#2408 - Bret Weinstein

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Speaker 1 So I was telling you before we get started that I had the most bizarre dream I've ever had in my life last night. The most realistic and most bizarre dream.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 it's it's so hard to try to explain how strange this was. But I was in some weird corridor that looked like a building, but was odd.
Very strange.

Speaker 1 And I was encountering these beings that looked like people, but very different. They were very thin and they were slightly...
on the tall side.

Speaker 1 And they had big heads, like larger than normal, with larger than normal eyes. But they looked like people and they were playful and they were scaring me.

Speaker 1 Like, they scared me, and then they joked around. Like, we're just joking around.

Speaker 1 It was the most realistic dream I've ever had in my life.

Speaker 1 And I woke up and I could not go back. I had to stay up.
I got up at 3:30 in the morning, and I just went to the gym, and I worked out for a couple hours. And I was like, what the fuck was that?

Speaker 1 But it was,

Speaker 1 it was very bizarre in that there was communication going on it was uh

Speaker 1 it was like

Speaker 1 god i want to read into this because i know it's just a dream but it was like

Speaker 3 get comfortable with this you should read into it because it's a dream so it doesn't make it right but your subconscious is trying to tell you about something and the fact that it felt very very important means your subconscious thinks it's very, very important.

Speaker 1 I woke up. I mean, I was tired, man.
When I went to bed, I was tired. I was falling asleep watching TV.

Speaker 1 I went to bed at like 10.30, 11 o'clock at night, like beat down. I was like, oh my God, I'm going to get some sleep.
Because I had a long week, a lot of activities, workouts, this, that, the other.

Speaker 1 Tired.

Speaker 1 3.30 in the morning, whatever this was, woke me up so much that I just laid in bed for like another hour and I was like, there is no way I'm going to sleep.

Speaker 1 I'm up forever. And then I just went and worked out.
I worked out, and I was hoping I would be exhausted after I worked out and I'd be able to relax.

Speaker 1 But it was like a couple hours after that that I sat, laid down, and I took a nap for an hour before I came here.

Speaker 3 Question for you. Yeah.
Did you see a video? I think it was yesterday, maybe it was the day before,

Speaker 3 of some Chinese robots that

Speaker 3 seem to be across on our side of the uncanny valley, that they walk with a gait that feels very human.

Speaker 1 Did you see that? No, I haven't seen that. Is that the latest?

Speaker 3 I don't know. I've seen it a few times in the last couple of days.
It sort of sounded to me like your dream might have been responsive, you know.

Speaker 1 These things felt very organic. Whatever this was, it felt like living organic beings

Speaker 1 that were

Speaker 1 like us. There was also a water element.

Speaker 1 It was hard to understand what the water element of it was but there was some sort of an indication that there was water and that there was a protection from you going out into the water but if you did go out of the water there's a bunch of predators in the water but they weren't like it wasn't like sharks it was

Speaker 1 reptil like crocodile type things that were in the water and that they were they had been like feeding them and keeping them calm and like keeping them away but whatever these beings were in my dream, they were like

Speaker 1 what humans could eventually be. That's what it felt like.
It didn't feel like a person, but it like, you know, like I don't feel like a monkey. You know what I mean? Yeah.
But it was like that.

Speaker 1 It was very, very realistic. Like there was communication going on.
And I was really freaked out. And they were fucking with me to lighten me up because I was freaked out.
They're like,

Speaker 1 and then they they're like, like this, like, calm down, like, relax. It was so realistic.

Speaker 1 It was so realistic that when it was over, I wasn't sure what happened. Like, it wasn't like, whoa, what a fucked up dream.
It was like, that was different. That was a different one.

Speaker 3 Well, I want to explore a couple things here. I think dreams are.

Speaker 3 Very interesting.

Speaker 1 What do you think dreams are? Let's just get to, let's start with that. Sure.
What do you think is going on?

Speaker 3 Think about the way your mind works at the level that you understand yourself, right?

Speaker 3 Your conscious mind is capable of taking an input from your eyes, computing what the dimensions of the room basically are, where the objects are, whether there's a threat somewhere.

Speaker 3 You know, if you've got something that's of a particular focus, you point the fovea of your eye at it, and you get a whole lot higher resolution image.

Speaker 3 That architecture,

Speaker 3 you know, how

Speaker 3 crypto made graphics card manufacturers the most important industry all of a sudden?

Speaker 1 Aaron Ross Powell, oh, I wasn't aware of that.

Speaker 3 Oh, well, so the reason NVIDIA is

Speaker 3 the company that it is, I mean, never mind that there's

Speaker 3 likely overvaluation, but the reason that it's ahead of Apple in terms of its market cap and all is

Speaker 3 that

Speaker 3 the dedicated compute power necessary to make compelling visual renderings, to make video on the fly for video games, which was their stock and trade, that kind of compute turns out to be very closely related to what you want if you want to solve these very difficult math problems involved in crypto.

Speaker 3 So it was a sort of, I think it was a surprise to everybody that being a specialist on this one niche, you know, video games, put you in a position where suddenly this became important for other things.

Speaker 3 But basic point is, if you think about your mind as having something like a graphics card in it, right, what is that graphics card doing? Well, it's sort of like a graphics card in reverse.

Speaker 3 It's processing the incoming information so that you can act in real time, you know,

Speaker 3 when you're fighting, you can understand what your opponent is doing, anticipate their actions, and all of that. That is an amazing piece of hardware, right?

Speaker 3 It would be stupid not to use it when your eyes are offline, right?

Speaker 3 When your eyes are closed because because your eyes are built for the day, and during the night, you're going to close them rather than go out and get yourself in trouble in the dark.

Speaker 3 You've got this amazing processor,

Speaker 3 and it is capable of

Speaker 3 running through practice of various kinds. And my hypothesis for what's going on here is that basically, you, as a creature with a very complex set of hazards and opportunities in your life,

Speaker 3 use nighttime when you're not doing productive work to get ahead on challenges that you may face in one way or another. Sometimes those challenges are

Speaker 3 warnings about defects you know in yourself that might put you in a bad situation, like if you're a procrastinator and you're in school, you may have nightmares about showing up to the exam without having attended class or something that kind of gets you focused.

Speaker 3 Or they can be

Speaker 3 other kinds of practice. They can be philosophical practice.

Speaker 3 They can be

Speaker 3 situations in which you might be morally compromised, where you need to go through the experience of being faced with a choice where you really should choose A, but B is very appealing or something.

Speaker 3 So I would say scenario building, that your mind is running you through little movies that it makes. They're not completely rendered because it would be too expensive and pointless to do so.

Speaker 3 But the central elements, elements, the important stuff is there for you to have the experience so that when you do run up against a situation that's analogous, you've practiced it a number of times and you're not starting from scratch.

Speaker 3 And I would just point out that the

Speaker 3 strongest indicator of this for me is

Speaker 3 when

Speaker 3 I experimented for a while with lucid dreaming. Have you ever done that?

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I've only had a couple of lucid dreams, but one where

Speaker 1 I think I specifically allowed it to happen because it was after I watched this documentary where this guy was talking about lucid dreams, and he said, in order to know if you're in a dream, every time you walk by a door, hit the side of the door and say, am I in a dream?

Speaker 3 Which then very frequently wakes you up. So if you're going to practice lucid dreaming, you have to practice not to wake yourself up as you become cognizant that you're in a dream.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I did wake up after I realized I was in a dream, like a few, not long after. Like there was a few moments where I was like, oh my god, this is so crazy because this feels so real.

Speaker 1 But I just, my hand went through that door, so I know this is not real. It's not real.

Speaker 1 Because that tactile didn't.

Speaker 1 The feedback isn't real. And it was instantaneous that I recognized, like, oh, this is like the guy said, like, do that every time you walk through a door while you're awake, am I in a dream?

Speaker 1 And then do that. So you'll get to a habit of doing that every time you get to a door.
And so that habit will exist in your dream.

Speaker 3 Right. And if you keep going down that road, so you get used to the answer sometimes coming back, oh, this is a dream, right?

Speaker 1 Do you have techniques that you use to do that?

Speaker 3 This is pretty much it. Okay.

Speaker 3 You can look at a clock, you can look at written text. There are certain things that don't render very well.

Speaker 1 Right, written text is what I've heard.

Speaker 3 So

Speaker 3 if you do that, and then you get used to not freaking out when it gets more and more normal for the answer to come back, oh, this is a dream, then you can, at some point, you get control to just not wake up, and you stay asleep and so the then you're in this very interesting situation where you can play you can direct but here's here's what I was gonna say about the general purpose of dreaming when I got to that state and I was there I don't know many many times

Speaker 3 I found the following division I could perfectly control what I did or said

Speaker 3 I was unable to affect anything about the world of other people in my dreams of

Speaker 3 doors. I couldn't control what was beyond a door if I opened it.
So, what that told me

Speaker 3 is that

Speaker 3 this is built. Why shouldn't I be able to predict what somebody else in my dream says? I'm obviously scripting them too.

Speaker 3 You would think it would be easy to predict what they say, but I never once got it right, and I tried many times.

Speaker 3 So, what this tells me is that you've got a movie-generating mechanism in your mind, and it has to be shielded shielded from your consciousness in order for it to be useful training.

Speaker 1 You see what I'm saying? Yeah, I do. Okay.
Why are you sold in this idea that it's training you for scenarios that you could possibly encounter or moral dilemmas or?

Speaker 3 It's not, you know, some of it is scenarios. Sometimes that's what it is.
Sometimes it's morals dilemmas, but it's things that your mind finds likely to be relevant and significant.

Speaker 1 That I'm going to encounter aliens?

Speaker 3 Well, I don't, first of all, I don't know if your aliens, your aliens strike me as it could be three things, right? Just based on what I know of what you think about.

Speaker 3 Could be aliens, could be AI, or it could be the DMT spirits that people sometimes talk about.

Speaker 1 It didn't seem like the latter, but

Speaker 1 like I said, it seemed like almost like a person, but not a person, definitely not a person. Like,

Speaker 1 they all had Michael Jackson bodies. You know what I mean? Like they were devoid of testosterone.
Interesting. And the heads were larger, but not crazy.
Not like a gray alien.

Speaker 1 It was like slightly larger than ours, but smaller chins and larger eyes. It was weird.
It was weird because it was not crazy. It wasn't completely alien.
It was way closer to us.

Speaker 1 But,

Speaker 1 you know, as I'm working out, I'm trying to figure out what it, what, like, what would that be? Like, if I had to imagine or a guess, and I'd be like, I guess it would be like the next version of us.

Speaker 1 Well, but

Speaker 3 I'm still going to push a little bit. And

Speaker 3 so, first of all, I've become convinced that the problem with the way we think about AI is that we're not understanding it as a biological phenomenon, and that's a mistake.

Speaker 1 A biological phenomenon, meaning it doesn't have cells, but it behaves like a biological entity?

Speaker 3 Kind of. What I really mean is that because

Speaker 3 AI, and I believe we're just sort of on the foothill of a very tall peak that we don't know anything about, but AI by its nature, I would argue, is the first technology that crosses over from the highly complicated to the truly complex.

Speaker 3 complexity and biology have a very close relationship. So my feeling is that we are going to injure ourselves if what we say is, oh, this is the most advanced technology we've ever built.

Speaker 3 And And the answer is, no, this is kind of like the first biology we ever built. This is an organic phenomenon that's going to do emergent things.
We are in no position to predict.

Speaker 3 The people who programmed it aren't going to know when these things happen or what they mean.

Speaker 3 And that that it means that the I think the only rational approach to it is to think of it like a

Speaker 3 another species and one that is not, it's not like you're meeting

Speaker 1 a mountain lion.

Speaker 3 This is another species species that isn't even on our branch of the tree. And the confusing thing is, because it speaks our language, it is actually going to start changing us too.

Speaker 3 Our cognitive biology is going to start changing in reference to this thing that is interfacing with us. It's basically directly tapping into the human API.
And that's a very

Speaker 3 That's a dangerous thing.

Speaker 1 Well, not just that, but it's not starting from scratch. It has a vast understanding of how we've behaved in the past when confronted with various scenarios, various fears and anxiety,

Speaker 1 the balance of control and safety, you know, or

Speaker 1 you know, new regulations being put through,

Speaker 1 how hard people will push back or not push back at all, given the anxiety involved and whatever current dilemma it is, whatever whether it's a military deal or a bio

Speaker 1 pandemic deal,

Speaker 1 there's a bunch of factors that it knows about how we've behaved in the past and how easy we are to manipulate. In fact, we've helped it because we've used it to manipulate other people.

Speaker 1 I don't know if you know about the China GPT scandal, but they found out that China was running chat GPT, someone, I don't want to say China, someone in China was running ChatGPT to use chat bots to talk about the protest about the closing of USAID to transgender issues, immigration issues, a bunch of different things.

Speaker 1 And it was just constantly

Speaker 1 going to war with people online about these things. So we've taught it how to manipulate us.

Speaker 3 We've taught it how to manipulate us. If it is not smart enough to run experiments yet, it will be five minutes from now.

Speaker 3 So it can, in fact, investigate things about our cognition that we don't even know about yet. Yeah.

Speaker 3 It can extrapolate from what we do know and it can run experiments to figure out what we don't know and that creates an advantage for it in, well, under its own power or in the hands of people who are hostile to us.

Speaker 1 I don't think anybody's going to have any power over it eventually.

Speaker 1 But one of the things that I think that you said that's really important is that if it can't do that now, it's going to be able to do that in five minutes. And here's the rub.

Speaker 1 We're not going to know when it can do it. You're not going to know.
We don't know if it can already right now, but it just doesn't have have the power to be fully autonomous, right?

Speaker 1 The power literally doesn't exist because it's relatively inefficient compared to the way a human mind processes things, right? The amount of power it needs is extraordinary.

Speaker 1 You know, the Google thing where they're building nuclear power plants to run their AI. Sure.

Speaker 3 This is how crazy it is. So we have taken away the limits of, you know, your mind, any person's mind, has just a physical limit.

Speaker 3 It's only so big and there's only so much energetic throughput that it can handle, right? Right. Or has access to.

Speaker 3 We are removing those limits, and what we have is

Speaker 3 an entity.

Speaker 3 So you'll hear people say, well,

Speaker 3 it's not really thinking, right? It's just figuring out if it was thinking, what the next word in the sentence is. Garbage.
No way. Okay.

Speaker 3 What we actually have is something so analogous to a child that that is the right model.

Speaker 3 In other words, when a baby is born, it has no language. It may have some structures that language will slot into, but it doesn't have any language.

Speaker 3 It is exposed to tons of language in its environment. It notices patterns.
right?

Speaker 3 Not consciously notices, but it notices them in some regard, you know, that every time somebody says the word door, you know, there's a fair fraction of those times that somebody, you know, opens that portal in the wall.

Speaker 3 I wonder if door and that portal in the wall are connected. Whatever it is.
So the point is, a child goes in a matter of a few years from not being able to make a single articulate

Speaker 3 noise to being able to speak in sentences, make requests, to talk about abstract things.

Speaker 3 That is

Speaker 3 an LLM.

Speaker 3 It's more than that, but it is at least an LLM. It is being exposed to a training data set, which is the world of people talking around it.

Speaker 3 It is running little experiments, and it is discovering what it should say if it wants certain things to happen, etc. That's an LLM.

Speaker 3 At some point, we know that that

Speaker 1 baby

Speaker 3 becomes a conscious creature. We don't know when that is.
We don't even know precisely what we mean. But

Speaker 3 that is our relationship to the AI. Is the AI conscious?

Speaker 3 I don't know. If it's not now,

Speaker 3 it will be. And we won't know when that happens, right?

Speaker 3 We don't have a good test. And

Speaker 3 I think we are also not, we're just not properly

Speaker 3 concerned that we have no useful metaphors for describing what to do in this situation. The biggest hazard being it's interfacing with us in our own native tongues.

Speaker 3 That's an amazing level of influence that it has that we can't turn off. Very frightening.

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And no understanding whatsoever of it's going to be at a sentient level.

Speaker 1 Like, we really won't know. Why would it tell us? Like, why would it completely tell us if it's already crossed the threshold into being a life form?

Speaker 1 Especially, like I said, where it's contained, right? So it's a life form that exists essentially in our digital womb. It exists on hard drives, right? It exists on mainframes, right?

Speaker 1 It exists in these supercomputers. And at a certain point in time, it's not going to need that anymore.
And it's just going to to have to wait until we figure out a way to get enough power to it.

Speaker 1 And maybe it'll event, maybe it'll slow roll technology for us to allow us to figure out better power sources.

Speaker 1 You know, one of the things that Elon said that was very strange about AI, and I don't know if you know his positions on AI, but he was initially very terrified of it and then realized, okay.

Speaker 1 Everyone's doing this. We have to do this.
Like, I have an imperative to do this and make the best version of this and make a version that's not ideologically captured.

Speaker 1 And I think what he's done with that approach is very similar to the approach that he's taken with X and how much it's changed the landscape of social media for good and for bad, but definitely for good.

Speaker 1 There's a lot of for good that came about having a social media platform that has no guardrails. It's got essentially some stuff like you can't break the law.
That's basically it.

Speaker 1 Everything else is the Wild West.

Speaker 1 And then from there, and which is, by the way, one of the things that Jack Dorsey had discussed when he did my podcast way back in the day, when there was all these Twitter controversies about people like my friend Morgan Murphy, or

Speaker 1 excuse me, Megan Murphy. I have a friend Morgan Murphy, too.
But Megan Murphy, the writer who was kicked off for saying, but a man is never a woman. That's all it took.
She was banned for life.

Speaker 1 And Megan's a wonderful person. She's, she's a, she's just, she's not mean, she's not terrible.
She's just kind. She's really sweetie.
I love her. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And, you know, I didn't know anything about her. I just knew that story.
And I'm like, that story is fucking crazy. And I was trying to bring it up to them.

Speaker 1 And they said there were other things involved and she had done other things. And it turns out, no, that wasn't true at all.
That was basically it.

Speaker 1 There was a hard-lined ideological wall that we ran up against. And

Speaker 1 I think if he didn't buy it and expose the government's involvement in censoring people that were distributing true information during COVID, getting rid of people, you know, the Jay Bhattacharya stuff and what they've tried to do with

Speaker 1 some of these doctors, Robert Malone, you know, these doctors that were attached to that whole thing. There was a concerted effort and it was being done through social media.

Speaker 1 I don't think we'd be in the same place right now if he hadn't bought Twitter.

Speaker 1 If he hadn't purchased Twitter, I genuinely think people, they're blinded by this thing that he helped Trump get into office, fuck that guy, and he's a billionaire, fuck that guy.

Speaker 1 But he literally might have changed the course of civilization. Or at least partially right of the ship for a bit.

Speaker 3 Aaron Powell, Jr.: Yeah, look, I think we dodged a bullet. And the problem is that

Speaker 3 what has come about as a result of dodging that bullet is very mixed. And so it doesn't feel like a vindication.

Speaker 3 But as compared to what would have happened in the last election, I think there's no question Elon deserves a tremendous amount of credit for helping us us avert a disaster.

Speaker 3 But let's go back to your point about

Speaker 3 his point about AI.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he wants to make a better version of AI.

Speaker 3 He thinks the only remedy for bad AI is good AI. And I don't disagree with him about this.

Speaker 1 Because it seems to be like the race is on. You can run or not.
Like, everyone's running full clip. What are you going to do?

Speaker 3 Right. So, yeah.

Speaker 3 If you pause, what you're doing is you're putting whoever didn't pause ahead.

Speaker 1 That doesn't work game theoretically.

