#2225 - Dave Smith

The Joe Rogan Experience by Joe Rogan Park, cast by night all day. And I could even after we got off the phone last night, I was like, I'm gonna go to bed. I can't really do that. And then I just had to watch clips. What time did I call you? Like three? Three thirty, something like that? Yeah, I was just sitting in front of YouTube watching professional pool on TV going, what the fuck is going on?

So turns out voting works. It's real. As much as we fucking thought they had it rigged, as much as we thought there was shenanigans and bullshit and it's just a puppet show and there's no way anybody could buck this system turns out voting is still real. At least partially. At least if it's too big to rigged. Yes. And clearly he was too big to rig.

Yeah. It was crazy because it was like for weeks, especially in the clothes of the campaign. It was one of those things where it felt like it almost felt like 2008 when Obama was running against McCain. And it was just so obvious Obama was running away with this. Everything you could see and observe his crowd sizes, the enthusiasm, the culture. It was all behind him.

But at that time, the polls were reflecting what you saw everywhere. Obama's up big. He's about to, John McCain's not going to win after eight years of George W. Bush. The country doesn't want another war hawk. They want this, you know, articulate young peace guy. Right. And it was like that with Trump where it's like all the signs are that he's clearly running away with this. But then every single poll told you know this is the closest election of your lifetime.

And then it was just there was a very interesting feeling to see it and be like, oh, okay. I'm not crazy. I was observing all the things I was observing. Do you know what would Trump told me about the polls? No, what? He's like, they're bullshit. They don't do anything. You give them money. They come back. They have these results. You don't know. He was like, they charge 500 grand for, yeah, he's right. Yeah. He's right. And the media gas lit us to the absolute limits of their ability.

The absolute limits. Joy Reed spent the entire time she was discussing Trump. They're comparing him to Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler, talking about a right wing authoritarian regime. As if he had never been president for four years and didn't behave like any of those things. As if the economy wasn't booming. As if people weren't making more money. As if we weren't involved in any new conflicts overseas. No new wars.

I mean, I could point to a lot of things Trump didn't as four years that I think were bad. But they were things that were similar to Obama and Bush. That's what I mean. You know what I mean? It wasn't different. He could point to them too. You know, when I talked to him about what it was like to actually govern for the first time ever. It's a daunting task. He was telling me about the thousands and thousands of appointments he had to make. Thousands of people he had to pick.

He didn't know who any of these people were. He had to trust people that he knew and he didn't know who was telling them the truth and who was just trying to get the system moving along in the exact same direction. And he got bogged down with a lot of that. It took forever for them to weed it out. Which is the crazy thing about being president. It's the hardest job on the planet. And you started without any knowledge of it. Well, that's, yeah.

And I mean, a little bit of that's on him because there were some people who he probably shouldn't known. What I didn't like in his answer about that to you is that then he kind of pivoted to talking about how John was doing. He's been talking about how John Bolton was actually really good to have there because he's terrifying. He's terrifying and he's crazy. Oh, this guy wants war with everyone. But the problem is that like that's not how it went down. John Bolton ruined the North Korea deal.

It's not like it was successful and the North Koreans were so scared of John Bolton that they wanted to talk to Donald Trump. They were at the meeting. They were willing to talk to Donald Trump. And then John Bolton came in and they were like, these guys are psychopaths. I don't want to make a deal with them. That mustash alone. And I will say, look, man, I was I was rooting for Trump last night as much as anybody in this country was. As much Tony Hinchcliffe.

Okay. Second second most second to Tony Hinchcliffe. Tony Hinchcliffe. Two shade. More Puerto Ricans voted for Trump than ever, ever by up 26%. Well, but wasn't it? And wasn't that just one of the, it was like, there's obviously a huge series of these things where the, the Democrat establishment and the corporate. Media, but I repeat myself, they, it's death by a thousand self-inflicted wounds. Yes. Yes. But it is almost as if it's like their whole thing relies on lies. Right.

It's just all lies. And they are just, they are, have their eyes shut and their fingers and their ears. And they're going, no, no, no, no, no. No, we're just pretending reality is the thing we want it to be. Exactly. They don't want to get slowed down by this, this force that is objective reality. And so all of it, you know, whether it's Joe Biden's sharpest attack. Yeah. Kamala Harris's joy. Yeah. You know, Donald Trump is Hitler. Tony Hinchcliffe was a man at an event who made some comments.

Did you see? He wasn't really, that wasn't a comedian who was ribbing everybody. Not only that, but an insult comedian. A comedian who's famous for insulting people. He was to act like this, it's not 2024. Like we didn't all grow up on Don Rickles. And we all know exactly what Tony Hinchcliffe is doing. Did you see the clip that the mother ship posted? No. It's on my Instagram. So they're talking about the comedian who made jokes about Puerto Rico while Tony's on stage on the other screen.

So Tony's on stage at the mother ship while this guy's talking about what Tony did on CNN. And they're going over like the Puerto Rican population. Just pull it up because it's so great. We're watching it. And Metzger was back there. The whole green was packed. We were having the best fucking time. There should have been a camera on the green room last night. It would have been the greatest reality show of all time. Brian Simpson and Tony Hinchcliffe and Hassan. Everybody's cracking jokes.

Metzger. Look at this. Oh, dude, that's so great. That's what. Let's hit Metzger. Metzger. I just said after that, we're in a simulation. For sure. Yeah. It's on the video. I said, we're in a simulation. It's 100%. Well, it's just like it is just unbelievable, man. Like the false reality that they were trying to present while you're watching what's actually going on. And seeing that it's like, there was just an enormous shift, like culturally, from even 2016 to now.

And I did, I thought one of the big indicators to me. I was talking about this a bunch on my show over the last couple of weeks, or since the Garden event, whatever that was, a week and a half ago. And, dude, there were no protesters. This episode of the Joe Rogan Experience is brought to you by Call of Duty. You know, when a new Call of Duty drops, everyone's trying to find a way to squeeze in those extra hours of gameplay. I get it. Life is busy, but sometimes... You're just...

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But I'm saying like, if this was happening in 2016, if in 2016, Trump came to Manhattan to give a speech, there would have been like thousands of protesters. I was there actually in 2016 when that did happen. Right. I was there the day that he won. I was there for the UFC. Right. So the next day, we're walking down the street in Manhattan and people are chanting. This guy was saying Donald Trump KKK anti black and anti gay. He was like chanting. No, I'm a terrible champ. Which is terrible.

This is the biggest cuck ever. No, it's a super cuck. The guy was a super cuck. He was one of those guys where you just like, look at you. I wanted to follow him around. I'm like, you're amazing. You're a gift. Keep talking. Just listen to what's your life like after this? Two black guys started walking towards his way. He started chanting Black Lives Matter. So did you saw the black guys, black guys, black lives matter, black lives matter. I was like, this is amazing. I stuck right behind him.

Me and camhands. And I think Tony was there too. And we were just, this is crazy. This is crazy. But they don't seem to have that in the same way. It's all bullshit. It's bullshit. It's bullshit. First of all, back then they didn't know what he was going to do. And what he did economically. Chamath has the best way of explaining it. He said it was the right message. It was the wrong messenger.

But if you look at the actual actions and where they good for the economy, where they good for the United States, they were. But it's Donald Trump as the messenger was so polarized that people lost what's really going on just based on who this guy is, who has like just like Tony Hitchclips and insult comic, Donald Trump's entire career is you're fired. Yeah. You're a loser. Rosie O'Donnell's a loser. Like that's his whole stick. And you expect him to course correct once he gets into office?

No, he's not. That's not who he is. You elected that guy. But along with that, now you get RFK Jr. You get Tulsi Gabbard. You get Elon Musk and you get JD Vance. You get brilliant people who aren't ideologically captured. Two of them who used to be Democrats.

One of them that probably knows more about environmental polluting and about the problems with pharmaceutical drug companies and health and the consequences of all sorts of pesticides and herbicides and greedy ins and your food that should be banned and are banned in other countries. You got that guy in there now. And we got a real chance to make real change.

This is like one of the first times ever, where there's a real chance to make real tangible change that's going to be for the good of everybody. Yeah, and he's got a unite people. He's got to not attack the left and not attack everybody. Let them all talk their shit, but unite. Now it's time to unite everybody. 100% and then there's even more guys. I mean, Vivek Ramaswamy, David Sacks.

I mean, he's got some really smart guys who are very successful who are really, Vivek's incredible, which is excellent. And totally brilliant and so right about so many of the major issues. Yes. And look, I mean Donald Trump now, he has a real mandate, which is like this is kind of what's crazy. This isn't 2016 where, you know, he lost by several million votes in the popular vote, but one of the counties that were important and just by the skin of his teeth got in.

This is like, he's, I mean, the last I looked, he was up by over five million in the popular vote. Yeah, five million in the popular vote. And what was it when I went to bed? It was three, twelve. Yeah. He had three hundred and twelve electoral college votes. Yeah, with still I think a few states of Arizona, I think hasn't, you know, finished yet. And so it might, it might even rack up higher than that. But the mandate is like very specific.

It's like the basic policies of like, okay, immigration control. Can't have just have an open border with no control of who comes into our country. A desire to get out of stupid foreign wars. Yeah. And, and obviously the improved the economy deal with inflation, things like that. But he's got a mandate to do that right now. And he's got all some great people around him. My bit, listen, I was rooting for him as hard as anyone except Tony Hinchcliffe last night.

But I will say now, I think now till January 20th, the real, the pressure should be on Trump to do better on the appointments than he did last time. He's got a lot of better people around him than he ever had in 2016 or 2020. But he was floating out Mike Pompeo as the Secretary of Defense. And he did have Mike Pompeo speak at his final campaign event. And to be clear, Mike Pompeo is Liz Cheney's pick for defense secretary. It's Hillary Clinton's pick for defense secretary.

And so much of this will be lost if he puts that guy in there. He needs to keep all of the Lindsey grams and the Mike Pompeo's and all of these guys away from his administration. Bring in the non-interventionists, man. No one wants to fight these stupid wars anymore. And that's what you ran on and won on. I want Liz Cheney to start a podcast. That'd be fine. We got to get those minerals. There's some expensive minerals over there and you can. Tim Dillin was doing an impression of yesterday.

It was amazing. It was amazing. Dude, I don't even like, maybe I should. No, he deserves it. But did you ever see the thing when he was running for president? Where he was talking to them? When he ran for president? Lindsey Graham, ran for president. Amazing. In 2016. Imagine. I remember Trump gave his phone number out. Did he really? You don't remember that? No. Because he was attacking Donald Trump for probably not being an awful war hawk or something like that.

And Donald Trump said something about how he used to call him and ask for money. When he was running for campaign, he just gave his phone number out. He made a senator change his phone number. That's just so great. That's like a chill son and move. It was amazing. It was so funny. Amazing. But he said Lindsey Graham was asked about being the first single president. Yeah, never married. And he goes, he goes, there might be a bunch of different first ladies. If I was in there, right?

Yeah. Sure, buddy. First of all, that's the last thing you say. If you're a man, if you're heterosexual, you say I'm trying to find a good woman. Yeah, really? I'm trying to just find one good woman that I can grow with and that I love with all my heart. Just one good woman. I know that she's out there. That's what you say. Yeah, you don't. Might be a bunch of first ladies. I'm going to get divorced married. The first married. I keep on scooping up that man who was in the Ukraine.

I gave that man a real see the Russians. We're just walking around with women's panties on and shit and high heels. I'm the president. Listen, I'm the first lady too. I'm nowhere her close. I typically wouldn't go after someone for that. But when you're a war, a war hawk all is fair. But he's got it. He's got to keep those people away from a man. And that really was his failure in his, in his first term was and look, I do understand him saying, I don't know. He was an outsider.

He had never been, he had never lived in Washington, DC. He didn't know all these people. But he's had a lot of time. This is eight years later. And he's got a great core of people around him. And those are the people to take advice from. It's like Mr. President, if you're listening, they're all right right now. We'll talk to Rand Paul. Rand Paul will tell you who to put in those positions. Talk to Thomas Mass. I just saw he floated at Thomas Massie for, I can't remember what position it was.

That's great. Put those guys in there. These are the America first guys. And it's not Mike Pompeo. It's not the war machine, dude. And it's, and also, you know, look, his rhetoric was so great on Ukraine through, through the election. And when he had the courage to just say, like, no, I want the, I want the dying to stop. That was one of the best moments of the entire campaign. But his rhetoric on Israel has been very bad.

And the, the other thing that you can't get around is that like, listen, you can love Israel all you want to. And you can, you can pledge to help defend them or whatever. But, no, I'm okay. But, uh, but Netanyahu is John McCain. That's who he is. I mean, he's Mike Pompeo. He lives Cheney or Nikki Haley. He's the guy who came over and testified in 2002 before congressional hearing and advocated that we overthrow Saddam Hussein.

And also advocated that we go have a regime change war in Iran, which he still wants to this day. He advocated we had the regime change in Libya, in Syria. I mean, he's John McCain. That's not America first. That's not, you know what I mean? That's not this. We're not fighting stupid wars anymore. So love Israel all you want to. But we're not with BB Netanyahu. That's something else. That's the opposite of America first. Yeah. A lot can get done here, man. Yeah, I think so.

I think he can listen to those people. He has four amazing people around him. You know, that really have experience. Like, especially Tulsi, Congresswoman for eight years. RFK Jr. knows it inside and out. You've got Vance, who's brilliant. You've got the Vake, who's brilliant. You have four incredible people with him. Yeah. And then he can, I think he can get through this in a different way than he did in 2016. I think he's the, there's real possibilities for it.

And I think that that's a huge component of it. The team that he's got around him. And I would also put, I would put Tucker Carlson in that camp too, because I think he is very influential in, on his thinking. In many ways, he's kind of, you know, he does think demons made nuclear bombs. And look, 50, 50 shot. He's right about that. I'm not saying he's, but when it comes to policy, I'm saying he's very spot on on that. I love the guy. Don't get me wrong. No, me too. And, and who knows?

He's a little bit obsessed with demons. He said a demon attacked him. Did you see that? Yeah, I scratched him up. I did see that. And I wasn't sure, I saw, when I was watching it, I was like, is this like a Halloween thing? Why are you laughing? That's so rude. He's a victim of demons. That sounds like a fun thing that could, I don't know what happened. That's the thing. Why is this? Demons never really get you. You know, they scare you. Like ghosts. They never steal you. Yeah, it's true.

Neither do aliens. They bring you back. They always bring you back. They bury you for a little bit. They freak out. Do you think like demons are bummed about that? Like, did you kill anyone today? And they're like, we can only really scratch people. Tucker thinks aliens are demons. Yeah, I know. Aliens are angels and demons. He thinks it's like this idea that they come from out of space is stupid. He said they've been, he thinks they've been here all along.

This is like legit scientists that entertain this. Yeah, I'm not convinced of that. But I do think he's really, I think he's great on war and immigration. He is. He's a brilliant guy. But I do think another huge component of why Trump's got such an opportunity right now is because like, you just, you see it where, like I was saying, the protesters aren't there anymore. There's a whole lot of really interesting reasons I think for why that is.

