you're in the middle of the hurricane.
You're telling people what's going on.

Speaker 1 And that's where he is right now. I mean, I asked him, how do you sleep? He goes, I don't.

Speaker 1 He needs prayers. He needs some prayers for that.
I'm sure he needs that. We'll cover him.
And I think

Speaker 1 his fight is very noble. And he's right.
He's right. And he's accurate.
And the amount of information that guy's got in his head is astounding.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 he's pulling it all off the top of his head while we're talking because he lives this constantly.

Speaker 1 You know, used to work at at the State Department, uncovered all this stuff, has been chasing it down forever, and is a

Speaker 1 legitimate historian on this.

Speaker 1 And thank you for giving him that platform.

Speaker 1 And thank you for giving Trump a platform and all the things you've done. But the people, when they think of CIA and these types of agencies, they always think dart guns and secret stuff.

Speaker 1 But no, it's really subversive, writing articles. And my whole family kind of comes from military and intelligence backgrounds.
So, I've heard, you know, what I learned? This is crazy.

Speaker 1 So, my uncle was big in the CIA.

Speaker 1 He was the national, he was basically Tulsi Gabbard to Bush Sr. when he was VP.
And then, you know, like

Speaker 1 Iran-Contra happened, and you know, he basically became ambassador to Korea.

Speaker 1 He was exonerated, but he was moved out to a different post.

Speaker 1 My aunt passed away a couple of years back.

Speaker 1 And when my cousin was doing her eulogy, she said Aunt Meg

Speaker 1 actually outranked Uncle Don in the CIA. She ran the Russia desk, spoke fluent Russian, but had promised never to tell anybody, not even her own kids.
I'm like, what?

Speaker 1 Aunt Meg spoke fluent Russian and ran the Russia desk for the CIA and outranked Uncle Don?

Speaker 1 That's some crazy stuff. Crazy.
And all those folks, you know, they remember Russia as the real, real bad guys. I mean, I went to, this is my own USAID story.

Speaker 1 So in 1988, I think it was, we had the Moscow Music Peace Festival. Do you remember that? No.

Speaker 1 And this is before the wall came down. And it was, I was the only MTV person who went.
We went on a 727 from Newark. It was Ozzy Osbourne,

Speaker 1 basically Black Sabbath. It was Bon Jovi, Motley Crew, Skid Row.
We stopped in Germany to to pick up the scorpions. What was that flight like?

Speaker 1 Dude.

Speaker 1 So,

Speaker 1 dude, dude,

Speaker 1 you'll love this.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. There you go.
Wow.

Speaker 1 You were filming things even back then. So the reason this happened was.

Speaker 1 Look at you. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 1 Tico Torres from Bon Jovi.

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 so Doc McGee, who was the manager of Bon Jovi and Motley Crew, his,

Speaker 1 I'm paraphrasing the story, but I'm pretty sure it's correct. That was Ozzie.

Speaker 1 I just realized that was Ozzie and Sharon Osborne. Like, who are those people?

Speaker 1 Look at Sharon. Look at Sharon.
She's like a kid. And like a British house frow, nice roly-poly.

Speaker 1 No O-face for her.

Speaker 1 So. O-face? Oh, face.
Oh, is that big? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Look at Ozzie.

Speaker 1 So Doc McGee's Learjet have been caught smuggling in like, you know, bales of marijuana into Florida.

Speaker 1 And his get out of jail free card was he was supposed to organize an anti-drug and alcohol concert in Moscow.

Speaker 1 Right. So this is where I'm pretty sure USAID came into it and the CIA.
And so this was supposed to be a complete drug-free, alcohol-free. We're all going to go there.

Speaker 1 We're going to do a huge one-night concert. We're there for a week.
On the plane, Ozzy is so drunk.

Speaker 1 He's so drunk.

Speaker 1 So we're in the back there, and he's at the laboratory

Speaker 1 mid-plane. And it's someone else that's in there.
And he's like, Share,

Speaker 1 Sher,

Speaker 1 Share. And she'd like, oh, Ozzy.
And he pees his pants right there in the aisle. Like, holy crap.

Speaker 1 Ozzy peed his pants.

Speaker 1 Share it. So

Speaker 1 this was a wild trip. And I got a briefing beforehand by some dudes in suits.
You know, this is 88, so I don't, you know, I wasn't really thinking USAID CIA. And they're like, here's the deal.

Speaker 1 You're going to be there. Do not talk to any women.
Don't go to any hookers. Do not take any hookers to your room.
They're all going to be KGB. And you don't want any part of this.

Speaker 1 And there's going to be, our people are going to be watching you.