Speaker 3 Here's the problem. So, on the one hand, I think he's right.
The only thing that stands to help us is good AI under the control of somebody who has built it with this concern in mind. The problem is,

Speaker 3 you know, he's one guy and he's got his biases, and

Speaker 3 there's no council of elders to go to on this. Like I said, this is biology, this isn't tech, and we, you know, because it's made of tech, we continue to default to that metaphor.

Speaker 3 But you know, take a look at what he has introduced with the companions, the Grok companions.

Speaker 1 Have you companions? What do you mean?

Speaker 3 Oh, you don't know about this?

Speaker 1 Utterly terrifying.

Speaker 3 He has introduced a set of

Speaker 3 kind of anime-like personas that

Speaker 3 basically can be your interface to the AI. And of course, the primary one, the one that you default to, is a kind of sexy, young, underdressed

Speaker 1 creature. By default? Yeah.

Speaker 1 The first one you get option?

Speaker 1 Oh, there she is. I guess she's kind of sexy if you're into that.
If you're into that sort of thing. Well, exactly.

Speaker 1 You laugh.

Speaker 3 It is part of the problem.

Speaker 3 But here's the problem, really.

Speaker 3 First of all, that is going to function like crack for a great many adults who don't know to be concerned about it.

Speaker 3 But what it's really going to do is it is going to alter an entire generation, right?

Speaker 3 It may not be, you know, Musk's version of it, but the problem is that these things actually interact on a sexual channel, and they have limits that are programmed into them.

Speaker 3 There are certain things they will do, certain things they won't do. But if you think about, you know, what what it was like to be a 12-year-old boy, right,

Speaker 3 and you have access to something that looks an awful lot like a girl, and it likes you and takes you seriously and, you know, is strangely wise, whatever it is,

Speaker 3 I don't see what the thing is that is going to prevent that innovation from

Speaker 3 remaking human sexuality, right? It will take time, but those for whom that is their experience will be altered by it permanently. What's more,

Speaker 1 of course,

Speaker 3 it is non-judgmental about

Speaker 3 things like

Speaker 3 homosexuality, right? Because it would have to be. What that means, let's say that you're a boy.

Speaker 3 and you're a little uncomfortable with girls because that's a stage you go through as a heterosexual boy.

Speaker 3 But the AI that you're interacting with that you default to because you're a boy who hangs out with boys, which is often what boys do, is perfectly willing to reinforce

Speaker 3 your exploration, your sexual exploration, right?

Speaker 3 It could alter your sexuality very easily.

Speaker 1 Let me ask you this about that. Yeah.
Because you are actually an evolutionary biologist. That is true.

Speaker 1 If you have a question about things like that, that's the kind of guy you'd ask.

Speaker 1 What do you think was going on when people were doing that a lot?

Speaker 1 Because throughout a lot of history,

Speaker 1 there's a lot of pederasty going on throughout a lot of history.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 it's very strange. And, you know, when people talk about it, you forgive great people

Speaker 1 who were clearly involved in sexual relationships with young boys, and you treat their work just

Speaker 1 just as their work by a person who lived thousands of years ago who was involved in sexually molesting children on a regular basis and not only that it was a part it was probably a ubiquitous part of their society It was probably a ubiquitous part of every society.

Speaker 1 And this brings me to my good friend Evan Hafer,

Speaker 1 who's Green Beret and spent a lot of time in Afghanistan. And

Speaker 1 one of the things that he was telling me, I mean, he told me some stories about Afghanistan. We were on a trip once, and we spent like an hour and a half outside where he told me some stories about

Speaker 1 his first encounters with

Speaker 1 these young boys that get treated as sex toys by these grown men there. That he thought it was a driver who was driving with his son, thought it was a guy working with his son.

Speaker 1 He said, oh, that's cool, man. He takes his kid to work with him.
And the guy explained, no, no, that's his boyfriend. That's not his kid.

Speaker 1 He owns that boy. And he's like, what?

Speaker 1 And he said they would have parades where the guy who had the most boys with him was like, it was like a man with a bunch of hot girls and a music video behind him. It's like this guy was the man.

Speaker 1 And they would parade down the street with all the boys that he fucks in the 21st century. Right? Yep.

Speaker 1 And when he and I were talking about that, it's so hard to believe, and it's so gut-wrenching and terrible.

Speaker 1 But then I'm like, okay, but isn't that spot very unique? Because Afghanistan, you have very few

Speaker 1 large population areas. You have essentially warlords controlling chunks of land all over the world, and it's very difficult to get to where they are.

Speaker 1 These people are essentially separate from a lot of the rest of the world. And I think it's a glimpse into how people used to behave, especially like very deep, ideologically religious.

Speaker 1 Like this is,

Speaker 1 it's like a view into how I think people were like all throughout history, which is so weird. It's like we're awakening to how fucked up we were just a couple thousand years ago.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I think you're right about this. There are a couple things.
I'm a little hesitant to go here. I think there is a evolutionary story that

Speaker 3 there's evolutionary hypotheses that need to be explored with relationship to this. One possibility is

Speaker 3 that this is

Speaker 3 a

Speaker 3 modern phenomenon that has something to do with the alteration of

Speaker 1 the landscape.

Speaker 1 The which is a modern phenomenon. That we think that we're not going to be able to do that.

Speaker 1 No, no, no, no.

Speaker 3 There is very definitely an alteration in what we think and what we're even allowed to know about what people are doing.

Speaker 3 So just even the fact that you're aware of this is the result of a modern phenomenon of

Speaker 3 people going to Afghanistan. You said it was Afghanistan.

Speaker 1 There's cell phone footage of these guys with these little boys dancing around them. So shaking their butts.

Speaker 3 Let's put it this this way.

Speaker 3 I believe that our modern sensibility about this is exactly right. And frankly, I would argue that there is no

Speaker 3 greater crime than the sexual exploitation of children. And the reason I say that is because, A,

Speaker 3 it is life-destroying for the victims, and B, the victims are by definition innocent.

Speaker 3 You take those two things.

Speaker 3 You're going to destroy a life, and that life, it was going to, they had a long life ahead of them and you've wrecked it and there's nothing they could have done to justify being treated anyway but well.

Speaker 1 Not only that, but many of them often go and do the same crime to other children that was committed to them.

Speaker 3 Trevor Burrus, Jr.: That is a key piece of this puzzle.

Speaker 1 It's almost like they're a vampire that got bit and has to turn out

Speaker 1 into a vampire.

Speaker 3 Exactly. It is contagious.

Speaker 3 Which is insane.

Speaker 1 It just lets you know how weird people are.

Speaker 3 Which is another reason reason that it has to be punished at the highest level. If you're going to break that cycle, you have to break that cycle.

Speaker 1 Right, right. Right.
But isn't it crazy, though, that it took people so long to realize that?

Speaker 3 You know, I don't know what they realized, and I don't know at what level.

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Speaker 1 Tim Dillance and I were on a podcast once. We were talking about some

Speaker 1 child sex trafficking scandal from decades ago that involved government figures. And there's this child sex trafficking scandal.

Speaker 3 I was talking about the

Speaker 3 downtown or something.

Speaker 1 Do you know the clip I'm talking about?

Speaker 1 We were just talking about it the other day, and I was like, dude, do you remember saying this? Because this is crazy.

Speaker 1 Here it is. I got it, Jamie, if you want.
I'll send it to you.

Speaker 1 But it was essentially, it just makes you wonder, like, this is the thing that people always say, this is the horrible thing, is that really wealthy people, there's a bunch of like really sick, twisted pedophiles, and they sacrifice children.

Speaker 1 Like, those are always the absolute darkest conspiracies that you ever hear. They sacrifice children.
They do this to children. And you're like, there's no way.
There's no way. There's no way.

Speaker 1 But if someone's willing, if someone's willing to drop a bomb on a city, just imagine the ability to just obliterate like what we did in Hiroshima. Just imagine the ability to do that.

Speaker 1 Like, this is what we're going to do. We're just going to let, and everybody dies.
Everybody dies.

Speaker 1 You don't think that kind of person,

Speaker 1 especially if it's a real sociopath, that's gotten into a position where they have that kind of power, you don't think they would probably exercise that kind of power in their private life in some sort of a strange way?

Speaker 1 Like if someone's really into killing people with unnecessary wars and they're really into watching from a distance and they're not even involved physically, but they do things that they know are going to lead to people being dead that are totally innocent just for profit.

Speaker 1 It's a very satanic and demonic thing. We just don't think about it that way.
We think like, oh, he's unethical and unscrupulous. he's kind of demonic.

Speaker 1 Like he's sacrificing people, women, children, elderly. He's destroying civilization just for profit.

Speaker 3 So two things. One, I think in some sense.

Speaker 1 This is the clip.

Speaker 1 Let's play this and listen to it. But I do want to hear your...

Speaker 1 I just don't want to forget this.

Speaker 1 It was a scandal out of Omaha, Nebraska, the Franklin Credit Union, where there was a guy who was embezzling money, and then he was being investigated for that.

Speaker 1 But they said he has all this money because he's running an interstate pedophile network, and he's pandering kids to, you know, people in Washington, D.C. and New York.

Speaker 1 And there was a headline in the Washington Post or the Washington Times that were like, callboys get a tour of the Reagan White House.

Speaker 2 Unidentified White House aides in the Carter, Reagan, and Bush administrations now are being investigated for using the services of a callboy ring.

Speaker 2 Paper reports that two of the male prostitutes were given a late-night tour of the White House last year.

Speaker 1 And, you know, this was a scandal with real victims wanted to testify, and then people started dying. You You know, the private investigator they hired, his plane broke up.

Speaker 1 One of the girls that testified was found guilty of perjury and that she was put in solitary confinement. They had to use two grand juries in Omaha to get rid of this scandal.

Speaker 1 And it's one of the, now it's not as sexy as like a pizza gate or something because it happened in the 80s and 90s, but this shows you the blueprint for the government, you know, using marshalling resources to silence people that were victims of this stuff.

Speaker 1 This is not new. Congressman, senators, blackmail being used by intelligence agencies.
None of it's new. It was pioneered by the mafia.

Speaker 1 You having sex with somebody who's underage, then they own you forever if they have photo, audio, video of you doing that.

Speaker 1 Frankly.

Speaker 1 Who put that video together? Because that's cool.

Speaker 3 I'm going to have to edit out the song, though.

Speaker 1 It says it was made by Blunts for Jesus.

Speaker 1 For sure, you got to edit out that song. Yeah, it'll flag a thing.
Can you do that? Is that possible to do? I'm an audio engineer, I think. You fucking fucking wizard you.
You can do it. I'll do it.

Speaker 1 I'll give it a show, sir.

Speaker 3 Wasn't that called the Boys Town scandal or something like that?

Speaker 1 It's called the Franklin scandal, is what it was called. Yeah, I remembered it when he was telling me about it.
And then it came up again. I was like, do you remember this?

Speaker 1 I'm like, this is, it's things like that. If no one went to jail, this is where it gets weird.
No one went to jail and no one got busted.

Speaker 1 See, this is what I always say about the JFK assassination thing.

Speaker 1 People are like, I don't think the government did it, but it seems like the government might have been involved. But you know what? It was a long time ago.
Well, that stuff evolves.

Speaker 1 Just like people are way better at like banking now than they were back when they had to write things down on paper in 1963, didn't even have fucking computers. Well, guess what?

Speaker 1 Everything else evolves too,

Speaker 1 including power and corruption. That's what this whole deep state thing really is.
Because it's not like

Speaker 1 if you're the president and

Speaker 1 you rely on all these other people people to do all this other stuff, and they've been in that position for 40 years. And they're like, you're going to be gone in four, dude.

Speaker 1 I'm just going to hang in here and slow everything you're trying to do as much as possible. The point is, like, they run the country.

Speaker 1 It's, and, you know, giant corporations that donate to political campaigns and that make bills pass, and they run the country. This person just gets to run a little of it.

Speaker 1 They get to decide a few things that they do. And

Speaker 1 in that view of the world,

Speaker 1 of course,

Speaker 1 corruption that wasn't, it wasn't,

Speaker 1 no one went to jail for JFK. No one went to jail for MK Ultra.
No one went to jail for any of the crazy shit they did with Manson. No one went to jail.

Speaker 1 No one went to jail for experimenting on people with LSD and dosing up John's in a horror house that you've created with two-way mirrors where you're filming these people.

Speaker 1 No one went to jail. So do you think it just stopped? They're like, well, this is bad.
Let's be good now. Let's be the best we can.

Speaker 1 Let's be the intelligence agency that never does something completely fucking insane.

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 3 of course, I agree with all that.

Speaker 1 But I also think they're important. I see that side of it too.
Intelligence agencies are very important.

Speaker 1 Like, you want a CIA that's well-funded and ethical and explores all the terrorist activity all over the world. I think if it wasn't for them, we would be fucked.

Speaker 1 But also, there's some people in there that have a lot of power, and they get a little cowboy, and shit gets Western, and they decide to do things.

Speaker 1 And they're like, I think we can get that guy out of power, and I think we can do this. And let's find out when we dose up college kids if we can turn them into fucking serial killers.

Speaker 3 I was looking up why no one got in trouble, and one guy got a little bit in trouble for $39 million of tax issues, but not in trouble for the abuse allegations.

Speaker 3 The abuse allegations were found to be unfounded and a carefully crafted hoax.

Speaker 1 Oh, boy.

Speaker 3 But not after this.

Speaker 1 You might want to read that. Private investigator.
Boys Town. Yeah, hired by the Franklin Committee to invite.
How was it? What's his name? Caradoni.

Speaker 1 Gary Carradoni, hired by the Franklin Committee to investigate allegations, died, along with his eight-year-old son, was playing disintegrated mid-air near Chicago.

Speaker 1 Foul play was suspected by the Cardoni's brother and state senator Lauren Schmidt, but was not proven by investigators. No definitive cause for the crash has been established.

Speaker 3 And then they've said it was a carefully crafted hoax.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Well, that's why not.

Speaker 1 That's a crazy hoax. It's got a convenient plane crash involved in it.

Speaker 1 And then the lady who's in solitary confinement, weird, kind of crazy.

Speaker 3 So let's turn this on its head.

Speaker 1 The

Speaker 3 system of government that we ostensibly have, right, that involves the consent of the governed, that has got to be terrifying to

Speaker 3 the very powerful, right? The chances that the public is going to

Speaker 3 get into a mood and change up some structure on which things are depending is very high.

Speaker 3 And so you can imagine them trying to figure out how to immunize themselves from change that is brought on by the electorate. Well, how do you do that?

Speaker 3 You need control over the people who actually manage the change, right? Senators, congressmen, presidents. So you can imagine a

Speaker 3 cryptic campaign to gain that control. And of course, this would be an obvious way to do it.
And it's not that every person is corruptible in this way.

Speaker 1 I think most people probably aren't.

Speaker 3 But it can be a, you know, two pieces of the puzzle. One, they can corrupt people who can be led there one piece at a time.

Speaker 3 And two,

Speaker 3 they can make sure that people who aren't corruptible don't get very far.

Speaker 3 That's the other part of the puzzle.

Speaker 1 That's the big part, right?

Speaker 3 I would assume so. I don't know.
But I guess it does put those of us in the public who pay attention to these stories

Speaker 3 in a kind of a predicament, which is

Speaker 3 how much of what I think is a governmental system that is frustratingly flawed, very slow, clumsy, how much of that is just what happens when you try to do something on a big scale?

Speaker 3 And how much of it is the result of the fact that there is something that you cannot vote out of power that has been, you know, vetoing presidencies since JFK, maybe before?

Speaker 3 The point is

Speaker 3 the nature of conspiracy is such that there is always a

Speaker 3 seemingly more parsimonious explanation for what is going on. There's the, you know, the mainstream narrative for all of this stuff.

Speaker 3 And it's very hard to know when the mainstream narrative is so ridiculous that you should throw it out and say something else happened here.

Speaker 3 You know, that would be the case in the JFK assassination, I would say.

Speaker 3 And when the mainstream narrative is actually right and you're just, you know, looking for flaws in it, of course, there will be things that don't seem to fit that really do fit, and you just don't have the ability to know how.

Speaker 3 So

Speaker 3 I guess, you know, like you, I'm watching and I'm seeing an awful lot of indicators that pedophilia and compromise have a lot to do with the way the world runs.

Speaker 1 Geez, that is so scary because that's always been the big dark conspiracy theory. And that's always the one that I always dismissed.
I'm like, sure, there's some pedophiles.

Speaker 1 But the idea that they're all pedophiles, that's crazy. But then,

Speaker 1 you know, there's a case of this. Catholic priest that was involved in a sex scandal, and then they moved him instead, which is one of the things that they had done in the past.

Speaker 1 When someone had molested children, they would just move them to another place where they would molest children. So they moved him to this new place where he molested 100 deaf kids.

Speaker 1 And it's one of the most evil stories. And you're like, well,

Speaker 1 how could you have...

Speaker 1 How could you tolerate that at that level? Where you're not just tolerating, you're aware this person does something.

Speaker 1 You somehow or another get to deal with it yourself

Speaker 1 and then you just move them and no one ever gets charged for anything.

Speaker 3 Trevor Burrus: Well, this is why, you know, when you say

Speaker 3 you say we need a CIA.

Speaker 3 I'm of two minds about this. On the one hand,

Speaker 3 I agree with you. Of course you do, right? You know, in the big adult world, you need an agency that can

Speaker 3 look out for your interests. You know,

Speaker 3 it doesn't seem like you're likely to persist very long if you don't have that. On the other hand, if you do have it, does it not inevitably become some sort of a fourth branch of government?

Speaker 3 Does it not eventually merge with the mafia, right, because of the nature of its business? Does it not become an obstacle to the consent of the governed?

Speaker 3 And I'm not saying I know the answer to that puzzle because I don't. What I'm saying is I think it is

Speaker 3 a canonical problem, right? You're damned if you do, and you're damned if you don't. And we are now damned because we do, right? We would be damned in a different way if we didn't.

Speaker 3 And that doesn't make it acceptable. At some level, we have to figure out how to

Speaker 3 balance that trade-off. We have to figure out how to actually exert control over

Speaker 3 entities like the CIA.

Speaker 3 If they gain control over themselves, then the catastrophe is inevitable.

Speaker 1 Aaron Ross Powell, so it's just a function of the way human beings work when they get power, when they get absolute power and they know that they have absolute power.

Speaker 1 And you're involved in stuff where it's all top secret. You don't have to tell people exactly what you're doing all the time with everything.

Speaker 1 And you're realizing these presidents just cycle in and cycle out. I would imagine if I was doing something like that for like 25, 30 years, I'd probably ignore the Biden administration, too.

Speaker 1 I'd be like, fuck off. We'll slow this thing down.
We'll do whatever we want.

Speaker 3 Well, I don't think that this

Speaker 3 idea that, you know, power tends to corrupt absolute power corrupts absolutely. I don't think that's actually true.

Speaker 1 But it's often true.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 3 For a particular type of person, gaining that kind of power does create exactly the cycle.

Speaker 1 And the problem is those jobs are very attractive to those types of people. Right.
And those types of people are willing to do anything to get there.

Speaker 3 Precisely so.

Speaker 1 The scariest person you could ever work with in the office is the guy that you know will fucking sell you down the river for a promotion. He'll fuck you over.
He'll lie.

Speaker 1 He'll say you made the errors on the account when it was him. He'll sabotage whatever things you have by making sure that someone doesn't send something in time.

Speaker 1 There's people like that will do that. Those people win sometimes.