But also, and I was, I was getting in an argument on Twitter the other day with Michael Tracy, who I do like and respect very much. But I was basically saying that I think this is going to be a death blow for the corporate media if Donald Trump wins again. And this is almost the best thing about him winning again. And he was saying, which is a reasonable argument, but I disagree with him.

But he was saying, well, no Dave, I mean, look, last time he was in for four years, that was the best thing that ever happened to CNN and MSNBC. And they got a big ratings boost when he was in. But I don't think that's going to work again. I don't think it's going to work either. Well, the thing is that so much of that ratings boost was completely driven by the Rushegate nonsense.

And what they were telling you at the time was that they had the biggest scandal in the history of the United States of America. Like, you can't overstate how big that story is. I mean, they were telling you, yeah, right. If it wasn't all completely made up. But they're reporting that a foreign hostile foreign power has overturned our election. And the sitting president of the United States of America is in on it. He is involved in a conspiracy with a hostile foreign government.

Like, that's the biggest scandal in the history of America. And they for anybody who wasn't aware at the time of how fake and evil the entire system is. They were like, well, look, they got a special prosecutor on the president. I mean, there must be something there. And hey, I just heard the chair of the House Intelligence Committee tell me he's seen the evidence. And that this is, he's guilty of this.

And you had the former CIA director, John Brennan, saying that Trump and his family are going to be hauled off in handcuffs on television. Once Mueller's investigation concludes. And so for the regular person, especially for the regular person who really hated Donald Trump, it was pretty easy to get sucked into that. But after that was exposed for being a giant fake. And then the big one is COVID. And just don't think they can recover. Let's pause here. No repercussions.

Yeah. You want to talk about misinformation. We have to censor social media because of misinformation. Right. You guys spread misinformation to the biggest news organization, the biggest news audience in the world. Yeah. And you did it for three years. Yeah. You did it for three years. And then when it turned out that it wasn't true, you never apologized. And didn't just turn out it wasn't true, but turned out it was actually funded by Clinton. Well, it started.

It started as opposition research. And then the intelligence agencies jumped on that and decided knowing that it was all bullshit, decided to use it to frame the sitting president of the United States of America of treason. And listen, I have a few episodes back. One time we went real deep into this. But that claim is, this is just a fact. They lied on the FISA court application to spy on Carter Page, who was a low level advisor for Donald Trump, just an excuse to spy on Trump's campaign.

And they lied to the FISA court. They omitted the fact that the CIA had already told him that Carter Page wasn't a spy and that he was working with them. And that he was one of their good guys. As the FBI went to the CIA and they were like, we have information that says that the Russians approached Carter Page. And the CIA said, yeah, we know he came and told us immediately because he's working with us.

And then what they put on the FISA application is they said, we believe that the Russians approached him and the CIA confirmed that was true. Whoa. So they, which is technically true. Exactly. It's a lie by the way you're mentioning the fact that he went straight to them to tell us. Exactly. So this, that was by the way, the only guy who actually got charged was the person who was the FBI guy who submitted that application. But so, well, that's good. Well, that's good.

But look, when you said there were no ramifications, right? You're right in the sense of like legally or people getting fired or news media. Yes, but I'm saying this is the ramification. The ramification is that they're not going to be able to pull it off again. And the ramification is that look, they did everything they could to tell you this was a Nazi. This was the end of democracy. Yeah. But he incited an insurrection and the American people said, we already get that, you're full of shit.

They cried wolf. Yeah. Too many times. Too many times. Way too many times. The joy read stuff was working for Trump. It was working for Trump when she's calling him a right wing dictator, comparing him to Mussolini installing. And then when Oprah said that if Trump wins, you may never be able to vote again. That is the craziest thing when you go back and watch him on her show, when she was encouraged him to be president. Yeah. You ever see that?

Yeah. I saw it and then I saw when you played it fairly recently. What changed? Yeah. Well, here's what changed. Well, he became the guy who wasn't just funding a lot of politicians and being like a famous guy. And he became the guy who was calling all of them out and threatening to drain the swamp. Yeah. That's really what his crime is that he threatened the DC power establishment. Crazy how many rich and famous people stepped in line to help them take him out.

Yep. Like so many famous influential people. And I give a pass to Cardi B. I give a pass. Yeah. Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah, I agree. I agree. I don't think Amber Rose knows what Trump's real policy is. You know what I'm saying? Yes. I give a pass to some celebrities that come out. But then when you have some of them that are making videos, all the Avengers get together. They're like, hey, are you trying to get me to hate superhero movies?

You trying to show me your real fucking weird personalities and get me to hate superhero movies? Why are you doing that? If I was running the Avengers, I'd be like, hey guys, cut the shit. Do you think one fucking person is going to vote for Kamala Harris? Because they saw that Iron Man wants them to vote for Kamala Harris? Are you fucking crazy? Well, it's so, look, man.

I mean, did they think that one Puerto Ricans vote was going to be flipped because of a joke that took me, by the way, Puerto Ricans are known for being great insult comics. Like Louis Gomez, great insult comic. Fucking Freddie Prince Jr. was a great comic. Puerto Rico is a history of great comedy. They can talk some shit. Puerto, if you grew up in New York at all, you know, Puerto Ricans can talk a lot of shit. And Louis is one of the best shit talkers I've ever met. Also, garbage.

So Tony had a point. Tony had a point. And I'm Italian. And Italians and Puerto Ricans have a lot in common that we talk a lot of shit to each other. So we don't get insulted that much by jokes. It's not the same thing. Right. Like, it's very hard to insult an Italian and have it stick. Yeah. It doesn't work. You can call them a Guido. Again, a Guido. You can call them a grease ball. No one cares. You know what, go back to your country. I don't know. No one's been there in fucking generations.

It's also my wife is Italian and all my in-laws are whole family. And it is like when you have a dinner, it's just everyone yells. Animals. Like everything's a yell. To the Romans. Like I'll literally hurt my brother-in-law who I love. It's a great guy. Super smart. But he will, if he's agreeing with you in a conversation and you were like in the next room, you would be like, is there a better fight for your brother-in-law? Like what's going on in there?

No, he's just agreeing with what I'm saying. But he's screaming at me, you know? But it is a thing where it's very, they're very thick skinned. They're not, they're not like, they're not like fragile people. It's one of my favorite things. Puerto Ricans are the same way. Also, look at Puerto Rico, some of the best boxers of all time. Puerto Rico. It's one fucking island. You got Felix, Trinidad, you got Gomez, with Fredo Gomez. You got incredible fighters. Came out of this one place.

You have a fucking tough population, man. Yeah. I mean, I'm sure there was a few people that were pissed off at that joke. But the reality is, is one of the things that helped Tony is. That joke was based about Tony's concern for the environment. Tony's obsessed with recycling. He's like, you know, recycling is bullshit. You know what all goes in a landfill? You tell me, I'm going to put it in the blue bin. It all goes in a landfill. So Tony was obsessed with the Pacific garbage patch.

And then he got obsessed with Puerto Rico because they don't have any room. So their landfills are just overflowing with garbage. They literally have a giant garbage problem. So he came up with a joke based around that. I think it's called Puerto Rico. I was texted with him after it. And I thought it was so great. I mean, I thought even the bit that he did on Israel Palestine was so funny. He ripped both sides.

And then he did, by the way, same with the Puerto Rico thing, there was an underlying really good point to it, which is always like the best comedy when you're just being funny. But at the same time, you're like, oh, and he did kind of nail that too. Where he was just like, why are we funding wars that have been going on forever? Like figure it out, guys. And then he just got a great rip on Muslims, a great rip on Jews. And so the way they picked out Puerto Ricans. He's going on in the morning.

There's no opening act. No one knows there's going to be comedy. Yeah, the most difficult setup. And there's no one on before him other than a prayer. They do a prayer. They're seeing prayers and songs. And then the music stops. And Tony goes on flat to a bunch of people in the middle of the day. Well, the lights are on bright. And he makes no sense as a worse setup of all time for comedy.

I remember in real time when I was watching it, like being like, I was like, well, I mean, Tony is not going to be able to do Tony in this setup. So like, I wonder what he's going to do. And then like as it starts, you're like, oh, he's just going to do Tony. Yeah. Oh, that's crazy. It's crazy. It's the nuttyest thing. Should have never done it. But the fact that he did it, whatever, it's like, listen, man, there's going to be some people that tried to capitalize on that.

And that was a big thing. Like AOC really mobilized, which is funny because I'm almost certain that AOC's been to see Kill Tony. Really? Yes. Huh? Yeah, almost certain. Almost certain. When the sheer is the mother, I don't think so here. But somewhere saw Kill Tony. I actually probably loves that. They're all so far away. I wonder who... Let's call him up. All right. Let's get to the bottom of that. Wait, we have access. Call Tony Hinchcliffe.

Hey, dude, you live on the air right now with Dave Smith. I need to answer a question. I need a question answered. Did AOC ever come to see Kill Tony? She says that she did, but we're almost positive that she didn't. I never met her in any of the shows in LA. I mean, she could have conceivably have bought a ticket to Madison Square Garden, but she never posted about it. Well, she probably wouldn't post about it. It's too sketchy. You're show sketchy.

But so how do you know that she says that she was there? She tweeted that she's been to a taping. When all that stuff went down, she said that she's disappointed in me. And she's been to a taping. I can't remember the exact tweet right now. But it was the day of the Madison Square Garden Trump thing. She posted, I'm really disappointed in Tony Hinchcliff. I'm a fan of Kilt Tony and been to a taping. Something like that. I don't want to misquote her like she would certainly do to me.

She's been there and she was surprised. It makes no sense. Yeah, no, nothing. These people fucking say make any sense. They're out of their goddamn minds. And now their voices are quieted. Thank God. Tony. America's back, baby. America's back. Let's fucking go. Let's fucking go. I got to go brother. I love you. Rock and roll. Bye bye. Nobody who's ever been to kill Tony would be disappointed. It didn't matter. It was a political tool. Of course. You have a wrench. Here's a bolt.

I need to use a wrench. That's what it was. So AOC was sending, telling people send it out and all your group chats. Let people know. It's not. They're not, but you cannot. You cannot. The most sensitive people. They're like resilient people. They're not going to, people are going to get upset about a joke. But they're also going to understand it's just a fucking joke.

And then when they know, and then when someone, if someone does tell them, oh, Puerto Rico really does have a giant garbage problem. Like it's a giant problem. Overflowing lamp. You ever see it? Yeah. Yeah. It's crazy. Look at the images. You're like, oh my god. You got to do something about this. You can't cover your island in garbage. This is nuts. Yeah, it's a look.

It's, I just, like I was saying before, though, man, I just, I do like, I feel like if you zoom out, like if you look at it closely, you would be like, like he said with the, um, oh, yeah. Yeah, she's been to. She's been to shows. Yeah. Wow. Before people try to act like this, some PC overly sensitive nonsense, which is what it is. I've been to Kill Tony shows. I'm from the Bronx. I don't give a shit about crewdumer. Then what are you doing?

Well, don't pretend that your support for Trump is a joke. Own it. You're doing a set to support him. That's a choice. Listen, you guys have a real problem with someone disagreeing with you. Yeah. And you, you want to in any way shape or form that's possible, turn that person to a demon. You never want to have someone who has an opposing perspective that should be considered or maybe countered with better information, which is what we're all supposed to be doing.

Ideally with people of good character and who go into arguments with good faith, you should be able to respectfully disagree and have conversations with things. This is like everybody who thinks one way is bad. Everybody who thinks this way is good. We'll do whatever we can to destroy the people that are that way. Obama. There was a guy. There was a guy with the Trump rally that said the Puerto Rico is a pilot garbage. Those are human beings.

Like, was that, hey, was that guy maybe telling a joke? Yeah. What do you think? Do you know what jokes are your my age? Do you know what jokes are? What are we doing? Come on. Come on, bro. What are we doing? We all grew up in the America of Howard Stern and the Simpsons and all this stuff. It's not like jokes are foreign to any of us. Yeah, we all forgot about Superbad. Yeah, we forget about Tropic Thunder. Do we forget how those things work? Right. And our point is so stupid.

I mean, she's like, hey, you're a Trump supporter, own it. It's like, yeah, he's speaking at a Trump event at Madison Square Garden. There's nothing to do with that joke. But I'm saying just the fact that he's there clearly already says, yeah, I'm supporting this guy. And then he's a comedian. So he's like, I'm going to do what I do here with it. Exactly. And if you want, if AOC wanted to come out and say something like, she'd go, it was, and I'm actually a fan of Tony.

I really like the show Kill Tony. That's what I don't think she goes. I don't think it's appropriate. Add a political event. And she'd be an insult comic. That'd be a reasonable thing to say. Yeah, okay. Correct. But that's a real regret. Yes, but that's kind of a campaign. That's on the campaign. That's on the campaign. That's not on Tony. You know what I mean? And like, so, but that's not what she's saying.

And again, it's like, you know, look, if you, to the point you were making before, right, about the, the Russia collusion hoax and no one getting in trouble for it. If you were to look at, uh, say the weapons of mass destruction lie that got us into war in Iraq, killed a million people, cost trillions of dollars and tens of thousands of our bravest young men blowing their brains out, you know, just a unmitigated disaster.

And none of the people who, who sold that, uh, lost their jobs or, or, you know, they're not like, I don't know what they should be doing. Maybe like picking up garbage by the side of the road, apologizing to every car that passes that. Well, let's pause for a second and compare. There's people that said that there was weapons of mass destruction. They willfully created this story. So it's a fake story. One hundred percent. No one got in trouble.

Trump paid off some lady, so as he fucked her and made a book, kicked me air. So he got hit with 34 felons. Yeah. Now, if you want to just be that person, it says he's a convicted felon and just repeated over and over again. Understand that now you're changing what the law means because you don't like a guy. And that can be used on you. This is what happens in dictatorships. This is what happens when communism takes over a country and you get a military dictatorship.

They just throw the laws at you. And they're doing it right in front of your face and you're okay repeating it. He's a convicted felon. He's a convicted felon. He's a convicted felon for 34 misdemeanors, which are all the same thing. Which weren't really felonies. Which weren't felonies and were past the statute of limitation. So how much do you hate freedom?

Yeah, it's not, listen, none of the Trump legal charges were in example where, look, the former president of the United States of America clearly broke the law. And we don't want to politicize, you know, the legal system here, but it's so obviously broke the law that we have to prosecute him. It was, we're coming up with a novel legal theory that we've never prosecuted anyone under before.

And if you interpret it this way, then we could interpret this misdemeanor that's past the statute of limitations as a felony. So now, what is this not freak out liberals who are obsessed with criminal reform? Because they've never, because that's not their side of the issue. Yeah, just think about how many it is. It is. One of the best things that I do on this show is when I have Josh Dubin on who used to work with the Innocence Project.

