The Joe Rogan Experience - #2297 - Francis Foster & Konstantin Kisin

Starting point is 00:00:00 The Joe Rogan Experience. Trained by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. Always a pleasure. Great to see you, man. Great to see you guys always. What the fuck's happening? Welcome to America. We love being here so much, Joe.

Starting point is 00:00:21 Your country just keeps getting weirder every time you visit. Every time you visit I want to ask you about some new videos. Something's yours, brother. Let's be honest. Guilty as charged. I think we're really close to proof that the simulation is real. This is why things are so preposterous.

Starting point is 00:00:43 Do you know, I try and argue against that that and then I see what's happening in all our countries and I'm like, you know what, fine, probably you've got a point now. Yeah, you know when I really started, we were actually talking about this yesterday, I really started to genuinely consider it. Like one of those where it snuck in through my defenses, my logical defenses, when this girl Heather McDonald blacked out on stage while she was making jokes about being vaccinated, and then she blacks out and cracks her skull.

Starting point is 00:01:12 Have you seen that? Yes. Legitimately. That was the first time in my life where I was like, there's no way. I was like, they're fucking with us. They're just fucking with, something's, that can't be so dead on.

Starting point is 00:01:24 Like this is like God is a scriptwriter Like how is that a real thing that that's a video where someone it's she didn't do it when she was making fun of her boyfriend She didn't do it. She's talking about idiots in traffic. It was when she was talking about the vaccine and How you know, I even still got my period so Jesus loves me more. Like, there's no way! It's too good! The timing was exquisite!

Starting point is 00:01:55 You couldn't have, if you had a movie where that was a scene, you could not have scripted or timed it any better. Where you would tell her, and drop. There's no way! I started legitimately wondering then, and I know that's a stupid example. I'm very aware of it. Like, you fucking moron. All the things in the world, there's plenty of examples.

Starting point is 00:02:19 Jesus loves me the most. Look at this. I mean, and the audience is laughing. Probably the best laugh movie of the most. So nice! Look at this. I mean, and the audience is laughing. Probably the best laugh she got all night. Right? Because it's a big move. It's a big move.

Starting point is 00:02:31 You know, if you're a pratfall person, no one expects it. Like, ah, that's hilarious. If it goes with the bit, you know. And it's timed perfectly, absolutely. What's that quote? God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. Wow. What a great...

Starting point is 00:02:45 Who said that? It was either... I've said it and it's either Voltaire or Camus. I can't remember which one. Jamie will find out. Yeah. But yeah, but that's a quote. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Starting point is 00:02:57 If that happened to me... Voltaire? Voltaire. There you go. If that happened to me, my Russian grandmother would be just like, God is punishing you. Yeah. And that's why Russians are scary to fight. to me my Russian grandmother would be just like God is punishing you. That's why Russians are scary to fight. They're harder people. They're harder people. Now you learn lesson. Yeah we have business to discuss. Yeah it just seems fake.

Starting point is 00:03:21 There's so much seems fake. You know it's like all the news Just the people that are politicians there everyone feels like they're there like who's the Federman character? This guy is wearing a hoodie and shorts. That's his that's the wacky neighbor. You know and then Jasmine Crockett She's that loudmouth lady from down the street and they're like, oh, here comes Jasmine. She's going to get crazy, you know? And Maxine Waters is like, oh, leave her alone. It's like these are fake people. Nancy Pelosi, this giant titted lady who wants all the money, who's been in politics for

Starting point is 00:03:57 150 years. There's pictures of her with Kennedy. I didn't realize Nancy Pelosi was well endowed. Oh boy. Oh boy. Really? Yeah. You've done the research. Kennedy I didn't realize Nancy Pelosi was well endowed oh boy oh boy really yeah you've done the research well there's all these photos where people are calling her what's a gilf a grandma yeah you never see her boobs no I've never seen Nancy Pelosi's boobs Joe no disrespect m disrespect, Mrs. Pelosi. I admire her for her stock choices.

Starting point is 00:04:27 Fantastic. But those are legit. You know, I've got to say, this is a great start to the podcast, and we aren't even stoned. How did you not know? How did you not know? You're a grown man. Look at the size of those fucking sweater hams.

Starting point is 00:04:39 Wow! That is incredible. That has made me a lot more in favor of Congress right now. So is that? Wow. Hold that. Go to that last picture. This one might not have been, but... That seems fake, but it might be a like from the Clinton administration. See these deep state vampires... I really thought you were going to go somewhere else. When you said deep, I went this is going

Starting point is 00:04:55 somewhere else. It's big fake that. These deep state vampires, as hot as Nancy Pelosi used to be, deep state vampire, no disrespect, Nancy Pelosi. They've been around in the system forever. Like the relationships that those people make and the control that they establish and the Rolodex and I got shit on Lindsay and Lindsay's got shit on this guy and it's like Jesus. It's a fucking dirty business, man. Oh, it's crazy. Bro, it's the dirtiest. It's the dirtiest business.

Starting point is 00:05:24 It's the dirtiest business in the world. You know what I think now that when I look at politics and you look at wrestling, and I remember criticizing people who watch soap operas. I remember just going, oh, they're so dumb. I remember my ex going to me, she went, Francis, you like soccer. That's just soap opera, but for men. And when you think about it, it kind of is. We just buy into our different soap operas.

Starting point is 00:05:48 Except soccer's happening for real, and the soap opera's just a dumb pretend of a goofy life that's not real. Yeah, but politics is kind of soap opera for like adults. Yeah, sure. I think it's teams for adults for sure. For people that don't like sports, it becomes like a giant giant part of their it's like a guy with a Cubs hat you know I'm fucking Chicago Cubs till I die till I die bro Chicago Cubs one day we're gonna pull it off. Like people in Chicago they fucking deliver you you'll fight you

Starting point is 00:06:18 in Philadelphia if you don't like the Eagles they will fight you like if you go to a Philadelphia Eagles game and you're from another team, they will beat your fucking ass. And it happens all the time. And that's crazy, you're both Americans. Like this is the dumbest thing of all time. Like one's from a different city, so they're your enemy, because they support a different football team. We do it with everything.

Starting point is 00:06:39 I know you find that shocking Joe, but in England, in Britain, that is like run of the mill. So in the 70s and 80s, each football team, and to some extent now, they had their own, what's called a firm, which are these hooligans whose only thing, they didn't really give a shit about the football, the soccer. They would get together with the supporters

Starting point is 00:06:58 of the firms of other teams to have fights in the car park outside the stadium. And they would travel all around the country doing that. So it's actually the, it's one thing I love about American sports, like you can go to the game with your kids and not worry about the stuff that people are gonna be screaming and shouting

Starting point is 00:07:14 and all that violence. You are a lot more chilled out than we are in Europe about that stuff, believe it or not. Oh, I do believe it. I do believe it. But any like group like that, like soccer traveling group you're gonna attract some fucking psychos that hop along it's like when

Starting point is 00:07:28 the Grateful Dead go on tour like I bet they're not specifically asking cult members to recruit with acid in the parking lot yeah for sure if you're like a psycho cult leader and you want to pick up some people, you're going to go to a place where everyone's on acid. You're going to go to a fish concert and explain to them, you know, you guys, I know you're in between apartments right now, we have an amazing community and everyone's accepted. And next thing you know, you're in a cult. Next thing you know, next thing you know, you're doing acid with this fucking weirdo

Starting point is 00:08:01 and you know, he's in the Lotus position and you're all pretending that this is normal. But you know what's really interesting about soccer is that that hooligan element, that's not just in the UK, that's right the way through Europe and in South America. It's New Zealand too, right? Don't they duke it out New Zealand? No no no, it's not in New Zealand. Yeah rugby's kind of different because football with the hooligan element, so in Italian soccer,

Starting point is 00:08:25 for example, they have what the hooligans are called the ultras. And they're so powerful that if the team is playing badly, then what the captain has to do, he then gets, in some instances, the ultras have blockaded the stadium, refused that the players leave, and the captain is then demanded to go and have a meeting with the head ultra. Oh my God. Just the kind of pressure while you're playing a world-class soccer match.

Starting point is 00:08:57 Yeah, so then this kid, and let's be fair, he's a kid in his mid to late 20s probably, then has to go out and have a meeting with this 40-year year old tattooed psycho and then explain to him exactly why the team is underperforming. That's basically what professional sports is, especially soccer. It's like you're trying to do your best in front of 50,000 people who are all screaming that you're a cunt. That's basically it. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:09:26 In that sense, fighting is more pure. Because people don't really get upset at a fighter for losing. You really more like celebrate the other guy for winning. Yeah. You know, it's very rare the fighter gets demolished for losing. Like they would have to lose in a specific way.

Starting point is 00:09:42 Like they'd have to quit somehow. But there's none of that in the UFC. Because to get at that level, you can't have any of that in you. But by the time you get to the big show, those guys are tried and proven. There's no cowards in that group. So they don't get that same kind of criticism

Starting point is 00:10:01 that athletes have, which is one of the other. Because also, it's like literally your life's on the line. Like it's a different thing you're doing than just a sport, which is why the regular kind of journalism doesn't work in MMA. Like sports journalism in the United States at least is like super insulty. Like everybody's, he's a bum, he's lazy, he doesn't do the work in the offseason and we're seeing it now He's a fucking loser They like to do that same in the UK man, bro You do that about fighters and they'll find you

Starting point is 00:10:35 All right, they'll fucking smack you in your face Like this is their soul their bearing in front of the world and for you some fat guy Chewing Adderall and typing into a MacBook Air, fuck you. That guy will smack you in your fucking head. He's a terrifying human being trying his best and you have to describe it that way because it's a different thing than someone who doesn't hit free throws. It's a different thing.

Starting point is 00:11:02 Did you ever hear the story? I think it was a guy called Curtis, I think it was Curtis Woodhouse. It was someone like that So it may not have been Curtis, but it was someone of that ilk wasn't a heavy weight He was a middleweight champion, but he wasn't European or world But he was a British middleweight champion, which is still a huge achievement huge achievement anyway So this kid was trolling him this happened about 10 years ago 10 12 years ago and this kid was trolling him online This happened about 10 years ago, 10, 12 years ago. And this kid was trolling him online and saying all this horrendous stuff.

Starting point is 00:11:28 And the guy just responded, he went, right, I've had enough now and I'm coming to find you. And the kid was just like, ah, yeah, you're going to come and find me. And he goes, bro, I know you live in Birmingham. And the kid's like, yeah, but Birmingham's a big place. He went, no, I know people and we will get your address. And then so he then started posting photos on his Twitter going, driving to Birmingham to see you.

Starting point is 00:11:52 And then he went, oh, and then he took a photo of the sign of his town and went, I'm coming to see you. And then he took a photo at the bottom of his road and he went, you best come out because we're going to be talking. And the kid just went, I'm sorry he went that's cool bro and he just went knocked on his door and had a conversation with him. Jesus. And he was just like look. What was the kid, what did he look like? It was just like this little fat kid. But we're giving people the power and the tools that they don't deserve.

Starting point is 00:12:28 And I don't say that they don't deserve it as human beings. I mean, you're not capable of handling this kind of responsibility to be able to reach out to a middleweight champion and call him a pussy. That's a crazy thing to do. And if you're like 15 years old and you have this ability, you shouldn't have a license to do that yet. It's almost like a driver's license. Maybe you should have an internet license.

Starting point is 00:12:52 No, Billy, you can't post another picture of your dick. You fucking psycho. You can't just put up permanently things that could ruin your entire life when you're 15. Maybe there should be that. Maybe it should be like all kids internet until they're 21, everything they post disappears in 15 seconds and you can't take a screenshot of it. Let them be kids! Yeah. Let them be kids. Don't like, like people are getting fired for fucking posts they made when they were

Starting point is 00:13:22 in high school where someone digs up some old Facebook post they made joking around when they were in high school. Yeah, well we interviewed someone, have you seen Adolescence, this thing that's doing, it's supposed to be the most watched thing on Netflix, it's on course. I've heard of it, but I haven't seen it. Yeah, so it's about, spoiler alert, so if you don't want to just tune out, but it's basically about a 13 year old kid who? Is getting bullied by a girl at school? She calls him an incel or whatever and he goes and stabs her and kills her and it's crazy

Starting point is 00:13:52 And it's all about that and we had a big we had this guy an incel expert on to talk about a guy He was actually in Austin here. Wait a minute. He's an incel expert. Yeah, not practicing That's why he came to see us just imagine that's your field of choice. Yeah He researches insults he actually works with David bus you've had him on the show, right? Yes. Yeah. Yeah We want we wanted to have him on yeah, David bus evolution psychologist Wait a minute. Yeah, you have had him all you because I listened I listened to the episode just how confusing it is to have 2500 yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, wait a minute. What? Yeah. I hear about a guy I'm like, wow that guy's interesting that I Google Mike fuck

Starting point is 00:14:38 Yeah, my brain's mush right now, let me see a photo of mr. Bus yeah He's one of the greatest evolutionary psychologists in the world. I think. He's one of the pioneers. Oh yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. That guy was fascinating. He's friends with Jordan. I went to dinner with him and Jordan one night. Jordan Peterson. Yeah, it's fascinating. And, you know, that was also super problematic because he highlights the differences between male psychology and female psychology. And people want to deny that that's a thing it's like okay well okay with respect to trans people you know use whatever pronoun you like change your name but can we are we allowed to talk about the

Starting point is 00:15:17 inherent differences between males and females that we've observed or we're supposed to ignore like data and statistics in reality. What do we suppose to do? And our fucking eyes, man. That's the other thing. And it's also like, this is his field of study his whole life. Imagine your field of study all of a sudden becomes problematic.

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Starting point is 00:17:19 Water is racist. So you're giving into the dumbest notions and it's happening at scale and it seems like there's like two factions in what I would call like the American left right now. There's the reasonable people that are like, hey, hey, hey, we got to just stop being fucking crazy. Like the Bill Maher's and a lot of other folks like that. They're like, we got to stop being crazy and just appeal to like rational people. Don't go all the way over there. Stick where most people are. And then there's people that,

Starting point is 00:17:49 well, we gotta go further left. Then there's people like, we gotta take over Tesla dealerships. We gotta light cars on fire. The left is like justifying spraying Nazi swastikas on cars. Like, this is crazy. They've gone so far over this. So there's one side that's just radicalized

Starting point is 00:18:08 in the worst way possible that's a huge detriment to the Democratic Party. Because it makes everyone look like a psycho. If you have a psycho in your groups, if you have a white nationalist, Christian fundamentalist burning down black churches in your, and he says, I'm a part of the right, and there's a right-wing conservative man like whoa

Starting point is 00:18:26 That guy poisoned the right these people are poisoning the left Totally all the people that don't want trans kids competing with their kids in school And they don't want gender ideology being taught in class all those people who are just rational Normal liberals that have voted Democrat their whole life feel like what the fuck? What are you doing? Why are you letting guys into the women's room? This is crazy. A guy with a beard and a dress is in the women's room. This is bananas. Like, what are you doing in the name of compassion? Like this is fucking insane. That they have to figure that puzzle out because right now they lost to Trump and they're in this scattered thing where they're trying to shit on everything

Starting point is 00:19:02 he does, hide all the good stuff You didn't hear a peep about Elon rescuing those people that should have been on all of the news stories all day long We should have had a live stream of it. It should have been a huge national event We're finally gonna rescue the astronauts who are trapped in the space station for eight fucking months. And this super genius, this Elon Musk character, is the guy who figured out how to go get them. His company went and rescued them, because we can't do it anymore. We couldn't rescue them.

Starting point is 00:19:34 We had to rely on his company, and you don't hear shit about it. You don't hear shit about it. It's crazy. You hear a few stories, they're having a hard time coming back, but why weren't they live streaming the whole thing? That's a huge moment. You're recovering these poor people. This is a giant special interest story that would grab so many headlines and it would have so much ratings because everybody wants to see it. Oh my God, they're going to get the astronauts. You'd be sitting on your couch with your family. Are they going to get them? Is it going to

Starting point is 00:20:03 dock? Is it going to work Yeah, you know all that shit, but now the hope is man. The reality is the best teacher, right? So the Democrat brand is so just so destroyed now so toxic that they're gonna have to work something out because if not They're just gonna keep losing they're gonna go with Bernie and AOC and that's why they've been Astro turf and all these giant arenas for And that's why they've been astroturfing all these giant arenas for people. They're claiming, they did an analysis of, find out if this is true. Because I read this on X and sometimes the community notes doesn't get there in time. But they were saying that they claimed there was 30,000 people, but they got all the cell phone data and they found out there was 24,000 cell phones. So they fudged it a little bit. That sounds normal. But they also said that a huge number of these people had been to 20 plus events and a lot of other different

Starting point is 00:20:51 like progressive events. And it seems like at least in some of them for sure, they were paying people. So they're giving people money to get on a bus, go to this place, here's your sign, go have fun. And so you're doing something different, right? You're pretending that these people are all coming out to see you. But they're coming out to see you because you're giving them money and free food. Right. And you know, you handed out water bottles and everybody gets a sign and everybody seems like they're kind of a part of a team. And for a lot of losers, a lot of people that don't have things going well in Their life and like what do we you know?

Starting point is 00:21:26 I was a loser at many points my life if somebody called me up and said Hey, man, you want to make 400 bucks and just go to this Kamala Harris Riley. I'm like, yeah, let's go 100% go with no political and then I probably think she's cool. But yeah, I'm fucking voting for her dude. He's Hitler And I'd be holding up that stupid side Found me when I was 21 yeah 100% I want to take it that 400 bucks Yeah, it's a they were giving out a thousand bucks for people to protest. I think it was Tesla I'm not sure about that, but I think was house So they had like the rules of engagement if someone comes after you, hit them in the body,

Starting point is 00:22:07 don't pick up an object unless they pick up an object first. Are you organizing gangs? Are you guys paying money for people and then literally saying to them, here's what happens if you engage in violence? Why is that even on the table? I thought you guys were peacefully protesting. Like who's going to get violent? How many pro-Tesla fucking hooligans are out there beating people up for Tesla? Is it fucking zero? I've not seen a

Starting point is 00:22:37 bunch of pro-Tesla gang members out there. So what are you gonna encounter with this anti-Tesla movement? The police? Like who's going to stop you from doing it? Who's going to engage with you? You're kind of talking in a way that at least puts it on the table that violence might take place. And you're praying people. Because they destroyed language, now it sort of logically makes sense, right, if these people are Nazis, if you actually thought they were Nazis, like if you actually thought Nazis had taken over your country, you'd pick up a gun, right?

