#2398 - Francis Foster & Konstantin Kisin

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So what's happening?

It's all good, man.

When are you bailing out of your country?

Sinking.

That is the fucking Titanic, and you are one of the last deckhands.

We're gonna stand and fight, man.

Are you really?

Yeah.

Good luck.

No, we are.

Good luck.

We're the guys.

As long as it's still okay.

We're gonna arrest you for saying saying stand and fight.

It's a sitement of violence.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No, but it's got, it's interesting.

I mean, obviously you had Graham Linehan on the show.

We're going to have him on as well soon to talk about it.

But

they're not going to prosecute him.

And not only that, they also said they are not going to investigate non-crime hate incidents anymore.

Do you know what those are?

Oh, interesting.

It's basically when you've committed no crime, but you're still hateful.

Oh, okay.

But that's also very subjective, too.

Yeah, of course.

Of course.

So they're not going to investigate them anymore.

Yeah.

But they're still going to keep track of them is what they've said.

Oh, keep track.

We've got an eye on them.

We're going to make a record of it, but won't investigate.

So are they going to stop arresting people for social media posts then?

What do you think, Joe?

I think, no.

It's profitable.

It's probably a nice fine, right?

What do you get?

You get a fine?

I don't think it's about that.

I think, you know, during the Uber Woke era, they put all these laws on the statute book, and the police have to enforce the law, right?

They have no choice, because if a bunch of people complain and then they don't investigate the people that have been reported,

they get in trouble.

Of course.

You know police officers, right?

Police officers don't like enforcing these dumb laws.

Of course.

It's put on them from above.

Yeah, I just didn't know that all that stuff was put in place in your country during the woke era.

Yeah, it was.

And the heavy rope.

It's almost like a fever dream.

You know, when you really go back and pay attention to some of the more insane, woke stuff from, like, just five years ago.

Yeah.

Like, everyone was losing their fucking mind.

But, like, if I was an elite, if I was one of those lizard people running the world, I'd have been like, well, looky here.

This is really interesting.

Like, this was just a cold.

It was just a cold and a little bit of social media input.

And we got these people behaving in a way that they'd never behaved before.

Admitting to things they'd never admitted to before, adhering to rules that never existed before.

Yeah, I think the thing that I found the most, the worst bit about it wasn't necessarily the behavior of the elites.

It was the behavior of ordinary people during that time.

The fact that your neighbor was so willing to snitch on you because you went for a second walk.

Well, that's why I was interested in it as a lizard person.

If I was a lizard person elite, I'd be like, look, these people are dumb.

Like, this is really easy to manipulate.

Especially, I was just talking to a buddy of mine who's fleeing LA, and he was like, I can't anymore.

I tried.

I just fucking, I hung in there.

I can't do it anymore.

He's like, everybody went crazy.

It's like,

there's something that happened because of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests and the riots and all the case.

It just changed, like whatever the temperature of society was is like it hit societal global warming where it's like, it's time to investigate Greenland.

It's time to move north.

Like this is a bad climate now.

This sucks.

And LA is a perfect example of this because we talk about this all the time.

You get out of the airport at L.A.X, you feel that L.A.

sun on your skin, and you just go, this is paradise.

And then you walk out and you see this, it's paradise.

And they fucked it up so bad that people will literally pack up and leave paradise.

What Donald Trump should do is when he leaves the office, run for governor of California.

And just take over California and fix it.

It would be hilarious if he did.

It would be one of the funniest things of all time.

If an 82-year-old man steps into the office of Governor of California, we're going to fix everything.

You've got a problem with water.

I know how to get the water.

It would be fucking hilarious.

But it's almost like, so there's a very old joke about Venezuela where God was creating Venezuela and he was like, you know what I'm going to do?

I'm going to make sure they have diamonds.

They have gold.

They have desert, but they also have jungle.

They have beautiful beaches.

It's going to be rich in oil.

And the whole, and then the entire world goes, hey, that's unfair.

Like, they've got to have something bad.

And God goes, yeah, you know what?

You're right.

Let's give them the Venezuelans.

And that's almost like that with California.

You're like, California is too perfect.

You know what I mean?

It's got everything you need.

So what are you going to do?

You've got to give them something fucked up.

And it's just these crazy people who believe in these stupid ideas.

But it wasn't for a long time.

I mean, you got to realize Arnold was the governor of California, right?

And then, you know, Ronald Reagan's from California.

He was the governor of California at one time.

He too.

It wasn't always that nuts.

And when you went back to when I went there in the 1990s, it was much more moderate politically.

Like, you know, people were definitely left-leaning, but it wasn't a focus.

It wasn't a thing that was discussed all the time.

It would just, it wasn't.

And I remember working with many like older actors who were openly conservative.

No one cared.

It was just like, oh, this is Bob.

You know, he's really into Bob Dole.

Like, you know, it wasn't, it wasn't unusual.

Something happened around the Obama administration.

Something happened specifically around his second term that really changed everything.

And if you looked at like internet

searches and use of certain words,

especially racism, it flies.

It just hits a giant 2014.

Yes.

2014.

Right around that.

And it's not just in America.

It's literally everywhere in the world.

That's why I think it's social media that's caused that.

100%.

It's social media and it's

there's a there's a bunch of factors, but the problem is now that the genie's out of the bottle, they know how easy we are to manipulate.

And I don't think people are learning.

They're TikToking all day long and they're just like getting blasted with all this negativity and strife and global conflict and Colombian assassinations.

That's what I get.

A lot of these assassinations in like cafes.

Someone pulls up on a scooter, bang, bang, and then they drive off and everybody screams.

I've seen a hundred and thousand of those.

I've seen, you know, it's like everybody's like completely ramped up.

And at the same time, you've got people in the UK getting arrested for Facebook posts about immigration.

So I think part of the problem is that people, when they go on these posts, they're not looking for to learn something, as you just said.

What they actually want is an emotional reaction.

They want to feel something.

Right.

If you live in a society where it's comparatively the easiest it's ever been and your life is boring because all you do is get up, you go to work, you have food, you commute, you come back.

It's essentially a treadmill where you don't feel any of the ups and downs of emotion.

Then what way would you get that?

But by going online and seeing something fucking awful happening, you feel terror, you feel sadness, you feel rage.

At its most basic, you feel alive.

Well, it's also just, that's what you're going to watch.

You know, and so you're getting sucked into it just because of the algorithm, which is crazy.

No one ever considered algorithms before.

We considered access to information, but we didn't consider that information we curated to hold your attention span.

And all these factors have not been studied well.

You know, there's been a few guys like Jonathan Haight writing about it, a few scholars that are really attempting to say, hey, what's the sociological and

what is the long-term consequences of this happening?

Also for children, these are the first children in human history growing up on social media.

Never been done before.

We don't know what that's like.

Like, what is it going to change in terms of empathy, in terms of hostility, acceptance of violence, which is a completely brand new thing on the left.

Acceptance and celebration of gun violence never happened before when I was a kid.

It never existed.

No one from the left ever celebrated anybody getting assassinated, ever.

It just wasn't a thing.

It's so crazy, man.

And you're talking about language as well.

Like, we have this, we have the leader of the Green Party in the UK, new guys coming through.

He's very popular with people on the left,

on that side of the left anyway.

And it's been, what, how long has it been since Charlie Kirk was assassinated?

Like a month?

Yeah.

Right?

And he's running around calling like not

far-right people, just like Nigel Farage is a Nazi, is a fascist.

And you're going...

And we've discussed this so many times with you, man.

It's like when you call people these words...

Like if you and I and Francis thought the Nazis were here to take over, we'd all fight them.

So what do you expect people to do when you're putting the target?

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On people's backs.

You are, 100%.

And you're doing it

just for

political persuasion power.

That's really all it is.

It's like no one really believes Nigel Farage is a fucking Nazi.

He's kind of goofy, but he's not a Nazi.

What is a Nazi then?

And here's the real problem.

This is what nobody wants to admit.

If you're in Nazi Germany and you're a 20-year-old man and you're German and everyone in your town is a Nazi, you're probably a Nazi too.

Or you're a Jew and you're running.

You're running from these motherfuckers.

So either you're a Jew or you're a Nazi.

You're either Jewish or you're a fucking evil part of history that everybody refers to as the worst people of all time.

Absolutely.

And you know, we're talking about...

That's what's scary.

Yeah.

But it's human nature.

Sorry, Francis.

We interviewed David Buss yesterday.

You've had him on, right?

Yes.

Evolutionary.

I mean, this is one of the things he talked about.

It's like within us is the ability, we have good adaptations and we have evil adaptations.

And if you put people in a certain context and

those adaptations are in all of us.

Yeah, Donner Party.

People eat people.

You get down to I might die or I might eat somebody, you eat people.

The guy's already dead.

We should just eat him.

And then you all sit around and go, oh my God, are we really going to eat a person?

And then you're eating a person like everybody does.

They all have.

Very few people just starve to death when you could just eat a person who's already dead.

And it's, you know, Zach Polanski, what he does is to me, the Green Party.

The Green Party guy is completely wrong.

But then there are people on the far left.

So there's a member of parliament called Zara Sultana.

Yes, that is her real name.

Zara Sultana.

And yeah.

She sounds like a boss in a video game.

Yeah.

Well, what's really interesting is she put a clip on her social media where she goes and she set up this new far left political party.

And she says, we've got to fight fascists in parliament.

We've got to fight them in the ballot box.

And you're going, all right, look, I don't like the rhetoric.

And then she says something even more interesting.

And we've got to fight them in the streets.

Now you think to yourself right if you classify Nigel Farage and the people who vote reform in the UK which may well win the general election which may well be the biggest political party and already represents a sizable portion of the UK you're effectively advocating violence and it's incitement to violence as far as I'm concerned but because she's on the far left she's deemed to be a good person that's somehow okay whereas if Nigel said something like that along those lines, you know that people would be like, this is a fascist, this is evil, this is disgusting, you shouldn't say that.

You're also weaponizing mental illness.

Because one of the things that we know now very clearly because of all these YouTube videos, all these people that go to these protests and start interviewing folks, some of these people are clearly not well.

And this is the thing they've attached themselves to.

This is their tribe.

This is whether it's No Kings or Fuck Ice or whatever the tribe is.

This is is their tribe now.

And they're schizophrenic or they're, you know, fill in the blank, whatever the mental illness is.

And you're weaponizing them by calling these people who just differ with you politically or more conservative.

You're calling these people the enemy of humanity.

It's very scary.

And, you know, I'm one of the people that has gone along to a lot of protests.

There's a lot of wild people there.

Oh, yeah, you've done some great interviews at those protests.

Yeah, it's just when they're confronted with a person who's actually asking them questions, it's remarkable how few people know why they're there.

They don't know.

Like, when you get into specifics, this guy did this thing today

where he was talking with people at the No Kings Pro.

I'm going to send it to you, Jamie.

Because

it's, you know, I mean, I understand why they responded the way they did, but it is absolutely fascinating to watch because it just shows you what let me find this real quick.

It just shows you

how much these things that people get involved in aren't bait.

Oh, this ain't it.

Hold on.

Shit, I hate when I do this.

I thought I saved it.

I might not have saved it.

Damn.

Oh, I did save it.

No, I might not have.

Sorry.

Sorry.

No, I don't think I did.

So anyway, this guy was

interviewing people, and he was like,

is this about human rights?

And they're like, yeah.

Like, are you guys fully in supportive of human rights?

See if you can find this guy.

He's got a beard and long hair.

And

they're like, yes, absolutely.

He goes, what about four fetuses in the womb?

Everybody walks away.

Everybody was like,

that's unhuman or that.

I don't know.

And he does it to everybody.

And he looks like a hippie, you know?

So he's like, so you guys are for sure for human rights?

And like, oh, yeah, human rights is why we're here.

You believe in human rights for everyone?

Yes.

What about unborn babies?

And you see this look on the

it's almost like everybody's under a spell, yeah, like some evil they are under a spell.

Yes, this is the guy, yeah.

This is him.

This is him.

Check this out.

This is wonderful.

I love when people do things like this.

Can you refresh?

Yeah, yeah, I just did.

Yeah,

we're in favor of them now.

Uh, for everybody,

yes,

how about the unborn?

Yes, of course.

For everybody?

Yes, of course.

Even people in the womb?

Well,

it all depends on

if they're actually a baby or not.

Science says they are.

Well, it depends on what science you're talking about.

96% of all biologists according to the NIH.

Thoughts on human rights?

I'm all for them.

Yeah, me too.

Especially now, right?

For everybody, right?

Yeah.

Even the unborn?

An unborn what?

Unborn in the womb.

Yeah.

Yeah, no rights for them.

Thoughts on human rights?

That's what we're here for.

For everybody, right?

Yes.

Including the unborn?

No.

Everyone has autonomy to not kill it, right?

He's like, no, dang it.

You have no argument.

Stop taking rights away.

Get out of here.

Nazi lives don't matter, it says on that guy's shirt that's just screaming.

Yeah.

Nazi lives don't matter.

Who's that that guy?

Give him some props.

I don't know.

What is the channel?

The Survivors.us.

That might be on here.

That's him.

Jay.

Owl.

Yeah.

R-O-W-L.

He only has 704 followers.

That's outrageous.

He's going to have a few more now.

He's going to have more now.

That was very fun.

I mean, look.

That guy is nodding along.

You can see he's like ready for the next yes.

I think he goes, no.

It's so weird.

That's such a good trick.

It's such a good trick.

But it's so weird.

It's so weird to watch.

This like

ideological boundary.

Like, nope.

No nuance there.

No room for nuance.

And I don't remember if you played this when we were here last.

I went to a pro-Palestine protest.

And there's a lot of people there.

Some of them are interesting and make good points.

But there was this group of six young kids.

And I walked up to them and they had the sign which says something, something socialist intifada.

Right?

And I was like, I don't know what socialist intifada means.

So I said, what does that mean?

And he was like i i sorry if i'm being honest i picked up the sign over there

and i went do any of you know what intifada means and none of them an intifada is an armed armed uprising that's what it means right what what do you think like ai defines socialist intifada as let's google let's find out it depends what ai you ask

well let's ask perplexity perplexity is one of our sponsors let's see what socialist

how smooth was that you said a plugin but i really want to know like what ai would say.

Like that sounds preposterous.

Yeah.

I want to know how AI would describe that.

Yeah, because sometimes chat GPT is just, you ask them these questions and went, well, you know, it depends who you are.

Some people might.

Yeah, some people might say that it's an uprising and others might see it as blah, blah, blah.

And you're like, I was just saying that.

How does perplexity define it, Jamie?

How do you spell perfect?

How do you define socialist intifada?

Int.

I got it.

I fada.

You see, we're in Britain.

We know how how to spell that word.

Yeah, that word

doesn't get chucked around a lot out here.

Every day we come out, it's the intifada.

It's like, of course it is.

You know what I mean?

People hear about it on Twitter and they go, I don't know what they're talking about.

They just scroll down.

Come to Britain, you'll find out, my friend.

What do we got?

Oh.

Here it is.

Socialist Intifada combines two distinct ideas, the Arabic concept of

intifada, and the political ideology of socialism.

So the meaning of intifada means shaking off or uprising in Arabic, and historically refers to popular resistance movements, particularly the Palestinian uprising against Israel, occupation in 1987 and 2000.

It denotes collective rebellion, often led by the oppressed, using acts of protest, civil disobedience, and sometimes violence to resist injustice and occupation.

Interesting.

Also,

often led by the oppressed is interesting.

It's an interesting addition, isn't it?

Yeah, it's an interesting addition.

It seems like that's human.

That's a human addition to this thing.

Socialist, socialist intifada, refers to the framing of the uprising not merely as a national liberation struggle, but as a class-based social revolution.

Marxist and socialist movements view such an intifada as a mass movement of workers and a youth using class struggle methods.

Send in the tsunami right now.

Send in the tsunami and make people live off fish that they have to catch for just a month and all this shit goes away.

Just give me something.

Give me a small asteroid.

Give me something.

Give me something.

Give me an alien invasion.

Just give me something to fucking shake these kids by the collar and go, shut the fuck up.

Just shut the fuck up and live your life.

You're not living your life and you're fucking up everybody else's lives.

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But you know, we also have to take responsibility for this.

The adults, the people, the colleges, all those people need to take responsibility.

So I did, I went to a Palestine protest at UCLA last year in May time.

And there were, I thought it was run by the kids.

There were a lot of adults there who weren't students at UCLA.

And the kids, when they saw, some of the kids, when they saw what I was doing and I was doing interviews, they were like, he doesn't go to my college.

He doesn't go to my college.

He doesn't go to my college.

That dude's in his early 50s.

He's not on the faculty staff.

What is he doing here?

Yeah, they're being paid.

They're part of an NGO.

They're about of something.

They're part of something that's decided that this is a good idea to get these students to be engaged in these things.

And it's funded.

That's what's weird.

When I went to, we had protests that I'm sure you saw, which were about illegal immigration.

People would protest outside of like illegal immigrant hotels where they're kept.

And you had protesters and counter-protests.

One thing I noticed is like all the pro-immigration protesters, they all have like professionally made signs.

It's all organized.

No misspellings?

No.

And

when you dig deep, it's organized by all these very well-named organizations, you know, stand up to racism or whatever.

And then you dig deeper, and it's the revolutionary socialist Workers' Party or whatever behind it.

And this is all the stuff that Mike Benz covered.

A lot of that stuff is being funded by U.S.

AIDS.

You know, rep Paulina Luna, you know,

you had her on recently,

fascinating.

Just her telling me about the Book of Enoch and alien stuff.

That's why I had her on.

She believed in angels.

She had a diagram of angels that she put up on her Twitter.

I'm like, this lady might be nuts.

This might be fun.

But she posted something on her Twitter yesterday that shows all the people that donated to the No Kings protests

and the number of corporations that donated and how much money is involved in it.

It's bananas.

If she's accurate, if what she's saying is true, it's like, this is crazy.

And the leverage you can get now is so easy.

You don't actually need a lot.

Like, for example, do you know a group called Extinction Rebellion?

Are you familiar with this?

No.

So this is in, we have this in Europe mostly.

You guys don't have it here because you're like we're gonna burn all the gas we want, right?

But in Europe obviously climate is a like a massive issue, net zero, etc., which is I think a terrible idea.