Speaker 1 KGB hookers. KGB hookers.
We actually did go to the hooker boat, which was pretty wild. There was a boat? Yeah.
They had a prostitute boat. The ugliest hookers in the world.

Speaker 1 It was like, nah, no one's going to.

Speaker 1 Pirates.

Speaker 1 We all kind of went to go check them out.

Speaker 1 We're in the hotel. They literally, this is, you know, Soviet Union still.
They literally turned on the heat in that part of the city. It was winter.

Speaker 1 And the mattresses were made of straw, and you had to bribe the lady for a phone. call.
You'd reserve it 24 hours in advance. You have to give her tuna fish and toilet paper rolls.
It was wild. Wow.

Speaker 1 Middle of the night, I'm with Sebastian Bach from Skid Row. We're outside.
We go to Red Square. We're drinking vodka on Red Square at 3 in the morning.
Walk back to the hotel.

Speaker 1 There's the Moscow Hells Angels show up. And they're on like these Yugoslav motorcycles and they're popping wheelies and falling off.
And we're like, what's going on?

Speaker 1 Then this Russian official comes up with, they had the really big hats. And he's like, tap, tap, tap on the back of one of the merch trucks.
And all he wanted was t-shirts.

Speaker 1 And so, you know, he gave him a whole bunch of t-shirts. Everybody leaves.
Crazy. So we have this concert, and the kids are going, they went nuts.
Of all the bands, Bon Jovi, Motley Crew, Ozzy.

Speaker 1 They all knew Ozzy. They were all singing phonetically.

Speaker 1 Crazy high.

Speaker 1 They didn't know the words, you know, but the crazy train kind of came out of their mouth. And

Speaker 1 what was... Look at this.
Yeah, it was insane. You can see all the

Speaker 1 volume. There's some military in front, I think.
There it is.

Speaker 1 Look at that. And the crowd.
Flying on the show.

Speaker 1 Fans stood in harmony for 12 hours to watch and listen to the likes of Bon Jovi, Motley Crew, and Skid Row, who all agreed to play.

Speaker 1 Wow. So here's the kicker.
The Scorpions had a number one hit, Winds of Change.

Speaker 1 The Winds of Change.

Speaker 1 You don't remember the song.

Speaker 1 And it was the only song they did not write. And that song was the anthem when the wall came down,

Speaker 1 which happened literally. Oh, here you go.
The C-R-T-R-W-Power ballad to bring down the USSR.

Speaker 1 What? Yep. Is that real? I think so.
I think so. I don't remember that song.
Can we play some of that song and cut it out, Jamie?

Speaker 1 I could play it. Play it for us and cut it out.
We'll cut this part out of the show, folks. Just go listen to Scorpions.
What a shame, man. We could have been.
We're going to be psyoping more germans

Speaker 1 1990 yeah

Speaker 1 it's a good fucking song yeah a cia writes hits baby that's crazy the cia wrote a banger a huge banger a huge and the cra here's the funniest part so when the wall comes down this is number one like you know it was 1990 and and i think i can't remember i think they might have been phonetically singing along with it in lenin stadium when we were there because it was it was a number one hit it was everywhere this song So this is a year before the Walker.

Speaker 1 It says this song was written after the concert, like in response to the concert. Okay, yeah, okay.
There, you know, I told you I don't have it all right.

Speaker 1 But the CIA wrote it. The CIA wrote it.
They probably had it in the archives. Oh, my God.
The funniest thing was, so huge in Europe at the time was Baywatch. You know, the whole show.

Speaker 1 Have you ever had Hasselhoff on? No. There's a funny guy.
This guy, he's. He was on Fear Factor.
Oh, he's in celebrity. Did you like him? Yeah, he's a nice guy.
I mean, I've met him a couple times.

Speaker 1 You know, he had to go to the bathroom a lot at the time, but, you know, whatever.

Speaker 1 You know, MTV Beach House, like his manager would be like, David, I think you need to go to the bathroom and get some energy. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Anyway,

Speaker 1 but so, you know, the story of Bay Watch is phenomenal because he self-financed it. Nobody wanted it in America.
And it became this monstrous global hit everywhere except America in the beginning.

Speaker 1 And, you know, he became wildly successful, rich.