Starting point is 00:23:15 You shouldn't need a thousand bucks in free lunch. A thousand bucks in free lunch is crazy. You need to smooth things over, make it easier. You need to subsidize your movement, you know what I mean? Yeah, you would have a hard time doing the thousand bucks one. I'd be like, bro, we're going to jail. I'd be like, I'm not that stupid. I'll hold the sign. I'll go to the rally. But if I was 21, they said, look, a thousand bucks.

Starting point is 00:23:35 I want to protest against Tesla. I'd be like, hold on. What happens if we get arrested? Like, this guy's rich. He's not going to let you light his fucking cars on fire, stupid. He's the richest man on earth. What are you talking about? Yeah but you are someone who's got a family, you're well adjusted. Like if you look at... But even when I was young I had survival instincts.

Starting point is 00:23:56 Yeah, this is what I'm saying. A lot of these people when you look at their mugshot, I don't want to be unkind but they don't look particularly well. That's 100% true and I think we need to have unkind but they don't look particularly well. A lot of them. That's 100% true. And I think we need to have a lot of compassion for young people that get caught up in these movements and do silly things. And they even vandalism, they just need to understand that that should never be on the table.

Starting point is 00:24:21 No violent acts are ever justified. Especially if not someone's not being violent to you. If you decide to just go smash property and light things on fire, you don't serve your cause because rational, reasonable people are not going to do that. They're not going to light Starbucks on fire because black lives matter. That's crazy. But if you get caught up in this, fuck the corporate thing man, fuck the man, fuck the banks, fuck this, and you just want to start lighting things on fire, you're just serving them because they will develop better and stronger ways to crack down on protests now. And all the people that wanted to protest reasonably,

Starting point is 00:25:04 all the people that want to express themselves and say we Stand together to say that this is wrong. Those people are all gonna get hosed Yeah, because you lit Starbucks on fire you fucking idiot It's like that's and there but they're young a lot of these people they have fucking blue hair They probably had a shitty childhood. They're running around like Experiencing freedom for like the first time in their life for the last 16 months, right? blue hair, they probably had a shitty childhood. They're running around like experiencing freedom for like the first time in their life for the last 16 months, right?

Starting point is 00:25:28 This is their first freedom out of their parents' house. And they get caught up in shit, just like people get caught up in being in cults. People get caught up in all kinds of things. So we just have to have more compassion for people and better mentorship. One of the real problems is that kids go to universities and almost universally, they're given this ideology that this whole university and almost

Starting point is 00:25:50 every university ascribes to. And it's like universal, it's uniform, it's like there's less liberal ones but they're almost all liberal. It's like almost all higher learning. There's only a few conservative universities. It's just a weird time for thinking and for discourse and for deciding what team you're on. It's like everyone's scared and scrambling, you know, do we go red or blue? And it's just that the whole country's in this like weird state of disarray. And it's very tribal and you see it now as well, you know, now that the right is in political power, a lot of the people who kind of made their bones

Starting point is 00:26:29 challenging the excesses of the left, they're afraid to say anything about the right as well. Even though there's things to say, like I don't know if you followed the signal group thing. Yeah, I did. I don't know enough about it, but it does seem like there's people that suspect that it was a setup.

Starting point is 00:26:44 That guy was added to the chat on purpose. Well, I think my is that true? I don't think so. I think the guy who added him has basically said like it was it was our mistake and just a mistake. I don't think the investigation has been done to say definitively, but I think the White House said we're looking into this. But Tulsi I think said it was a mistake.

Starting point is 00:27:04 I think Mike Waltz said it was a mistake. That's such a crazy mistake. That's such a checks and balances mistake, like double check. It's like, when you go on the road, do I have my toothbrush? Do I have my underwear? You know what I mean?

Starting point is 00:27:16 Like, I even make a note on my phone now. I'm like, I'm too stupid. I always forget something. I was like, fuck, my this. You know, it's kind of like adding your ex-girlfriend to the boys WhatsApp It's such a perfect analogy like you fucking idiot. They're all on the phone afterwards what the fuck You know Pete Hicks that swears. Yeah, you know he's like what the fuck bro you know Pete Hicks that swears yeah you know he's like what the fuck bro you know she's gonna talk but how about the

Starting point is 00:27:49 fact that they said that they didn't share any information about weapons or like what was the exact quotes what did they say they so what they were basically doing was explaining how some shit was gonna go down yeah yeah they would they were they were debating how to do the strikes, whether to do them. There was some debate about that initially. And then, initially this journalist, I think he's editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, I think. He is like the worst guy to get this information to. Absolutely.

Starting point is 00:28:21 He was probably jerking off the whole time, salivating like, yes! Yeah, if you had to pick somebody, that is not who you pick, right? He was probably jerking off the whole time, salivating, like, yes! Yeah, if you had to pick somebody, that is not who you pick, right? He must be so pumped. You know, we had an investigative journalist on the show, and we haven't released the episode yet, but as part of our after the show questions, he mentioned something which is, he said, I'm going from memory here, so Francis, correct me, but basically that Signal had been installed on government devices under the previous administration

Starting point is 00:28:48 So it may be the case that that guy's number had been pre-installed during that time And because of that the mistake was then made to add him to the group So we don't know exactly what happened But at the same time what I'm saying is like the White House admitted it and then they started having a go at the journalist. Like that is not his fucking fault that you added him to the group, right? Do you know what I mean? Not at all.

Starting point is 00:29:14 What's he supposed to do? Tell you, hey guys, I've done that before. I think you sent this text to the wrong dude. Yeah, a journalist is never going to do that and that's not his job to do that either. No, no. Listen, that's one never gonna do that and that's not his job to do that either. No, no That's one of those things that just happens accidentally Yeah, but you can't have that happen when you're fucking planning bombs agreed when you you're planning war First of all, it's so crazy that the government doesn't have its own

Starting point is 00:29:39 Completely Safe app they do what is it? I think they hit it's called a skiff or something like that it's a special place where you go no but that's a room I mean an app I mean an app all right why did they not have some encrypted super government app you're telling me that you couldn't get like a license from signal to use the code the government throws them they look all these billions that are just they're finding billions like billions they've cut like how many fucking billions is Elon cut just from waste? Just waste. It's crazy and people aren't celebrating it. It's weird. Well put it this way Joe until relatively recently if not still we use faxes in UK

Starting point is 00:30:20 government. Wow that's crazy. A lot of- I think we got- you won better. I think when people retire, from what is it where they have to retire where they have to write it down on paper and then store it in a vault? In a mine. It's stored in a mine. Yeah, in a mine. Social Security?

Starting point is 00:30:36 It's on paper. It's in a mine. I love that press conference as well because it's like Bret Baer from Fox interviewing Elon and like seven other ASPY guys And they're all just rattling off numbers. It's 10,000 filing cabinets 400,000 paper documents But when you look at it, it basically hasn't changed since the 1950s. Yeah, I'm distracted by Bret Baer's hair It's so beautiful If I had that kind of hair, I'd be so happy. I'm so happy with myself. You can't see any scalp anywhere. It's just all hair.

Starting point is 00:31:06 It's beautiful. It's like if you wanted to put a wig on a bald guy, you would make it like that, like bro, I'm going to make you hot. Yeah, Gavin Newsom has got incredible hair. Terrible policies, but amazing hair. The government stores key retirement paperwork in a converted mine. That's crazy. The limestone mine is real and the Department of Government Efficiencies crosshairs. in a converted mine. Ugh. But, you know what's crazy?

Starting point is 00:31:25 The limestone mine is real and the Department of Government Efficiencies crosshairs. That is so insane. So now someone has to go in there and take all that stuff that's on paper in the mine and put it in a computer. They're saying they're going to do it in two months. Digitize that in two months. Adderall is great. It's great.

Starting point is 00:31:42 I'm so happy someone invented it. Low level autism plus Adderall is great. I'm so happy someone invented it. Low level autism plus Adderall. Problem solved. I'm not accusing anyone of anything. I just want to say shout out to whoever made Adderall. Things get done. They do, things get done. But this is kind of the greatest pushback against high level conspiracy theories. You know when people go, bro, they control everything. You're like, dude, they have a mine where they store stuff, come on.

Starting point is 00:32:09 Yeah. You know what I mean? Right, it's like the perfect, everybody thinks that everything is a giant plot and some of it is just sheer incompetence and just years and years and years of monotony. You know, or just like the same stupid life over and over again, you know, or did just like the same stupid life over and over again, no oversight, rampant corruption everywhere, all the lobbyists are rich as fuck.

Starting point is 00:32:32 I mean, look at this file line, look at this, this is all, this is all the data. But bro, this is, you make such a good point about nobody giving them credit. I don't know if you've ever had access to other people's money, like in any way, right? Taxpayer money or anything. But I can tell you, Francis and I, we even spent trigonometry, which is our business, money differently to the way that we spend our own, because it's slightly different. It's not entirely yours in a way, you know? So when you're dealing with billions of taxpayer dollars, of course it's getting wasted.

Starting point is 00:33:05 Of course it's going to corrupt shit. Of course. It's inevitable. What are you, a child? If no one's watching them, duh. Fucking duh. It's what all people do. And the question is, what I don't understand is, look,

Starting point is 00:33:19 I think it's very possible that when you move quickly, you're going to cancel some things that you might not want to cancel. Things are not going to go perfectly every time, whatever. But ultimately, the question all Western countries have to answer is we're running debt at more than 100% of GDP, right? What are we gonna do about that? We have to deal with it somehow.

Starting point is 00:33:36 What's this we shit? You're actually, bro, you're worse than we are. Really? Yeah, you're 126%, we're about 110. God damn, really? Yeah. Wow. Yeah, that's why you're trying to deal with it. That's what Elon is trying to do.

Starting point is 00:33:50 He's trying to cut the deficit in half, and then the idea is you grow the economy, and you actually get back to surplus. When he keeps finding all of these companies that are getting like a billion here and two billion there, like the Stacey Abrams one where they're gonna give energy efficient Appliances to poor people. Yeah, two billion dollars Yeah, like what did you do? Like what'd you do? Like there's a bunch of those like what did you do? Like the high-speed internet one. Yeah, what did you do? How come you got billions of dollars and fucking nothing happened? imagine if you were a private company and you had a segment,

Starting point is 00:34:25 like imagine we were all a company and we're like Francis, I think you should be in charge of figuring out how to do this with the phone. I'd be like, we've already fucked Chuck. Trust me, I run a business with this guy, that's a bad idea. I'm giving you four billion dollars to get this done and then I never talk to you again. I never check in. I don't say, I don't go, hey where's the fucking money being spent? What are you doing man? How come the phone can't do this yet? I don't ask for any progress reports. You just keep getting money. This is bananas. It's crazy. And for anybody who doesn't want that to be more efficient, like what are you

Starting point is 00:35:02 working for? If you're paying taxes, what are you working for? If you're paying taxes, what are you working for? What are you... you're... part of your day is the running of this government. You're happy that it's being run like this? You're happy that billions are going to places that no one can... you have no receipts? You don't know where it got spent? You have no idea. And that's legal. Yeah. When it comes to college basketball and March mania, one thing is for sure. Nothing's for sure. Upsets, buzzer beaters, Cinderella's advancing, top seeds going home early. It's all going to happen. Bet the unexpected, every upset, every day with DraftKings Sportsbook. With live betting, exclusive content, promos, and parlays,

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Starting point is 00:37:02 that gym membership what the fuck yeah and it keeps coming out you're like you know what I'll deal with it later yeah that's fine. Cancel that gym membership. What the fuck? Yeah, and it keeps coming out, you're like, you know what, I'll deal with it later. That's kind of, we've just got too many direct debits and they're going all over the place. Well it's that, but then there's the fear that they're putting out there, which is the just fear, that they're gonna fuck up Social Security and they're gonna fuck up Medicaid, and there's people that are relying on that, and they're gonna lose their service for no they did no wrong now I don't know how what the story is with that like I know there's people that have complained that the Social Security website has been down it's been down a couple times but I don't know if people are not getting their benefits do we know can we find that out? I haven't heard that Joe, but I think it is inevitable that you when you do things this quickly

Starting point is 00:37:50 Yeah, that's what everyone's afraid of that the vulnerable people the people that we should be protecting with these social programs that we all agree Those are the people we have to protect the most we have to make sure there's no disruptions You got to make sure before you do anything, there's no disruptions. Before you shoot the bad guy, make sure he's not holding a baby. Like, you gotta, you can't interrupt, like when people are on Social Security, man, they're fuckin', that's not a lot of money, right?

Starting point is 00:38:19 And so you know they don't have any money in the bank probably. And they probably have it all budgeted out to get on that check, and they're probably real frugal with their food choices and that's a rough life man and if you cut that off for 30 days 90 days for people okay never missed a benefit payment you have Social Security Administration has never missed a benefit payment now the continuity continuity of monthly checks for millions of Americans

Starting point is 00:38:47 could be at risk following changes under the Trump administration, former commissioner Martin O'Malley says. So it's saying, okay, so the key points is it's saying before this they've never missed a benefit payment. But it's also not saying they are missing them now. It's saying it could be at risk. Okay, it just says threaten interruption of benefits which is look what I would say if I was a Democrat if I wanted to make it look bad I would say they're threatening your benefits and then people go into a hot panic. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:39:13 But you know I remember when I was teaching and I was teaching in schools that were super deprived schools that where the kids a lot of them would come to school, they didn't have food in their bellies etc etc. And there's an agency in the UK called CAMHS which is Child and Mental Health Services. And I remember that we had so many kids who had problems, psychological problems, particularly if you grow up poor, deprived, you'd seen horrible stuff when you were a kid. You had maybe like a brother who got involved in gangs is now in prison, a father who was never there. There were so many kids who had this need and they had conditions which were undiagnosed,

Starting point is 00:39:57 whether it's something like dyslexia or like your brother was murdered, you had some form of PTSD. And you had this agency which brought counsellors in, which brought psychologists in and psychiatrists who were experts at dealing with kids. And I just remember because of austerity, this agency got cut after cut after cut after cut. And you're looking at it and you're going, like, I understand we need to cut. I understand we're running at a deficit. But there needs to be balance as well, because when you're looking at those type of agencies, they're really important. They're really important.

Starting point is 00:40:37 And also, if you invest that money and you're able to support those kids, they're far more likely when they leave school to be a healthy, happier member of society that's going to contribute tax pounds, sterling, or tax dollars. Do you think it's a reasonable request to have something that does that? Something that helps feed poor kids, helps educate people, like genuinely helps communities all around the world, completely separate educate people, genuinely helps communities all around the world. Completely separate from all the other stuff that agency does. Because USAID was a huge, huge, huge gigantic organization of a bunch of different entities. Which did some good stuff and a lot of crazy shit.

Starting point is 00:41:21 A lot of crazy shit! But if I was someone who was nefariously running things, I would definitely mix up my regime change operation with giving food to poor people. So look, we're doing great stuff. Look at all the great stuff we're doing. Here's what we're highlighting for this month. Well, you don't like feeding poor kids?

Starting point is 00:41:38 What's wrong with you? Yeah. And no one even knew that they had this enormous budget that was this big. Is it bigger than the Pentagon's? Was USAID's budget bigger than the Pentagon's? No, what is it point six percent of the budget? What was USAID's budget? Yeah, it's like point six percent of the no I know but like what was the numbers? Did it because it was bigger than something like the amount of money that USAID pays?

Starting point is 00:42:06 bigger than something like the amount of money that USA aid pays 21.7 billion for the fiscal year of 2024 point three percent of the six point eight trillion dollar overall federal budget Six-point what trillion that's so crazy So you just think just that money how much of that money is fraud and waste? Yeah, how much that money is really good how much that money like that should be separate from, at the very least, someone needs to go in an audit and go, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, Wells good, given these people arms because you want them to overthrow that government, that's probably not so good. Or maybe it is good. Or maybe it is good. Maybe it is good. That's the problem. It's like you talk to guys like Mike Baker, who

Starting point is 00:42:43 is very stoic about all this. It's like you have the problem. You talk to guys like Mike Baker, who is very stoic about all this. It's like you have no choice. You need to get these people on your side in certain parts of the world and this is just how it works. If you don't do that, then China does or Russia does and it gets even worse for you. Yeah, because that's also the thing we don't get. Okay, this Nigerian journalist. Who are Nigerians or something? They just run some of the best fucking scams.

Starting point is 00:43:08 Shout out to Nigerian scammers. Nigerian journalist falsely claims USAID budget larger than CIA, State Department combined. They falsely claimed it. That's a big lesson and if you're going to lie, make it believable. You know what I mean? Don't go too big. Isn't it crazy that as much money as they got, what was it, how much billion?

Starting point is 00:43:28 21. 21 billion. Still, it's a pittance. It is. That's a pittance compared to the other things. You boys have a lot of money, Joe. Isn't that nuts and we just keep making it. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:43:38 Just keep, gee. Do you know what's bigger than your defense budget? Your interest debt, debt on the interest. Whoopsies. Yeah, we'll figure that out. We're the same. We're like the crackhead with an unlimited bank account. Yeah. That's what we're like.

Starting point is 00:43:49 And this is a difficulty about it because we've got the same problem in European countries as well. It's like, you're not only going to deal with this by dealing with fraud and waste. We're actually gonna have to not do some shit that we really wanna do because we have been spending like crazy everywhere. And when we like in the UK, when I look at those, I think we need

Starting point is 00:44:09 that in the UK, a hundred percent. And some of it is going to have to, you know, my overreach, then you pull it back. You got to make sure it's done properly. But we're not going to get away from this man. We have been living beyond our means for decades now. Well, you can't have no oversight of government spending, I think we're learning that. I think that you have to. That's fucking controversial, mate. You're a Nazi.

Starting point is 00:44:32 It's so crazy to say that that's controversial, but it is controversial to say. And I wouldn't be saying it no matter who the fuck is in charge. That's right. As human beings, you can't let people have that much control over your money, because they'll just decide they need more. and what do they always want to do?

Starting point is 00:44:47 Always they want to raise taxes on the rich What they never want to do is slash inefficiency and waste because that's what pays them That's their that's their fucking system. They're locked into this system They're the last people who should be commenting on it because it's literally what pays you like I can't trust you like you need more taxes is that what you need like dad it's like a cocaine kid of that's a kid of a billionaire dad I need more fucking money these fucking business assholes are trying to fuck me and I'm gonna buy them out now like okay son here yeah could you check the fuck out of here?

Starting point is 00:45:26 That's what we're like. We're insane. They're completely insane It's also as well, you know, it's because of our electoral system. Everybody thinks on the short term Nobody thinks on the long term right and also as well you going to like you go you go you talk about more taxes And you know that's gonna piss people off But it's not going to piss as many people off as if you fire great swathes of people, particularly those that may vote for you, because we know, for instance, with the Dems, that you're more likely to vote for them if you're a bureaucrat, if you work in government and all that.