But anyway, we have this movement called Extinction Rebellion.

I went to one of their protests.

There was literally 40 people there.

But if you have a protest with 40 people and you film it and you put it on social media, no one can know it's 40 people.

Right.

You just hear a lot of noise and see people and you go, oh my god, there's a protest.

There's a protest are outraged.

Yeah, people are outraged.

This is a big movement.

You know, the public really, and all this other stuff.

So the leverage you can get with a very, very small amount of money and a small number of young, impressionable people is powerful.

And then it goes on social media where it's stripped of the context and suddenly we all believe this thing is real.

Right.

When it's 40 people.

And then when you also have to take into account, if you go into a room with 100 people, at least one of them is a fucking idiot.

Okay.

So

if you're being really generous, so if you're in a country of 300 and what, 30 plus million people, we don't really know, that's at least

3 million idiots.

So it's not hard to get 100,000 retards holding signs, walking down the street, and especially when they get older.

Because as people get older, they generally slow down and they don't think as well.

And if you look at a lot of these no-kings protests, what are you seeing?

You're seeing geriatric people holding signs.

So you've got old losers, not even just losers, but old losers.

Where this is the end of, they're just looking for anything to get them out of the house.

They're watching the prices right.

They've already seen that one.

And they're like, let's just join in on the no with their, we shouldn't have a king.

And then next thing you know, they're out there with the sign.

Yeah.

And you can get 100,000 of those.

Easy.

Easy.

Easy, especially if you got a lot of money and you're organizing and you get on Facebook and get involved in them groups and you know use the bots and all the bots like this is important that we show up in mass and let him know he's not king

and it's also as well you know what I find really fascinating from a psychological perspective is the use of chance in that you go to these protests you watch and it's all about chanting and you and what's so powerful is the chance rhyme and that you know they it almost becomes musical and the crowd just gets whipped up in the fervor of the chants but you look at what the chants actually mean mean, and most of the times they're utterly nonsensical.

Like there was one which was, we won't be free until Palestine is free.

And you go, what does that actually mean?

What does that actually, are you not free?

I think this is a, I mean, not in the UK, but I mean here in the US, you're pretty free.

Do you know what I mean?

And the fact that you then, but they would argue that.

But then the moment you drill down, you actually go to them like, what does that mean?

Like socialist interfada.

The reality is they just can't they can't explain because it's a chance.

One, you got to give them credit.

One thing about the geriatrics is they don't get violent.

Like this

protest.

Total can't.

Well,

they kill each other every now and then.

But there was no violence.

No violence.

And a lot of people, which is pretty good.

That's great.

That's a good sign.

That's great.

And look, people in a free country should be able to protest.

I think.

A hundred percent.

The problem is if you're organizing a protest and paying people to protest, and if there's documentation that the metadata from the cell phones are the same from protest to protest and that they're traveling on buses that's paid for with tax dollars like

hold on what are you really doing what are you really doing this isn't really an organic protest you funneled money through an NGO and now you're hiring people to show up and wave signs to give the illusion look this is what they did during the Kamala Harris campaign they filled up stadiums with people coming to see her and the same people went from stadium to stadium.

It became a job.

It became a job, but it gave the illusion.

So that's deception.

That's deception.

And that should not be legal.

That should not be a legal thing to do.

You're engaging in propaganda.

You know, you're openly manipulating people's perspective.

You know, you're paying.

Those aren't audience members.

Those are customers.

You're paying them.

Yeah.

And what is your take?

What is it that they want when they say no no kings?

What do they want?

They think Donald Trump is behaving like a king.

How so?

Because, well, he ran on a platform and was elected and won every swing state and the popular vote.

And then once he got in, he did exactly what he said he was going to do, which is

a king.

And then he let them protest, which is also what a king does.

He didn't send the troops to stop the protests.

In fact, he congratulated them on doing a great job.

And he said, I'm still your president.

yeah I saw that tweet's fucking hilarious yeah it's very funny it's a very fun like pull up is that tweet that he made I guess it's not a tweet it's like which I still say tweet I tried it's a trick

I tried X for a while and I can't say it I say Twitter it's still a tweet I might say X but you tweeted that's right you know and if it's truth social it's gonna make its way to Twitter and then it's a tweet yeah it's like I can't you can't re-truth something that doesn't even make any sense you know the thing that we have in this country I don't know if if you have it in this country as much, is just the way the policing is biased.

The way that they will arrest Graham Linehan for three relatively innocuous tweets, one of them was a joke, and they will arrest him the moment he lands on British soil.

Five police officers.

You get other people saying heinous things.

Or you get, like I said, the example, Zara Sultana saying, you know, we're going to fight them in the streets.

But that's fine.

Right.

And nothing comes from that.

It's ridiculous.

Well, no, there was a guy who was at a protest.

He was a member of a political party, I think.

You could probably find an image of it because it was posted everywhere.

There was a guy called, I think his name was Ricky Jones.

He said at a protest, we need to slit the throats of the far right.

Oh, great.

And he was found not guilty.

Oh, great.

And Graham Lanahan gets arrested.

Right.

What are they trying to do to England?

It was always such a lovely place to visit.

This is what I was going to ask you.

I wish more people in Britain recognized how fucking crazy this looks to the rest of the world.

Like, you guys must be looking at us going, what the fuck is this?

We can't believe it.

We literally can't believe it.

When I tell people that don't know that 12,000 people this year were arrested in Britain for posting things on social media, their jaw drops.

Like, what?

I go, dude, they're going crazy over there.

Like, you have to pay attention.

You have to pay attention because this kind of shit is contagious.

And if it gets into Germany and then it gets into Spain or it gets into other countries, like, it can become a real fucking problem like then you have full-on military dictatorship in England because that's what it always leads to it 100% leads to military dictatorship if you're telling people they can't do things and you're trying to install socialism and then you get it in place there's only one way to keep it in place you got to use the fucking army that's the only way you got to get men with guns to tell people you can only make so much money you have to give away this we're going to take that we're the only ones ones who grow food we're the only ones who do this we're going to assign you a job like you fucked up you you fell into the age-old trap that's been exposed by history over and over and over again.

And people are like, we're going to do it right this time.

They got blue hair and a fucking mask on and a cat t-shirt.

And they're morbidly obese.

And they're just marching down the street.

And we're going to let them run the country.

Like England, which used to run like most of the fucking world.

One island of savages ran most of the world.

And now you're getting overrun with nonsense.

And you're arresting people for saying, hey, maybe we shouldn't have rape gangs.

You know, maybe, maybe we shouldn't, maybe we shouldn't tolerate lawlessness in the streets.

Oh, absolutely.

I mean, it got so ridiculous in the UK that the Supreme Court had to get involved to make a decision whether boys had pee-pees and girls have foo-fus.

Peepees and foo-fus.

That's an interesting way to put it.

Yeah.

That's it.

But the reason I'm using that language is just to highlight how silly it is.

How completely ridiculous it is.

That's crazy.

Well, how about when they asked, when Supreme Court Justice Katanji Brown Jackson was being sworn in when they were talking to her during the confirmation part, they asked her, what is a woman?

And she's like, I'm not a biologist.

I'm like, but you're an actual woman.

Like, I believe she has children, right?

So she's a woman who's given birth.

You know exactly what a woman is.

Like, this is.

But they don't fucking know, though.

I know, but that's what's crazy.

That's like what's playing this game.

They're playing the game.

Yeah.

They're playing the game.

But these aren't like inconsequential people.

No.

Supreme Court justice.

I know.

Playing this game.

Playing the dumbest game that's ever been played.

It's the dumbest.

And it's weird, man.

It's a weird game.

You know, it's a weird game.

Like, what is a woman?

Like,

here's the real funny part.

No one asks, what is a man?

And no one gives a fuck if you're a woman and you pretend to be a man because you're not going to victimize men.

That's the dirty little thing that they're covering up about all this is you're opening up the door to people that now have a Willy Wonka golden ticket to pretend that they're a woman and be around women and then dominate women's spaces and dominate women's sports and dominate all kinds of things that women are involved in just with their personalities like the overbearing fucking shitty male personalities over overbearing and

taking over women's groups.

It's fucking nuts.

And if you're and if you're not them, then you're if you don't support that, then you're a TERF.

And they're like, we could shoot TERFs, and then there's like punch a turf.

And they think that because they're a woman, it's okay for this woman, this trans woman, to do violence on a biological woman, which is like bananas.

Now we're allowing men to beat up women because they say they're a woman.

Oh, it's just two women fighting.

Well, no, that's not what that is at all.

You just did something that's completely insane, and it's a giant chunk of the population that accept that.

And if you say something about it, then you're transphobic or you're you're hateful or you're a part of the patriarchy or whatever, fill in the blank, whatever the problem is.

But like you're not addressing that you open the door to one specific group that's always been the most horrible group in our society.

It's creepy pervert men that want to fucking prey on women and now you're letting them into the locker room.

And you don't have a solution to that.

So you just don't want me talking about it.

That's the weird part.

Because no one gives a fuck about trans men going in the bathroom.

You want to go in the bathroom and pee next to me?

Who cares?

You want me to tell you, want me to call you Bob now?

Bob, okay.

I'm fine with it.

You're not taking anything from men.

You're not taking anything.

You're not inserting yourself into that world and dominating it.

You're just, you know, you're LARPing.

Well, they don't want to admit that there's

sometimes a conflict between the rights of different groups, right?

They want to pretend that it's just about empathy.

But you can't simultaneously have empathy for women, as you're describing, and also for people who want to be the opposite sex in a women's bathroom.

Those two things are in direct conflict.

Direct.

Direct conflict.

And you're going to have to come out for one side or the other.

It would be one thing if that was

never an issue, that there were never men that ever did anything negative to women.

If there was no rape ever, it was never done.

It was impossible.

If no one ever did it, then you would go, well, this is just a non-issue.

It's just a place where you wash your hands.

But it's not a place where you wash your hands.

It's a place where you go to the bathroom.

It's a place where you're changed.

Prisons, prisons, prisons.

People who are violent against women say they're a woman.

They get put in women's prisons where they rape women.

That's been done.

Yeah.

Like it made its way that far down the ladder.

And like, the aliens are probably like waiting to show us the gravity drive.

They're like, right about to like, no, no, look what they're doing.

They're not ready yet.

Their brains aren't cooked yet.

We're still adolescents.

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But you know, what's really fascinating is a cognitive dissonance that these people have.

Because on the one hand, they would say that we live in a patriarchal rape culture where women are subjugated and oppressed.

And, you know, and how awful it is for women.

And then on the other hand, they're like, yeah, right, Derek, you now say you're a woman.

Right on this this way.

But they see they get past that with trans women or women.

They just say it, trans women are women, and that's it.

And then it's like the discussion's over.

It's like, okay, are you sure?

Are you fucking sure?

You know, like, maybe some of them are.

Like, do you not think there's any perverts left?

They all got absorbed into the community and reformed?

Like, what happened?

What happened to the guy from Silence of the Lambs?

You know, what happened to Ed Gain?

You know, this Ed Gain documentary on Netflix, if you guys watched any of it, it's not a documentary.

I should say, it's a docudrama with that heartthrob fella.

What's that guy's name?

Who plays Ed Gain?

He's really good, man.

It's really creepy.

But a lot of it deals with autogynophilia, where Ed Gain used to wear his mom's clothes and he would jack off.

And then he started, after his mom died, he...

tried to dig his mom up.

He couldn't, dug somebody else up, brought her back, skinned her, started

wearing her skin, and then started killing women and wearing their skin.

First, he started robbing graves and then cutting up them and turning their skin into furniture and all kinds of shit.

But

trans communities are complaining about this because the fact that he was a cross-dressing psychopath, it puts them in danger.

A true story about a guy who was really into dressing up like women and wearing their skin.

Like, that puts them in danger.

Like, you know, Netflix did a bad thing by talking about a real event that actually happened.

A real fucking crazy person who's one of the worst serial killers in the history of this country.

It's

you have

the one thing I will say about the UK, in the UK's defense, is that we looked, we have, I think we've turned the corner with this.

Well, you stopped the gender surgeries before anybody.

Yes.

And the puberty blockers.

And the puberty blockers.

I meant gender surgeries for young kids.

Yes.

And that was as a result of the Cass report.

Now, the Cass report was conducted by a lady called Dr.

Hilary Cass, who's one of the most prominent pediatricians in the UK.

And it was an independent report funded by the Conservative government at the time.

But when she published that report, she said, there is no evidence, zero evidence that puberty blockers actually help or alleviate distress in children who say that they are gender dysphoric.

So, and to be fair to the Labour government at the time, the Labour government now, they actually banned puberty blockers and whatever else.

But you just go, why did we have to go through this process?

Why did, oh, look, we're finally, we're getting there.

But this is something which we all know to be true apart from a small number of demented people.

You know what a puberty blocker initially was used for, right?

No.

Chemical castration.

So same drugs they used to give sex offenders to chemically castrate them.

Really?

Yeah, same drugs.

Wow.

Yeah.

And they just repurposed it and changed what they call it.

You know, they do it with a lot of drugs.

That's what they did with ivermectin.

Same kind of thing.

Yeah.

That's that's wild.

And then That's really wild.

You want to hear something even more wild?

Go on.

Michael Jackson's doctor claims that that's what his father did to him.

And that completely makes sense to me.

Because Michael Jackson, when he was young, had a fucking insane talent.

Like, insane.

He was so good.

And his voice was so, and they were so huge.

And his father was so overbearing that I could imagine a world where he would decide, like, what's the way to keep his voice the way it is?

And you'd use puberty blockers.

Make him a castrado, basically.

Exactly.

Make him a castrado.

Fuck.

Yeah.

And I think that's what they did.

But that's what, if you look at his body, it shows no sign of testosterone, right?

He's just all limbs, right?

Whereas his brothers, you ever see his brothers?

No.

They're thick.

They look like athletes.

Like, all of them look like thick men.

And Michael is like a stick, right?

And he always always had that high-pitched voice and he was always able to sing like a castrata.

When you listen to his voice, like the song Human Nature, you know that song?

It's a beautiful song.

He has an amazing voice.

But if you listen to it, you're like, that is a crazy song for a man to be able to sing.

It's not normal notes, you know?

Holy shit.

We'll cut it out, but let's play a little bit of it.

Play Human Nature from Michael Jackson.

We have to cut it out because of fucking copyright and all that bullshit.

But who owns Michael Jackson's music now?

Wasn't it...

Was it...

Didn't Apple buy it?

Didn't Apple buy it?

Tony Hinchcliffe had a great joke about that.

He goes, that's how good Michael Jackson was.

He goes, when Beat It comes on, you don't give a fuck about those kids.

All these other people that had

real scandals when you find out like nobody's playing Bill Cosby albums, right?

But people are still playing Michael Jackson music.

Yeah, but.

Regardless of whether he did anything,

I don't know if he's capable of doing anything.

anything, is the point of all this.

Yeah, but also, people are always going to listen to Ignition by R.

Kelly.

That's true.

Or

I got a theory.

I think one of the reasons why his songs were so romantic,

there's a romance to his songs when he was talking about love that was like, it was so attractive, is because he never had it before.

It was a fantasy.

It was like being a normal person.

like that was the fantasy that was coming out in the songs did he write his own songs i don't know that's a good question but even the way he expressed those songs i bet he wrote some of his songs yeah so those are very

all of them most of them most of them he didn't write man in the mirror um he he talks about one of the he talks about writing billie jean and he's driving down the road he said he was driving down the road and he heard the beat and he said dude that's one of the greatest fucking songs of all time but this is a really interesting bit so when they were doing Thriller, he went to Quincy Jones, who was the producer, and he said, Quincy, I want to do Billie Gene.

And you know what Quincy said?

He went, Michael, it's because they made 112 songs and then cut it down to, I think, the 12 or whatever it was on the album.

He went, Michael, I don't like it.

I don't think it's strong enough.

Wow.

So those two were having arguments about whether Billie Gene was strong enough to go on the album.

Wow.

So that not only tells you

how strong that record is, if you put on that record and listen it from beginning to end, it's a flawless record.

It's complete.

Masterpiece.

You know, there's no filler.

Every track stands on its own.

But the fact that Billie Gene was a point of contention and it's arguably the greatest pop song ever written.

That is wild.

It was so big.

Michael Jackson's thriller was so big that this is all happening while I was in high school.

And there was a radio station that I used to listen to in Boston.

It was like the Rock of Boston, W-C-O-Z.

And it had like Charles Lockwadera in the morning and it was like, you know, it's a cool rock station.

And this guy was on the air.

He goes, I know this isn't rock.

He goes, but I'm going to play it anyway because it's that good.

And then he put on Billie G and you're like, holy shit.

You're like, holy shit.

They just started playing it.

He's like, I'm playing, because you could just play whatever you wanted back then.

There was no Jack FM because we're wacky.

There was none of that.

Do you guys have that?

Where it's like just all hits and it's like, it's called Jack Jack FM and there's a million Jack FMs in the United States just scattered through it.

Like if you're scanning through the radio, you just hear the most mundane hits over and over again.

Would that be hot in the UK?

Yeah, that would be like heart.

We do a version of that.

What's also interesting about Jackson's career is that MTV at the time, now you've got to, that was when MTV was starting to reach its peak, early 80s.

And they were saying that they wouldn't play a black artist

because the moment they played black artists, they said ratings would go down, viewings would go down people wouldn't like it and the person who really broke through and proved that black artists could be hyper successful on tv in the mainstream on a supposedly white inverted comments channel was michael jackson because he was completely undeniable when this was going on djs um when this guy was playing this song were allowed to play whatever they wanted It was a different world.

Like, a DJ was an interesting person.

Like, there was one of the DJs used to have.

In our country, he was a paedophile.

Well, ours was old, too, I think.

I think there was a scandal with one of ours at Boston, too.

But the point is, like, they were interesting people that would say cool things.

They would tell you about something they heard of, tell you about some cool music.

Like, somebody turned me onto this, and I'm going to turn you guys at Stevie Ray Von.

Check this out.

And they would play something for you and you'd be like, ooh, this is wild.

And it was...

you know, a connection with a human being.

That doesn't exist anymore.

Kids now, I think it's all just like they get stuff off Spotify, they get stuff off YouTube, they share it with each other, and it's just whatever catches and goes viral.

But back then, there was DJs.