Speaker 1 And Germany is where it was number one it was just for years number one Baywatch and so Hasselhoff or as they say Der Hoff is hello Deutschland here's the Hoff everyone knew him he was standing on top of the wall with a sledgehammer and he claims that he brought down the Berlin Wall

Speaker 1 Was Baywatch a psych is that what you got now I don't know but oh my god well this is also part of the thing that Mike Benz got into with the music business that they do sort of finance these you know disruptive kind of songs and political movements and sure of course of course I mean yeah yeah well that's a powerful tool man that's that um the book about laurel there he is there he is look at him he's bringing down the wall what is he singing

Speaker 1 Oh, he was a poppy star. He had these disco hits.
He had these poppy hits. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Freedom, baby. I did it.
And he's got his glittering jacket on and everything. Awesome.
American icon lady. That's not even glittery.
That's an LED jacket. Like that jacket's got a battery.

Speaker 1 And of course, we loved him from Knight Rider. You know, he was a cool dude.

Speaker 1 We all wanted a Kit Watch, which we now have.

Speaker 1 Huge overseas, right? That's it.

Speaker 1 It was because of Baywatch, and he had a whole music career going on. Oh, yeah.
Oh, man. Good times in the old days, bro.
Good times. We had so much fun back in the early days.

Speaker 1 It was so crazy that that song was written by the CIA.

Speaker 1 That Laurel Canyon thing is really interesting because I really dismissed it at first. I was like, come on.

Speaker 1 The government didn't have nothing to do with the rock and roll movement, but it kind of seems like they did. What is it? Strange Times in the Canyon.
What is that book called again?

Speaker 1 I feel like that's the name. Is that it? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Something along those lines? Yeah. It's a weird book, man.
Yeah. I read the book and I was like, what the fuck? Like, how much of this is...

Speaker 1 But, you know, in the 60s, when the agents were infiltrating Europe, it was all literature, art, music. They were bringing everything they could, art especially.

Speaker 1 And that was really at the time to make sure that... Weird scenes inside the canyon.
To make sure that the Russians didn't take over Europe. There's all these things that they were doing.

Speaker 1 Well, they also did it with the modern art movement. Absolutely.

Speaker 1 Like Jackson Pollock is a complete creation, which totally makes sense because I was like, who's paying for this?

Speaker 1 Help me out.

Speaker 1 Like, no, don't you see the way the splatters are?

Speaker 1 That's why we're all questioning you, Joe Rogan. Yeah, what USAID connections do you have? I think I skipped the system.
I think somehow or another they fucked up. Look at me,

Speaker 1 my whole family's intelligence and military. I was a pirate radio guy in 1983.

Speaker 1 They must have been like, this guy's lost.

Speaker 1 We can't use him. He'll be no good.
I mean, the real cookie people probably think you're my handler or something because you've created podcasts. That's right.

Speaker 1 Because there is that thought that, like, this is one of the things that comes up now all the time. And we talked about this on CNN.

Speaker 1 We're saying that there's a whole financed, impacted, right-wing ecosystem that's created these podcasts. Where's my check? Well, this is just stupidity.

Speaker 1 This is the problem where when you look at some conspiracies, you think, oh, well, that applies to all things.

Speaker 1 No, there's actually some things that are organic for some weird reason.

Speaker 1 What I think we'll see, you know, the first thing after the election is, we need a Joe Rogan on the left. We need a Joe Rogan.

Speaker 1 Well, you know, guys, you basically had a Joe Rogan on the left, but you were so crazy that Joe started to think right. They didn't want me.
That was the thing.

Speaker 1 But that's all the psyop working against them. Because in the past, they could take someone like me and demonize them, and it would be effective.
And they could just remove you from the airwaves.

Speaker 1 Right. And then remove you as a problem because you're not playing by the rules.
But now people go, oh, you know what? I think he's the one who's actually telling the truth.

Speaker 1 Let's stop listening to them. And so then CNN crashes.
And then faith in mainstream media crashes and faith in podcasts rises.

Speaker 1 I think what we'll see though is and it may come from YouTube we'll probably see them try to hype someone up to become the Joe Rogan of the left. Oh they're already definitely doing that.

Speaker 1 But the thing is I don't care.

Speaker 1 Let them try.

Speaker 1 But the thing is it's not going to work unless that person's authentic.

Speaker 1 Without authenticity doesn't work. If you hear a person long enough, you know what the fuck they're really saying.
You know whether or not

Speaker 1 you know I'm wrong all the time.

Speaker 1 You might not not agree with me. That's all great, but I'm not going to lie.
And that's the difference. And that's a lot of these people are just propagandists.

Speaker 1 And they're also trying to make an argument for something without looking at the other side, which instantaneously I know now you're propagandizing. Now you're not, you're, now you're bullshitting me.

Speaker 1 I always try to look at the other side. I know everything.
I know you do. As a human, I think it's an important quality.

Speaker 1 As a person who's like broadcasting to millions of people, it's a very important quality. But it's an important quality for human beings.
Like know why you think about something.