No, does things on his own where they're trying to find people that have been unfairly prosecuted by bad judges and by bad prosecutors and get them out of fucking jail? Oh, can I just say real quick, dude, because if I don't, I want to make sure I say this well, we're here. But to President elect Donald Trump, dude, he came to the Libertarian Party convention this year and he promised us, and a whole bunch of people myself included, like, supported him for this.

And he did carry, I think, the Libertarian vote. He promised us he was going to free Ross Ulbrich on day one. And like, if you're listening, Mr. President of this gets to you, please, please come through on that promise, man. This kid has done over a decade in jail already. He was guilty of creating a website. You know, it was like a dark, web type thing. And I guess some people sold drugs on it and stuff. But he's done 10 years, over 10 years. Yeah, have you ever seen the documentary on that?

Yeah. It's interesting, because I know his mom. It seems like he was railroaded. Yeah, 100%. Yeah, it seems like they came up with some sort of a phony murder for higher charge. Well, they accused him of that, but then they withdrew that charge. He was never convicted of that. Right. He got life without parole for making a website. And I've just, I've gotten to know his mother, Len, over the years, and she's like the sweetest lady. And she's just in the middle of this nightmare.

Like her whole life has been a nightmare for the last 11 years or whatever it's been. And just, I really just please come through on that one. There's no political capital even to be spent on it. It's one of the best things he did when he was president last year. It was last time was, you know, freeing people who were just in jail on BS and way over prosecuted. And he said he was going to do it on day one. And I'm just saying we, a lot of people supported him for that.

I really hope he comes through. That would be amazing. Well, we're going to know a lot about what he's going to do, whether he comes through or not. Yeah. That'll tell us a lot. If he comes through, I think a lot of people will be able to hear. And you love to see him on a podcast when you love to talk to him on a podcast. I love to. Yeah. And ask him questions about what actually happened.

Yeah. Well, look, now that we know what we know now, like the FBI did this whole internal thing with him and they used people and agents to trap him. But now what we know about what they did with the kidnapping case or Gretsch and Whitmer, we didn't know that before. We didn't know that you could have a kidnapping case with just 14 people and 12 of them are FBI informants.

So you got 12 people working with the FBI to retards and you convince these dumbasses that they should go and kidnap the fucking governor and they're like cause plan. These guys are idiots. They might have been playing fucking game of dungeons and dragons in the woods. They're idiots. Well, it's it. There's an old saying. There's an old saying that goes something like the FBI always gets their man because it's always their man.

Yeah. You know, it's like, there's been dozens and dozens of these FBI. What they call staying operations, which are really entrapment since 9-11, where they get, oh, we thwarted another terrorist attack. So they didn't thwart a terrorist attack. They planned a terrorist attack and then thwarted it. Like it was never going to happen. By the way, we'll note on that every single time I was finding this fascinating.

Every time the FBI wants to do one of these terrorist entrapment things, which again, they've done dozens and dozens of since 9-11, every time when they approach like young Muslim guys who are like on radical websites or something like that every time. They never go up there and they say, hey, how do you feel about America being free and prosperous? Or how do you feel about the fact that we don't have Sharia law here? Anything they never do.

They always go, how do you feel about American foreign policy? Look at all these innocent Muslims that were killing over there in that part of the world. Doesn't that make you angry? Doesn't that make you want to do something about it? You see, like when the FBI wants to do entrapment, all of a sudden they know what motivates terrorism. They're not like, oh, you hate those for our freedom or the dumb shit. You shit that they say to the American public.

They know exactly how to entrap these people. They go, how do you feel that all these Palestinian babies getting killed right now? You know that's America's money and weapons that are doing it and that's how they get them. But it's all, you look at the first World Trade Center attack. It's all just the FBI screwed it up. They were following it the whole time. Then they screwed it up and they almost took down the towers.

And if we got to hear an old brick story, I better be wildly different than the narrative that we heard in the courtroom or it was in the documentary. I better, it's wildly different. I wouldn't be surprised if he got railroaded. We know too much now. We know about that case. There's multiple different cases. There's the Dallas case where they got that kid to blow up a building. They gave him a fake bomb and a cell phone and he activated. They radicalized that kid.

He was just a dumb, low IQ kid that's, you know, 19 fucking gullible. And they talked them into joining and here's what we're going to do. And then they say they're preventing crime. Like you're actually making it. You're making it and then stopping it. And that's fucking wrong. You're cheating. You're rigging the pinball game, man. You're fucking this. And we know that now. So it would be really interesting to his story. Yeah, 10 years is fucking plenty. Too much. Way too much.

No, you can never give that back to him. But like just let him go free. And it's also just such a situation where you just, you know, and obviously like I know his mother. You know, I'm kind of personally invested in him, but it's like this kid is no threat. Is that nobody thinks like, oh, if we let him out, you know, he's some type of violent criminal who might do another violent thing or something like that. That's just not going to happen.

You could just end the nightmare that this sweet woman is going through and him, of course, too. Okay. So we both agree on this, but let me ask you, okay, what about Snowden? Do you think he has the balls to pardon Snowden? Well, okay. The thing about Snowden, right, is that, and now the Julian Assange case has kind of been taken off the table, even though I guess technically he could still pardon him. But that takes real political capital. Now I think he should pardon Snowden.

Household. But well, I'm just saying that like Snowden pissed off a lot of very powerful people. The NSA are furious about him. The CIA, they don't like him. And they do not want to set the president that you can release the fact that we're doing a bunch of illegal shit that we are lying to the American people about, and then you can go tell them that we are in fact doing the thing that we lied and said we weren't doing. They don't like that.

There's going to be powerful forces that'll oppose you. Russell Brick doesn't, it's not like that. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, if he were to pardon Snowden, that would be a real signal that he is willing to take on the deep state. He's willing to take on the real powerful and trench interest.

Now again, I'm not claiming to, it's obviously the right thing to do, morally speaking, but you got to have a really smart strategy if you're actually going to do this.

I remember one time during the Ron Paul presidential campaign, I think it was in 2012, and someone asked him, you know, like a question about like, when you're in there and you're president, are you going to tell the CIA like, hey you, you guys are done and you're this and you're this, and he went, well, I might say it a little bit nicer than that. You're like, listen, I am trying to abolish the CIA, but let's be cool here. Well, let's just face, let's look at this for what it is.

So if Edward Snowden, if he really did expose things that were illegal, that were not supposed to be done, and the fear of bringing him back is that the people that did the illegal things want to continue doing illegal things and don't want to have any repercussions for doing illegal things, that seems like a crazy thing to support, even for them to defend it. Sounds insane. They should want internal accountability.

They should want to make sure that no one colors outside the lines and no one does anything without congressional approval. All the stuff you're supposed to do when you're doing certain things, but the problem is now with the FDA and Pfizer and all these different laws that have been passed that allow surveillance to be done warrantless. Like it's kind of a moot point almost at this point.

But the things that you, like back then, he exposed that they could listen to every calls, the data centers. We all know that now. Like it's, everything's still functioning, but we all know that now. The guy that exposed all that, leave him alone. You guys were, you're doing illegal shit and now it's kind of legal and we still should be outraged, but now you can kind of just do it.

Yeah. Well, and also, and one of the things that was so disappointing about Trump, not pardoning Julian Assange and Snowden in his first term. And again, a lot of that is because it's like when he told you when he released the JFK files, well, because he was listening to Liz Cheney's pick for defense secretary, like Pompeo. And he was, people convinced him not to do it. But it's like at a certain point, you're like, okay, first of all, the spying that Snowden exposed was weaponized against you.

Right. You're like, they spied on you. So you kind of, I would think you have some like stake in being like, yeah, that should be exposed and should be abolished. But don't you think he didn't pardon him because he wanted a second term and he wanted to like, I think that was fun. I think that was fun. Yes. I think that was fun. Yes. Yes. I think that was fun. Yes. Run as smoothly as possibly and should the thing is he also, they're making deals here. Yes, but he also had a lame duck period.

I mean, he had a period where he knew he wasn't going to have a second term and still had the power, but he was worried about the impeachment. And he wanted to run again. Yes. He always wanted to run again. He was like, I think so. Yes. Talk to you and run again. Yes. So there's a fair point to that. Maybe now Donald Trump gets in and I do think this is what the corporate media and all of them are really terrified about is that now he gets in and he doesn't need to win another election.

I mean, he'd like to win a midterm election and keep the, I mean, he's got the Senate now. We'll see the House hasn't been determined yet, but he'd like to keep, you know, congressional control within the Republican Party, but he doesn't need to worry about a reelection.

Now if he really wanted to do the, be the drain, the swamp guy, he's got an opportunity now where I just, a lot of things have, have aligned where it's like, I think he could really get it done and I think he could get away with that. I think that he's kind of, he's taken all their bullets, both literally and metaphorically. You know, he's, he's been impeached. He's been convicted of felonies. He's been shot at. He's been like all the things have already happened.

He's been demonized in a way that no public figure has been demonized in any of our lifetimes. And he survived all the time. And he's stronger than he's ever been. What do you think about that thing I sent you today that compares the number of people that voted in 2020 versus the number of people that voted in 2024 and in 2016? Sure does look strange. And in 2012, could, have you seen it, Jamie? It's crazy. I can say, I can send it to you if you want to see the exact chart. That is a fair point.

There are still votes out there. I'd like to take a look at that again after 100% of everybody has been reported, but it does certainly seem weird. Let's not get technical and let's just enjoy it. I'm going to send you this, Jay, because it's so bizarre that I can't, I can't really believe it's real. When did I send it to you earlier today? Hang on a second, I'll find it. It's so crazy. You look at it and you go, there's, is this real? Oh, here it is.

Because it doesn't seem to make any sense because this is like one of the most consequential elections ever. I think everybody's pretty aware of that. And everybody is very dug in on their side. The left, he's Hitler, the right, he's saving us. And so more people voted, at least, at least the indication would be as much people voted in 2020, if not more, probably more people voted. But let's look at the numbers. Let's look at the difference in how many people voted for Biden in 2020.

It's unprecedented. It's way higher than any other time since 2012. And I'm sure probably before that there was less people back then, right? So if you go back to when I was a kid, there was only like 200 million people in this country. Yeah. And to be clear, 2012 and 2016 were not low turnout. No, no. They're all consistent. This is what's crazy. They're consistent. Look, they're all like 60. Look at where the number is. It's all like 65 million. Is that what it says? So that's all the same.

Every fucking time except 2020 in 2020, it goes way the fuck up. Look at it. It's like 80 what? Is it 82? Is that what it was? 81 and change. 81. So it goes up a fucking sizable chunk and only once. And it does seem like even with getting all the other votes and you're not going to get to that. But it's also like, look how many votes Trump got. He got even more in 2020 that he did in 2024. Like, what the hell is that about?

Is that because they haven't counted all the votes yet when they made this or is that the reality of the numbers? Because that doesn't make sense either. Yeah. And, well, and, you know, I just say, you know, in like the corporate media world, it's like this is the biggest crime ever to even ask this question. But you kind of can't blame us for asking it when everything you say is a lie. The ballots that came in the middle of the night are weird.

And the fact that you had mail-in ballots, that's weird. Because the thing about mail-in ballots is different than anything else. It's not a chain of custody. All right. There's a guy who drops it off and then the postman gets it. Who knows what the fuck that guy does? They used to be going postal. Postman used to be scary because he should remember. Yeah. I don't know how they fixed that. But they did stop. Yeah, there was a time. Good point.

They were like fucking separating things by zip codes and like, enough. And they were just killing everybody in their office. You remember the old sign felt bit on the show? No. He has Newman's a postman and he's like, why do you guys always like go crazy and just kill people? Because the mail never stops. It's so funny. It's just like, he's coming. Yeah, that was always my suspicion. It's just like a mundane job that's like, and you're working with these people you don't like.

I'm going to fucking kill everybody. But there's a bunch of those guys who it became a term. There was a video game called postal in the video game. You just ran around shooting people. Yeah, it was a crazy game. Yeah, that was a better time. But this was like the 90s that all this was going on and something happened and they stopped fixing it. So my point is, who knows what that post guy's doing? Like you could just throw some stuff in the garbage.

If you know you're in a Republican county, throw some stuff in the garbage. If you're a cab driver from some other country and you're over in America and someone says I'm going to give you a bag of balance. I'm going to put them in your trunk and you're going to go take them to this place. You're like, okay. You're going to give me $500. Okay, I'll drop off these ballots.

When you're doing low level scams in small counties where you have corrupt people that are working the voting machines, how many Republicans are paying attention? How many Democrats are paying attention to the corrupt Republicans? There's always been election fraud to pretend that we lie about the very fine people. He said there were very fine people on both sides. Obama's lying about that in front of the whole world. They lie about everything. You don't think they would cheat.

Well, that's right. Exactly. If every word that comes out of your mouth is a lie that you can't tell me that I'm not allowed to suspect. And also, you know, if it's like, if what Rachel Maddow says is real, right? Like if you're telling me your world view is essentially that Adolf Hitler is running for president, it looks like it's a coin flip if he's going to win. That's what they were telling us that it was 50-50, turns out it wasn't. But Adolf Hitler's running, this is the end of democracy.

It's on the ballot. We'll never have elections again if this guy wins. So if that's true, then why wouldn't somebody who's got a bunch of ballots for him cheat? I would do that. If Adolf Hitler was about to win, I'd cheat to make sure he won't. If Adolf Hitler's about to win, you should do anything you can. So you're going to tell me on one hand Adolf Hitler's about to take over America. And on the other hand, but no one would ever cheat. No one would ever break the rules to stop Hitler.

The conversation that people, the dumb American pop conversation is, would you murder a baby if that baby was Adolf Hitler? You know what I mean? That's the pop question that people ask about Adolf Hitler. And I think the implied correct answer is yes. You're supposed to say I would murder baby Hitler. I'd wait till he's 17. Yeah, probably feel a little bit better about yourself. Yeah, by the time he's 17, I'd know he's a piece of shit.

And you could run a real good experiment on like Nurchiverse nature, like raise him, loving, be nice. Give him some mushrooms. Yeah, you got to sell it a little fucker. But anyway, so you're saying someone wouldn't, it's also, it's like, it's not even just that they're liars who are in the business of propaganda. It's that it's incoherent propaganda. For propaganda doesn't even make sense, like if propaganda point A is true, then propaganda point B is impossible to be true. Right.

And one of the things that I'm so happy that Trump won about, you know, is she just needed to lose. Like this, there's a certain line of that they crossed that you're like, we need to be in a country where that doesn't work. Like that can't work. But here's just two follow. Here's one of the most important precedents. You can't have someone that's running, didn't go through a primary. You have to at least go through and respect the process of allowing us to pick who our representative is.

No one would have picked her. She didn't, when she was trying to run for president, Tulsi Gabbard nuked her out of orbit. And that was it for her. She dropped off a cliff and that was done. And that's how it should have been. And she'll Biden picked her as his vice president. Get away from that. You should always have a primary.

