Club Random with Bill Maher - Video: Jillian Michaels | Club Random with Bill Maher

Episode Date: February 12, 2024

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Are you happier in Florida? It feels less crazy. Here you go. Florida's less crazy. Yeah. Hear me out. Hear me out on this. This is the kind of stuff.
Starting point is 00:00:11 And I, I, I'm sitting with my daughter and I'm like, this is me. I needed a trigger warning for that piece of information. No, no. You know, if I could say one thing
Starting point is 00:00:21 that I've wanted to thank you for, for probably four years now. What am I doing? When the whole situation happened where I said I did not celebrate Lizo being obese because I would hate for her to get diabetes. Right. Not only did no one say anything in the public eye,
Starting point is 00:00:39 right, at all behind the scenes, like totally agree, wink, wink. You are the only person who had my back. Sounds like me. You went on Rogan and you're like, did you see this? Julie and Michael said this is crazy and I was like. Well, you know, I've been raked over the calls even more than you perhaps.
Starting point is 00:01:00 I'm sure. For that issue. You must have been aware that James Corden fewed. No, a little bit about it. I know a little bit about it, refreshed my memory, but he's a hit. Oh, well, I did an editorial about obesity and he was like painted me as mean man.
Starting point is 00:01:20 And of course, it was all things that were true. No cheap shots. Of course not. Well, I mean all things that were true. No cheap shots. Of course not. I mean, no, you could. I mean, I certainly... Do you want to go over it? There we go. Go on.
Starting point is 00:01:33 I'm reading submissions of them, but I didn't... No, I wanted to avoid that, but it was, you know, a frank discussion of, I think it started with the... I think it was during the 20... No, the 18 campaign, and they were all talking about healthcare and I said, you know, started with no healthcare program. Nobody's not Bernie, not Hillary, not nobody's healthcare is gonna work unless the people participate in being healthy. Americans just basically flat out refuse, of course, role individuals, many do not,
Starting point is 00:02:05 but just as a society, I feel like they just, no. And I certainly have done it with drinking and drugs. You know, I didn't do it with food, but I am not better, I'm just different. You know, I did it for too long. I've had way too much liquor in my life, not anymore really. Would you like a drink?
Starting point is 00:02:21 I'm gonna have one. Here's the problem. I would normally have one, but I don't think I can keep up with you on my daughter's ADD medication with you five drinks in. So I've had a double espresso just to try to play tongue-foo with you for 90 minutes. Wait, so that's your drug coffee? Yeah, caffeine, 100%. I must say, like, I spent the first 40 to 45 years of my life
Starting point is 00:02:47 indifferent to coffee. And like then you, at a certain point, first of all, you understand why as a kid, you had no interest in it because you're bouncing off the walls anyway. Absolutely, yes, 100%. Then you get older and it's like, you know, yeah, you need your little... It's a tool for me.
Starting point is 00:03:10 I use it strategically with regard to fitness. Even now speaking to you, it allows me to access my vocabulary more effectively because some days it's like... But do you do it all day? I do 200 milligrams about 30 minutes. Milligram? We don't drink it? I do, but I know exactly how much is in the cup. Oh, of course you do. Okay.
Starting point is 00:03:31 So, okay, so I have one cup, a healthy one, but one for- Is it organic? Yeah, I think so. Perfect. Yeah, why wouldn't I? It does matter. I mean, annoyingly. Oh, of course it does.
Starting point is 00:03:44 But, you know, yeah, I mean, the word organic is under assault. So like when they say organic, was I out there with Juan Valdez? I mean, did did somewhere along the line, the Hootie Pirates, switch this up with who knows, you know, shit that's comes all the way from around the world. And like really nobody along the way. We see all these caravans of desperate migrant, nobody along the way from around the world, and like really nobody along the way, we see all these caravans of desperate migrants, nobody along the way, fuck with anything, I don't know. But it's mitigating the chemical load,
Starting point is 00:04:13 at least to somewhat. I think we both believe health, you have to win on the molecular level. Yeah. And that's hard to do in this, in the world we live in for many, when we're not out there picking our own food, we gotta trust other people and I don't.
Starting point is 00:04:29 And even when you try the hardest to keep things clean, it's just not a clean world. I mean, America causes cancer. True. However, if you think about it as a total toxic load, if you can mitigate it effectively, here, there, green laundry detergent, potentially there's chemicals in your coffee.
Starting point is 00:04:57 You said it, you mitigate it. You mitigate it as best you can. As best you can, well, of course you can do anything. I mean, there's something like 50,000, I think. I may be way off on this, but I think I read that somewhere. New chemicals or chemicals that hadn't been around. Darin O'Lean talks about this.
Starting point is 00:05:11 He has a whole hundred years of time. Is that around the right figure? It's something astronomical, to the point that you check out of the number, but it's obscene. Well, and of course, maybe hundreds of them are just slight variations on the same one and shit like that.
Starting point is 00:05:25 I mean, there's ways to manipulate. But one is actually enough to cause cancer. But the point is, things are not ownatural as they once were. But we also have antibiotics. I mean, look, on balance, it's better. We live longer than when you died because you got a splinter. Absolutely true. I mean, I'm glad there's antibiotics
Starting point is 00:05:45 in the world, I just don't want to have to take them. But that's everything with health and medicine, right? There's a cost-benefit analysis to everything. So, you know, I always tell my kids, listen, if you come down with MRSA, we are going to the hospital, and I'm gonna put Cipro in every orifice of your body. But, you know, we're not going to prophylactically treat
Starting point is 00:06:11 a cough with antibiotics for all of the following reasons and all the negative side effects. Everything with this stuff is a cost, benefit analysis, medication, vaccines, all of those things health related. You know, we all are the same, made of the same shit, but it's so obvious that we just have these variations, which is one reason why I think we're on the same page about vaccines and stuff, not an anti-vaxxer, but like me. Everything should be on a case by case because I'm so different than you.
Starting point is 00:06:42 It's also a question of what's necessary. So for example, you know, a lot of people have opinions about RFK. I'm going to stay on this point here and not go off peace. But when he talks about giving kindergarteners a hepatitis B vaccine, which is for drug users and people who have risky sex.
Starting point is 00:07:05 Wait, who's RFK? which is for drug users and people who have risky sex. Wait, who's RFK? Robert Kennedy Jr. Must be against this. He's against giving six year old, yeah, Ken and Bernarders, exactly. So when he talks about the fact that Big Pharma was like, how are we gonna recoup our money that we put into developing this vaccine?
Starting point is 00:07:22 Let's get it mandated for five-year-olds. Really? Because of course every vaccine is going to have side effects. They just do. Now polio, measles, 100%, hepatitis B for a kinder learner, no fucking way. Well, sometimes, I mean, every medical intervention has side effects of some kind or else it wouldn't work. You know, it's moving something around in you. That's what I'm always saying to the people who argue with me about this is I just feel like they're overconfident of how much they think we know.
Starting point is 00:07:54 When I say we, I mean humans at this moment in history. And we just don't know that much. So what are the confluence of things that could be involved in this certain outcome, many of which we don't know. Why, you know, cancer? Until we like solve that big one, oh, like so the worst, most awful one,
Starting point is 00:08:16 we don't have a handle on that yet, but everything else, I'm just gonna go, okay, well, you must know. You know, you know some stuff, we certainly know more than we did. We know more every day. I mean, how much of that knowledge also gets down to the level of whoever's treating you?
Starting point is 00:08:33 That's another story. You know, I mean, and that's a thing. Another one of my big points is doctors disagree. Like why are your doctors better than my doctors? Yeah, there's lots of doctors who dissent, right? Yeah. And there's, listen, I deal with a lot of doctors all the time and interview them regularly. Right. Books for my podcast. That said, there's a certain type of training that doctors are given and generally people come to them
Starting point is 00:09:05 after already becoming sick. So the question becomes, what are we gonna do about your diabetes? Okay, let's throw this drug at it, let's throw that drug at it, and it becomes whack-a-mole because each drug creates a side effect that needs another drug.
Starting point is 00:09:20 And by the time you're 60 years old, you're on 12 different medications. None of them carrying any of the problems, they were designed for. I rarely contest people when they say, oh, this does what it's supposed to, yeah, it does what it's supposed to. Vaccines generally do what they're supposed to,
Starting point is 00:09:36 antibiotics do what they're supposed to, chemotherapy does what it's supposed to. I'm interested in what else does it do? And you are the first person who I've heard of who is now, I've heard nothing but encomiums about Osempic. But I trust that you've done the research. What is your... Yeah. So the first thing is you don't need to trust me because I am not transacting in opinions.
Starting point is 00:10:03 Right. because I am not transacting in opinions. Right, right. So I am simply outlining the facts for people, encouraging you to Google it, do your own homework on the things that I say, and then make the decision for yourself. Right. So I want to back into this one and give you our best case scenario, instead of being like,
Starting point is 00:10:21 ah, I know you're, your butt's gonna fall off your body. Okay, let's back into it. You are one of the 50% that has zero side effects. I feel great, never felt better. So that's it, 50% has zero side effects? At least 50% are gonna have gastrointestinal issues. Vomiting, constipation, diarrhea, and then it gets more nefarious.
Starting point is 00:10:42 But I'm backing into it from the sunlight here, right? Before we get into stomach paralysis, intestinal blockage, and pancreatitis. So those are other. Oh, that's a whole shit. I haven't even gone there yet for you. We'll go there. We're going the best.
Starting point is 00:10:57 First, I'm gonna tell you what your best case is. Ugh, I feel great. I have no symptoms. Amazing. Right. I've lost a ton I have no symptoms. Amazing. Right. I've lost a ton of weight. Right.
Starting point is 00:11:08 Amazing. Okay. Now we're 18 months into it and you will plateau. It's not a question. Right. It's not my opinion. Sure. It's fact.
Starting point is 00:11:19 Hashtag let me Google that for you, right? Yes. So now you've plateaued. The other thing I think people decide to interject, but people sometimes don't know is that many drugs have, we would call it in politics, a sunset clause, like they end. Like I know someone who's on, they have a pill for lung cancer
Starting point is 00:11:36 and it does amazing things, but it does sunset. The body is homostatic. It does stop working at some point. For that reason, right? The body is like, oh, we've been doing this exogenously, so I'm gonna make some endogenous adjustments. And you will find homeostasis. Not a question.
Starting point is 00:11:54 So now you have a plateau and it stops working. Okay, well, you can't get off of it ever. And all of the meta-analysis, all of them, show that you will gain all of the weight back two thirds within the first year alone, and then some hashtag quote devastating, weight regain rebound, yo-yo dieting on crack. I can tell you all the mechanisms
Starting point is 00:12:20 for which this is happening. So why isn't this being talked about more? Why are you, this one, you're the pioneer getting... Yeah, here's the problem. All of the doctors quietly that I were with on the DL feed me the information, but the problem is some of them are at Stanford, some of them are at Harvard.
Starting point is 00:12:38 Sure, no, no, it's... They get grant money from these companies. And also, people are such sheep, and once this became like the miracle drug, I call it the one true opinion, then that becomes anointed as the one true opinion. And a lot of media is in the pocket. I used to do bits and...
Starting point is 00:12:54 65% funded by Big Pharma. I used to do a bit in my act about the evening news that was very funny, I always take a memory, but it was basically that every, it's not the news that made me want to kill myself every night, it was the commercials. Everything was people who I can't shit, I can't breathe.
Starting point is 00:13:10 Okay, but you know that that commercial? All ads for pharmacy- The narrative though, Bill. But pharmaceutical drugs funded the night. I don't know if they still do. Top 65% of the advertising dollars. You know, restless leg syndrome. 100%. Fucking, you know. 100%. Pills that advertising dollars. You know, restless leg syndrome and fucking, you know.