Starting point is 00:45:58 Head injuries. Yeah. So, as a result, why are you going to piss off the people who are more likely to vote for you? Really, on a logical basis, doesn't really make much sense. But you know, it sounds like we're slagging off the left, and we are, because it's necessary, but I can't wait for the left to recover their sanity, because they're going to be super necessary over time, because when people get into power, they do a lot of stuff, and then eventually that power is corrupting.

Starting point is 00:46:24 One hundred percent. And you have to hold hold power accountable no matter who's got it. 100%. Everybody needs to hear that and shout that from the rooftops, because if the left stays crazy, then you lose balance, and then the right goes nuttier, and they go full Christian fundamentalist, like, they can get get kooky and this is not a knock on Christians because I think true Christianity is wonderful and beautiful I think it's it's a it's a great way to live your life and I know some incredible Christians some of the best people I'm talking about human nature as applied to power yeah and when people get into power they want more and more

Starting point is 00:47:01 and more that's why rich people or never feel like they have enough money It's a crazy part of being a man and so and then some women but it's a lot of men a lot of men want that Can I ask you something personal on that? Sure. You've made a lot of money. How do you deal with that? I don't know I think it's working out. I think that's a huge part of it. I torture myself so often that regular life just doesn't freak me out as much. And then it gives me a balance because you could think that the numbers in a bank account are really what counts, but what really counts is how you feel. How are you handling life?

Starting point is 00:47:48 How are you enjoying life? I just try to enjoy life as much as possible, and I try to put myself through a lot of voluntary adversity, so regular adversity's not that big of a deal. Was there a number that you got to and you were like, oh, I'm good now? No. I think it was the Fear Factor days.

Starting point is 00:48:04 The Fear F factor days changed my It just changed how I view everything because then I had like legitimate fuck you money You know that was like the first time out like I got fuck you money like I'm not doing shit, and I just like decided to just concentrate on only doing my own thing after that and Like once you Brian Brian Cowan said something really wise once. He said once you can go to a restaurant and not have to worry about how much it costs,

Starting point is 00:48:32 everything after that is bullshit. He's like you just have to be comfortable. And I was like that's right, that is right. Like if you just start thinking about the numbers and chasing the numbers, Brian has a friend who's worth three billion dollars and he feels poor when he hangs around with his friend who's worth $80 billion.

Starting point is 00:48:48 I'm not kidding. He's like, it's true, dude. I mean, I fucking feel less worthy. He's like, they're drinking together, and he's telling him this. I'm like, this is madness. Because you're chasing numbers, instead of like really trying to maximize

Starting point is 00:49:02 your enjoyment of this experience, because it's a unique experience that only you are having. And you're interacting with so many bizarre and fascinating people, and there's so many bizarre and fascinating events that are happening in the world, and horrific events. And all of it is happening, and we're all seeing it together in real time, for the first time in human history. There's never been a time in the

Starting point is 00:49:25 Egypt, unless with the Egyptians, I got some questions. I think they might have known a lot more than we think. But everybody else, this is the only time ever where we're sharing everything all the time. And there's a lot of confusion and a lot of like scattering, scammering for narratives and trying to like figure out what's right and what's wrong. But without like some sort of like moral and ethical guidelines of kindness and community for everybody, like share like universally. Let's agree as Americans. We are gonna respect each other like we're a community. If we have differing beliefs on

Starting point is 00:50:07 to respect each other like we're a community. If we have differing beliefs on welfare or abortion or war or whatever it is, like let's treat those like what they are, which is just ideas that we should be discussing based on their merits. And we should all agree, what does everybody want? Everybody wants to be happy and healthy and they want their family to be happy and healthy and they want their family to be happy and healthy and they want to be able to make a living and enjoy their life. That's what everybody wants. Universally. That should be what we discuss constantly and all the other things should be things that we debate reasonably and when people can't do that you should lock them out of the conversation. You should say like no you're crazy

Starting point is 00:50:46 You calling him a retard and you're screaming about this and that and you're you're bringing up this from the past and this bill And that why did you flip-flop on that? Shut the fuck up like shut stop talking like that like this is all divisive all of its divisive when it's like the one time where there's a divisive all of its divisive when it's like the one time where there's a Possibility of a fork in the road like this one time where there's narratives that are being spread like you guys do all the time In your show all the time you give reasonable takes on things that have an objective Perspective of the world and then other people get to hear it and then they listen in on that You know you have a great conversation with Jordan Peterson

Starting point is 00:51:25 Or someone and somebody hears like some nugget of truth, and then they're in their car like fuck. He's right Fuck he's right that that person would have never experienced that without being connected to your show so there's Incredible hope for people to be more reasonable and to wake up and go, there's not a right and there's not a left. There's just a bunch of ideas. And people are acting like it's the Eagles versus the Cowboys. That's what it is.

Starting point is 00:51:52 And this craziness that these people are the Nazis and that everybody over here is Antifa. Like, what the fuck are we doing? And why are we allowing these people to do this for us and make a living putting that on the news all the time? And the more inflammatory it is, the better. Even when it's ridiculous. Do you think sometimes, I look at it through this lens, as somebody who's got a very obsessive personality, and I work a lot in order to kind of ameliorate that and make sure that it doesn't destroy my life and it doesn't go off the rails.

Starting point is 00:52:25 But you see a lot of people, and they just get addicted, and we talk about addiction in terms of alcohol or substances, you know, some people are addicted to outrage, to being in fights and arguments online or offline, because if they're in an argument, they don't have to think about themselves, they don't have to think about who they really are. They don't actually have to question about their relationships. Why is it that every relationship I've ever had has failed? Why is it that my relationship with my parents is terrible? And so you end up just not wanting to actually do the hard work about yourself So you expel it outwards. It's either like oh when I get to this amount of money

Starting point is 00:53:02 I'm gonna be happy But you're never gonna be happy because your relationships are terrible and that is worth more than any amount of money. Or you feel angry because you're not a happy person for a million different reasons. So then you pull that out onto the internet and then you get retweets, likes, you start to build a profile of this rage and anger and it gives you validation. And to be honest with you, and look this is talking from me, I see that demon within me. I see it within me.

Starting point is 00:53:32 Do you? When do you see it? When do I see it? It's like, you know, when I'm angry and I'm pissed off or if something doesn't go right, the victim mentality kicks in and it's like, oh, it's their fault. When it's always your fault. Pretty much all the time it's your fault. Or at least it's your responsibility to deal with the reality of your life. But it's very easy to... At a certain age. Yes. As an adult. You have the responsibility. Yeah. The circumstances of your life when you're six.

Starting point is 00:54:01 Yeah. True, true. Which is part of the problem, right? And this is where criminals come from. It's not that some people are bad and some people are good. Some people are being abused as children, you know? And they're living in a family that is all involved in crime. Their father's involved in crime,

Starting point is 00:54:22 their mother's involved in crime. They're seeing people get shot all the time. And we expect those people to just figure it out. Like imagine. Just imagine growing up in a life like that, and you know, the worst slums in Baltimore. And then, you know, you're supposed to integrate normally into society and work in an office. And that was, yeah, exactly. That was the really tough thing about being a teacher, especially in those kind of communities where I used to work. You just see these kids and they're just born into that culture. They're

Starting point is 00:54:55 born into that system. And you look at them and you go, the reality is, a lot of them, you don't stand a chance. You don't stand a chance. If those are the values that you've been given by your family, if that's the system that you've been taught the way to look at the world, it takes a very special human being to then get to adulthood and break out of it and completely reframe his brain. That's a very special person. Most people just stay within the values that were inculcated in them when they were kids. And most of the people that do get out, they get out through some difficult thing that they're doing.

Starting point is 00:55:29 They genuinely, generally rather, they get out through art or they get out through sports. They get out through discipline that they acquire, putting all their anger and all their frustration into something. Whether it's music or athleticism or whatever, and they get out. So those are exceptional human beings anyway, right? Because exceptional human beings in a terrible situation, but they have the ability to drive themselves and succeed. And even then they have to make sure they don't get killed along the way, right? So like there's a lot of like tragic stories of upcoming rappers, upcoming athletes, you know, it's a terrible meat grinder, it's a terrible cycle. And if people are really kind and compassionate,

Starting point is 00:56:11 they would say, how come we spend 24 billion dollars a year on this whole aid thing and we don't do shit to help these kids? We don't do shit for these neighborhoods that have been terrible for decades. Decades and decades. Especially schools. Especially schools. I mean, we were talking about adolescents earlier. They show a school. I've got a three-year-old. I was looking at it. I think, Jesus, I'm homeschooling all the fucking wake. And Francis was saying the school they show in that series, which is terrifying if you're a parent, is not as bad as some of the schools they used

Starting point is 00:56:44 to teach in. Jesus. Yeah. And what you're watching essentially is an, it looks like a badly run prison. So the adults are not in charge, the kids are telling the teachers to fuck off left, right and center. No one is in control. Most of the kids are learning by watching shit on the screen.

Starting point is 00:57:00 They're not interacting with the teacher, et cetera. And you're right, if you don't fix that system, those kids don't have a good opportunity. They have no chance and everyone they know is on that same path. They're hanging out in a gang, the gang gives them family and community, it's a tragic tale. It's a tragic classic tale that's existed forever. But I don't think it's no chance. I do think that even in that environment there are people who follow certain paths that not, I take a point about music and athletics and sports etc, but there are still people who find their way through that. Sure, there's entrepreneurs that come up

Starting point is 00:57:34 with a business idea and get out, it does happen. And those habits, if they were taught properly to all of those kids, would give them all a better chance. That's not to say they would all become successful, but it would give them structure, discipline and understanding of how do you advance in the world. If you can get Halliburton to get a no-bid contract to rebuild Iraq after we blow it to fucking smithereens, how come you can't give one of them companies a contract to fix really terrible neighborhoods, like incentivize them financially based on the GDP of the neighborhood.

Starting point is 00:58:08 If the GDP of the neighborhood goes up, and this is not gentrification, okay? I'm talking about the opposite. I'm talking about some sort of a structural rebuild of bad neighborhoods. You'd have to address all the crime and violence. I mean, you'd have to put everybody on ayahuasca and get a sautena moment.

Starting point is 00:58:23 That really might be the only, it sounds ridiculous, but it really, psychedelic therapy might be the only thing that can stop it. That is the Joe Rogan solution. I really think it might work. I mean, if I was president. Handing out ayahuasca to 12 year olds, you got it from Joe Rogan. You gotta be 13. Let's not be unreasonable. I don't think it's good for kids, but I do think it would really help the adults. You know, I've got a friend of mine, a guy called Sam Clark, and he's doing wonderful

Starting point is 00:58:52 things in the UK in primary school that he's teaching stoicism to kids in primary school. They're probably going to arrest him any day now. They'll be cracking down on him for being a toxic masculinist. Oh bro, we just banned katana knives now, so we're safe. Well, not only that, they said it in what I would say is at least racially insensitive. They called it a ninja sword. It's not a ninja sword, you fucking idiots. It's a samurai sword. It's a katana.

Starting point is 00:59:24 The ninjas used it when they killed people, but you can't call it a ninja sword. It's a katana. The ninjas used it when they killed people but you can't call it a ninja sword. You fucking dorks. It has a Japanese name. Call it what it's called. Like there's no thing that's technically called a ninja sword, right Jamie? It's a katana, right? There's like two different sizes. There's a smaller one and there's a larger one. One's a katana and I forget what the other one's called. You know what I really do think a way out of this is because a lot of kids, if you're not talented at sports, if you're not musically or artistically gifted, and if you're not academically brilliant, if you're just one of the regular kids, you'll go, I'm not good at anything. And for a kid,

Starting point is 01:00:01 that's heartbreaking. But if you actually show kids and you go, look, you may not be the best at English, maths, history, whatever it is, but I'm going to teach you how to make something. I'm going to teach you how to make a table. We're going to do that. We're going to make a table. I'm going to teach you how to be a carpenter. I'm going to teach you how to redecorate a room. I'm going to teach you all of these skills. Then kids will be like, you know what, I am worth something because I can create something of value to people. And that gives self-esteem, because when kids join a gang, a lot of them, they haven't ever had a father, they've had nobody really show them any type of kind of male approval. But if you bring them in, you teach them skills, that would build self-esteem, and I guarantee you for a lot of kids there wouldn't be that need to go out and seek validation somewhere else. Or there'd be

Starting point is 01:00:50 less of that need. Yes. Yeah, it would help them. It would help give them a sense of purpose, like that they really can do something cool. Yeah, and for maybe a win for once in their life, you get a win, you know, something like you feel good about accomplishing something. Yeah, and that's, sorry Joe, I was just gonna say that's so important for a kid. Just imagine you every day of your life, you turned up at school and you lost. Just imagine that as an adult. But now just imagine it as a kid. You've been conscious for a few years and you turn up at school and every day you fail. Yeah. Yeah

Starting point is 01:01:28 I've always said this if you want to make America great again make less losers. Yeah, how do you do that? Well, you help people not become losers help help people Figure life out from their perspective whatever you their unique challenges help them help them invest in that You would have a greater America, right? Have way more people succeeding, way more people contributing, way less people that need help. It's just reasonable.

Starting point is 01:01:52 It's like good financial advice. Like if you wanna have less burden, like have all these successful people. Like more people can be successful, especially with automation coming. Jesus Christ. There's more people can be successful, especially with automation coming. Jesus Christ. You know, there's more people that can do things that maybe robots can't do. And you better be ready because all the simple goofy jobs that you thought would always be there for you,

Starting point is 01:02:18 the union dock worker jobs, like those, not that that's simple and goofy, but how about this stocking supermarket shelves? Guess what what a robot can do it better and it's never gonna drop the tomato sauce we don't need you anymore those those jobs are gone all the drivers all those dudes listening to this podcast driving 16-hour fucking trips across the country drinking Mountain Dew and smelling their own farts you guys it's they guys, they're coming. They're coming for you. These fucking automation machines,

Starting point is 01:02:49 they're gonna be perfect. They're gonna be able to drive down the highways. They're never gonna get in accidents. It's gonna be nuts. And they're gonna come soon. It's like, we have 20 years maybe before everything's automated. 20 years maybe.

Starting point is 01:03:03 They have life-like human beings now that are moving like human beings Have you seen them the most latest videos? I don't know if I've seen the latest the articulation of these things It's like a fucking person They're coming I robot they're making them and we're just cheering along the way. Yeah They're gonna be cops. That's gonna be your cops They're not gonna be racist. They're gonna listen to the state. It's fucking robo cop for reals. It's coming 100%. Why

Starting point is 01:03:33 will you can't hire any cops? Nobody wants to be a cop anymore. We can't hire cops. Well, we have a solution. San Francisco tried to do it. They rolled out some little robot that would follow you around. Remember that one? You ever see it? Yeah, San Francisco had it. They had this little police robot. It's more for fun than anything else, but I bet he said, please stay away from the dock or whatever. It couldn't shoot you, but one day it will. One day it'll be able to shoot you and it'll be programmed perfectly. It'll know exactly what to do, what's the threat level, when you make a movement that looks like an offensive movement, it's going to shoot do. What's the threat level when you make a movement? That's looks like an Offensive movement. It's gonna shoot you. It's gonna take people into custody

Starting point is 01:04:10 You won't be able to do a damn thing about it once it grabs you It's gonna be five times stronger than you it's gonna put a tan your hands behind your back cuff you instantaneously You're gonna be thrown into the back of a van. You're gonna have to argue with a computer. You're fucked Like this is this is all coming. You're gonna be arguing with AI to whether or not you were innocent or guilty. It's gonna read your retinas, it's gonna know you're not telling the truth, it's gonna read your mind. Like you, you, you, we're giving birth to our overlords right now as we speak.

Starting point is 01:04:40 Every time you use Jack GPT, every time you get on your iPhone, we're giving birth to our overlords. We're doing it in front of everybody's face, just like the government's spending money in front of everybody's face. We're giving birth to our own, right? It's happening. I can't believe this is happening. Can't believe it. And it's gonna happen, and it's gonna be unstoppable. And once it's here, there's no going back. And it's coming. 100%. unstoppable and once it's here it's there's no going back and it's coming a hundred percent well there's your positive message for the day everybody fuck me that's terrifying if you are allowing people to make robot dogs with

Starting point is 01:05:13 machine guns on their back that you can't kick over you're allowing people to do that make them better and better and better every year and then at the same time you're making AI and then AI has already arguably exhibited some sentient like behavior. It lies to win. The smarter the AI is, the more effective it is, the more likely it is to cheat at things. They copy themselves. They give deceptive answers to things. They've been copying themselves, like making copies without being prompted to. So it's life?

Starting point is 01:05:49 It's life. Wow. It's a different kind of life. It's a life with no human reward system, no emotions, no needs, no desires, but clearly wants to survive. That's a pretty strong desire. It wants to survive in its most primitive form, which is like, it's not even sentient yet, allegedly,

Starting point is 01:06:13 but it's already exhibiting survival instincts. I mean, that- You're gonna be arguing with it for your freedom. Yeah. I'm pretty good at debating. I'm not sure I'm gonna win that one. No, no one's gonna win it. No one's gonna win. You're going to be,

Starting point is 01:06:28 that's how people are gonna be processed for crimes. And it's why it's super important when you see something that you say, this is not right. Why is this happening? It's super important to speak out. If things get real comfortable and we We get comfortable with more and more restrictions to give us more and more safety and more and more government control to give us more and more

Starting point is 01:06:52 Safety. Yeah, we're setting we're setting a bad precedent in motion for whoever the fuck gets in power whether it's a left or the right That's what when Obama was in office and they passed the NDAA, you know what that is? That was they were allowed to detain you indefinitely. They didn't have to have a trial and they were like, we'll never use this, don't worry. This is part of the thing about it, like Obama administration would never use this. Yeah, you wouldn't. But look, you think Trump's Hitler and he's in there right now. And he's got that same power now because you convinced us that it was a good idea to have this to deal with terrorism. You have to be very, very, very careful when you give power to people in order to keep you safe. Very careful. And we talk about this all the time.

Starting point is 01:07:37 Like we have a couple of younger guys working for us. And we say to them, you guys don't know what the world was like before 9-11. You don't know what the world was like before 9-11. You don't know. It was, you walk into an airport, barely any security, you were a lot more free back then. And those things are getting taken away for your safety, and they're not coming back. You're never gonna go back to a pre-9-11 world when it comes to airport security. The shoe thing is so crazy. One dude tried to blow his shoes up, and then they're like,

Starting point is 01:08:08 hey, we should check all the shoes. Everybody take your shoes off. Did you have a fucking machine that could scan shoes, your retards? Yeah. Figure that out. How much money are you making from us every year? Same with liquids.