Like if you really believe in the democratic process and if you really believe in the democratic party, you should want the best representative of your party as voted for by the population. 100%. And then you can't, you can't have someone bypass that because then you have a complete puppet. 100%. And then in addition to that, you're thinking about who crazy this is. You're going to bypass the democratic process and then you're running on democracy as on the ballot. Right.

I mean, this is just too much. Amazing. It's too much. You want to like punch yourself in the face like you can't do that to me. You can't say that. Well, they've been so used to doing it before. They had full complete control of the narrative because they own the media and they own the media for so long. They had the run of the roost for so long that they got cocky and they didn't pay attention to the game as it was evolving.

They're like a UFC one fighter that takes time out of the gym and steps into 2024 and tries to compete against the skies of today. Like you missed the game, the game is way past where you were and you guys are still doing goofy shit like taking people out of context and not knowing that people are going to make YouTube clips showing what he actually said versus you and it's going to undermine your credibility even more. I am I used to bomb was my favorite president.

He's the best spokesman other than Clinton of all time. Now I think he's a liar. I look at that. That thing of him said he said there's very fine people on both sides. That's not what he said. He said I'm not talking about the KKK and white supremacists. They should be condemned. It was so clear. So clearly and what he was saying was that there were very fine people on both sides of the arguments about tearing statues down.

Like he was saying look, it's reasonable that there are some people who are like no, this is our history. We want to keep it up. And then there's other people who are like this represent slavery or something like that want to take it down. And then and then first of all, it was clear when he said it, but that's what he meant. And then they ask him a follow up question, are you saying the white supremacists are very fine people because no, how many times do I need to say that?

No, I am not saying that any of the white supremacists and like that's not enough. And then there was a sneaky thing that they used to do. They would ask him, will you disavow white supremacy? Will you disavow white supremacy? What do you talk? First of all, that's like saying to someone like, will you do anything, any crime that you would never do? Right. And then there's the valmurder. Like of course I'll disavow murder.

Oh, well, well, also you're implicated at something we have to disavow murder, which you're connected somehow and other to murder now. Dave Smith, under any circumstances, do you disavow murder? Like I'm not murdering anybody. What the fuck are you saying? And so after he had done it like maybe a hundred times, no exaggeration, they'd go, now you still haven't disavowed white supremacy. And he'd be like, no, I have. Over and over again. But to your point, which I think is a really good one.

And I think I love the analogy for people who are MMA fans. It really is like someone coming into MMA in 2024 and being like a Amajjitsu specialist, I've never trained wrestling or striking. Exactly. And you're like, okay, that's not going to work anymore. Like I know that worked in 1993, but like that's not going to work. It's they have not adapted to the new world that we're living in now. And you saw, there was a lot of evidence of this.

But these things that used to work now come with a heavy price. So one of the things that politicians used to do in general was that they would give the same stump speech everywhere they go. Message discipline is what it's called. And you always stay on message. And this is the idea is that you're never going to get your message out there unless you say the same thing over and over again to everyone. But now we have the internet.

And you have these compilations of Kamala Harris saying she's in from a middle class family like 75 times in a row. And you just look like a psychopath. You're like, oh, what are you? So now there's like a cost to playing the game in the old way. But they don't adjust and Trump, whether even intentionally or not, was always just kind of like, oh, well, I just speak off the cuff. So I don't do that. You know, like, I mean, he's got themes that he hits a lot like all of us kind of do.

But he doesn't do that. And he did. And Donald Trump, one of the brilliant things, and man, I mean, I can't believe I haven't just asked you this already about this. But one of the really brilliant things that Donald Trump did, which obviously, look, R.F.K. did it. And Vivek Ramaswami, I think both like they recognize, like, we're in a new landscape here. And there are these shows on the internet that have much bigger audiences than these traditional shows.

Oh, and by the way, I get to go long and I can really give an in depth, you know, like a point on every single topic. And dude, I mean, Trump coming on here and her refusing to, this is, I mean, dude, you kind of put Donald Trump in the white hat. This is amazing. Shuttle down. People who listen. Everyone's thinking it. Well, for sure him getting to be himself and just have a conversation with someone who's not being hostile.

Yeah. You know, and I did ask him questions that I wanted answers to like this proof that he lost in 2020, he did not provide me with that. And I've said, and we talked about it in depth yesterday, that if I was accused of election denying, which election denial, it's like, there's Holocaust deniers number one. And then there's maybe vaccine denier and election denier election deniers probably a little higher than vaccine denier.

You could be a cook and a vaccine denier, but still believe the Donald Trump lost the election. And then you get a vaccine denier, you're cast out of the kingdom. There's a couple other ones that go underneath that, but those are the big ones. Those are the big ones. And you get put into a box like instantaneously.

If I was putting that box, I would have responses to every question I would say, well, in Georgia, there was blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, this was this would have been, these people were dead. These people, they should have never been voting in the first place. They were not a United States citizens. I would have all the information ready to fire. And he didn't. He was like, there's books. I tell you.

I don't really have the suspicion that he's, he's way busier than me. And I can barely pay attention to things. Sometimes I agree to do things. My wife tells me we were going to do something. What are we talking about? She was, you said, yes, do it. Yes, I did. When you were making coffee, I wasn't paying attention. I don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Where are we going? You know, but that's just normal life stuff, right? This guy is literally running for a fucking president.

He's got what? All these golf courses everywhere and businesses everywhere and Mar-a-Lago and fucking family. Because millions of things. So probably they told him the election was stolen. He told me, find the results, find it. Let's get it overturned. These fucking criminals. I don't know how much you really looked into it. I don't know. I don't know how much he studied it because he, I, you didn't really have an answer for it. I would want you to regurgitate it fact by fact.

And I think Vivek could do that. If you ask Vivek a question about that. If he has JD Vance, a question about that. I bet if they were accused, they would be able to rattle off all those numbers since statistics. I think that Vivek probably wouldn't make the claim exactly in the same way that Donald Trump was accused. Yeah, sure. Well, yeah, Vivek isn't going to say anything without having a detailed answer to it. That's not Trump. That's not just JD.

Yes, listen, Trump is different than Vivek and JD. He's a different type of animal. There is so much evidence. Well, the thing is one of the things that was really interesting and that was one of the most interesting moments of your show with him was that you weren't going to say anything that you weren't asking it the way CNN would ask it. You weren't badgering him. You were after having a very honest, good faith conversation for a while. You were asking in good faith, like what's the evidence?

Yeah, he'd, look, I think the truth is that his lawyers made a lot of outlandish claims, none of which they could prove in court. Essentially what he has in terms of the argument, I think is kind of what we have, what we just looked at. We're like, sure does look strange. It does seem weird to me that 80 million plus people voted for Joe Biden and the regime was so working against him in every other way.

Glenn Greenwald, who's, I think just one of the absolute, like most brilliant people out there. I think work is incredible. I love the way he put it. I thought it was perfect where he goes, he's like, I don't really have any evidence that they stole the election from him, but they clearly rigged the thing against him. Then just kind of goes through all the censorship, the Hunter Biden story, the media. In that environment, it's very easy.

The analogy that I use, I think I may have said this before to you, but it's almost like if there's a guy who's cheating on his wife all the time, and then one day, she's like, last Friday, you didn't answer your phone when you were out. I know you were cheating on me. She's wrong. He wasn't cheating that Friday. She's kind of right even though she's wrong. But I mean, like she might get the detail wrong, but her overall suspicion is in fact correct.

You think there was a lot of that with Trump supporters, which is like, listen, man, you framed him for treason for three years of his presidency. Then you shut down the economy, and that was totally partially at least to ruin his economy for his reelection year. Then you were totally supporting the riots that were destroying. You were just causing chaos. Then you overhauled the way we do votes, and you killed his big October surprise story by censoring it off all the social media sites.

And now you're telling me the most unimpressive senator in the history of America, Joe Biden got 80 plus million votes. He got more votes than Obama in 2008, really, like this just smell. But that is not something you can take to court. Right. That's not something you can say definitively as a fact and defame people and slander people. And that's where Giuliani's fucked, right? Giuliani got hit with a huge lawsuit. How much was it? Like a hundred and fifty million? I don't remember.

It was a lot. But yeah, but also Rudy Giuliani is a lawyer, and he should know that like, you kind of can't say that unless you got something to really present in the way you should say it is by presenting the evidence. You should even make claims. You should probably just present the evidence. Well, they were saying, I mean, Sidney Powell, I think that's her name and Giuliani. $148 million damages verdict adds to Rudy Giuliani's over his legal eyes about two Georgia election workers.

So what did he say that these ladies did? So these are defamation, Sidney? It must be. What did he say that they did? Defamation case brought by two former Georgia election workers, Marks a new low point for the man once allowed it as America's mayor, his advocacy of Donald Trump's false election claims led to criminal charges and hefty legal bills. What did he say that they did? What did he say? What did he say? Let's find out what his statements were. See if you can find it.

Remember when Ron Paul destroyed Rudy Giuliani on the debate stage? So here it says Giuliani. So this is different, I think. Q's in participating in a wide range conspiracy to thwart the will of Georgia's voters who had selected Democrat Joe Biden over Republican incumbent, he faces 13 charges including violation of Georgia's anti-racad tearing law. The federal version in which was one of his favorite tools as a prosecutor in the 1980s, that's crazy.

Because he's the one who took out like the mob. Yep. Jesus Christ. So but let's find out what he said if we can. I'm interested. Isn't it annoying that they make it so hard to find like the actual thing? You know, lies he spread about them that upended their lives with racist threats. Well, what were the lies? What did he say? When it says upended their lives, click on that link. See what it says.

Georgia election worker suing Rudy Giuliani and I tell jurors that his lies made her fear for her life. What the fuck did he say? Repeted false claims about her and her mother saying that they were engaged in changing votes. I personally cannot repair my reputation at the moment because your client is still lying on me and ruining my reputation further.

She told Giuliani's lawyer, she sobbed, she testified that her life was turned upside down by the accusations, though they were quickly debunked by state officials. Her attorneys displayed a few of the graphic messages accusing her of treason and more that she received after Giuliani in December of 2020 falsely accused workers at the state farm arena of tampering with ballots. You got to have real evidence if you want to say something like that. And again, Rudy Giuliani is a lawyer.

Like he should know that, you know. California is a law reported 54% of the house. That's somewhere in the range of nine million plus votes, but that's the biggest missing. Oh, so far still? How do they not count at all? Only 54% of us is updated to. How do they, why are they so slow? They suck at everything over there now. 85 for Nevada, 73 or something for Washington and Oregon. Oregon is at 62%. So they still have a lot to go up there. All right. So we'll see what these numbers look like.

But at the end of the day, so there might still be more millions. So it might get close to the 80 million mark. I'll be interested to say because that, that, then that's a misleading chart. I didn't know that there were so many that hadn't turned in their votes yet. That doesn't surprise me about California. Like, hey, you're shit together, you fucking dorks. Yeah, they can't do anything.

They're charging 14% in state taxes than another 1% if you live in Los Angeles, the city of Los Angeles, you could hit with another 1%. Dude, that's like agent and manager fees. You know? You imagine like you make a good amount of money. Like, let's say you make $100,000 a year, you have to pay $140,000 to the government for what? For what? Yeah, then if you move a Tennessee, zero, move to Texas, zero. And they wonder why people are flooding out of their state by the hundreds of thousands.

And you can't even count the votes in time. You fucking knuckleheads. Like what are you doing? Yeah. No, they can't do anything. That's such a goofy state, just overburden with regulations. You can't even have flavored vapes anymore. What is a belly's hooked on the strawberry, man? You gotta take it out of the store to protect my little belly. It's the strawberry that gets them. You can have flavored zins.

Well, and isn't it so like the whole war on tobacco, which I guess vapes aren't tobacco, but the whole like, you know, like cracked out on smoking and everything that kind of happened in my lifetime is it's really, really wild when you take into account all the stuff that Bobby Kennedy talks about. Oh, yeah. But we're like the most unhealthy country.

And you took away like, yeah, a lot more people used to smoke cigarettes and cigarettes aren't good for you, sure, but we were a healthier country when people were smoking cigarettes. I need a new regulation, my little belly, and it's strawberry, baby. Do you ever use zins? Occasionally. Now, these are Lucy's. These are espresso flavor. This is contraband in California. Are these, uh, wait, are these the Tucker Carlson ones? No, no, no, this is another company. These are breakers.

They have a little thing in there. You break it. It gives you flavor. It tastes like coffee. Go ahead, break it. Right. Bite down. You want it? Oh, yeah, baby. Illegal in California. Right here. We're in Texas. Yeah, this doesn't seem, this doesn't seem like it's your real freedom. You're in freedom. In Texas. No, if you want flavor, you have to have that and a stick of gum. You live in California. You can get your cinnamon gum.

And you could chew your cinnamon gum with your fucking no flavors in. And you could have a nice little experience, almost like you have a cinnamon's in. But you're not allowed to have a cinnamon's in because you're too much of a fucking baby. You can't control yourself. Well, it's like, and you can't either. You fuck it. Dude, I mean, you know, I'm on the road all the time. Yeah, right. I was, and you go through out this whole country and it's like, yeah, people don't smoke anymore.

That was effective. I mean, they, not like the way they used to, you know, there's not people smoking cigarettes like that. But every single town I go to in this entire country has an Arby's and a Burger King and a KFC and like they have every single town, even when they have nothing else, they have every single type of fast food. And you look around and like everybody's obese, everyone's unhealthy.

I mean, when you rattle off, you know, when Bobby Kennedy gave that speech when he threw his support behind Donald Trump, I was watching that with my wife and my mother-in-law. And they both have tears in their eyes as he's just reading down the stats of how unhealthy we are as a country.

It's just, you know, man, one thing, I'm really, really glad that Bobby ran for president this year and I'm really glad he ended up throwing a support behind Trump and hopefully he gets a really important position in there. But the one thing that I almost felt like you couldn't argue with him that even if you don't blame the same culprits that he blames, which is what they love to say, it's like, how is everyone not talking about this?

Now is this not an issue that every single presidential candidate has to address? It's killing people. Yeah, killing kids. It's killing kids and it's making people way more vulnerable to a host of other diseases, including cancers. It's terrible for you. Cardiovascular, like the 77%, I think, Bobby said 73% of all American boys are not eligible for the military.

So they are unfit to serve because they're either obese or they have a host of these metabolic conditions that have come about from poor diet, from poison, from eating poison. Essentially, you're eating your slow dosing your body with poison and sugar all day long and that's most people. And we don't do anything about that, but then we try to regulate vapes. Have you known the cold? Do you know where to fap? Do you know Nicole Shanahan?

Yes. I have a metter in person, but I actually did a face time with her and I think Willie D from the ghetto boys. Really? That's an odd pairing together. Well, I think she's great. I had her on my podcast a couple times. And it's just as 77% of young Americans between the age of 17 and 24 are not considered fit for military service. Unbelievable, dude. Only 11 health health, well mental health.