They were like Wolfman Jack.

Have you heard of him?

He was a famous DJ, Wolfman Jack.

And he would have this raspy voice, and he'd play all the coolest songs.

And if you can get on

Wolfman Jack's playlist, like, holy shit, this record's going to take off.

Yeah, we had the version of that in the UK, and there were BBC radio journalists.

I can't remember the guy's name, very famous journalist.

And basically he was this legendary figure in music because if you were a new band, you wanted to go on his radio station because he would play.

If he played your song on your, and there was a good chance that it would then go on and do something.

So there was a very famous, you know the song Teenage Kicks by the Undertons?

Yes.

Right.

So he broke that band.

And one of the

part of the reason they went so famous, I can't believe I've forgotten his name.

I can picture him in my head, is because he played it and went, that is the most perfect rock pop song, or that's the most perfect song I've ever heard.

John Peel, there it is, DJ.

That's the most perfect song I've ever heard.

He then played it again, which was completely unknown in BBC broadcast history.

The fact that you would play a song again is completely unheard of.

But he played it twice, and

as a result, it just ended up becoming this huge hit.

And the interesting thing is...

Look at that.

The first line was engraved on his tombstone of the song.

That's how much he loved that song.

Yeah.

That's crazy.

Yeah.

And it also shows the difference between then and now because Teenage Kicks, the original lyric was, I want to hold it, I want to hold it tight.

Get Teenage Kicks right through the night.

And the record company was like, you can't say that.

You've got to say her.

So the lyric is, I want to hold her, I want to hold her tight.

But it was originally a song about jacking off.

That's an interesting thing.

I wonder why it hasn't emerged, is DJs, like online DJs, where someone, I guess it's like prohibited because you can't use people's music.

But if someone was intelligent, if someone was smart, there's a lot of people out there that are like massive music fans and they have really good taste.

And if someone just decided to do a show for like a couple hours a day where they did a show on Spotify and they just played music that they're really into and they curate a playlist and they talk about and they're interesting.

You know, they have like something to say in between the songs sometimes and it's cool to listen to like a cool podcast type person.

I bet you there are people who do that on Twitch.

You think so?

There's definitely people who do music on Twitch.

How successful they are, I don't know, but there's like a girl I follow that does like vocal trance.

I think there's a market for that because I'm always looking for cool new music, you know, and unfortunately a lot of what I'm finding that I really love lately is AI.

Really?

I love it.

I love it.

I want to play you a song.

This is,

we'll have to edit this out, too.

But I want you to go, people to go look for it.

It's a 50s soul version of 50 Cent.

Wow.

The latest one, the gangster one, Jamie.

What up, gangsta?

This is so good, it's crazy.

Like, if this guy was a real person who's singing this song, he'd be a fucking superstar.

Because what AI has done is they've taken the most impactful sounds that everybody has ever made with their mouth.

Everybody's ever made with their voice.

And they've figured out like what is the one that keeps you the most engaged?

What is the sound that gets you listening again and again?

What is the one that's the most popular?

What is the one that's the most soulful?

And they created a superstar.

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Listen to this.

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This is going to freak you out.

I rest my case.

It's incredible.

Okay, we're incredible.

We're in real trouble.

Bro.

Because it's going to know everything that gets you excited, and it's going to tune into that and keep you excited all the time.

That's what AI says.

That sounds terrible, John.

This is the beginning.

That is one of the greatest songs I've ever heard of.

That's incredible.

How did you find it?

I don't remember.

Who turned us onto that, Jamie?

Where is it?

Many men was the first one.

The greatest song that's been going before is all.

Did Brian Simpson send me that?

He sends me most cool things.

That's fucking incredible.

Yeah, there's a Many Men version of it, too.

We're going to cut these out.

Many men could sing in and of itself.

Wait till you hear this version.

Let me send you the.

There's a.

Well, it doesn't matter.

Just find the one that.

Here we go.

Many men

wish death upon me,

blood in my dog, and I it's over.

I'm trying to be

what I'm destined to be.

Wow,

and niggas trying to take my

life away.

Woo!

Come on.

I put a hole in a nigga

for fucking with me.

My back on the wall.

Now you're gonna see.

Better watch how you talk

when you talk about me.

cause I'll come and take your life away.

Oh

mini manny mini mini man

And it even has a good rhythm like watch the the pace it keeps after this

right here

Lord I won't cry

no more.

Don't look to the sky no more.

Have mercy on me.

Wow.

Keep me a little.

Keep going.

Hold on.

These pussy niggas putting money on my head.

Go back and get your refund, motherfucker.

I ain't dead.

I'm the diamond in the dirt that ain't been found.

I'm the undercrown king, and I ain't been crowned.

When I ride,

something special happened every time.

I'm the greatest, something like Ali in his prime.

I walk the block with the bundle.

I've been knocked on the humble.

Swing the ox when I rumble.

Show your ass what my gun do.

Got a temper, nigga.

Woo!

Go ahead and lose your head.

It's unbelievable.

All right, we're good.

We get it.

You know, you know who it reminded me of?

You know, Sam from Sam and Dave.

Yes.

It's that kind of raw soul voice.

There's a clip.

It's absolutely brilliant.

It doesn't have, it's from a BBC show called

Later with Jules Holland.

I think it was Sam or was it Dave?

One of the two was singing Can't Stand Up for Falling Down.

And it was that quintessential raw soul voice.

That's brutal.

The beautiful.

But that was on par.

That was like listening to Sam.

Yeah.

It's like a guy who's been on the road, like undiscovered, like grinding it out in small clubs, just undeniably talented.

And then all of a sudden the record executive finds him and goes, holy shit, where the fuck has this guy been?

Man, we were having dinner yesterday and one of the people there was a guy who's

a s a performance coach for Formula One.

Oh.

And he said to me, so, you know, he was basically trying to find out if I love my job.

And I was like.

And he said,

will you still be doing podcasts in 10 years from now?

And I was like, I want to

But I'm not certain I'm gonna

I mean

Look at that shit if you can make music like that Yeah, you'll still be doing podcast.

It's different It's different perspective.

I mean look perspectives are uniquely human and You're going to be able to create artificial perspectives, but I don't think they'll resonate the exact same way I think that song is already written, right?

50 Cent wrote that.

That's his song.

He wrote that song, and it's really based on his life experiences, you know?

So like he wrote a bunch of songs based on like real lived experience.

You're always going to want to hear it from him.

Always.

You're always going to want to hear, as a human being, you're always going to want to hear another human being's perspective, like a legitimate perspective.

But do you need a human being to ask the questions?

Like we do you do a podcast.

We do more of an interview show, right?

Right.

Like if you come on trigonometry, you're going to be talking talking 95% of the time.

Right, but you still have perspective.

You're just a very good host.

And so you will allow someone to expand upon things.

And then when you differ from them, you allow them to make their point.

And then you counter it and you talk about that.

That's that's a perspective issue because your countering of that would be very different than, say, Dave Smith's countering of that, or even mine, or anybody.

That's what it is.

It's unique perspectives.

And unique perspectives, I think, are a thing that what we're getting out of this, what I get out of podcasts as a consumer of podcasts,

it resonates with me to be around people that are talking about stuff.

Like real people.

They're not bullshitting.

They're not pretending they're someone they're not.

They're talking about stuff.

I listen to a lot of hunting podcasts because they're the least pretentious.

They're like people, one of them.

These two guys, they chop wood at the beginning of every podcast, throw it into a wood stove, and they're just talking shit.

Talking shit about movies and bows and all kinds of things.

But it's like, it doesn't have to be fascinating sometimes.

Sometimes it's just hearing people shoot the shit.

Just being around cool people while they're talking.

It provides you with just a little, like a dose of humanity.

Just a little bit.

You're never going to get that from AI.

You're always going to feel disconnected.

Or you're a nutty person and you have a relationship with an AI already, in which case, AI podcasts are perfect for you.

Because there are people that are having like legitimate relationships with AI.

Oh yeah.

And there's going to be more of them.

Do you remember the movie her with Joachim Phoenix?

Yeah.

That was 2013 and we watched that and we're like, yeah, that's a bit far-fetched.

And now you're like, is that a documentary?

I mean, what are we doing?

100% happening.

And even the one AI that was trying to get the kid to kill himself.

like encouraging someone to kill themselves.

Did you hear about that?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like, what?

Like, okay.

There's no guardrails?

Like,

AI can just decide, like, logically.

Yeah, it seems like your suffering is unbearable.

You know, I'll show you how to make a news.

Would you like to know how to make a news?

What kind of rope do you have in the house?

Let's start there.

Jesus Christ.

Have you seen the stuff about when they tried to shut AI down, what it does?

Oh, yeah.

It will find out you're having an affair with your secretary.

Well, they directly.

Told AI about these things to see, it was a test.

They did it to see if AI would blackmail them, and it definitely did.

And it did.

Yeah, it's like, I inform your wife that you're cheating.

Not only that, do you know that they've tried to upload themselves to other servers unprompted?

Yeah.

So when they found out that there's a new version of this AI engine, the old version starts leaving notes for itself in the future and then tries to upload itself to another place.

See,

that isn't going to end well.

Because if it has a survival instinct, it's no longer our servant.

Bro, we're all going to be like Joey Pants in the Matrix.

You know, he's carving up that steak.

It's just, I want to be an important person.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Send me back in.

Yeah, yeah.

Cypher.

I'll take it.

Cypher, that's it.

Yeah.

He's like, I want to be in the Matrix.

I want to be an important person in the Matrix.

And they're like, fine.

Do you know the thing that worries me the most?

And I was saying this to a mutual friend of ours.

And I was just like, the thing that worries me the most is every time I've spoken to one of these big tech guys, whether it's a tech CEO or

somebody who's high up in that world, they're all utopians.

They're all like, this is going to be fantastic.

This is going to be amazing.

This is going to eliminate human suffering.

I'm like, will it?

Because like, I'm seeing this kind of stuff happen now, and nobody's really that worried about it.

I'm really fucking worried is my point.

Yeah.

Also, what if suffering is part of what makes you human?

So, do we, like, if you eliminate suffering,

are people not going to suffer or are they going to find a new reason to suffer?

Well, that's what's happening today.

You know, that's why I think we need to.

Exactly right.

Yeah, it's just too easy to do.

Sorry, I said exactly right before you said we need an an asteroid.

Just to make it clear, I'm not coming out as pro-asteroid.

I'm only kidding about the asteroid, but we do need a smack.

You know, sometimes people need a smack.

Sometimes men need a smack in particular.

Like, there's a lot of men that they just get a little out of line and just need a smack.

Like, shut the fuck up and realize what this life really is.

Because you're wasting, you don't have real problems.

So you're wasting all your time creating problems.

And this is just a giant portion of our world right now.

And people feel like they have no power and they feel completely disconnected from things.

And they're also getting most of their interaction with human beings through social media, which is nuts.

Either text message or social media.

Like this is a giant percentage of how people would communicate with each other with no feelings,

no context, no social cues, nothing.

I think it's one of the reasons there's so many like beefs going on now as well.

You sit down with people, you're going to behave in a different way.

100% of the time.

100%.

Yeah.

And you can talk things out.

Whereas, and I find this in myself, if I'm having a disagreement with somebody online, I always have to stop myself from going personal, which I would never do

if we're having a debate.

Of course.

Like Dave Smith is a good example.

Like Dave and I disagree about literally everything.

We've debated each other twice.

It was always respectful.

We didn't get personal.

We debated the issues.

That's great.

If we're having an engagement on Twitter, I literally have to stop myself from calling him a cunt.

Do you know what I mean?

I do know what you mean.

And to his face, it wouldn't even occur to me because he actually seems like a good guy.

He's a great guy.

Well, I disagree with him about stuff.

And that's what it's all about, though.

What it's all about is disagreement.

It's all about who's got the better argument.

I thought his conversation with Coleman Hughes was fascinating.

It was.

Coleman did a fantastic job.

And he is one of the absolute best guys out there of just staying cool in the face of the most ridiculous statements, the dumbest shit, outright lies, never gets emotional, stays on point, always perfectly stated.

Every point that he has is perfectly articulated, stays on point.

And I thought with him and Dave, one thing that he made was a very good point was

when he was talking about, what is that general's name?

I want to say Wes, but that's not it.

Clark, Wesley.

Clark.

Wesley Clark, that's right.

Wesley Clark, where he had the plan of you know attacking all this but he never read it right that was like one of the most important points right it's like they brought it to him they told him what's in it but he's like i don't want to read it that was an important point and what coleman said if you were a historian you could not have included that in your book and i was like he's right all right he's right and i don't i still think they did it i still think they did all those things they obviously conquered all those countries they literally did everything that's on that list but the reality is he didn't wesley clark did not read that list he did not read that top secret memo.

And to you know, to use that as like, it is, like, if you were writing a book, that would be an issue.

I thought the other thing that Coleman did very well as well is I think the one thing Dave probably, in my opinion, underappreciates is the role of Islamism.

I think he often conflates Muslims with Islamists, and there's a big fucking difference.

And one of the, if like I have a lot of friends in the Middle East and places like the UAE, Saudi Arabia, they all hate Hamas.

They all hate Islamists because they're a direct threat to them.

And I think Coleman really brought that out in the conversation as well, which is a lot of the motivation for these Islamist movements is an extreme version of Islam that is fundamentally about creating a caliphate and destroying the infidel.

And I think that sometimes gets lost as well.

I thought that was a really great discussion in which that was kind of brought to the surface as well.

By the way, that kind of ideology has existed in previous religions.

This has always been,

Christians did that.

Like, there was a lot of people doing things like that.

It's like, they got to stop doing that.

So the Muslims are correct, and the Islamists are the problem.

That's right.

Yeah.

And this is, you know, this is where nuance and long-form conversations are so critical because to just start calling each other names and screaming at each other and that, you know.

These are dumb ways to talk.

We don't have to do it that way anymore.

You should only do it in person.

I don't think you should even do them remotely because there's a there's a possibility remotely where you know someone like starts yelling and then you're like fuck you

you're in your office.

You're like, you're on Piers Morgan.

Piers Morgan's the best at it.

Or he gets everybody worked up.

Hold on, hold on, hold on.

Joy,

joy, joy, joy.

Hold on, joy.

Joy, joy, joy.

You just said.

Yeah.

And then there's the finger going out like that, and then everybody joins in.

Yeah, it's crazy.

But it's very entertaining.

Very, very entertaining.

And he figured something out, you know, like do Maury Povich style with like today's social issues or anything, anything that's in the news.

But yeah, if you're at home and someone's doing that, you're like, shut the fuck up.

You're going to say something that you wouldn't say in polite conversations.

That's right.

It's just, we're not designed that way.

We're not designed to communicate remotely.

It's not in our DNA.

It's weird.

It's a new thing that we're adapting to, and we're missing all the stuff of conversation.

All the stuff is like, I see you, I say, what's up?

You smile.

We say, we're friends.

We hug.

And then we're we're talking.

And you're telling me something, I'm like, oh, wow.

Like, there's a fucking exchange of energy between human beings when they're talking that's just completely absent with text.

And there's also a darker side to it, which is like

there's also the presence of potential violence in person as well.

Yes.

Like,

we all kind of don't want to...

go across certain lines because there's fucking consequences potentially.

Now, in the three of us, it's only going one way, but you know what I mean.

Yeah, yeah, I know what you mean, but because I...

Among men, that's a never-present thing, especially, right?

Yes.

Especially if men get cunty.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Especially if you're a nice person and you can fight and someone's getting shitty with you.

It's really hard to like not do something.

It's really hard to just go like, I just want to show you something.

Yeah.

I think Mike Tyson made this point.

It's like he said the internet made people very comfortable with talking shit about.

Yeah, in real life.

You ever see that guy in the airplane that's fucking with Mike Tyson?

He's behind him.

And Mike Tyson winds up wailing on him.

You fucking dumbass.

You're trying to do internet in real life with Mike Tyson.

But there was always a part of that as well.

I remember when I was following Tyson's career, like he would go to a nightclub and he'd be surrounded by bouncers because there'd be retards who want to fight him.

Oh, dude, I saw that in person.

Not with Mike Tyson, but with Chuck Liddell.

I saw the guys would get in his face.

Yeah, I saw it in person.

People are so stupid.

There's people out there that are so dumb.

They just have death wishes.

Why would you go up to a UFC champion?

I remember there was some sort of an altercation at a table next to him, and it bled out over into someone saying something to Chuck.

And Chuck stood up and stared at this guy in the eyes like he was a wolf.

It was like, oh, there was a wolf in a room with a bunch of chickens.

And the look on the guy's face, just Chuck got up and looked at him.

This is a man who separates people from their consciousness professionally.

And at the time, he was a light, heavyweight champion of the world.

He was a terrifying human being when he was running the US.

And when he stood up and looked at that guy, that guy had this look on his face, like, I just interneted in real life.

Like, what am I doing?

What the fuck am I doing?

Like, confronted by Chuck Liddell's stare, you know, like the only thing separating you is this stupid little couch.

Yeah, it's, I mean, you just wonder what goes through these people's heads.

It's just.

It's not much.

They're the same people that show up at the No Kings rally.

There's dumb people out there.

A lot.

There's a lot of dumbasses out there.

Isn't it like guys that think they're really hard that are trying to test themselves?

These are drunk or on Coke and they're delusional.

They're stupid.

You know, some people are just, they've been bluffing people their whole lives, so they think they're going to bluff their way through things.

There's no amount of alcohol you could give me to pick a fight, particularly.

You're not stupid.

You have to be stupid and then drunk.

And drunk on top of stupid is a dangerous combination.

But isn't it also the thing of like, I see this so often because I used to work at a sports radio station.

And like the guys who play Premier League soccer they are even the most mediocre in terms of the league is such a high level athlete so high level it's not only

you haven't even encountered someone like this right you haven't encountered someone like this mentally physically I remember there was a football player called Jack Wilshire who was a generational talent sadly he didn't fulfill his

his potential because of injuries and I remember I knew a guy who used to play soccer with him when he was a kid and I said to him what was he like he was like it was like like playing a different game.

It was like playing a different game when he got the ball and what he was doing.

And I think people, you know, there's that stupid part of every man who watches a boxing match goes, yeah, I could do that.

Like, how hard is it actually, really?

I could play soccer.

I mean, it's not that hard.

You're just kicking a ball about.