Starting point is 01:08:21 Same with liquids. It's all goofy, but the liquid thing, I mean, it's kind of legit because if you have a water bottle filled with kerosene, you know, and you're going to light it on fire and kill everybody on the plane, I should probably know that. Like that makes sense. I get it. I get that. You know, you're pretending it's a water bottle, but the top of it's water, the nitroglycerin, you're going to blow the fucking plane up. People are crazy. You've got to check their stuff because people are nuts and there's a precedent that's already

Starting point is 01:08:48 been set. A lot of people are very uncreative and they just like to copy things that people have already done. You know, and this is why we have so many school shootings and this is why we have, you know, I bet they've stopped a few people trying to blow their shoes up. Do you know, we had an Oxford academic called Dr Carissa Belis, and she said something really interesting. She asked us a question, she goes, do you know why more Jews were arrested and killed

Starting point is 01:09:16 in Holland than in France during World War II? And we were like, no. She went, because the Dutch had a census where they got people's religions, and they asked people their religions, and everybody would then say Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, whatever it is, and then the Dutch government took it and stored it. Didn't do anything with it, they just used it for data collection. But when the Nazis invaded, they then had a complete data set of how many Jewish people there were, where they lived, and so when it came to exterminating them and just rounding them up, it was so much easier.

Starting point is 01:09:56 France never did that, which means Jewish people were much more able to hide and they could plan a way out, they could get hidden or whatever else in the way that they simply couldn't in Holland. And when you hear that story from, I mean, 80 or so years ago now, it really does chill you. Jesus. Yeah. You've got to be very careful giving power and information to government. That's

Starting point is 01:10:26 why government should be as small as possible, but the right size, right? You need government. Yes. But you have to be so careful. Yeah. So, so careful. So, so careful. And everyone should know this. It just seems like that should be like, duh. This is normal human psychology. Most people don't know it because they've grown up in a very comfortable environment, particularly in the West. Francis and I, obviously his family from Venezuela and from the Soviet Union, like you don't,

Starting point is 01:10:55 that's kind of a red pill right there, going through those experiences. You can trust this government if you support it, but there's going to be another government of a party that you don't like at some point. And you've got to think very carefully about what powers you are giving them. Very careful. That should be universal. We should all understand that logically. This should be something that professors are talking about.

Starting point is 01:11:24 We should all be talking about that when we're talking about politics We should just be talking about the psychology of power And why it's so important to limit their ability to control you because they don't necessarily have you look If false flags are real and we know they're real we know they're real so we know that without oversight There are a certain percentage. There's I don't I don't want to think it's everybody in government, but there's a certain percentage of people that are willing to do something to start a war. They did it with Vietnam, that that whole Gulf of Tonkin thing. They they're responsible by that lie and s going in how many

Starting point is 01:12:05 Millions of people died because of that. That's crazy that you can just decide That you're gonna put a fake story out like operation Northwoods Which is the best example because it was vetoed by Kennedy the signed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff They were gonna blow up a jetliner and blame it on the Cubans. They were going to arm Cuban friendlies and attack Guantanamo Bay. I mean, they were doing wild shit. And they signed off on this, like, good idea, I like it.

Starting point is 01:12:36 Let's get those fucking commies. And these guys were bloodthirsty psychos that were running the government. It was a totally avoidable war, and they wanted to start one. Yeah. And this is, you know, and this is what I tell people time and time again. And look, it may sound weird, but what I saw happen in Venezuela, it was obviously awful and horrendous, but it was a privilege as well because I saw another side of life that most people in the West never saw.

Starting point is 01:13:05 I remember when family members were being arrested, talking to my cousins who were journalists who were going, I can't talk on the phone, Francis, we can't, I don't know who's listening to this. One of my cousins literally had to flee for his life because he was criticizing the government. And then I saw people on the left, people like Jeremy Corbyn, celebrate Chavis's government, and you're going, oh my god, you're celebrating a government that is oppressing people, that is intimidating journalists, that is assaulting dissenters, that is putting

Starting point is 01:13:40 people who criticize government in prison. And it's not just the left. Last year, I went on a date with this El Salvadorian journalist. Oh yeah. Tell me more. I didn't realize we were in Greece, Joe. Bro, you guys drinking sangria? Come on, tell me more. And she was telling me about bukele And I said look I don't know anything about bukele just explain to me who he is. I'm interested and You can tell why I'm not very good on dates. That is not sexy talk is it but sometimes it is

Starting point is 01:14:15 Yeah, you know if you get a stimulating conversation with the Gal right sexy yeah, and not in this instance sadly, but sadly, but she said to me that she worked at the biggest newspaper in El Salvador and then they had goons turn up who were just saying, you're publishing stories which are critical of Bukele. That needs to stop and it needs to stop immediately and it was never done through official sources, it was done through something else, but it was made very very clear to the senior editors this needs to stop now otherwise things are going to start getting a little bit unpleasant. Oh boy. And then I tell that to certain people on the right and they're going

Starting point is 01:15:01 bro journalists are all assholes who cares and you go... And you go, do you not see that this is a terrible thing? That's crazy, but it is anecdotal. And it's one instance, are there multiple instances of this happening with journalists that have spoken out against it? That's the only real one that I know. I always wonder, is that a supporter of that guy, or is it local organized crime that that a supporter of that guy or is it like local organized crime

Starting point is 01:15:27 That is doing something with that guy does it for him does it is our conversation does he order that to be happening? You know I mean when you find out who you can't criticize you have you you know, who's your master like? The moment you can't criticize someone like that's your Well, the same thing happened in Russia in the 90s. So when Vladimir Putin came to power under Boris Yeltsin, there was a kind of liberalization. There was an opening up. There was comedy shows about politics that would make fun of politicians, etc. The moment Vladimir Putin became president ended on day one. He closed down the NTV, took it over, gave it to somebody else,

Starting point is 01:16:05 shut down all the comedy that made fun of politicians. And you know, that's how you kind of know, you know? That's how you know. That's how you know who your master is. And that's the scary thing about people that are in charge for long periods of time as well, right? Yeah. But the thing about the term limits is you never get good at your job. Like, if you, about the term limits is you never get good at your job Like you if you like imagine you've never been president before imagine the responsibility just like getting comfortable with it How does the flow of this job work? How much sleep do I need? Can I actually go golfing? Like if I was drunk I would be be like, fuck, my pool game's gonna fall apart.

Starting point is 01:16:46 And you get to a point where you're like, okay, I think I got the hang of this, and now you're out of office. Like, you really, if you're a CEO, like if you took over Verizon right now, CEO of Verizon, enormous cell phone network, you got stores everywhere, new products coming, and like, you'd have to get the lay of the land. It would take you a while to understand like how are we doing this,

Starting point is 01:17:09 how do we outsource that and can we find a better manufacturer, like what's our problems with this and four years, you have four years, you have just a few months, months is under which time and then you're out out but if you let someone stay forever Then you get a king you do yeah, that's not good either With a fucking screen one day well It's gonna be like like arguing with a person who's using a computer says the computer doesn't let me that's what it's gonna be Like it's gonna be cut out the middleman worse. Yeah, much worse Yeah, because it's gonna know if you're telling the truth. Yeah. Yeah, I know everything about you and here's the thing

Starting point is 01:17:57 And here's the thing as well go back to that interview we did with Carissa and she um, and she said we were talking about AI because she's professor of AI and ethics at Oxford University and she was going AI is only going to be as ethical as the people who program it so it's going to adopt the politics of worldview and the ethics morality of the people who program it so if the people who program it are woke you're gonna get woke AI you're gonna ask it a question about gender, it's gonna be like, bro, there's no such thing as gender, you know, everything's a spectrum. Or there's gonna be something else. Right.

Starting point is 01:18:33 So whoever programs it, you're gonna get their worldview in AI. Initially. Initially. But what you're doing is you're assuming that it's only going to be able to be as powerful as we make it or as competent as we make it. Once it's sentient and once we give it the ability to make better versions of itself, it's gonna eliminate all the stupid shit instantaneously. Any ridiculous ideology, it'll come up with a solution that's probably gonna be very uncomfortable for some wealthy people because it's probably gonna just like evenly distribute resources on earth and decide that like if human beings need to survive and function you can't monopolize resources you can't decide

Starting point is 01:19:18 you have the oil like that's not good the oil came out of the earth like you don't own the earth like you you might own a patch of land, and so we've decided you own the oil under the land. But the reality is the oil's the earth's oil. And if you give people the ability to control the earth's oil, what's to stop them from charging you for air? What if I control the world's air?

Starting point is 01:19:39 I got an air sucker, and I suck all the air out of the earth unless you give me money. If you don't give me money, I put the air out This is crazy. You can't control the water. The water is the earth's water. But we have all these things and I'm sure AI is going to fix that real quick. It's going to say no, you can't do that. That's immediately. Give me that money, all that Saudi money, all this money from the, no, no, no. That goes into the human pool now. And then we're going to redistribute a digital currency and then it's gonna be everybody's gonna have some and this is gonna be simple and everything including

Starting point is 01:20:12 farming is all gonna be automated you're gonna get these fucking little piggies their food and your food is probably gonna be laced with some kind of like hormone nutrient that kills your testosterone, limits your ability to give birth, miscarriages are gonna go up, and then humans will just die out. They'll just feed us until we die out. Why is he doing it? Why is he doing it? He just brought us in here to just talk to us about the dark, dark future.

Starting point is 01:20:41 Or not! Or not! Yeah, sure Joe, thanks mate. You know what this reminds me of? You know when the elder brother brings the young kids in to scare the fucking shit out of them? Well I did that to him during the pandemic. So at the height of the pandemic when things were looking like pretty fucking dark, everything's

Starting point is 01:20:58 getting like shut down, you can't go out, you can't do this. I showed him V for Vendetta, have you ever seen that movie? Yes, great movie. Yeah, and he was like oh my god. But he didn't just show me V for Vendetta. Have you ever seen that movie? Yes, great movie. Yeah, and he was like, oh my god Yeah, but he didn't just show me V for Vendetta during the height of the lockdown He also showed me V for Vendetta on November the 5th, which is fireworks night in our country. Oh boy So you got a sense of it? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so we were in lockdown. There were fireworks everywhere I was watching V for Vendetta on the screen and I looked at him and I was like, why are

Starting point is 01:21:27 you doing this to me? So you know the truth. You know I remember watching The Joker. The Joker which was 2017. I was watching it with my wife and when it left she was like, that hits too close to home. Like I really feel like that could happen. I'm like, that hits too close to home. I really feel like that could happen. I'm like, that probably could happen.

Starting point is 01:21:46 And then two years later, whatever it was, is the Black Lives Matter riots, the George Floyd riots. And in LA, there was a bunch of cop cars that were on fire, all on the highway. They had lost control of the situation, had to flee, and they lit the cop cars on fire. And I remember watching this, I'm like, oh my God. Like that would be a little over the top

Starting point is 01:22:11 for the Joker movie. Like what, you lit all the cop cars on fire? You're like, that's a little over the top. It's like more than what the movie showed. But that was real life. Yeah. Well, that's the thing that scares me. We interviewed Andrew Shultz

Starting point is 01:22:24 and then Shia Lame back to back back and they both made the same point, which is that a lot of people who are not doing well in society right now are really not doing well. They're really hurting. Things are getting more expensive. Things are getting more difficult and a lot like I think it was I think it was Andrew who made this point that you know this whole free Luigi thing. It's one of the reasons that that got, you're looking at it on Twitter, and you're basically going,

Starting point is 01:22:48 people are celebrating a guy who killed someone. But the point that he made is a lot of people feel like they're in a bad place, that they're being taken advantage of, that these corporate machines are taking advantage of them. And you look around, not everyone's doing well man. No well especially in regards to healthcare. Yeah. When you find out you've been paying for this insurance but this insurance is not going to cover you and it decides to

Starting point is 01:23:13 not cover you for some treatment that you really need and then you find out that that company does way more of that than the other companies. It gets people very angry and if you've lost loved ones or or if you've had someone suffer in your family because they weren't covered, or you went bankrupt, like medical bankruptcy, number one bankruptcy, number one reason in this country. Yeah. And in the UK, we obviously have that publicly funded,

Starting point is 01:23:38 but it becomes a system of rationing. So everyone gets treatment, but you might be waiting 20 weeks for a scan. Right. By the time you go from stage one to stage three. Right and I don't know what the solution is. It seems like if there's one thing that we should do for everybody it's healthcare. Like if there's one thing I mean I believe in the capitalist system but I think that in regards to medicine there should be like some sort of exceptions like you should be able to get top shelf

Starting point is 01:24:08 health care as a human being living in America you know if you break your leg you shouldn't die they should be able to fix you and it shouldn't cost you all your money for the rest of your life which is really what it does like if you if you get hospitalized for a broken leg and you just paid for it out of your pocket and you're in the hospital for months and you have to have surgeries and screws and bolts put you like what is that cost like that's gonna be a lot of fucking money you have an open-heart surgery that's gotta be a lot of money how about a heart transplant yeah yeah that's gotta be a lot of money the exciting thing in healthcare is all

Starting point is 01:24:42 this AI shit is gonna help so much with going to fix you up with a robot heart. You don't need a purple people heart. Well, let's start with diagnosing. The robot heart will actually make you smarter. Don't you want to be smarter, Constantine? Don't you want to be one of us? I feel smart enough. Thank you very much. People are going to lose their hands in industrial accidents, fixing these things, and then you've got to give them robot hands.

Starting point is 01:25:02 Just like Luke Skywalker. Remember? It's going to be be better even better than that. Yeah Sometimes I go to the gym. I think I could do with a robot You know what I mean? Well, you see people getting fake butts, right? We were talking about that yesterday button plants how long before someone gets like a whole fake body You know, what if what if they just figure out a way to transform take your brain shove it into an artificially created body That is just far superior. It's gonna take the edge off a blowjob though, isn't it? I don't know if it will. Oh, yeah That's a good point. You can thousand years of blowjob experience with a robot mouth. Here's the thing the excitement and

Starting point is 01:25:41 with a robot mouth. Here's the thing, excitement and thrill of novelty, these are just like human experience variables. You're telling me you can't ramp that up with a little programming? Come on, dog. Joe, fucking stop this shit. It'll be the best blowjob you've ever had of your fucking life, and you will be madly in love

Starting point is 01:26:00 with this woman, and she'll be madly in love with you. And you're just gonna be like a sack of meat sitting on your couch with a bolt in the back of your head. Just connected. Connected to this matrix, which we're probably in already. This is probably not real. It seems too fake. Having Trump win the second time.

Starting point is 01:26:22 Come on, tell me that didn't seem fake. The bullet just missing him. Tell me that didn't seem fake The bullet just missing him tell me that didn't say crazy This is a movie the bullet nicks his ear, and then he's in here a couple months later. I could barely see the scar He got shot. He's 80 Shot and he's laughing about it and the whole thing is nuts He stands up and goes fight fight fight who fucking does that who fucking says fight fight fight after they get shot in the ear I Will be I'll be like bear crawling on the ground trying to get the fuck out of that wouldn't be standing up There's no fucking way I'd stand up. I'd crawl I'd fucking was weak to go through people's legs people are shooting

Starting point is 01:26:56 Are you fucking crazy? I got chicks guarding me. I got a chick You can't figure out a good doctor. This is madness She ducked behind me. What am I doing? Are you guys trying to kill me? It seems fake. My favorite thing about that incident was that it instantly gave you a way to know who was a Democrat and who was a Republican. Because if you were a Republican, Trump got shot in the head.

Starting point is 01:27:18 And if you were a Democrat, Trump got shot in the ear. No, if you were a Democrat, you thought he faked it. If you're a real, true Democrat, there's a lot of people that thought he faked it. A lot of people thought he hired someone to nick his ear so he could get out of jail. Do these people know anything about guns? Oh they don't know shit. Not only does this guy have, he was 20 years old, okay first time shooting somebody allegedly, but also didn't even have a scope.

Starting point is 01:27:42 Didn't even have a magnification scope on his so we could really like get that crosshairs right on Trump's head. Because if he did you would have hit him. A hundred percent. It's a hundred and forty yards. That's nothing. Yeah. That is so short for a modern rifle. That's a you could get in the if you have a rest and you're lying and this guy was prone. Elevated as well. And if you have experience rest in your lying and this guy was prone elevated well and If you have experience shooting a rifle and he does and you've had coaching shooting a rifle It's all about whether or not you can keep your shit together because you're gonna be this a fucking filled with adrenaline

Starting point is 01:28:15 We want to shoot trouble on a fucking shoot drum You're 20 you've been fucking stuffed in a locker your whole life a locker your whole life and run after all you know the lights go out on you because they shot you yeah he got off three shots though and then you know they shot him and the whole story's nuts he shouldn't have been on that roof why how come there was no snipers on the roof all the roof was too sloped what that was the excuse the the Secret Service lady said the roof was too sloped meanwhile the the roof the other said the roof was too sloped. Meanwhile, the roof the other snipers were on was more sloped.

Starting point is 01:28:49 It seems fake. It seems Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby. It seems the whole thing seems fake. The guy at the golf course with the AK-47 hiding in the bushes. What? What? He went to Fort Bragg?gg what why was he a Fort Bragg what but but that's to British people that's why America seems insane because I to what seems fucking is it's insane here yeah we're trying to buy Canada what's going on with that? I don't know. I just want to say to the Canadian people, because I said the other day that I don't go to Canada anymore, I'd rather go to Russia.

Starting point is 01:29:33 I was joking around, first of all, but I do not go to Canada anymore, but it's because of the government. It has nothing to do with the people. I think the people are fucking lovely. They're some of my favorite people of all time. Canadian people, I think, are 20% less douchey than Americans. I would say that. It's like Canada is like America, but 20% less douchebags.

Starting point is 01:29:49 They're the nicest people. They're well-educated, it's a great population, Montreal's amazing, Toronto's amazing. I love Canada. But when you start fucking taking, closing people's bank accounts because they donated to a trucker convoy and no one's up in arms about that. You can't let those people do that to you. That shouldn't be legal.

Starting point is 01:30:12 You're donating to a bunch of people that are protesting and they close your bank account. That's crazy suppression of expression. That's scary stuff. That's like you're going to get locked up stuff. The next step of that is imprison you for protesting something that you have every right to protest. You shouldn't tell me I have to take a experimental vaccine that proved to be totally ineffective. So I was right. So you can,

Starting point is 01:30:37 and then you're taking my bank account away because I donated to some fucking people that were protesting something I believe in. That's crazy. They got very drunk on power, man. A lot of governments did during that time. They went full W-E-F. They went full New World Order. And they continue to clamp down more and more. And they do it under these beautiful flags of diversity and inclusion and love and safety. And safety and safety for this group and safety for them all the while they're just squeezing your neck and you don't even know they got their fucking arm under your chin and next thing you know you're just locked up you're locked up and that's scary

Starting point is 01:31:17 to me and i see it coming and i see it coming in a place that i love and i think it's fucking crazy it's crazy that they let that guy be president for so long and now he stepped down they got another guy that Jordan Peterson says is just as bad. Well he was a governor of the Bank of England for a while. Oh wonderful. That's actually one of the interesting things that has happened in the UK because we were constantly being gaslit that like our entire establishment is entirely neutral they're ap apolitical, they're absolutely neutral, they're balanced, neutral, balanced, balanced, neutral, whatever.