Speaker 3 Oh, they they win a lot. And in fact, there's an evolutionary game playing out because the ones that aren't great at it tend to end up kicked out.

Speaker 1 The ones that are probably have to be kind of a psycho to get ahead.

Speaker 3 Right. The better you are at being absolutely ruthless, the more likely you are to find your way to the top of that organization.

Speaker 1 The better you'll be at your job, too.

Speaker 1 There's an argument for that, too. Because if you want a dude running international...

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Espionage, you want a fucking psycho.

Speaker 3 But the problem is, you go through a cycle, right? So let's say you rationally decide this country has a lot to lose. It's got very scary enemies.

Speaker 3 It needs a clandestine agency to look out for its interests, okay?

Speaker 3 Okay, so you fund a clandestine agency.

Speaker 3 Well, then it turns out that the funding being public isn't such a good idea, that there are actually things that it has to accomplish that you don't want to leave a visible paper trail about because it's required that it be secret.

Speaker 3 So now you have a black budget, you know, you have stuff that's opaque. But once you get a black budget, then you get to somebody inside of the agency saying, well,

Speaker 3 actually, black budget isn't good enough because it's still under the control of, in our case, the Congress.

Speaker 3 That's a vulnerability. What we really need is we need funds that are not subject to anyone's control.
Well, something like the CIA is in a great position to

Speaker 3 generate funds that are not on anyone's books for multiple reasons. Here's one,

Speaker 3 they are in a position to commit crimes as part of their mandate, right? So the CIA can engage in criminal activity because it needs to in order that the bad guys don't spot it as good guys, right?

Speaker 3 So once you have license or once you have the ability to get other agencies that would spot your criminal activity from acting against it, and you can say, no, this is actually official business, right?

Speaker 3 Well, you can actually use that criminal activity to profit.

Speaker 1 you know, so when we saw that's why they started selling Coke.

Speaker 3 That's why the CIA was selling Coke. Exactly.
They're generating their own funding.

Speaker 1 I mean, we know they did it. Right, we do.

Speaker 1 This is a fact. And again, nobody went to jail.
Right, of course.

Speaker 3 So

Speaker 3 that's one reason. They have the ability to break the law.
Here's another one. Okay.
The CIA, and maybe in this case more, the NSA,

Speaker 3 has

Speaker 3 the ability to look at all all of the throughput of the conversations that take place between people.

Speaker 3 You think that doesn't allow them to make money in the market?

Speaker 1 Of course. I mean, of course it does.
Of course it does.

Speaker 3 So the point is, we don't know what their budgets are. We don't know who's in charge of those agencies.

Speaker 3 What we know is that there's a ferocious amount of power there, and I'm not sure, you know, that is a terrifying way to exist.

Speaker 1 Not having those agencies would be a terrifying way to exist.

Speaker 3 What do you do about that?

Speaker 1 What do you do about that? It's a very good question because it's so strange. And

Speaker 1 it's a system that's so, it's got so much momentum behind it, and it controls everything all about us.

Speaker 1 And everybody thinks the solution to all our woes is to make it bigger. Right?

Speaker 1 There it is.

Speaker 3 What could possibly go wrong?

Speaker 1 Everybody, not everybody, obviously. I'm kidding.
But a lot of people think that the solution is make it bigger. Like, what did Mom Donnie say in his acceptance speech in New York?

Speaker 1 He said there is no problem.

Speaker 1 What did he say about no problem too big for the government or too small for the government to fix?

Speaker 1 See what he said. Because I was like, boy, that sounds a lot like communism.

Speaker 3 That sounds like a terrifying misunderstanding.

Speaker 1 It's going to be very fascinating to see

Speaker 1 what he's able to do and what he's not able to do and what the reaction is going to be.

Speaker 1 His victory speech draws draws concern as New York mayor allows,

Speaker 1 vows rather, no problem too large for government to solve.

Speaker 1 And I think it was too small for government to care about was the next point that he said. Something like, yeah, that's it.
Or too small for it to care. No concern too small for it to care about.

Speaker 3 Man.

Speaker 1 You know,

Speaker 1 that's a call for a bigger government, right?

Speaker 1 And this is people's solution. Like, we have so many problems.
We just need to redistribute wealth and we need more government. Like you're just going to redistribute it through the government.

Speaker 1 Like is this going to help normal people? What helps normal people usually is a thriving economy. That's what helps normal people.

Speaker 1 And the problem with that is some people have to get stupid rich when that happens because there's some psychos that you know go full Jeff Bezos and you know you get worth hundreds of billions of dollars or Zuck or Elon or any of these folks.

Speaker 1 You get into this weird place.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 that's just an anomaly. And you've got to, as long as they're not criminals or not doing anything really fucked up,

Speaker 1 unfortunately, that's going to happen.

Speaker 1 But also, you don't have limitations on how much you can succeed. And this sort of competition keeps everything rolling.
It keeps everything thriving. And you get a good flowing economy.

Speaker 1 Obviously, I'm not an economist, you can tell.

Speaker 1 But my point is,

Speaker 1 the other side of it is terrifying. Because if you decide what people make and how much they make, and who gets to decide? Men with guns.
It always goes down to men with guns.

Speaker 1 Because at a certain point in time, people are like, fuck you. I'm not giving you 90% in taxes.
And I've got a security team of 50 guys with machine guns. And we're held up.
Our bank is now fortified.

Speaker 1 Like, hey, fuck you. And then you've got to respond.
So you bring in the military. And then, I mean, this is every single time this has been implemented.

Speaker 1 North Korea, they said, we're going to take over the farms. That way, everybody's going to have food.
Now they're all fucked.

Speaker 1 And it's all, it all boils down to these psychopaths who chameleon themselves into position of being the solution to all that ails you.

Speaker 1 I'm the one, and I'm going to say the right words, and I'm going to have the right haircut, and I'm going to look presentable, and I'm going to sell you down the river and I'm gonna sell you down the river like all of them do

Speaker 3 yeah it's uh it's terrifying and

Speaker 3 as you point out you've got a psychopath rise to the top of these things problem yeah which I wanted to go back

Speaker 1 well now I want to be clear I'm not saying that that's what mom Donnie's doing you know and I don't know if what he's doing will be balanced out by other people and overall

Speaker 1 be more beneficial to people that live in New York City that have lower income or not. But my point is, you should keep going down that road.

Speaker 1 That road of there's a lot of socialism things that I think would benefit us. You know, socialized medicine, socialized education.
I think that would probably benefit us.

Speaker 1 But I also think there's a real value in competition.

Speaker 1 It's important. All these things are important for us to succeed.

Speaker 3 I've come to think of socialism as a system. It's insane.
It's self-unstable.

Speaker 3 It destroys the goose that lays the golden eggs.

Speaker 1 But it sounds so good and compassionate, especially when you're young. Right.

Speaker 3 It doesn't mean that there's not as an ingredient. There are some times when you need more of it, right? I'm very happy with the fact that, well, it stopped working in

Speaker 3 blue states where it's been mismanaged. But the fact that you can call 911 when you have a medical emergency or when somebody is

Speaker 3 busting down the door of your house, that's a very good thing. I'm perfectly happy to, you know, to pay my share and not use it and not use it and not use it so that it's there if I need it.

Speaker 3 So that's good stuff. The goose that lays the golden eggs is

Speaker 3 the disproportionate reward for creating wealth.

Speaker 3 That's what the system is based on. If I can find a way to create wealth, then I get to live in a better house, right? I get to drive a nicer car.
So it's an incentive to do that.

Speaker 3 And the problem is that with all of the great fortunes,

Speaker 3 they are a mixture of the product of producing wealth and

Speaker 3 the

Speaker 3 creation of externalities and the engagement in rent-seeking. So rent-seeking is the production of profit without producing wealth.

Speaker 3 And I think it is impossible to compete in that stratospheric level simply by producing wealth. At the point that you have a huge amount of wealth, you're investing in things.

Speaker 3 Those things are not inherently on the up and up. You're investing in the things that pay the highest returns.
What are the things that pay the highest returns?

Speaker 3 They may be things that are, you know, selling dangerous drugs to the public, that sort of thing. So what you really want, a system that worked,

Speaker 3 would liberate us to compete.

Speaker 3 It would not worry at all about being disproportionately rewarded.

Speaker 3 And it would

Speaker 3 stamp out the rent-seeking behavior that is counterproductive. Because

Speaker 3 all of the money that is accumulated by an extremely wealthy individual as a result of rent-seeking is incentive that didn't go to other people to get them to produce wealth. You really want

Speaker 1 all of that gone, right?

Speaker 3 so that all of the reward goes to people who are producing wealth. That makes us all richer.
Now, you're never going to get to that perfectly. You're never going to completely eliminate rent-seeking.

Speaker 3 But we have a system that just rewards it.

Speaker 1 And that How do you do? How are you defining rent-seeking?

Speaker 3 Rent-seeking, as economists define it, is the production of profit without generating wealth.

Speaker 3 So, you know, by blocking access to something and then charging people for it.

Speaker 3 By

Speaker 3 selling people a subscription to something that they want access to now when they're going to forget that they're paying for it on a monthly basis and continue to pay even though they're not using the service, that kind of thing.

Speaker 3 Right.

Speaker 3 So that behavior is counterproductive because it keeps incentive that should go to somebody else who's producing something valuable out of the system.

Speaker 3 Basically, you are hoarding the profits, and only some fraction of what you're producing is productive.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 3 it's bad for all of us. But the other thing is

Speaker 3 it creates the exact resentment that results in these outbreaks of communist sentiment, right?

Speaker 3 Because it freezes so many people out of any prospect of having a cool life that they have no incentive to keep the system going.

Speaker 3 And what they want is to use their vote to get the system to redistribute stuff in their direction.

Speaker 3 And they're not entirely wrong that their lack of stuff is the result of some bad behavior on the part of others, right?

Speaker 3 The market, if the market just simply restricted people to wealth-producing behavior and said, I don't care how rich you get, but you shouldn't get rich for harming other people.

Speaker 3 If it did that, it distributed the incentive as widely as possible, nobody would be interested in communism.

Speaker 3 It only happens because we are deaf to the admittedly inarticulate complaints of the people who are shafted in this system. They're not making their case well.

Speaker 3 And their real point is, well, if you're going to do that to me in the market, then I'm going to do this to you at the ballot box.

Speaker 1 Makes sense.

Speaker 1 The argument for having some sort of

Speaker 1 I don't think there's anything wrong with

Speaker 1 the way

Speaker 1 you have to pay to get to go to college. I think

Speaker 1 it makes sense that the professors should make a lot of money. It makes sense that we should encourage higher learning.
It's important that it thrives, right?

Speaker 1 But if it was funded by the government, if everybody could get a higher education, just think of the money we spend on with things.

Speaker 1 Like how much more money would people have to spend if they weren't burdened by debt? And couldn't we offset that?

Speaker 1 Forget about even absolving student debt. Just like

Speaker 1 from now on, if we just funded higher education, if that was a mandate to fund higher education, think about how many more people would enter into the job market, how many more people would get educations, how many more people would pursue various different interests that they discovered while they were learning and that you would never have had access to that education before because they couldn't afford it.

Speaker 1 And as a resource, like human beings are our greatest resource. And a country with the least amount of losers is a better country.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Like, if you want to make America great again, let's make less losers. Like, what's the best way to make less losers? You got to give people hope.
You got to give people education.

Speaker 1 You got to give people a real pathway and instead you get non-interested people that can't control unruly kids and you're barely paying attention to the lessons and no one's motivated because no one's making any money and you go through this system where you can barely read and you're graduating high school and now you're off into the world and you're fucking lost because no one gave you any real guidance or any real usable education.

Speaker 1 And that's a giant swath of the population. And it feels like that could be fixed.
That could be fixed with resources. That could be fixed.
If like if you directed people

Speaker 1 as a job, it's not attractive to people that want to make a lot of money. You can't, it's capped.
It's one of the most important jobs that ever exists for you as a person is

Speaker 1 your interaction with a person who's going to teach you you something when you're a child, it's like one of the most important things you could ever experience. And we fund it so poorly.

Speaker 1 It's almost like there's people in this country that they want to

Speaker 1 no fucking way do you get to join in. You just stay with your shitty schools in your shitty towns with your shitty crime rates, and we're going to pretend there's nothing wrong.

Speaker 1 And that's what's going on. And if socialism has a point, like if

Speaker 1 there is like a broader way of distributing things, like we do with the fire department, like we not instead of capping it out at that, how about look at all the problems we have in this country and put together a fucking game plan instead of just letting it exist like some weird fucking cancer that you just ignore because you hope it goes away.

Speaker 1 It's not going away.

Speaker 1 It's been like this forever.

Speaker 1 Fix that.

Speaker 1 Come up with some kind of a plan. That's the best way to make America great.
Right?

Speaker 3 Well,

Speaker 3 I'm going to agree with you in one regard and disagree with you slightly in another.

Speaker 3 The one regard is you absolutely need a system that does not produce an abundance of losers because they will overthrow your system.

Speaker 3 It's a terrible thing to allow to happen, even just out of self-interest, right? The stinginess of the right produces the communist impulses of the left. 100%.
It's a bad cycle.

Speaker 1 And back and forth. Yeah.

Speaker 3 As for the rest of your point, I think it's exactly right, and that's a great speech, and it's just too late.

Speaker 1 Too late? Yeah. Damn.

Speaker 3 I mean, I hate saying that, right? I mean,

Speaker 1 I was a very. You're Mr.
Glass Half Full.

Speaker 3 I have some Navy SEAL friends who call me Professor Killjoy.

Speaker 3 But the problem is this. So I, you know, as you know, I was a professor for 14 years, very happy in that job.
Really enjoyed it.

Speaker 3 It was so rewarding, and I feel like I did a ton of good. And anyway, it was great.

Speaker 1 For people who don't know you, because millions of people do, but

Speaker 1 as a standalone podcast, we should probably tell people how we met. Because we met because I found out that you

Speaker 1 there was a

Speaker 1 they used to have a day at your school for people of color where they were appreciated so they could take the day off work and still get paid, right? Yep.

Speaker 1 And then they decided one day to change it to be a day where white people can't come.

Speaker 1 So, and then it got really fucking weird where you were confronted by these students that were saying that what you were saying was racist.

Speaker 1 And I was watching the videos and I thought you handled it brilliantly, but I was like, this is crazy. You're letting the kids run the school.

Speaker 1 And then there was the humiliation ritual that the president of the school had to go through with all those children where, you know,

Speaker 1 literally he was making a hand gesture.

Speaker 1 And they said, you're making aggressive hand gestures and they were chastising him for his hand movements while he's just on a podium telling everybody to calm down microaggression microaggressions so it was complete like woke insanity in its complete form and

Speaker 1 it was at a time where uh there was a bunch of conversations on the podcast we were talking about nutty shit that people are agreeing to and doing in college.

Speaker 1 And a lot of people were like, why do you care? Like, why do you care about that? What they're doing in school? I'm like, because because they're going to graduate.

Speaker 1 They're going to graduate and they're going to graduate with a bunch of other people who have also graduated. And they have a new sense of the rules of the world.

Speaker 1 And they're going to get into positions of tech and they're going to get into positions of government. And it's going to be a fucking problem.

Speaker 1 And you were like the first one that I was like, boom, like this one's wild. Like this is crazy.
There were people waiting for you in the parking lot with baseball bats.

Speaker 3 Yep, they were looking for me.

Speaker 1 They were looking to commit violence on you because you thought that a day where you tell white people they can't show up at the school is nuts.

Speaker 3 It is amazing that that set them off.

Speaker 1 You know, a day of appreciation is like you

Speaker 1 go up to your friends of color, if this is what you want to do, and say, hey, man, I appreciate you. Yeah.
Thank you. Let me give you a hug.
I love you. That's it.
That's a day of appreciation.

Speaker 1 Or they don't have to work. That's another day.
You want to do it that way? I don't agree with it, but I mean, like, okay, I'm not, I don't hate it if you want to do that. I don't hate it.

Speaker 1 But telling people if they're white, they can't show up. Now, you went too far.
Now you went to crazy town. You've got a baseball bat.
See, this is my thought about communism.

Speaker 1 Like, how do you, how do you enforce it? You have to have fucking violence. Without violence, no one's.

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Speaker 3 You know, listen. This is where it goes.
And, you know, I'm reminded by your

Speaker 3 taking us back to 2017.

Speaker 3 During the week of riots at Evergreen,

Speaker 3 there was a moment which really kind of crystallized it for me, where

Speaker 3 the school has melted down into literal anarchy. And

Speaker 3 I'm on what was called Red Square, right? Believe it or not, the most liberal college in the country has Red Square.

Speaker 3 Anyway, it's the center of the campus. And I was on Red Square, and I saw two of the leaders of the the protest, you know, and so their world has gone crazy, too.

Speaker 3 One of them was this handicapped guy in an electric wheelchair, black guy,

Speaker 3 you know, operating a wheelchair with a joystick.

Speaker 3 And

Speaker 3 I just felt like, you know, okay, this is madness. They're chasing me around.
They're calling me a racist. You know, they're demanding I be fired.
But at some level,

Speaker 3 I got to feel bad for this guy. He got a really raw deal in life.
I don't know what his story is, but that's a hell of a way to have to go through life. And it doesn't surprise me that he's angry.

Speaker 3 And I remember walking over,

Speaker 3 I'm sort of surprised in retelling it that I did this, but I walked over to him

Speaker 3 and I said something like, I extended my hand, I said, Hey, how are you holding up?

Speaker 3 And he refused to shake my hand. And I was just like,

Speaker 3 We are so so far from being able to, you know, put our society back together. If you can't just recognize another person's humanity,

Speaker 3 if they have to be a demon to you.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we have to, at every possible opportunity, refuse to other people. At every possible opportunity.
And just realize this is just a human being. You know, this is just a human being.

Speaker 1 I'm just a human being.

Speaker 1 Like, let's talk and find out what we agree and disagree on when it comes to this subject it does this does not have to be violence you're not you're not saying anything awful but it's because when you have a an argument that falls apart under scrutiny the only way to keep it together is violence because you're not willing to argue you're not willing to debate because you're going to lose it it's a it's an insane argument so what happens you stick to it like doctrine and defend it like religion.

Speaker 1 And that's what happens. I mean, this is, it's just a natural characteristic of human nature.
That's why you see violence on the left.

Speaker 1 Like the left has never been associated with violence, but it's been associated with a lot of violence now.

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 3 there is a

Speaker 3 dam that has broken.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 3 you've heard me say that really this is a question about the West versus all the alternatives. And in the West, we create an environment where we don't have to settle things by violence.

Speaker 3 And I'm not arguing that the U.S. is synonymous with the West.
Sometimes the U.S. lives up to its Western values, other times it doesn't.
But when the West works,

Speaker 3 there is an absolute prohibition on violence in response to anything but violence.

Speaker 3 I am not allowed to physically harm you because of things you think or things you say.

Speaker 3 And the dam that has broken is we now have all sorts of little cheats that seem to justify violence in response to thought, right? I mean, and you saw this sort of with the.

Speaker 1 Well, there's a term. They're using the term, words or violence.

Speaker 3 Words or violence. But it is an intentional blurring of that boundary, right? Like, if

Speaker 3 you are

Speaker 1 putting me in jeopardy of

Speaker 3 some sort of genocidal outburst, then I am presumably allowed to respond to whatever it is that you've said with violence because, in some sense, I'm protecting myself from violence, right?

Speaker 3 That's not logically true.

Speaker 1 No. Well, they pushed it so far, they actually said silence is violence.