Speaker 1 Like know, is this just a knee-jerk reaction? Or is this well thought out? Are you being objective?

Speaker 1 Or are you trying, are you captured by this ideology that you're a part of to the point where you're just ignoring? Like this is the thing that I find fascinating about all this USAID stuff.

Speaker 1 Because there's so many people that are so against Donald Trump dismantling the organization that they're not looking at the craziness of all the propaganda that's being exposed.

Speaker 1 They somehow or another are gaslighting themselves and all their followers to say that, no, this is aid. People are going to starve to death.
There's food that's rotting.

Speaker 1 Meanwhile, I think, I'm pretty sure, even when they passed this thing where they were trying to put a stop on U.S. aid, they gave exemptions for food and medicine.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And certain, yeah. So you're hearing these bullshit stories of like food that's rotting now and people are going to go starving.
Everyone's dying of AIDS.

Speaker 1 Well, you have figures who who people see as authority because they have a million followers and likes and then they'll believe that. And it typically doesn't work.
I mean, it's like you...

Speaker 1 I think it works, but it works for less people. There's people that want to be clearly.
They want to be lied to. They want to believe the cult.
They want to drink the Kool-Aid. They want to.

Speaker 1 And that is where they've dug their heels in, and now this is where they stay.

Speaker 1 But when you see Rachel Maddow, who has come back for the first hundred days, she's doing a show every single day, and she's blatantly lying.

Speaker 1 I mean, literally, literally, like, factually, clearly lying. A lot of people won't watch anything.
You know, they've been told

Speaker 1 Joe Rogan is part of the bro casting and you know the the this right-wing conspiracy all funded by whatever to you know to propagandize and people are gonna go over there and they're gonna believe what she says.

Speaker 1 And I mean, I have family members who who truly believe that President Trump will take away their Social Security. Like he's saying quite the opposite.
And by the way, he can't take it away.

Speaker 1 Only Congress can take it away. U.S.
AID created by executive order by President Kennedy can be shut by executive order by President Trump. That's just a fact.

Speaker 1 Also, what they're doing is they're highlighting there's people that are supposedly 150 years old that are getting Social Security.

Speaker 1 Awesome. I need some of that.

Speaker 1 There's some weird shit going on with Social Security. But you know what happened? I think this is what we're not being told, but I have a lot of sysadmin friends.

Speaker 1 From what I understand, the Doge team, four guys initially, they were in.

Speaker 1 So the treasury is like our bank account is you know it's just it's one system and it sends payments through the Federal Reserve system and they all they needed to do January 21st at midnight they were in there they got all the payments they've had that at Mar-a-Lago they've been you know because I've heard this that they've been going through it like hey there's no reconciliation there's there's just a payment with no no purchase order or no confirmation that the work was done I think at this point they're just sitting back going oh you know they can they can release more information whenever they want.

Speaker 1 Department of Education is going to be next. You're going to see a lot of Common Core craziness.
I mean, remember that? Common Core?

Speaker 1 The Pentagon,

Speaker 1 I hope they do the State Department too, because there's a lot going on there. It's going to be interesting to see what resistance.

Speaker 1 Well, the people who are squealing are the ones you want to pay attention to. Right.
Well, that's the thing is that, first of all,

Speaker 1 we were talking about this the other day. Me and my friends are saying, part of the problem is these people can't conspire right now because because all their phones are tapped.
Mm-hmm. Everybody that

Speaker 1 for sure. Yeah.
Like if they're investigating you, if they're investigating these things, like the the power that they have is astronomical. It's crazy.

Speaker 1 The power that they have to look into people's emails, look into people's phones, find out what text messages they're sending. They can look into your signal.
They get Pegasus, baby.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they look into everything.

Speaker 1 So the idea that they're not doing that, if they're in the middle of some fucking multi-trillion dollar investigation into rampant fraud, so they know that this is going on. So So they can't conspire.

Speaker 1 And then they also have to worry about people taking deals. So there's going to be some people that squeal.
Good point. And so then you don't know who's your fucking enemy and who's your friend.

Speaker 1 And everywhere you talk, you go to have a lunch with someone. He's wearing a fucking button camera.

Speaker 1 You could be fucked. And so they're not united right now.

Speaker 1 And this is why it's working. And this is why they're able to release all this information.
And everybody's in this hot panic right now. Yeah.
So they're squeezing them.