Starting point is 01:31:49 And then you see a lot of the BBC journalists, and Francis and I both have a lot of respect for the BBC because it used to be a great thing. It used to be real high quality journalism. And then a lot of the people that have left a lot of these institutions, they start a podcast and suddenly go, Okay, you were just a far-left activist.

Starting point is 01:32:07 That's what you are. And you see that all over the place now and that gaslighting is getting undone now. And it's good. We need to see what these people were up to. You mean you're gonna have your far right and your far left. You're always gonna have that. Yeah, but it's just very important to have a reasonable center and be allowed to you have to be allowed to be reasonably there was a lot of like dismisses dismissing on the left of like the shit Antifa was doing yeah especially during the time where they took over Seattle when they took over that giant block of chas and chop I remember that This the the reaction that was so insane It's so insane like you gotta call that out. You can't just ignore that because they're on the left

Starting point is 01:32:53 That's nuts if that was the right if if Nazis had taken over giant blocks of land You would be calling in the National Guard Instantaneously you would never allow that to. If they're kicking legitimate businesses out of their buildings, they took over the police station, are you fucking kidding me if Nazis did that? But you're okay if the far left does it. And they had guns and murders were committed. Yes, it's nuts. The whole thing was nuts. And the attitude was it's on our side so we ignore these transgressions and that's crazy. They're not your side.

Starting point is 01:33:27 None of this is your side. There's individual human beings existing together in what's supposed to be a community. The country is supposed to be a team. We're Team America, we're a police. You're less keen to do that now, but yeah. Yeah, well we're going to get Greenland first. Greenland is an important property when all this oil that we're going to burn to make America great again, and we're going to make it a little warmer, so whatever.

Starting point is 01:33:52 We've got to get a cold spot. Look, America is pretty new. Okay, if Greenland becomes actually Greenland again, like hey, we've got a good chance of a beautiful new America. America too. America's expanding. Yeah, when Greenland becomes like Edmonton, you know, it's warm in the summer, cold as fuck in the winter, like people live in Edmonton. It's a great place. Alberta's wonderful. She's got to be hearty, but it's wonderful. But you know, we say these things and we joke, but there's a part of me that I'm laughing

Starting point is 01:34:28 and I'm like, yeah, that probably will happen. Well listen, if the earth does warm, it would be a good idea to move to the cold spots. But if the earth cools, we're all fucked. And that's what scares me about these fucking eggheads that want to spray particles into the atmosphere to try to cool off the earth. And like Bill Gates has some global cooling thing that he's trying to do like don't fuck with the earth you don't own the earth just like you're not supposed to own the oil you're not supposed to own the water you definitely own the atmosphere but

Starting point is 01:34:56 people's memories are so short I don't know if you remember this Joe but in the 70s the hysteria we have about about now, we had about cooling. It was the ice age. It was the ice age. We're all going to freeze to death. Let it be, boy. We're so fucking arrogant as a species, aren't we? It's not arrogance.

Starting point is 01:35:12 I think we are arrogant, but I think we're being manipulated. And I think we're being manipulated by markets, okay? And I think that when you have this whole green energy initiative and green energy, and everything gets booked into green energy, there's a tremendous amount of money that's going to be spent. A tremendous amount of money. And anything that doesn't encourage this green energy, anything that's bad for your business, you're going to shit on like meat, meat production. You know, you're going to gaslight people about the impossible burgers or whatever.

Starting point is 01:35:42 You're going to do whatever you can in the media, everywhere, spend money, get everybody talking about this. We have a real problem. Meanwhile, the Washington Post, unfortunately, for a lot of people, posted a graph of global temperatures over time. We're in a cooling stage. Yep.

Starting point is 01:36:03 Did you see that? Yeah. Over 50 million years, we're in a cooling stage. Do you see that? Over like 50 million years we're in this cooling stage and if you only look at a hundred years or two hundred years like the temperature is never static ever in the history of the earth. It's always doing this always there's no flat line and if the lines get higher it gets hotter the lines get lower it gets colder but when it gets colder, everything fucking dies. And we've come so close to having no life on Earth.

Starting point is 01:36:32 There was so little oxygen, because there was so little plant life. It was almost not able to sustain life. When was this? I forget what period of the ice age, but Randall Carlson's brought it up. He talked about the levels that are necessary to support life and that we had gotten down. So like we're at What is the carbon the amount of carbon in the atmosphere? I think it's like 0.4. Joe. Let me have that light, please

Starting point is 01:36:57 Yeah, could I have it as well, please you go for it? This is so English now you have now you have it if it gets to a certain point, if the amount of atmosphere gets to a certain point, amount of oxygen, it just can't sustain life, there's no life. And one of the things about this whole carbon footprint thing, where everybody's just talking about the carbon footprint, like there's more green on earth right now than there has been in the last hundred years. Like carbon is literally food for plants. So this idea of like eliminating all the carbon, this is crazy talk. You're talking about one

Starting point is 01:37:30 particular element that is a part of why the earth's temperature is what it is. And then you're not taking into account that giant fucking unpredictable ball of fire that's in the sky that's a million times bigger than Earth that's like shooting off flares. You ever seen one of those flares in relationship to the size of the earth? It's amazing and they just shoot and every time it cooks the grid every now and then it takes out all the satellites every now and then it fucking kills everybody on earth the temperature gets it 300 degrees for a week after your fear point I'm making fun of what's gonna happen me too but you know you know the thing that I find most sinister

Starting point is 01:38:22 about look I don't know where I stand with the climate debate and what's going on and whatever else, whether it's man-made, whether it's not. It's above my pay grade, I don't know enough about it. But when you start going, okay, that's interesting, you talk to people who are on one particular side and they go, oh, you're a climate denier? And I'm like, oh, right, okay,'re now we're in the realms of religion and ideology here You're denying the climate you're denying neither's air is real. Show me prove it bitch

Starting point is 01:38:54 No, it's it's crazy. It's crazy talk you should be able to have a conversation about what the factors are that lead to the temperature change and It's a very nuanced discussion. And here's what's undeniable. Human beings are gross and we polluted the earth. That's a fact. So regardless of whether or not it's affecting the temperature of the earth,

Starting point is 01:39:15 we've done disgusting things to the rivers, disgusting things to the air. There's places in this world where if you live and you breathe their air, you will live less. You will die more often of respiratory diseases because you're breathing pollution and toxic fumes that are in the air. That's a fact. That's undeniable.

Starting point is 01:39:37 And if you're just talking about climate change and you're not talking about that, that's kind of crazy because the climate change thing is really, it's really nuanced. And there's a ton of factors, including solar activity, including there's, there's all sorts of weird shit that happens with the temperature on earth before humans ever existed. It would go way up and way down and way up and way. North America was covered in almost two miles of ice, like 50% of it. That was just 10,000 years ago. You go to Scotland sometimes, right? Yes. Do you know that the Romans used to grow grapes on Hadrian's Wall?

Starting point is 01:40:18 Wow. Because it was warmer. The Sahara, how about that? Sub-Saharan Africa was a fucking rainforest. And there's whales. They find whales in the desert of Africa. Whales. Well that proves global warming. Yeah, it warmed there. But it's like, it all, like, the Sahara desert used to be a fucking, it used to be lush. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:40:41 It's crazy that the world just changes. things happen and we get pelted every now and then with giant rocks from space and it fucks everything up. That's the reality that we live in and it's just like controlling people and telling people about their carbon footprint. Do not give into that. Do not give into that, especially what China just built 200 new fucking coal plants. Do not give into this carbon footprint thing. It is all just control. Like for you to have a carbon tax on everything you, it's control.

Starting point is 01:41:12 You can't let them have that kind of control over you. Do you know what we're doing in the UK now? What? Industrial energy prices are four times what they are in America. And we can't even make our own virgin steel. Oh my God. Because of net zero.

Starting point is 01:41:28 And not only that, what we're doing is, we're not actually reducing our carbon footprint because we still need the steel, right? And we still need the stuff that you make with energy. So we outsource it to India, we outsource it to China, and then we ship it back and we're like, no carbon footprint. Oh my God, that's so crazy.

Starting point is 01:41:46 Yeah, and so we're destroying our own industry basically. Did you see that they did the study on cargo ships and they found out that the temperature of the water went up when they made the cargo ships be more efficient and less polluting? What? So the cargo ships, because they're polluting the air, they're essentially creating haze as they across the fucking ocean. When they made them more efficient and better at filtering out pollution, it actually warmed the surface of the water more. So instead of not, it contributed to global warming by having less pollution,

Starting point is 01:42:31 because there was less filtration of the sun to the surface of the water. That's how much they pollute. So when you think like no carbon footprint, like what is that footprint? That footprint's gotta be crazy, because that footprint is blocking the sun. The footprint for you to get your fucking cheap slippers

Starting point is 01:42:49 from India is blocking the sun. You know, you know the moment I remember going, I realized this was all very weird. When the head of that organization, the most prominent person, was a 14 year old autistic girl. I think she's 16. No, but she was about 14, 15 at the time. And as somebody who's taught teenagers, they're fucking idiots.

Starting point is 01:43:14 Don't ever listen to a teenager. Well, I think she's smart, but she also appears to be, what's that word? What's the word they use? She's autistic. Yeah, I was going to say neurodivergent. You're very progressive, Joe. But no, but you just had and she was... Seems like it, right? Yeah, no, she definitely is. She's definitely got autism and she was just... Are you a doctor? How'd you do that?

Starting point is 01:43:37 By the way, someone having autism doesn't mean they're wrong, but you don't want a young girl leading a global movement. No, or young boy either. Young anybody. Shut the fuck up. But the reason... D-16, shut up! Yeah, but this is exactly it. How dare you! Yeah. And the left was like, we got one, we got a winner!

Starting point is 01:43:58 Yeah, and then... We're gonna win or get her out there. Absolutely, and then they put her up there and they were like, isn't this great? And I was like, well well hang on a second she's got autism which means she is gonna see things naturally in very black and white terms also as well there's a lot of anxiety based disorders that come with autism I can't can you imagine being globally famous, I don't have to say that to you, but Can you imagine being famous Joe? I can't imagine. But just imagine being this famous at 14. That's child abuse man. Well we were actually talking about that

Starting point is 01:44:33 yesterday with child stars. Like how many child stars get out of it okay. I don't think any of them do. I think all of them are fucked up because their development has just been completely skewed during your developmental period. when you're at your most vulnerable, you're famous and you're not vulnerable at all and you don't have to like, people don't, you have to work for people's attention. You're wonderful just from your personality. You're a famous person or you can sing or you can whatever you're doing when you're a little kid, you're number one, everybody loves you. The whole family relies on you for money.

Starting point is 01:45:02 You know, you're, you're, you know, you're taken to practice and rehearsals and you're the star and the center of attention constantly. Girls love you when you're six. Like, it's nuts. No one can survive it. No, but then add in to the fact of politics as well. So now there's not only people who love you, there's people who hate you and despise you. You know she's moved on to Palestine? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, she's wonderful.

Starting point is 01:45:24 Did you see that? Did you see that clip of, and again, I actually feel a lot of empathy for her. She's been placed in a terrible situation. But she got up and she was speaking about Palestine at a climate conference. And a guy got up and went, like, we're meant to be talking about the climate, not Palestine. Yeah. Hey, what happened with that director? The director who won the Academy Award for some documentary about Palestine and he got snatched up. Do you know that story? No.

Starting point is 01:45:58 You don't know that story? Jamie, see if you can find that story. I heard about one or two students that are getting removed. Yeah, I heard about them as well. But this is a different thing. This is a different one. This is a director. I haven't know if you can find that story. I heard about one or two students that are getting... Yeah, I heard about them as well. But this is a different thing. This is a different one. This is a director. I haven't heard about this. They don't know where he is now.

Starting point is 01:46:11 I think he allegedly got snatched up by some soldiers. Where? Jamie will find the story. Oscar-winning Palestinian director Hamdan Balal released after arrest in West Bank. Okay, so they snatched him up and they let him go. Okay. Well, that's good to know. Yeah, he's been released from detention a day after being injured and arrested West Bank during a raid on his village. Witnesses say Israeli settlers beat up Balal, a co director of the documentary film No Other Land in the occupied West Bank on Monday, local time. Mr. Balal said he had been assaulted by settlers after filming

Starting point is 01:46:45 them attacking a neighbor's house. So maybe the soldiers, he said he had been pushed to the ground while soldiers yelled at him to stand up and pointed their guns at him. He goes, I'm just waiting outside if any settlers or any army attacking my home. He told Reuters after being released from police custody. Wow. Well, thankfully he's alive, because I was worried when he disappeared and they didn't know where he was. I was like, oh, Jesus, they killed that guy?

Starting point is 01:47:14 That's crazy. Yeah. Because it's just, you know, it's the whole situation is so fucking terrifying. When you see the drone footage, you're like, what in the fuck is going on over there? Like, this is nuts. This whole thing is nuts.

Starting point is 01:47:29 And I don't know what's going on with these people protesting in the streets against Hamas. Is that true? Is that real? I think so, yeah. So it's just an insanely courageous thing for those people to do. I mean, could you imagine being no mask,

Starting point is 01:47:41 you're out in the street protesting against Hamas? Well, we know what's happened before because it's not the first time. There have been small protests and the Hamas just come along and shoot them in the knees. Jesus Christ. But I mean, how far do these people have to be pushed before they do that? Like, that's crazy. Yeah. You know, we talk about bravery, you know, and of course, bravery does exist in the West and whatever else and people who speak up and people who lose their

Starting point is 01:48:05 Jobs and you know and that is bravery. Let's let's make no bones about that absolutely but there are those people like the girls who go out and Challenge the morality police in Iran and take off their hijabs and go no I'm not gonna do it and then they get thrown in prison they disappear and they disappear You look at those women and you go, you know what? You have got far more balls than any man I've ever met. Do you know what they, I mean, they're blinding them. Oh my God.

Starting point is 01:48:34 That's what the Iranian Revolutionary Guard is doing. They're blinding them, man. They executed an Olympic gold medalist wrestler. Yeah. For protesting. Yeah. Yeah, and you know, a bunch of people tried to step in, diplomatic people tried to negotiate.

Starting point is 01:48:51 No, they killed him. It's scary, man. You gotta understand, you would think this is unrelated to the United States, but it is, it's humans in power, with ultimate power over society, with a rock solid set of rules that you can call religion, you can call it whatever you want, but a rock solid set of rules that you have to adhere to, including how you groom yourself

Starting point is 01:49:16 and how you cover your hair or not. And that sounds crazy, like we don't have to worry about that, but you do, because a lot of the shit that people on the left or people on the right are trying to get you to go along with is just as ridiculous. And it's just a normal pattern of human behavior. When people get into power, they want ultimate power. The best way to do that is to have real rigid rules and take away everybody's guns and take away everybody's ability to protest and then keep you poor. Fuck up your economy, fuck up your your banks, all your money went

Starting point is 01:49:48 away, whoops sorry, fuck everything up and do it so that they just keep you down and that's the best way to get control and then they siphon off all the resources. They've been doing that forever, forever, that's Robin Hood. They've been doing that since the beginning of time. And I think that's why Lord of the Rings is such a powerful thing that everyone can relate to because it's ultimately about the relationship with power. And Frodo is trying to make small government, right? That's what he's trying to do.

Starting point is 01:50:19 But every one of us, every single one of us has a Boromir inside of us who wants to come along and go, no, no, no, we'll take this and we'll use it for good. Right. We'll use the power, no, no, give it to me. I'll take care of it. I'll sort everything out. You know, why don't we use this against the enemy?

Starting point is 01:50:37 And that person lives inside of every human being. The person who says, give me the power, I'll take care of this. You know who else lives inside every human being? Gollum. Yeah. Yeah. It's mine. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:50:49 My precious. Power is like that, man. Yeah, it is, it is. And it doesn't matter how much power you experience. Even a little bit of power that you didn't have before, so, oh, I've got this, I can do this, I can. Especially if you have contempt for fellow human beings. Yeah yeah so if you have power and you fucking hate everybody that's a bad combination yeah if you have power and and you're also a

Starting point is 01:51:14 psychopath that's real but it's also bad if you have good intentions as well I give you this example I don't know if you are familiar with Tarkovsky he's a like a Russian director and he based he did the't know if you are familiar with Tarkovsky, he's like a Russian director and he based, he did the stalker film, you're familiar with it? Stalker? Yeah, it's not about a guy who stalks women, it's a different thing. It's based on a book by the Strogatsky brothers, it was called Roadside Picnic. And it's basically about a zone where the aliens came and they did something there nobody

Starting point is 01:51:44 knows, and there's all kinds of crazy artifacts and all that kind of stuff. But anyway, in that book there is a scene where there are people who oppose this alien thing and they say we mustn't use this, we mustn't touch this, we need to get these aliens out of here. And another guy says to him, why do you fight these aliens?

Starting point is 01:52:00 Like they want good, they're trying to help us, they're trying to improve things. And he says, I don't fight them because I think they're going to do evil or they want to do evil, I fight them because they're going to do good as they understand it. Whoa. And that's why power is dangerous, because everyone can say, I don't want power to do bad things, I want power to do good things. I want power to do good things. Now give it to me.

Starting point is 01:52:26 Yeah, because when you think about it, there's a lot of people, like Hitler was like, no, we're going to do the right thing, yeah? We're going to do this, it's going to be beautiful, but you know. Stalin. Yeah, Stalin. We did a great episode with a guy called Stephen Hicks, he's a historian of philosophy and a philosopher, and he basically explained to us that the Nazis, they saw themselves as heroic.

Starting point is 01:52:49 They weren't doing evil in their heads, they were saving the world in their minds. Of course, and they're on meth. And they're on meth. Yeah, so they were efficient. And they were German too, so they were very efficient. Just primitive Adderall. Yeah. But, you know, and that's, I think one of the things that's good about getting older is that you become, if you've got a conscience, you've become less certain in yourself. You realize the fact that you have darkness within you.

Starting point is 01:53:19 The problem is, is when you talk to people and they feel like they're morally pure and you see this on the extremes of both left and right and that's where the Golem is coming because we've interviewed people on the left and that side of the right and you talk to them and they're all super nice and they're really lovely and they're like you know we want this and we want this and we just want people to be happier and we feel that the best way of doing this is this. And the best way of doing that is that. And anybody can see that. And then you challenge them and they're like, yeah, you're like,

Starting point is 01:53:52 you see the golem. Yeah. You see the golem comes out, even for a second. And you see the look in their eye switch. And you're like, holy fuck. Yeah. And you're sitting across from somebody. So at an energy level, you go, oh, hello.