Starting point is 00:13:25 100%. Pills that you don't even know what they're selling. It's just some chicken or wheat field. Like, and she looks happy and it's like, get this shit, you'll be happier. Okay, but here's what they're actually buying. They're buying the episode of 60 Minutes where Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford,
Starting point is 00:13:42 who's a paid spokesperson for Novo Nordisk, is parroting research paid for by Novo Nordisk, and the anchor was like, mm-hmm, uh-huh, oh. No, I mean, it's insanity. Again, it's like very- It's a commercial for the drug. What I was saying before, people are scared. This is a subject that scares them.
Starting point is 00:14:04 They wanna believe the people in the white coats are pure and they have the answers and they couldn't be corrupt. And they spend tens of millions buying doctors. People, unhealthy people is also a business. I'm not saying that they're twirling their mustache and flaunting their cape and just plotting to this specifically. It's got a compound annual growth rate of 9% as an industry. Can I strongly recommend? Do you think they have cures that they don't tell us about?
Starting point is 00:14:32 Cures for things like herpes? Yes. Really? You think there's a herpes cure and they don't tell us? Let's think about this for a second, shall we? Because they're selling so much of whatever. So much of overacts. But who's, I find that hard to believe actually. Really? They've got a vaccine, not cures, but vaccines. They've got a vaccine for chickenpox.
Starting point is 00:14:47 They've got a vaccine for shingles. They've got a vaccine for HPVs. That's the same thing. Why don't you have a vaccine for herpes? Because. Herpes, oh right. It's a. It's the same, but it's a. Well, it's a similar one. It's a similar, exactly.
Starting point is 00:14:59 Singles and chickenpox is the same virus. Herpes that people get outbreaks on their face, that's simplex too, I think. I don't remember. I'm pretty sure if you can come up with that. Right. And you can come up with a COVID vaccine in nine months. You can handle this one.
Starting point is 00:15:13 But how do you actually suppress that? How do you, I mean, Who's paying for the research? And why would you? Because wouldn't you make a fortune selling the cure for herpes? I think you would. So I don't, yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:26 So I think what they catch them like, what they caught the Sackler family and they got something like an $8 billion fine for selling the, for pushing opioids, for pulling oxycontin. Okay, but it was sort of out in the open what they were doing. It was-
Starting point is 00:15:41 It went on for decades and the doctors didn't stop prescribing it. Right. But I don't think they have a cure for cancer because I think it would be... Cancer in no way. It's so complicated. Right. It's so complicated. It's a bit of a different beast. Right. Right.
Starting point is 00:15:52 Is there a cure for obesity? Obesity is multifactorial. So let's play the downsides of Ozympic now. I gave you your rosy scenario and here's the problem. It will plateau. Right. And you can never get off of it or you'll have a horrendous rebound. So where do you net out in your BUSKY scenario? You're going to be in the same position if I put you in a time capsule. Right. And I got you three, four, five years down the road.
Starting point is 00:16:16 We're going to be right back where we were, but potentially with... And philosophically, here's my other big problem with Western medicine. It likes to put everything, it compartmentalizes, which is the opposite of holistic. Now holistic doesn't mean I believe everything that some shaman says, but the idea that the body works as a whole I completely buy into, because I've seen it. And it's intuitively obvious. So anything you do, like ozempic, okay, it's working. It's working, but other things in your body
Starting point is 00:16:49 are changed from it. Oh, without question. Right, and that's what I'm always, the question I'm always asking, like, you think vaccines cost, no, I don't think vaccines cost cancer. What I think is you don't know what causes cancer, and we do a lot of different things that, who knows, maybe like, you know, vaccine plus X, whatever it is, if you had many vaccines
Starting point is 00:17:12 and you have this factor, then because cancer is just- But they know what it does, it's on the website. It's about what is, you know, it's like- This is actually far more concrete. I'm just saying, until you tell me what causes cancer, I don't know what different elements might contribute to it in what form. So I'm going to try to stay as natural as I can.
Starting point is 00:17:34 Now I can't always do that, but that should be my choice to try to do that. Okay, so that's why I would never do ozempic. Well, so the side of this that is far less rosy, right, is that you're somebody who experiences one of the more common side effects, diarrhea, constipation, nausea, vomiting, right? Then you've got muscle loss, and it's pretty significant.
Starting point is 00:17:59 In fact, Dr. Peter Atzi, I came out and said that he's seeing muscle loss at a, quote, alarming rate in the dexascans of his patients. There's a bone density problem with it. On the website, pancreatitis, kidney failure, gallbladder issues, vision loss, stomach paralysis, intestinal blockage. The fact that it sometimes appears as a bad side effect in so many different areas tells me, again,
Starting point is 00:18:29 about holistic medicine. Like, they'll do a study, you know, well, it affects the gallbladder. Yeah, in this person it did. It probably affects, adversely, what that person's weak part is. I don't know what the person's profile is, but what I'm saying is like,
Starting point is 00:18:44 a lot of things in your body, they're opportunistic, you know, and they will go where it's weak. For you, it might be the gallbladder. Somebody else had affected their- Thyroid tumors, I forgot that one. Whatever, right. We don't know why it's doing that. We don't know what's going on in there,
Starting point is 00:19:00 but that basically is what's going on in there. You're giving it an opportunity to go somewhere and do some damage. And maybe you'll be lucky and it won't, because you're the kind, but until we have those answers, let me make those decisions. I want to give you one more thing on this.
Starting point is 00:19:17 Okay. Okay. How does it work? It works by curbing appetite, right? Right. So it's facilitating weight loss by allowing you to eat less. OK, so we know that eating less is going to facilitate weight loss. Now that we know this, that's the only mechanism by which it's facilitating weight loss.
Starting point is 00:19:34 And any other benefits, they profess to be associated with this drug like heart health, which will happen on something called a Twinkie diet, meaning you can eat pure shit. If you eat less of it and you lose weight, you'll get the exact same benefits. The mechanism for improved health is weight loss. Now then, why are people unable to control their appetite?
Starting point is 00:19:53 And this is where you need to look at what is going on with the environment and what is going on with the food and what is going on in their head. This is the shit that we need to deal with. It isn't about judging people. It isn't about an easy way out. It's about getting to the root of the problem, even people, real solution, without the hazards of potential side effects. And at the end of the day, your
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Starting point is 00:23:22 You know what, I'm astounded. People don't understand that antibiotics have a bad effect on them. That like that, the doctor never sort of mentions that part of it, which is, this is not controversial. It's just like, so like I'm working from this place, I feel like my understanding of medicine and it's just very different from theirs. So when I, you know, you're joking about something where you have to first convince them of the premise. They're not with you on the premise yet.
Starting point is 00:23:55 No, they're not unplugged from the matrix. But then when they laugh at the punchline, they realize, oh, okay, that must be true, because I laugh. Right. Because, you know, There's truth in every joke. Yeah, there's truth. Right. Because, you know, that's what- There's truth in every joke?
Starting point is 00:24:05 Yeah, there's truth in jokes. 100%. But it is more of a heavy lift than any other subject. I mean, people just, I think what it is, is that what scares people, death and sick, you know, and sick and dying is even worse. So like, it's a very scary subject. So it's just more comforting to believe
Starting point is 00:24:27 there's this priesthood and their white, medical garb with the santhuscope around their neck and these high priests have all the answers about your health. So just, whatever they say, they're the doctor. And you're not, and no one else can possibly. That is the number one thing. And they just have this exalted view of how much more they must know.
Starting point is 00:24:52 I mean, yes, I didn't go to medical school. I'm sure there are things they know. They're also blind about a lot of shit and prove it all the time. What's interesting is a lot of the doctors that I'll speak to talk about exactly that. How I'll talk to Dr. Casey Means, who's absolutely incredible. She's one of the founders of this company called Levels, where they monitor your glucose constantly. And she's just amazing woman.
Starting point is 00:25:14 And she was saying how she started talking about prevention, diet and exercise, and they were making fun of her. And she's like, really? Seriously, this is a joke? A lot of the doctors that take that upstream-est viewpoint, I don't know if you've seen that TED Talk, where you've got bodies in the water. And people are rushing in to save these bodies,
Starting point is 00:25:41 and they're doing triage, which is medicine, as we know it, right? Drugs symptoms, drugs, symptoms. But then one person goes, hold on, I'm gonna go upstream and find out why there's all these bodies in the water. And that's upstream as medicine. There are very few doctors that practice that way.
Starting point is 00:25:57 So you watch TED Talk? Constantly. Really? I've never seen a TED Talk. By the time I was about to watch one, it had become like so, like, like lampoon as douchey. I've never seen a Ted talk. By the time I was about to watch one, it had become like so like, like lampoon as douchey that I was like. What about Big Think?
Starting point is 00:26:11 Do you do the Big Think talks? No, what's that? I don't even know what that is. Is that like, is that their rival? Kinda. Really? Like monster trucks versus super monster trucks. You have a for intellectuals.
Starting point is 00:26:22 Tractors. I think. I really like Big Think. They got a lot of scientists intellectuals. Tractors. I think. I really like big things. They got all the scientists on there. I'm sure. I, you know what? I get my most, most of my medical news in the inquirer. And I know this seems wrong,
Starting point is 00:26:35 but like they do have a little medical. Teach me. Wait, wait. Hold on. I know this is gonna sound crazy. I don't wanna dig it on this one. I don't wanna take the bait. The inquirer and the globe.
Starting point is 00:26:44 They have a medical page and gonna dig it on this one. I'm gonna take the bait. The Choir and the Globe. Okay. They have a medical page and it's just a few paragraphs. And of course, because it's in these magazines, you think this is crazy. It's not. It's just like the tip of the iceberg of some new discovery. But if you then, like, Google this discovery and the doctor that they quote, you'll see it's a very real thing. Now, talking about coffee,
Starting point is 00:27:05 like coffee has like the most amazing lobbyists. I mean, coffee gets a lot of press for like doing wonderful things. And I'm sure it does. It's also acidic. We just like it, so who gives a fuck? Okay, I'm gonna keep doing it. I'm gonna keep saying yeah, the cat bullshit.
Starting point is 00:27:21 But if you- Don't buy into that one. But what? The acidic conversation. Coffee? Coffee's not acidic? Bullshit. But if you... Don't buy into that one. But... But. The acidic conversation. With coffee? Coffee's not acidic? How's it harming you?
Starting point is 00:27:30 Think about how acidic your stomach acid is. That whole alkaline water thing's kind of bullshit. Okay. Not kind of, total bullshit. You know me, I love learning about this subject, so I don't know about this. I'm always open to the alternative view, though. So you have to keep- Inflammatory would be something that you would worry about, right?
Starting point is 00:27:48 Your body releasing inflammatory proteins and cytokines. And what's going to do that? Sugar. Well, sugar, we all agree, as best. Sugar and then the buildup of all this dead tissue and excess body fat releasing. But you're saying coffee is not acidic. It's not even a thing.
Starting point is 00:28:05 It doesn't, acidic isn't a thing? Oh, come on, that's not true. How so? Well, if your pH is too acidic. How is your pH gonna become too acidic? There's no such thing. Your stomach, like all the alkaline water and all that stuff, all bullshit.
Starting point is 00:28:22 Wow, that is an alternative. I'll send you a Ted tongue. No, I promise in all honesty. No, treat me like Reagan, put it on one page. You got it. But I do promise you, total bullshit. The pH of your stomach is so friggin acidic, you're never gonna out-goise that.