That's to set substance abuse, education, social and behavior factors, criminal records, US military is facing a recruitment crisis due to these challenges as well as a lack of interest among young people. So it's only 11% is like physically so unhealthy that they can't do it. That's obesity actually. So there's probably a bunch of other conditions other than obesity. Right. Mental health issues. It's a significant factor, I wonder what number that is. I bet drug and alcohol abuse is a big one.

Yeah. That's a big one. It's just 8% for drug and alcohol abuse. So I wonder how much the mental health is. I bet that's a big one. Doesn't say does it? Let's find out because that seems like there's a lot of people out there with mental health conditions. Medical physical health. Drug and alcohol abuse, 8% medical physical health, 7%. What does it say about mental though? Mental health and overweight conditions.

Hmm. Okay. Okay. 4% mental health, 7% medical physical, only 8% drug abuse, 11% overweight. Wow. Did she, look at this 44% though, more than one reason for condition. She for almost half, more than one of these problems that makes you ineligible. That's crazy. I was, I can't remember what town I was in, but Nicole Shanahan who I think she's great. And it was really, really interesting. I had her on my podcast twice, just really, really smart lady who really knows a lot about this stuff.

She sent me this like video that she posted. So I'm in a hotel room and I was there with my buddy Rob Bernstein, who's a co-host of my podcast, part of the problem, very, very funny comedian, very smart guy. And so I've literally, I was texting with him and we were like on our way to go to the show. So I was like, hey, meet in the lobby in 10 minutes. And then I got an Uber taking us to the comedy club. I can't remember where we were. And Nicole Shanahan sends me this video.

It was like a video that she put out on Twitter. I didn't know what it was going to be. She just sent me it and I just clicked on it and play it. And it was just about what her family went through with their kids, illnesses and stuff. And it's the most touching video ever. And I'm literally sit down. It's so powerful that I sit down. I'm just watching this whole thing. And I started crying watching it. Because I got kids with health issues really cuts close to the bone for me.

But as I'm sitting there, literally sobbing, watching this video is so emotional. And then literally it just dawns on me in the middle of it that I'm supposed to meet my comedian friend in one minute in the lobby to go to the show. And I'm sitting here like, what am I doing? I'm sitting in my hotel room crying about these kids. But anyway, the point of it is that like, hey, look, I don't know enough about this stuff. You know, I know about stuff that I know about. I don't know enough about this.

I really should educate myself more on it. But if your argument is that like that Bobby and Nicole are blaming the wrong culprits, you know, it's not the vaccines and it's not the Wi-Fi and it's not like, okay, I don't know. But like, what is it then? And why are you not interested in this? Why are they the only ones who are talking about this?

You're telling me we lead the world in chronic illness and that's not something that comes up in any presidential election ever other than when Bobby Kennedy runs for president. That's insane. You don't think the increase in the number of autism cases is an area we should discover. We should look into. We should investigate. You think that that's all been figured out? Like why are you so convinced? And explain, I'm sorry, I'm letting you know that I'm somewhat ignorant on this subject.

So just like explain it to me like I'm really, really stupid. Talk slowly. They can't do it. Okay. Where if you're talking about very mild autism, okay, like what we used to call aspergers, which I guess they don't call that anymore. But if you're talking about mild autism and you want to convince me that that went undiagnosed in the past, I can totally believe that.

There is no way that moderate or severe autism went undi- it may have not been correctly diagnosed, but you did not not notice that. Like I'm sorry. It's not for Verizon numbers that it should be concerned. There's no way. I'm saying there's no possible way that there isn't an increase going on here. Because obviously even in the 1940s or in the 1950s, if someone was nonverbal, they would have noticed that. They would have noticed that this, you know what I mean?

There was a lot of kids like that in your school. You would know. There's no way you would have called it something. Maybe you wouldn't have understood it the way we understand it today. And thank God people do understand it better. There's a lot more tools that are provided and there's a lot more awareness about it and special schools and things like that. But come on.

There's so much of this is one of the things that exposes how foolish our whole system is, is when you just see that there's no even desire to get to the bottom of this. It's like the Trump assassination. Not only that. No desire. There's no desire to get to the bottom of it and it's about children. Which is the most vulnerable people that we all should be protecting. But they're so entrenched in this ideology that you have to trust science.

And if you're a vaccine denier or a bad person, like no one's a vaccine denier, what we're saying is there may be a correlation and there may be something that if investigated, it shows has been covered up. And there may be a situation where the vaccine companies have complete immunity to prosecution. They can never be held liable, which was the only way that they could still manufacture these things because they said that they cannot be safe and effective. Yes, it cannot be safe for everybody.

There's going to be side effects. That's exactly right, dude. And they can't be liable for those side effects because then they would go under. This is like, this is what set this whole chain in motion where when I was a kid, you got three vaccines, now you have 72. It's wild. And it reminds me kind of of, you remember like when they were trying to push the COVID passports, the vaccine passports and the logic would just fall apart.

Yeah. It's face like you're like, wait a minute, you're like, you're telling me the vaccine is 100% effective. You're saying if you take the vaccine, you can't get COVID or spread COVID. And then you're also telling me that the people who are vaccinated in this restaurant need to be protected from the unvaccinated entering this restaurant. That doesn't make sense. No. I'm sorry. I'm not a genius, but I can figure out the logic in that does not, is flawed.

Okay. And in the same, in the same sense, though, it's like, so what is the, if you're arguing that all these vaccines are safe and Bobby Kennedy's a cook, then why do they need the liability protection? Yes. Absolutely. There was also another thing that they did it in make any sense because it went against the science. And there was saying that if you don't get vaccinated, it's going to cause variance. And that's not what they say.

With people who study viruses and vaccine says you do not vaccinate during a pandemic with a non-steralizing vaccine. So meaning if a vaccine, if you give it to someone and they could still transmit and they could still catch the disease, you're going to cause these variants. And there is a scientific paper that I posted like, de-early into the pandemic that said this and people got so upset at me. Tell me what this says.

What this said, there's a virologist that would go on these podcasts that, you know, they have to be the people that are willing to step outside the line and say these things. They're saying this is not what you ever do during a pandemic. Because you're going to create variants and that's exactly what happened. And people start doctors started blaming the variants on the unvaccinated. But if you question those doctors, explain to me how that works. There's no fucking answer.

It's just a narrative that they were having to say vaccine good, anything else bad, Iver Mectin, you're crazy, killing people, death, blood on your hands. It was all a siop and it was super effective. And it was a way for them to make ungodly amounts of money. And that's what it was.

And the quicker we accept that and realize that we're vulnerable to that kind of shit, if we still keep following along the same kind of lines that we're on today, as soon as we realize that, the better off we all are, all of us. Yeah. And I think I got here in a kind of similar way to you, which is I think a story for like millions of Americans, is that I never even thought about this issue. I never dove into reading a lot about any vaccine until there was this COVID vaccine.

And then I really dove into it and read a lot about it and found out that you guys were lying through your fucking teeth about the whole goddamn thing and that the whole clinical trials were totally rigged and totally fake and that you were able to get everybody in the like the, the scientific institutions of our government to all repeat these lies. And then everybody in the corporate media and the political class to repeat these lies.

And then when Bobby Kennedy came along and said, well, you know how that was all bullshit? There's a lot of bullshit with these other vaccines. I was like, I'm listening. That doesn't seem unreasonable to me. It doesn't seem unreasonable at all. And the fact that they were trying to silence legitimate scientists, doctors, professors at major universities for stepping outside the lines. They were trying to remove them from Twitter. They were trying to silence them.

They worked in conjunction with the original Twitter to do that. These silence to real experts, you know, and when that lady from Twitter had to testify in front of Congress, it was amazing. That was amazing. And what shows people grill her? Like are you a doctor? Like why are you silencing doctors? Like what would you do? That was the same one you had on. Yeah. It's simple.

Yeah. And one of the interesting things about that was, which is, that was a great, still probably one of my all-time favorite JRE episodes. But when they were arguing that they don't have a bias. And then I think Tim was like, yeah, but you ban people for dead naming or misgendering. Right. And she was like, well, yeah, I mean, that's hateful. And you're like, yeah, but that's a bias. Right. That's a bias.

And it's one thing when you're just talking about whether we're calling somebody a boy or a girl. But then you realize, oh, you have the exact same thing when it actually comes to very important medical information about a product that Americans are being forced to take. Right. This is madness. No matter what you say, they're being forced. They're being forced if they want to fly. They're going forced if they want to work in a place that is more than 100 people.

If the workplace mandates it, the force if they want to go to a university, forced, forced, forced. And they were implementing in a totally unconstitutional way. They were going to through OSHA, through workplace safety. Like just the most blatantly unconstitutional proposal that Joe Biden was going to make it the law of the land that every single business with 100 people or more had to have everybody vaccinated. And it was only because of Donald Trump's Supreme Court that that got struck down.

And that's something that people who are paying attention remember. And so like, okay, you can demonize Donald Trump all you want to. But how many millions of Americans were not fired from their job, did not lose their livelihood because they refused or were not vaccine injured for a vaccine that they never needed to take.

I mean, how many people fell into the category that like me and you and so many other people fell into where we got the thing and beat it real quickly before we ever got vaccinated and then just didn't need it. Right. And then which is didn't make any sense even even with the information we had about the vaccine back then, which we have a lot more now, but even back then, I mean, you were, you looked CNN's doctor right in the eyes and he goes, well, are you going to get the vaccine?

And you go, no, I just beat COVID. Why would I need to? And he had no answer for you. Had no reason why there's no compelling reason why you joined the team. That's it. That's all it is. Yeah. I mean, I had a very intelligent friend that had a conversation with you going to get vaccinated now. I go, why would I do that? It was a weird conversation. I go, I beat it in three days. I go, wasn't even that sick, man.

Like I made a video three days later explaining and I got in trouble because I took the wrong medication to get better. Are you guys out of your fucking mind? Like if you, if you were really worried about people's health and safety, when you say, hey, what's this 57 year old guy doing getting over this so easy? Right. What's he doing different? What's he doing different? And you go, oh, he's very serious about his health. Oh, he takes really good care of himself.

By the way, I had, you enjoyed me giving the business to Chris Cuomo over. That was one of my favorite homeboy friends. Favorite homeboy from this year. He was a good one. He was trying to do CNN outside of CNN. Mm-hmm. You know, like when he said, I've never said that and then they pull up the clip like immediately with him demonizing. Shout out to Patrick Pitt, David's crew because they really had my back on that one.

Yeah. You know, it's not like I didn't send them that clip before or anything. Well, they in real time in real time had that ready to go. They had a Jamie too. Yeah, yeah, they had everybody's got a Jamie. Not Jamie. There's only one Jamie. There's only one Jamie, but there's a lot of knockoffs. Yeah, a lot of knockoffs. But the fact that you checked him in real time and he just had to sit there and eat it, it's just they were puppets. They were puppets for the system.

They were doing it because that was their job. That's how you get ahead in your career. You want to be the main guy at CNN. That's what you do. And that's what they were doing. And now he's not doing it anymore. Good luck to him. I hope he does stay on an independent path and becomes an objective person. And he's made some strides towards that, I think. I think he's taken some fucking lumps and I think you beat the fuck out of him in that debate. That debate was Mike Tyson's early fights.

You see the fucking white dude with the muffin top. It's flatlined in 15 seconds. That's what that was. It's mean, look, man, and it's not really like a comment on me. It's not that I'm so amazing at debates. It's just like the argument here is so weak. You're going to get a base. You're going to get a base. I appreciate that. I'm not bad at it. But also, I'm just right about this. The facts were on your side. Yeah, I mean, that's my super power, isn't that?

I'm like the smartest guy or the best of debates. It's just that I'm right in what I'm arguing and that makes it much easier. You know, I got, there was an organization that was pitching me on a debate, a two on two debate, which I don't really like doing, two on two debates. I've done like, I think one. Too many people talk. It's too much. Yeah, yeah. One on one is the way to do it. But they pitched me this like months after that.

I think it was, if I'm not wrong, I think the topic was about whether Joe Biden should drop out of the race or not. And they pitched me that it would be a two on two debate against two people. I don't remember who we're saying he should stay in. And it was going to be me and Chris Cuomo against them. And I told them I was like, no, no, I will not be on his side. And like, I don't, you know, I'm kind of over, you know, I, I, yeah, we had our thing. I gave him a beating. I think he deserved it.

But I'm just like, listen, man, I'll team up with like a left wing or something I agree with. I'll team up with the right wing or something I agree with. I'll, I'll team up with like a moderate on something I agree with. But no, not the corporate media guy who was the number one show at CNN. Like I'm not on their side. Even if I'm on their side on this issue, I'm against them.

And I, I know that this has probably been a theme of like every single time I'm on this show over the last 10 years or whatever it's been. But I just, and maybe it's a problem, I hate them so much. And I really think they deserve it. And it's not just that they lie about everything. It's like they lie about everything. And then they have the nerve to morally judge us.

Like if you just watch even just the last few weeks of the Trump election, it's, they're not in the business of reporting the news. They're totally just in the business of making you feel like you're a bad person. If you don't fall in line with the regime. Right. And you know, like it's like all of us know, right? Everybody knows this. America has this giant war machine, right? We're just always at war. We're the most war hungry country in the world.

Even if we're taking a little bit of a break from a war, we'll fight two more proxy wars while we do that. America looks back at the 90s, Bill Clinton, as the time of peace and prosperity. We call it peace because we only fought a war in like Serbia and had a blockade around Iraq and were like bombing the crap out of Iraq with a few other military interventions in there too. But the UN estimated when that Bill Clinton's sanction and bombing regime of Iraq, okay?

Everyone just thinks of George H.W. Bush's war and W's war. But Bill Clinton was bombing Iraq, his whole thing. He had a full blockade around the country. The UN estimated that 500,000 children died of starvation or malnutrition due to the blockade. Now I've heard people argue by the way that that number is exaggerated. Maybe it wasn't 500,000. Maybe it was only 100,000. Let's say it's a thousand.

So that's the time that we consider peace when we were just starving 100,000 children to death in Iraq. And you, everybody in the corporate media, are in the business. Every single one of those wars. You've sold them. Everyone. My entire life, the media has sold those wars. And you're going to morally look down on me. You're going to judge me. Motherfucker, you're in the business of baby murder. Get the fuck out of here.

You're looking down judging an American because maybe I'm going to vote for Donald Trump or maybe I dare to question the results of the last election. Fuck you, dude. And man, and it was a challenge debating him because they were playing the clips. You know, even before they played that clip that sunned him because he had said he didn't say that and then he clearly did, but they were just playing the clips of the way they were talking to people during COVID and the pandemic of the unvaccinated.

And it's you, Mr. Vaccine Skeptic. You're the reason why this and man, it was getting me angry. Like I was just like, all right, I got to control this here because this is two. I just... How sweet is it that he's on Ivermectin now? I mean, how sweet is that though? That is the nuttiest part of it all. Could you just set someone up for a better? He wants to say long COVID. Like hey buddy, let me tell you something.