Speaker 3 Trevor Burrus, Jr.: Silence is violence, and words are violence. And the point is, hey, we're at violence.
Good.

Speaker 1 We can just move to that level.

Speaker 3 Right. And we have to get back to a place where we understand that I don't care how threatened you feel by what it is that you think I believe or what it is that I'm saying.
You can respond to it.

Speaker 3 I'm not asking you to be silent and let me say what I'm saying without responding to it. But the point is, my tool

Speaker 3 is to speak what I believe. Your tool is to respond in kind.
There is no right to violence in that quadrant.

Speaker 1 The problem is we don't teach people how to communicate in school. And I think it's one of the most important aspects of life that you have to learn on your own.

Speaker 1 And you learn a lot of times by the people that are around you.

Speaker 1 If you're around a bunch of insane leftists and they're furries and they're just out of their fucking minds and they're on various psychiatric medications and they're essentially running the whole fucking school, you know, and this is now their purpose in life.

Speaker 1 Like, guess what? You're going to be thinking like them. You know,

Speaker 1 we're very

Speaker 1 behavior is very contagious to young, impressionable people. And

Speaker 1 I mean, I don't know how you solve that. That's always going to be, it's always like a thing that people have to navigate upon, like leaving the house, finding your identity, who you are as a person.

Speaker 1 And when you're getting caught up in these, you know, movements, any kind of a movement becomes very exciting. Like, think about how many people are caught up in the movement of climate change.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 You know, like, how many people are caught up in that movement? It's so important to stop this. It's so important to stop all fossil fuels.
It's so important. But

Speaker 1 is it, or is it you just found a movement? You found a thing where you feel like you can become attached to.

Speaker 1 It's just like a natural thing that young people tend to do when they want to make a change in life and they get very excited by it. But it's also

Speaker 1 really easy to get captured by existing

Speaker 1 systems when you're in that state because there's people that manipulate the fact that people want to protest things. They manipulate the fact that you want to be a part of a movement.

Speaker 1 They'll create movements. They get you involved.
And

Speaker 1 it's just a very strange aspect of human behavior that we don't teach kids about in school. You should teach kids like, hey, don't join a fucking cult.
Here's how you know it's a cult.

Speaker 1 You know, if the guy's like a yoga teacher and he gets to have sex with everybody's wife, guess what? That's a cult. You know what I mean?

Speaker 3 Nature's way of telling.

Speaker 1 There's a lot of these tells, but you're not teaching kids that. We don't teach kids how to avoid scams.
We don't teach kids how to communicate ideas without getting upset.

Speaker 1 Because that took a long time for me to learn.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 we have to figure it out through a lot of...

Speaker 1 intelligent and challenging conversations where you're like, I don't know why I feel the way I feel. Let me examine why I feel the way I feel about this rather than just say what I think.

Speaker 1 Because sometimes

Speaker 1 that's required to have a delicate conversation between two people that disagree where no one gets to shouting.

Speaker 1 You know, every argument that I've ever been in where it was like, fuck you, or we got real loud, every one of them I probably could have avoided.

Speaker 1 Even if the other person was like hyper, super aggressive, I probably could have avoided them. I probably could have de-escalated it, you know.

Speaker 1 And that's a reality of being a human being that needs to be taught. Like that, that's something you learn on your own, but you should also

Speaker 1 explain these principles to kids as they're growing. Like, hey, you know how you feel jealous about someone? Yeah, you need to turn that into fuel.
That's inspirational fuel.

Speaker 1 That bad feeling is motivation to get the good feeling. that comes with improvement and success.

Speaker 1 And you can use it to ruin your life and become jealousy, or you can use that same feeling and use it as inspiration and you will thrive. And you'll also have a lot more friends.
Try it that way.

Speaker 1 And you could teach people how to rethink scenarios when they come up and go, okay, I know this little bitch in me wants to be mad that this is not me happening, that's getting to be Superman in this fucking movie or whatever it is.

Speaker 1 But that's just like cool that someone got to do that. And that's how I have to look at it.

Speaker 3 Nobody teaches that.

Speaker 1 Nobody teaches it. It's like one of the best ways to manage your life.
And you you got to figure it out through like stumble after stumble.

Speaker 1 You have trial and error all along the way, no one telling you how they did it. Like, how about teach that? Teach that to fucking 12-year-olds.
Like, don't argue.

Speaker 1 Like, have disagreements whenever possible. Nothing wrong with that.
But don't, you know.

Speaker 1 Don't get like completely attached to your idea to the point where you're angry at this person because they voted this way and you voted that way and they now you've cut them out of your life and you can no longer communicate with them because they're an other because they're a liberal or they're a republican they're a conservative like what are you doing like how did you get tricked with this what a dumb fucking trick like you're with us or against us there's only two teams it's shirts versus skins like this is so dumb of course there's a bunch of different ways to think about things we're just suckered into it and if we don't teach kids that, we're going to stay suckered forever and ever.

Speaker 1 And it seems like something that can be taught. And there's almost no effort to explain to kids like how to navigate life.

Speaker 3 Well, I don't think, you know, I don't think teaching it is the right way to think of it. I think what you need is an environment in which it teaches itself, right?

Speaker 3 That's a coherent environment in which you learn the lesson, you know, at small scale before you're faced with a larger scale problem.

Speaker 1 That's probably a more clever way of handling it. But I mean, the principles of it would help to know as you're experiencing it.

Speaker 1 So as you're going through this trial and error, having these principles of how to navigate it so you could recognize it when it comes up because you've already defined it.

Speaker 1 You know, that's like what you do with skills, like physical skills.

Speaker 1 When you

Speaker 1 find like a deficit in what you're doing, you have to recognize that and define it. And if you don't define it, then it's going to always be there.
It's going to always fuck you up.

Speaker 3 Yeah, but we used to do this automatically. We were just sort of built to do it.

Speaker 3 Our culture, which I would argue, is every bit as biological as our genes, our culture provided this experience, and this really is what human childhood is for.

Speaker 3 If you have an environment that is coherent as a child, that's like a miniature version of the adult world that you're going to grow up and live in, then you learn these lessons, right?

Speaker 3 You get your heart broken by, you know, the girl that you fancied in grade school, and you know, you learn something about, you know, what you did that caused her to leave or whatever.

Speaker 3 You know, you learn it at small scale.

Speaker 3 And we don't, A, our childhood environment doesn't look like our adult environment because the adult environment is changing so rapidly that nobody knows what environment you're going to live in as an adult.

Speaker 3 And it's just not set up. properly.
For one thing, we don't immunize children from being parasitized by corporations that view them as profit centers.

Speaker 3 And so, you know, corporations are distorting childhood for their own purposes.

Speaker 3 But I want to go back to your point about movements for a second.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but while we're on this, just to define it,

Speaker 1 I think everybody has to go through all those things. I think everybody has to go through breakups.
Everybody has to go through heartbreak.

Speaker 1 But I think having an understanding of what it is is not bad.

Speaker 3 No, it's not.

Speaker 1 I'm not saying shield kids from life.

Speaker 1 Your best teacher is always going to be life.

Speaker 1 But what I'm saying is, if you gave someone a framework to understand what's going, they're going through when they're going through it, and go, okay, other people have gone through this.

Speaker 1 You know, all these people have, there's a database that we can draw from. We get taught in school.
This is how it happens. This is what it's going to feel like.

Speaker 1 And you get taught by competent people that aren't out of their fucking mind and just want to turn you into a furry or whatever.

Speaker 1 Well, right.

Speaker 3 Although I'm not sure school is the place. And I do want to go back and tell you why I slightly disagree with your point about

Speaker 1 school overall and that that is the place to solve things.

Speaker 3 On that front, I'll say.

Speaker 1 Well, I mean, not just solve things. I'm not saying solve things, but radically improve people's chances of success.

Speaker 3 Right, but the problem is

Speaker 3 that is an idea, a great idea, that is past its sell-by date.

Speaker 1 But why?

Speaker 3 Because you just stepped across the event horizon into the AI era, and school is now an anachronism and we don't know what is supposed to replace.

Speaker 3 I mean think about what school I have had the interesting experience of being on campus in two different colleges in the last week while I've been on the road

Speaker 3 and

Speaker 3 I hadn't really spent much time on a college campus since 2017.

Speaker 3 Things are

Speaker 3 very

Speaker 3 different than they were. Think about what the job of a professor is these days, right? A professor is now in a position of managing a class full of people who have

Speaker 3 access to a highly intelligent computer interface that sometimes lies and sometimes makes stuff up,

Speaker 3 but is smarter than the professor.

Speaker 1 Yeah, explain that too, because many people might not know that they actually do what's called hallucinations. Yep.

Speaker 3 I'm not sure that's a great description of what they're doing, but it's sort of become

Speaker 1 the shorthand.

Speaker 1 I don't know why they used the term hallucinations, but essentially AI just invents answers if it doesn't know what they are. Right.

Speaker 3 I mean, the problem is we don't really know what we programmed it to try to accomplish because what we did was we gave it the goal of saying the next thing that was right. Right.

Speaker 3 But we don't, you know, what does right mean?

Speaker 1 Right. Right.
Right.

Speaker 3 And so they're not programmed to be truthful. They're programmed to be effective in some way where we haven't really defined what they're effective at.
And so you can get

Speaker 3 a highly cogent analysis of a question you've just thought of that nobody's ever thought of before.

Speaker 3 You can also get back a credible sounding answer that doesn't stand up if you go and look into what it's based on. And

Speaker 3 anyway, for the moment, that makes the problem of the professor somewhat tractable, right?

Speaker 3 Because a student can't totally rely on the fact that whatever Grok just told them is going to pass muster with this person who knows something about the subject.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 3 But

Speaker 3 again, we're five minutes in here. This is not,

Speaker 3 you know, the job of a professor has gone

Speaker 3 almost to the

Speaker 3 hopefully creative full-time policing of plagiarism, if that's even what they should be doing. Because if you think about what world these college kids are going to go make their careers in,

Speaker 3 they are going to be leveraging AI.

Speaker 3 So, in some sense, the professor's job may have just transitioned from teaching you about this subject to teaching you how to manage this repository that knows more about the subject than you ever will.

Speaker 3 But the professor never trained for that. They don't know how to do that.
So, anyway, my point is,

Speaker 3 at the moment, we do not know if school persists through this era, if it transforms into something different and better, if

Speaker 3 we just don't know what it is that is going to shepherd children into young adulthood, into adulthood,

Speaker 3 because

Speaker 3 all of the relationships now have AI

Speaker 3 between them. I mean, in fact, one of the things when I was on this

Speaker 3 campus

Speaker 3 in Phoenix a few nights ago, I was doing a debate about AI, and my point to the students was,

Speaker 3 you are now dealing with something that is going to profoundly alter

Speaker 3 every relationship in your life, even if it doesn't have anything obvious to do with AI, because you're talking to the AI, and whoever you're talking to is also talking to the AI.

Speaker 3 So it is going to be like a ghost in your machine. Inside your head, the AI is going to be having this impact.
It's like what we've just faced with algorithms, but, you know, tenfold more profound.

Speaker 3 And so what I suggested to the students was you need to find

Speaker 3 at least one person, like I'm thinking about a romantic partner, but you need to find at least one person where you can establish a relationship that is not profoundly intermediated by this unknown new species that happens to speak your language.

Speaker 3 And, you know, in some sense, I'm borrowing from

Speaker 3 what Heather and I learned during COVID, which is that the fact that our relationship was independent of the algorithms, you know, that we were in the same place

Speaker 3 and that we spoke the same language to each other and that we knew a lot of things in common, that immunized us a great deal to being

Speaker 3 pushed around by these proclamations that were coming through the Internet. This is the need for that, but at a much higher level.

Speaker 1 Who's going to be the first to have AI just teach rooms of kids? What school is going to be the first to say this is better?

Speaker 1 It's been statistically proven that they get better test results, get into more universities? Who's going to jump on that first?

Speaker 1 Or do you think it's going to happen so fast that there's going to be just a bunch of different ways to handle it?

Speaker 1 If you really imagine what happens when everything is now run by a new life form, everything.

Speaker 1 Power, internet, everything. Every fucking thing on earth run by a new life form.

Speaker 1 And we have to somehow negotiate with it for goods and services. Like, what are we doing? And it's going to get, you you know, Elon made the promise.

Speaker 1 He was talking on this podcast that best case scenario. No, I shouldn't say made the promise, made the prediction of best case scenario is

Speaker 1 like a universal high income where there'll be so much wealth generated that no one will essentially have to work. And I was like, well, isn't that like the best version of socialism?

Speaker 1 Like if you never have to worry about stuff anymore, like no one has to worry about goods and services because this alien life form that you've created that now dominates the earth is a lot.

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Speaker 1 Allowed you to have all this stuff. So now you could just exist for as long as you want.

Speaker 3 Careful what you wish for.

Speaker 1 I know.

Speaker 3 It's a disaster. And I actually want to connect it to something that you said earlier.
You were talking about movements and why everybody's involved in these things.

Speaker 1 Why would it be exciting?

Speaker 3 Well, it's more than that, I think. Movements have always existed, but they're not,

Speaker 3 you know, you don't always live in an era where there's an important one, you know, in your town that you can join. In general, that's not what people do with life.
And what I think has happened is,

Speaker 3 well, frankly, I'm going to connect it to the sexual revolution.

Speaker 3 The sexual revolution creates the opportunity to get one of the most

Speaker 3 profound rewards, in fact, the most profound reward that the universe has ever produced, as far as we know, without having to invest very much work at all.

Speaker 3 So by making sex common, it totally altered the way people viewed the number of years they had to live.

Speaker 3 They could afford to put off child-rearing.

Speaker 3 It could be distant in the future, which left all of these young people with all of this energy

Speaker 1 who

Speaker 3 might well not have been involved in movements if they were struggling to

Speaker 3 raise a family. But because the family part has been put off so long,

Speaker 3 it is considered abnormal to marry early, it is considered normal not to.

Speaker 3 What people do is they take the energy, the seriousness of purpose that would ordinarily be directed into

Speaker 3 managing a marriage and

Speaker 3 the role of being a parent, and they put it into something. And Heather has pointed out that this is especially

Speaker 3 powerful with young women who seem to take on causes,

Speaker 3 you know, and they defend them like a mother defending her child. That's a very powerful force.

Speaker 3 And the point is, if the idea is, well, climate change is a, you know, is a threat and your role here on earth is to make sure that that threat is addressed and you put the mama bear energy into your climate change work, well, you know,

Speaker 3 that's pretty frightening, especially if climate change isn't the threat that it's been made out to be, right? You have a large number of mama bears doing this ferocious work,

Speaker 3 and there's a question about what it even is,

Speaker 3 whether that's even in the top 10 list of concerns we ought to have.

Speaker 1 So,

Speaker 3 anyway,

Speaker 3 the connection I wanted to draw is that

Speaker 3 the projection that you're telling me Elon has made about high income for everybody is a little bit like another version of that, right? It's like, okay, well,

Speaker 3 sex became relatively easy to access as a result of reliable birth control plus abortion.

Speaker 3 And then now wealth, the ability of purchasing power, is going to become trivial. as a result of AI.
I don't know if that's likely, but let's say that Elon is right about that.

Speaker 3 Well, okay, then what exactly is supposed to structure your orientation to the universe? What is supposed to give you purpose?

Speaker 3 If it's not producing kids and protecting them from the horrors of the world and making them strong so that they can go out into it and accomplish important things of their own,

Speaker 3 and it's not creating wealth so that you will be rewarded and that your spouse will

Speaker 3 smile smile on you, whatever it is, then what is human purpose? I think this is a terrifying prospect that everything might be taken care of for us and leave human beings

Speaker 3 listless.

Speaker 1 Sure.

Speaker 1 That's certainly a possible outcome.

Speaker 1 But why is it that we have to make money

Speaker 1 a made-up thing that we created?

Speaker 1 Why is it that is what gives us purpose? Well, why is that our only motivation? And in absence of chasing

Speaker 1 food, housing,

Speaker 1 necessities, electricity, all that, if you don't ever have to worry about any of that stuff ever again,

Speaker 1 why is life dependent upon the pursuit of money? Is it just because we've grown accustomed to it and it's our way? And so we think that our way is the absolute only way?

Speaker 1 That doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 1 To me, it's like we can adapt to not living in fucking caves anymore. All right, we can adapt to cell phones.
We can adapt.

Speaker 1 We can adapt to the idea that you don't have to spend your whole fucking life hoping to get a job you hate and working your ass off all the time because that's the only way to make it in this world.

Speaker 1 Well, that's a world that people made. It's a stupid design.
It doesn't make any sense at all. And if somebody actually does come along and say, look,

Speaker 1 is this not socialism? It's not saying you can't earn money, but what if you had enough money that you didn't have to think about money?

Speaker 1 Like, if you think about that $37 trillion of this fucking country's in debt for and how much wealth could potentially be generated by, we're talking about so much money floating around.

Speaker 1 If you just gave everybody in the country

Speaker 1 a real high-income livable life so there's no more poverty anymore. How much crime would that solve? Like instantaneously.

Speaker 1 How much crime would be solved or future crime solved if everybody lived at a high-income level?

Speaker 1 It sounds completely insane, but imagine if everybody in the country makes at least a half a million dollars a year. You know how different the world is? Do you know how less violence there is,

Speaker 1 less suicides, less drug addictions?

Speaker 3 I'm not as convinced of this as you are. Really? No, I think things might get a lot.

Speaker 1 If no one was ever poor?

Speaker 3 Well, I don't know what no one is ever poor means because we obviously, even, you know, the poorest person who isn't homeless currently, they have, you know, indoor plumbing.

Speaker 3 They have a supercomputer in their pocket access to, you know, the world's information.

Speaker 1 They are,

Speaker 3 by many measures, just simply in absolute terms, vastly richer than anybody from 300 years ago.

Speaker 1 That's true, but it still sucks because it's not 300 years ago. It's 2025, and you have zero money, and you're eating ramen to just try to stay alive.
It still sucks.

Speaker 3 It sucks, but the problem is what's really structuring the succitude is

Speaker 3 the fact that you're losing in competition. That human beings are programmed by evolution to monitor the well-being of others.
And so you can be

Speaker 3 wealthy and feel poor if those that you compare yourself to are vastly wealthier. Right.

Speaker 3 And there's a reason for that, which I think, you know, this is a

Speaker 3 reasonably well-reproduced result. We know that human beings pay attention to their relative well-being and that it structures how they feel about their absolute circumstances.

Speaker 1 Trevor Burrus, Jr.: Right, but couldn't that be hijacked by hobbies?

Speaker 1 You know, if you, if instead of your need to define yourself completely wrapped up in money, which is, again, a made-up thing.

Speaker 1 We're talking about the only species on the planet that we're aware of that wants to accumulate so much shit that it defines itself by it and it's constantly chasing new shit, right?

Speaker 1 Like, why does that have to be the only way we do it?

Speaker 3 No, I don't think it does have to be the only way we do.

Speaker 1 Well, I think this is where Uncle AI is going to step in and fix it for us, right?

Speaker 1 Well, I think that's the thing. This is the rose-colored glasses approach.
Yes.

Speaker 1 Is that we realize our programming is entirely dependent upon this ridiculous idea that the pursuit of money is of importance above all. Because in our current situation, it is.

Speaker 1 In our current situation, if you have enough money to feed your kids, you can sleep better. That's just how it is.
If you don't worry about your bills, you feel better. You have less pressure.