Starting point is 00:28:39 What do you want to? Well, okay, but we're kind of talking about two of them. Yeah, that's true. So what is your concern then? Well, your stomach itself is like a pH of 3.5, which is like a volcano it is For the pH fans who forgot seven is right in the middle. Okay? Eight would be two alkaline Okay, what's gonna change the pH of your stomach outside of well, I'll tell you what's well
Starting point is 00:29:03 Proton, I'll tell you okay you said here. Proton called serenipators. I'll tell you. Okay. If you aren't too alkaline. That's bad, agreed. Very bad. But what's gonna make you should be alkaline? So you're saying it's okay to be too acidic, but like.
Starting point is 00:29:14 I'm saying coffee won't tip that scale at all. No, but you said the whole thing is bullshit. And it's certainly not bullshit. If you have a very high alkaline, you very likely will get more urinary tract infections because you do not, it means that is a very conducive atmosphere for bacteria. Acidic is not conducive to bacteria. Eating food in an attempt to control your body's pH, like coffee changing the pH of
Starting point is 00:29:44 your body, that's bullshit. Now, again, that is- Photompomp and Navider, yes. Things like that. What? So medication. Oh.
Starting point is 00:29:54 Yeah, so you have, I have acid reflux. Oh, here's this medication, but then it begets itself because your body's trying to overcome it. So what you eat doesn't matter? If you eat complete shit food and you destroy your micro-bounds. What do you eat?
Starting point is 00:30:07 What's your diet? Consense. Really? Yeah. So you don't eat like a crazy keto or, no. Keto is also bullshit. You have like mash protect. Keto is bullshit.
Starting point is 00:30:18 It's total bullshit. Okay. Well, it's never been meant, and serious people who talk about keto, do not talk about it like something that you would do as your regular diet. If you have advanced type II diabetes or epilepsy and you're under a doctor's supervision
Starting point is 00:30:35 for a finite period of time, okay, fine. And it's like, oh, all these things improved because you stopped eating fucking McDonald's, dude. It's a treatment, yes. It's like, it's a treatment. But what I'm... Go ahead, sorry. No, no.
Starting point is 00:30:48 The bigger issue I'm trying to get with you, because this is very, to me, this is new to me, which is great. And maybe I'm behind, or maybe I'll do a deep dive into this. Maybe I need to start reading the inquire. This chick is crazy, no. No, I know you are much more involved in the details than I am, that's why I have full respect
Starting point is 00:31:10 for the point of view, I'll check it out. Think about, okay, why were people doing Kato? Well, bodybuilders did it back in the day, you know, it's funny. They also ate all day long, we know that's not good for you. When do you mean they ate all day long? Oh my God.
Starting point is 00:31:27 Oh, because, yeah. Yeah. Oh, the whole thing is not good for you. Right, that's insane. So we're okay, so. Well, you look pretty jacked. I eat normally though. Really?
Starting point is 00:31:36 Yes. I mean, you look like, I mean, look at those guns. You look, I know that's what your thing is. You're famous for it. Kind of. You know, you do a lot of pull-ups, right? Whatever you do. You look great.
Starting point is 00:31:51 That's what's important. But okay, but then I should be speaking of, right? If I was to be my own testimonial, when you look at something like Keto, this comes from, what was the original? The Atkins diet. All this stuff is just a bullshit spin to prey on people's vulnerabilities.
Starting point is 00:32:12 Right. It is, oh, burns more fat. No, it doesn't. What doesn't? So for example, people were going on these diets because they thought they were going to lose weight more quickly. But isn't it better to run your body on fat than carbs?
Starting point is 00:32:26 It doesn't even work that way, Bill. You would have to be in a constant state of ketosis. It doesn't work that way. I, you know what, I mean, I, I- Isn't that what this is? If this, okay. If this is what ketosis looks like, maybe you'll convince me to try.
Starting point is 00:32:42 I told me I was gonna get to ketosis with this. But that's not true. In fact, if you were to even look at the blue zones, right? Yes, I do all the time. OK. Those diets are 65% complex carbohydrates. That's another thing I say and people are like, what? You know, so like.
Starting point is 00:33:00 Dan Buener, amazing guy. He's the one who, yeah. Do you respect him? Yeah. This guy's done a ton of homework on it. Right, that's, nothing is more valuable to me than information, I'm like Don Corleone. And so, like, knowing that there are places in this world and this is where blue zones are,
Starting point is 00:33:18 where people live routinely to a hundred. That's, it does, and I- What's the similarity in the diet? Is it keto? No fucking way, Bill. Right of the keto no fucking way bill right no no right right But it's more than just I mean of course there are confluence of factors not just diet One of them is a one of the blue zones is a fucking religious nuts place. It's About faith a connection is something deeper is the theme That's about faith. A connection to something deeper is the theme.
Starting point is 00:33:44 Really? Yeah. I think of spirituality, of faith. Well, I think everybody, most people in the world, most communities have faith. I'm an atheist. I'm the outlier. That is a growing movement. Yeah, for sure.
Starting point is 00:33:59 Thanks mostly to me. But most people in the world, I think you have to take that factor out because that's a good scientist takes that out because it's not a good variable. People who eat shit have faith and people who don't eat shit and eat well have faith. Humans mostly have faith. They will profess to something, either a specific religion, or they'll say I'm spiritual,
Starting point is 00:34:28 or whatever it is. Okay. It's not just, no, this is it. I'd say meaning. Meaning is incredibly important for longevity, community, activity, and then there are just flat out
Starting point is 00:34:43 some similar through lines in each and every one of these diets. Yes, but it's not faith. Faith doesn't make you healthy because lots of fat, ugly, faith, not ugly. There is a robust amount of data behind this providing people with having that deeper sense of meaning and a sense of connection to something. I'm not one. But it's not going to make up for the food. No, it's not. Okay. Maybe, yes. It's a confluence of factors. Okay, but I think you're looking into specifically what is good for health is de-stressing. People who find a
Starting point is 00:35:20 way. That doesn't have to be any kind of faith or God or spiritual. I have my ways of doing it. How much stress is the right amount in my life? Well, you know, zero would be good, but then you will be bored. You know, so it's a- I could argue that one with you too, believe it or not. And people find other ways without religion or any kind of faith to like not have stress. It's the stress that's causing the inflammation. Okay. So it like not have stress. It's the stress that's causing the inflammation. Okay. So it's not faith itself. It's anything that can get your brain in a place because your brain, I'm sure you would agree, affects your body.
Starting point is 00:35:55 100% agree with you. Of course, we see it in this easy to prove examples like when the blood drains out of your face, when you're scared. Why is that happening? Cause your body wants it in your legs, so you could run faster. Okay, so it does if, so yeah, when your brain is not stressed too much, that is a huge health factor. Religion can help that, but you can do it other ways.
Starting point is 00:36:21 You can do it other ways? Absolutely. That's why I think the bigger picture is having meaning feeling connected to something, something that gives you a purpose. I mean, don't Rastafarians worship this? I mean, isn't that... Didn't they... Do they live forever?
Starting point is 00:36:36 There's a lot of controversy around weed being at the house. Oh, well, tell me your take on that. I gotta know. You're not gonna like it. No tell me. I don't subscribe. Oh I understand. I think it's, I-
Starting point is 00:36:49 But you think it's very unhealthy? Okay. I've interviewed several- Give it to me straight John. I personally for me- How long do I have? Okay, I haven't done a ton of homework on this one. Okay.
Starting point is 00:37:02 So this is an opinion. Okay, so this is my opinion. No, I've done- I'm not transacting in facts. I've done field work, this one. Okay. So this is an opinion. Okay. So this is my opinion. No, I'm not transacting in. I've done field work. No homework. My feeling on it is that to smoke it, I think is terrible for you. And I would feel very confident saying so, right? Because you're taking smoke in here along. I've always said that. I'm not, I've never been sentimental about it. A lot of my hippie friends are and they try to to find ways, and I always say, it's not health food. I get that, it's just better than liquor.
Starting point is 00:37:29 I would agree with you there. And maybe the trade off is worth it, but I always say that, and I say it to all the kids out there, anytime you're putting smoke in your lungs, it's not ideal. Yeah, that's not gonna be good for you. I think people try to pass it off, it's like, ah, it's this panacea.
Starting point is 00:37:45 No. Anytime you have a health panacea. We don't say that about pot. Not you, but a lot of people will. People exaggerate probably the properties of CBD, but CBD plainly does help people. With what condition? Like arthritis, right?
Starting point is 00:37:59 Oh, maybe, maybe. But I've heard it, oh, epilepsy, arthritis, oh, digestion, oh, maybe. But I've heard it, oh epilepsy, oh arthritis, oh digestion, oh cancer patients. When you have something that cares everything, that's when I'm like, okay. They're not saying anything. I don't know, this is a straw man argument.
Starting point is 00:38:15 No one is saying, pot cares everything. A lot of people do. You must be talking to people on the sidewalk wearing a sandwich board because not, I've never heard anyone who's- Are you talking to anybody 30 years old who smokes or eats it all the time? They will give you all the cases why it's God's gift to health.
Starting point is 00:38:34 What are these, TikTokers? I mean, I- Probably. Okay, well, okay, but I- Much younger brother who's trying to convince me. I'm serious, I'm telling you, like all the millennials are like, ah man, and then I rubbed you on my elbow and I got fuck better, and then my friend ate it
Starting point is 00:38:50 and a brain tumor went away, and then this person ate it and then their vaginal dryness went away. I'm like, what the fuck? Look at what is out there. Your point is there's a lot of Rando's out there. It's way more common than you think. Who believes stupid shit, I give up, you're right, there are. I mean, I hear that a lot.
Starting point is 00:39:11 That's not even the dumbest thing they believe, but that was dumb. Yeah, no, CBD, I don't know. I mean, it's not a part of my diet. Well, I guess it's in the pot it is. But yeah, look, you gotta live. I mean, and you gotta, I mean, life is a series of trade offs and choices.
Starting point is 00:39:30 And I definitely have traded health for fun. I mean, I just do it way more. You look pretty healthy to me. Yeah, thank you. So you're obviously making a lot of excellent choices. Yeah, well, you know what? In other areas. I just cleaned up my act, I always say this,
Starting point is 00:39:47 but it's a little like in sports where they say, you take what the defense will give you. And when my body gave me, like at the age of 30, the ability to have 30 drinks a week, I did. And when my body said, you know, No more. We'll give you 10, I took that. And my body now says, you know, we'll give you 10. I took that. And my body now says, you know, a few,
Starting point is 00:40:08 you know, never more than two at a time. Same. You know, right? I've never been able to get past two. I mean, I'm almost 70. My body has the right to say that to me. And I'd be, you can't win that battle. So why fight it?
Starting point is 00:40:23 People do, but it's done. I gotta be honest. I had no idea you were almost 70. And when we look at Brad Pitt and everyone's like, God damn it, that guy looks amazing. I think you've got him. I've leaped some bounds. You, and I'm not, listen, I would go at you.
Starting point is 00:40:40 Bill, honestly, I would go at you. I'd be like, you ought to stop doing that, buddy. That's so fucking bad for you. You look amazing. Thank you. You're sharp as a fucking tack. Your fit is a fiddle. And I would love to lecture you about this stuff.
Starting point is 00:40:54 You seem to be doing everything right in large part. Well, I do, I mean, I fast twice a year. How long? I crawl on for five days. It's a long one, yeah, but I understand. Not a kind of that, they call it the fasting, mimicking diet. Works for me, because I can't do a straight up one. And so you get a little food, they swear it,
Starting point is 00:41:13 mimics a real fast. I think it does wonders. Research does help. It does? Absolutely. Yes. I only eat two meals a day. Also. Really good. So, I mean, that kind of stuff, sleep, yes, get great, Yes. I only eat two meals a day. Also.