Speaker 1 They're squeezing him because they have it all. And thank God for James O'Keefe, too, man.
He's done some interesting stuff over the years

Speaker 1 over the years, you know. He gets people to...
It's amazing how many guys will open up when they think they're on a date with a hot chick or a hot guy,

Speaker 1 whichever one that happens to be. And like, oh, yeah, oh, yeah, man, I'm doing all this.
Yeah, we do. Oh, we don't care.
We just hated Trump. And, you know, it's like, whoa.

Speaker 1 These people, they need to learn how to shut up. I think he just got another video that he released today.
Oh, yeah. There was another video today about people going around the Doge system to try to

Speaker 1 do the same work. Bro, that'sn't there.
There was an issue with... Season of Reveal, Joe? Yeah, wasn't there an issue with FEMA releasing...
Is this true? Well, so FEMA paid $59 million

Speaker 1 for

Speaker 1 illegal entrance into our country for them to stay at the Roosevelt Hotel, which is double the room rate. Have you ever stayed at the Roosevelt Hotel? I did way back in the day.

Speaker 1 And the Roosevelt Hotel, by by the way, is owned by Pakistan. That's right.
And it was a dump.

Speaker 1 Everyone was smoking weed in their rooms. I mean, I was there maybe 10 years ago.
11 years ago, I stayed at the Roosevelt Hotel in a part of the house.

Speaker 1 It was very cheap, you know, right there on 42nd Street.

Speaker 1 So they were paying double the room rate. But

Speaker 1 this isn't just

Speaker 1 in the United States. This has been happening all over the world.
This is

Speaker 1 a gigantic scam. Four federal employees were fired Tuesday over payments to reimburse New York City for hotel costs for migrants.

Speaker 1 Department of Homeland Security officials said the workers were accused of circumventing leadership to make the transactions, which have been standard for years, through a program that helps with costs to care for a surge in migration.

Speaker 1 However, officials did not give details on how the four had violated any policies,

Speaker 1 but they

Speaker 1 put a freeze on the payments. Oh, he said luxury hotels, which is kind of funny.
Yeah, in quotes.

Speaker 1 So did they definitely do it? So the farm free, so I, yeah, wasn't Anderson Cooper disputing it? I don't know. He was saying yesterday.
Yeah, he was talking to Sununu, and he called him a dick.

Speaker 1 But just don't be a dick. Go to Chicago.
All the hotels on the Miracle Mile are all

Speaker 1 migrant hotels. Yeah.
Because it was super good money. I mean, it's crazy.
But that's everywhere in the world. That's the same in Europe.

Speaker 1 A big hotel change, like you can't get a hotel room because they've got migrants for double the price.

Speaker 1 Well, this is also something that the Biden administration lied about because they said the FEMA funds were not being used for this, but they were.

Speaker 1 Trevor Burrus, Jr.: I'm with President Trump that it's better. You know,

Speaker 1 when Helene happened, what happened there was really beautiful because everything fell down.

Speaker 1 Even the own, you know, North Carolina's

Speaker 1 their own state government, no one really was doing anything. And it was funny enough for the first time I've ever seen ham operators actually be successful.

Speaker 1 But, you know, the helicopter guys were all going out out there. Everybody was pitching in.
People were driving from all different states to come in and help people.

Speaker 1 I mean, I don't have a helicopter anymore, but I literally called up the airfield. I said, fill them up.
Here's my credit card. Fill that one.
Just fill them up. Fill up

Speaker 1 until this limit that I have.

Speaker 1 Fill up these hell. I know what it costs.
You burn a lot of money in a helicopter.

Speaker 1 This is

Speaker 1 how America works. It really works well when we help each other out in all kinds of circumstances.

Speaker 1 And we've become so reliant on the government, so reliant that, you know, Uncle Sam is going to come in and save us. And it turns out they're not really efficient at it, they're not really good at it.

Speaker 1 A lot of money gets stuck and flows to other places. We've got to come back to loving our neighbor and knowing your neighbor.
How many people don't even know their neighbor anymore?

Speaker 1 This is critical.

Speaker 1 And I think you have this, you know,

Speaker 1 when Clinton was president, everything changed in America. All of a sudden, oh, that's not sexual relations.
Oh, you can do that to me, baby. That's not actually sex.

Speaker 1 You know, all these kinds of things. That sets a tone.
It sets a cultural tone. And Trump is setting a cultural tone of, let's get this done.

Speaker 1 Let's stop getting ripped off by other people by ourselves and let's be successful together. And it's a short amount of time.
So I hope that...

Speaker 1 But isn't it interesting that half the country doesn't see it that way? Well, half the country sees it as a constitutional crisis.

Speaker 1 Well, that's just a term. It's not a crisis.
I know, it's interesting. That's what's being.
Top FEMA official is fired over payments. New York City Migrant Shelters.