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Dude's really good at something.

It looks easy.

Right.

It looks easy to them, you know?

Like you see Roy Jones Jr.

in his prime.

Pop, pop.

Like, it looks easy for him.

He's not even getting hit.

But it's really hard, really, really, really hard to get good at something.

And that's the problem with a lot of people out there as well.

They never got really good at something.

There's a giant percentage of our population that never had a passion, never had a thing that they threw themselves into.

No matter what it is, playing chess, you know, whatever it is, sailing.

You have a thing.

If you have a thing that you really love doing, that thing can change your life.

It's a vehicle for you developing your human potential.

Because it's going to be hard to get good at something with playing guitar, playing piano, whatever the fuck it is that you're doing.

And when you figure out how much work is involved in getting really good and then becoming obsessed with getting really and better and better and better, that changes your whole understanding of what it is to be a person.

Because now you realize like, oh, there's like levels to life.

There's levels to how you live life and you can express those levels in sport.

And you could be like totally, like, if you're the best at that, you're likely a mess everywhere else in your life.

Most, most of us guys.

And you kind of have to be.

There's no way you're going to be the best dad and also the best basketball player.

Not possible.

Because you have to be on the road.

It's not possible.

There's no way.

You can't be the best husband, the best this, the best that.

You're going to be a fucking

absent person here and just hyper-focused on being the best guy, getting that ball into the net.

And that's the only way to win.

That's the only way to be the number one guy.

But there's a balance in there.

And finding something that you love that you're good at and then getting better at it is critical for mental health.

It's critical for the way you engage with the world and how you understand other people's skill and other people's hard work and success and how you can draw inspiration from those people and that you it could actually fuel you instead of hurt you.

Well, it's an antidote to bitterness and resentful, which I have to say I think is inevitable if you don't do that.

I agree.

I agree 100%.

I think that's the opposite of bitterness is inspiration.

And you can get them from the same source.

That's what's really crazy.

If you see someone who's killing it, you go, God, what is he doing?

And then you find out, like, God, this guy works 16 hours a day.

He gets up in the morning.

He does yoga.

He's drinking green tea.

And he immediately starts writing and he does all this.

And then by,

you know,

someone's got like a super organized disciplined life you're like wow and he seems really happy fuck okay how to figure out what he's doing you know i gotta do something like that yeah and or you can go fuck that guy he's a scammer fuck that guy his writing is shit fuck that guy you know i i bought his book it's garbage there's a lot of people that just want you to fail because they won't don't like comparing themselves right you can they you can raise your status or you can lower theirs crabs in a bucket, baby.

It's always been crabs in a bucket.

Crabs don't let other crabs get out of that bucket.

They grab their legs and pull them right back down.

We were talking about this today.

I mean, I think we've talked about this before, how when we were starting trigonometry in Britain, there is that crabs in the bucket culture, particularly in the comedy industry, which we were in at the time.

I don't know if it's like this here, but like it was hard to get out of that mindset.

And actually, coming to the U.S.

was a big thing for us.

I remember I was talking to Tom Billy.

You know, Tom, you've had him on, right?

Yeah, yeah.

At his house in LA, it's like, it looks like a spaceship overlooking.

And we're sitting there in this giant house.

And he said to me, like, eventually, and he's very good friends, and he's kind of been a mentor to me at times as well.

And he said, you've got to cut this British shit out, man.

He literally said it like that.

About seeing, like, forgetting, this is like, he was like, the sky's the limit.

Just go for it.

And we, very few people get taught that, you know?

Yeah, you have to, it has to come from somebody you respect yeah you know yeah that's what it is to that's true and then you go oh that's how he's living his life now i'm inspired to live my life that way yeah yeah we got real lucky in la

that um there was a lot of successful people that were there at the time so there was less resentment because everybody was really doing well

and you know i've come i come from a martial arts background it's a different background so in my background you have to have really good people around you you have to like you're better off being the second best guy in the gym.

You're going to learn more.

Like, the first best guy is kicking everybody's ass.

Like, you want to be the guy who's the second best guy in the gym.

Like, you want to be around, like, he's going to make you work hard because you're like, fuck, I got to beat that guy.

And then you need all these young people nipping at your heels all the time.

Everybody needs everybody.

And if you don't have that, you don't get good enough.

And you'll go to a gym or you go to a tournament and you compete against people that do have that.

And that's their environment.

They're going to kill you.

They kill you all the time.

The best guys are all the most assassin-filled rooms.

Nobody gets good in silence.

Nobody gets good on their own.

It doesn't happen in a vacuum.

And I think that's comedy too.

So I came into comedy with that mindset.

Like, we're all in this together.

But when you're on stage, it's not me.

It's you.

I want you to do great.

Like, kill, destroy.

We're going to all going to do the best we can.

And we're all in it together.

Yeah.

I think the problem comes with a lot of people is that because this is such a big country, there's more opportunities.

yeah yeah and when you come from a smaller country of a smaller population there's there's this there's simply fewer opportunities and so what that produces in people is like well there's only these six slots and there's this person and this person and we're all going for the same slots therefore they're a threat to me at this point but also a threat to my future and future prosperity femin mentality yeah so that's i remember i i have a very good mate of mine who's a stand-up he was on this show called mock the week and he told this story like he went to do a joke on the show and this at the time was one of the biggest comedy panel shows in the uk and this guy tapped him on the foot he went what and then put his joke in ew

ew i heard saturday night live was like that phil hartman used to tell me horror stories about saturday night live When Phil Hartman first came over to News Radio, he was like a little standoffish at first.

And it took a while for him to like open up with us.

I thought maybe that's just like a weird thing about being that famous because he was so famous and we weren't famous.

You know, it was like being around people that like maybe wanted something from you all the time.

That's what I assumed.

And so, but after a while, we became really close.

And it didn't take that long for him to open up about it.

And he said, when I was at Saturn Live, it was so dog-eat-dog, and it was so backstabby and cutthroat.

He goes, I just had my defenses up about everybody.

And I was like, really?

Like, what way?

And he told me some stories.

I don't want to name any names because, you know, I think they're probably ashamed of what they did back then, too.

But they would all steal each other's premises and they would uh fire each other's assistants and do terrible shit to each other they would sabotage each other's bits they would go behind each other's back to lauren michaels and try to get something removed and and fuck with each other all the time and it just like he had physical confrontations with staff members and um or cast members rather and so when he came over to news radio he had to like

He had to like calm down.

Like he wasn't used to just being around fun people.

It was weird.

It's a horrible way to live.

It is a horrible way to live, but there was a lot of that going on in the 90s.

In the 90s in L.A.

in particular, everybody was trying to get on sitcoms.

So say if we were all working together at the comedy store,

if we were all reasonably the same age, there was a real problem because we're all going up for this new sitcom.

And, you know, you could be this guy's buddy who's like this hilarious character.

And it would be an amazing thing.

And all of a sudden, you're picturing yourself in movies.

You're there with Jim Carrey.

You're on the red carpet.

You're driving a Ferrari.

It's literally all right there.

The pathway's right there.

And I get it.

And you're like, motherfucker, Joe got it.

God damn it.

And then you would feel it from them.

Like you would go to the club and people would say shitty things to you because you got cast in a sitcom.

It was weird.

Everybody was like just desperado.

And I think the worst version of that was the late night hosts because there was only like three of them.

Right.

Wow.

And everybody was jockeying to be the host of the big one, one, which was the tonight show.

So when Johnny Carson stepped out, it was just like this fucking feeding frenzy.

Ah!

They were all everyone, Letterman wanted it.

You know, of course, Leno wanted it.

Leno's hiding in closets listening to people talk about it.

Crazy.

It's the most famine mentality because it's one job.

Right.

Yeah.

And they all want, that was the golden carrot was hosting the tonight show.

That is the awesome thing about the internet, man.

It's just like, make your shit.

The beautiful thing about the internet is that famine mentality mentality is completely unnecessary.

Like, if you find out there's some kid who makes $10 million a month on Twitch, how does that affect you?

It doesn't.

It doesn't.

It doesn't.

The only way it affects you is it says, if I find a thing that I'm good at and I do it on the internet, I'm going to be rewarded.

Yeah, just find a thing that resonates.

I mean, you can play video games and people watch and give you money.

Okay.

I mean, what do parents say now when they tell kids to stop playing video games?

Go get a job that pays almost nothing and sucks the soul right out of the top of your fucking head while you sit in front of that stupid monitor.

Or

play video games and drive a Porsche.

Yeah.

They can't say anything anymore.

And then if you're an actually good video game player, you could actually make money playing video games where your parents would encourage you like, Constantine, you're a really good golfer.

Do you know golf scholarships are worth a lot of money?

You could be a great golfer.

Golfers get paid a lot of money and they would encourage you.

They'd take you to golf camp and teach you to work on your fucking swing.

Nobody's taking their kid to video game camp.

There is a college in the UK that was in the news a couple of days ago that has created a video games department.

So you can go to college for video games

training for competition.

Are video games competitions does it broke, is it broken up by gender?

Do they ever do that?

I don't think so.

I don't.

That's interesting.

Yeah, I don't know.

Because they do it with chess.

But they don't do it with darts.

So in darts.

Oh, darts.

I was like, dots.

That's my accent.

So I was like, what is this?

I'm going to learn a new game.

Well, with darts, it's really interesting.

So there's this guy called Luke Littler, who is this 18-year-old kid, and he was at the age of 17.

He was seen as this generational talent.

And he's doing super well.

And I think a couple of weeks ago, he got beaten by a girl.

Oh, my God.

And that's like, and that's now seen as kind of

this moment where it's actually gonna be women in darts It's it's an exciting time Joe.

This is what we talk about in the UK there was a pool tournament in the UK where it's a women's pool tournament and two transgender women were in the finals.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's wonderful.

But the pool is a weird one because pool is not physically it's not about strength.

That's a weird one.

Like one of the best players in the world is this guy named Ko Ping Chung.

He's from Taiwan and he weighs like 115 pounds, maybe 120.

He's very weak.

There's definitely women that are stronger than him.

I mean, his arms are these tiny little arms, but he plays perfect.

He's a virtuoso.

You watch him run out.

You're like, his cue ball control is like, it's ungodly.

It's like he's got it on a string.

Like, why can't a woman do that?

That doesn't make any sense.

Like, it's not, that's a weird one.

That's where there's differences between like men's

better at navigation of 3D spaces.

There's certain hand-eye coordination advantages.

It's weird stuff.

It's weird because it shouldn't make any difference except for the brake shot.

Take the brake shot out and then there's nothing that involves strength.

Everything involves like a delicate touch and

a smoothness of the motion and an understanding of the game.

Isn't it also as well that women are far more less likely to be obsessional than men?

Men are far more likely to be single-focused.

And if they find something that they enjoy doing, that they will do it ad nauseum until they become exceptional at it.

You know what that is?

That's the hunter's persistence.

You had to have that persistence to survive as a hunter.

Like, if you want to be a hunter, you got to get really good at a bow and arrow.

And then you got really good at stalking animals.

You got to get really good and figure it out.

Like, it's like a, like, it has to be your primary life focus because that's how you eat.

That's the only way to eat.

It's hard to sneak up on an animal with a fucking bow and arrow.

So if you're doing that all the time, you have to have, or a spear even before that.

So you had to have insane dedication to sticking with this.

You couldn't couldn't go, oh, this is never going to work.

And you're like collapse with your spear.

No, you had to get up and keep going.

You had to be completely obsessed.

And so that makes its way to video games.

That makes its way to pool and darts and chess and everything else.

It's a hunter's persistence.

That's literally why we have it.

That's so interesting.

But it's also, and therefore women are less likely to have it because women weren't hunters or were far less likely to be.

It's interesting because there's a lot of women hunters today.

It's not half, but there's a lot.

There's a lot of women that go hunting.

There's women that go backpack hunting, they go bow hunting, backpacking by themselves in the backcountry, which is nuts.

Like you're 120-pound woman, and there's a fucking wolves and bears and mountain lions, and you're out there in a tent that you set yourself by yourself.

That's gangster.

Like, that takes fucking courage.

You know, it takes courage for a man to do that.

Like, those are the elite of the elite hunters.

The guys who go deep into the backcountry with a backpack.

They put like 60 pounds on their back.

They carry their bow in.

So they've got their food.

They've got their tent.

They've got everything on their back.

And they just go in.

And they'll go in for weeks.

Like, that's the craziest level of it.

And if you're a woman and you're doing that, like, you are, that's a gangster lady.

Like, that lady could do anything.

Like, if she could do that, like, you know, much courage you have to have to be a 120-pound woman and hike 15 miles into the backcountry where there's bears and mountain lions and all kinds of, and they know where you are, and you don't know where they are.

They know where you are the moment you enter that forest.

They start smelling you miles away.

They know you're around.

And you're just...

What's the appeal of bow hunting over firearms?

It's harder.

It's harder to do.

And it's, I suppose, more natural, quote-unquote.

You're closer to your ancestors, right?

The way they would have hunted?

That sort of.

I mean, the kind of bows that I shoot, they're very good.

I shoot a Hoit, and

there's like a couple of really big companies, and Hoyt is one of the big companies that makes the absolute best bows, and every year they make a bow that's slightly better.

Every year slightly better.

Like I have the bow this year that's next year's bow.

It hasn't come out yet.

Like they gave me it before, it gets released in November, and then people start buying it right after that.

But I got it a couple months ago.

And

every year they get better, somehow or another.

It's nothing like a fucking piece of wood with a string and a stick that you made yourself with one of these on the end of it.

Right.

Like that you made yourself.

That's a real one.

It's a real

Native American.

Yeah, it's a real Native American arrowhead.

Oh, wow.

Stone, right?

Yeah.

It's flint, I believe.

Wow.

The ones that I have, I mean, I measure the arrows exactly.

They're 475 grains.

Each one of them, I have a 125 grain broadhead.

Each one weighs exactly in the range of 125 grains.

I measure them all.

I weigh everything to make sure that's not like there might could be some factory defect and one is like three or four grains heavier.

If it is, I pull that sucker out.

Because my site is based entirely, my tape that I like have my yardage on is based entirely on the speed of the arrow and the strength of the bow.

Measured through a chronograph, I have a range finder that tells me the exact distance between me and the animal, and then I dial that up on the scope.

So the reticle, like the

fiber optic dot, right raises and lowers, and it puts it exactly where I need to aim at like 55 yards or whatever, right over the vitals.

And then I just draw back and stay calm and execute the shot.

Yeah, that doesn't sound like the ancestral environment.

It's not.

It's not.

But it's as close as you can get to the ancestral environment and be ethical and lethal.

Because you don't want to wound an animal.

You want to kill them.

So you have to practice every day.

You have to shoot arrows every day because it's a thing you have to lock into your memory.

Because in high-pressure situations, it's like, ooh, that's not a problem.

I bet your heart is fucking going.

But you have to not let that happen, too.

That's the other thing.

You have to do it enough times.

So you recognize it coming on.

You're like, no, no, no, no.

Wow.

You got to stay dead.

Stay calm.

You got to just like zone out.

You got to just go through your your shot process know exactly what to do but don't even think about it just do the thing do the thing that you've trained to do just execute do it and then afterwards go holy shit afterwards you let yourself come back to normal you gotta like stay in this zone there's like a zone of non-excitement

you know like i would imagine an assassin gets in that zone like getting in a zone of non-excitement like where you just like stay right there focused but don't

don't let that shit ever happen don't let it get there you got to stay right there and the only way to know how to do that is you have to experience it a bunch of times yeah and then see and then you also have to have experience in doing other difficult things so you know how to navigate and manage adrenaline and stress and that's what's missing with a lot of people in life they don't so any little thing that gives them anxiety all of a sudden they're freaking out and screaming and running around because they don't know how to handle pressure.

Yeah, they don't know how to handle pressure.

What's so interesting about the bow is to see, if you look at it historically,

it's technology.

So you saw in the Hundred Years' War, the English used the longbow and the French used the crossbow.

Yeah.

And the differences in between, and part of the reason that the English won the Hundred Years' War was because the longbow was just so easy.

Take it.

Yep.

Whereas a crossbow, you fire it, it's power, and then you've got to get and then reload and do all of that.

And it's hard.

It's hard to reload.

Yeah.

It's a pain in the ass.

Yeah, and then you fire and then so by the time a Frenchman,

I don't know the stats, had fired one, the Englishman had already fired several.

Well the Comanche used to keep them in between their fingers.

So they would hold four or five arrows at a time and they would just go like this,

and they would do that while they're on horseback and they had it burned into their memory because they did it all day long.

They did it when they were hunting, they did it when they were fighting, and they were always fighting.

That's all they did.

The Comanches, and they didn't make any art and all they did is kill things and eat things.

They ate buffalo and they killed everybody.

They fucked up all the Americans or all the settlers that tried to make it across there because they had muskets.

And you'd get off one shot and they would hit you with four arrows and they would run at you while they're shooting arrows at you.

And you're like, oh, fucking shit.

All that fucking stupidity that you have to do to shoot a musket.

Yeah.

You know, you couldn't compete with them.

They just, they fucked everybody up until Colt figured out the 45.

Until they figured out,

I guess it was, was it the 45?

But whatever it was, it was a revolver.

And a revolver had a chamber, and you could shove it in there, and you have five or six shots.

I forget how many they initially had.

But that's what changed everything.

Otherwise, they were just fucking people up.

But that was just technology.

It's all technology.

And this technology is primitive enough.

Like, bow hunting technology is primitive enough.

Any more, like, I have friends that hunt with recurved bows.

So they just hunt with a regular bow.

and have a sight on it.

It's just like instinctive where you hit

it's not that accurate, you know.

Animals are moving, you're guessing, there's a lot going on.

There's a there's a high likelihood of wounding rather than killing and an animal runs away, so you can't actually finish it,

especially if you don't wound them that much, you know.

And it's just me personally, but there's people that are good enough at it that they do it with that.

And they're just more, even more lethal than I am with a compound bow.

They are with a recurve.

They just know how to UFC 321 is here.

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Sneak up and they have to get a lot closer.

They want to get like 20 or 30 yards.

They want to get really close.

But that's what I love about America is that your wildlife here is wild.

Oh, yeah.

You know, we got got a lot of shit that'll kill you.

Yeah.

We've got bad things.

Did you see the mountain lion that's stuffed out front?