Starting point is 00:41:25 Really good. So, I mean, that kind of stuff, sleep, yes, get great, hardly ever have to wake up to an alarm, which I think is a huge sleep factor, to just naturally wake up. All of the doctors who specialize in sleep will say that if you have to be woken up by an alarm, you're doing something wrong. Right. Nothing like waking up naturally with your dick in your hand. I can't speak to that one.
Starting point is 00:41:49 Even without that. I trust you on that. So I mean, I think those are things. And then, you know, you have to want to live. I mean, you have to, I mean, I'm fortunate. I mostly enjoy my life and I like doing what I'm doing. And it's, you know, you have to- Purpose?
Starting point is 00:42:04 Yeah, purpose, exactly. You have to have a purpose. And, you know, even if you've a lot of, you know, you see in show business, a lot of times you have to drag people out because it's like, it's mostly fun compared to work work. I mean, there is work and we work hard, but we enjoy our work.
Starting point is 00:42:22 We're very lucky in that way. A lot of people, when you say job, it means something that you don't want to go to. We don't think that about what we do. We like going to what we do. Not a lot of people have that or not enough. I mean, it's, you know, and I know what's like to go to jobs like that when I was younger.
Starting point is 00:42:40 You know, I went to a lot of shit jobs and it's like a job is different than a career. So if you have that, that that, and money is the hugest... Stressor. Stressor. Yeah. They say in relationships, what do people fight about? Overwhelmingly.
Starting point is 00:42:56 Is it money? Money is the one. I find it to be kids. But if it's... Kids is probably second. Kids has got to be second. See, as someone who never got married, my first thought was, oh, it must be sex.
Starting point is 00:43:09 People find about sex. And I'm like, no, Bill, somebody was schooling. They're like, they have no idea what that means. You make your peace with not having a lot of sex a long time ago, and then that's not what breaks us up. It's like, oh, wow. I mean, I never made that choice. You're married, right? I am married.
Starting point is 00:43:27 How long have you been married? So I've been with my wife five and a half years. Wait, wife? I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm not kidding. Ah, surprise! But I am working out with my dick in my hand, Bill.
Starting point is 00:43:46 Sorry, it's just a sidebar. We've been married two years. Two years? Oh, you're a newlywed. And I never got married previously, even to my ex, who I have two kids with, because I was just not a believer. You have two kids with an ex? Yeah, she's a wonderful person. I was anti not a believer. You have two kids with an ex. Yeah, she's a wonderful person.
Starting point is 00:44:05 I just was not, I was anti-marriage. And then my current wife is like, listen. Isn't the divorce rate among lesbians the lowest? I don't think so. I don't, in fact, there's something called lesbian bed death, which is very real. You wanna talk about fighting over sex. That shit is real.
Starting point is 00:44:30 And- What is it? It's called lesbian bed death. Bed death. Yep. What does it mean? It basically means that you just stop fucking. Oh, like regular marriage.
Starting point is 00:44:43 I don't think it's as, I think't think it's, I think it's worse. I actually think it's worse. Okay, so this is just what I've been told. So again, school me when I'm wrong. Got it, fair. I mean, like just like I'm- Like just like Keto, okay. Just like I'm gonna do a deep dive
Starting point is 00:44:58 into that health stuff you were telling me about. I will send you all. I'm gonna do a deep dive into this lesbian stuff. I'm ready. Wait, that came out wrong. I've never considered myself a pro here. Yeah, but I mean, I think I could be helpful considering. I was told, and again, I probably have terrible information
Starting point is 00:45:16 on both ends of this, but I was told somewhere along the way that lesbian marriages lasted longer because there wasn't like this great expectation of sex. So like they, they, no. I don't think so. Okay, yeah. I know nothing about this. So like I'm a-
Starting point is 00:45:38 I actually interviewed a sex therapist on my podcast and she was saying that women not only have as high of a sex drive as men, but they also seek out new partners more than men. I don't know if it's true. I said the same shit. And I don't know if they need like strange, I don't know what it is. Like with my wife, it's kinda like.
Starting point is 00:46:00 That is not my heterosexual experience. Maybe I've been very lucky. I think I have. I think you attract a certain type. And all my life I wished I attracted like the slutty girl. And I was attracted to the nice girl. And I'm now, I'm like, oh good. It probably saved me from, I'm probably dead by now.
Starting point is 00:46:17 But I always wanted that. But like I've been very fortunate. I didn't ever attracted that like evil girl a couple of times. But you know, you know, what are you gonna do? Toxic, super dinty. So I don't see attracted that like evil girl a couple of times, but you know, you know, what are you gonna do? But so I don't see women that way. I see them as Maybe I have them on a pedestal, but I don't think they're they are Oh, they're definitely especially modern girls most modern girls are They just have an attitude that is brought upon by, I think, cynicism about,
Starting point is 00:46:47 and I don't blame them one bit. Like, men can do so little for me, and they do do so little for me. They can't even approach me correctly. They're too scared to approach me. Everything has to go through the phone or whatever it is. They don't, you know, they're just lazy, hey, you know, hey, what's up, eggplant emoji.
Starting point is 00:47:07 This is like their whole rap. And they just, I just hear this all the time. They're just horrible. So women have a very cynical attitude, reinforced by the music and stuff forth. And it's a lot about like, buy me something. They're so low expectation for actual romance, makes you very cynical.
Starting point is 00:47:36 I can say that I have quite a few friends who are straight and looking for love in all the wrong places, like the dating apps. Unfortunately, is a, is a recipe for disaster. And I've come to the conclusion that these apps, in large part, are guys that think they're just shopping. For girls, it's like, okay, well, they're almost less than human on these apps. Whereas if you meet someone in real life where you share friends,
Starting point is 00:47:59 your behavior is gonna be much better. Well, you don't even have to share friends. That's a nice way to do it, but that's not a prerequisite. But for me, for me, human has to be human. First of all, I don't understand these kids. I see like people I know, they send me whatever, I guess you put a little picture of yourself,
Starting point is 00:48:20 like in the corner of, what am I thinking, I'm texting her, I guess so. Yeah. Like whatever, and I see their picture and I'm like, eh, you don't look like that. Yeah, I know you. You know, that's a very charitable, flattering version of yourself. AI generated by a face, how old is a face tune?
Starting point is 00:48:38 It's just they've had these tricks for like, yeah, a face tune. 15 years they can do shit, filters. So can AI generate your face now on a face tune. But even before AI it was not hard to just like just like fix it. And it's like, well, why would I want to have ever false advertising? Well, just not know what someone is and looks like for real. And then probably it's going to be less. Probably who's going to make themselves look worse and then
Starting point is 00:49:08 you're like oh I'm pleasantly surprised. I don't think that happens often. No, I can't speak to this in any sort of educated capacity because my wife will say this all the time with friends that face doing things and she's like why did they do this because they're going to meet the sky and it's it's gonna say like oh you don't look like you're I don't know really why people do it. But also like you have to I think to to know something to get a feel for somebody literally be in the same room like I will almost never do a satellite interview on real time because I just I mean yes if
Starting point is 00:49:49 it's Netanyahu and Israel I will make it yeah yeah we make exceptions but it's it's rare because it's just not as good an interview it's just that you can't you don't feel somebody you can't look in their eye timing you know that delay so you can't like in their eye, timing, you know, there has to be a delay, so you can't, like, it's not a ping-pong match like it is in a real conversation. But you know most people don't do that anyway. How many interviews have you sat in where they have their cards, and they know what they're going to ask you?
Starting point is 00:50:15 No, no, no. And they're like, so you got married last summer, and you're like, sorry, my mother just died of cancer, I can't focus. And where was the wedding? And you're like, dude. Right. No, I, I, I, I, I.
Starting point is 00:50:24 Is it anybody whole? Like, if people aren't switched on anyway, most people aren't, wedding? And you're like, dude, is anybody whole? Like, if people aren't switched on anyway, most people aren't, which is why you have excelled so much of what you do. Oh, thanks. I mean, I love doing this because this is even more, I mean, real time I do a lot of preparation, but it is a completely off the cuff panel conversation. But this is a whole new kind of way to just completely approximate exactly how I would be in life. I mean, I don't, I'm not cleaning up anything
Starting point is 00:50:50 or planning anything or, you know, as like I said before when I went, what were you talking about? I would never do that on real time. You know, that's just not- I know, I see you differently because I watch both. This is real life. Can I ask you something, though?
Starting point is 00:51:05 As real as it gets. That I've been wondering for such a long time. You start out as a comedian, and I saw this poll the other day, and it was like, who's the best man in news? And I thought, Jesus, what's that like? The most trusted I got from you. Yes, that was it.
Starting point is 00:51:22 And I thought, what's that like to go from being a- I completely understand and I accept- How does that happen, Bill? Was that intentional? I accept the golden light. No, that just- Did you set out? How do you make that transition?
Starting point is 00:51:36 Was it organic or are you just thinking, everybody's full of shit, I gotta step in? I've been doing that for 30 years and they finally caught up. There's your answer. Yeah. But you speak to so many people who see themselves in you. And anytime I've ever tried to justify, it's so crazy, justify my position, I'm like, well,
Starting point is 00:51:58 did you see that episode of Real Time where Mar said, and it's like the only way to try to communicate a point of view to either a liberal or a conservative, you can justify your position if you said it. It's crazy. It's almost like professionally, if I was to tell you something about Keto, and you said I'm full of shit, I would turn around and go, well, Dr. Peter Atia and Dr. Lane Norton both just said that keto doesn't burn more body fat, blah, blah, blah.
Starting point is 00:52:29 And I can validate my position. Yeah, but so can they. And that's why I'm just always arguing with these people about just don't dictate what I have to do. I am going to be the final arbiter of what I want to do with my body, whether it's a vaccine or anything else, because the doctors don't agree.
Starting point is 00:52:48 So if there's this uncertainty, I'm going to have to make these decisions. And a lot of stuff in health is like even the doctors, the ones- You know the devil's advocate argument. The ones I respect- You're killing my grandma. You know that argument. The ones I respect are the ones who start the conversation about complicated things
Starting point is 00:53:05 with like, you know, we just don't know. Just admit it. Like here, no, do we have a perfect, we really don't have anything perfect for this? We've been trying to find some, but here's the things we haven't used with some success, but just don't tell me they don't have the answers. So in that atmosphere, you have to let me with the people I respect and the philosophy of medicine I choose to follow, which is not crazy or anti-western. Yeah, you didn't have that luxury and that's the question you need to ask is why. Did you
Starting point is 00:53:38 not have the luxury to make that decision? It was mandated. Right. Oh yeah, no, we agree. And it's like, well, why? And I remember watching, I think it was Eric Weinstein, the two brothers, there's Brett Weinstein and Eric Weinstein, once an evolutionary biologist and once a physicist. I've had Brett on the show. And his wife. Brett. Brett Weinstein. And I remember him saying, you know,
Starting point is 00:54:00 there's a fundamental problem here. Number one, it's not effective enough. It's not a vaccine. People are still getting sick, very sick, so. Well, it was effective. How effective? I mean, I got COVID before it and after it, about the same both times.
Starting point is 00:54:16 For older people at risk, I'll buy it. Well, that's what we're talking about. But they're mandating it for kids, so. But of course, they also gave it to a lot of older people, like soon after they had the flu vaccine and their bodies couldn't take two vaccines at once. And that's just the science of it. You know, that's just even the people who argue
Starting point is 00:54:33 on the other side would have to agree when you take a vaccine, you're taxing your body. Because that's the, that's supposed to be, we're, that's the plan. Side effects. Just like when you work out, you're harming your body. Stress, yeah. You are harming your body when you work out.