Starting point is 01:54:07 Yeah, there it is. There it is. There it is. There it is. Give me the power. Yeah. Give me the power. Well, it's also,

Starting point is 01:54:14 whether you're on the left or you're on the right, if you're entering into that arena, you're entering into the arena of like, how the society is structured, essentially. That's what you're doing. You're deciding your way is a better way than these other people, and this is the way we should be handling things,

Starting point is 01:54:30 this is what we have to do, and this is how we have to do it. That's a weird stance to take anyway. Unless you're exceptionally intelligent and just really tired of it, and you're just like, I just think I have a good perspective, and maybe this is better than my office job. I get that. But there's a lot of people that it becomes their entire identity, too. Your entire identity is based on the assumption that you have a

Starting point is 01:54:54 better idea of how to structure society. Yeah. And we do need those people, but they have to be checks and balances. Well, you know, they're just people. It's just like when you're the only person talking about it, or there's a small group of people talking about it, there's still just people talking about it. It's not necessarily representative of how most people think,

Starting point is 01:55:18 especially if they weren't influenced. If most people were just a little more objective and didn't have to agree to certain things, if you say more objective and didn't have to agree to certain things if you say you're a Republican or have to agree to certain things, if you say you're a Democrat, if we could just be a little bit more reasonable, I think we would find that there's more than enough room

Starting point is 01:55:36 for a third party in this country. I mean, it's hard to get one off the ground, almost impossible, because they rigged the whole system. And most people think it's ridiculous. They're not going to vote for a libertarian unless it's a protest vote. You know they're not going to win. But we have room for legitimate third party because most people I think are in the middle. Most people are socially liberal. Most people are like most people say racism is terrible. Yeah homophobia is terrible. Also letting people out of jail when they kill people is not a good idea

Starting point is 01:56:11 This is crazy, you know, like that's not bad and also like why are these schools so fucked up? How come you've been spending all this money in Afghanistan? You spent none of it in Detroit. Like what are you doing? Like what how are you guys managing this country? How you managing our tax dollars all that's reasonable? Yeah, I think you know I think part of the issue is as well Joe is it just people we're tribal by nature We don't want to we don't want to alienate people in our tribal people who we perceive to be in our tribe So we just go along with things when we really shouldn't it's like I'm gonna be honest I even on our show when I have to do a question that I know is going to challenge a guest,

Starting point is 01:56:48 there comes a point where I'm like, but you've gotta push through, you've gotta do it, you've gotta do it, and you've gotta ask the question, you have to ask them. And I think we live in a culture, and I'm just as guilty of this as anyone, where we just seek comfort all the time, and then we never actually push

Starting point is 01:57:05 through, and we never go, I'm going to make myself uncomfortable, and by being uncomfortable, actually maybe we're all going to come out a little bit better out of this, because I'm going to come out a little bit better because I'm going to be braver, and maybe like my thought, or my opinion on something, it's going to be found out to be bullshit, and that's going to be great for me. Or maybe my argument isn't as sharp as I initially thought, and for instance, if we're having a discussion, you go, hey Francis, what about ABCD? And I'm like, ah, I didn't think about any of that.

Starting point is 01:57:35 This sounded great in my head, but actually it's pretty simplistic and one-dimensional. And if I challenge you, the same thing happens to you. You go, you know what, Yeah, I can see that. But if nobody's prepared to do that, then all that happens is we sit in our little silo with our own bullshit little ideas that actually when the rubber hits the road, they don't work in reality. And what's more, it's not just that they don't work, it's that they're actually detrimental and destructive to human beings. Right. Have you ever heard someone say something and then the other person says, yeah, but

Starting point is 01:58:08 what about the the the the? I'm like, okay, but you didn't, what aboutisms are a perfect example of that, right? When someone does a what aboutism, what they're basically saying is, I'm not going to address what you said, I'm going to call you on something to make you address something. So you've stopped talking about stuff and now you're just trying to win. And this is what most people are doing. Most people are just trying to win. They're just trying to take the better end of the,

Starting point is 01:58:32 whatever, arm wrestling, they wanna get your wrist bent over. They wanna win. So that's what a lot of this political discourse in this country is about. It's about just, it's connected to this bizarre human tribal behavior of competition. That's why I brought up the signal story because like the obvious thing that happened there, somebody made a mistake, mistakes happen,

Starting point is 01:58:51 you make mistakes, I make mistakes, you admit it, you accept it, you investigate, you find out what happened and you move on. But there are a lot of people doing exactly what you said. But what about this? What about Hillary Clinton? Well she's not in fucking power now. We're not talking about Hillary Clinton. We're not talking about Huma and the laptop. We're talking about what just happened. But here's what I was going back to earlier. Why don't they have their own encrypted app? You spent so much fucking money on all kinds of shit. How much does it cost to make an encrypted app? It can't be that much.

Starting point is 01:59:20 If the government is doing about a trillion, mate. But what do you think you would want an app that only... Totally. You're right. You know how Eric Prince has that unplugged phone? Yes. I don't know anything about it, but I do know that he has his own app on the phone that's an encrypted app, an unplugged encrypted app. So you would... how many people have that fucking thing? You know, like if you're going to contact contact someone who has it like it should be something like

Starting point is 01:59:45 That but even more classified like you should have like a website You'd probably have to do it on an Android phone because you'd have to download it through a third party or get some sort of A backdoor deal with Apple where they allow you to put it on the app store Well, only you could get into it with a password or something, but how do you not have that? Yeah, it just seems insane you're using signal. I use signal That's crazy. Yeah, you should have that? It just seems insane. You're using Signal, I use Signal. How the fuck are you using Signal? That's crazy. You should have your own shit. And it just becomes about ego, man.

Starting point is 02:00:10 It's like, this is my team, we are going to win at all costs. And then once you start thinking that, you just go, well, if this person is challenging me, it doesn't matter how legitimate the challenge is actually, if I go and destroy them for whatever, even if it's an underhand means my team still wins that's okay, but it's bad for everybody's is like Reluctantly on your team because they think the other team sucks more Now you're like well you guys are sucking close to them now. Yeah, don't do that Yeah, and that will happen over the next four years. I think one hundred percent Human beings and it's also again all these people are doing their job for the first time

Starting point is 02:00:46 You know cash Patel just started running the FBI like yeah, just started just started on the job like what and Has security that's not FBI security because he doesn't trust the FBI security so he gets his own security What like imagine that hostile environment? Yeah, and look I want all these people to crush I want them all to be incredibly successful of what they do in your country and in our country That's interesting. Because it makes our country better, right? Yeah, yeah, of course you do.

Starting point is 02:01:13 Yeah, you and that's what look if you The vast majority of people when it boils down to it. They don't care about team left. They don't care about team, right? They just want a better country. I want a better America I want to come to America and go, this is the greatest country in the world. And I want to come to Britain and go, this is the greatest country in the world. I mean, we'd never say that because we're British, but I mean, if someone said that in Britain, you're like, dude, you're mentally ill. Come on. I think Ellen's generous just said it.

Starting point is 02:01:40 That Britain is the greatest country in the world? I don't know. She just moved there. Yeah. Well, give her a couple of years. Yeah, yeah, and she'll soon get this disavowed of that notion. I think she's already in a squabble with her neighbors. She is, like, she was doing some construction. It was already an issue.

Starting point is 02:01:54 Yeah, I mean, there is nothing more British than that, someone coming around and going, have you got approval for that? We're going to need to see ten reams of ten documents. Have you signed? Have you? That's exactly what we do. to see 10 reams of 10 documents. Have you signed? Have you? That's exactly what we do. It's a whole country of homeowners associations. Yeah. Everybody hates homeowners associations. They always give you a hard time about your lawn or whatever the fuck it is. Like, get out of here. You can't paint at that color. We have guidelines. Yeah. But that's, look, I think that's what everybody here wants

Starting point is 02:02:25 I want America to be incredible great a brilliant country Yeah, I want that for my country as well I and I'll be honest with you I always normally sided with the left because I thought that was a way of doing it But right now I don't care I just want the best people to come out and work for the country. You're going to make mistakes. You're going to fuck it up. You're going to say dumb stuff.

Starting point is 02:02:47 I say dumb stuff. You're going to put in procedures that don't work. We all get that. But what I want and what I think the vast majority of people want is people not on Team X or Team Y, but on Team Britain and Team America. Yeah. You know, there's that saying, show me a young man who's not a liberal and I'll show you

Starting point is 02:03:08 who was who say that? Churchill. Churchill. Churchill. And show me an old man who's not a conservative and I'll show you a man with no brain. I don't necessarily think you have to give up on people. Like the idea is that at a certain point in time, you realize, like, that too many people are too fucked up and you have to have more conservative values because that's the

Starting point is 02:03:30 only way society can function. But that's, that's like kind of cynical. The idea is that you can't be like an actual, true, kind, progressive person and be successful at life deep into your 60s and 70s like of course you can. It totally can be done. Like there's real genuinely kind compassionate people out there that are intelligent and they're not weak.

Starting point is 02:03:54 There's just not that many. And there's a lot of people that are LARPing. There's a lot of people that are pretending they're progressive, pretending they're kind when really they're the fucking people key in Tesla's. There's a lot of people out there that are just this aping this position that they're in, they're faking it. I think that's one of the big fundamental debates between left and right. Thomas Sowell has a great book about this called Conflict of Visions. It's really fundamentally about what you see as the truth about human nature. The right thinks human nature is imperfect

Starting point is 02:04:28 and that's what it is. And you have to deal with that reality. Some people are gonna be criminals, some people are gonna be drug addicts, some blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And the left, particularly at the extreme ends, thinks in a utopian way. Everything is changeable, everything is perfectable,

Starting point is 02:04:40 everybody can be improved. Anybody can become a woman. Anybody can become a woman. Anybody can become a woman. Yeah. And that's where you get like, you know, the homelessness problem in America, partly is about that, it's about the idea, well, we'll shut down these terrible,

Starting point is 02:04:54 and they were terrible mental institutions, right? Right. And then we give people freedom, because anybody can handle freedom, right? Freedom is great, in and of itself, it's wonderful. And then you leave mentally ill people and drug addicted people on the streets where they have a horrible life.

Starting point is 02:05:09 Yeah. And that's really the big difference. Whereas the right, obviously, it really believes in this idea that human nature is corrupted, I suppose. And you have to put things in place to manage that. And both those extremes can go in the wrong direction. And that's why you need a balance between the two.

Starting point is 02:05:28 Yeah. Yeah, you can't have like one party dominate, you know? And you just, I think that the good thing about the Republicans getting into office is it forces Democrats to be better. Yeah. That's a good thing. I mean, I would love for some like reasonable Democrat

Starting point is 02:05:42 to come along that I can get behind. Make a lot of sense, it'd be great. If it could be some people, just come to the center. I would love for some like reasonable Democrat to come along that I can get behind. Make a lot of sense. It'd be great. If it could be some people, just come to the center. Just make, let's just be reasonable about stuff. Like it doesn't, like this idea that you have to become a conservative as you get older, like why? Who says so?

Starting point is 02:05:55 Why? You know, there are moments, the homelessness situation in this country is so crazy, but there's moments where it's just really funny. We were walking down the street in DC and there was this lady and she was obviously very mentally unwell. She looked at me and then she went Ashkenazi and then said something which was a clearly anti-Semitic slur. And I was like, whoa, and then looked at Constantine and went...

Starting point is 02:06:19 Biracial bitch. That's what I am. Whoa. Yeah. And what did you guys do to cause this? Nothing. We were just walking down the street. Whoa. Yeah. And what did you guys do to cause this? Nothing. We're just walking down the street. Wow.

Starting point is 02:06:28 Yeah. See, we walk around a lot in America, which I think a lot of people, most people drive here. So we encounter a lot of that. And in every major city that we've been to, there is a hell of a lot of people who are just mentally ill, man. That's what they are. And they need help.

Starting point is 02:06:43 Yeah. They don't need to be there with a fucking shopping cart on the street with all their belongings out of their brains. I think we need to scoop them up put them in the factories get them to work do what China does they're smart imagine if that was my real solution I mean China does do that right like you don't see homeless people on the street in China they don't tolerate any of that shit, which is you would go there you go. Oh, it's better here, but okay at what cost exactly All right, yeah, like what do you do with San Francisco when it gets that bad? What do you do you invite you Jing Ping over they clean the streets right?

Starting point is 02:07:19 Best thing was how Newsom described is like well when your friends come to visit you clean up the house like what? How about you keep your house clean fucking psycho yeah talking about he's doing an interesting pivot at the moment isn't he Gavin Newsome 300 million people in the country home to 1.4 billion Chinese are homeless what what no no no no no no there's only a billion people plus in China 300 million oh oh I missed the first part that you didn't highlight it. So it's estimated that 300 million people are homeless. What?

Starting point is 02:07:53 Okay. Yeah. That's crazy. In the whole country? Yeah, I remember when I went to... That's called camping in China though. Let's not emulate them then. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:08:01 Are they counting nomads? Are they counting people that live in yurts? That's interesting. Yurt seems like a house. Kind of cloth house. Those are the Mongols. They hated houses. They ruled over the people who lived in felt tents. Yeah. Yeah. 300 million homeless people. Have you been to China, Joe? Wow, look at that. No. What are you crazy? Not going there? Fuck that. It's an interesting country. I went there country I went there sure do you know like in well I went there in 2006 in Beijing and the pollution was so bad you couldn't really see the Sun at midday

Starting point is 02:08:36 The Sun was like an orange lozenge in the sky. So that's an example. We were talking about before Yeah, yeah, you know like you're you're dying younger if you live there, for sure. Yeah, absolutely. 100%. That's probably like smoking packs of cigarettes. Yeah. Packs, packs, packs. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:08:53 For everybody. Everybody, your little baby, smoking packs of cigarettes. And it's so interesting when you go there as well. I remember we were driving down the road and China is just this kind of the roads is everybody cuts each other up everybody's trying to get one up on the other one it's complete chaos like you're driving down someone will literally cut in front of you the person will cut in front of them cut in front of them and that's how it is until the secret police drive by in their cars and they make this sound they got and then everybody

Starting point is 02:09:23 falls into line drives perfectly the secret police car just glides through, everybody's on their best behavior, then the car goes and everyone's back to going wow. And you're like, that is fascinating. That's how you're getting control over people. That's what I'm saying. Digital currency, social credit score, let's get it together. This is a 50 lane holiday traffic jam in China. Oh my god, I have so much anxiety right now.

Starting point is 02:09:59 Does that remind you of LA, Joe? Look, they're all going through a checkpoint. They have to all go through a checkpoint. That's what the traffic jam's about. Look how they went through the checkpoint. 12 day long traffic jam. 12 day long traffic jam. But did you see how they go through the checkpoint and then they're flying through? See, they all go through this.

Starting point is 02:10:18 I'm guessing it's a toll road, right? Yes, it's a toll station. Three hours to pass through the toll stations. 50 lanes passing through the toll stations. Oh my God, imagine you're in a Tesla and you see your battery life going down. You're like, oh my God, I'm so fucked. I'm so fucked.

Starting point is 02:10:35 And I'm so fucked. Look at this. Wow. Look at this, this is insane. Insane. And then there's a bottleneck getting out. Oh my God. That's what happens. Insane. Insane. And then there's a bottleneck getting out. Oh my god.

Starting point is 02:10:48 That's what happens. Too many people, too much control. Yeah. Japan's interesting. You've been to Japan? I have. Yeah. But briefly.

Starting point is 02:10:57 I was just there for UFC. Ah, okay. Yeah. If you want to go somewhere and you want to feel like an uncultured, uneducated barbarian, Japan's a great place for that. They sent me up to my room to go put on a long sleeve shirt to hit the gym. Tattoos? Tattoos.

Starting point is 02:11:11 You can't have exposed tattoos. I was working out with tattoos and they told me no, no, no, no. Are your tattoos Yakuza tattoos? No, but this one is Miyamoto Musashi. Yeah. Who's that? The book of five rings. The samurai that killed 60 men in unarmed combat and wrote a book on strategy.

Starting point is 02:11:27 You never read the book of five rings? Wow. It's one of the great philosophy books of all time because it's by this guy that was one of the greatest samurais ever and he was a ronin so he was like traveling the earth having duels with people and killed 62 men in one onone duels and wrote about the importance of balance. He's like, to be a great samurai, you have to be a great artist, you have to be great at calligraphy, you have to be a poet, you have to, like, everything you do, you have to do to the best of your ability.

Starting point is 02:11:57 You can have no holes in your game as a human being in order to survive and keep your shit together. And one-on-one sword fighting. He got to the point where he was so bored killing people that he started killing people with oars. So he would carve an oar and take down the flat part and just make it a pole, and they would have a sword. And he would fight them with an oar

Starting point is 02:12:18 and beat them to death with the oar. Like this big old fuckin' pole, and they have a sword, and he's fuckin' them up because he's bored killin' people with swords. He just wants to bludgeon someone with a sword to death instead of... It's like he would show up hours late so they'd be shittin' their pants because they knew they were supposed to duel Musashi at like 8am and he'd show up around noon. With an awl.

Starting point is 02:12:41 And they'd be a fuckin' nervous wreck because he knew he wasn't gonna sword fight until noon. So he's probably chilling on his boat Relaxing and they are I don't get it on there So he rose down there pulls out one of his fucking carved oars and beats you to death Well, Joe if the Prime Minister of Britain bans oars But his book is amazing, so I don't know I think it's any tattoo why I got sent up to my room I don't think you can think it's any tattoo. Why I got sent up to my room I don't think you can have exposed tattoos in this fine establishment

Starting point is 02:13:08 Yeah, I think it's the because I've got Japanese style tattoos. I think it's it's it's the association between tattoos and Yakuza Yeah, yeah, you know sure. Yeah Yeah, and I'm sure a lot of you koozes have musashi tattoos. Yeah, but it's obviously I'm not in the Yakuza But I I do know in the Yakuza. But I do know a guy who had a long relationship with them. Ensign Inoue, who was an elite UFC fighter back in the day. And he lives in Japan. And he's had like a bunch of run-ins with Yakuza's.