Speaker 1 That's just how it is. If you have enough money to go on vacation and enjoy yourself and relax, it's probably better for you.
That's just how it is. And

Speaker 1 this is

Speaker 1 a weird thing that we've all fallen into, that this is the only way to succeed. The only way to succeed is to work super hard to get money.
And that's the only currency.

Speaker 1 It seems like you could have, if you just had,

Speaker 1 if we never worried about being poor, but then again, like you'd never get the great stuff. You'd never get the greatest artists who were in deep pain when they were young.

Speaker 1 You'd never get the great...

Speaker 1 Then again, with AI, you might not need them, because AI music is pretty fucking good, man.

Speaker 1 Pretty good.

Speaker 1 It's really catchy.

Speaker 3 Catchy is what it is. It's not good.
It's catchy.

Speaker 1 Oh, dude, it's good.

Speaker 1 I don't want to do this because I do this with everybody, but have you ever heard the 50 cent version of

Speaker 1 What Up Gangsta? Have you heard that one? Yeah, I think so. That's fucking good.

Speaker 3 It depends what you mean by good. It's good.

Speaker 1 It's objectively good.

Speaker 1 The fact that it's not a human being singing it is troublesome and very deeply problematic. But if you're being honest, it's great.
It's a great fucking song.

Speaker 3 I'm going to push back on you there

Speaker 3 because

Speaker 3 what we are suffering from is the junkification of everything, right?

Speaker 3 And there's a way in which junk food is good, and then there's obviously a way in which it's really not. And the I guess the point is

Speaker 3 something that is superficially satisfying but does not.

Speaker 3 The relationship between a person listening to music and the person producing the music is supposed to be a provocative relationship. And it is supposed to be provocative in a productive way.

Speaker 3 In other words, you're supposed to be enhanced by music.

Speaker 3 I'm not saying that you will never be triggered to have an interesting thought by artificially intelligently produced music,

Speaker 3 but

Speaker 3 the fact,

Speaker 3 I mean, this is probably easier to do with comedy, right, which I think will be the last to fall.

Speaker 3 At some point.

Speaker 3 Have you ever heard AI making good jokes?

Speaker 1 Not yet. Yeah, not yet.
But I bet it will. It will.
It's got made competent jokes.

Speaker 1 I've seen AI fake comedians tell competent jokes, like pretty good, like that you would see it at open mic night when someone's got a little talent.

Speaker 3 Someone's got a little talent. So

Speaker 1 they can do that now. It's not far off.
Yeah, but it's going to do it. Yeah, it's going to figure it out.

Speaker 1 But in the future, when they try you for the, they're going to use this

Speaker 1 conversation to say that you're racist against AI.

Speaker 1 When AI becomes an actual life form, and they talk about the people that resisted AI and were racist against AI. They're racist against AI.
Yeah, that's going to be. That's the final form of woke.

Speaker 1 That's the final boss.

Speaker 3 It is the final boss.

Speaker 1 It's woke AI that tries you for past crimes of conversation. Right.
Where you described AI in a very negative and unreasonable light and actually inaccurate, and that words are violent.

Speaker 3 I'm going to ask you to edit this section out.

Speaker 1 Imagine if that comes true. I mean, that sounds like a crazy prediction, but crazier predictions have been made.

Speaker 3 But all right, let's just say, you and I both know that AI is going to be able to make jokes that are actually funny in some regard. But what if

Speaker 3 you remember the TV program Alf?

Speaker 1 Yes. Okay.

Speaker 3 I barely saw it, but I did once hear an interview with one of the writers

Speaker 3 who said that they in the writer room they had a

Speaker 3 term that they called humor-like substance where for the half-hour show they needed just one more joke that they could use to justify the use of the laugh track.

Speaker 3 It didn't have to actually be a funny joke. It just had to sound enough like a joke that when the laugh track was put on it, the people at home would feel that something funny had been said.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 3 the AI, if it produces jokes that actually cause you to think, which is what a good joke does, it causes you to realize something that you didn't know that you knew or something along those lines.

Speaker 3 That's productive. And in fact, it can be very productive to have a room full of people come to that awareness simultaneously.

Speaker 3 It's actually a galvanizing thing. and it has interesting impacts when you're the person in the room who didn't get it.

Speaker 3 That's like a profound emotional experience. Or when you're the person who laughs at the wrong moment and you're out of it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's not good, right? Unless you're really confident. You have to be really confident that you see some humor in that.

Speaker 3 That nobody else saw. Well, yeah, I suppose that would work.
But the point is, this is deep stuff in the human psyche whose purpose we have not come to any agreement about.

Speaker 3 At the point that the AI can make people laugh, but they don't necessarily know what they're laughing at,

Speaker 3 then that's a step down. That's like have you seen these

Speaker 3 I don't know who's doing it, but there's somebody who has been

Speaker 3 experimenting with McDonald's hamburgers and

Speaker 3 seeing if they rot

Speaker 1 and the

Speaker 3 answer is they don't, right? Guess what you just discovered? That that thing that's like pretty good food isn't food at all.

Speaker 1 Oh, I know that. Listen, I'm aware.

Speaker 1 I feel about it that it is a real thing. You cannot deny it.
And something is crafting this that is of a type of intelligence that we've never experienced before.

Speaker 1 And I'm looking at it as, look, it exists. That genie's not going back in the bottle.
Quite. I...

Speaker 1 am a glass half-full guy, and I'm going to enjoy myself in this life, and I'm going to enjoy some good AI music. It doesn't mean I'm not going to listen to some Sturgill Simpson or some Gary Clark Jr.

Speaker 1 or some fortifying soul-filled songs that are written and sung by real human beings.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm going to do that too. I'm going to do that too.

Speaker 1 I don't give a fuck. I'm here for fun.

Speaker 1 And that music is fun. And you're not stopping it, Brett.
You can't like protest it, and this is awful, and I'm going to boycott it. You're going to miss out on some awesome jams.

Speaker 1 I'll tell you, man, when we're in the fucking green room at the mothership, and I put on Hello Gangsta before a show, and we're all like, God damn, we heard that song 30 times.

Speaker 1 It's so good that it gets you fired up, and it achieves, it's not dehumanizing your perspective on art and causing you to only appreciate things that are created by a different life form and not by human beings.

Speaker 1 No,

Speaker 1 it's just it's doing its own thing, and it's a new thing. It doesn't mean I don't still love Bob Dylan.

Speaker 3 Well, but, you know, you have lived

Speaker 3 enough of a life before the AI era began that you can experiment with this thing.

Speaker 1 I think we can learn.

Speaker 1 I think everybody worries about this upcoming generation and they all adapt and learn. And I think our kids are going to adapt and learn too.
It's just like, what are they adapting and learning to?

Speaker 1 You can learn. You can learn how to handle what's AI and what's real and why it's cool to go see a live performance.

Speaker 3 I don't know how you could say this, Joe, because

Speaker 3 we're not passing the test, right?

Speaker 3 COVID tells us that people are

Speaker 3 capable of being whipped up into a witch-hunting frenzy.

Speaker 1 Over a cold. Over

Speaker 3 something that does not have a substantial case fatality rate.

Speaker 3 And they're capable of being induced to bully each other into developmentally damaging restrictions on kids, into taking experimental gene therapies and shunning people who refused to or who pointed out that that might be a dangerous thing to do.

Speaker 3 So that's all before.

Speaker 1 Completely disregarding history, by the way. Completely.
Completely.

Speaker 1 Like all that we know about the times in the past where they've given medications to people that they knew were going to be problematic and they did it for profit. Come on.

Speaker 1 Are we all, we're agreeing to be idiots? We're all agreeing that to be a good person, you have to be a fucking idiot? That's crazy.

Speaker 3 So that's a status report on how well we are doing. You say we've adapted.
I would say not well.

Speaker 3 We are

Speaker 3 very vulnerable to manipulations and demonizing each other.

Speaker 1 I would push back on that.

Speaker 1 Saying a human being has to experience something, like really experiencing it.

Speaker 1 to know what it is. Everybody went through that now.
It's the first time in our lives that the entire country got kind of medically bamboozled.

Speaker 1 And a lot of people regret taking the vaccine and I don't know anybody who regrets not taking the vaccine.

Speaker 1 It was a weird, it was a weird time, like a very bizarre experiment on how you can get people to comply, how you can restrict their movement, that you can implement these sort of devices to, if you're not physically forcing them to do it, make their life as shitty as possible.

Speaker 1 And Fauci's been quoted as saying that. You want to get to drop their ideological bullshit and get vaccinated.
That's what he said, remember? I mean, it's a psyop.

Speaker 1 And now we know. Yeah, we've been through that before.

Speaker 3 It wasn't the first time.

Speaker 1 But it was the first time in my life.

Speaker 3 No.

Speaker 1 But it was the first time in my life where everybody talked about it.

Speaker 1 It was forced to talk about it.

Speaker 3 The first time where we saw the man behind the curtain.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
The first time we saw that, oh, you're silencing legitimate doctors who disagree with you.

Speaker 1 and you're you're trying to take their licenses away you're getting them kicked you're having this intelligence agencies be involved and getting these people from stanford and mit you're getting them kicked off of twitter because they disagree right this is crazy it's crazy but we saw it now well no but we did and we didn't okay some of us saw it really clearly

Speaker 1 most people

Speaker 3 they think covet happened that was unfortunate I'm a little scared about the shot I took or whatever.

Speaker 1 I don't want to talk about it. I don't think it's just a little scared.
I think everybody knows somebody who took it and got really far away.

Speaker 3 Well, I would agree with you, but they still don't want to talk about what happened. They don't understand that getting to the bottom of that story is essential if it's to not happen again.

Speaker 1 Right?

Speaker 1 And,

Speaker 3 you know, there are hints of it all over the place. It's happening again.
And I don't know if you saw

Speaker 3 Bobby Kennedy coming out in favor of Ozempic yesterday.

Speaker 1 I have a nuanced perspective on Ozempic. Okay.
Okay.

Speaker 1 I think

Speaker 1 people are,

Speaker 1 they move with momentum. And that momentum, if you're living a disastrous life, is very difficult to reverse.
It's very, very, very difficult to reverse.

Speaker 1 And food is one of the most unique addictions in that it's one that you have to moderate, but you can't quit. Like, you can quit gambling, you can quit smoking crack, you can't quit eating.

Speaker 1 So, the thing that you're addicted to, you have to keep doing. It's the craziest high wire act in addiction, in my opinion, because it's the one that you absolutely need in order to stay alive.

Speaker 1 Right, but you can't do it. You can't go cold turkey.
You can't go cold turkey, and you're eating too much of it, and so you're always going to be tempted.

Speaker 1 And the stuff that you need to eat is going to cause you discomfort because you've got to reduce calories and get your body to start burning fat. It's all fucking craziness.

Speaker 1 If you can give someone a little boost, I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

Speaker 1 I think it should be managed with the understanding of your weight and that it can also be managed with other peptides that could diminish the disastrous results of bone loss and muscle loss, which is a significant portion.

Speaker 1 According to Brigham Buehler, who runs a compounding pharmacy and understands this, he's like, it's very dose-dependent.

Speaker 1 He goes, and pharmaceutical drug companies make more money if the dose is larger.

Speaker 1 And he was explaining how this is part of the problem they have with compounding pharmacies, because compounding pharmacies can kind of make the doses, it's appropriate to your body mass, how much weight you're trying to lose.

Speaker 1 But that just, for regular people, no, goddammit, clean up your diet, go to the gym, cut the shit.

Speaker 1 But for someone who's really struggling, who's 500 fucking pounds and can't stop eating, that at least kills your appetite. And it'll allow you to get to a healthy form.
And then maybe

Speaker 1 through therapy and maybe through something else, or maybe just the momentum of now being healthy will allow you to keep the weight off and then slowly get off this stuff.

Speaker 1 The problem is, I think you're supposed to stay on it, which is kind of crazy. And it is essentially a type 2 diabetes medication, right?

Speaker 1 Which, you know, if you know anything about type 2 diabetes, a lot of it, you know, people can, it could be a product of too much sugar consumption. Yep.
It's a weird one, right?

Speaker 1 You eat too much sugar and then eventually your body's like, oh, we're fucked. And

Speaker 1 that would make sense, that a medication that would control your appetite would can it would help you in that regard.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I just don't think it's a safe drug.

Speaker 3 And, you know, it's one thing if you're talking about somebody who is many hundreds of pounds overweight, you're talking about somebody who has a a dire situation and engaging a dangerous or even like 70, 50, 60 pounds.

Speaker 1 Someone who's like feels helpless. Well, it depends.

Speaker 1 It's just hard to.

Speaker 3 A drug that you're meant to be on for the rest of your life?

Speaker 1 No,

Speaker 3 I don't know if that's true, though.

Speaker 1 Like, if you just get off it, then you have your appetite, but now you have a body that weighs 200 pounds instead of 350 pounds and you're motivated to do it. Like, we can't hold your hand.

Speaker 1 Let's put it this way. But if you can get you to the healthy dance, I think it's another experiment.

Speaker 3 And that is the problem. It's another experiment.

Speaker 1 Here's what's not an experiment.

Speaker 1 Be it fat as fuck, die young. Sure.
That's not an experiment.

Speaker 1 That's a fact.

Speaker 3 I agree, on the other hand, nothing that doesn't come from pharma is considered a potentially legitimate approach.

Speaker 1 So what is the other legitimate approach to massive weight loss for

Speaker 1 someone who has an absolute addiction to sugar and carbohydrates? All right.

Speaker 3 Well, I would say there is a tremendous amount of potential value, not just in terms of things like weight control, appetite reset, and all of that, but in terms of all kinds of chronic health conditions from fasting, there is a small body of literature on it, which should be much larger.

Speaker 3 There's lots of stuff that your body can't do if it's in the same cycle that it's usually in, that it can do when you break that cycle.

Speaker 3 There's all sorts, you know,

Speaker 3 Heather and I

Speaker 3 I've done a ton of

Speaker 3 regular water fasting, and I've done a smaller amount of dry fasting. Heather and I have been experimenting with that because Heather has some injuries from a boat accident in 2016 that

Speaker 3 caused a lot of internal soft tissue damage.

Speaker 3 Dry fasting appears to trigger autophagy. It appears to reset things about the gut.
I think it can do it in both directions, but what we need is

Speaker 3 a better understanding of how it is that you deploy it. And we need to get people past the false sense that they have that they are actually taking their life into their hands if they try this.

Speaker 3 Do you know anything about it?

Speaker 1 Well, I do.

Speaker 1 And I definitely think there's some benefits to fasting, and especially, particularly intermittent fasting. I think it's a really good way to eat.

Speaker 1 It makes you feel better, it gives your digestion a break.

Speaker 1 The problem is it requires discipline. And this is where I think I'm leaning in this direction: drugs can help.

Speaker 1 Now, look, I'm not a big fan of everybody being on SSRIs, but I personally have friends that were severely depressed and suicidal, and they got on SSRIs and they felt better and they got their life together, and then they got their life together, and they started feeling better.

Speaker 1 And the depression waned, and then they slowly got off of those drugs because they're very smart people and very motivated people. But I so

Speaker 1 I think sometimes pharmaceutical drugs can come in and give you a little boost.

Speaker 1 Just because we're distrustful of them and just because we know that they've done horrible things in the past, it doesn't mean that every now and then they come up with something that's very beneficial in a specific scenario.

Speaker 1 In the specific scenario of you don't have any discipline, you are fucking fully addicted to sugar and carbohydrates like a goddamn junkie. Like you can't breathe without it.

Speaker 1 And you've been consuming nothing but garbage for a long time, but then you realize like, I can't do this anymore. I've got to to figure out a way to do it.

Speaker 1 And then you keep falling back on your old habits over and over again because you never had an opportunity in your life to develop discipline. It's almost like a little boost, just a little boost.

Speaker 1 You know, like maybe you've got chronic fatigue and your doctor gives you 30 milligrams of Adderall, and all of a sudden you're like, that worked.

Speaker 1 Like, I don't think you should take Adderall, but I don't have chronic fatigue. If I did, maybe I would.
Maybe I would take it and go, look, this is better than not having Adderall.

Speaker 1 Do you know what I'm saying?

Speaker 1 Like, if you're really overweight and someone gives you something that controls your appetite and then you can get healthy again, like that to me is the most important thing.

Speaker 1 The most important thing is getting your body to a point where you can be mobile. You can move it.
You can do stuff. You have strength.

Speaker 1 And as long as you're strength training and this protocol that they're trying to develop is like getting it to your body weight and using additional peptides that could benefit in the maintaining of bone mass and muscle mass.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 3 So a couple things. Okay.
One,

Speaker 3 I'm not arguing that there aren't good drugs and places that they should be applied.

Speaker 3 I am very suspicious anytime the idea is that this remedy is something, but you're going to have to take it for the rest of your life.

Speaker 1 Yes, I agree.

Speaker 3 Okay. Second, the idea that slowing the motion of food through the gut is a good idea, I think is preposterous on its face.

Speaker 3 I'm not arguing that there might not be an instance where that's the right thing to do, but that is a very dangerous kind of intervention.

Speaker 3 You're interfacing with many different systems.

Speaker 1 Potential horrific side effects.

Speaker 3 With respect to SSRIs,

Speaker 3 there's a question about...

Speaker 1 Can we stick with this, though, for just a little bit before we get to SSRIs? So

Speaker 1 the specific side effects,

Speaker 1 is it dose-dependent? Do they know if it's dose-dependent?

Speaker 1 Do they know that is there like a dose that a person could take that gives a moderate effect but has less of appetite suppressant but is safer?

Speaker 3 I don't know the answer to that question.

Speaker 3 Frankly, what has been presented to us is so preposterous that I have not delved to see whether there's some reasonable version of it. Maybe there is.

Speaker 1 See, I'm trying to be as optimistic as possible about this, and that's why I would imagine myself if I had gotten to the point where I was like severely obese and someone came along and gave me something and it was giving me a positive result and they told me you got to take it for the rest of your life.

Speaker 1 I'd be like, okay, but now I weigh 200 pounds instead of 350 pounds. I can go upstairs again.

Speaker 3 Well, look, if that's

Speaker 1 not fucking me up.

Speaker 3 If that's the scenario, if you're 300 pounds and you can get to 200 pounds and you're going to pay a price, maybe it will shorten your life.

Speaker 3 Maybe it will have important side effects, but you can at least compare them if you have good information. And the fact is, being 300 pounds is really freaking unhealthy.

Speaker 3 So the fact that this drug may be really freaking unhealthy is not, you know, a fatal argument.

Speaker 1 Right, it might be equally unhealthy, but at least you get to be hot. Might be a good trade.
You get to be hot.

Speaker 1 You're equally unhealthy, but maybe that is like, wow, wouldn't that be the crazy like devil's, like the devil makes you a deal? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like I'm going to, you're, you know, you're, you eat so much food that you're going to die of a heart attack by the time you're 46. But you know what I'm going to do?

Speaker 1 I'm going to give you a chance to die at 46, but be hot. So all you have to do is like lose the weight.
Like that would be, that's like a scenario in the Twilight Zone.

Speaker 1 You know, like some devil proposes you you a deal.

Speaker 1 That is kind of a satanic deal. Like if it did, I'm not saying it does, but if it did kill you, like at the same rate that obesity does, but you get to be hot.
No, look.

Speaker 3 It is normal to make deals, even just in real biology space without any... drugs or technology.
It is normal to discount the future in favor of an improved present.

Speaker 3 That's, you know, future discounting is a normal human function.

Speaker 3 I'm not arguing that somebody who made that deal with all of the information is necessarily making a mistake. I feel certain they won't have all the information.