Starting point is 00:54:48 So it comes back stronger. Stress, yeah, that would be the argument. I would circle back on the stress, but it's balanced amount of stress for sure. But the question is, are you gonna put your body through that kind of stress, Cost benefit analysis for a kid? Is it worth it? No.
Starting point is 00:55:10 It's not efficacious enough. Exactly, I mean. And then it's, is it worth the side effects for a kid? No. No. And then there's the, you're killing my grandmother conversation. But if the kid still gets sick,
Starting point is 00:55:21 then the grandmother's still gonna get sick. So where does it, to me, the question is, then the grandmother's still going to get sick. So where does it... To me, the question is, why the intense mandate over something... There's a wide gap between everybody, no matter how old has to get it, and understanding that it was a tool, the COVID vaccine, got to give them credit. They came up with... I mean, they had been working on it for a very long time. MRNA Tech?
Starting point is 00:55:45 Yes. Yeah, 30 years supposedly. Yes, so, but they, you know. I mean, I've had that conversation myself. It's like, it's a, look, I got it. I did too. I would never get a booster. I did not either.
Starting point is 00:56:04 But I didn't want it. Uh, but I would not have been able to continue with my life. I would not have been allowed near the studio or on the road. Exactly. Okay, so, you know, I took one for the team and for my own selfish desire to continue with my life. Um, but if it happened again, I don't know. You know, I... I think the bigger question that needs to be answered is what's behind all of this? And what I mean by that is I remember when this first happened. and I don't think at that time
Starting point is 00:56:46 I could have been more left, whereas now I'm definitely, definitely center. And I remember watching an episode of Rogan with Brett, and it was March of 2020, and he broke down all the reasons he thought this came from a lab. And I was just like, gain of function, research, Wuhan Institute of what's a fear and cleavage site,
Starting point is 00:57:13 asking different doctors. And I went to all my lefty friends and I was like, this came from lab. And I'm like, oh, you fucking tin hat, you married a conservative, you're out of your mind. Now, the CIA, the FBI, the Department of Energy, came from a lab. Why was that entire conversation shut down?
Starting point is 00:57:32 Why are we not allowed to have it to this day? And people go, why does it matter? Well, they do have it now. Not really. Well, who's debating how safe gain of function research is? How the fucking nobody, nobody will. What people are not doing is making it, you're right, as big an issue as it should be.
Starting point is 00:57:50 It should be a huge issue because I honestly think like in 20, I don't know, 50 years, 100 years, sometime like in the future, they will look back on this period and it will strike them as so odd that it was controversial that a virus that started in Wuhan, where this one almost unique in the world lab was that was doing this exactly,
Starting point is 00:58:14 the fact that they argue in 2020 and 21, they were all the way up through 20, whatever, they were arguing about this. Now, could it be a coincidence with the bats? It could, but I mean, I just think it's gonna look bad in the future. It's gonna be a come on, man. Even the Fauci emails are like, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:58:34 I think I'm saying 70, 30 came from a lab in the emails. Well, it's just, it's just, it's just. Why can't we say this is a huge fucking problem. They were right. We need to get hold of this thing. This could be as big of an existential crisis for humanity as nuclear weapons. But this isn't amazing to you.
Starting point is 00:58:56 Like, it was in the paper today about this country came out of the pandemic way better than... We just, fuck, we won the pandemic economically. I mean, America- Dude, I don't feel that way, explain it to me. I feel like inflation's insane. Numbered. Everything-
Starting point is 00:59:12 Inflation is not insane. Bill, go buy a car. There's numbers. I understand, things, but- A house has tripled here. Look, I get that people... Buy some fucking eggs. Explained to me.
Starting point is 00:59:29 I'm not an economist. I'm just trying to... There's feelings and then there's the numbers. Okay, what are the numbers? Well, the numbers have come down a lot in the last six months. Of course, they were... It was inevitable when we gave out $6 trillion so that everybody could hide under the bed from the forever flu.
Starting point is 00:59:49 That was never going to end well. They were taken by the richest people ever and didn't go or needed to go home. And a lot of it was stolen. We agree on that too. It was like, was there some response needed? Of course, you don't want the hospitals overrun. But it was just a massive overreaction, and that did cause some of the inflation. But the big story, the big picture is every other nation in the world, much worse off
Starting point is 01:00:16 now. And this country, for some reason, just chugs fucking along. It's almost scarier because I think we're just cocky now when we think we can do anything. Trump handled it, pandemic handled it. What? Nothing happened. Did Trump blow up the world?
Starting point is 01:00:33 I tried to tell that to my mom. Did fucking COVID kill all of us? No. It is going to be the end of the world. And it's like, yeah, but maybe the next one or Trump's next term, you know, just because it didn't happen before, I don't know. I think it's a very dangerous way to live.
Starting point is 01:00:46 I think you can keep brushing this shit. The debt is another one that was going to kill us. Or are we pretending like everything's okay? I don't know. Don't we have... Immigration. Again, not an economist, but from the outside looking in, trillions of dollars in debt. Yes, but Ross Perot was saying this 30 years ago
Starting point is 01:01:05 that it was gonna kill us when it was like two trillions. Oh yeah, it hasn't yet. We just, immigration, we're being over, we are kind of being over it. That's a deep, no effect, that is. But does it eventually implode? We just- Is there going to be a straw?
Starting point is 01:01:18 I would say yes. I think America's just like a teenage boy, stupid, but strong, you know, just like, and nothing stops you, and yes, we're driving at 80 miles an hour with the top down along Mulholland, but somehow, unless we, and we could go over the side. Look, they sometimes do.
Starting point is 01:01:37 And we sometimes do, I know, but as of now, we're having a good time. I think some of it, we're gonna get away with, some of it we're going to get away with and some of it we're not absolutely some of it we're just definitely not and I you know the economy stuff I don't really understand. How are your kids. Oh God. Is that that complicated question. No, it's just the ages come with some fascinating trials
Starting point is 01:02:09 and tribulations, 12 and 14 in a matter of weeks, so 11 and 13 months. That's, I was reading about that age cohort in the paper also today, that's, they're very pessimistic, it said, about, they're very bleak about the future, you know, our generations ruin the environment and like they know. It's worse than that.
Starting point is 01:02:30 It's worse than that. Yeah, it's... Tell me about the kids today, really, because I wouldn't know. I... Thank you, Jesus. I... I love my kids. What are the kids up to?
Starting point is 01:02:42 I love my kids. Are they not OnlyFans? Not yet. You're laughing. Do you know my kids come home? And they tell me like, oh, they make, it is. Hey, if the kids can make money. More aggressive.
Starting point is 01:02:59 So and so sisters on OnlyFans. So and so sisters on OnlyFans. Really? You know she's on OnlyFans? You mean children are a lot on OnlyFans? Somehow they're on there OnlyFans. Did you know she's on OnlyFans? You mean children are allowed on OnlyFans? Somehow they're on there. Really? You don't have to be like eight?
Starting point is 01:03:09 Yes, you do. Somehow they get on there. Really? Yeah. And then it's like, it is a whole, it is crazy shit. And unfortunately, the environment we're living in, I grew up in a world where all we wanted to do was get rid of labels.
Starting point is 01:03:27 Love is love. Right. One race, human. Right. Now these kids are like, you fucked my label up. There's a PY minus sign in it. But here's what the fuck is going on with you guys. What's a PY minus?
Starting point is 01:03:41 Like I'm being absurd. But my point is like they've all, oh I'm a Q plus, T minus, and I have sex with chickens. Oh you're talking about a sexual designation? Like LGBTQ? We tried to get rid of labels. Now everything is about.
Starting point is 01:03:55 But is that what you're talking about? Like LGBTQ stuff? As one example, is that we tried to get rid of labels in our generation and tried to not look at race. Now everything's about race. Everything's about labels. And I don't think it is helping at all. I grew up here in the San Fernando Valley and the only prejudice I ever saw consistently was gays. Gays were gross.
Starting point is 01:04:22 And I grew up homophobic. Not you. Oh, I was so homophobic. No. Oh, you're talking about gay men. All of it. Because I feel like there's a very big difference. Like, even to, like, hardcore homophobes, hot women... No, he was all gross. Until...
Starting point is 01:04:40 To who? To who? In my life? I don't remember lesbians ever being gross. I remember them... Maybe not to men, but... I remember them being in Penthouse Magazine is what I remember. Until to who to who in my I don't remember a lesbian ever being gross In penthouse magazine is what I remember but that was not the typical lesbian No, of course not and then Then Madonna came out with justify my love and she was dating your chasaris and you had these two hot women It was like oh is this cool to be bisexual?
Starting point is 01:05:05 But put it this way, no one was saying N-word and making racial slurs about people crossing the border and being anti-Semitic. I never heard any of that shit ever. You would have been shamed to death out of society if you made any of those comments. Really? For me growing up here, I never experienced it.
Starting point is 01:05:26 So what year did you graduate high school? 91. 91. Okay, so like NWA was at the top of the- I went to the high school in Ice Cube. It's my claim to fame. You did? Yes.
Starting point is 01:05:38 Where'd you go to high school, Compton? Top, Ty. He was busted. Holy moly. I'm guessing. He was from Compton. Holy moly. I'm guessing, he was from Compton. Holy moly. Yeah, that's my claim to fame.
Starting point is 01:05:48 That is a piece of history. But now? Did you know him? I didn't fucking know him. Oh, what a missed opportunity. I agree. He's been there. He's awesome.
Starting point is 01:05:57 I love him. He's amazing. Yeah. Point me now, the shit my kids come home and tell me is stuff that would come straight out of 1963. Straight out of Compton. If only Bill.
Starting point is 01:06:12 But what do you mean 1963? Okay, so my daughter is black. She's adopted, obviously. And she went to this trampoline park that the kids go to called Dojo Boom. She was with a friend of hers, my son, his friend. The kids get in the car and they're all amped up. And someone says, and the corner of the kids is like, someone said to Lou, who's my daughter, my black daughter, oh, you must be amazing at basketball because you can run, steal,
Starting point is 01:06:40 and jump. And I'm such an asshole. I'm like, well, of course she can't. She's West African. She's Haitian, but she I'm like, well, of course she can. She's West African. She's Haitian, but she's genetically West African, meaning of course she can. She's a genetic specimen, right? The child is just physically insanely strong and tall. And I'm like, no, mom, run, steal, jump.
Starting point is 01:06:59 I was like, wait, what? And then they're like, don't worry. I won't say the name of this kid, but kid, my daughter's friend, called him a border hopper. I'm like, okay, guys, what the fuck is going on? And I had to like go home, have a teachable moment with my children. And I was like, who's saying border hopper at school?
Starting point is 01:07:26 Oh, everybody says it. I'm like, everybody says this is the shit. Do you think anybody, nobody, so for all this wokeness that you have in California, it is breeding some crazy divisive shenanigans that I have never seen. It's not working. It's not working.
Starting point is 01:07:44 It's like the extremes make each other. Yes. Back and forth you see this cause and reaction effect. It's really insane. And if that was the biggest problem, I would be so happy. It's not. Like the other day in the car, my son said something that was a teachable moment again.
Starting point is 01:08:08 And he was trying to be funny and he made this comment and before I could even say buddy, no, you know, my daughter goes, re-clip. And I'm like, what, what, what are you talking about? And my son goes, re-clip mom. I'm like, educate me. So you know the app, reclip, so there's an app that the kids have weaponized their phones. So essentially this app records your conversations. And the minute somebody says something that a Karen or a Kevin would say, you clip the last two minutes of the conversation and ruin
Starting point is 01:08:42 their life. Oh, wow. That's the shit that I'm talking about. This is the kind of stuff and I... Oh my God. I'm sitting with my daughter and I'm like, listen to me. I needed a trigger warning for that piece of information. I really did.