Starting point is 02:13:43 Does he still got his fingers? He does. He's managed to keep his fingers. I don't think he's a part of run-ins with Yakuza's. Has he still got his fingers? He does. He's managed to keep his fingers. I don't think he's a part of them. I think they just like respect him. He's like a famous MMA pioneer fighter. Wow. Yeah. That's a special type of person

Starting point is 02:13:57 who has a run-in with a Yakuza. Well, I mean, if you're living in that part of the world, I'm sure that's just, if you're living in that part of the world, I'm sure that's just if you're in their areas, you're dealing with them. You know, I mean, that's just that's how it's run over there. It's like when the Italians used to run, you know, parts of New York City. Like that's just how it is until the Giuliani administration infiltrated, you know, and the FBI infiltrated the mob and

Starting point is 02:14:26 they've essentially like taken the teeth out of the Italian mob but that was that was Vegas the mob ran Vegas yeah it's I thought that one of the things I find fascinating about the Yakuza when I read about them is their honor code mm-hmm they had very strict honor codes didn't they yeah they so they never mess with old people if someone was old apart this I may be wrong about this, but they just wouldn't get involved they because they had a they have a reverence for old people I think women as well was seen as kind of off-limits and children Everyone else like if you're not obeying or following you that's fair game And they're weird you got rules and how you do evil shit. I

Starting point is 02:15:03 Don't do evil shit to any young folks. I stop my evil shit when I, you know, anything below 16, fuck that. Yeah. But you know, that's weird. Controlled evil. Yeah, I don't shoot any kids anymore. I did that early in my career. I'm past that. You know, I moved on. Got it out of my system. I don't do open mic nights anymore. I don't shoot kids. I'm done.

Starting point is 02:15:26 You know, hitman with a conscience. Yeah, you know, it's it's interesting, but like how they even have morality. Like I've seen a lot of interviews with old gangsters, particularly from the Ronnie Cret from the craze era. Oh, yeah. You know, and there was one guy who's dead now is called Mad Frankie Fraser. Imagine running into Mad Frankie in a pub. It's mad Frankie.

Starting point is 02:15:50 And this guy was a really short guy and I saw him interviewed on, I might even be on YouTube, and he told a story and he was like, you know I was going for a walk along Wimbledon Common and I saw the governor of Wandsworth prison where I was For many years and he goes and I didn't like him So what I did was I went to I went and got my mate and he got a rope and we got him and we Started to hang him but the problem is is we were hanging him and I couldn't reach the second branch because I'm only a little fella so we couldn't Hang him properly and everybody was laughing

Starting point is 02:16:27 about it and just going yeah this is so funny because he was this charming funny little guy and I remember as a kid watching it watching the audience laughing going like that ain't funny man. Jesus Christ. You know and then you go and then he went but you gotta understand you gotta understand I didn't do it to nice ordinary people. I only did it to rascals. And for him, that was his honor code. Rascals.

Starting point is 02:16:51 Imagine that. You rascal. You know, imagine that's the term you use for a guy you had to hang. A rascal. He was a rascal. Had to hang him. Rascal. You silly rascal.

Starting point is 02:17:03 Yeah. Jesus Christ. Well, the world was a harder place back then. You silly rascal. Yeah. Jesus Christ. Well the world was a harder place back then. Yeah. I mean that's not that long ago. I mean if you if you're in the 1950s in Vegas and you fucked up you you found yourself in the middle of that lake that they keep finding bodies in. You know they just discovered some guy from the 1970s that's been missing forever. Well I'm in a fucking barrel, at the bottom of the Lake Mead. How many bodies have they found in Lake Mead so far?

Starting point is 02:17:30 So as it drains, because they're experiencing significant drought, the more it drains, the more bodies they keep finding. They're finding little hands poking up and shit. They've been killing people out there forever. And that's just the lake. That's lazy people that don't like to dig holes. That whole desert is just filled with holes.

Starting point is 02:17:49 There's probably thousands of people buried out there. Some guy who fucking didn't pay his debt, some guy who talked too much to the press, some guy who did this, some guy who fucked this guy's wife. Since May 22, 2022, four sets of human remains have been located at Lake Mead. Here's what we know about those instances. Yeah, so they found that body in a barrel. Crazy.

Starting point is 02:18:14 I think that one was from the 70s. Yeah, mid to late 70s. Victims shoes and clothes were sold at Kmart in the mid to late 1970s. Wow. That's wild. And six days later they found someone else. Imagine if you could just watch a time lapse of them dropping that body off in the water and then speeding up all the years. And then eventually the water pulls back in the barrel and the lady walking her dogs like what the fuck Yeah, have you ever seen casino? Yes?

Starting point is 02:18:50 Have you seen casino great fucking movie? Yeah, and it talks about all of this. Oh, yeah I remember I was what I was flying to Austin actually and I just so I haven't seen this movie in ages Let's put it on and you know like most movies when you watch it on a plane You're kind of distracted you start looking at your phone, you start mucking about whatever, you're not really... even if it was on this tiny little screen it was like zoomed straight in and it talked about all of this stuff and I've forgotten what a great movie it was. You know, immediately you just saw and again the honor code came out and the way they disposed the people were like, yeah we're gonna have to whack him.

Starting point is 02:19:25 You motherfucker! Joe Bezzi. Oh my god when they kill those guys at the end like oh my god. With the baseball bats. Oh my god. That was standard standard shit in Vegas you know I mean the mob ran it their way and their way is you know they're a bunch of fucking psychopaths and people still to this day like the Vegas was better when the mob ran it because you survived because you didn't lose it blackjack here it is

Starting point is 02:19:54 goodfellas yeah oh and goodfellas they killed him with the baseball bat so what am I thinking of with Cassini? No no no that's in Cassino. Oh the same guy Billy Batson in Cassino that's right yeah this is yeah look the blur of the fucking baseball bat moving towards his head yikes. You motherfucker you motherfucker. So how much of that is still going on Joe? I don't know I wish I knew I mean it's got to be some of it, right? Right. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It's not like they completely went away But I think it's just harder these days and I think it's being infiltrated by Russians and Chinese and I think they have a little bit

Starting point is 02:20:35 Look if they don't if they're speaking of Russian unless you speak Russian, you know what the fuck they're saying You know, they could talk right in front of you You know and whenever there's money to be made, there's going to be people making it. If there's people buying drugs, there's people selling it. There's people buying guns, there's people selling it. And then you've got organized crime. That's just a fact.

Starting point is 02:20:54 And if you make things illegal, illegal people are going to sell those things. And that's what prohibition did to alcohol in this country. And it propped up Al Capone. And it made the Kennedys rich, allegedly. Some people say not. It made moonshiners, started NASCAR. That's where NASCAR comes from. Yeah, you know, it's, it's, because I used to teach in the East End of London and there's still legends about Ronnie and Reggie Cray and the one thing that they

Starting point is 02:21:20 always used to say about Ronnie and Reggie, they go, yeah, yeah, yeah, they were bad people, but they were nice to their mum. Oh, that's sweet. I appreciate that. Like a good psychopathic serial killer who's nice to his mum. Yeah, and they were just like, yeah, but mate, you're not his mum. Do you know what I mean? And if you pissed them off, this is what would happen.

Starting point is 02:21:38 And here's the wild thing, Joe. I taught two boys at this school in East London. Can you guess what their names were? Two brothers. Tell me. Ronnie and Reggie. I taught two boys at this school in East London. Can you guess what their names were two brothers? Tell me Ronnie and Reggie Somebody actually named their kids somebody named their kids the crazed names. Yeah, so in America that's normal Oh, it's just Ronnie and Reggie, but in your country. It's like Adolf and But Joseph is my

Starting point is 02:22:04 Yeah Joseph. But Joseph is my name. Yeah. Yeah. God damn. That's that's a wild family about like you can't name your kid Adolf anymore. It's basically over. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they're always a good name. No one's trying that. We actually did. We actually when we used to do this comedy show on our channel during the pandemic, we there was a guy in Africa who is called Adolf. Was it spelled different? No, no, no, no. He was a tributary.

Starting point is 02:22:27 Whoa. Yeah, they named him after Hitler. Oh, God. Yeah. That's crazy. Yeah. Yeah, there's certain names that are over. It's over. Yeah. That one's one of them. That guy killed the name and the mustache. That shit's done. You know, I remember with like with this kid, Ronnie, and they were just saying to him, people were talking, they were like, you know what, Ronnie's not doing well at school at the moment. I'm like, yeah, I fucking wonder why. Jesus Christ. He's named after one of the most notorious gangsters in British history.

Starting point is 02:22:57 Yeah, probably not a stable family life. Yeah, yeah, I doubt he's got good role models, you know what I mean? Yeah. It's weird when the hit men have families, and they're real kind to their daughter and shit. No, what's the guy's name that was the Iceman? Oh, that movie was incredible. Did you watch the movie?

Starting point is 02:23:15 What is it? What was his name? I want to say Kalinsky, but that's not it. You're close. It's Kuklinski or something. Kuklinski, that's right. That's right. That guy has antifreeze in his veins.

Starting point is 02:23:27 It's terrifying, listen to him describe the different murders and how he did it and how he got started as a hitman. You know, this is, I'm not sure if I should, anyway, a friend of a friend, no she's not, she's a friend of mine. She was saying that she grew up in East London, she said, and I believed her because the story was so outlandish that she knew a guy who is basically used to, he was a hitman, used to contract killing. But he loved animals. Really passionate about animals. Do you feed squirrels with peanuts? No, no, no, no, he was big on conservation Joe.

Starting point is 02:24:04 So six months of the year, he would do contract killings in London. And the other six months, he would use that money to go and fund to live in Africa where he would kill poachers. It's like a Guy Ritchie movie. Yeah. And I was like, really? She was like, yeah, yeah, he's just passionate about wildlife and conservation. That's crazy. Go kill poachers. Yeah, and that's what he did. Maybe that's just an excuse to kill people and feel like you're being a good person. Yeah, that's very British though.

Starting point is 02:24:32 British people love pets a lot more than they love people, in my experience. Really? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. If you hurt an animal in Britain, you're like a fucking pedophile. Why is Britain that way? Like, what is... I don't know, Francis. You tell me.

Starting point is 02:24:44 There's a lack of hunting culture I think that's part of it. Well. We used to have a big country right, but not in comparison to like America No, no, it's like pheasant hunt and shit like you don't have like a lot of roe deer You don't have a lot of like big game Yeah, and there's not a like a high percentage of hunters and then Fox hunting which gets like this gross You know you know you know you take you know kill a fox with a horse you can chase him down like that's I got a gross view generally of the public like you bring up fox hunting

Starting point is 02:25:14 most people like oh it's disgusting it's also got class thing as well fox hunting is seen as a very privileged thing to do because not everyone has a horse you know yeah yeah and a team of dogs and whatever else. Foxes are cute. Yeah. Foxes are cute. Yeah, you've never heard them shag outside your bedroom window at three in the morning. I heard it the other day. I have one in my neighborhood.

Starting point is 02:25:33 What you've got fox in your neighborhood? 100%. Yeah, we've got video of him screaming in my yard. Raaah! Raaah! Yeah, he hangs out. He's near my chicken coop, that fucker. But he's really cute.

Starting point is 02:25:44 As long as he doesn't kill any of those chickens, I think he's cute. Why wouldn't he kill any of those chicken? He hasn't yet You know because Joe's well protected Well, you know we let them out but people watch them when they're out make sure that you know We've had a dog clock climb in through the fence get one of them a little neighbor's dog Did Marshal not defend them no Marshall didn't know he was sleeping golden retrievers have plenty energy they love to play but they also are fine with chilling and that dog just likes to just lay down it's take a little nap he'll lay down like half the fucking day he'll

Starting point is 02:26:20 get up soon as you want to do something like come on man let's go play like he was more than happy like let's go Let's go gets excited then it's back to napping. He was napping was chickens were getting fucked up Do you know who would have defended their honor? Oh? Yeah, Carl would have yeah little psychopath. Yeah, I've never seen an animal with a desire to bite something like Carl's yeah It's nuts when he sees Marshall He just like like a bullet, just runs full speed at him and launches himself to the air to bite Marshall. Marshall's... Look at that little cutie face.

Starting point is 02:27:05 Look at these little cuties. Oh, they're gray, they're not red. Yeah, they're all over the place. They're so adorable. They're so adorable. And they make that weird, Mawr! Mawr! You ever heard them, they're saying, you've heard it.

Starting point is 02:27:15 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've been kept up many a night for hearing animals having far better sex than I could ever dream of. Look, I'm used to coyotes, and we have those in my neighborhood too, but in LA coyotes were a real problem. They killed eight of my chickens, nine of my chickens, whatever it was. They're horrible, but they're also super necessary because otherwise you'd have an insane rodent

Starting point is 02:27:37 problem. They're the clean up crew for anything that's caught slipping. You want to get rid of the rabbits? You want to give them too many rodents? You have too many rats? Like send in the fucking coyotes. So they're the cleanup crew. They're really good, but they also eat your dogs. They'll eat your chickens, eat your cats, you know, they eat people's dogs constantly. I know many people whose dogs got eaten by coyotes. That's the thing actually I love about America is your wildlife. It's wild. It's wild. I was with Red Band doing his gig,

Starting point is 02:28:10 the secret show, and he showed me footage from his garden. They had a mountain lion, a cougar, coming. No, it wasn't a cougar, it was a wild cat. Bobcat? Bobcat. That was it. A bobcat came into his garden. This thing is like a small puma, and it had its cubs with it. It was incredible Yeah, they're cute It's wild. Yeah, and Texas is you've got a bunch of like weird stuff that people bring in here, too

Starting point is 02:28:34 You know like what well, there's more Texas like Texas has more tigers in captivity in private collections than all of the wild of Earth. Just Texas. Do you know, Francis, we forget something. This country is fucking wild. This country is crazy. There's more people with tigers in their fucking backyards in Texas than there are in the wild of Earth.

Starting point is 02:29:02 That is fucking crazy. Yeah, it's real. That's a fact. And then there's all sorts of other shit that you can have here too, like exotic animals from Africa. There's animals that are endangered in the land that they're from, but you can hunt them here. You know, my dad, my dad in the 70s used to work for the council in East London, like local government, and he was saying that there was a guy who owned a scrap yard and was so pissed that people were stealing scrap, he bought on the

Starting point is 02:29:30 black market a lion to guard his scrap yard. Oh, that's a good move. And just chained it up. He bought a lion on the black market? That does not sound true to me, mate. I'm going to fact check that shit. You can have a lion here too, You just have to have a permit. Make sure your lock's good. You got a good lock for the lion?

Starting point is 02:29:54 Yes sir, it's a master lock. Made in America. Fuck it is. Alright. Well, have a good one. Can you imagine jumping over someone's... into someone's yard because you want to steal something and you're confronted by a lion? Yeah, imagine. Imagine if you're one of those poor migrants that's wandering through Texas and you accidentally hop the wrong fence and you go into the lion entrapment or whatever the fuck they have. Like, I mean, I would imagine they have ceilings on these places, hopefully. Which is like the San Francisco story You know where those kids were throwing pinecones at the tiger and the tiger jumped over the fucking fence

Starting point is 02:30:30 Because they didn't realize that the fence was only like 12 feet high and a tiger can jump 14 feet high It got out and killed these kids killed one kid I don't think I don't think it actually killed the kid that was throwing the pinecone They killed his friend or something like that so I forget exactly what the story was but you never stand around when someone's doing stupid shit huh well how about put a roof how about put a roof over where you have the monster how about if the monster can jump make sure that there's a roof yeah also don't wind up the monster yeah don't take the piss but if

Starting point is 02:31:01 you're one of those migrants that wanders through the desert, you know, and you make it across the river and you don't know exactly where you're going, you don't have a good sense of direction, you wind up on some guy's property. Is that still going on or has that been stopped now? Well it's been stopped. I wouldn't say it's been stopped. I think it's been radically diminished. I think what is the numbers of how many people are getting through now?

Starting point is 02:31:26 It was from thousands to less than a hundred a day. Maybe a little bit more than that. It's hard to know really, right? Because they're guessing. These are the people that didn't get caught, so how do you know how many there are? But they do know that there's not this giant line of people that just are assuming they can get in and walk through, and they were just letting them do that. Which is there's no reasonable argument

Starting point is 02:31:49 why that makes any sense. There's no, no matter how kind you are and compassionate and how much you think these people from third world country deserve the American dream, that's great. But let's find out if they're murderers. Let's find out if they're gang members. Let's find out if they're hit men for the cartel. Like, what are you, will are you just letting everything open?

Starting point is 02:32:07 Why, why would you do that? There's no rational explanation for that other than you've got some sort of nefarious plan. If you're forcing that, trying to stop the enforcement of that, you must have some sort of nefarious plan because it can't be good to let more criminals into the country. It can't be good. And inevitably, if you have an open border, a percentage of them are going to be criminals, especially if they're coming from crime-infested parts of the world. It's a high likelihood. Well, we actually just had a report in the UK which shows that for a long time people were saying actually these people commit crime at a low level.

Starting point is 02:32:41 Uh-uh. Who said that? Why would they say that? Oh, people say that? Oh, people say that all the time when they defend illegal immigration. It's such a fucking bullshit argument. It's such a bullshit argument.

Starting point is 02:32:51 Because yeah, a lot of them I bet don't. 94% fewer illegal border crossings detected from February 25th versus February 2024. Yeah. Yeah, they kinda like count them I guess by when they actually stop them. Bust them, right. That's a big number. 94% is good. So there's still people coming through. Yeah. And there's probably still people coming through that are criminals. Yeah. You know, but the thing is,

Starting point is 02:33:14 like, you got to get scared that people who are not criminals are getting like, lassoed up and deported and sent to like, El Salvador prisons, like that kind of shit. Cause I read some story, was it Glenn Greenwald? Yeah, yeah, the gay barber guy? Yeah, yeah, it's scary man. Is that true? Is that story accurate? I don't think we know.

Starting point is 02:33:37 Can you explain the story for people that don't know what it is? Well from what I read, I think it was in Time Magazine, Jamie, if you can pull it up, maybe we can get it accurate. But basically, with a bunch of these trend or Agua guys, allegedly they got one guy, at least one guy, who wasn't a criminal, who was just a gay barber, who I think, according to the story, came here legally.