If you got a novel medication injected into your body more than once, you probably had to do it twice. You'd probably at least had to get one booster. And you have some problem and you're saying this long term problem is COVID, long COVID. Are you sure? Are you sure? Or maybe that medicine that they injected into your body, you got vaccine injured. You don't want to say that though because you still want some sort of a job in corporate media so you have to get to the lawn.

You should be very concerned that this novel before never mass injected into people, who knows how many different people are going to have different results from some medication, some terrible fucking weird way their biology interacts with this medication. It's going to cause a horrible side effect. And now you're on Ivermectin to treat that. That's rich. And the way he tried to spin it... It's for long cause. He really should have just thrown in the white towel.

He would have done much better for himself. If you could listen, I was at CNN and I kind of just took for granted that they have the best experts. I'm sorry, I trusted their experts and now I realize they were. If he had said that, that would have been very hard. I still would have been harsh on him, but it would have been a different conversation and a different dynamic. What he did was he refused to admit that.

And then, and this is really what got me, is that then he started kind of attacking my motives. He was like, oh yeah, he goes, I know this is probably good for your podcast numbers and stuff. But as if I don't really believe what I'm saying, I'm just doing this to make money. They function. That's why they're accusing you of functioning that way. They're accusing you of doing things just because you know they're going to be outrageous and get a lot of views. But you know, I don't do that.

I don't do that. Yeah, I don't do that. No, I know you don't podcast. I know you're in the world and I don't do anything based on how many views I think it's going to get. That's a fact. Yeah. And you know, you don't like, there is nothing I say that I don't believe. I might be wrong about some stuff, but I, everything I say, I believe, I'm not like ever saying anything because just like, oh, this will, you know, like bring in bigger numbers or something like that. They think that way.

That's why he's accusing you of that. Yeah. That's a motivation for people that are in that industry. If you're in the fucking industry of being a mouthpiece for network news, like there's a very narrow window of behavior that you have to operate under. You have to stay inside these lines and whatever if you're on Fox or if you're on CBC, C NBC or whatever it is, MSNBC, you have a narrative. They have a narrative in the office. There's a culture. There's a way people think about that.

And this is your job. So you're going to do the things that you think you're going to get you more ratings. You're going to do the stories that get people more outrage. That's how you're thinking. It's the wrong way to think when you're on the internet. And they also have, they, there's a real incentive to never consider like what I said about them being in the baby murder business because that's, you know, that's pretty rough. Right. The thing of yourself is that.

And you know, I remember this one time I watched a documentary on abortion and it was like a very pro choice. How much free time do you have? This was this before I had kids. This before I had kids. I had so much free time before I had kids. I'm going to win for the TV. That's the last thing I want to watch. I'm a weird guy, chair. But that's what I was. That's what I do. I might though, but well, it was it. And I forget where it was. I might have been on Netflix or something.

I really want to know what was going on. Well, I was, I was kind of interested in the subject and, you know, what's before I had kids. But I remember I was watching it. I had a very pro choice bet. And there was this abortionist, this abortion doctor, this lady, and she was like, she was like, listen. I've been an abortion doctor for 30 years. And let me just tell you something. There is no moral issue with having an abortion. It's a thing in a petri dish. It's not a human being.

But I remember just watching it and being like, well, yeah, but like you better feel that way. Right. Because if you even start to entertain the possibility that the roof, what does that make you? Right.

So there's this very powerful social incentive for them to like dig their heels in and not admit that like, oh, the United States of America, the greatest country in the history of the world with more freedom and prosperity and the cultivated the greatest economy and the greatest, you know, music and literature and just everything that is this superpower.

Oh, we presided over the bankruptcy, destruction and like the devolving into nothing more than a like military industrial complex, big, bank, big pharmaceutical, most corrupt nation on earth. And we didn't cover that. We watched all of that happen. And not only did we not cover it, we demonized anybody who covered it. And we were at ever, you know, like that's very difficult to ever confront.

And it's always just so much easier for human beings to just go, nope, the problem is misinformation and brush on racism. They were saying that the number one thing for women was abortion. That was the narrative that was being expressed over and over again. It was the number one issue for them. The number one concern. What was the only political winner they had? Did you see what Kurt Manskrifert tweeted? No, no, but I want to. Oh, God, give me a second. He's the man.

Kurt is the fucking best when things are flying. And I think it's crazy. Emma said it's too, Jamie. He is one of the funniest human beings on the planet, for sure. He's a mess in the green room. He's just like, oh, I know. He got me down rabbit hole after rabbit hole. You didn't hear about this. He's like more conspiracies like Kurt.

I'm trying to like enjoy this experience of being at the comedy club and Donald Trump's about the way you're hitting me with conspiracy after conspiracy after you got caught on the side of the bar at Mitzi's with Kurt Manskrifert. You might be in for a night. And he's looming and he's big, big giant guy. Christina, I'll get right. Why? Give me your reasons why. My child is sobbing because her rights as a woman may be taking away. Why? And if you disagree, please unfollow me. Kurt says good news.

If she got all her COVID shots, she's probably sterile now. Anyway, also what the fuck is a woman? Also, could you imagine a child? Imagine a child and your child is sobbing because their right to kill a baby inside of them might be taken away. I don't believe that's true. It's very hard. I don't believe that's true unless you've distorted what we're talking about to that child and said that someone's going to tell that child what they can and can't do with their body.

Like in some sort of a weird dystopian way, like what did you say to that kid? Do you explain what an abortion is? Do you explain how they came about? They were in your body and then they came out. Now they're a little tiny person that's super vulnerable and you want to protect their right to kill a little tiny person inside of them. I'm not saying you shouldn't be able to do it and I'm not a woman. I should not have the choice of what a woman can't do with her body.

I would not want a man if I was a woman to tell me what the fuck I can do with my body. And I think it's all connected to religion and if somehow or another someone decided, then this would be a very minor comparison and not nearly as consequential. But if someone decided that men could no longer get his correctimes or excuse me, visectomies. If men could no longer get visectomies because of religious reasons, because of some sharia law or whatever the fuck it is, you cannot do that.

Men would be outraged. If women were forcing it on men, we have low population. You cannot get visectomies. Like what the fuck is going on? And you want to go to Oklahoma to get a visectomie because it's legal there. And then they track you. Were you in Oklahoma to get a visectomie? I'm like, what the fuck? Women would be outraged. That's happening with abortion.

There's talk of doing that with abortion, wherein states where it's illegal, women are not going to be allowed to travel in the United States of America. Were you supposed to have freedom to go to a place where you're going to have a legal medical procedure? It's legal in that place.

Whether you agree with it or not, if you're going to believe in states' rights and you don't think that this is a giant prison, we have to show your ID when you go in Arizona, you should be able to drive around, right? That's the whole idea of one country. You can go over the fuck you want to go. That's not your business. There's other things to worry about. Were you about these fucking gangs that are taking over apartment buildings? Were you about the border?

Were you about South Central Los Angeles? Were you about the South Side Chicago and fucking gang violence that kills more people than half the wars we have going on right now? Were you about important shit? Don't worry about what a guy wants to do to get a visectomie or what way worse a woman wants to do if she's trying to get into abortion. It's not your fucking business.

I think that if the argument is that abortion is killing a baby, which like there is an argument to, then I can understand the argument being, hey, that shouldn't be allowed. Now, obviously, I do think there are situations where it's pretty indefensible to force a woman to carry a baby to term. Yes. But there's a lot of rape incest. Also health. Major health issues.

Yes. There are situations where you find out that there is some congenital disease where this kid is not going to make it to three years old. And I would never dream of forcing, you know what I mean, that decision on parents rather than allowing them to make it. There is also a different, the vast majority of abortions are not that. And the vast majority of abortions are essentially, people just don't want to have kids right now.

And that's a little bit, that's much tougher to defend than those cases. But I will say that one of the things that always like, I find striking to me is that because I'm like a radical libertarian. And it's very interesting to me that like progressive Democrats all of a sudden become radical libertarians, but only on one issue. And they make literally exactly, I'm not even saying the libertarian position is to be pro choice.

There's libertarians who are pro life and libertarians who are pro choice. But the argument they make is a libertarian one. They're like, listen, I own my body, it's my body, it's my choice. The government shouldn't be involved in healthcare decisions. We believe in freedom. This is a basic fundamental right. It's a very libertarian argument. And it's just interesting that you only apply that to this one area.

There's not any other area where the any progressive Democrat would ever go, you know, if we're talking about Obamacare or we're talking about regulation or we're talking about taxes. They would never go, hey, listen, this is my money. This is my body. This is my choice. The government shouldn't be involved in that. You know what I'm saying? And there is something that's very bizarre about that.

Where it's kind of like maybe with immigration, they kind of try to use that an argument to like, oh, you shouldn't stop a person, freedom of movement type thing. They don't really do that anymore because it's been such a disaster. But it's just very strange to me that it's like, oh, what, you all become radical libertarians. Like only when it comes to this thing, which is kind of murdering a baby. But then there's the other side that says we're going to leave it up to the States.

Okay. Well, if you get rid of Roe v Wade and you leave it up to the States, if someone wants to go to another state where it is legal and you want to stop them from doing that or prosecute them when they come back to your state, that seems to be a problem. That's a problem. Because then it's like, you get me for gambling in Vegas because I come back. Right. You own that person's body. Would that person decide to get an apartment in Oklahoma? Right. And now they kind of live there sometimes.

What do you do? It also it seems where their driver's license is. Like what is that? It also just seems, I don't even know what the word, it seems like incoherent or unsustainable to say that if you're not breaking a law in the area where you are, that you could then be held responsible for that when you come back to it. Because again, like it's, you know, you go to a state where recreational marijuana is legal or where gambling is legal or whatever.

You know, the idea that it's like, if there's like the speed limit was 80 miles per hour in the town over. And then I come back and I get a speeding ticket for driving too fast over there where you're allowed to do that. So that seems unworkable. Exactly. That's a great analogy. Yeah, that's a great analogy. It's men too. It's men controlling women's bodies. That's the thing of it that freaks people out. And it's a step in the wrong direction.

If you, if you got rid of Roe v Wade and that's what you did. So now people have to go to a place where it's legal. If you're stuck in a state and you don't have the resources, but you are pregnant and you want to make a decision for your own body, that's not up to men to decide. If you really believe in states rights and you really believe the United States is one cohesive community, you should be able to travel to do whatever the fuck you want. You want to get your dick tattooed.

You want whatever you want to get. You want to get forehead implants. So you look at a unicorn, whatever the fuck you want to do. If you want to travel to go do that, including if you want to do something that's legal, it's a medical procedure that maybe I don't look that I frown upon. But if they decided in that state that it's legal, you should be able to do it there. Yeah, I mean, I think that the reasonable compromise for right now is Roe v Wade was struck down.

It's a state's rights issue, but yes, I agree with you. The tracking of what you do in another state where it is legal in that state, that first of all just seems unworkable to me. I don't see how that's possibly going to happen. And then I do feel like that's going to have to go back to the Supreme Court anyway, because it's such a precedent that you could be prosecuted for doing something that was legal in the area that you did. It's creepy. And it's an infringement on rights. I don't like it.

Even if I don't like the, even if I, you know, I wasn't a pro choice person if I didn't like the idea of abortion, I like less the idea of the government telling you what the fuck you can do and whether or not they can discover what you did in some other state. Like shut up. Yeah. You can't do that. And that's what I think a lot of women are fearful of. And a lot of that, I don't know if, I don't know how much of a push there is to make something like that happen.

I tried to find that about Texas the other day. There was one case, but we just kept talking. What was that one case, Jamie? There was something in Texas where someone may be traveled to get an abortion, because in Texas it's six weeks, which is kind of crazy. Like you don't have any time. You barely have enough time to realize you're pregnant for a lot of women. You're, well, I mean, you're probably not even going to test positive on a, like a home pregnancy test.

I think for like 28 days or something like that. So you got two weeks. Yeah. Yeah. After that to find out, make a decision, do what you got to do and that you have to make sure you get in under the wire or you can get prosecuted. Like seven weeks, you're in jail. Yeah. Which is kind of crazy. Yeah. Look, it's very, I don't know. It's, it's tough when you're drawing a line. It's very tough. Yeah. It's very tough to find a line other than conception that's not arbitrary.

Right. Bill Burr had the best bit. His bit about what's fantastic. Oh, yeah. I believe it's one woman's right to choose, but I think you're killing a bit. Yeah. You know, it's like Jesus Christ. He's dead on. Yeah. It's dead on. Yeah. Louis CK had a great one too. I can't remember that was an old Louis better. You had a great abortion bit too.

It's, it's a thing that I always say that if men can get pregnant abortion being an app on your phone, you'd be able to get a fucking abortion at the gas station. You'd be like, fill it up and take this out. Like, I'm not, fuck that girl. I'm not carrying a baby. Which I think this is the case and it's a little confusing. Okay. A Texas woman who was jailed and charged with murder after self-managing an abortion. What does that mean?

Can move forward with her lawsuit against the local sheriff and prosecutors over the case that drew national outrage before the charges were quickly dropped. A federal judge ruled on Wednesday. So US district judge drew B. Tipton denied emotion by prosecutors and the sheriff to dismiss the lawsuit during a hearing in the border city of McCallan.

The Zell Gonzalez who spent two nights in jail on the murder charges is seeking one million dollars in damages in the lawsuit did not attend the hearing. Texas is one of the nation's most restrictive abortion bands and outlaws the procedure with limited exceptions under Texas law. Women seeking an abortion are exempt from criminal charges, however. So why did they charge her? What did she do? What is self-managed abortion? Yeah, what does that mean? What does that mean? Oh, she took a drug.

So Gonzalez was indicted in 2022 after she took the drug, misoprostal, while 19 weeks pregnant. She was treated at Texas Hospital where doctors later performed a cistern in section to deliver a stillborn child after detected no fetal heartbeat. This is a little different. 19 weeks is pretty late too. Yeah, this is different. The charges were dropped just days after the woman's arrest. Okay, this is different. This is not someone going to another state.

So I think that is probably a JD Vance that he hadn't heard of that before and he certainly wouldn't want to put those kind of restrictions on people ever. But when you leave it up to the states, if you're stuck in one of those states, that's where women get really freaked out that Roe v Wade was overturned. Yeah, well, look, it's not. None of these things are perfect compromises.

And so even one of the things that's interesting is like for so long conservatives wanted to overturn Roe v Wade and it always seemed like a pipe dream like it was never going to actually happen. But then when you do overturn Roe v Wade, you do realize that it's like nobody's really happy. You know what I mean? It's like the blue states are still going to have like unrestrictive rules about it. So the right wing people aren't happy. And then the red states are going to be more restrictive.

So the left wingers aren't happy about it. It is, you know, it's one of those issues that is enormously complex and it's very difficult. You know, I'm not sure there is like a legal solution to it. I think it's a much more of a cultural issue. It's like if you're going to, if you were living in a society where say it was more similar to my grandfather's society where it was very normal that you married your high school sweetheart.