Starting point is 01:08:57 You should have given me a trigger warning. I'm telling you, please. I need a boomer trigger warning for that. Reclip. That's again, why is it so amazing that this country hasn't fallen off the edge of the earth yet? Because we're just so horrible and it just gets worse. And the younger generation is just insanely ignorant and entitled and mean. The phones, they're not. They're not. It's just.
Starting point is 01:09:25 They're not. Everybody. She didn't reclip him, but she was joking about something that's very real. The phone has changed them. The phone is, that's the evil. That's the source of the evil. It exacerbates everybody's worst,
Starting point is 01:09:43 you know, we all have inclinations to do something wrong. And then we check ourselves. But the phone makes it easy to be shady and mean and needy and fake. So you come out, you raise a kid on the phone and you're going to get a kid who's needy and fake and mean and shady. And this kind of stuff, like the courtier gotcha. Ugh. She doesn't have it.
Starting point is 01:10:17 I know, but just, you know, I'm not judging her. I'm guessing just as a piece of information. It's a thing that they do. So much so that it was like, reclip, and I was like, what? Yeah, every day they come home with something like that that they're dealing with. And you just, I can't even, I've gotten to the point where I feel like I'm trying to push the river
Starting point is 01:10:41 to keep them safe in every way all the time. I'm gonna start a Save the Kids Foundation. I need to personally heal an entire generation, and I can do it too. Because there's about, I would say, about 15 out of 100 that day, they just love me. Because they're desperate for someone who tells them the truth.
Starting point is 01:11:03 Because they have smoke blowing up their ass at all times. So I could start with them and see if I could have them proselytized as a child army. One of the crusades was led by a child army, just because it didn't work in 1257. It doesn't mean it can't work in 2024. Well, they're looking for that, and they're finding it in guys like Andrew Tate. They're so, yes, they're so desperate for guidance.
Starting point is 01:11:27 That's really scary. You're so cool and stuff, Bob. Yes, right. That's right. People like that. They are looking for it. They're desperate for it. Well, this was also in the news, 30 point difference between young liberal women, young
Starting point is 01:11:41 women and young men liberal to conservative. Women are, young women, like 20s, we're talking about teens and 20s, 30 points more liberal than the boys. Cause the boys, right, are into, into Andrew Tate and- Cause we're systematically emasculating them. Right, that's a lot of it, yes.
Starting point is 01:11:59 That's the- And in some cases- Do you have a boy also? I have a boy. Do you have a boy? No, the boys's how old? He's about to be 12. He's about to be 12.
Starting point is 01:12:07 And where'd you find him? My ex had him, actually. So she created him. And, oh, she had him. She gave birth to him, yeah. And when you adopted your daughter, did you specifically ask for a black baby or no? You said like.
Starting point is 01:12:28 No, so I can tell you how we ended up finding Lou because we literally did find her. And the long list sort of is, I went on safari in 2010, didn't think I wanted to. Safari, what country? Where were we? We were all over Botswana. Botswana.
Starting point is 01:12:43 Botswana. I'm going to Tanzania in 2025 with kids. Wow, really? That was Botswana, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe. And we were at Victoria Falls. Yes. Rafting the Zambizis, huge mistake.
Starting point is 01:12:56 Don't recommend it. And along the short of it is, I don't worry. Almost dying in the Zambizis. That's not gonna happen. We opted out of the, uh... I don't go east of Lebray. Okay, fair.
Starting point is 01:13:08 I would encourage you, but maybe not the Zambezi. I am not a world traveler. But I've seen the pictures of Victoria Falls, and it's a fact. Beautiful. Unbelievable. Beautiful. I didn't like the largest Falls in the world.
Starting point is 01:13:20 I think that's been his wayla, actually. Oh, okay, it's one of the biggest ones. I could be one of the biggest ones. I think maybe. I'm is it where the Nile ends? Is that where? Or is it the is it the I mean the mouth of the Nile is no. Okay, it's something it's between literally right between Zambians and Bobway. It's called the cataract cataract cataract. Sorry. And you jump in and you
Starting point is 01:13:45 get in this raft and to make a very long story short it's like one of the most dangerous I had no idea by the way I was booked for me by a traveling jins and I thought it was going to be in a jungle boat cruise with the drink and the next thing you know I'm a level 5 rapid called the gnashing jaws of death. I did their chopper in people. It was a shit show. So we did not continue on with the days activities after climbing out of this gorge at Rapatem.
Starting point is 01:14:11 But do you do adventurous things like this all the time? I do. This one was... Like how often? Like four times a year you do something? All the time. All the time. Like every month?
Starting point is 01:14:21 I just think the kids to go shark diving with Ocean Ramsey. Shark diving. Now what's the point to go shark diving with Ocean Ram. Shark diving. Now what's the point? This is the point. Okay. First of all, I'm a big ocean lover, grew up here. Sure, oceans. The kids coming out, I don't know if they,
Starting point is 01:14:35 okay, to teach my kids two things. One, about conservation and two, not to have fear of sharks when they're in the water, but to also understand how to be smart, right? What's gonna make a shark attack? When are you acting like prey? Is the water murky? All these different things.
Starting point is 01:14:52 Can't we have both? Can't we teach them these things and also still have fear of sharks? Because I feel like fear of sharks is not a terrible instinct at all. I don't think it's... Really? I don't think it's really...
Starting point is 01:15:04 Sharks are not worthy of being feared. Do you know how many shark attacks there are in a year? Like 120? There's eight billion people on the planet. Yeah, but they're not all in the ocean. Bill, how many people Google this? I did this with my kids. No.
Starting point is 01:15:18 Millions of people go in the ocean multiple times, right? Yes. Every year. I agree. They had a better chance of getting built in a toaster, a shanty coat, and that, yeah. No, I agree, I agree, it's rough. I'm just saying, if I saw a fin in the water, my first thought wouldn't be, oh, nothing.
Starting point is 01:15:36 I would be like, oh, fear, yes, now be smart about your fear, don't go thrashing about. Right, exactly. Or, you know. Make eye contact, don't act like prey. Eye contact, thrashing about. Right, exactly. Or, you know. Make eye contact. Don't act like prey. Eye contact. With those dead eyes?
Starting point is 01:15:48 I don't think, really, you think you can make eye contact with a shark? Yeah, absolutely. Really? I think you need to have ocean rams. And what would you, my eyes would say, please don't eat me. What would your, what are you saying with your eyes?
Starting point is 01:16:00 You're just making eye contact. Really, you think a shark is seeing your eyes? Oh, 100%. They see that good? They utilize this. This comes from Ocean Ramsey, mind you, we just want diving with. She's unbelievable in Oahu, but you make eye contact with the shark. Really? And they teach you what to do. Like if they come towards you, you can send a big scuba diver. Right. I love jet skis and jet surfs, all kinds of water stuff. Do they know sign language of any kind?
Starting point is 01:16:28 You put your fins out. Your fins. You put your fins out in front of you. Right. And if they continue to approach them, use strong arm. Really? And you gently push down on their nose and guide them away.
Starting point is 01:16:40 Obviously, you're not probably not going to, this happened. But I sc scoop a lot. I've scooped with schools of sharks. I've never had an issue. Cut to in real life doing this and my arm in the mouth, up to the elbow, and then this teeth coming down. And just the stump of my arm coming out. Like the guy on the beach and then saving private life.
Starting point is 01:17:02 Mistaken identity surfers in murky water once in a blue moon. Okay, well, I, hold on. You're a badass. Now you swim with sharks and it redefines who you are. You're like, I faced down this fear as safely as possible. Safely as possible. Then redefine who you are.
Starting point is 01:17:23 I'm talking to you. I'm talking to you. No. But. as safely as possible. As safely as possible. Then redefine who you are. I'm talking to you. I'm talking to you. No! But, um... Let's start with getting you south of the Brea, or whatever it is. No, no, no. Baby steps.
Starting point is 01:17:33 East of the... Where the fuck we're going? Let's get you out of the house. No, I mean, I've never been a world traveler, but I have been, you know, to a few cities and a few places, and I feel like I've done enough. And, you know, 68, I'm totally okay. I have, people have a bucket list.
Starting point is 01:17:51 I have a list of shit I don't do anymore and it's just a great list, like Christmas. You know, no gifts, no nothing. It's like, I just don't do it anymore. Things like that, it's awesome. And that's one of them. It's like, it was always very stressful for me to travel overseas, you know, and some people take the stress better, and we're talking about stress with health. It was just what you, you could, they could offer me unlimited amount of money to play in Dubai.
Starting point is 01:18:21 And sometimes they do offer American entertainers something. Yeah, I bet. I'm like, it's not worth it. Nothing against you, Dubai. But Dubai, I'm not just going. I'm just not leaving. Why bother? Yeah, I just said it's too far. And too many things could happen that my febrile mind
Starting point is 01:18:39 would be thinking could happen. And I don't want to, you know, I just. But it doesn't compromise the quality of your life. Not at all. Yeah, if it did, then I'd be like, oh, hell, you know, I don't know, buddy, but it sounds like you're perfectly happy, you're clearly thriving. I'm exactly, right. There's no reason to do that.
Starting point is 01:18:54 I mean, there are terrible things about aging, but your actual life, I mean, I'm speaking for everybody, I mean, but I know a lot of people, my edge would say the same thing, your actual life is better because you're not a fucking idiot anymore. You're not self-sabotaging yourself, which is, I think, a lot. I know for me, what made me unhappy a lot in my younger decades was like,
Starting point is 01:19:16 mad at myself for dumb relationship choices, dumb career choices, dumb shit that was avoidable and unforced errors. But do you think see you're learning from your mistakes, right? Which is what we're supposed to do. But sometimes I find people don't, they don't have the ego strength. It takes years.
Starting point is 01:19:37 It takes, that's why it doesn't happen in your twenties. You have to, I mean, I think learning is mostly about patterns. You know, you see something come around once and that's, oh, it's the first time you saw it. You're gonna, like, I mean, the first time I got dumped. You know, it was like, of course, the worst ever in my life because you don't see it coming and it's the man will ever be happy again.
Starting point is 01:19:57 And the second time it happens, okay, I can deal with it. I dealt with it before, you know, that's a lot of what life is, you know, lessons and seeing the pattern. And so, you know, that's a lot of what life is, he's lessons and seeing the pattern. And so, you know, that's why I say Biden, not I wish he would get out of the way for somebody younger, but as far as, can he actually do the job?
Starting point is 01:20:14 Yes, he can't. He's not senile. And most of the decisions are made in the- You think he's not senile? He's not senile. Bill! Did you see the thing where he was like, I was in civil war and needed more airports.
Starting point is 01:20:28 And he's like, whoa! He's, I think he's not senile. He's not senile. But Bill. That's different. What is that then? It wasn't happening like that when he was on Obama's VP. It doesn't, no, of course.
Starting point is 01:20:40 He's a lot older and he shows it. It doesn't affect what matters. He doesn't, when they're talking in the Oval Office. First of all, he doesn't talk like that because he's not he just not when you're old How are you not confident talking publicly gone to me? He's not gone. The brain is not gone the decisions Okay, he's making them. I don't think he's making them. Oh, that's a conspiracy theory. Of course he's making them. How? How? He literally just called Trump the sitting president the other day.
Starting point is 01:21:11 And Trump just called, he did a whole rant. Did I just tell you Trump was mentally sound? No, no, I'm just, I know. But he did the same thing. People get up in the upper years, and then especially when you're like talking in public a lot, you know, it's gonna happen. It doesn't affect.