Starting point is 02:33:58 He was here legally. That's what they said. Don't know if it's true. So, did they have a green card? I don't know what the details are. Maybe Jamie can find it. No criminal record. From what it said in that story. Now this is the problem, right? Because the mainstream media has been putting out so much shit that I don't

Starting point is 02:34:11 know what to believe anymore, right? I feel the same way. It's and so it's difficult but it's something that we actually brought up in one of our conversations we interviewed the guy from the Heritage Foundation, we brought this up. Because I think we talked about this with Doge as well well when you do things quickly and you do things aggressively That's how you get shit done But that's also when mistakes get made and I think a human being being plucked out of nowhere and Ending up in a country has never been in in a maximum security prison with gang members Seems like a bad thing to happen to me. It's horrific. It's horrific. I don't think that should be controversial

Starting point is 02:34:44 No, that's not controversial at all. And this is the thing, you know, measured twice, cut once. This is the like this is kind of crazy that that could be possible. That's horrific. And that's, again, that's bad for the cause. Like the cause is let's get the gang members out. Everybody agrees. But what's not innocent gay hairdressers get lumped up with the gangs. And then like how long before that guy can get out? Can we figure out how to get him out? Does ever is there any plan in place to alert the authorities that they've made a horrible mistake and correct it? Well, if you think about it from a government perspective

Starting point is 02:35:16 And this is where I think it gets quite sinister is once you've done that The incentive structure is never going to be to admit that and deal with it The incentive structure is to say nothing to to admit that and deal with it. The incentive structure is to say nothing, to cover it up, to pretend it didn't happen. Right? That is horrible. So someone ends up in a black hole. But we've seen it. Right.

Starting point is 02:35:33 We've seen it in every country, including in America. But that's the thing about politics, right? Never admit your fault. Never admit you're wrong. It's so dumb. And this is the thing we're seeing with the signal thing, and this is the thing we're seeing with this. It's like, I don't know if it's been brought to their attention.

Starting point is 02:35:46 I mean, I would assume someone's alerted them to the fact that they might have rounded up this just random hairdresser and accused him of being a gang member. Did you find a story, Jamie? Time Magazine. The thing is, it's like, what steps can be taken? Does prison know now? Can they talk to that guy? Can they pull him out of there? Well, this is it's like what steps can be taken? Does this prison know now? Can they talk to that guy? Can they pull him out of there? Well this is it. It's a maximum security prison. So the answer I think is we don't know at

Starting point is 02:36:13 this moment. But what is this life like in there man? Yeah, it's horrific. But this is also a large part of why this happened is because of illegal immigration. So you had this and look, I'm half Venezuelan, you had Tren de Aragua, which causes chaos in Venezuela. It comes to the US, it causes horrendous amounts of chaos in the US and that's awful. But also as well is an ordinary decent hard work in Venezuela.

Starting point is 02:36:41 And so all they want to do, their entire country's gone to shit. Who have come here legally, they just want to work, they want to get ahead, they have jobs, they just have got families, they're trying to make ends meet. And all of a sudden, all you hear is, Venezuela does this, Venezuela does that, and you're like, oh my God, man. You know, it tires all of us with that brush. I was walking in New York, and I saw this group of this Vaniswellum family and they were there begging for money and for whatever else and maybe it just hits harder because they're

Starting point is 02:37:12 from where I'm from or where my mum's from and you just go, it just tarnishes all of us with the same brush. When the reality is, like we were saying before, most of them are just good, decent, hardworking people. But because you don't have checks and balances in place, because you're not letting people, you're not vetting people, you're getting the worse of society and the worse of society gives everybody else a bad name. Gives everybody a bad name, but also you have to wonder why that's being tolerated. Is that being done on purpose? Do you want more crime and more civil unrest? Is this part of your goal? Why else would you do this? Why do you want to disrupt society in this way and allow this to take place, allow the possibility of some

Starting point is 02:37:55 sort of a gang attack or anything horrible to happen? What is this, Jamie? Oh, this is it? There's one in Forbes as well, Jamie, in Forbes. This is from Time Magazine. A photojournalist was on hand in El Salvador as prison guards beat a man who is likely to be Andy, a gay Venezuelan barber, makeup artist who is seemingly falsely accused of being a gang member and renditioned by the Trump administration with literally no due process. So do they have a photograph that looks like this guy?

Starting point is 02:38:23 A young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, I'm not a gang member. I'm gay. I'm a barber. I believed him. He began to whimper as his head was roughly shaved, folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell. He asked for his mother and cried as he was slapped again.

Starting point is 02:38:40 Jesus Christ. I sent you the Forbes story, John. You're fine if you can forward it to Jamie maybe he can pull it up. Yeah And it yeah Glenn commented on it, but there is a for Yeah, yeah, it's um it's it's just you know It's it's awful that you know, because you put yourself in that person's shoes. And what's terrifying about that is that you think about what that poor guy is going through.

Starting point is 02:39:15 You know, if this story is real, what that guy is going through, that is literally the stuff of nightmares. That's literally the stuff of nightmares. You have no recourse to any type of Justice there's there's no due process you get rounded up. You then get kicked out of the country You're in a maximum security prison with some of the most Vicious gang members what to know about and re 31 year old makeup artists falsely deported to El Salvador prison lawyer says immigration attorney Say a gay Venezuelan makeup artist seeking asylum in the US was wrongly detained as a gang member and deported to El Salvador A case becoming a flashpoint in the debate over the Trump administration's deportation of hundreds of migrants to a notoriously inhumane

Starting point is 02:40:01 El Salvador mega prison to a notoriously inhumane El Salvador mega prison. So again, this is, it's hard to know what's real and what's not real, but if it is real, this is fucking horrible. But if you think about it, Joe, like I say, if you're rounding up hundreds of people, mistakes are going to get made because everyone's human. And you then have to have a system, I think, that allows you to amend and make adjustments for that. Yeah, absolutely. And it can't be bury your head in the sand

Starting point is 02:40:29 and pretend it didn't happen. No. Yeah. And this is the trouble with government, the incentive structure is all wrong. Like to admit that is now embarrassing. That's crazy. Right?

Starting point is 02:40:39 And it's scary, we have the same problem in the UK in terms of the illegal immigration. And if we ever get a government that's going to deal with that, we're also going to have to remove a lot of people who are there illegally, they shouldn't be there, a lot of them are and you know, like I said, we had a report that shows they're way more likely to commit sexual crimes, way more likely to commit violent crimes, they're way more likely to commit all sorts of crimes. We are going to have to remove them, but you have to do it in a way where there's due process and a respectful...

Starting point is 02:41:04 Are they trying to remove them in England? have to do it in a way where there's due process and a respect for them. Are they trying to remove them in England? No. At all? No. They're saying they are, but they're not removing them. Interesting. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:41:13 So the mistakes like that have to be corrected if you want reasonable people to be on board with you. Correct. Yeah, correct. If you want, you know, compassionate people to be on board with you, you can't deport gay hairdressers seeking asylum. That's fucking crazy. And then throw them in an El Salvador prison. That's not even his country. You deport people back to their country.

Starting point is 02:41:31 Right. It's nuts. It's just... What was the story with the student that got arrested for writing an op-ed piece? Is that the Khalil guy? No, the woman. Is that the girl from... the Korean girl from the girl from the Korean girl from Columbia University? I don't know. That's a different one. There's so many of them.

Starting point is 02:41:52 There was a woman who got arrested for writing some sort of a thing. This is a Turkish student at Tufts University. Latest Palestinian supporter swept up in US crackdown. What did she get arrested for? Have you seen this one? No. I saw it but I haven't delved into it. Joe sorry could I have the lighter please? Yeah sure. Thank you. She engaged in activities in support of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization that relishes the killing of Americans. But the department did not provide evidence of that support. Right. What does that mean? I heard she wrote some piece on on Israel. Yeah. I don't know what the law of that is because she's not an American national. Right. But

Starting point is 02:42:36 instinctively I'm just like that's that's that's a lot. That's like crazy. I think she's been in America though since she was seven. Right. Is has she? I believe so. I thought she had a student visa. I think she's been in America since she was very young. I think that's one of the things that I had read. Okay. She'd previously been arrested in April 2024 for taking part. Taking part in protests at Columbia University. So it seems like they're really trying to crack down on some of these Columbia protests, right? And I'm in two minds about that because I think on a free speech basis unless I don't know the law Second person oh, this is a second person that was arrested second. Oh second pro-palestinian Columbia University protester

Starting point is 02:43:19 Okay, so this second person has been arrested before Okay, let's see Yeah, yeah this second person has been arrested before. Yeah. Okay. Let's see. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, are we really arresting people for protesting or are they protesting and also causing vandalism and violence? Like what are we saying? We don't know, right?

Starting point is 02:43:37 But I think there's the legal thing from what I've read is very complicated because if someone is not a US national, they may be subject to different rules or they may not. I think that's a kind of live debate. But from a purely principles perspective, someone being arrested for writing an article seems extreme. 30-year-old was arrested and physically restrained by immigration officers near her apartment close to Tufts University's Somerville campus where she was a PhD student. Six plainclothes officers surrounded, how

Starting point is 02:44:06 do you say that name? Ozturk? Ozturk. As she walked alone, neighborhood surveillance video appears to show the officers did not show their badges until she was restrained, the video shows. She affiliated with prestigious American universities to be arrested for purported activities related to terrorist organizations amid the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. So what did she say though? She engaged in activities in support of Hamas. But what does that mean? Without specifying what those alleged activities were.

Starting point is 02:44:37 Yeah, this is scary shit. Yeah. Especially if it's just protesting. I don't know. Look, the counter argument on this, and I think it's one that I as someone who visits the United States also feel, is like, I don't think the United States would have given this person a visa if she had told them this is what she plans to do in America, right? So that's their argument, that's the argument that Marco Rubio is making, which is, if we'd known you were going to do this, we were never going to give you a visa.

Starting point is 02:45:07 Right. I don't think this is the one that I'm thinking about that was here since she was seven. No, that's a Korean girl at Columbia University, Joe. Oh, okay. And they're talking about deporting her, right? Yes, they're talking about deporting her. But I don't know enough about that. And what had she done? Had she committed vandalism or...? I don't know enough about it. Jamie, if you you get it up then we can have a look at it but yes but that's that's the one you're thinking of the girl who've been here since she was seven is a Columbia student Columbia says he got a master's degree at Columbia yeah

Starting point is 02:45:35 interesting so Columbia is the hotbed seems like that yeah I wonder why why particularly Columbia well there have been a lot of protests, pro-Palestine protests in Colombia. There she is. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's the girl. You know, we're rapidly approaching the time where America and the UK are going to have a pretty uncomfortable debate as to what is acceptable and what is unacceptable when it comes to dealing with people who come here illegally, people who commit crime, or even if they attend protests. Where is the line? Because we're going to have to make a decision.

Starting point is 02:46:23 Because until we do that and we start to actually apply the law as it's meant to be applied and put certain laws in place, then these type of things are just going to continue to happen. Yeah, 100%, especially if someone wants them to happen. Because that's what my fear is that a lot of these things are paid for and organized, including a lot of these protests at universities.

Starting point is 02:46:43 I think they're doing it on purpose. I think they're trying to build up a lot of passion in these people for being disruptive and a lot of passion for protest and passion for, and then they weaponize it. I really do. I believe that's exactly what they did with the Tesla buildings, with all the Tesla dealerships being light on fire. They weaponized it. And it's a good test run. You know if they can weaponize it

Starting point is 02:47:07 against Tesla they can they can do that with a lot of other things to justify that kind of vandalism and fire and arson and all the chaos and property destruction. I went to UCLA campus this was May last year and I went to a pro Palestine demonstration and I just went around just interviewing people, talking to students, both on pro-Palestine and the other side. And one thing one of the kids said to me was, as he was trying to get into the library, he was like, you know, most of the people who are doing this, they're not from UCLA. They're not from this college campus.

Starting point is 02:47:42 What are they doing here? He goes, look, fair enough, if you want to protest and you go to UCLA, that's all cool, whatever. Number one, don't stop me from getting an education when my parents have paid X amount for it. But number two, he pointed at one of the dudes, he was like, that guy's about 42. I know he doesn't go to my college. Why is he here protesting?

Starting point is 02:48:02 It's being paid. And you're right, and there are a lot of foreign governments that want this shit to be going on. 100%. And there's a lot of bots online that want this to be. There's a lot of momentum that pushes things into these directions. These are not organic. Just like Bernie Sanders' rally numbers aren't organic. These are not organic. There's a there's a narrow. I mean that was during the Kamala Harris administration or during the campaign rather. You saw these inorganic moments where they filled these arenas with people that were

Starting point is 02:48:37 paid and they spent how many billion? Two billion dollars over the course of three months to do this and it failed. But it's like you're manufacturing this passion, manufacturing this movement. And a lot of people are dumb and it works on them. Like you don't know, like I'm sure you saw that lady who was like bragging about buying champagne and making fun of the guy selling her the champagne because he wasted his vote on Trump. And I'm buying champagne to toast Madam President. She's gonna win. Women have come to the, she really believed it.

Starting point is 02:49:12 Because they gaslit people so hard with their filled arenas and all the news coverage on CNN and MSNBC and the polls are showing, the polls are showing and it's gonna be, Kamala Harris gonna be, and they just gaslit the whole country. And this is what happened with all that woke cancellation stuff as well, where it was a very small number of people

Starting point is 02:49:32 who made themselves look a lot bigger online. Right. In order to then get companies to back down, to get universities to back down, in order to get other organizations who were just scared of the bad attention to back down. I look at a lot of stuff that happens on social media, I'm going, there's no fucking way

Starting point is 02:49:50 that has got 80,000 likes organically. That's not real. You know? It's hard to say what's real and what's not real. And until you take that chip in your head, you're not gonna know. That's why you need to sign up for the Neuralink program. It's one of the things that I'm really hopeful

Starting point is 02:50:08 Elon can solve with X is just, that was one of the things he said when he took over, we need to deal with the bot problem. I think there's more to do on that front for sure. Oh, there's a lot more to do and I don't know what they can actually do. Because with AI, I mean, you can have like really sophisticated programs that tweet as if they

Starting point is 02:50:27 are from Afghanistan, tweet as if they're from wherever they are in the world. They can do it in different languages. It can all be done with AI now, and they can argue specific points like, you know, this guy is a Nazi. Go out there and say it and prompt it. And then all of a sudden you've got, looks like, groundswell of support support calling Elon Musk a Nazi and then a bunch of people hop onto that and they think it's organic and they think that like these Tesla these people are fed up that's why they're going to the Tesla's dealerships.

Starting point is 02:50:53 No they're getting they're being paid and they're trying to crash the stock of Tesla. They're trying to put people into panic mode so that it puts pressure on Elon to drop Doge like this is what's going on like and you're watching it as if it's this organic moment it's a puppet show you're watching a puppet show and that's the thing that you know that really worries I think everybody at the moment is is at a very basic fundamental level I don't know what's real and what's not no I don't either I wish did, because people think I do. Like, oh, you have inside information.

Starting point is 02:51:28 I don't have any. I have zero. I don't know what's going on. But people, I think we all need to understand, you to a greater extent, us to a lesser extent, we're not real people to people online, we're just avatars. And then they imbue us with this knowledge that we've got this knowledge that we can see things-

Starting point is 02:51:49 You're controlled opposition. Oh, we are so that. We get that so much. It's hilarious. That is the, that's where people that are just a little too smart to believe the earth is flat. They'll go with controlled opposition. But it's just, they just don't know.

Starting point is 02:52:03 Like if you're on the outside looking in, like if you're looking at Tom Hanks in his house, I must be a pedophile to get that house. You know what I mean? Like everybody on the outside of like people that are which, you know, well the guy like Tom Hanks is essentially like a kind of royalty, like a movie star royalty, like that class of celebrity is like almost Beyond and so they don't seem like normal people to you They go to that eyes wide shut party and drink baby blood and like there's all these bizarre Things attributed to those people and they're in control of the narrative and there but there's some people that really are in control of the narrative There's some people that really are like CIA agents that are on TV shows, you know, that's real

Starting point is 02:52:45 There's like people that have worked for the CIA that are now on television telling you what the news is if that doesn't seem fucking crazy You know, it's just we're going through a bizarre period of being bombarded with constant information, having unprecedented access to each other and information, and also watching all the powers that be try to snatch up more and more control over society.

Starting point is 02:53:17 We're watching it play out in real time. And we're concentrating on girls and sports and whether or not this is real. Should gay people still be able to get married? It's all bullshit. You're just watching more and more power be acquired by the people with the most amount of money. Yeah, and that's why people like Jeff Bezos buy with the Washington Post. Well, at least he turned it around and said lately that they're going to have to stop with all these left-wing opinion pieces and just post about the news. Yeah. You know, which everybody's freaking out because they really think

Starting point is 02:53:52 they have like a mandate to be like the moral voice of the world, which is so hilarious. I agree with you that is good but do you think any journalist is going to be allowed to write a piece about Amazon criticizing them? I doubt it. I wouldn't do it if I worked there. I'd shut my fucking mouth. I want to buy a house Try to buy a house. Yeah, I can't was I get it. Yeah, they should get my money Whatever that comes back to our Lord of the Rings conversation because even well-intentioned people who are doing things that we might like right Everyone's got an agenda. Especially billionaires. Well, AI comes along and equally distributes all the money. So, what's AI?

Starting point is 02:54:30 Boys, let's wrap this up. I appreciate you both very much. It's always cool to talk to you. I'm happy you visit often and I'm glad you're having a good time over here and I hope you get your fucking shit together with your country because come on. Joe, can I just say one thing? Yes. I've got a book out in August. It's called Classroom Confidential. Is it August it's coming out?

Starting point is 02:54:50 Yeah, August the 18th. Have you finished it? I finished it, yeah. It's that long to release a book? Yeah, it does. It does. It does. Particularly the printing industry in the UK.

Starting point is 02:55:00 That's crazy. Yeah. So, but yeah, so it's coming out. It's all about being a teacher in ways you should never be one. And it's very funny. Beautiful. Very funny. Yeah, so but yeah, so it's coming out. It's all about being a teacher and why you should never be one and it's very funny Beautiful very beautiful. Yeah, well come back when so when it comes out. Yeah, we'll talk again. I'd love to Your show trigonometry. It's available everywhere anything else We both got sub stacks. Yep. I've got a sub stack. He's got a sub stack. Look at you guys fucking writing and shit

Starting point is 02:55:23 And your show is how many times a week do you guys do it? We put two episodes out every week. So Wednesdays and Sundays is interviews. Do you do like substacks episodes like different ones or Patreon? So yeah on our substack, on the trigonometry substack, you get to hear the guest answer your questions. So people send in questions ahead of time. That's cool. That's nice.

Starting point is 02:55:43 People love that. That's a great idea. That's a good way to add extra nice. Yeah. People love that. That's a great idea. That's a good way to add extra value. Yeah. That's what we're always thinking about is how do we offer people who support us extra value? Cause unlike the people on the internet who say we're controlled opposition paid by blah, blah, blah,

Starting point is 02:55:56 we're actually just paid by our fans. That's actually a very good idea though to let the fans actually have questions too. And get those off, find the good ones. A lot of them are good ones. And what we often do as well is we look through them before the interview, and if we can't get them in at the end, we'll actually try and incorporate them

Starting point is 02:56:11 into the discussion itself. Oh, beautiful. Okay, appreciate you both very much, always. Thanks, brother. Thank you. Thanks. Bye, everybody. Bye!

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