It was very normal that people waited till marriage to have sex and it was very typical that you got married at 19 or 20. Well, I'm not saying they did, but I just mean it was much more typical. Yeah. To get married at 19 and be married for 60 years or whatever. It's much easier to have rules about abortion in that society.

You know, whereas like if you're in like a hook up culture world where most people are not, you know, people are getting married at like 35 if they get married at all and they're spending from like 17 to 35 being with many different partners. Using apps. Yeah. You're just going to come in and just write a law on top of that. It's just a very, it's a very difficult situation.

But you know, to your initial point, it's like the Dems were running on that because that was really the only political winner that they had. That was the only issue that people actually really cared about and they were on the Democrat side about it. And that's why they had to run on that. That's why Kamala Harris, which was one of the craziest things of this whole campaign, one of the most amazing things is that they actually tried to just run on nothing.

One of my favorites was that Tim Walls tried to claim that his wife got pregnant through in vitro fertilization and she said that's not true. So he lied about that. What a weird guy he was. His wife had to come out and say he was lying. Yeah. Well, so something okay. Again, lied about everything. He lied about being a head coach. He was an assistant coach. Lied about his military rank. Lied about whether or not he served in a war. Lied about whether or not he was in Tienemann Square.

Yeah. Well, he lied about everything. What happened is, right? So Obama, who was obviously a very, very smart guy and incredibly talented politician, at least while he was running for president, he was. I think he's lost a step. But so Obama still was a bit of a narcissist and he wanted to pick Joe Biden as his VP. He didn't want someone who was going to outshine him. And so he picked Joe Biden who, you know, even before he went senile was never particularly bright.

So he picked Joe Biden as his VP. And then Joe Biden, well, he wanted some diversity points and he also wanted someone to not outshine him because now he was becoming senile and he was never that bright to begin with. So he picks Kamala Harris to be his VP. And then Kamala Harris needs to pick someone who won't outshine her. You know what I mean? So it's like the idiocracy.

It's like spun out of control real quick where all the sudden you get to like the third VP in a row and you're like, yeah, really? This is who you picked. Like, he's a knucklehead. You know, it's crazy is that this was in, in many ways, this was a, this presidential election was just so wild and so different from anything I've ever seen in my lifetime. You know, I'm 41 and this was different than any other presidential election of my lifetime for sure. I think substantially before that.

I think, I think before that too. But then there were these things that were also just like very conventional explanations for why you look at this Trump blowout. And it's almost like as you look back at it, it's like, yeah, what you guys thought you could get away with it is just, just very basic things that like Donald Trump picked a VP who, whether you like him or not, is a pretty impressive guy, very impressive guy.

There's a guy who went to, who was raised by a single parent who was a drug addict and ended up serving the country, going to an Ivy League school, becoming a venture capitalist, becoming a, a, a senator and, and can sit and have a conversation with you for three hours and be very intelligent and express and have fun. And he has fun. However you feel about him objectively, an impressive person. Yes. He picked a VP that could help him. He could do things that Trump can't do. Right.

You know, like he could go on on a show and, and really make the case pretty well in a hostile environment. He's got a very high verbal IQ clearly. You know, he's a very intelligent guy. She picked a VP who can't do anything to help her. It was like the weirdest human being you've ever seen. Like, like what was the strategy here guys? And they actually, they really just banked on being not Trump that they go, you know, all of the things that she ran on four years ago.

She walked away from every position and didn't have an answer for any of them. Didn't have an answer for what? Like it's totally fine to change your mind on something. And it's totally never reason. Yeah. I mean, it's very easy. We've all changed our mind. She's got a lot of things. And if you were like, hey, dude, you used to believe this, but you believe this now, you like, well, let me tell you something. Yeah. I read this guy and he just made such a good argument about it.

Yeah. And then he had all this data that I hadn't really seen before. That's fine. But she never had an answer for any of them. She went, my values haven't changed. What? Well, okay. So that, but again, what's the answer then? Like you were four Medicare for all. Now you're not. You were four open borders. Now you're not. You were four. Whatever. Other stuff. Trans surgeries for prisoners or whatever. Now you're not. What? She had no answer for that.

She's also that sitting VP and they go, oh, sir, are you running on the track record of the last four years? No, no, no. I'm also not going to run on that. Well, why not? Because I'm not Joe Biden. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Like what? What? That's what you're running on. That's it. Yeah. It's just like it was so unbelievable. But it's unbelievable. So many people were behind her, which is even wild there. It's wild that so many people were like, yeah, this is what we got.

So let's just fucking gaslight the shit out of half the country and run with it. And also see how far we can take. I got a piss. Let's come back. We'll talk about this. I'm going to do the sauna earlier. Sorry. No. It did an hour. He's an old dude, man. He's an old dude's a bad posture, a different than old dudes with regular posture. That's a very good point. Once they get to like this. Yeah, that's it. Yeah. It's a lot. It's fucking hard to keep your head up.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. After a while, gravity just wins. But Trump keeps on trucking. He's the only guy that went four years in the White House and didn't get older. Something really interesting about that. Preeding is the same. Preeding is the same. Four years later, where everybody else looks like they've been near a nuclear blast. You know what I- Radiation poisoning. Yeah. It's a really, really good point.

I've always thought there was something about like, um, because you know, just from doing stand-up, you know, if you think about like, if you really try to remember back to like your first, like few months in stand-up comedy. And you remember like how daunting getting up in front of people was. Oh, yeah. It's like a thing.

Yeah. You know, and that's the first step to being a stand-up comedian isn't like getting great material or even being- it's like, hey, get comfortable with going up in front of a group of people and speaking into a microphone to that, get comfortable with not getting a laugh when you wanted to get one, get comfortable with that. And there is something where like, like in 2016, you know, and people forget about this human element of it, right? Like Jeb Bush. Okay. It's the son of a president.

It's the brother of a president. And he was the governor of Florida. It's not like he was a, like a rookie. But when he's on that debate stage, he is stepping onto the biggest stage of his life. He's never been in front of a crowd like that before. Donald Trump, it's Tuesday. Right. I think this is what I do. Yeah. Donald Trump's like cracking his neck and going out there like, oh, are all the spotlights and cameras on me? That's about right. Okay. It's just like he's, and he was so comfortable.

That was a huge factor in why he was able to just nuke everybody. Yeah. Because it's like, yeah, this is what I do on the center of attention. These guys have never been there before. Oh, yeah. He was funny when he was talking about the one-liner that he cracked about Rosie O'Donnell. He goes, thank God I had that one because she was coming after me. She was coming after me. I had that one. I got her with that one. Well, he won her over. He did. Look at her.

Speaking for him, apparently she crushed it and made fun of Mark Cuban. Yeah. Yeah. I watched it. She's got, she's, I watched it. I have a, she's very sharp. Oh, she's very impressive. She was the original Fox fembot. She was original like super hot woman on Fox. She was so much smarter than you. And you're like, smarter and I squeal. They're all wearing something very inappropriate. Yeah, I said vagina curtains. I said it a bit about it. She's like, not even a good curtain.

That kind of grandma has over her. She's saying that flatters in the breeze. She goes by like, Jesus Christ, your inches away from vagina. It's covered by this thinnest piece of cloth. It's a wild way to dress. It's a weird culture over there. It's amazing. Let's hear it. Oh, four years ago, we had Mark Cuban on the program. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. May seem he was in the news this week. And he started going on about how bad America's race history was and how ashamed he was of America.

And that's why I was at all these protests. And he felt it was really important to stand up and speak out about human rights violations. And then it got awkward when I asked him about all the money he was taking from China. But then he dropped a bunch of F bombs and I thought I really enjoy this feeling of proving Mark Cuban wrong. And so here I am at a trunk rally, a strong intelligent woman to prove Mark Cuban wrong again. Damn. Yeah. That has to be. Yeah. She's a beast.

Yeah. That one has to be. Yeah. It was very, it's funny too because she's not like been in politics, but that was very like politically savvy. That was like a really smart way to go at it. Well, she was very demonized as well. Remember when she went over to do that NBC show? That was crazy. Like, they took her from Fox. They gave her a shit ton of money and then they just didn't like her over the and it was over the lamest thing. I forget even the comments.

Something about black face Halloween costume or something. Can you pretend to be a person that you admire that's like if you want to be Diana Ross? She was like, I don't think what's wrong with that. Right. It's not a bad question. There's one thing if you are mocking African American people, if you have like fucking Al Jolson black face on, but if what if you want to be Mr. T and you're a 10 year old kid, Mr. T's is hero. Do you really think that kids racist?

He puts a bunch of gold chains on and brown makeup on his face. Like, what are we calling black face? Like, what does that mean really? Black face in terms of like Al Jolson types of, yeah, like they literally used to use white guys pretending to be black guys in movies so they didn't have to have black stars. And they would be like overtly dumb and like it was like in the soul. It was very insulting. It was clearly like we think lesser of these people.

That's not necessarily the case if you just have the color black. Whatever it is, it's interesting for Halloween. Yeah, it's like you can't, but if you do everything but the skin color, which is just bizarre. Well, there's that's one of the other things that I do think has been very interesting over the last really over the last couple of years, I guess. And it's really on display with the Trump reelection thing is that the culture has moved.

Did you ever see when I talked to Robert Downey Jr. about Tropic Thunder? Yeah. Yeah. Could you do it today? Yeah, that was great. That was a great response. He's great, but it's technically true. You could do it. I thought his conversation, the adventurous thing with karma was goofy, but I love Robert Downey. Yeah, yeah. I like to get him to eat meat every time I look at him, like I'm very concerned. Oh, that's right. He doesn't eat meat. Yeah. Yeah. California vegan.

Well, I do think there's some stuff that we look back at now at like 2017, 2018, like the wokeism of that era does seem to be like, yeah, things aren't quite as crazy. As they were then or at least this, there was a little bit of like fatigue of it. You kind of can't get away with it anymore. Isn't that like the pendulum though? Doesn't it swing? I guess. So I'm wearing the other way. And ultimately it moves into, it's moving towards a better direction for society.

And it's just a massive over correction. And then you have hustlers and grifters who get involved. It is an amplify the movement, right? And now there's like the Black Lives Matters girls who bought all the reals day. That's the shit. And also some accusation that they bought the house for substantially more than a person paid for just recently before that. And they have a connection to that person. Like there's some like other shenanigans with that.

It's the communists who are always like, yeah, but I also want to be a millionaire. It's wonderful. Yeah. It's wonderful when the grift gets exposed. It gets exposed. So I thought it with in the election this year, there were like kind of and woke culture in general. So I mean, it brought it in the election. Like three major factors that I think were really interesting.

One was that I think the anti, I think the like for lack of better term, like the kind of anti woke or non woke people kind of one out in the marketplace. There's examples of like a Tom Brady roast. Well, I think you're yes. Yes. I think you are an example of that. The Tom Brady roast was an example of that. Shane Gillis's career was an example of that. You know, Tim Dillin's career is an example of that.

It's just at a certain point, it's not even that Netflix changed their mind and they're willing to have these guys on because they had like some ideological transformation. It's just like, I don't know. Dude, they're so big. They have so many fans. This is going to get a ton of views on it. And a mix of that. And also kind of for the first time, there was like a cost imposed with the Bud Light stuff and the target stuff.

There were these like kind of very effective boycotts where it's like, oh, you're there's going to be a cost imposed on you if you do that. The second factor with the Trump stuff and why they weren't able to get the shock troops out. And when I say the shock troops, I just mean the left wing 20 year old useful idiots who will come out and protest, yes, there's a fascist movement here, right?

Yeah. So one of the things that happened, and this part of why, you know, this is a non-controversial explanation for 2020 versus 2024, is that in the year 2020, Joe Biden's central pitch to America was a return to normalcy. Yeah. And that was a very attractive pitch, I think, to a lot of people, especially if you can put yourself in November of 2020. Sure. You know, you've gone through the craziest year ever. And it's there's lockdowns, there's riots. The whole economy is a mess.

Everybody is freaking out. Yes, all of a sudden. It's just, and you're constantly going like, oh my god, Trump is crazy. And then the reaction to him is crazy, and then Joe Biden could just be like, listen, you know me. I've been in the Senate for 700 years. Yeah. Let's go back to regular America. They don't turn the room. Yes. And by the way, okay, I'm not campaigning. That's true. I'm in my house the whole time. But there's a pandemic. That's kind of the responsible thing to do.

You know, Donald Trump's doing a super spreader event right now. That was still the narrative at the time, even though none of it was real. Someone die from COVID that went to one of his events. Yeah. I vaguely remember this. Was it Ben Carson? Ben Carson. He got COVID? Didn't. I don't remember. Who died from COVID that went to one of his main Carson dead? I don't think I don't remember. No, I think somebody, I think somebody might have, I vaguely remember the story.

Yeah. Who was a supporter of Trump who won up getting COVID and dying. Which like whatever, who even knows whether he got it there or whatever. What's going on with that was? I think it was. Yeah, I think it was a super spreader event. But yes, well, it might have been, I don't know these outdoor events. I don't know if they really were or not. I brought them all and tie proximity to each other, just like the flu. Herman Cain. Herman Cain. Herman Cain. That's right. That's right.

Yes, that's who it was. Okay. Yes, I do remember that. Yeah. So Ben Carson still off. Sorry, Ben. Ben, you're doing great. Brilliant man too. Another guy who's like very dismissed. Yes. Yes. The painting with Jesus behind him with his hands on his shoulders. Like, hey bro. Yes. There's some weird stuff going on there. But he actually, he is an interesting guy. Brilliant guy. Very, very brilliant. But so anyway, this pitch of like the return to normalcy in 2020 is attractive.

It's attractive and it also, look, it fed into the thesis essentially of the entire corporate media was like the problem is Trump. The problem is Trump. Everything was at United States of America. And this Trump guy came in and ruined everything, you know, whereas the reality was always much deeper than that. Like, no, there were these huge problems and that's why a Trump like figure was so attractive to people. But then what happened is Joe Biden came in and nothing went back to normal.

It got even crazier than it was under Donald Trump. So now people were looking back at the first three years at Donald Trump. Like that seems pretty normal compared to what we've been going through in the Biden administration. So this sucked a lot of the energy out. And also you didn't have the mystery of Trump. He's going to be a dovetailer in there. No, he's not. He's been in for four years. You know, in 2016 they were like, you can't trust him with the nuclear codes.

And there was a little bit of a plausible claim to that. Like, I don't know. He would be the first president ever with no political or military experience. And he does seem like a little bit of a wild man, but you can't really sell that anymore after he's been president. So that kind of took away from the energy. And another thing and I don't know, I have not, I'm not saying I'm the only one making this point.

I've heard anyone else making this point and I just, I think this is a huge part of it. Okay. Like a huge part of the reason why you didn't see tens of thousands of young people out protesting Trump at Madison Square Garden. You only had like a hundred people there is because those young left wingers who were reliable shock troops for the regime over the last decade, they've been protesting a genocide for the last year. They've spent a full year protesting what they consider.