Speaker 1 Trump administration fired the Federal Emergency Management Agency's chief financial officer and three others after Elon Musk misleadingly claimed the agency had used disaster relief funds for migrant services.

Speaker 1 Wait a minute, is this New York Times? This is just going to be back and forth, back and forth forever. Misleading.
What is misleading about it? So let's see here.

Speaker 1 New York City officials raced to clarify that the federal money had been properly allocated by FEMA under President Biden last year, adding that it was not a disaster relief grant and had not been spent on luxury hotels.

Speaker 1 Nonetheless, just two hours after Mr.

Speaker 1 Musk's post, FEMA's acting director, Cameron Hamilton, announced that the payments in question have all been suspended, even though most of the money had already been dispersed and that personnel will be held accountable.

Speaker 1 But is this a recent payment and did they put a freeze on payments, even if the payment had been properly allocated by Biden? What I was reading is they just pulled the money out of bank accounts.

Speaker 1 Who did?

Speaker 1 It says Trump administration. Trump revokes $80 million from New York City after threat.
I'm seeing this on multiple websites, but I don't know.

Speaker 1 Can you go to the title there on Daily News?

Speaker 1 Oh, hold on, sorry.

Speaker 1 You just had it there. That's right here, too.
Oh, Trump revokes. $80 million from New York City after threat to claw back FEMA cash used to care for migrants.

Speaker 1 But it's still money to care for migrants, and they still put a freeze on that money to care for migrants. That's your constitutional crisis.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 We're in a constitutional crisis because of what's happened to our country. But that seems like gaslighting to justify spending $80 million to pay for migrants, which they shouldn't have done.
No.

Speaker 1 But it's not just that. It's fly these people there, fly them into the country, let them into the country, and then pay for them with EBT cards, with

Speaker 1 credit cards. It was the economics.

Speaker 1 I have a friend, former New York banker, and he said, we always win as long as our population is growing. We will beat China long term because their population is declining.

Speaker 1 And he says, that's why the borders are open is because you need, it's just like economics. You need more people, and with more people, your economy grows one way or the other.

Speaker 1 I think it's a multifaceted argument because I think that's... I'm just telling you what the bankers say.
I think there's some truth to that, but I think also they were trying to buy votes.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, all of that's a part of it. Well, you saw the thing in New York where they were trying to let people who are illegals vote in regional elections.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's your constitutional crisis, right? That is a constitutional crisis. Here's the thing that I hope, and I'm working to make this happen.
So we have great podcasts. You know, your podcast,

Speaker 1 we can't, not everybody can be a Joe Rogan, and we can't just all be looking at national news. What has happened at a local level is radio stations, you know, they all got bought up.

Speaker 1 They're all, you know, consolidated. No one has local programming anymore.
There's almost no local newspapers, even local television stations. They're all going away.

Speaker 1 Now is the time to create a podcast for your town, your berg, your city, your community. Wasn't Gavin Newsom doing that like right after the election?

Speaker 1 Didn't he start a podcast?

Speaker 1 Well, I don't know about Gavin Newsom. That's not.
I think he did. I think that was their idea to try to combat the podcast like this.
We don't need that. We need local voices.
You know,

Speaker 1 all the advertising locally has been slurped up by Facebook. You know, that's where you advertise.

Speaker 1 I've started a

Speaker 1 local thing in Fredericksburg, and people really love it. Oh, wait a minute.
There's something going on in Fredericksburg. And all they have is Fredericksburg Rant and Raves on a Facebook page.

Speaker 1 Will you imagine what a mess that thing is. That's crazy.
It's no good. Rants and right now, that's no good.
And so I'm actually, I started a thing called Godcaster.fm and

Speaker 1 it's it's tailored towards helping radio stations do this, but I think churches are content factories, and they're not just all talking about Jesus and God. They're doing stuff in the community.

Speaker 1 That's what churches used to do. You know, and they're doing stuff at the high schools, and you got kids in there.

Speaker 1 And I want a thousand podcasts, you know, within a year all over America of local people. And it's so easy to do now.
It's become so possible. And I think the local communities will even sponsor it.

Speaker 1 That's the next level. That's my phase two.
That's the next level we have to get to is where people just get a microphone, talk to your city council person. You know, this is nuts.

Speaker 1 All it is is national news presented by heads on television. television and who needs that nonsense?

Speaker 1 You know,

Speaker 1 you're an exception and you're really important, but we need to have this at a local level. And it's never been a better.

Speaker 1 You want to start a podcast and be able to actually make a living out of it in your local community? I guarantee people will support it. I guarantee people will want to be a part of it.