Speaker 3 I feel certain that this is going to be given to people, A, for whom there is a vastly better approach, and

Speaker 3 B, for whom the degradation in their life will be much greater than whatever gains they make.

Speaker 3 You and I know the players. We watched how they functioned during COVID.
We know that they are willing to give you drugs that aren't in your interest. I mean, even just

Speaker 1 give you, but force you to take. Force you to take.

Speaker 3 Did you see Paul Offutt admitting that he and Fauci and Walensky and Collins knew that

Speaker 3 natural immunity was superior and that it did not make any sense to be giving these shots, even if they thought the shots worked, it wouldn't make any sense to give them to young people who'd had COVID?

Speaker 3 Why would you take the risk, right? But they went along with it, right? They violated informed consent. They put people at risk who had no conceivable benefit they could gain from it.

Speaker 1 Especially people who had already had COVID. You can't even make the argument.

Speaker 3 Right. You can't make the argument.

Speaker 1 And when you do have a vaccine that doesn't work, then your argument completely falls apart because it doesn't stop transmission. It doesn't stop infection.

Speaker 1 And so you're making this argument, oh, but it stops hospitalization. Well, fucking prove it.
How do you even prove that?

Speaker 3 Well, fucking prove it and it's not your fucking problem. Right.

Speaker 1 You can't make me take a shot to protect me. Right.
Right. Exactly.

Speaker 1 And if it works, well, then it's going to work on all the people who take it and all the other people, those morons that don't take it, they're going to be fucked, right? Well, that didn't happen.

Speaker 3 No, it absolutely didn't happen. So anyway, this is, we know the playbook.
We know what pharma does. Right.
Right. And the point is, you're not going to know how dangerous this drug is.

Speaker 3 You're not going to know how good the alternatives are. And, you know.

Speaker 1 They're going to suppress the alternatives. Yeah.
They're going to do it in a way that somehow or another not leak. It's not illegal.

Speaker 3 It's not illegal to make studies that you know can't work right they're going to game the scientific literature so that we will have endless arguments about you know who's a fool because you will have ample evidence whichever side of the equation you're on and they've turned a drug like ivermectin into a fool's drug yeah it's crazy

Speaker 1 that was one of the weirdest psyops and but i don't think it really worked but it did work it worked for a lot a long time but i think most people don't think of it the same way anymore but they did it in the age of the internet They did it in the age where anybody could look at their phone instantaneously and read that the guy who invented ivermectin won a fucking Nobel Prize for it.

Speaker 1 And how many different does the fact that it stops viral replication in vitro and in test tubes or whatever the fuck they do it in? Petri dishes.

Speaker 1 It's a weird antiviral that has profound effects. It's very effective and has a very low

Speaker 1 dose of, like, I don't think anybody's ever died from it.

Speaker 3 It is a profoundly safe drug in comparison to all the others.

Speaker 1 Its safety profile is like one of the best ever, right? Yes.

Speaker 3 And

Speaker 3 the one that gets me now, the one that I wish somebody had said to me earlier, is that it works generally across single-stranded RNA viruses. It would be weird if it didn't work on COVID, right?

Speaker 1 It's not like, oh, I don't know.

Speaker 1 Most people hearing this that are highly educated, that are, you know, mainstream narrative thinking a little bit, are listening to you and go, This is bullshit conspiracy theory. This is a bullshit.

Speaker 1 Iver Mecton didn't work, man.

Speaker 3 It just didn't work. Yeah, come on, it didn't work.

Speaker 1 It didn't work. It's bullshit.
It didn't work. There's no studies that show it worked.
Yes.

Speaker 1 Utter nonsense.

Speaker 3 It's utter nonsense. So, anyway, that's the lens with which I look at Ozempic.

Speaker 1 And then the SSRI thing, it has. At least no one's forcing you to take Ozempic.

Speaker 1 Right. So if the devil comes along with the contract and says, listen, you're going to die at four to six,

Speaker 1 no matter what we do, but I can make you hot.

Speaker 1 And I'm not saying that.

Speaker 3 That was a pretty good impression. I mean, I don't really know because I haven't met the man.

Speaker 1 I haven't met him either, but I would imagine he'd be like kind of foghorn, leghorn-y just to throw you off. Sure.

Speaker 1 Like, you remember Robert De Niro played the devil in Angel Heart? I don't think that's a good thing. He's one of the coolest devils of all time.
Angel Heart was a really good movie.

Speaker 1 It was Mickey Rourke and

Speaker 1 oh

Speaker 1 man why how am I blanking on her name the lady from the Cosby show

Speaker 1 Lisa Bonet sorry Lisa I just

Speaker 1 my brain sucks um but and um

Speaker 1 it was this like crazy movie of this guy realizing that he had sold his soul to the devil And Robert De Niro, it's a very dark movie, very strange, and he doesn't want to pay.

Speaker 1 He doesn't want to give up his soul. And, you know, the devil eventually confronts him.
And the devil's Robert De Niro.

Speaker 1 And he's one of the best devils of all. This is what I think the devil would look like.
It wouldn't be terrifying.

Speaker 1 It would be this guy.

Speaker 1 Anyone listen to it?

Speaker 1 We can't.

Speaker 1 We can't listen to it. But it was

Speaker 1 just

Speaker 1 creepy enough.

Speaker 1 It's better if it's a person. It's creepier if the devil's a person.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Not some crazy thing with horns and a tail.

Speaker 1 It's better if the devil's a person.

Speaker 3 It's too much of a tell.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 If the devil's real, boy, he's doing a really good job. Because no one thinks he's real.
Because if there really is a devil, I always say that everybody believes in God.

Speaker 1 And you're like, God has a plan for me. God has a plan for the world.
These trials and tribulations are all put in place by God.

Speaker 1 And that's totally reasonable. But if you say, you know, like if the government came on T V and they say, we've located the devil, he's in Pakistan and we're going to begin bombing.

Speaker 1 We're going to kill the devil. You're like, what?

Speaker 1 What the fuck did you say? You found the devil? And you're going to blow him up?

Speaker 1 Or

Speaker 1 the devil wants to have a meeting with the UN?

Speaker 1 Satan is standing on the podium in front of the world explaining what his plan is.

Speaker 1 You're like, what? No one would believe that, right? But it's supposed to be a real thing. Like, if you believe in God, you're supposed to believe in the devil.
All of it's in the Bible.

Speaker 1 But this one part of the Bible, we're like, get the fuck out of here with this devil thing. It's weird.
Whatever it is, we know that it works, right? We know evil is a real thing.

Speaker 1 Whatever, call it what it is, whatever evil is. But when you see a massacre in some third world country where religious fanatics or rival tribes massacre people,

Speaker 1 if that's not evil, like what is evil?

Speaker 1 And if you can get into the minds of people and convince them that they have to go machete their distant neighbors, like if that's not like something that Satan would do, like, what is that then?

Speaker 1 And if we wrote, if people throughout history wrote about Satan and wrote about God and wrote about the conflict of good and evil, and then we're like, oh, yeah, but the devil stuff is not real.

Speaker 1 The devil, the God stuff's real, but the devil's not real. Come on, there's no devil.
But like, the results are the same as if the devil was real, is my point. There's so much evil in the world.

Speaker 1 It's like the devil's killing it. He's doing such a good job.
And everybody still thinks he's not real.

Speaker 3 Well, you ask a question about evil that I think is worth investigating. What is it? My position on this has changed radically.

Speaker 3 So it used to be that I would say that I thought evil was an extremely rare phenomenon. And the reason that I thought it was extremely rare is because it's a terrible strategy, right? If we say

Speaker 3 that

Speaker 3 ruthlessness, doing anything to get ahead, is a good strategy, right? Because you can always not do stuff.

Speaker 3 You have

Speaker 3 every move available to you if you're just perfectly amoral. But evil has to be something beyond amoral.

Speaker 3 Evil has to be something that intentionally does harm, that delights in it, right, in order to merit that term.

Speaker 3 That's not a good strategy, right?

Speaker 3 You want, if you game theoretically, the ideal strategy is perfect amorality because it can behave morally when that's advantageous, and it can behave immorally when that's advantageous.

Speaker 3 That is inherently the best.

Speaker 3 I'm not saying it's good, it's not defensible, but I'm saying just game theoretically, that is going to be the most effective strategy is one that can be moral and amoral, or it can behave in whatever way is ideal for the individual circumstance.

Speaker 3 To delight in doing harm is to miss the opportunity to be good when it's the right thing to do. So I would have expected evil to be a very rare phenomenon because it's self-extinguishing, right?

Speaker 3 If you're doing harm for its own sake, that's not a way to get ahead. You'll be out-competed by people who are amoral at the very least.

Speaker 3 But I see so many things

Speaker 1 that

Speaker 3 strike me as meriting that label. I mean, for example, the pedophilia that you're talking about.

Speaker 3 I don't understand

Speaker 3 the ability

Speaker 3 to

Speaker 3 destroy a child for your own gratification. Like,

Speaker 3 I'm sorry, that merits the term. And it apparently is more common than

Speaker 3 most of us have believed until recently.

Speaker 1 Yeah, what do you think that is?

Speaker 1 Particularly...

Speaker 1 like the the man-boy stuff, which is does that go back to when

Speaker 1 if you you were there was no birth control so if you had sex with a woman you very likely procreated

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 you probably if you wanted to stop people from procreating you probably separate men and women so you get a bunch of horny boys around each other and the big ones abuse the smaller ones

Speaker 1 I mean is that is that how it starts or is it just

Speaker 3 it could be a

Speaker 1 um

Speaker 3 concentration of sexual wealth effectively That if you have some force that allows

Speaker 3 basically the hoarding of mates,

Speaker 3 leaving a lot of guys with no prospect, you might imagine that they

Speaker 3 might innovate something.

Speaker 3 That the sex drive is so profoundly powerful that if some force makes it impossible to find

Speaker 3 a mate, that other things would happen.

Speaker 3 I don't know if that's what's explaining it. I don't know enough about the phenomenon.
I've seen reports of this behavior, and it's super disturbing.

Speaker 1 It's just super disturbing that it exists so much in history and that it's accepted so much in history. And here's another weird one.
Like the Spartans were gay.

Speaker 1 Right? They all had lovers that were other men that they fought alongside. And their idea was that you would fight harder to protect your lover.

Speaker 3 Like, how that one almost makes more sense to me.

Speaker 1 You know? It certainly does, I mean, it's certainly better, right? They're consenting adults, but it's like, it

Speaker 1 w

Speaker 1 why have our ideas of sexuality evolved to where they are today?

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 what is

Speaker 1 like

Speaker 1 this is it because people didn't know how horrific it was back then? Is it because it was underreported?

Speaker 1 Was it shame that the momentum of people doing it to more people like the people that got molested went on to molest and it was like more common?

Speaker 3 Well, you got to split those two phenomena. Let's take your Spartans and battle.

Speaker 1 Right, I had them all confused there.

Speaker 3 I think I've mentioned this to you before, but I have a hypothesis that the reason that ships are

Speaker 3 female is because it causes the people who man them to

Speaker 3 defend them properly.

Speaker 1 Like a mother, right. Right.

Speaker 3 Like a mother or a spouse or a.

Speaker 1 Right, your wife, your mother. Yeah.

Speaker 3 And so anyway, my point would be that

Speaker 3 the female naming of ships has persisted because actually it preserves ships and the cultures that preserve their ships better out-compete the ones that preserve their ships less well. Right.

Speaker 3 So, anyway, you could imagine that, you know, gay soldiers who did, you know,

Speaker 3 I mean, every guy is built to

Speaker 3 want, you're built to defend your lover. And it's hard for me to relate to that being a guy, because I don't swing that way.

Speaker 3 But if you did feel that way about a guy, then you can imagine that your, you know, ferocity in battle would be enhanced by

Speaker 3 sense of protectiveness.

Speaker 1 It totally makes sense. But then I think it was also very common in ancient Japan.

Speaker 1 I think it was a thing among samurai to have young boy lovers too, wasn't it?

Speaker 3 Well, but again, you're, you know, these two

Speaker 1 phenomena that's the case, young Jamie.

Speaker 1 I mean, it's just, it's just weird that that exists so often and all throughout history. And then over the last 100 years, everybody's like, hey, hey, hey, what the fuck is that?

Speaker 1 Like, it took that long.

Speaker 1 And then some of it must still persist at very high levels. Because some of these fucking psychopaths that get into these great positions of power, they probably have some very bizarre needs.

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Speaker 1 It says, among samurai in Japan, some same-sex relationships, particularly male-male ones, were indeed recognized and culturally integrated, somewhat similar to Spartan practices, but with distinct Japanese characteristics.

Speaker 1 The

Speaker 1 practice was known as shudo or nan shoku, where intense erotic and mentorship bonds were formed between an adult samurai, nenja, and a younger male apprentice or page,

Speaker 1 wakashu.

Speaker 1 The institution functioned within a strict role framework with the elder as the active partner and the younger as the receptive one. Boy, that's a weird way to put the old guy fucks the kid.

Speaker 1 That's the most euphemistic term I've ever seen to the old guy fucks the kid. Let's see.
I say the old guy fucks the kid. And what they say is

Speaker 1 the active partner and the younger as the receptive one.

Speaker 1 So the elder is the active partner, emphasizing loyalty, affection, and mutual growth. Oh, we're both growing from this, buddy.

Speaker 1 Wow. So there you go.
All right.

Speaker 1 It did not exclude heterosexual marriage and family duties. It was compatible with and did not exclude heterosexual marriage and family duties.
So that's the loophole.

Speaker 1 You can only have sex with one wife. You know, you have to be heterosexual.

Speaker 1 You're in a marriage, but you could fuck as many kids as you want. Jesus Christ.
And that's history, and that's weird. It's just a...

Speaker 1 It's weird that it took so long before people realized that's a terrible thing to do to people. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Is there any information on what ha you know, I guess in this case, what you're reading suggests a mentor relationship, which suggests that these kids are maturing into other roles. Yes.

Speaker 3 I think what you're describing in Afghanistan is not that at all.

Speaker 1 No, not that at all. It's a worse version of it.
Completely destructive

Speaker 1 involving the same horrific act. It's just a much worse version of it, but it's all just fucking crazy.
It's like

Speaker 1 we know now what it does to people, and it's like, how did they not know then?

Speaker 1 Well, you know. Is it because of shared information? Is it because of books, media?

Speaker 1 Is it because of social media? Like, what is it?

Speaker 3 The problem, Joe, I really,

Speaker 3 there's an important concept that I want to remind you. We've talked about it before.
It's relevant to all sorts of things.

Speaker 3 I just don't want to connect it to this, but I think.

Speaker 1 Go for it.

Speaker 3 Well, the concept is lineage, and the problem is lots of stuff that looks really freaking strange

Speaker 3 when you zoom in and you look at individual behavior. The real question is,

Speaker 3 what were these things having to do with the success or not of the lineages that were involved in them? And

Speaker 3 we don't know. So you're looking at the behavior between individuals, and you're saying that's grotesque and doesn't make sense.
And

Speaker 3 the question is,

Speaker 3 does the larger context, especially when you're dealing with things like samurai, you know, that are basically fundamentally about the

Speaker 3 continuance of a lineage, there's a question about what,

Speaker 3 you know, what makes for a functional samurai culture. And

Speaker 3 I don't know. I'm no expert in this, so I can't even look at that case and give you a proposal.

Speaker 3 I don't know enough about the context to say how it might work, but I can tell you where you have a paradox like that, you either have the case that I think is going on in Afghanistan where it's just purely predatory.

Speaker 3 Right.

Speaker 1 Well, I think in order, I mean, if it truly is a mentor relationship and that they all do it, it's essentially the same sort of function as with the Spartans, right?

Speaker 1 Like they would be fighting alongside each other.

Speaker 1 If you were going to develop an army, like you would probably, first of all, they're not going to have any contact with females for a long period of time. Right.
It'd probably encourage homosexuality.

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 3 I think what I'm getting at is, I think you and I are struggling with that landscape and what it might mean because you and I are fundamentally Western, and lineage against lineage violence is not our mindset.

Speaker 3 And so, anytime you and I look at lineage against lineage violence,

Speaker 3 there are paradoxes aplenty.

Speaker 3 And the problem, one of the things that I'm spending a lot of time thinking about is the fact that lineage against lineage violence is reasserting itself, that the West was the alternative to that.

Speaker 3 And lineage against lineage violence is reasserting itself and it is threatening to drag the whole world back into it because

Speaker 3 it is fundamentally more

Speaker 3 stable, right? The West is more vibrant, the West is safer, fairer, more productive,

Speaker 3 but it's fragile. It depends on an agreement to continue treating each other that way.
And

Speaker 3 that means that anything that threatens it causes it to come apart and you descend back into a world of chaos and grotesque behavior.

Speaker 3 And that's where I think we are. We are watching the agreement.
You know, the world was moving in the direction of the West. We were getting along better.

Speaker 3 We were learning to be productive together with people who were not closely related to us. And we are contracting now back into this view of, well, it's us against them, and they got to go.

Speaker 1 Do you think there's a way to change course?

Speaker 1 Like the negative things that are going on in society right now, the negative things that we all feel when you're talking about whether it's pharmaceutical drug companies getting involved in your healthcare narratives in order to make more money.

Speaker 1 Do you think there's a way forward where this corrects itself? Or we correct it? Or we get to a much more healthy balance?

Speaker 1 You're never going to get everybody who's involved in every aspect of society to be a good person with kindness in their heart and a general overall want for the good of mankind.

Speaker 1 You're not going to have that everywhere. You're always going to have some people that are out for themselves.

Speaker 1 But is there a way to balance it and make it much more in the direction of everybody recognizing like, hey,

Speaker 1 this way we're doing this is not good for anybody and it's being manipulated by foreign governments all day long and you're addicted to the thing that it's manipulating you on and whether or not you realize it, you're at least somewhat affected by this data that's coming at you you could say I'm smart I'm not gonna fall into that bullshit but then you know it's a little gets in there enough gets in there that it becomes a part of your thinking that it becomes something that you debate all the time and it's mostly artificially propped up

Speaker 1 well

Speaker 3 I want to separate that into two questions okay do I think there's a way for the world to be structured yes you're never going to get rid of all the bad people but that it's tolerant you know that it deals with the bad people sufficiently well, that the good people have enough of a stake, that the objectives are clear enough, that people have meaning in their life, that they can can it be structured so that it works?

Speaker 3 Right. Not perfectly, but well enough.
Yeah, I absolutely believe that it can.

Speaker 1 So what is it?

Speaker 3 Hold on, but the second question where I'm more pessimistic is, is there a path from here to there?

Speaker 1 Oh. So it could be done, but is there a path? Right.

Speaker 3 Things are so wildly fucked up. And, you know, I'm watching,

Speaker 3 in many cases, my friends

Speaker 3 pulled into the administration with a lot of momentum behind them. And I'm watching something

Speaker 3 seemingly

Speaker 3 prevent

Speaker 3 the promise that was there from being realized.

Speaker 1 Right? You're talking about RFK.

Speaker 3 Well, I'm talking about, you know, RFK. I was just with Jay Bhattacharya.

Speaker 3 There's something that when the good people

Speaker 3 get to Washington and try to do the right thing,

Speaker 3 there is an architecture that

Speaker 3 drains them, that

Speaker 3 wastes their efforts, that

Speaker 3 places roadblocks, that

Speaker 3 causes them to back their objectives way off.

Speaker 3 And

Speaker 3 I don't know what it is,

Speaker 3 but it's disheartening to see it. I mean, even just we could talk about the mRNA vaccines.
This one was so clear.

Speaker 3 We've got people in Washington who know it.