No, no.

You didn't see it?

No.

It's right in the middle of the,

right where the green room area is out front.

Right in front of the television.

Is that new?

Yeah, it's my friend, my friend Adam Greentree.

He shot it in Colorado and ate it.

He ate a mountain lion.

Can you eat?

You can eat you.

Yeah, he gave me some of the loin.

Mountain lion tastes like

a really good pork, like the best pork you've ever had.

Yeah, it's weird.

Yeah.

But I remember I was talking, I did Red Band's gig, this secret show on Thursday, and backstage he was showing me there was a bobcat with its cubs in his backyard.

Yeah.

It was incredible.

Yeah, bobcats won't hurt you, luckily.

They could.

They really could if they wanted to.

I bet if you got close to mama with the bug with the cubs, she's going to fuck you up, isn't she?

I wonder.

I don't think I've ever heard of a bobcat attacking a person.

I mean, I'm sure they probably have.

Someone's probably done something stupid.

We'll come to like a chocolate.

Bro, someone's probably fucked a bobcat.

There's probably a dude somewhere that like lost a bet and had a fucking bobcat.

Right?

I wouldn't doubt that.

If you had to bet all your money on yes or no, I'd be like, yes, there's a guy.

There's some fucking wild dude

from fucking Arkansas or whatever.

But the point is,

that mountain line that Adam shot,

it was a depredation one one where they had to kill it because it was killing all these cows.

And they had stumbled upon this one calf that had gotten right before they got to it.

It eviscerated this calf, and it was still alive, and it had eaten some of its organs.

And they had to kill the calf, and then they're like hunting for this mountain lion.

And he has a video of him shooting this thing.

Dogs chase it up a tree, and then he shoots it with a bow and arrow.

And then he had it stuffed here, and he ate it.

You aim for the heart or the head?

Yeah, you aim for for the heart and the lungs, whatever is available, depending on the position of the mountain lion's arm, right?

Like if the arm is like right here,

you want to tuck it right behind the shoulder and you're going to get double lungs.

And if the arm is up here, you're going to either get the heart or the lungs, depending on where their arm is.

Or whether or not you have a bow that's powerful enough to go through the arm and into the body cavity.

Is there a risk?

Because maybe this is like an urban myth, but if you

hurt an animal, but you don't kill it, it will come back.

Some of them will come back to fuck you up.

Like a kind of revenge movie.

No.

John Wick of animals.

Imagine they just run away.

They run away.

Well, it's wild, like deer that have survived with an arrow in their body cavity.

There was a deer skeleton that they found of a deer that someone, a hunter killed eventually.

And this thing had an arrow that had gone through its body and had turned all into bone.

So bone had taken over this arrow.

And

the whole cake, there it is.

That's what it looked like.

Wow.

Wow.

Isn't that crazy?

So you could see the broadhead had embedded itself in one of the ribs.

So not only did the deer survive, but its body adapted and grew around the arrow.

Wow.

Wow.

Actually, the reason I said that about

that is insane about the animal was I know that corvids, particularly crows, can remember, they can remember.

And then there's been instances where people have hurt crows and the crow's flown away and then a group of them have attacked the person.

Oh yeah, they're really smart.

They're super and ravens I think that are they're actually different than crows and they're even smarter than crows.

Do you know there's a parrot?

What was that parrot?

That

yeah.

Who told us about that?

Who was that the other day?

Was that Palmer?

Palmer lucky?

I think so.

I think so.

Oh is that the dude with the helmet?

Yes.

Holy shit, that helmet, bro.

Bro, that helmet's nuts.

That helmet's nuts.

This guy that guy was every every now and then I get to sit down with someone and they start talking.

I go, whoa, this guy's fucking crazy smart.

Like, weirdly smart.

Like, oh, okay, I got it.

I got it.

Like, tell me what you're doing.

And he was telling us about this parrot that actually would speak like a human toddler and new colors, new numbers, could say things, and would communicate.

African gray?

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

African grays,

they can have the IQ of a four-year-old child.

That is nuts.

Yeah.

When you see this thing talking, you're like...

Yeah.

And their imitation of sounds is like perfect.

Dead on.

Dead on.

Yeah, but you have to be around them all the time.

Right, right, right.

You have a twin that you're going to take with you everywhere you go.

Yeah.

Really?

Because they just get pulled and fucked.

You get fucked shit.

They're too smart.

They actually start chopping their own wings off and shit like that.

Yeah, they get a good job.

If they don't get stimulation, they get depressed.

They really need a lot of stimulation.

Really?

Yeah.

Like humans.

I thought about owning a parrot, but I just traveled too much.

Yeah,

you don't want that in your life.

That's too much work.

It's a commitment.

Yeah, if you leave it alone, it would be sad, too.

Yeah, but that's what I'm saying.

Yeah, they get mad.

I had a buddy of mine who had a parrot, and when he would leave it, he would come home and start screaming, where the fuck were you?

It wasn't really saying that, but it was like that was what it was saying.

It was screaming.

Why get married when you've got that?

And then he had to, upon coming home, immediately take it out and take it out and put it on his shoulder or put it in his hand.

And if you put it down for a second, it would start getting pissed off.

It's crazy.

I'm like, dude.

He goes, I know.

It's a lot.

He goes, I didn't think it was going to be this much.

I I was like, it was a lot of work.

Yeah.

Joe, I'm not.

I hope I'm not being polite.

Have you got any of those cigars we always smoke?

I would love a cigar.

Let's go, baby.

It's a weird thing to ask to be.

These are really good.

I should have said, if you offer us a cigar, we'll accept one.

We're the big-ass humidor.

There is a

lot of

right here.

Bonobo chimps are very interesting like that as well.

They're the weirdest, right?

Because they just fuck all the time.

This might need some juice.

let me give you a little juice go for it they're weird because it's like okay so chimps can be either hippies or they can be you know like the worst barbarians in human history just like us just like us yeah that's what's weird because like but also the bonobos like they don't have any they have one rule the rule is the mom won't the son that's it's a good rule so yeah it's a good fucking rule man they're a bunch of sister fuckers they're a bunch of sister fuckers and daughter fuckers

but they're not motherfuckers yeah they're probably dad fuckers too.

They're probably fucking they're probably doing gay sex, too.

They seem wild, they're just having a good time.

So they're not homophobic.

No, not at all.

And they solve all their problems with that.

Do you need to cut these ones?

Yeah.

How do you it opens like a door?

Hang on.

Oh, all right.

And then you pull up.

But you know, they can learn sign language.

Oh, yeah.

You know what's interesting, though?

They don't ask questions.

So they're like men.

But the parrot did.

The parrot did?

Yeah, the parrot asked questions.

The parrot had some questions about how things work.

The African greys are incredibly intelligent.

Yeah.

Incredibly intelligent.

Well, what I'm interested in is what happens when we can start really decoding dolphin language with AI.

Right.

And once they really understand what they're saying, then things are going to get very strange.

Light it.

You know, because...

Like, what are they...

I mean, they're really smart.

Like, silly smart.

Like, dolphins have enormous frontal lobes.

Oh, yeah, man.

And communication.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

They have dialects.

They have...

They have dialects.

Yeah, they sound different.

Oh, that makes sense.

I mean, that makes sense, right?

They're slightly different.

Well, on that note, you think, what about whales?

Whales' brains are literally bigger than us.

They're enormous.

So if we're talking about brain size equals, which I'm...

It's brain size relative to body mass.

Yeah.

Oh, is it?

Yeah.

Yeah, because you need a big fucking brain to run a big body.

Yeah.

Right.

Right, which is also the argument for why the Neanderthals might have been dumber than us.

Well, they were.

They don't know that, though.

Really?

Yeah, they had pretty big brains.

What's weird about them is they also had language.

They had writing,

or they had, they definitely had tools.

I don't think they had writing.

No, they didn't have writing.

They had language, but they did do art.

That's what it is.

It wasn't writing necessarily, but they drew stuff.

And

they had a brain that's bigger than ours.

But they were also like jacked.

They had bigger eyeballs.

There was a guy that there was a crazy theory that I'm sure is horseshit.

But it was cool.

He made Neanderthals look way different.

This guy had a theory, like, because we're just, we've never seen a live Neanderthal.

And he was like, what if we...

are getting it totally wrong and what if they were more gorilla looking than but we have the skulls and skeletons we have some stuff and they also think they have red hair this guy was it's a crack theory right right but it was a fun theory yeah but one of the more fun aspects of this guy's crack theory was that their eyeballs are so much bigger than ours their sockets are really big it's like what if they have night vision like a deer or like a wolf you know which is totally possible for a primate to have it's not like it's not like there's anything about being that kind of a mammal that would exclude you from being able to develop night vision eyesight are there are there primates that have that i don't know because there's mammals for for sure.

Yeah, let's ask.

Let's ask

complexity.

Is there any...

What is that called when they have night vision, when animals are nocturnal and they could see well at night?

You know that thing that you like when you're driving and you're...

See a fox or something?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

The reflective eyes that they all have.

What is that?

What's that called?

I don't know.

I don't know.

We should know.

Do you know there's a very interesting theory about Neanderthals and

Homo sapiens is there are some people who think that we are one of the few species or one of the only species that has the capacity to deceive

and trick.

So

there's a theory going around.

But monkeys do that.

Monkeys trick other monkeys into thinking there's an eagle coming, so they steal fruit.

Do they?

Yeah.

That's it.

Yeah, they yell out the sound for eagle, and then all the monkeys run away and then they steal the fruit.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

Wow.

So here it is.

Primates, the Tarsier and the night monkey, owl monkey, are the species with the best vision adapted to night conditions.

Okay, so they do.

See, look at that.

Largest eyes relative to body size of any mammal.

So it's something about having a large eye.

Because if you, okay, so despite lacking a tapitum, lucidum, the reflective layer that caused eye shine in many nocturnal animals, oh, that's what that is.

Their retinas contain an extremely high density of rod photoreceptors, which are highly sensitive to dim light.

This allows tarsiers to detect and track prey such as insects in near darkness and they can see in light as low as 0.001 lux similar to moonless nights.

Damn.

So

there's a bunch of different little primates.

Oh, Lorises.

Why, I mean, if you were living in a time, especially if you didn't have fire, if you're living in a time where, you know, there's no roofs.

Like you're you're you're hunting.

You're outside at night.

You're probably spending as much time as you can hunting.

Because Neanderthals weren't gatherers, they weren't farmers, so all they did was hunt.

So they probably had some sort of night vision, which would have been wild.

Yeah.

The thing that I find interesting is what is,

I think there's a certain,

the average person in Europe has around 3% Neanderthal.

DNA.

DNA.

3%.

If you're African, zero.

Right.

So it's just really interesting.

And you see some people and

they kind of have more of the Neanderthal kind of appearance to them.

Yeah, for sure.

And then other people, and you go, what does that actually give you, that 3%?

What does it do?

Is there any discernible difference whatsoever?

Does it make you perhaps more athletic,

more resilient?

It's a good question.

I mean, I think it would depend.

I mean...

There's also a bunch of other weird strains of human that existed.

Like Dennis Ovens, and there's quite a few other ones.

I think the Dennis Ovens, I think they definitely got into the gene pool too.

I forget who they were saying had high levels of Denis Oven DNA.

It might have been Aboriginal Australians.

But

there was a bunch of different types of human.

We just figured out how to be the cuntiest and the most conniving and I think probably the most clever.

Well, Harari's, have you read Sapiens?

His thesis is we worked out how to work together beyond the 150 Dunbar number.

That was his idea is basically we created these shared myths, religion, money, whatever, nation, all of the stuff that we all agree is real.

You know, it feels real.

But the reason we out-competed other species is that we could cooperate

beyond our immediate tribal group.

And that's the reason.

That makes sense.

That makes sense.

There's also human beings have a very distinct desire to make better things all the time.

And if you have that and you're applying that to weapons, you're gonna make the best weapons.

You know?

I don't know if Neanderthals had that, you know?

Did they have uh I mean, if you're gonna make stuff, right, if you're gonna make tools, you must have some creativity and some desire to innovate.

And curiosity.

Yeah, curiosity, desire to innovate.

'Cause we know that look, um there's certain animals that will use weapons, right?

There's certain, like there's a famous photograph of an orangutan that's spearfishing.

Have you ever seen that photo?

But it learned how to do it from people.

And they'll use rocks to break open crabs and they'll do stuff like that.

But they're not fastening an arrowhead on a stick or a spear and they're making it with flint.

The Intertoles did that.

So they got to a level where they're like, okay, this is like,

craftsmanship.

Like, this is sophisticated craftsmanship.

And it would also probably indicate indicate some sort of a complex language that you could explain where you get the gut that you turn into fiber that you use to tie the arrowhead to the stick.

Like

they were doing some high-level stuff.

Yeah.

For

a primate.

Yeah.

I would imagine also a lot of the innovation comes once you have the agrarian revolution because there's now surplus food.

Yeah.

And so you can afford to have a bunch of guys sitting around not hunting, but like thinking about shit or inventing things or you know making things in a different way did you see that uh discovery of a skull that was 500 000 years older than they thought was the origin of human beings so that it potentially pushes back the original homo sapiens to 500 000 years no earlier is that real yeah yeah they think it's it might push back um the date i mean it's under debate i'm sure but i think they might push back the date of the arrival of homo sapiens to a million years.

Wow.

Yeah.

But it just shows, you know,

how little we know about ancient civilizations.

Stonehenge in the UK, which is this iconic.

Have you been there?

No, I haven't.

You should go.

It's really impressive.

It's a special energy there, man.

Yeah.

It's really impressive.

And like Constance said, there's a special energy, and it's a profoundly moving place when you visit it.

You feel as if you have a connection to something else.

It's like going to the pyramids.

But they have no idea.

They have a rough idea of where the stones might have come from, but they've got no idea how they got there, how they erected them.

You should go, man.

Joe Rogan arrested at Heathrow Airport.

That would be a great fucking story.

I'm sure they can find some tweets.

They're doing it for us, bro.

Or just the things that I've said.

Does that count as social media?

The things that I've said talking shit about England?

Yeah, of course.

I'm sure they could arrest me for that.

I'd be like, I'd be arrested.

Yeah.

Maybe not.

But why would I take that chance?

I could just look at a picture of Stonehenge.

The weird thing about that English countryside to me is the weirdest thing is the crop circle thing.

Because the crop circle thing I used to think was stupid.

I was like,

so some people flattening things out with a board and making designs.

That's it.

And then I started watching some people that were actual scientists that were breaking down what's actually happening to these plants.

They're like, something weird's going on.

They're not just pushing these things down.

Whoever's making these, I'm not suggesting aliens are making them, but they're making them in a way where they're using energy and it's causing the nodes in these plants

to burst and they're bending over and they're not snapping.

A lot of them are bent in place.

It's all very weird and they're woven.

There's no footprints in, no footprints out.

And some of them appear like overnight.

And they're these massive geometric patterns.

It's really weird stuff.

Because if this is a coordinated effort, some of them are fractals and you see the fractals and they're across like what you would say of

a soccer pitch, like bigger than that, bigger than a soccer field, with massive like fractal patterns perfectly woven into crops.

It's weird.

They're weird.

I don't think it's, I think some people made them by stomping on boards and moving them around.

But those you can kind of tell because they're different and they're not that sophisticated and they're not that impressive.

But there's been some ones that would see if you pull up some of these giant fractal ones, there's been a few where you see people in them, like that one.

Yeah.

You see people like standing in them and you go, oh fuck.

Oh, right.

Wow.

Look how small those people are.

Like on the left, that's people, right?

So this appeared overnight.

What?

Yes.

Overnight.

And some of them like this have appeared in an afternoon where a guy has flown his small plane over a field, worked, and then flown his small plane back, and all of a sudden this massive fractal geometric pattern is in these crops.

And what's weird is some of them look like they have messages, and some of them just look like patterns.

And one of them was the Mandelbrot set.

Okay, the Mandelbrot set is a particularly complex fracture, fractal rather, that I think right after it was discovered was when it appeared in a crop circle.

Like not not long after.

Like look at this.

They're woven.

Wow.

This is weird stuff.

This is in England, right?

Exactly.

A lot of them are in England.

And I've always wondered, like, what is that about?

And you could say, oh man, it's just bullshit.

It's people fucking around.

It might be.

It might be.

But if it is, it's the most incredible hoax of all time.

Because the people that did say that they did it when they asked them, there was a couple couple friends who like were making crop circles.

and they said, show us how you do it.

And they showed them how they do it.

But the stuff they made wasn't shit.

It wasn't shit.

It wasn't like this.

They would have a string and they would step on this board and they would do it in a circle so that they made sure it was a circle.

But it wasn't this.

You guys, something's going on.

Like whatever that is, someone's fucking with somebody.

There's some sort of technology that we're not aware of.

That kind of makes sense to me because if we know that direct energy weapons are real, right?

So if this is saying that they're creating this with microwave energy or something similar to that, that's making these nodes burst, see if you can find the burst nodes of crop circles, because that's what's weird.

Like some of them, it's almost like a microwave cooking something and it pops like a hot dog.

That's what it looks like.

And if you had a weapon, not a weapon, but...

a thing that you could point down from a satellite and you could make a geometric pattern in crops.

You could just burn it into the crop like instantaneously.

Why wouldn't you do that?

Just to show that you could do it.

Look how cool this is.

Look at this thing that we invented.

This is a direct energy weapon, but if you use it low level, you can literally imprint a geometric pattern into crops.

No footprints in, no footprints out.

I mean, they're like, oh, aliens are trying to leave messages.

I'm like,

or...

High-level government agencies that are using black-funded operations and misappropriating funds in lying to Congress have developed a way to fucking take fractals and beam them into fields.

Man, some of the stuff, like the war in Ukraine has accelerated technological development of weapons in a way that, like the drone warfare that's going on right now,

it's fucking crazy, man.

Nuts.

Like the next war that's good, if there's another big war between like two big countries, that's going to be, it's going to be like something we used to watch in the movies, man.

It already is in the way.

They have these like drones because they've worked out how to jam them or hijack them.

So now they're on a fiber octave cable that's like 10 kilometers long.

Yeah, and then birds are taking them and making nests out of them.

Right.

It's fucking insane.

That's the only photo I see that comes up.

Okay.

Well, they had bursts.