Starting point is 01:21:27 Oh, Bill. Okay. Don't give me Bill like in this area. Do I need to Google? I'm the one who doesn't know shit. Maybe you don't. I watch the video. I'm not saying you don't know shit.
Starting point is 01:21:38 No, I'm not claiming to know anything about politics, but watch the friggin' videos of the guy. I've seen the videos. He can't get off the stage. That's not true either. I've seen the videos. We've seen the same thing. The bicycle store.
Starting point is 01:21:54 He doesn't know where he's at. You think the guy knows, okay. I mean, because the... Okay, point area explored. We have a difference of opinion. Fair. You can scroll me on it. Tell me what you're doing. Nobody knows, I'm just telling you,
Starting point is 01:22:09 when he's sitting alone, not alone, when he's sitting with advisors in the Oval Office, where the job is actually done, not in this arena, which has you so interested in this shiny object. The shiny object. It's the shiny object that is distracting you because you're not in the Oval Office.
Starting point is 01:22:25 He looks demented. And I don't mean demented crazy. I mean like dementia. He looks, looks. In your opinion. Okay. I mean, to me those are signs of dementia. Yeah, they both have some.
Starting point is 01:22:39 Probably everybody does at that age. Probably everybody does. And then maybe. Do you ever walk into a room when you forget why you walked into the room? I think there are degrees of this. Of course, there are degrees. And you're advanced on the spectrum.
Starting point is 01:22:52 Exactly, and that's what we're talking about, degrees. You think the degree, I think it's ridiculous. You apparently think I'm ridiculous. I don't think you're ridiculous. That's kind of your tone, yes, that I'm ridiculous to even think of it. I think, I'm surprised that it doesn't alarm you, that's all. It doesn't. I don't think you're ridiculous. That's kind of your tone, yes, that I'm ridiculous to even think of it. I think, I'm surprised that he doesn't alarm you, that's all. It doesn't- I don't think you're ridiculous.
Starting point is 01:23:09 I can't understand why he doesn't alarm you. What alarms me is that he's gonna lose the election because this is how he looks in public. That's what alarms me. It doesn't alarm me like what is he gonna do when they come to him tomorrow, when he's in the Oval Office at 9.30 a.m. He's probably good like a lot of people,
Starting point is 01:23:24 especially at that age in the morning. Don't get him in the afternoon. That at 9.30 a.m. He's probably good like a lot of people, especially at that age, in the morning. Don't get him in the afternoon. That's fine, we can do the business in the morning. Sir, there's the bill that we're trying to get passed in the Senate, the immigration bill that Trump is blocking. Should we call Senator McConnell? Yes, and he gets on the, he can do that. He's still doing that.
Starting point is 01:23:44 I know people who are very close. Okay, okay. It's a whole different issue than what he looks like in public. The problem is the one affects the other. Do you think he's actually gonna be the nominee? Of course. Really?
Starting point is 01:23:59 That's a foregone conclusion. Really, you're asking me that question? I am, because you know on the other side... Well, then you're not following it that closely. This is a done deal. Okay, but hold on. Hold on. I appreciate... Listen, I...
Starting point is 01:24:12 There's no serious people running against them, and now the primary season is underway. We're running into the... The rumors is that even Dave Rubin and Megan Kelly are talking about, that when they get to the Democratic nomination, he's gonna... Or the Democratic convention, and he's gonna quietly be like, oh, you know what, not gonna do it.
Starting point is 01:24:29 And then somebody will slot themselves in, Newsome, Michelle. I mean, this is pure conjecture. This is just people making shit. That I'm asking you, because there's other respectable people in the news are suggesting it's a possibility. I like both Megan and Dave. They're respectable, but if this is what they're saying,
Starting point is 01:24:46 and I don't know that it is, but if that's what you're by my believe you. They're saying there's a story being leaked. A story being leaked. But it's on both of their shows. They're definitely exploring it. Use a little critical thinking on this. A story being leaked from people who...
Starting point is 01:24:58 Even Tucker says this, and I know you're gonna say Tucker sucks, but I know you're gonna say that about him. Well, he so does. And these two have a lot of loony ideas also. Right wing loony ideas, I like them both. And they're pretty, you know, Megan is much more, I think, center.
Starting point is 01:25:16 I mean, Dave's good too. He's, I think, turned on Trump. But... They're definitely suggesting it. This is just something they pulled out of their ass. And it's not going to happen. I'll bet you any amount of money. It was a rumor, I guess.
Starting point is 01:25:30 They came out of, um... That came out of an ass. Okay. But it's still on. The kind you train. The show for people who are relatively credible. You know, when you're leaning over somebody and going, do these, set of doggie dogs
Starting point is 01:25:45 or whatever those thing is where you stick your- Doggy dogs? I've never asked for doggie dogs. What is it when you stick your leg out like that one you're on here? Bird dog. No, like you're- Bird dog.
Starting point is 01:25:55 No, you're building the muscle in your ass. Bird dog. Bird dog, okay. Bird dog. Well anyway, that's where it came from. The place where the bird dogs are working on. It's nothing. And it's not gonna happen.
Starting point is 01:26:08 They're gonna wheel him out, and he'll be wearing as much makeup as Trump is by then. And, but he'll have, if they're smart, what they'll do is write the speech like now, because nothing's gonna change. Write the speech now. Haven't worked on it like every day from now until this convention, like it's in July.
Starting point is 01:26:31 And so it's like second nature to him. And so we can just, if people just see him make one speech, like it's off a teleprompter, he can do it, but he is a stutterer. You know, I mean, he is somebody working with like that. I've heard that argument and I understand it. It's just part of the equation. But let's go back 10 years.
Starting point is 01:26:50 I wasn't speaking like this. He wasn't. Again, no argument. He looks awful. This is why I've been imploring the Democratic Party to do something and switch him out for somebody, but they're not going to do it. That is not going to happen. The die is cast.
Starting point is 01:27:07 It's the new year. The primaries have started. He is the nominee and will be unless he dies or is incapacitated. So that's a fact we have to all deal with now. How do you best deal with it? Teach him the speech now. That's my number one plan. Teach him the speech now. That's my number one plan. Teach him the speech now.
Starting point is 01:27:28 Have him, so it's like the story about corn pop. You know, he's got these stories in his head that he likes to tell, and it's because he's been telling them, like any like Borsch Belt hack, he's been telling them for years, the same stories. And so that's his go-to. You gotta get get in his head
Starting point is 01:27:46 a long time before. And then it's like, oh, this is my go-to story. Yeah, I know this. And it's like Bob Hope at the end. You just, you know, Bob Hope would never do a second take. So, like, boy, make that monologue easy to say. As a layman, both of them alarm me. Oh, of course. And I think a lot of laymen like. Oh, of course. And I think a lot of laymen like myself are kind of shocked. But you would vote for Trump over Biden. I did vote last time and I probably wouldn't vote this time. Really? Really?
Starting point is 01:28:15 You don't see a difference enough between Biden and Trump? I don't like Biden at all either. I get it, but that's, wow. Here's my other, like, some of the things. I'm curious about this one for either. I get it, but that's, wow. Here's my other, like some of the things. I'm curious about this one for you. I'm not there. Some of the things that are so alarming about Trump. You're gonna say I'm crazy, but I see similarities.
Starting point is 01:28:36 People often are like, Trump's a racist. So is Biden. No, he's not. Like, well, he made racist remarks about Obama. He was homies with Strom Thurman. He eulogized the guy. He's responsible for putting more people of color in prison with the 94 crime bill.
Starting point is 01:28:50 Like this is your fucking hair on this guy? I think it's very important that we- Tell me, tell me about- No, I don't, this is just- What I'm gonna say, I think it's very important that we listen to both left and right wing media sources because I don't trust anybody fully. They both, I've said this many times, but they tell you they're feeding a narrative, both left and right wing media sources, because I don't trust anybody fully.
Starting point is 01:29:05 They both, I've said this many times, but they tell you they're feeding a narrative, they're stroking the audience first. They want to tell the audience left and right. But having said that, I think you're listening to too much right wing bullshit these days. I do.
Starting point is 01:29:22 I think you're listening to a lot of right wing. You don't think this guy, all that stuff that he's done that I just listed is like, I mean, I think, I think, I think it's like, I just, the, the, I just take by. You think the whole thing with his son is totally innocent? No, I don't think any of it's innocent or completely wrong. It's just, it's just like boring because it's like, yeah, if you want to. What does it mean to be boring with him though? I'm completely nefarious with Trump. If you want to play the game of picking out somebody
Starting point is 01:29:49 who's been in public life for 50 years and who's not a perfect human being as none of us are. But then you have- But they crucified Trump for the same shit. That's what I'm saying. Did he work with Strom Thurman? Yes, he was in the Senate. It's just such a dumb right wing talking point. There's no truth in it. It's just such a dumb right-wing talking point.
Starting point is 01:30:05 There's no truth in it. It's just... What about the fact that he said, oh, I've got a colored guy that's, you know, is a queen and starts. It's a fairy tale. Really? Again, your...
Starting point is 01:30:17 If Trump said that, we would all be like, holy shit. You're so exaggerating the importance of something like that. It's my view of your... I felt this way about it. So it's like... We were selected as Obama's VP. It's like this is...
Starting point is 01:30:31 This is... You're reacting to talking points, what they want you to do. To me, like, there's no contest between what your issues are with Biden, which are issues, they're minor. It's like, I feel like you understand this on a physiological level. If we talked about the human body and the difference between dandruff and pancreatic cancer, you would get that.
Starting point is 01:30:56 But in politics, I feel like it's very similar, but you're not there with the politics. You just like, Biden, when somebody rubs people the wrong way, Hillary cert- 75 million people don't like them. So maybe they also know Dan from the pancreas. I mean, half the country is not, I don't like either of them, by the way.
Starting point is 01:31:19 I'm not a Trump- First of all, half the country always hates whoever is the other party's president. Hates. That's a given. It doesn't end. What I'm saying is you're working backwards from, I hate him to like, now why do I hate him?
Starting point is 01:31:36 Because he worked with Strom Thurmond on a bill like every senator did. I don't hate him. I don't like Gavin News. Because his son is a fuck, you know, like he's got a million fucking talk marks on him. What would be your thought, this is one I feel I can speak a little bit on. It's not, it doesn't arise to the level of the hate you have for him.
Starting point is 01:31:56 I don't hate him. I don't like him. I don't like him. I don't think he's greeted his job. He does seem to be incredibly seen out. But I do think you've been listening to a lot of right wing. I listen to boys. I watch you over time.
Starting point is 01:32:11 Well, I'm not right wing. I'm saying I just go. But I say a lot of things right wingers appreciate me saying about how stupid the left is. You call it like you see it. Yes, I do. OK, can I ask you, what do you think of Gavin Newsom? I just had him on my show. I know, I thought you were a little soft there.
Starting point is 01:32:29 Thought you could have gone a little harder on the guy. Um, yeah. Like you brought up Almond's, nailed him on that, but he's taking money from Big Ag Bill. That's why he didn't like, oh yeah, that's some, yeah, Almond's. Anyway, I'm building desalination plans. I keep taking tons of money from Big Ag, which is why almonds are still in California.
Starting point is 01:32:49 That's true. I didn't know what the... You got me. I didn't know what the answer to that is. That's the answer. Or, like, how come PG&E was allowed to get away with the 2018 Fires, one of the top contributors to this kick? I've got, like, 12 minutes at the top of the show to cover the whole world. I wasn't about to like make it all about the almonds.