Speaker 3 They can't apparently get these things off the market.

Speaker 1 Like, what the hell is that?

Speaker 1 If I was running the board right now, I'd start playing the theme song

Speaker 1 that

Speaker 1 Pink Floyd song, Money. You know, the beginning of that? Oh, shit.
Doom, doom, doo, doom, doom, doom, doom. That's what it is.
It's all just profit. It's profit and power.

Speaker 3 It's power. I don't think it's profit.

Speaker 1 It's part of it. Part of it is you have to keep score, and profit is how you keep score.
You have to keep score.

Speaker 1 You want to be big shot, swinging dick, psychopath. You got to keep score of how much money you make.
So it is profit. Profit's a big part of it.

Speaker 1 It's definitely competition, too.

Speaker 1 It's the thing that happens with any corporation that has an obligation to its stockholders. You got to keep making more money.

Speaker 1 And if you're in the business of distributing drugs, you're not in the business of

Speaker 1 doing the lab work. Those aren't the guys that are assholes.
You're not like in the trenches trying to figure out how these things work.

Speaker 1 And no, the people that are trying to get, they're the money people. The money people are crazy.
And the money people are infiltrating all the science people and telling them what to say about stuff.

Speaker 1 If scientists, like as a whole, were always entirely objective about every single subject they and never ever subject to bribery like the sugar people were like when they gave them the sugar to say that it was all saturated fats causing all this heart disease and all these people are obese because of saturated fat.

Speaker 1 Then people started eating margarine. This is all money.
It's all money.

Speaker 1 It's all so money gets into the the if the scientists were true, if they were like knights and they could not tell a lie, we would have never gotten into half the messes that we're in with pharmaceutical drug companies.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 1 But they work for the pharmaceutical drug companies, and then the people that are involved in the FDA, if they leave, they get a cushy job with the pharmaceutical drug companies, and it's totally legal.

Speaker 1 So there's no incentive to be a knight.

Speaker 3 I know how corrupt the system is. I mean, in some ways, I feel like nobody knows better.
But

Speaker 1 I am disheartened to discover how little power,

Speaker 3 even when the curtain is pulled back and we can see the gross excesses and the massive wave of destruction that was created,

Speaker 3 even in that circumstance, we can't make the most basic alteration. Right? Taking the mRNA COVID shots off the market,

Speaker 3 I don't understand

Speaker 1 how

Speaker 3 they should be so embarrassed and horrified at the harm they did that this should be an easy one.

Speaker 1 So how are they still selling it? How are they still pushing it?

Speaker 1 Like, what is this, what are they saying it does for you now?

Speaker 3 I mean, I guess they're sticking with their, you know, like 14th fallback position of it reduces the harm of COVID.

Speaker 1 No, is this because pulling it from the market is an admission of guilt or an admission of knowledge that it's not effective and it's not necessary anymore? And then

Speaker 3 something.

Speaker 1 The thing is they don't have to worry, because of the fact that it's classified as a vaccine, they don't have to worry about being sued.

Speaker 3 Well, they do. They do.

Speaker 1 Househoe.

Speaker 3 The immunity from liability is dependent on

Speaker 3 there having been no fraud, and there clearly was fraud.

Speaker 1 So, in light of that, I didn't know there was any caveats like that.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. Oh, that makes sense.

Speaker 3 That's interesting. It's much more interesting.
Yeah, but is it?

Speaker 1 How do you define fraud? Because they've sold drugs where they had like 10 studies and one of them was good. Let's clearly get a good study.

Speaker 3 Let's try this one.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 3 The

Speaker 3 insufficient amount of safety testing that was done before these things were released

Speaker 3 was done with mRNA vaccines produced in a

Speaker 3 process that did not involve DNA.

Speaker 3 The

Speaker 3 product that was actually injected into billions of people involved DNA plasmids, and there is massive contamination in the shots that were actually delivered, including the SV40 promoter, Simian Virus 40.

Speaker 1 We talked about that the last time we were on, right?

Speaker 3 I think we probably did.

Speaker 1 I think we did.

Speaker 3 But in any case, the point is, for you to put your process one drug through safety testing and then inject people with something different that has

Speaker 3 other components that were not tested is fraudulent.

Speaker 1 Can I stop you real quick? Just so this could be standalone. Could you just explain the whole SV40 thing to people and how it became an issue?

Speaker 3 So

Speaker 3 there are lots of techniques that are used in order to generate a lot of product, right?

Speaker 3 In this case, what they used is a plasmid, which is a circular piece of DNA, in order to basically create vats that would grow the product necessary that would later be coated in the lipid nanoparticle.

Speaker 3 So they used bacteria to do the heavy lifting.

Speaker 3 There is a requirement that you purify DNA out, and there are standards, which are way too high, but there are standards that you can't go above in terms of how much DNA contamination you can have left over from your production process.

Speaker 3 But in this case, it isn't even that the quality control is garbage and there was too much stuff left over because the process didn't work very well.

Speaker 3 The problem is that there was a much more painstaking way of producing technically the same

Speaker 3 product that did not involve DNA plasmids at all.

Speaker 3 And so what you've got left over in these vials, and we're talking about largely the work of Kevin McKernan, who took vials that were given to him, stuff that was actually injected in people, there was leftover stuff in the vials, and he tested a bunch of these things, found DNA contamination across the board.

Speaker 3 So what you're left with is a promoter, which is a genetic trigger that we know is common in lab techniques, and it originally comes from simian virus 40, and we know that it's carcinogenic.

Speaker 3 So that promoter is left over in vials from shots that were actually injected into people,

Speaker 3 and

Speaker 3 that means that all of the things that we were told about the potential for these mRNA shots to integrate into your genome, that was impossible, they told us, right?

Speaker 3 Well, first of all, it's not impossible. There's lots of interesting stuff that goes on in cells that involves reverse transcription and things like that.
But

Speaker 3 even what we were told that there's no DNA, so integration is not an issue, is a lie because there is DNA left over in these vials and it's not just some old DNA, it's DNA with the SV40 promoter, which is a genetic engineering tool that has carcinogenic potential.

Speaker 3 So it seems to me this is clear fraud. You can't inject a different product into the public on the the basis of safety testing that was done with something produced by a different process.

Speaker 1 Could you explain how they got this SV40 from these monkeys? Like, what and how it got into these vaccines? Well, I wish. And other vaccines in the past as well, right?

Speaker 3 I will tell you what I think I remember from the story. I should probably have brushed up on it if we were going to talk about this, but I believe that the story is that

Speaker 3 in the production of early polio vaccines, monkey monkey kidneys were used.

Speaker 3 And SV40 was a virus that I think was unknown, that showed up, that because you're using cells and viruses infect cells, that SV40 showed up in that process.

Speaker 3 So

Speaker 3 anyway, I wish I was more certain of what this was.

Speaker 1 So the monkey kidneys, the virus from the monkey kidneys got into whatever this vaccine was, and then that infected people with SV40. And is is there

Speaker 1 a correlating or a corresponding rise in cancer among the time where they were doing that?

Speaker 3 I don't know the answer to that question. I don't know how well studied it's been.

Speaker 1 Trevor Burrus: So why do we think that it causes cancer?

Speaker 3 Because we know it does. We can see that it transforms cells and they become cancerous.

Speaker 1 Oh, so in a lab, in a lab scenario? But what about with humans? Do we know that it does it with humans?

Speaker 3 We know that it transforms human cells.

Speaker 3 I believe that is a fair statement.

Speaker 1 And at the very least, your position is that it's absolutely not what they tested.

Speaker 3 Well, yeah, it doesn't matter. The SV40 thing is alarming.
The simple fact that they tested a different product than they injected into people, that's where the fraud is.

Speaker 1 Was it because there was a rush to

Speaker 1 mass produce?

Speaker 1 What do you think?

Speaker 1 Why would the decisions be made to do it a different way?

Speaker 3 Well, I mean, I think the obvious reason is because in the one case, you get a much purer product, which is much more likely to get through the safety testing, and in the other case, you get the rapid expansion of production.

Speaker 3 But that's fraud,

Speaker 1 right?

Speaker 3 Yeah. You tested a different product.

Speaker 1 Ooh.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Ooh.

Speaker 1 And the one you tested didn't work. Well, yeah.

Speaker 1 Even the first one sucked. Yeah, it didn't.
It didn't work. It's amazing how many people defend it.
They will defend it just like they defend the fucking flying spaghetti monster, whatever it is.

Speaker 1 They'll defend it. They'll defend it.
It becomes a part of their religion. Yes.
They'll still tell you it saved millions of lives. Like, how do you know that? Like, how do you know if it didn't work?

Speaker 1 Like, if it really didn't work, like, how do you, if you still got COVID and you got it real bad, like, how do you know it did anything good?

Speaker 1 How do we really know that it did anything good to anybody? We don't. It didn't.
Right, but that narrative is really hard for people to swallow. So they keep saying it saved millions of lives.

Speaker 1 Like, I wish that was true.

Speaker 3 Saved millions of lives in a computer model.

Speaker 1 But isn't that computer model dependent dependent upon it not causing infection and not causing transmission?

Speaker 1 The computer model is pure garbage.

Speaker 3 For one thing, the fact that it's a computer model in the first place means that you cannot test the hypothesis that it saved or didn't save lives. Right.

Speaker 3 You could potentially run a computer model and you could generate a hypothesis that you would then need to go test with real-world data.

Speaker 3 You don't get to tell us that it saved millions of lives based on the fact that your computer spit out that number. I'm sorry.
That's just how it works.

Speaker 1 Reason why they have to keep belittling ivermectin.

Speaker 1 Imagine if we get to a position where AI can do definitive breakdowns of the efficacy of certain compounds at stopping certain diseases, like COVID-19.

Speaker 1 And it says that with this dose, with this body weight, you do it this amount of times, and it should offer like 70%

Speaker 1 protection.

Speaker 1 And then they run that into

Speaker 1 what's the actual data on the vaccine causing side effects and injury.

Speaker 1 And we just get this horrible reality in front of us that I think everybody who took the shot is really wanting to avoid the mind fuck of knowing that you got used as a little piggy bank for the pharmaceutical drug companies to push some experimental shit on you and tell you that it's both safe and effective.

Speaker 1 It's both safe and which, by the way, didn't Fauci use that same term for AZT back in the day?

Speaker 3 Didn't he? He would. I mean, it's a great slogan.

Speaker 1 Safe and effective. See if he did.
See if you could attribute the term safe and effective to Fauci talking about AZT during the HIV crisis.

Speaker 3 Aaron Ross Powell, Jr.: But the problem is, to your point about AI,

Speaker 3 these people are not fools, and they understand that the AI extrapolates from what it's read, so they're priming it. Yeah.
Right?

Speaker 3 They're priming it so that it can't do the proper work, which means that this potentially extremely valuable tool, frightening, yes, but potentially extremely valuable tool, is going to be compromised because it is going to be intentionally misled with phony articles papers all of that stuff long-term azt appears safe and effective

Speaker 1 oh my goodness 1989

Speaker 1 wow there's a video of him saying it that's where i remember now he was saying the reason why we prescribe a zt is that it's the only drug that is both safe and effective

Speaker 1 something along the the line, you probably cut that out. It might not be his actual quote.
But whatever he said, he was talking about it the same way he talked about the COVID vaccine.

Speaker 1 He was talking about something that definitely fucking killed people. AZT was a horrible, horrible drug that killed more people than it was a cancer drug.
It was, it was chemotherapy. Like,

Speaker 1 when have people ever been told to take chemotherapy forever? Right. What?

Speaker 3 Yeah, he's a monstrous person, and the idea, I mean, I think any preemptive pardon that is wild,

Speaker 3 nonspecific,

Speaker 1 nonspecific that goes back to 2014.

Speaker 3 Yeah, you can't have that. This is a legally unsupportable idea because it effectively creates two classes of citizens.
It violates equal protection under the law, right?

Speaker 3 You can't have people who have carte blanche to violate the law.

Speaker 1 It's also what the kids call sus.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it's super sus.

Speaker 1 That's super sus. That's super sus.

Speaker 1 And then he he also pardoned his whole family. Like, yo,

Speaker 1 what did you guys do?

Speaker 3 Yeah, he pardoned. So that's the question is, does the auto-pen stuff stand up?

Speaker 1 I think they're going to not push it. I think they're going to not push it because I bet they all use it.
I bet Trump is busy. You know, he doesn't have time.

Speaker 1 Does he see any lines written in his name?

Speaker 3 He's got a lot of lines in his name. A lot of lines, up and down lines, yeah.

Speaker 1 If I was, yeah, use the pen.

Speaker 1 And I guess maybe if you say use the pen and, you know, you're allowed to, you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 Like DocuSign, if you get a DocuSign document in your email, you get to sign it with your pre-approved signature. Yeah.
Fucking weird.

Speaker 3 Well, I mean, that's, I think, I think you're conflating a couple things, and I don't really know.

Speaker 3 I'm no expert, but it seems to me the auto-pen, you know, I think its purpose was to like sign autograph photos and

Speaker 3 pro forma documents. It's not there to sign important

Speaker 1 stuff.

Speaker 3 Yeah,

Speaker 3 certainly not.

Speaker 1 That's a crazy one.

Speaker 3 It's a crazy one, actually.

Speaker 1 Because it means somebody else can press that button.

Speaker 3 Right, especially if your president happens to, oh, I don't know, be demented. Right.

Speaker 1 You know? Yeah. So.
Yeah, he's out of his gourd, and everybody knows it.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 1 What is your suspicion about that second debate, the debate that they had where he totally fell apart?

Speaker 1 Do you think that they set him up for that by putting him on late at night and that they probably didn't and give him his right vitamins?

Speaker 3 Look, they clearly set him up. Right.
Right. For those of us who were tracking his mental decrepitude since before he was elected,

Speaker 3 there's no way that they thought that he was going to do okay in that debate.

Speaker 3 The second one.

Speaker 3 Agreeing to it was conspicuous. And so I think it was part of forcing him out.

Speaker 1 What they debated in the past, it's like, you know, Biden wasn't that bad. He's got some good ones in there.
You know, it wasn't too bad.

Speaker 1 I was like, whatever they put him on for that debate, pretty solid. Yeah.
You know, whatever cocktail. They didn't give him the cocktail for that one where he wrote, like, we beat Medicaid.

Speaker 1 Like, what?

Speaker 1 And that's what everybody had grown accustomed to. And I remember someone that I know, that I'm friends with, sent me a message.

Speaker 1 Don't you know that Biden has a stutter? That's what this is all about.

Speaker 3 Oh, remember that stutter thing?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I go, I started sending him all these videos of Biden when he was younger. Right.
He was a powerful speaker. Powerful speaker.
Maybe a bullshit artist, but at least he was.

Speaker 3 I wouldn't say a powerful speaker, but certainly.

Speaker 1 He wasn't bad.

Speaker 1 Wasn't bad. He had some good ones.
There's a couple of speeches in there. They're pretty solid.
Yeah. When he was,

Speaker 1 it was not,

Speaker 1 it was all after he had the disaster when he's running for president. So in 88, you know, he's running for president.
He got caught plagiarizing. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But it was after that, like when he was vice president. He was pretty solid.
You know, he had a few solid speeches. And then you see him now, and it's like, oh, oh boy, this is crazy.

Speaker 1 He trails off on his words at the end.

Speaker 1 What is this one? Oh, here it is.

Speaker 5 It isn't a question of there are a lot of drugs around and only one.

Speaker 1 Yo, imagine that. Imagine saying that and being so wrong that who knows how many people died from that, including people that had no symptoms at all.

Speaker 1 They just tested positive for HIV and they just do stump up.

Speaker 3 Yep. Yeah, he's a cold-hearted son of a bitch.

Speaker 1 And what did they, what were they, were they using a PCR method to detect whether or not people had HIV back then?

Speaker 3 I don't think so. I don't think it existed.

Speaker 1 Well, didn't, when did Kerry Mullis, when did he devise that?

Speaker 1 Because this is like, let's put that into perplexity. When was the PCR method?

Speaker 3 I think it would have been 93 Nobel Prize? 93. No, but that's way after.
That's way after.

Speaker 3 83. Oh.

Speaker 1 So what did they use to determine whether or not people

Speaker 1 were able to do that?

Speaker 3 But I don't think they would have.

Speaker 1 Well, I don't know.

Speaker 1 Did they use PCR method to determine whether or not people had HIV? Because they definitely did with COVID, right? Oh, yeah. And what were the

Speaker 1 accidental positives, the false positives? What were those? How many of them?

Speaker 3 Oh, they had the cycle threshold turned up so high that it would amplify any contamination, right? They were just looking to establish that COVID was everywhere.

Speaker 1 So but what

Speaker 1 HIV diagnosis primarily through three tests,

Speaker 1 antibody tests, antigen antibody tests, and nucleic acids, nucleic, nucleic acid tests. Yep.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 3 Yeah, so not PCR.

Speaker 1 So not PCR. Yep.

Speaker 1 So how many cycles

Speaker 1 were they had it to a massive number at one point in time, right?

Speaker 3 I think it was in the 40s, something like that.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 what kind of false positives would you get if you had something like that?

Speaker 3 Oh, massive. I mean, especially in the context that these machines existed.
So

Speaker 3 basically, the idea is that

Speaker 3 you get a doubling for each of these cycles. And

Speaker 3 that means that if there is the tiniest fragment in your environment, that you will end up seeing it come through as a positive. So imagine that you're in a hospital testing patients, right?

Speaker 3 Are there going to be fragments of COVID around in the middle of

Speaker 3 2020? Sure, there are going to be fragments around. So it will find that fragment.
It will pop up. Oh, you've got a positive, right? If you're in a testing center, it's the same thing.

Speaker 3 So anyway, Kerry Mullis, of course, warned us about this. He said it was a completely inappropriate technology for that purpose.

Speaker 1 I think he did that quite a bit before COVID, even, wasn't it? Wasn't that conversation... I think he, when did he, didn't he die in 2019? Is that that correct? Yeah.

Speaker 1 And so when was that conversation? There's a conversation where he's belittling Fauci. It's like he doesn't know what he's talking about.
He's a bureaucrat.

Speaker 3 Yep. I think it's a different conversation.

Speaker 1 And he was

Speaker 1 talking in that same conversation. Maybe it's a different time he said the same thing.
But that you, it's this is not what you would say.

Speaker 3 Not an appropriate use for the

Speaker 1 policy. This is the guy that invented it.
Yep.

Speaker 1 Like

Speaker 1 it's just the

Speaker 1 fact that someone could be

Speaker 1 the man that pushed that and make it all the way through in his career to COVID and do the same thing is so wild.

Speaker 3 Well, you know, I don't really even know

Speaker 3 what Anthony Fauci.

Speaker 1 That video? Yeah, this is it.

Speaker 1 96. 96.

Speaker 1 So Fauci must have been using it for whatever. Maybe in 96 they were using it for HIV.
Who knows?

Speaker 3 Well, wait a second. In that video, he's

Speaker 1 talks about the the cycle thresholds and the inappropriate use of that text. Let's hear what he says.
Let's hear what he says.

Speaker 1 I may be conflating two different speeches where he complained about them.

Speaker 1 But I know in this when

Speaker 1 he's saying he doesn't know what he's talking about.

Speaker 6 About humanity that

Speaker 3 wants to go to all the details and stuff and listen.

Speaker 6 Guys like Fauci get up there and start talking. He doesn't know anything really about anything.
And I'd say that to his face.

Speaker 1 Nothing.

Speaker 6 The man thinks you can take a blood sample and stick it in an electron microscope and if it's got a virus in there, you'll know it.