Speaker 1 And I hope that that happens. That's what I'm dedicating myself to now.
That's awesome. Getting these local, hyper-local podcasts.
That's a great idea.

Speaker 1 I think what you're saying is all of its hopeful, right? I'm very hopeful, Jeff. Of course, of course.
Which is great. I mean, because being cynical kind of sucks.

Speaker 1 You know, especially when this really is a very unique time of possibility. There's a lot of things that are happening right now.
Yeah, it's a perfect time.

Speaker 1 And it also feels like even to the people that didn't want what Donald Trump is doing, the idea to keep going with what was happening before, where you had someone running for president that never went through the primary.

Speaker 1 Constitutional crisis. But that's a real crisis.
Right there, yeah. A soft coup against Biden.
All that. That should disturb you that that didn't work.

Speaker 1 Well, it should be good that that didn't work because that's not good for anybody. Because if they can keep doing it that way, then you never have a primary again.

Speaker 1 Well, primaries, of course, are up to the party. It's not necessarily a constitutional thing, but that should tell a Democrat, people who vote Democrat and are part of it.

Speaker 1 I've never been a part of a party. I'm not that interested.
I vote for people.

Speaker 1 But that should tell them something like, there's something bad going on here.

Speaker 1 There's some shenanigans going on. They could have had a primary.
Like, what was it like in D.C. when you went for the inauguration? Was it just like show business for ugly people?

Speaker 1 There were a million people all over the place. A million people all over the place.
It was

Speaker 1 nuts. It was weird.

Speaker 1 You know, I did a lot. Yeah, very weird.
Because you go into, I went to a lot of these things. I went to a few of these things, like these dinners and stuff, balls.

Speaker 1 And it's a lot of people that donated a lot of money. And so it's very transactional, and everybody's hyper-aggressive to get photographs and talk to people.
And they

Speaker 1 interject themselves into conversations, interrupt, stand right in front of people that you're talking to, and want pictures or want to introduce themselves. And

Speaker 1 it's very entitled and very transactional.

Speaker 1 But I think that's always been the nature of politics, particularly when people, the reason why they were there is because they donated a substantial amount of money.

Speaker 1 A million bucks a pop and year to go. Which is nuts.
Like, how do this many people have a million dollars to donate? This is crazy. Amazing, isn't it? Amazing.
A lot of people got a million bucks.

Speaker 1 It's all the USAID money. I don't know what it is.

Speaker 1 Well, there are a lot of successful people in the world who have that, who can access that kind of cash. But wow.
But there was a lot of hope.

Speaker 1 It was a very positive, obviously, because the winners were all there, but it was a very optimistic vibe, which felt good.

Speaker 1 And even the speech when he gave his inauguration speech, I mean, that was pretty fucking wild.

Speaker 1 I love the black pastor from Detroit. Yeah.
He was channeling MLK. He was just like going crazy.
It was awesome. You were sitting maybe like five rows behind Hillary Clinton.
Did you smell sulfur?

Speaker 1 I smelled everything.

Speaker 1 I saw Bill and made eye contact with Bill. Me and Bill staring at each other for a while.

Speaker 1 He's larger than life, even though he's kind of frail now. I mean, he's still

Speaker 1 posing that. They're in the room with you.
You know, it's like

Speaker 1 it's a different kind of a celebrity.

Speaker 1 Like, I remember when I went to see the Rolling Stones at Coda, I was blown away. I'm like, Mick Jack is right there.
Like, that's actually him. And And he's dancing a button.

Speaker 1 And he's this big. His butt's that wise.

Speaker 1 But it's, he's right. You know, he has two trailers that he brings with him that are just a gym.
Oh, it doesn't surprise me. Two of his trailers.
He works out every day. What is he, like, 78?

Speaker 1 He's a thousand years old. And he had open heart surgery and all

Speaker 1 recently. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Recently had heart surgery. That's an amazing guy.
Really, truly is. Just fucking loves it, man.
And they put on a fucking hell of a show.

Speaker 1 But my point is, like, that's one of those things you're like, I can't believe that's really him.

Speaker 1 And that's what it's like when you're like looking over there and you're like, holy shit, that's George W. Bush.
Do you think it was the real Biden or the daddy long legs Biden?

Speaker 1 I think it was the real one. Okay.
I think. Because you've seen the daddy long legs Biden.
He wasn't too tall. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That one guy was nuts. And he's jogging to the helicopter.
I'm like, nuts. Nuts.
Like, I want to know the story about that. Like, is that, is there any paperwork on who that guy actually was?

Speaker 1 I'd love to know. Because that was not Joe Biden.
That's a guy with a mask on. The mask things things are real.