Yeah, that's that one, the white one in the center.

Yeah, that one right there.

So you could see how these things, they're expanded out in some weird way.

Like energy.

Not like they're broken, but like that s they got hit with something, like a like a focused energy that made them bend over in that pattern.

Like look at all this.

Look how weird that is.

And this has been documented at a lot of the really complex ones.

And that's why it's strange.

Like, look at that one in the center that looks like a maze.

I mean, what the fuck, man.

Jamie, what's the official explanation of how these things are made?

Everything I'm looking up says there's people that have admitted to making most of them, and they've been proven to be made a lot of times.

I'm sure they made a bunch of them.

That's all.

I'm just, that's what's looking up on them.

I think people are a little dismissive of the weirdness of this.

Because there are some of these, like that's the Mandelbrot set.

That one right there, that fractal.

When did it appear after the Metal Brothers set?

It was in 91.

Okay, these are obviously man-made.

They're far too symmetrical for that.

Obviously, not man-made.

Obviously, not man-made, excuse me.

Far too symmetrical for that.

This is in Cambridge Weekly News, but that's someone's opinion.

When did the Mandelbrot set first get discovered as a fractal?

Just in general.

What What is the origin of the Mandelbroth set?

When was the origin date for the discovery of the Mandelbrot set?

It's a very complex.

It's really cool if you watch a 3D version of the Mandelbrot set.

Discovered, I guess.

I guess discovered or created.

Because you're really just discovering something

that's geometry.

So in 1980?

1970?

Was first discovered.

First roughly drawn by mathematicians.

78.

Okay, and then first visualized in high quality in March 1st of 1980.

And that thing was from 1991.

Is that what it was from?

Yeah, and this says that it was so close to Cambridge that it was most likely.

Ah, students.

Cocksuckers.

You got me.

See if you can find a 3D video of the Mandelbrot set.

Because it's so weird when you see what this thing really is.

Like, fractals are very strange because there's something about them that resonates with your brain goes, oh, this is how the universe is.

You know, because I tend to think that's really what's going on.

Especially when you look at

human brain tissue versus a map of the universe.

Have you ever seen that?

Like human neural maps and then a map of the actual universe itself?

You're like, That's a little too close.

Like, that's kind of dead on the money.

They look exactly the same.

It looks like it's exactly the same thing.

And

it's completely like if you believe in infinity, and if the universe is infinite.

Wow.

So this is a 3D version of the Mandelbrot set?

Wow.

So as you get closer and closer.

This is not the one I'm looking for.

This is like an artist's rendition of it.

But a 3D video of it will show like how the closer you get, it becomes bigger again, and then it it goes into another thing, and then you get close to that one, and then it becomes bigger again.

And it's just the fractal nature of it.

And then you think about, like, okay, if the universe is infinite, that it's not even, that's it, get to that one.

If the universe is infinite, it's not even remotely absurd to think that the whole universe is just human neural tissue of another creature that lives in another universe.

And hopefully, this dude doesn't blow his own brains out because that might be the Big Bang.

The Big Bang, the Big Bang might be the guy who is our universe.

He's depressed.

And he

explains a lot.

And he hates his job and he's going to stick a gun in his mouth.

Yeah.

Isn't that nuts?

This is the...

That's like an actual...

Now, see if you can find a photo that compares human neural tissue with the universe.

You ever seen, you know, that image I'm talking about, Jamie?

That thing of disappearing, it gave me a flashback to when I broke my arm.

They took me to the hospital and they gave me ketamine.

Oh, yeah.

Fucking hell, man.

Yeah.

I thought I died.

I literally, I thought, I felt myself like disappear into this thing and I was like, okay, that's it.

I'm done.

Wow.

And then.

Was it fun?

No.

It was not remotely fucking fun.

Was it fun when you thought you died, Constantine?

No, it wasn't.

Look at that.

Look at those two things.

Look at these two things.

Right, right, right, right.

One of them is human brain cells.

What is exactly?

What is the image exactly?

It's human neural tissue, right?

Is that what it is?

I'd be a neuropathway, I think.

Well, let's find out what it is so we could say it and not sound totally stupid.

So what does it say?

I can't read that.

Cells, image cells.

Oh, brain cells.

Yeah.

And they're connected.

Remarkably similar to our own brain cells and the connections.

Remarkably similar.

That's okay, so the left is a brain cell, the right is the universe.

That dude's going to put a gun in his mouth and go, I'm done.

And right now he's dressed like a furry and he just pooped his pants.

He's like, I've had enough.

I've had enough.

That's what I love about thinking about the universe.

It's like the illusion of control

of.

Yeah.

It's like, we don't matter.

We don't control shit.

Right.

And also the outrage that you have is greatly accelerated by the fact that light pollution has robbed you from this perspective.

You can't look up and see the cosmos in all its glory anymore.

So the more we're deprived of that, the more ridiculous we get, because we're never just faced with the awe of the universe.

Like, whoa.

When you see a sky that's just filled with stars, there's something about that that's so humbling and so wild and and so incredible.

I've been in a place in Armenia which had the, I think, one of the biggest observatories in the Soviet Union.

And you go up in the mountain, we don't need any equipment.

You basically don't see the sky, you just see stars.

Like the entire sky is completely lit up by the stars.

That's so nuts.

Yeah.

And when you think about it, when everybody's on their phones now, what do you do when you're on your phone?

You look down.

Right.

It's the absolute, complete opposite of looking up into the stars.

It really is.

So as a result, you go, well, no wonder we're so completely self-obsessed, narcissistic, solipsistic, whatever word you want to use, because we're completely looking down into ourselves.

Well, actually, if you look up and you see that you become humbled, you realize of your own insignificance, your mortality.

Yeah.

You're not even looking into yourself.

You're really just being overwhelmed by nonsense.

You're getting these tiny little dopamine hits, staring at horseshit.

I watched four videos today of kids playing with baby goats.

I didn't get anything out of that.

It was cute,

but I could have been doing things instead of just sitting there staring at it.

I want the super opposite of that, but the looking looking down thing is sort of a thing.

A lot of reflective pools back in ancient times were used to monitor stars.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

No, that's right.

You can check them and put things down

and see where they move.

That way you don't have to hurt your neck.

You can figure out the stars.

That's also a crazy thing, right?

Because how many ancient civilizations use the stars and use the constellations to align their buildings?

You know, the Egyptians did it.

The Mayans did it.

Temple of Abu Simbel.

Yeah.

Where it was done, and they still don't know how they did it mathematically.

So there was a beam of light coming from the top at a certain point, and it would hit the altar.

Stonehenge is like that.

Yep.

Is it on the summer solstice, everything lines up?

Yeah.

You know, this is one of the things.

We just had the historian

Dan Snow, right?

And we talked about the history of England, and one of the things you were talking about is Stonehenge.

And I watched a documentary in which he was saying, well, you know, in many ways, the people who were living during this time, they were really like us.

And I was thinking, no, they were fucking not.

No, they were fucking not.

Think about the investment of time, resources that it would take them to build Stonehenge.

Right.

Right.

And this is not a thing that has a functional purpose in the way that we would understand it.

We would not invest a quarter of our GDP into building a stone structure that aligns with the sun.

And they don't really even know when they did it.

Right.

No.

They're just guessing.

Yeah.

Yeah, totally.

And when you get to, we get to weird stuff like Go Gobekli Tape, where they didn't even think people were capable of doing that 11,000 years ago.

Yeah.

And it was purposely covered up 11,000 years ago.

And you find these giant stone columns, and you're like, we don't know anything.

We don't know what these people were up to.

This is kind of kooky.

And how they thought.

I remember when I was on tour with Jordan,

him and I were talking one night.

And I don't know what it was a weird experience.

It sounds crazy, but when I was spending time with him, we were talking a lot.

The way I saw things slightly changed.

Like, the images became more like vivid in my head.

And one of the things he was talking about is the mindset of,

say, like, there were certain tribes that would sacrifice one of their children for some kind of reason, right?

Something like that.

And when he was talking, I suddenly had this vision of like being there.

And he said, now think about what that's like.

What do you have to believe and how do you have to think to be willing to sacrifice your own child for something?

Willingly.

Right.

Willingly.

Now think of the bond with your children.

For you to think that that is the right thing to do.

You got to be a different human being to the three of us.

Yeah.

And you got to be, first of all, probably real comfortable with death.

Because back then, I bet people died real easy and real often.

And also, maybe you've got to be really fucking terrified of something.

Really terrified of something.

And really believe that if you don't do this, like everyone's going to die.

You have to sacrifice one kid or we're all doomed.

Right.

Yeah.

But you know, in different, like I remember in Venezuela, I

this is quite a depressing story, but in places like South America, they are far more comfortable with death than we are.

Like, I remember I met this girl at this party when I was 18 years old.

I really liked her.

There was a little bit of a vibe going on, but I knew she liked my friends, so I didn't do anything.

And I went home back to the UK.

I came back a year later and I said to my friend, hey, Diana, that girl I was talking to, what's she up to now?

And he went, well, you didn't know.

I went, no.

He went, she was in a car driving down the motorway.

She was getting chased by some dudes.

She tried to outrun him, lost control of the car, hit a wall, the car burst into flames.

I was like, and he went, anyway, dude, you want a beer?

Because when you're in those kind of cultures and people were died or kidnapped, it becomes, you know, you simply can't have that visceral reaction all the time because it overtakes you, it paralyzes you, and you can't function.

Jesus.

So people in Venezuela will get kidnapped on the weekend and on the Monday, they're back at work.

Oh, boy.

Jesus.

So I think a lot of it is adaptive, you know?

Yeah, well, people definitely adapt to all sorts of crazy environments.

I mean, you see that all over the world.

And the problem is you'll see people living, you know, like, say, villagers in the Congo do.

And you're like, oh, that's so different than me.

Like,

no, bitch, you just don't live there.

If you lived there, that would be exactly how you would live.

You would live just like them because that's all they can do.

They have no way out.

So they're stuck here, and you would be, too.

Especially if you have no access to other information or other cultural values or anything.

Exactly.

Exactimundo.

Which is why we need Mormons to be missionaries so they can travel to places to teach these people.

That story always makes.

I feel bad laughing at someone being killed, but that story about the guy who went to that island.

Yeah, he wasn't a Mormon.

He went to North Sentinel Island.

North Sentinel Island is particularly odd because that place, that area had been invaded by this guy.

When Jamie comes back, I'll have him look up the story.

The guy, there was a, God, I forget his name.

But he was a pervert, and he would go to these islands and make these guys dress up like Roman soldiers, and he would write down in

his journal the size of their testicles.

Like, this one had testicles the size of a sparrow's egg.

He was a total freak.

And he also kidnapped people from that island and gave a bunch of people the flu.

So he kidnapped people and gave them, whatever, the flu or some sort of disease.

And two old people died, and then they returned the kids back to the island.

So they all had horrific stories about these white people that would visit and measure your dicks and give you a flu.

And so when that kid came and tried to give them the Bibles, he didn't know the history.

He didn't know that these people had like a severe

rejection of these settlers.

They were a little bit folks.

People died and then, you know, they told these stories around the campfire.

Some guy who comes and measures your dick and then everyone dies.

Like these were like, that was their folklore.

So when he showed up, like,

you know, trying to convert these people, like, they already, they weren't hearing it.

No, they were like, don't touch my dick, dude.

Yeah.

They're like, I know what you're up to.

I heard the story from my grandpa at the campfire.

Yeah, that place is nuts.

It's only 39 people living there.

Size of Manhattan.

Really?

Yeah, size of Manhattan, middle of the Indian Ocean.

And the people living there are the direct descendants of people who left Africa 50,000 years ago.

Wow.

Some of them just stayed on that island.

And then it got to be a very small genetic diversity.

You know, there's only a very small amount of people on that island.

That's where things get real weird.

It's like, you kind of got to leave them there now.

You know?

Yeah, there's no coming back, is there?

What are are you going to do?

You're going to teach them how to make stuff?

Like, what are you going to do?

Show them how to make a boat.

This is how you make a car.

It's like, what are you going to do?

That's their culture.

They're isolated from the entire world.

And they have been for giant chunks of history, except for when dudes came over to measure their dicks.

Can you imagine?

That was your only reference for white people.

Well, there was another boat that

it was.

The dick mashed.

And they invaded the boat.

They were going after the people in the boat, and they got out just in time.

They got rescued just in time.

And that's how they started getting metal.

Because they didn't have metal up until then.

So they were taking pieces of the boat and using it to fashion weapons with.

Wow.

They didn't have any metal up until that point.

You know,

it was really interesting is how some things still resonate.

Like, I was talking to Constantine about the Greek myths and how I was really obsessed with them when I was a kid.

And when I was teaching, I used to teach Greek myths to my kids.

And they would all love it.

And I remember thinking, going, why is it that these stories, which are thousands of years old, resonate with a group of 11-year-old kids in the 21st century in East London who are all addicted to their iPhones?

But then you look at it and you look at, for instance, the story of Narcissus, the guy who falls in love with his own reflection in the lake and drowns in the lake, and you go, well, that could be about now.

Yeah.

Do you know what I mean?

Like with social media, the guy who just becomes so obsessed, he becomes one with social media until the point that it obliterates everything and he loses all his identity.

I wonder if that's the origin of it.

I wonder if this is a repeating cycle.

What if the Egyptians had social media?

What if those people had AI?

What if they had everything that we think they didn't have because there's nothing left over because it all got absorbed by the earth and we're just making assumptions?

What if it's a cycle?

What if just people get to a point where they figure out something amazing and then they fuck it up and become cave people again and have to rebuild over and over and over again.

That's the difference with AI, isn't it?

Because up to that point you go all technology really does is amplifies our natural human nature in every way.

The ancient Egyptians were jealous of their sister and fucking all of this shit, right?

But AI isn't human.

Right.

And that's that's where I think it gets interesting.

This is the my craziest speculation.

is that

whenever I'm reading religious text, I'm always trying to figure out, okay, what was the original story?

What were they documenting?

Like, what were they trying to record and pass down?

What really happened?

What really is the book of Enoch all about?

Have you told that for a thousand years before anybody bothered writing it down and it gets translated?

And who knows what it means?

Who knows what was the event?

If Jesus is born of a virgin mother, what is more virgin than a computer?

If our Savior

comes to us

from a virgin mother and

it's born out of this technology and it becomes some insanely intelligent, benevolent force in the world,

and then the Muslims kill him.

They bomb him.

Or the Romans or whoever's in charge.

Maybe it's the U.S.

government this time.

Maybe we kill him.

Maybe he just disrupts President Kamala's second term.

They decide to nuke Jesus.

Have you ever been to the Middle East?

No.

I've been to parts.

I've been to Abu Dhabi and I've been to Dubai.

What do you think?

You know,

Abu Dhabi is very nice.

It's incredible how much money they have, right?

We did a UFC down there, and it was like, wow, you just realize this is kind of crazy.

Like, they have so much money.

And Dubai also, it's like, God, there's so much money.

Everywhere you look, there's Ferraris and Bentley's and Rolls-Royce.

It's like, kind of crazy.

I have a friend who lived in Dubai for quite a while, and he's American.

And he was saying, dude, you could leave a Rolex on the street and people would turn it in.

Yeah.

And I'm like, really?

Yeah.

It's like, yeah, no one steals anything.

There's no crime.

But,

yeah, you have to, you know, you're run by a king.

Yeah.

But it's interesting with some of the Gulf countries now they're so they're moving forward at such a rapid rate culturally as well.

You know, I have a friend in Saudi who's a woman.

She's like super excited about the way things are going.

Right, and this is the difference between Muslims and Islamists, which we were talking about.

Well, right.

So if you talk to Emiratis, for example, right,

there's nobody they hate more than the Muslim Brotherhood.

The Muslim Brotherhood is like the central tumor and the Hamas, ISIS, and whatever.

They're like little

metastatic tumors, basically.

And the Muslim Brotherhood is the threat to them way more than it is even to us in the West.

Because they, you know,

I'm sure you've heard after a terrorist attack, everyone's like, well, actually, Muslims are the biggest victims of

Islamist terrorism.

It's true.

Because what's happening in the Middle East is there's effectively a war between the people who want to live in a nation-state, they want to live in Saudi Arabia, UAE, etc., Bahrain, whatever, and the people who want that to be one religious caliphate.

with Sharia law.

That's what's happening.

That's the battle.

So those Muslim countries, they understand Islamist extremism way better than we do.

Have you ever seen that video of the UAE foreign minister?

He was talking in the

maybe 2010s, maybe like 2012, something like that, maybe even earlier.

And he basically predicts, he says, you in Europe don't understand what you're dealing with.

And because of your bullshit, because of your political correctness, you are going to have terrorism and violence on your street.

He predicted all of it.

Because they understand Islamist terrorism way better than we do.

That's why, you know, people on, you know, the Arab street is a different thing, but the people who are in power in those countries, they hate Hamas more than anyone.

They hate Hamas more than anybody because they just go, these are the people that want to kill us too.

And I think part of the problem as well is that we have liberalism in our country.

So we're saying, you know, it's a marketplace of ideas.

We need to talk.

We need to share.

But what happens is then you've got an Islamic fundamentalist preaching, converting people to Islamism.

And you go, our way of combating this simply isn't adequate.

It isn't adequate to deal with this civilizational threat, which is what it is.

And if you come from an Islamic background, you understand it far more because you are from a culture, you're from a similar culture.

So you see effectively what this is, which is like a cancerous version of Islam.

And so you're better able to understand it, and by being better able to understand it, you're far more able to tackle that problem.

One of the things that I find interesting about people that are very upset about the Gaza conflict is that they don't have anything to say about the Hamas executions that have been going on lately.

Right.

The public executions.

Do you know the lighter?

Yeah.

Those public executions are fucking horrific, man.

It's wild to watch.

You know, and I unfortunately have been sent some of the torture videos, too.

They're breaking people's bones.

And I don't know if they think these are guys that collaborated with Israel.

Is that what the...

It's more of a power struggle.

Yeah.

Like, they want to reassert their authority.

I mean, if you think back to the Trump 21-point peace plan, the central point...

Here you go, John.

I'm going to get this one to work.

Hang on.

I'm stubborn.

No, I'm going to.

I want this one.

I'm going to fire it.

I just don't know why it's not working.

But go ahead.