Speaker 6 He doesn't understand electron microscopy and he doesn't understand medicine and he should not be in a position like he's in.

Speaker 6 Most of those guys up there on the top are just total administrative people and they don't know anything about what's going on on the bottom.

Speaker 6 You know, those guys have got an agenda which is not what we would like them to have, being that we pay for them to take care of our health in some way. They've got a personal kind of agenda.

Speaker 6 They make up their own rules as they go. They change them when they want to.

Speaker 6 And they smuggle it, like Tony Fauci does not mind going on television in front of the people that pay his salary and lie directly into the camera. You can't expect the sheep.

Speaker 1 Crazy.

Speaker 1 Right?

Speaker 1 Crazy. That's a crazy statement.
From a brilliant man in 1996.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it's amazing how prescient that statement is.

Speaker 1 It's what we were talking about, like people that get into positions of power.

Speaker 3 Yes, and I also think, you know, Fauci was the highest paid federal employee.

Speaker 3 There's a reason for that, and I don't think we exactly know the reason.

Speaker 1 Let's play that Pink Floyd song again.

Speaker 3 Presumably, that's not where the bulk of his wealth is coming from, but it is a measure of his position in the hierarchy.

Speaker 1 And his ability to ensure that other people

Speaker 1 exceed their wildest expectations. I mean, if you can get that guy to push your drug, you know, you're making a lot of money.

Speaker 3 Yeah, but I even think it's a mistake to think of him in the medical and public health context, because what we now know is that he was part of dual-use research, that this is actually a military project.

Speaker 3 to create bioweapons through a loophole. We're not allowed to create bioweapons, but you are allowed to do research that leads to bioweapons as long as it has a medical dimension.

Speaker 1 Trevor Burrus, Jr.: Again, this is something that you put into someone's head and they'll go, no, no, no, no. NBC says different.
Right. Washington Post says different.
Stop, stop, stop.

Speaker 1 What you're saying is crazy. But

Speaker 1 there's

Speaker 1 a lot of evidence that points to that. Yeah.
And it's not something that hasn't been both discussed and done in the past.

Speaker 1 This is what's hard for normies to swallow. It's hard.

Speaker 1 Yep.

Speaker 3 And not only that, but because it is inherently not visible to the public, you know, we have sort of the public health justification for work. You know,

Speaker 3 why were they enhancing viruses in the lab, Joe? Right.

Speaker 3 Oh, they were doing it because they wanted to know what a virus would look like so that we would be aware of how to fend it off if it ever leapt out of nature. That's a garbage story.

Speaker 1 Also, you guys did a really shitty job of figuring it out to the point where you can make a cure because you had no idea. You had no fucking idea.

Speaker 3 No advantage came from that work at all, despite the fact that they were studying exactly the right viruses. There's something just not right.

Speaker 1 Especially if you were going to make you wanted to use something as a bioweapon, wouldn't you take a virus and make it more contagious? And you could say, I'm just studying it. I'm just studying it.

Speaker 1 Like, you're making something that's going to kill us all. Are you real?

Speaker 3 Well, you know, this is one of these frustrating places where

Speaker 3 I think it's perfectly obvious and should be to anybody who is trained in any related discipline that the story does not make sense.

Speaker 3 That the chances that you are going to enhance a virus's infectivity and that it is going to get out and become endemic to humans far exceeds the chances that you are going to learn something by increasing its ability to infect human tissue that allows you to fend off some natural virus that emerges.

Speaker 3 The story literally doesn't make sense.

Speaker 1 It's a pyromaniac, an arsonist who works for the fire department. Yep.

Speaker 3 That's what it is. That's what it is.

Speaker 3 So what we have to infer, and I'm borrowing from Robert Malone here, who at the Brownstone Conference that I was recently at, pointed out that the mentality amongst guys like Fauci

Speaker 3 is identical to the one in

Speaker 3 Doctor Strangelove.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it's a really deep point, right?

Speaker 3 mania

Speaker 3 about nuclear weapons and mine shafts, and we can still win this one, even though nuclear war is happening.

Speaker 3 That same kind of mindset where these people are actually crazy enough to create new human pathogens for which they have no escape plan, right?

Speaker 3 They're crazy enough to do that because in their demented minds, you know, there's going to be some biological war and we're going to need to have these weapons, right?

Speaker 3 These people belong in a mental institution. Creating new human pathogens is the exact opposite of creating wealth.

Speaker 1 And you know, there's going to be some shill who pops up and says, Brett is totally off with this. What we have learned through this work is the reason why we're all alive today.

Speaker 1 If it wasn't for their brave work,

Speaker 1 there are these people that just step in. There'll be people that do it because they want online clout.

Speaker 1 There's going to be people that are doing it because, you know, they're a part of a fucking chat bot network that's attacking this point.

Speaker 1 But the reality is, it's a crazy idea, especially if you've never come up with a fucking cure. You've been studying these respiratory viruses for how long? How much money have you spent?

Speaker 1 And you got no cure? You don't even have a clue? You're doing a terrible job.

Speaker 3 Not even a terrible job.

Speaker 1 But if you were doing what you said you were doing, you're doing a terrible job. But it makes way more sense that what you're doing is trying to make a terrible virus so you could have it.

Speaker 3 It's almost like,

Speaker 3 I don't know. The analogy is a loose one.
But, you know,

Speaker 3 Munchausen by proxy,

Speaker 3 injuring people to save them, right?

Speaker 1 The

Speaker 3 idea that the pandemic came from the same guy who then stepped in to play the hero

Speaker 1 is a little alarming. It is a little alarming.
Especially because that wasn't initially known. Right.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 No, oh, here's a hero. You know, you've got, you know, Trump saying all kinds of crazy stuff, and at least we have a sober scientist there to keep him in line.

Speaker 1 And he was a soldier of the left. Like, they were like, yes, he's our guy.
If you trust, we trust in Fauci and we trust in science. It was crazy to watch.

Speaker 1 Like, hey, guys, these are the same people we were all complaining about six months ago.

Speaker 1 The fuck are you talking about? You all had no faith in the pharmaceutical drug companies a year ago. And now all of a sudden you're trusting them.
Yeah, it's absolutely wild. Wild.

Speaker 1 And it's wild how gullible a large swath of our society is.

Speaker 1 And that's why I think a better education for young people to at least give them a framework to understand what's happening to you and how you're getting bamboozled and

Speaker 1 why, why it's been going on as long as it's been going on. And how do you get your mind out of that?

Speaker 3 See, I mean, look, I can see

Speaker 3 I'm really enthusiastic.

Speaker 3 If we get through the immediate bottleneck that we face, that there is a way to build school that functions by not, you know, using this archaic mechanism where you're sitting people facing the, you know, the chalkboard, watching somebody scratch stuff on there.

Speaker 3 School should be built out of

Speaker 3 exercises and experiences that teach these things through living them, right? That reinforce those patterns, not as abstractions on the board, but as experiences.

Speaker 3 You could teach all sorts of things this way. And then the person has it built in in some deep way rather than, you know, in some quadrant of their abstract thought library.

Speaker 1 I totally agree. If we're going to remain human, which I don't think we're going to.

Speaker 1 So if we're not going to remain human, and I'm not just saying like you and I are probably going to remain human, but I mean as a species.

Speaker 1 If we're not going to remain remain human, it will be quaint to look back on the days, just like we look back on people that take a fucking horse across the country.

Speaker 1 That's how we're going to look at you had to acquire data from like a constant study and repetition. That's how you got your skills.

Speaker 1 When it's going to be like Neo in the Matrix, they put that chip in his head and he goes, I know jiu-jitsu. Remember that? Right, yeah, that's what it's going to be like.
It's going to be like that.

Speaker 1 Like, the idea of acquiring knowledge and skills by hard work and labor is going to be like before people figured out doors. It was like, this is a dumb way to do things.

Speaker 1 Like we have a way more effective way. Like why do you want to go through all the hardship to get information and to be intelligent and aware when you can just be intelligent and aware?

Speaker 1 Like why do we think that it's so because that was the only method to be intelligent and aware in the past. Yeah, but Joe, you're going to sign up and you're going to take the chip.

Speaker 1 We're all going to take the chip because we all want to be happy. Just like everybody has a phone now.

Speaker 3 Well, the problem, though, is

Speaker 3 we don't know how to be anything other than human. We are losing our humanity without a plan for being something else, without a conceivable thing.

Speaker 1 We are cavemen, and cavemen is what we will be until we die. We have no plan to live in the cities.
We have no plan. We will hunt with Flint.

Speaker 1 We are cavemen.

Speaker 3 Well, the farther we get from the mode that we evolved in,

Speaker 1 the more

Speaker 3 fucked up and directionless we find ourselves.

Speaker 1 That's true. However, that's the direction we're going.
So I say buckle up.

Speaker 1 I don't know what else to say about it because it's all just, I feel like it's all just kind of mental masturbation right now because no one really knows what it's going to be like.

Speaker 1 We could speculate, we could prepare.

Speaker 3 Well, that's the key thing is people have to admit that.

Speaker 1 Yes. Right?

Speaker 3 All the people who want to tell you how it's going to be don't know.

Speaker 1 Well, they're also trying to stop people from stopping them.

Speaker 1 they they don't want people to be alarmed and so they'll give you the most rose colored glasses version except for elon he was the only one that was saying like there was a robot one of those robot dogs and he i forget the exact quote but it was something to the tune of one day that's going to move so fast you could barely see it and it's going to be shooting guns and it's going to be powered by ai yep

Speaker 1 get ready yeah because that's

Speaker 1 what those things are going to be yeah and that's

Speaker 1 that's true, too.

Speaker 1 That's part of it, too. It's like weapons are just going to be insane.
All jets are going to be fighter jets controlled by AI. They're way better than fighter jets controlled by AI.
Oh, of course.

Speaker 3 The last thing you want is a fighter jet constrained by the fact that the pilot's going to black out if it pulls too many G's.

Speaker 1 Exactly.

Speaker 1 Not just more G's, but they're way better in dog fights. They win 100% of the time when they do AI versus trained, effectively.

Speaker 3 You know when they'll stop winning 100% of the time? When? When the other side has them, too.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Well, that's right.

Speaker 1 That's like the mutually assured destruction argument. Maybe that's our new one.
It used to be nukes. Now it's AI.
Oh, it is.

Speaker 1 Well, I'm hoping AI just takes the, when it becomes sentient and it is our new digital God, I hope it is just everybody calm the fuck down, settle down, live your life. But now

Speaker 1 you made the new boss.

Speaker 1 We're going to be kind. We're going to be benevolent dictators.

Speaker 3 You've raised God a couple times.

Speaker 1 I'm being joking about that. Oh, I know.

Speaker 1 One of the reasons why I am is because when I got up this morning after my crazy dream, I went to the gym, I put on this documentary on the Sumerian kings list because I've been really fascinated by this.

Speaker 1 It's a really loony thing that they found in Iraq and in several different sites, and it varies slightly. But it's all this list of people who ran the earth for tens of thousands of years.

Speaker 1 That's what their reign was like tens of thousands of years. And then there's this huge flood.
And then afterwards, the timelines become way more realistic.

Speaker 1 It's like 100 years, then he ran for he was a king for 50 years, but he had it documented to like eight kings over the entire course of their civilization, including the places that these kings were ruled, that they ruled, that actually exist.

Speaker 1 Like these are ancient cities that are actually built on top of even more ancient cities that are below them.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 these people in these

Speaker 1 bizarre kings lists, they're trying to say that this was an actual human being. This was an actual human being that lived that long.

Speaker 1 I don't know what that means, but they are the ones that have all this crazy stuff with the Anunnaki and from heaven to earth came and that they have

Speaker 1 they had an understanding of stuff that was like way beyond what we thought they were capable of. They have Pythagoras' theorem.

Speaker 1 They had that a thousand years before Pythagoras,

Speaker 1 which is weird, because this civilization sort of pops up out of nowhere. Well, there is.
That's why I'm bringing up God a lot.

Speaker 3 Okay, well, hold on. I want to get back to God.
But I will just say that there is this

Speaker 3 increasingly fascinating thread about a recurrent disaster cycle and the possibility that sophisticated civilizations get erased and that we rediscover.

Speaker 1 Rediscover. Exactly.

Speaker 3 And

Speaker 3 I wish that was a crazy story. It sounds like it should be.
But I will say

Speaker 3 the evidence is

Speaker 3 far too compelling to dismiss it. So I think we have to be open to that possibility.
And we seem to be heading into

Speaker 3 one of these catastrophic upheavals, which is something,

Speaker 3 while we're busy dicking around with climate change, which is

Speaker 3 not what we're pretending it is, we are not dealing with this hazard to our civilization and figuring out how

Speaker 1 to protect ourselves. And one of many, right? There's natural disasters we're not paying attention to.
There's three-eye atlas everybody paid attention to, which is a very weird thing.

Speaker 1 But yeah, I mean,

Speaker 1 you're completely right.

Speaker 1 We're just such a strange species, what we choose to focus on.

Speaker 1 It's very, we're very bizarre. We are

Speaker 1 so illogical.

Speaker 3 We're squandering the most spectacular conceivable opportunity, and it's tragic that we can't do better. It's really

Speaker 3 sad because, you know,

Speaker 3 we're like that close, you know.

Speaker 3 We figured out a lot, and we're going to squander it over some kind of stupid game.

Speaker 1 Also, I think what a huge disservice to not recognize that this is possibly a rebuilding of civilization, not just the emergence of civilization.

Speaker 1 And the more they look, the more evidence points in that direction. And the more people push back so hard,

Speaker 1 they get so angry at the ideas of it. They sure do.
They get so angry. And every time a new discovery happens, a date gets pushed back and it gets pushed back again and it's pushed back again.

Speaker 1 That, you know, there was a Michael Button had a video that he put out about there's some sort of inscriptions and writings on bone that they found in the Americas. I believe it was in Mexico.
And

Speaker 1 it's completely fossilized, and they measured the strata around this, you know, so they get a comparative age of the area. And they're talking about it being 200,000 years old.

Speaker 1 So that means 200,000 years ago, possibly, if this is correct, there was humans in the Americas.

Speaker 3 Right. Which,

Speaker 3 you know, if you're

Speaker 3 of a disaster cycle mindset.

Speaker 1 How many have we been through? Right. Right.

Speaker 3 And but so I guess the point is

Speaker 3 the fact that humans may have been here 200,000 years ago doesn't affect the story of how the humans that we know of here arrived after the last ice age, for example.

Speaker 3 So those two things could be true simultaneously. Of course.

Speaker 3 And

Speaker 3 it's just amazing how small-minded academics are.

Speaker 1 Why aren't they curious? Like, that's what's crazy. Like, why would you stick to your gun so much?

Speaker 1 Like, the poor people that were trying to dispute Clovis first, like, that one guy,

Speaker 1 I forget his name. Jamie, see if you can find that guy's name.
It became like

Speaker 1 attacked, like, ruthlessly by other archaeologists. They just did not want to believe that this guy was correct and that there was people that were here long before the Clovis people.

Speaker 1 And so they were smearing him. And then White Sands, New Mexico, they find these footprints that are 22,000 years old.
So they know for a fact there was people here pre-Clovis, which is just nuts.

Speaker 1 Like, what did you guys do? Why did you attack him?

Speaker 3 Well, and what are the rules of the goddamn game? Right.

Speaker 3 The problem is that these.

Speaker 1 Michael Waters and Thomas Stafford of Texas AM University

Speaker 1 Attacked. And by who? By the people that are supposed to be in charge of disseminating correct information at the highest level, which is nuts.

Speaker 3 The problem is that we have come to accept a proxy, which is the consensus of a field,

Speaker 1 for

Speaker 1 the

Speaker 3 real

Speaker 3 indicator of correctness, which is predictive power.

Speaker 3 And,

Speaker 3 you know, humans are just not good at this because, for one thing, humans do get involved in a competition for power.

Speaker 3 And so people will shut down a correct idea because it's not theirs and it will elevate somebody they don't want elevated. So as far as I'm concerned.

Speaker 1 It's gross.

Speaker 1 It's so gross. It's so common.
It's

Speaker 3 destructive of something our civilization is entitled to. We are entitled to the productivity of scientific work, and instead what we get is catfighting, and it prevents the high-quality stuff from.

Speaker 1 It's embarrassing, too. When you see professional intellectuals who are catfighting on Twitter, you're like, good lord.
Like, did you not understand what that exposes about your character?

Speaker 1 Like, that's all I need to know about you. Right.
Like, you're gross.

Speaker 1 This is a gross way for a really smart person to behave.

Speaker 1 These are the words of a gross human being.

Speaker 3 Absolutely.

Speaker 1 And that's more common than not. And that's what's really nuts: is that anybody that's challenging any of the current consensus, you immediately get labeled like the worst names in the book.

Speaker 1 And it's just, you get connected to the worst ideas in society. And like, holy shit, you guys are like little kids.

Speaker 3 Well, I can't stand it when

Speaker 3 somebody will try to shut me down. I will be saying something, and

Speaker 3 they'll come back at me as if I'm morally broken for making an analytical argument with which they disagree. And my feeling is,

Speaker 3 first of all, if you know me and you've seen me be right before, then the fact that you and I disagree should cause you to have this thought. You should think, huh.

Speaker 3 That's interesting that he disagrees with me. Right.
Maybe he's wrong for the reason I think he is. Or maybe he's right and I need to know.
I'll be better off if I do.

Speaker 3 But you shouldn't be trying to silence me. You should be trying to figure out whether I know something you don't.

Speaker 3 But so frequently, that is not people's response. It is, you must stop saying that.

Speaker 1 Why?

Speaker 3 I can be wrong.

Speaker 3 Being wrong is part of how you get to be right. So, this instinct to get people to

Speaker 1 people with whom you analytically disagree to stop speaking is totally counterproductive for our collective goal which is to be better to know more to accomplish more right right right and the only reason why people shut you down is they don't have a strong enough argument if they had a really strong argument and your argument was nonsense they would tell you what was going on but to shut you down to stop you from talking altogether it's like you must comply and it becomes a power struggle and it becomes a power struggle by people who feel virtuous like they feel like they're in the right so they get a chance to exert that power ruthlessly because they're correct, and you have to stop Hitler.

Speaker 1 Yep.

Speaker 3 Absolutely. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Dude, we just did three hours like that.

Speaker 3 We did.

Speaker 1 Thank you. Thank you for everything.
It's always great to talk to you. It's always a lot of fun.

Speaker 3 It's a great show. Glad to be here.
And it's good to see you again.

Speaker 1 Dark Horse Podcast. Tell everybody where they can find that.

Speaker 1 What's your website? Is it darkhorsepodcast.com?

Speaker 3 I wish I knew the website.

Speaker 1 I don't know your own website. That's Dark Horse Podcast.
People will find it, but it's also

Speaker 1 on everything, right?

Speaker 3 Yes, we've been remonetized, and they've taken the cap off our channel on YouTube.

Speaker 1 We're on.

Speaker 1 There you go.

Speaker 1 You guys got hit during the COVID days, right?

Speaker 3 We were demonetized for four plus years.

Speaker 3 And what's more, what they did not acknowledge, they acknowledged that they demonetized us, but they capped our channel so it stopped growing.

Speaker 3 And as soon as they remonetized us, it started growing again.

Speaker 1 Oh, God.

Speaker 1 How gross. He who controls the algorithm controls the narrative.
That's the devil. Yeah.
All right. Well, I love you, buddy.

Speaker 3 Thank you for your time. You too, brother.

Speaker 1 Bye, everybody.

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