Speaker 1 I can tell you this from

Speaker 1 family experience. You can see them online.
Oh, from family experience. Yes, yeah.

Speaker 1 In 1967.

Speaker 1 Let's just leave the family members out of it. But someone brought home a colleague from work, and the colleague had dinner and had coffee, and then

Speaker 1 at dessert, the wife was sitting there, had been talking to this person, and then this colleague took off his mask, and it was someone who the wife knew extremely well and had no idea 1967.

Speaker 1 Whoa. So imagine what they can do now.
The stuff that that CIA lady shows on the YouTube video,

Speaker 1 I think that's just old. I mean it's amazing.
67,

Speaker 1 that stuff already existed and worked. How come they couldn't get somebody Biden's height?

Speaker 1 You know, that's, Tina says that too. I said, you know, they just didn't care at that point.

Speaker 1 Just like they needed someone who had his cadence, which I think is harder to do to be kind of, you you know, like that stumbling, bumbling. Also, like, how many people do you bring this to?

Speaker 1 Like, you know, what is that guy doing now? He needs a broadcast. I mean, he's dead.
He's got no. You guys, he's a bottom of the ocean.
What gig does he have?

Speaker 1 That guy fishing.

Speaker 1 I hope not, but it's possible. Yeah.
So

Speaker 1 there's a lot of that going on. I mean, we've spotted throughout the years.
Hillary Clinton had one. I know she had a double.

Speaker 1 And it was actually women who noticed it. Like, she's carrying her handbag on the other shoulder.
It's like no woman switches that up. That never happens.

Speaker 1 And you look at her like, yeah, she does look a little different. But it's also, isn't that a mind fuck, though? Because then you start looking at everybody like, that's not the real one.

Speaker 1 Are you Joe Rogan? Yeah.

Speaker 1 What happened? Who is it?

Speaker 1 It's pretty crazy stuff. It is.

Speaker 1 I hope some of that comes out, too. But, you know, it would be great to know these things.

Speaker 1 It would be great to stop lying.

Speaker 1 Yeah. You should stop lying.
Basically. You should not have a fake.
I mean, is there some sort of national security explanation that you could give for why you would have to to have a fake president?

Speaker 1 Well, I mean, holy moly. Have you ever seen the Kevin Klein movie? Right.
Yeah, I mean, there it is.

Speaker 1 There's your... Was it? No, no.
Wag the dog.

Speaker 1 Dave.

Speaker 1 Dave,

Speaker 1 exactly. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, sure. I mean, this happens all the time, these things.
Bizarre. Yeah.
Who knows?

Speaker 1 But again, season of reveal. We're learning things.
We won't learn everything, but we will become a lot wiser. I'm convinced of it.
And I'm excited.

Speaker 1 I am 60 years old and super excited and very bullish on the future, particularly of the United States. And I'm seeing the influence we're having in Europe.
I'm seeing it.

Speaker 1 People are like, we don't want this. And it's tougher for them.
Like the UK, they don't really have a First Amendment like we do.

Speaker 1 So it's like you hurt someone's feelings on Facebook, you're going to jail. I mean, so they got a lot of work to do.

Speaker 1 But, you know, I think Germany has a shot. You know, I think the Netherlands has gheered wilders.
France are really pushing back hard on Le Pen and

Speaker 1 right-wing people, Viktor Orban in Hungary. I mean,

Speaker 1 at a certain point, the people will just not take it anymore. And it could get ugly over there.
But

Speaker 1 people are people. I mean, we've had revolutions ourselves.
We've been pretty good at it.

Speaker 1 You know, of course, we got guns. You know, that was a smart move, founders.

Speaker 1 Smart move. The First and Second Amendment were both.
The Second Amendment is there to protect the first, as far as I'm concerned.

Speaker 1 I am bullish. I really am.
I'm excited, Joe. I am too.
Oh, good. All right.
Good. Well, thank you, brother.
It's always great to sit with you. Joe, thanks for starting this whole thing.
No, brother.

Speaker 1 Thank you so much for what you do, brother. Thank you, Jamie.
Appreciate you guys so much.

Speaker 1 Tell everybody where they can watch No Agenda. Noagendashow.net.
You can't watch it. It's only a podcast.
It's on listen. Yeah, only listen.

Speaker 1 Yeah, only listen. We're too ugly.

Speaker 1 We don't want you to look at us

Speaker 1 and get it on a modern podcast app at podcastapps.com.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 we won't disappear overnight from Apple or some other platform. That's what you want.
Bye, brother. Thank you, brother.
Thank you so much, brother. Bye, everybody.