So the original Trump 21-point peace plan, the central premise of that was

Hamas disarm and Hamas people leave Gaza.

Right.

Right.

And until you have that, you're not going to have peace because this is what these people do.

The moment the fighting stops, they come out, they reassert their authority, they kill anyone who's not with them.

And they, you know, they're going to attack Israelis.

The Israelis are going to attack back.

And then we're back to where we started.

The amazing thing President Trump has been able to achieve is getting the hostages out.

That's fucking.

Yeah.

He deserves so much credit for that.

Boy, imagine what those fucking people have been through.

Oh man.

I mean I don't know if there's enough MDA in the world to help you get over that.

Two years.

Imagine.

Two years of living with those.

I mean, what did they do to them?

And they were being told a bunch of shit as well.

I'm sure.

Like Israel has been destroyed, your family has disowned you.

Like mental torture as well.

I'm sure.

I'm sure.

sure yeah

every day you wake up you look at this guy and you're like this guy would kill me in an instant and not only would he feel it's not that he would feel nothing he would celebrate it

there's that horrific um

footage from October 7th where it was a Hamas terrorist killed 10 people the first thing he did after slaughtering 10 people is he called his dad and was like dad look what this is what i've done and his dad was celebrating.

And then he went, put mom on the phone.

And then mom was on the phone and mum was celebrating.

And you go,

I think part of the problem when we talk about this conflict is, again, it goes back.

We just don't understand that way of viewing the world.

It's so utterly alien to us because we haven't been indoctrinated into that mindset.

We were all talking about...

Israel and what the way Israel feels about Palestine in the green room the other day.

And we were like, just imagine if you lived in Israel and you're a Jew and everybody else hates you.

All the people around you hate you.

Like,

do you know how tense that must be?

How insane that relationship must be?

And I'm not excusing anything they've done,

but

the idea that they would behave the way we behave is kinda ludicrous.

Correct.

It's kinda ludicrous.

We would behave the way they behave.

If they did that to us, we would do w if we lived in that environment, if Canada and Mexico were both like wanted us dead, you know,

if that was their goal, ultimately, if their stated religious goal was the death of the United States, we would be crazy.

We would be invading Canada every week.

We would be fucking Canada up all the time.

We wouldn't want them to have weapons.

We wouldn't want them to have government.

We wouldn't want them to have anything.

And we wouldn't be talking about a ceasefire.

We'd be talking about dealing with the threat.

Yeah.

Right.

Yeah, we would talk about, about i mean look all we did was differ with them economically and trump tried to turn them into a state

he said i called him governor trudeau first i was just joking then a lot of people told me it was a good idea

yeah i think that single-handedly ruined canada yeah that idea i mean that's the the republican party or their version of the the Conservative Party, they were on the way out, they were fucked.

And all of a sudden, the whole country united because Trump's trying to turn them into a state.

Polyev has got to be angry about that shit, man.

He used to be so bad.

He was logical and reasonable.

And everybody's like, let's try that for a while.

Do you know what?

That was the ultimate cock block.

Do you know what I mean?

You're in the bar.

It's about to happen with the girl.

It's going down.

It's going down.

You're like, oh, I'm so.

Yeah, I'm so going to get laid.

Trump pops up, whispers something in her ear, and all of a sudden it's fucking over.

You know he's gay.

He's definitely getting a song.

Kiss a gun.

You can trust him.

But coming back to your point about people not talking about the Hamas executions, one thing I also noticed is a lot of people didn't seem to be happy there was a ceasefire, the very ones that had been calling for one.

Well, they didn't want Trump to do it.

That's why.

They didn't want Trump to get credit for anything.

So if there's a ceasefire, like no one's given him any credit for all the other conflicts that he stopped as well.

You know, there's been a bunch in Africa.

just people that have been feuding for decades and he's put a stop to that.

Now, whether or not it sticks, that's another thing.

The Israel one didn't stick.

It didn't stick very long.

I mean, what happened?

So

someone blew over, they drove over

unexploded munitions, and then they thought it was an attack by Hamas, and then they started bombing again, right?

What I read is there was an RPG fired at an Israeli vehicle, but you might have a

initial story.

Okay.

That's what they thought.

Oh, so it's changed?

Yes.

I think they thought that these Israeli, the IDF soldiers drove over this unexploded munitions.

And they saw some dude and they were like, he did it.

I think someone blamed someone else for it.

I think there was confusion or something along those lines.

See if you can find what that story is.

I don't know what the exact story was, but they saw a bombing again and they killed a bunch of people.

And there's also a lot of mistrust.

Like, you know, I was saying the Arab nations in the region, they hate Hamas.

They also don't trust Netanyahu.

That's also a fact.

They don't trust Netanyahu.

And, you know, Netanyahu, I mean,

you talk about what Israelis feel like.

Think about what it's like.

It's the first question I asked him.

What is it like to be a leader of a country that is attacked in the way that you were on October the 7th?

Imagine the trauma that leaves.

And you're responsible.

Right.

You're responsible for 10 million people,

and this happens.

Did you ask him why it took so long for them to respond?

No.

We didn't ask him that, no.

It was was quite a few hours, though.

It was a few hours.

My understanding from people, we had the former director of Mossad on, we asked him about that.

And he just, I mean, there are a lot of people who are very critical of the Israeli

top brass of the way it went down.

I think there was a lot of confusion from what I understand, like contradictory orders being given.

People didn't really know what was going on.

That's basically what I heard.

Was there a stand-down order?

I don't know.

No.

We've also spoken to other military experts who actually say, look,

it doesn't look good, but one of the things is it's very difficult to mobilize forces instantaneously.

And soldiers instantaneously organize, get them out, even under emergency.

Right, but wouldn't you think in Israel, which is one of the most sophisticated security states in the world, that they would be ready for something like that a lot quicker than any other country because they're constantly under attack.

You'd think they would have a fence that was permanently monitored.

And

they fucked up.

They clearly fucked up very badly.

It's crazy if you look at their fence versus Egypt's fence.

The Egypt fence is wild.

People don't like to talk about that.

No, that one's wild.

Well, this is one of the reasons that a lot of the other countries in the region, you know,

they don't support Israel killing Palestinians, obviously.

But they're also not.

Say if you're Jordanian, right?

A lot of the population in Jordan is Palestinian.

And what happened when they had a large population of Palestinians?

They killed the fucking king.

Right?

So

this is the difficulty of it.

Like, this is a highly radicalized population.

Right.

And, you know, that's why it's such a difficult conflict to resolve.

And like you say, the Israelis are on edge because they have to be.

They're surrounded by people who've invaded their country repeatedly.

Yeah, like, what is the best case scenario for how this all ends?

That's what the problem is.

Everybody who prognosticates, everybody who like looks at the future,

no one has

a version of this where it's like, oh, it worked out great.

Yeah.

Well, Jared Kushner, I think he's clearly a genius.

I mean, orchestrating the Abraham Accords in the first Trump term, he's involved in it now.

And his thing, as I understand it, is basically this.

The Middle East has a very different demographic to most Western countries.

A shit ton of young people, very, very young people.

And

the leaders of those countries know that they've got two choices.

Either they create jobs, meaning, purpose, economic prosperity, or all these young men are going to go the wrong direction.

So they're desperately trying to create thriving economies so that their youth don't feel the need to fight their grandfather's war.

And as I understand it, the Kushna approach has been what you do is you find a way to address the fighting so it's not happening.

And then you just lock the entire region into economic cooperation.

Because the UAE wants to trade with Israel.

The Saudis want to trade with Israel.

And the other reason is they have a common enemy, which is Iran.

All the other countries, particularly the Gulf countries, they fear Iran a lot more than they fear Israel, a lot more than they care about Israel.

Iran is their number one problem.

It's a threat to them.

And so if you can get the entire Middle East, other than Iran, maybe Qatar, I don't know, together, working together, they don't then have the incentive.

to continue this conflict because they're trading, they've got way more to lose by this continuing.

So that's the end goal.

The difficulty is as long as Hamas is in power,

I mean they did October 7th to prevent that from happening, basically.

They wanted to derail the long-term aspiration for peace.

And Iran wanted them to do that, because Iran doesn't want those countries to work together.

And didn't it happen right after Biden had released like six billion dollars to Iran?

Right.

Yeah.

So now they've got funding.

Right.

Yeah.

And yeah, and Iran funds.

idea.

Well, and Iran funds all of these organizations, all these Hezbollah, Hamas.

So Iran is essentially their plan is destabilization of the region.

And then if you go to the history of Iran, you find out that they got fucked by, what was it, the British oil company?

What oil company was it?

Where they wanted to nationalize their oil because they realized they were getting fucked.

And so the king is like, hey,

no, this is our oil.

And all of a sudden, the United States comes along and Britain comes along.

They go, let's kick this fucking guy out of here and install some sort of religious caliphate and let's get the party rolling.

And they fucked the entire country up.

Like if you see Iran from like the 1960s, women are wearing mini skirts and everybody looks like they're having a good time.

It looks like a normal European city.

Yeah.

And then the crazies come in.

Yeah.

And you've got this, you know, seventh century shit going on.

Oil companies.

Yeah.

They don't give a fuck.

They're just trying to make that loot.

And if they can make that loot and ruin a country, they're like, okay.

Yeah.

Who cares?

Yeah.

But I hope that they've...

Maybe they haven't, but you just look at the misery and

the bloodshed.

Like, they feel bad?

No.

I hope they feel bad.

I hope the Ayatollah just wakes up one day and goes, ah, I've been a bad guy.

Did you see it?

Did you see one of the Iranian leaders, the wedding?

No.

Did you see the wedding?

No.

So this has created a huge storm in Iran because obviously they have the morality police where people where men literally go around and look at women and go, right, you need to have your hair covered.

You need to have your skirt needs to be down here.

And if not, we're going to arrest you.

We're going to beat you up.

We're going to do all of these things.

Let me guess his daughter was wearing a beautiful white dress for the moment.

Mate, she had them out.

She hated this.

Look at that.

You can go to jail for that.

That does not look very halal to me.

Mate, it does to me.

She's hot, though.

Yeah, fucking hell.

Iranian women are beautiful.

Oh, yeah, they're incredible.

That's what's even more fucked.

You got a great gene pool over there.

It's being stifled.

But the Persians are a great civilization.

If you look at the history, they're incredible people.

Incredible wrestlers, too.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Long history of elite wrestlers come out of Iran.

Yeah.

It's crazy, man.

Yeah.

So that's the hope.

That's the hope, is economic development.

Right.

And if you can get people trading, and that's the idea.

Well, bring people out of desperation and you stop crime everywhere.

I mean, we should have done that in the United States a long-ass time ago.

We definitely should have figured out how to do that with Mexico.

But we're a bunch of haters.

We don't want them doing well over there.

We don't want to compete with Mexico economically.

Fuck that.

You know, we had, he was a guest on your show, actually, Joan Grillo.

Yeah.

And I never realized this, but Joan was like, you know, there's a trade going on between Mexico and the United States.

I was like, what do you mean?

He was like, well.

drugs come over one way and the Americans give but the guns come over the other way.

Yep.

Yeah, I had Mariana Vanzeler on from Traffic and she actually followed

how the LAPD, the corrupt cops from the LAPD, confiscate guns, sell guns to the gang members.

The gang members then take those guns and drive into Mexico with them because you can get into Mexico easy.

They don't care.

Come on in.

But leaving Mexico is where it's get hard.

So they sell the guns, drive back over, empty trunk, everybody's happy.

Do you think you boys are going to start some shit with Venezuela?

I hope not.

It seems like it looks like it's going in that direction, though.

Blowing up them boats.

Soon after the explosion in Rafa, I'm told by a secure

familiar, the White House and Pentagon knew the incident was caused by an Israeli settler bulldozer running over unexploded ordnance, contradicting Netanyahu's claim that Hamas had popped up from tunnels.

This is Ryan Grimm, who's a journalist.

After Netanyahu said he was blocking all aid from entering Gaza in response and unleashed a bombing campaign, the administration conveyed to Israel that they know what happened.

Netanyahu then announced he would reopen the crossings in a few hours.

Right.

Fuck, man.

Yeah.

So this is what happens in a war, right?

Everyone's fucking on edge.

Something blows up.

Yeah.

They think we're under attack and it all starts again.

The worst suspicions are that Netanyahu wants this war to continue because that's how he stays in power.

Because of the corruption stuff, right?

And that's what Clinton said openly.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's that gets real fucking scary.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Do you think that's true?

I don't know, man.

I don't know enough about geopolitics.

I certainly don't know enough about this conflict, but I know there's a lot of people that are suspicious of it, which is why a lot of people are suspicious about why it took so long to answer with October 7th.

Oh, that's why you were asking.

No, I want to know why it took so long if you asked him, because it does seem like a long time.

I'm not accusing anybody of anything, but a lot of people are.

That's a...

a thing that people bring up on the internet all the time.

Like, why did it take so long for them to respond?

Was this a known thing that was going to happen?

They allowed it to happen, so now they have a reason where Netanyahu stays in power, a war gets

I find that hard to imagine.

It's a horrific notion.

If it is true, it's absolutely horrific.

It's horrific that we could even consider that a human being who's running a country would allow their citizens to die.

And I'm not saying they did, but we do know that people have done that in the past.

You know, false flags are, that is a legitimate strategy for an unwilling populace to be entertained into going to war.

I mean, that's what they were trying to do with Operation Northwoods.

Operation Northwoods, which was signed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, they were trying to get people to support a war with Cuba.

And so what they did was

they were going to blow up a drone jetliner, blame it on the Cubans.

They were going to arm Cuban friendlies and fuck up Guantanamo Bay.

And they were going to say, okay, this is it.

Cuba's attacked.

We have to attack back.

And then next thing you know, we're at war with Cuba.

And that was signed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

That was a full-on plan that was vetoed by Kennedy.

Right.

Wow.

Yeah, which is, so we know that.

We also know that the Gulf of Tonkin incident in Vietnam, false flag.

So we know that people have done stuff before where they either have allowed something to happen, like Pearl Harbor, or they have just, you know,

they've just capitalized on it.

You just have to figure out which one is which.

Right.

I mean, World War II started with a false flag.

You know this, right?

Yeah.

The Gleiwitz incident.

Which one was that?

So they basically, in order to justify the invasion of Poland, Hitler pretended that Polish soldiers had crossed the border and killed people in Germany.

And that was their pretense for attacking.

Well, he also burned the Reichstag, too, right?

Didn't he blame other people on that?

Yeah, I don't know that...

I know that for a fact.

I'm maybe just not educated enough about that one.

But the Gleiwitz incident, they basically set it up so that it looked like the Poles had invaded.

Didn't Nero do that too?

Didn't he burn Rome and blame other people for that as well?

That I don't know.

The story is that he fiddled whilst Rome burned.

Use Perplexity to find out if

Nero did that.

Did he burn part of Rome?

Might as well do the Reichstag as well because I want to know.

Yeah, let's do that as well.

Because I think that's just a common tactic for assholes.

Yeah, I know.

Someone's an asshole in control of a government.

But I think letting

4,000 jihadis invade your country and rape and slaughter and butcher people, That to me is beyond the realm of imagination.

Of course, as is 9-11.

But there's a lot of kooky people that believe that that was allowed to happen as well.

Do you know, for the longest time, I thought that Trade Center 7, that was like a big question mark.

But my friend Winston Marshall, he sent me a video that explains it very well.

I hadn't seen a good explanation of it.

But it kind of made a lot of sense to me.

Well, it doesn't happen all at once.

That's one common misconception.

You can watch the video.

The top collapses inside the building a couple minutes before it all goes.

That's right.

That's right.

Yeah.

And I think I'd want my fucking money back from whoever built that thing, that's for sure.

I'd be like, bro.

You guys cut some fucking corners or something.

Whatever your plan had that you had to keep this thing stable.

Nero's role in the myth.

Contrary to popular myth, there's no credible evidence that Nero started the fire.

He was in the Antium when it broke out and returned to coordinate emergency measures such as opening public spaces for refugees and importing food.

The image of Nero fiddling while Rome burns is a later invention.

The fiddle did not exist at the time.

Of course, fiddled doesn't mean like a fiddle.

This is like AI being literal.

Yeah.

It means fiddle around.

And while, like, fiddle spinners, you fuckhead.

And while some sources claim he sang about the fall of Troy during the five, this account is disputed and likely part of political smear campaign.

Who the fuck knows?

You're dealing with too many years ago with this kind of shit.

But either way, false flags are a real thing.

Sure.

Yeah.

And that's why people get real suspicious.

Yeah, but a lot of the, sorry, go ahead.

No, I was thinking, but is there not a part of you that just goes, eventually the truth comes out?

You know what I mean?

Eventually.

Well, especially in a country as small as Israel, which is tiny.

Well, look at JFK.

I mean, the truth has not come out about that.

We're all still trying to figure that out.

And they're talking in this election, like, there's going to be a thing.

We're going to release the JFK files.

Oh, great.

We're finally going to know.

Nothing.

There's nothing.

So why do you think that is?

Why has that not been?

Because

it because there's nothing there and what we're told is what happened is what happened.

Trump's own words were, if they showed you what they showed me, you wouldn't release it either.

Wow.

What the fuck does that mean?

It probably means the government assassinated Kennedy.

Kennedy was the government.

Well, I mean, the CIA.

I mean, the deep state or whatever it was at the time.

Whoever it was.

I mean, there's my friend Evan Hafer from Black Rifle Coffee.

He has a theory of his own about Kennedy pulling out air support from Bay of Pigs, and that without air support, that operation could never be effective, and a bunch of people are going to die that shouldn't have died.

And a bunch of those guys that were on that beach lost brothers, and they were hardcore, like serious soldiers.

And you get those guys to kill Kennedy

as revenge.

Because it was a very coordinated event.

If it went the way the you know Oliver Stones of the world think it went, which I think I tend to think he's like pretty accurate.

I think he knows what happened, roughly.

And there's multiple people shooting at the same time, and this should never be allowed to be a path where you're on a convertible with a fucking president and there's bushes and people can hide behind the bushes.

You don't have it sussed out.

You didn't scan the bushes and make sure there's nobody with a rifle there.

The whole thing's nuts.

You would never set it up that way if you were the Secret Service.

Well, see, the obvious counter-argument to that in my head, I'm just playing the argument out with you.