Starting point is 01:33:10 The fact that I brought up the almonds is something nobody else would even fucking do. Okay, you're right. You're right. You're right. I'm all right on that one. But I've been trying to get Gavin to run for president for a very long time.
Starting point is 01:33:25 Oh! And... Are you serious? Are we living in Gavin Newsom's California? Why? Yeah, and I'm sure your life is just a nightmare. I left because of him. Oh, right, you're in front.
Starting point is 01:33:36 You moved to Miami. You know what? I'll tell you something. You've lived your my whole life? In 2020, I've lived here since 83. Okay. And I love where I live. I love California. I love Den Malibu. I. And I love where I live. I love California.
Starting point is 01:33:46 I mean, I'm dug in here. I did in 2020, when there was a week, when the sun was blotted out from the sky because of fires, I did look at moving to Florida. Now, I think it was a little like when I was contemplating suicide when I was in high school and college. If I got laid once, I would stop to kind of,
Starting point is 01:34:06 and I don't think I was ever really gonna do it. But I did actually get married. I was engaged once, but there are things in your life you're like, you know what, I might do that. And part of you is like, never gonna do that, okay. So I mean, and I think moving to Florida is in that category, but I did look at it because I share your frustrations with California.
Starting point is 01:34:29 I do. And I, those are the things I was saying to you. I mean, this is one I think I could be too pretty, pretty, pretty, electrically. Are you happier in Florida? Yeah. What is it in Florida that's over, that compensated more than what you had here?
Starting point is 01:34:46 It feels less crazy than it does here. Here you just- Florida's less crazy? Yeah. Hear me out. Hear me out on this. Really? Here's what I mean. The place where the people are on bath salts,
Starting point is 01:34:58 like fucking an alligator? Your girl, Sage Steele, asked me. She's like, what was the moment when you felt like California had lost its mind? And it was a piece of legislation that I can't recall. Did it affect your life? But Bill, is the crime affecting our lives? Is the homelessness affecting our lives?
Starting point is 01:35:15 Was crime affecting your life? Yeah, absolutely. My house got broken into you. Your house got broken into you. Yes, and guess what? The relationship with PG&E, my house burned down in 2018. Where's your house? I have a Den Malibu. Den Malibu. Den Bonsaw, yeah. And guess what? The relationship with PG&E, my house burned down in 2018. Where's your house?
Starting point is 01:35:26 I have a din Malibu. Malibu. Yeah. Wow, you got broken into a Malibu? I got, things are rough out there. No, they're, like, oh, it was so nuts. I'm buddy, but Trump. Guess who let the guy out during COVID?
Starting point is 01:35:40 Because I got the letter, Newsom, it was the guy's third offense. He broke into our house. He had duct tape and a video camera. Anyway, long story, but he, third strike, guy goes to jail, gets let out during COVID. I mean, give me a fucking break. You're not gonna hold PG and E accountable for that fire in 2018.
Starting point is 01:36:01 You're gonna decriminalize everything, but regulate nothing. You're prioritizing the crazy everything, but regulate nothing. You're prioritizing the crazy shit I've ever seen in my life. Like, come on, really? Again, my thing with Gavin is first of all, he can win. First of all, I just like him. I think he's really smart.
Starting point is 01:36:21 Is he a politician? Yes, that's the, hello, is he slick? Good, I'm fucking glad he's slick. Slick people win elections. Clinton was slick. Obama was pretty slick. How do you feel about the way he handled COVID? We have got the way it was the last day to reopen.
Starting point is 01:36:36 Not for it. Shut the schools forever. Not for it. Mind you, with no mask on at the French laundry, after saying that you can't. Again, you are just... I think you've been captured by this. No, I haven't. He's a hypocrite.
Starting point is 01:36:50 And that bothers me. The rules were absurd. Okay, Bill. I know, but it's like... Bill, they were absurd. You're obsessing again about the... What was done right. You're obsessing about the dandruff. He went to the wrong restaurant.
Starting point is 01:37:04 Really? Bill. He didn was a C.O.O. He went to the wrong restaurant. Really? This is, like, again. He didn't follow his own rules. If you're going to be a leader, you lead by example. That's not fucking dandruff. If he was the C.O.O. of a company, wasn't there like a 90 billion dollar? I can almost guarantee whoever he's gonna run against
Starting point is 01:37:21 from the Republican party, although every time I make the decision independently, I must guarantee that I will think he's smarter, better at government, which Republicans don't even take seriously. They don't know how government works. Democrats are at least wonks. They actually know how government works. It's actually very complicated. You have to study it. It's arcane. It takes a lot of people in a lot of rooms at three in the morning with boxes of stale pizza and coffee and making and crafting laws that you'll never read but affect your life. People who actually really get things done. Okay.
Starting point is 01:37:53 You see that kind of person, yes, I think he is. And generally we're on the same page philosophically. Is he too far woke? Absolutely. And I've said that to him many times and I hope that when he, if he runs a president, one of the good effects of it, it will move him necessarily to the center, which I would like to see him more. But compared to what they're putting forth on the other side. Can we talk about DeSantis outside of his social position? You're talking about the coffee and theā€¦ Could you have a vision a day when you would need an abortion in your life?
Starting point is 01:38:22 Okay, but I said other than the social issues, but let's discuss it. Hold on, initially. Can you still have a baby? I may be, I still get my period, not a menopause yet. But, there you go. But hold on, I agree with you. I said outside of the social issues, but let's, hold on. Your girlfriend gets your, I mean, you want to.
Starting point is 01:38:37 Hold on. Initially, his position, before he ran and got pushed all the way to the right was 15 weeks. I agree with 15 weeks. Right. 15 weeks to me is plenty of time. Europe is 12. 15 weeks, 12 weeks.
Starting point is 01:38:50 It's all a fucking joke to me because either you believe in the shit or you don't. I build, there's nuance. You can't make it black and white like that. Of course you can't. No, you can't. It's not that simple. A late term abortion, they're anesthetizing the child
Starting point is 01:39:02 and taking it apart into pieces as opposed to... On a certain level, if you think it's murder, and here's my position... It's a continual, shades of gray. I do think it's murder, and I'm completely okay with it. That's my position. But it is definitely becoming a life. So if you're okay, it would be like, well, it would be barbaric to kill at it. Eight weeks,
Starting point is 01:39:25 but six, of course. You have to anesthetize the fetus and cut it into pieces. Yeah. Like, come on. There's a continuum. Yeah, the one that's worse, but it's still, you're still stopping this. But why in Europe is it 12 weeks? Why?
Starting point is 01:39:40 And no one seems to have a problem with that. As soon as you get pregnant, you know, it's like the raft that's going down the river and it's gonna get to the falls. Now, you can kill it before it gets to the falls, but if you don't, it would get to the falls and then drop out of the lady and become a human. At which, again, does not bother me at all. I think we have too many humans already
Starting point is 01:40:01 and I feel like if we never met you, you can't miss us and we can't miss you because we never met you. Somewhere between conception and birth, there is a continuum and the answer truthfully, no one's gonna get everything they want here is somewhere in the middle. His initial proposition was 15 weeks, that seems fair to me.
Starting point is 01:40:21 You get birth control, you get the morning after pill, you get four months, I'm like, okay, Europe's 12, I can live with four months. Six is absurd, I agree. And you got pushed there. The problem is, I noticed when Gavin was on the show a week ago, I noticed like the girls are on the office that day.
Starting point is 01:40:40 Little more makeup. That's dandruff, that's your dandruff. That is your bullshit right there! That's not the mean potatoes? Calm down, it's not the point I'm making. I'm not making a point. I'm just saying something. Okay.
Starting point is 01:40:54 When he did the show, you know, girls wearing a skirt today, hmm, a little more makeup. I'm just saying, he, you know, as a politician, it doesn't hurt to have that effect on half the people who are voting. And I'm guessing he doesn't have that effect on you. I can't stand him. Oh, I understand. But he does all of these insane things.
Starting point is 01:41:15 He doesn't do insane things. Oh my God, Bill. He does things. There's a law that he passed. Yes, I know. You're right, insane. How many of them do you want? He's approving Bill. You know what, you're right. How many of them do you want? He's approving Bill. You know what, I confronted him.
Starting point is 01:41:26 He's a birdie blocker for 12 year olds. I could not agree more. Come on Bill. You don't have to come on me. But to me this is insane. You're telling me it's dandruff. I'm telling you it's not. That kind of stuff is not.
Starting point is 01:41:40 That's real stuff. I confronted him on the one. The department store. The department store! The department store. I saw them and he's like, oh, they wanted it. No! If they say they didn't, everyone's going to call them transphobic. So, or gayphobic. No! Focus on other shit, bro. You've got real problems here. Oh, no. California's a crazy state. But again, you know, it's almost analogous or is analogous
Starting point is 01:42:04 to the two-party thing. You only get two choices. And also, wherever you move, you seem to have adopted well the Florida, but I think it's because maybe you're focusing so much on theoretical things that you... I don't know. I've been to Florida, I love Florida, it's one of the states I really love. But I know if I moved there, I'd be there in like July going, are you fucking kidding me? I purposely went here.
Starting point is 01:42:34 You did a second home. This weather is disgusting. Second home. You can move there. And they have like their roaches fly, which, you know. I never had a flying roach in my house, iguanas, yes. Okay, but they do have like, you know, what I'm saying is every place when you move there,
Starting point is 01:42:48 you find out some shit you're not gonna like. So you might as well get, you know, the devil, you know, as long as the devil is California. Now, if I was in Alaska or something in the winter, yes, okay, but, you know, and also, you know, I don't know what crazy shit, you think this state is crazy? I think Florida is the state that where I think
Starting point is 01:43:08 is more like this. Do you think the rules are crazy? I just think people would go, go. Like meeting the laws, the way this is run. I get the book burning and that shit, I don't know what. What I love about- Now, he's definitely lost. At first, when I got to Florida,
Starting point is 01:43:22 I was able to defend the don't say gay bill, which is really the parental rights and education. I went there in 21 when the pandemic was still going on, and I felt so much freer, like while I was in Florida that weekend, then at that point in California, and I do, I fucking hate that about California, but again, it's like I could make an analogy
Starting point is 01:43:43 to a relationship. Do you love everything about your partner? No, it's a pro and con and for me personally, I'll tell you one thing that I do think you would love about Miami. I'll say Miami because that's where we live. I love Miami. I'm playing there in March. Oh, what a, for once, an actual genius segue. February 16th and 17th, I will be in Las Vegas at the David Copperfield Theater at the MGM Grand.
Starting point is 01:44:11 March 2nd in Houston at the Hobby Center. March 3rd in El Paso, the Plaza Theater Performing Arts Center, and I happen to know, and I don't have to put it on the card, March 23rd in Miami. Ta-da-da-da-da. So, all right, I'm gonna have to... Have to go, is that it? Yeah, because I have my real show to prepare for.
Starting point is 01:44:29 Oh, shit, that's right. I wanted to get you here for so long, you did not disappoint. You are everything I thought you would be. I'm afraid of you. What we call, no. Dad of obsess? No, what we call easy day for a talk show host,
Starting point is 01:44:43 because you're a great talker, you have a lot to say, you say it with passion and you know your shit at least about health. It's what I care. I'd say you had a couple of gimmies on California. Definitely had a couple of gimmies there for me. Well. Thank you, it was such a pleasure. All right, me too. I'm so excited you'll finally mention it. Yeah, me too. I guess I do that whole thing about alkalinity.
Starting point is 01:45:06 Yes, please. You can't love it. You can never bore me with health. Just, you got to sort of boil it down. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited.
Starting point is 01:45:14 I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited.
Starting point is 01:45:22 I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited.

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