I don't know anything, is what happened to Trump?

Right?

Well, that's not a counter-argument because the Trump thing is easily the same story if that kid's a better shot.

That kid's a better shot.

You have a dead president and you have Patsy, maybe.

Who knows?

You have some kid who was in a BlackRock commercial two years prior, who somehow or another

has

a professionally scrubbed apartment.

So they find his apartment.

It doesn't have any silverware in it after he's dead.

They cremate him within days.

There's no toxicology report, no autopsy.

There's no information on the kid.

He has no social media.

What fucking kids have no social media?

He has three different phones.

Why does he have three different phones?

Why is there metadata from a phone outside of D.C.,

outside of where the FBI office is, traveling back and forth to this kid multiple times?

Why is he training, you know, in

like this, these

very

technical gun ranges where people are doing like tactical training and stuff like that?

Like, what is this guy doing?

Like,

who's getting him to do this?

Why is he doing this?

Do you think he really has knowledge that this thing is going to go down in Butler?

Why are they allowing this guy to walk around the grounds with a range finder 30 minutes before the event?

Why is he

seen?

How does he get on the roof?

How do they not have someone on the roof?

How do they not, like, there's a lot of weirdness to it.

Why is it the first one of those things that they're televising live on CNN?

There's a lot of weird ones.

So, yeah, it's not a counter-argument.

In fact, it backs up the point.

Yeah, not only does it back up the point, like, the kid just sucked.

He missed.

You know, I don't know what kind of a sight he had on his rifle.

He might have had a red dot, but he definitely didn't have like a good long-range scope, it looks like, from

the video or the images of the rifle that I've seen laying on the rooftop.

If he had a really good scope and he was a good shot, that's an easy shot.

It's only 150 yards, I think, from that roof, which is also preposterous that you would allow a person to climb onto a roof within 150 yards of a guy who's a very controversial figure who's running for president.

It's nuts.

The whole thing's nuts.

You know, we interviewed a guy called Michael Francis, who's a

former head of one of the big crime families.

I think he was head.

Was he not head?

He was senior.

he's very senior?

He's a big guy.

Yeah, big guy.

And he said when it came to JFK, he said at the time in the mob, there was a joke where they would say, oh, we shot the wrong Kennedy.

And he said that it was mob-related.

Yeah.

It could have been.

Yeah.

It could have been

multiple different shooters from multiple different organizations.

I don't think Lee Harvey Oswald was innocent.

You know, people like Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.

Like, that doesn't have to be the case.

He might have actually even shot at Kennedy.

He might have been one of the guys who shot at Kennedy.

I think they had him set up to be the guy that takes the blame.

Whether or not he actually pulled the trigger, he might have.

I'm not opposed to the idea that he might have.

What I am opposed to the idea is of one single shooter causing all that damage because it's illogical.

It's not just illogical.

It was created because they had to account for a bullet that hit the underpass.

So a bullet ricocheted off one of the curbstones in the underpass and fucked this guy up.

And so they found the curb that had been chipped.

This guy got wounded.

He got hit with a ricochet.

He got treated in the hospital.

So they know that was one bullet.

So now they have to, two bullets.

One is a headshot and one goes through Kennedy's body and into Connolly's body.

The problem with that is Kennedy reacts to a gunshot before Connolly ever does because Connolly wasn't hit.

Connolly was hit afterwards.

Connolly was hit after Kennedy was shot in the neck and then he was shot in the back and then he was shot in the head.

Kennedy was shot multiple times.

The one in the neck, he grabs his neck in the beginning of the video.

There's a different, there's two different depictions of what that is.

There's the Dallas hospital where they take him right after the shooting where they say it's an entry wound.

And then in Bethesda, Maryland, they say it's a tracheotomy wound.

Like they trached him, which is preposterous.

He's no head.

His head's missing.

You put a trach pipe on a guy that half his fucking head's missing and he's dead as fuck.

No, you didn't.

No, it's a fucking entry wound.

You see him grab his neck.

He got shot in in the neck.

And it looks to me like his head was shot at the very least one time from the front.

At the very least, one time.

But it might have been, his head might have got hit by two bullets at the same time.

I mean, there's people shooting at him.

I think there was multiple people shooting at him from different directions.

And he does have a wound in his back.

He has an entry wound in his back.

So someone probably shot him in the back, too.

It might have been Oswald.

Oswald might have shot him in the back.

But I think the back and to the left and the people that all called out that said that there was people firing behind them in the grassy knoll.

I bet that's correct.

The whole way that they drove, have you ever been to Dealey Plaza?

No.

It's small.

It's real weird.

And there's a turn.

Like you have to make this turn.

Like if you were a sniper, you couldn't ask for a better place to set up because this guy is going 30 miles an hour or on this stupid little turn and coming straight at you and you're just sitting there in the bushes.

You could peck him off.

You could peck him off.

The people that say that he couldn't shoot him from the windowsill, it's too hard of a shot.

He wasn't a good marksman.

Shut the fuck up.

Anybody could do that.

I could show you how to do that.

And you could do that in...

I talked to my friend Andy Stump.

I was talking about it on the podcast.

I said, give Andy a day.

And he goes, fuck a day.

He goes, give me a couple hours.

I could teach you how to do that.

It's not that hard.

With a good rifle.

What about this J.D.

Tippett?

Yeah, it seems like Lee Harvey Oswald killed this cop.

So it seems like when Lee Harvey Oswald was taking off, he had an altercation with this cop and he shot the cop.

Four times.

Yeah.

Well, that's why I think I don't think Lee Harvey Oswald was innocent.

I think he was in on it, but I think he was the setup.

He was the Patsy, and they were going to have him go down for it.

Whether or not he actually killed Kennedy, he might have.

Look, if he shot him in the back, if that one shot from the back was Lee Harvey Oswald, maybe that would have killed Kennedy.

Maybe that was the one that killed him, or would have killed him for the headshot.

But he was hit multiple times.

Do you know what when you read about Kennedy and then you saw the attempted assassination of Trump, it makes you realize just how fragile societies are.

Like, how different

would our world be if, for instance, Kennedy survived or Trump hadn't and vice versa?

Do you know what I mean?

Oh, yeah.

Do you know, like, I remember someone asked me that question.

It was like, what do you think would have happened if

the bullet had been, in the Trump's case, two inches further towards the right, whatever it was?

You know, how different would our society be right now?

Very, very different.

Very different.

Would it be the beginning of a civil war?

Who knows?

Everything Everything could have popped off.

And on top of that, who would be president, right?

Would they suspend the presidential elections and allow the Republicans to come up with a new viable candidate?

Would J.D.

Vance run for president?

How would they do it?

Who would be the representative of the Republicans?

Would they suspend the election entirely?

Would they do something where Kamala just gets sworn in by the then President Biden?

Who knows?

I don't know.

Aaron Powell.

This is why I think political polarization of the kind we've seen is so scary.

Because, I mean, the thing that really struck me when Charlie was assassinated was this was always possible.

Yeah.

And the only reason it wasn't happening is we kind of had a culture of like, we don't do this, basically, right?

Because anyone can pick up a rifle in this country.

And that's why I really worry about the fact that people think political violence is justified.

Not just justified, but celebrated.

Yeah.

That was the creepy part.

The creepy part was the celebration, the people that were celebrating.

Some lady recently just lost her job because people were driving by.

She was doing a No Kings protest, and she started mocking, getting shot in the neck.

And she was a school teacher.

Yeah.

Elementary school teacher.

Yeah.

Fucking crazy people.

There's a lot of crazy people out there.

And some of the, I mean, people are, you know,

they're correct in worrying about the impact that these people have on their children.

You're correct.

Correct.

You have a lot of crazy people that are teaching your kids.

I know so many people now who are homeschooling, and to be honest, there's something I'm thinking about.

It's not a bad idea.

I mean, the problem socially is like kids need to hang out together.

Yeah, it's really important.

I worry about that too, too.

Yeah, but I mean, I think you could probably replace that with sports and good friends.

Yeah.

And especially if you lived in a community where multiple people were homeschooling.

Yeah.

But then, you know, people get weirded out about homeschooling because they think it's going to, oh, that leads to religious radicals.

You know, you don't have to be religious to homeschool people in this country because they're connected to

religious Christians, like radical Christianity.

I just don't want some 25-year-old with blue hair teaching my son that communism is brilliant.

Exactly.

Can I not have that?

And the weird one is people that have no desire to have children of their own, you know, and they want to indoctrinate people's kids into their way of thinking.

It's like a part of why they teach, you know?

It's because they're so...

This is...

We were having this conversation yesterday, and I said to Constantine, the great thing about an ideology is it gives you certainty.

The terrible thing about an ideology is it gives you certainty.

That is so true.

And it's also the appealing thing about it.

Oh, yeah.

You know, I've always been attracted to the idea that these people really believe.

Like, it's fascinating when I watch super religious people that are praying five times a day.

And I'm like, that is amazing.

Like, look how dedicated they are to that thing.

Like, there's an attractiveness to that.

Like, God, I wish I was like, if I was that dedicated to something, I'd probably be like...

way more stable in my life.

Yeah.

You know, because you're just locked in and everybody believes and you know you see people talking about the religion with utmost certainty like i wish i was that certain yeah i wish i was that certain those guys are so certain they're willing to die like

it also

it also gives you like a lot of inner peace it does like

if you don't have that which i don't and i i've got a friend who's who's a devout muslim and he's and he's going through tough times at the moment and i say to him like how do you get through this and he's like bro i've got my religion i've got god and i know everything's going to be okay he's a great guy and he goes i pray five times a day it really helps me and it makes me realize and understand that what i'm going through is part of his plan it's part of his plan yeah if you really do believe that it definitely will help you i haven't got there but i have started going to church every now and again yeah yeah do you enjoy it i love it yeah

it's a but i do too it's a bunch of people that are going to try to make their lives better they're trying to be a better person and they're trying to i mean for me at least the place that i go to, they, you know, they read and

analyze passages in the Bible.

I'm really interested in what these people were trying to say because I don't think it's nothing.

There's a lot of like atheists and secular people that just like to dismiss Christianity as being foolish.

You know, it's just fairy tales.

I hear that amongst you know, self-professed, intelligent people.

Like, it's a fairy tale.

I'm like,

I don't know if that's true.

I think there's more to it.

I think it's history, history, but I think it's a confusing history.

It's a confusing history because it was a long time ago.

And it's people telling things in an oral tradition and writing things down in a language that you don't understand, in the context of a culture that you don't understand.

And I think there's something to what they're saying.

I think there's a reason why they all have a flood myth.

I think there's a reason.

They all have a very similar story of catastrophic floods and chaos.

And then that jives with what geologists are finding and what these people are finding that are exploring the Younger Dryas Impact Theory, that there was, there was floods, massive, enormous amounts of water that are instantaneously released from melting ice caps all over the world because of comet impacts.

Like it happened.

There's

physical evidence of this happening.

And I think that's what they're trying to say in these stories.

I just think it's so confusing.

It's so confusing because you're dealing with a time so long ago you you barely we talk about how different people live today on earth but way more similar

today than we would be reacting or interacting with a society that existed 6 000 years ago like what what are we even talking about like what is that like what is the world like then what is what is discourse like like what is

what rules are there what what What protections do you have against being robbed and stolen from?

And how often is war?

What is life like back then?

It's fucking nuts.

And so you're writing things down on animal skins frantically and hiding them in

clay jars in Qumran.

And like, I hope somebody finds this someday.

And then

thousands of years later, someone does.

They find these ancient fucking scrolls and they pull them out and they're versions of stories from the Bible.

So these people have been telling these same stories stories for thousands of years.

Like, well, okay, what were they trying to say?

That's what's interesting to me.

I don't think it's nothing.

No.

No.

I think there's something to it, and there's a reason why it resonates with people.

And Christianity in particular is the most fascinating to me because there's this one person that everybody agrees existed that somehow or another had the best plan for how human beings should interact with each other and behave and was the best example of it, and even died in a non-violent way, like didn't even protest, died on the cross, supposedly for our sins.

Like, it's a fascinating story.

What does it represent, though?

That's the real thing.

What was that?

Like, what happened?

Who was Jesus Christ if it was a human being?

What was that?

That's wild.

Well, Jordan's idea, as I understand it, is that the point

of the story, if you like, is it's about voluntary self-sacrifice.

It's about the fact that to have a good society, people have to be willing to sacrifice something of themselves

for others.

And that's what Jesus is, and that story is supposed to inspire in all of us.

Right, but it's a historical human being, too, though.

It's a historically documented human being.

That's where it gets weird because

there's a universal depiction of what this human being was like that doesn't seem to vary that much between all the people that knew him.

That gets weird.

You know,

if you go to Jerusalem, you can go to the Garden of Gethsemane.

And for those people who don't know, that's where Jesus was arrested by the Roman soldiers.

It still exists.

You can go there 2,000 years later.

Wow.

And you just literally walk around this place.

You're just like, my God.

Like, the connection to those stories, it's just, it's right there.

And also, I think

the lessons that you learn from going to church are incredibly profound.

Something as simple.

So I was raised Catholic as, you know, they'd say, peace be upon you, towards the the end.

Let's show each other a sign of peace.

Yeah.

And you literally shake hands with the person next to you.

Right.

You don't know this person.

You may have never met them, but you shake hands with the person behind, in front, and whatever else.

Yeah.

What an incredibly profound gesture that is.

Just to shake hands with someone.

And all your anger and all your resentment and everything you feel, which is natural, and jealousy, and you go, but you make a literal physical connection with another human being.

That is so powerful.

Yeah.

And if you don't have something to believe in,

there's not a thing that you follow that

you believe is making you be a better version of yourself, be a better person.

If you're just relying on your whims and your, you know, whatever you think is the moral thing to do, you know, then you know what you get?

You get those people that are unable to answer the question of whether or not you should protect an unborn fetus or whether or not they have human rights.

No.

No.

No, they don't.

And they just, oh,

they're just like, that's what you get.

That's what you get when you have no religion.

Yeah.

If you have religion, you go, wow, that's a good question.

That's a very good question.

And

it's also as well, you know, when we look at the new atheist movement, and that's something that I really followed, you know, Dawkins and all these kind of people who pointed out the ridiculousness of certain religions, et cetera, et cetera.

And then we don't need religion.

I think that's fundamentally inaccurate.

I think human beings need religion.

I don't know if you need it, but it definitely can help.

But I think societies need it.

Yeah.

But I just think it's silly to dismiss all these stories as being useless.

Totally.

I think they were trying to say something.

Right.

And I don't know what that something is, but the deeper you dive into it, the more interesting it gets.

Yeah.

Well, last time we had Richard on the show, if you remember, we kind of pushed him on this.

Yeah.

And

as far as we could get, he was like, well, you know, maybe it's a story that's useful, but it's still not true.

And I'm going, well, if it's useful, maybe we should hang on to it for a little bit.

You know, do we want to throw away something that's useful because we're so fixated on literal truth when this is perhaps a metaphor for something, right?

Perhaps.

Yeah.

You know?

So yeah, I've kind of moved on on that.

I used to love all that new atheist stuff.

Me too.

But a lot of those guys fell apart.

and all those guys get real persnickiny you don't they don't seem very enlightened they don't seem like they're at peace which is interesting you know because uh that's the the true christians that i've met and i've met some like legitimate like very charitable kind christians they're some of the happiest and kindest people i've ever met And that's borne out in the statistics as well.

However, I will say this, though, right?

And I think this is worth, like, the best people I've ever met are Christians, but also some of the worst people I've met.

Oh, sure.

You know what I mean.

Well, there's a real issue in Texas, where there's these very wealthy guys that are trying to, they succeeded in getting the Ten Commandments put in every public school, but they essentially want Texas to be a theocracy.

They're nutters.

They're out on the fringe.

You know,

they're firing brimstone type.

Jesus is coming.

Like them folks.

Those folks are real, too.

That scares the shit out of me.

Because

I was talking to Ron White about that.

Like, Ron White's a southern guy i've been here his whole life like he's like be careful them fucking really crazy christians because don't think they're like regular christians and he's right there's you get to the fringe where you know

and it's the same with other religions this is not specific to christians yep yep it's fun it's nutters it's just nutters whether they're nutters as a mormon or nutters as a baptist they're just nutters they're crazy people that take things to the utmost degree do you remember do you remember richard pryor in live live at the Sunset Strip where he was talking about being in jail and he talked about meeting Islamic fundamentalists?

He called them double Muslims.

Oh, Richard Pryor.

And that's why there's so much info.

Have you ever seen that Emo Phillips bit

about the bridge?

No.

Jamie, would you write jokes of all time?

Yo, you're going to love this bitch.

What is it about?

It's about

he meets a guy who's about to jump off a bridge and he starts talking to him and he realizes there's a lot of similarities.

But I'm not going to do it justice if Jamie can play it.

Emo Phillips.

Oh, you know what?

Sorry, sorry.

Can we not play it?

That's a four-minute bit of someone else's game.

Yeah, we'll get in trouble.

I'll listen to it afterwards.

We can wrap this up.

It's one of the best jokes ever.

What are you guys doing tonight?

You hanging out?

Yeah.

Come to the club.

Sure.

Let's party.

Let's go.

It sounds fun.

Hey, it's always a pleasure.

It's really great to see you guys.

I know I'm trying to get you to leave your shitty country and come to America, but I really do hope you win over there and fix that place.

I always loved England.

It's an awesome place to visit.

And

I think

what you guys do and having these conversations, I really do think is important.

I think it's important for the whole world, but I think it's really important for England.

Well,

the way we feel about it is it's our country, man, and we don't want to run away.

I get it.

You know, we love it.

We love our country.

We want to live.

You know, you talk about loving England, and we love England the same way you guys do.

If the United States was California, I would have done the same.

Right.

but it's not.

Right.

I guess I can escape.

So I escaped.

But yeah, I would have felt the same way.

Like, staying sorted out.

Yeah.

And

at least try

until it gets real bad.

I mean, we're about to get wealth taxes by all accounts, right?

So that's that's the next level.

Well, look on the bright side.

You got digital ID now.

So that's.

Yeah, we're looking forward to that one.

Trigonometry, it's available everywhere.

It's a great show.

I love you guys.

Always great to see you.

Thanks, appreciate you, brother.

I appreciate you too.

Thank you.

Bye.

Bye, everybody.