At least the international court of justice plausibly considers a genocide. And it's very hard to get someone who's been protesting babies being slaughtered to turn around and pretend that something else is way more of an outrage. And especially to then go protest on behalf of the ones who are doing the genocide that you've been protesting against for the last year. At least fun. And yeah, right. I mean, listen man, yes. I mean, I, Israel forget invading Lebanon or going to war with Iran.

Israel can't conduct the war in Gaza without the US. It's our weapons, it's our money, it's our intelligence that they're using to do this. It's, you know, America is, if you view this as a genocide, which I don't really use that word too often, but I do view it as like just horrific. And if you view it that way, there's no way that the US isn't implicated. This only happens because the US is funding and supporting this.

And if you want to get those activists to get outraged, it's something else other than that when that's obviously the most pressing concern. Talk globally. It's very tough. They've spent a year doing that. And it really hurt her. These young kids, you think of the difference between 2016 and 2020 and then 2024 podcasts. Huge. Way different. They all listen to podcasts. Everybody gets clips. You hear opposing perspectives.

You hear very intelligent people come on and make arguments that you're not hearing on TV anymore and they get shared. Even if it's just shared clips on TikTok and YouTube or YouTube shorts and Instagram reels, they're going to be shared left and right. And you can't just keep a narrative going anymore. You can't. Well, that was work.

You know, like even this came up a bunch and when I was debating Chris Cuomo, but it's like even just the way they, you know, the way they talk about you or like where it's like, Oh, these, these bro culture guys or something like that. Like, again, I'm sorry. Objectively, objectively. This isn't an opinion. What happens on this show is so much more intelligent and thoughtful and deep than anything that's going on at CNN. You just can't tell me.

You can't tell me that you sitting down with Elon Musk for three hours and then compare that to like wolf blitz or with all his graphics behind him talking for 30 seconds before he goes to a pharmaceutical commercial and then coming back and having the dumbest left wing or yell at the dumbest right wing or really and you guys are going to act like you're the grownups in the room. It's just, it's too ridiculous and that's right. So the entire young generation has, they've all turned that off.

Nobody, none of them are getting their news from from CNN anymore. And look, man, that's, I think the most beautiful part of this election. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, that's right. That's right, that's right, that's right, that's right, that's right, that's right, that's right. And certainly not comparable anymore. If you look at the numbers, like what are the numbers that CNN has for a regular show compared to like the numbers of the Trump podcast?

I don't think they have a show that regularly cracks a million views. The Instagram, I think the biggest one is still under a million. The Twitter, the X video that I posted, when I posted Elon on the podcast between me and him, it got 65 million views in a day. Unbelievable. In a day. Yeah. And that's not counting you two, which is like another, I don't know how many million he got on YouTube. That's not counting. Spotify.

Yeah, we don't even know those numbers yet because he was just two days ago. Right. Right. Right. 65, but in his account, in my account, 65 million views. And you know, there was, like the X is the number one new source on earth. Yeah. On earth. It's the most trusted because it's the only one that's not fucked with. Yeah. And the other one's incorrect, the community notes will correct them. Yep. The community notes are rock solid. It's a great way to find out what's real and what's not real.

And then you look in the comments and you see people debating it. And it's happening in real time. And it's happening whenever something breaks and it's way better than what you're going to get on corporate controlled media. Way better. Elon Musk buying Twitter was at least as important as Trump winning. It's election again, maybe more. The most important thing about Trump winning might be that he's able to stop them from coming after Elon Musk.

Well, that's a big factor, but I also think that Elon Musk buying Twitter, if that doesn't happen, I don't think Trump wins the way he wins. Oh, 100%. I think it's real tight. I think if he does win, it's barely. Okay, let's take podcasts out. He doesn't win at all. You take him being on Theo Vaughan, him being on me, him being on all these different milk boys, all these different parts. Andrew Schultz. Andrew Schultz. That was a big one. Schultz was a flagrant. You have to fuck around.

You see him laughing and joking around and Schultz is joking with them. They're having a good time. That humanized it more. Do you see that Schultz, they fucking pulled his special from a theater three hours after the Trump thing got released? Yeah, and he did it at a bigger theater. Of course. By the way, that's another thing that's changed. That's really a fascinating thing to me, right? So I've watched this happen, and I know you have two, where the cancelling stopped working.

It was so effective. And then all of a sudden it just stopped. We're a big part of that is Elon Musk for sure. But there's other factors involved in it too. But I remember there were guys in 2016, 2017, who were very much like in the national conversation. And they got straight up removed from that. My Leonopolis, a great example. When he went on Bill Mar, he had like, he killed it on Bill Mar. He killed it on your show. Bill Mar compared it in the Christopher Hitchons.

Yeah, he went, you're like a gay Christopher Hitchons or something like that. So he's, so now, and then he made the other guys look like fools too. So then he gets taken down and he went from being a guy who was like very much shaping the national conversation to being just removed from it. And there were other guys, no, a bit of a drug problem. Yeah, I'm not even saying there weren't other factors involved, but there were a bunch of people like that who got removed.

And I do think, I think the tipping point was when they came for you and it failed. But it seems like around that time, it stopped working. Listen, I heard of Andrew Tate for the first time ever when he got canceled from everything. That was when I like, I didn't know who he was before that. And then he was like, oh, the guy who got canceled for everything. Now he's bigger than he ever was. I knew the most Googled man for kickboxing.

Yeah, my kid asked me about him because my kids were getting the little videos off of TikTok. Just before he got in real trouble when he was just starting to like, the manosphere and a bunch of young guys resonating with it, she goes, what do you think about him? And I said, he's a legit kickboxer. Like I used to watch him kickbox. He was like, you know, in that organization, whatever organization, he was a champion. His legit, he can fight man. Oh, yeah. I think that he was in fighting.

And he became like this manosphere influencer. I was like, okay, that kind of tracks kind of makes sense. Right. Right. Well, I just, the thing that I found so interesting was just, and it happened with him. Great example is Tucker Carlson. I just can't, just Owen's. Oh, yeah. And then even the thing we were just saying about our boy shultz, it's like these cancellation attempts, all of a sudden they went from like, oh my god, this could ruin you. Do you see it? It's making you stronger.

And when on stage last night, now, bro, at the mother shut, bro, it's like Richard Pryor showed up. Do you have video of the, oh, yeah, it's bananas. They go nuts. They go nuts when Tony's this is the new dynamic now. Yeah. It's like the tool that they used to use to control the narrative is now losing them more and more of the narrative. Not only that, Tony now has 35 minutes on the whole thing. Really? Yeah. 35 minutes on Puerto Rico.

This whole thing, people that, is he doing, is he going up tonight? Oh, yeah, I'll probably up tonight. I want to go watch it. Yeah, yeah. I'd love to go watch that. I love that's the best thing in comedy, by the way. The best thing in comedy is like when there's like a huge thing and someone's got, there's just something about like when they got new fresh stuff on the thing that just happened, it's just the best part of stand up. Oh, it's my, like my n-word compilation joke.

Dude, I remember literally one of my, like if I had to put a flag down on like five of my favorite moments since I've been in comedy, that show that we did at what's it called the Vulcan? Yeah. It was before the, the mothership was opened, but it was the day after it came out and it was amazing.

There was something surreal about it watching you go on stage in the moment where you're like in the crosshairs of the biggest cancellation attempt and then having you just do the bit on it is so goddamn good. I mean, you put it out on your last special, but watching it the next day after it just happened was like there's just an energy about that that you're just like, oh shit dude, like this and it was just amazing. It's an amazing show.

It's an opportunity to take something and turn it to a positive. Yeah. Take this moment and create a bit out of it. Oh, dude, my favorite show of the year was I just literally, I happened to be doing a weekend at the mothership when Trump got shot. I mean, I was leaving my hotel to walk over to the mothership and then just all the sudden my phone started blowing up like text, text, text, text, text, all this and I was like, what the fuck happened here?

And then I pulled the video and was like, oh shit. And then that show, whatever the early show on that day, man, for if people were there, it was just the most fun. It's the most fun part of standup where you're almost just like you go like, well, forget what I thought we were going to be talking about today because now we're going in a whole new direction. What am I going to go up there and not talk about this for a half hour? How is that possible? How is it possible?

Especially for me, like, you know, it's like, well, I've got to go do this. And it's just something beautiful. That's the best part of standup comedy, man. It's a great part. And if you're there live, it's so fun. It's so fun when you know someone is talking about something that just happened. It's so fun. And I've gotten, I've gotten like messages and tweets and stuff like that, like from people who are at that show.

I'll still get like, you know, like someone I'll like come up and just be like, dude, I was at that show. That's how I'm like, yeah, that was a good one, man. That was a good one. That was a good one. You don't get a whole lot of moments like that with the president almost gets fucking iced. And then all the nutty people trying to say he staged his assassination attempt so that he could regain the White House that there's a propaganda. Those are the nuttiest of left-wing people.

You think flat earthers are nuts. You think a 78 year old guy is going to allow some dude with iron sights to shoot and nick his ear from 140 yards away. Well, also another guy did get killed. Yeah. There it seems pretty real. And you're like one person in a shot. Yeah. I really wonder if Trump's going to try to get to the bottom of that stuff or if maybe he just doesn't want to even push it. It's hard to know what happened there, but he seems like a Lee Harvey Oswald type dude.

He seems like a guy that they'd set up. Well, there's a lot to that story. There's both stories with both of the assassination attempts are very fishy. There's just something that just doesn't add up. The one with Crooks is the most fishy. Did you see the video of his dad? His dad leaving Costco. So he's got Costco with a whole full card of stuff. And there's a dude who's with him. He's wearing gloves and a mask and sunglasses and a hoodie. And this guy's helping. He's wearing gloves.

So he's not leaving any fingerprints anywhere. It's the weirdest look. This guy's, and this is like recent, right? So this is in the heart of COVID. I don't know whether it was. I don't know whether it was. Yeah. It was really recent. Yeah, I think so. The assassination attempt was only a few months ago. So you have Crooks dad and his dad is pushing the shopping cart and you got this dude who's with him who's like in full disguise with gloves. It's very weird.

Well, look, I mean, so you have, there's the first one where you have this guy is able, and you can see this is all on videotape. This guy is walking around scoping out that roof. Look at this. It's wearing gloves. I think he's just wearing, he's got this hoodie covering his hands a little bit right there. You can see the gloves. Oh, they're not gloves? I don't think so. Why do I think he wants to wear gloves? He does cover everything else up though.

He sure he's somewhere and go, okay, he's got his hoodie on. I see why he thought that though. It's a weird look for sure. Well, he's covering his fucking hands. Yeah, he is covering his hands. Okay, so they're not gloves. So he's got a full mask on. He's got sunglasses on and a hoodie and it's nighttime. And this guy is, okay, so no gloves, but it's just bizarre. Very bizarre.

Obviously, the guy doesn't want people to know who he is because he's with the father of the guy who tried to kill the fucking president. Well, the fact that somebody could be able to get up on that roof with a rifle, 130 yards away from the president and then the excuses that they made made absolutely no sense. It was too sloped up a room for all this. No, the lady didn't want to step down. Yeah, this is very strange. All very strange.

And then the second one, you've got a guy who has a felony conviction for possession of weapons of mass destruction where he barricaded himself, well, police were pursuing him with like explosives or something. I mean, he's an idiot. Yeah, there's a, the charge was weapons of mass destruction. I remember that because like I didn't realize that was a charge. I thought that was just something Bush lied about. But apparently there's a real criminal. So he had bombs? Yeah. Suicide?

Yeah, I don't know exactly what they were, but I know that was the charge and it was a felony. And this motherfucker is recruiting for the Ukrainian war effort and is going back and forth to an active war zone trying to recruit Afghan fighters to fight in the war on the Ukrainian side. And then he comes back and tries to assassinate Donald Trump. And then the entire national conversation is like, is the rhetoric about Donald Trump too far?

And you're like, listen, man, I'm not saying it's not plausible that if you call the guy Hitler every day, maybe some, you know, deranged young person will be like, I'm going to take out Hitler. But when this guy is going and recruiting for the Ukrainian war effort, this doesn't sound to me like someone radicalized by joy read. Right. You know what I mean? This sounds like something a little deeper is going on. And then there is apps, it much like with Jeffrey Epstein, right?

There is no desire amongst the supposed journalist class to even look into it. And then his son gets hit with child porn charges. So like if his son knew anything about what was going on, no one's going to listen to him now. The fucking guys jerking off to kids. It's just it. Look, at the very least, it's very bizarre. And when you have a guy, you know, like I'm not saying I've got like a case I could present in front of a jury and get a conviction.

But when you've got a guy who has been targeted by the regime unlike any other political figure in American history, well, let's say since Kennedy. But more so because he just survived an assassination to Kennedy got shot. But the attacks on him, the law fair attacks are unprecedented. The weaponizing of the legal system in front of everybody's eyes, like trying to find a crime. Yeah. No, that's right. And so all of that and then you see these multiple attempts happen.

You'd be crazy to not at least want to have like some real investigation into this, some interest in looking at this and all that. How about one press conference about Crooks? How about tell me what you know? Did you get a toxicology examination or just burn the body? Yeah. And you can't get into his, we can't get into his foot. He had no social media footprint. Come on, dude. His apartment was professionally scrubbed. Yeah. Didn't even have silver in his house. Yeah, it's all just very strange.

I wonder now that Trump's back in. Does he, does he look into that? And I'm not even saying, you know, like I just really I just want Trump to end the war. Listen, if Donald Trump, if he secures the border and ends the, if he ends the war in Ukraine, secures the border and ramps up oil production and so the next thing does something to help the economy put him on Mount Rushmore. Like that's, that's enough, man. Like I don't, you know what I mean? Like that's enough for it.

But I am curious like I wonder where he is. I always want to be at Mount Rushmore. I believe I deserve it. And I'll say we kick one of them off. Why we're not, we're not making more room. You guys, we could take a vote. I'll tell you. I'll tell you. You imagine the fucking sawcats screaming in this tree if they changed Mount Rushmore. Yeah. TJ stays, but I'm thinking Lincoln's got to go. No. Lincoln's a man. Lincoln was a wrestler. Keep him. Yeah. Alright. Fine. Giant freak of a man.

Probably gay. He was a giant freak of a man and definitely I think spent a lot of time in cabins with other dudes. I think everybody's gay back then. That's what I think. It's possible. A lot of gayness back then and you know I base this on ancient cultures like Afghanistan, all the gay shit they do. Well you also got to think like if you're in a world without like plumbing and toothbrushes and razors, fucking a man or fucking a woman, not that much different.

Not a whole lot different at that point dude. Especially when you're in a trench. Yeah. It's that at that point you're basically like you're just you're you're you're having sex with an animal is what you're doing. But somebody warriors in the past were gay. Like Samaritan's did a lot of gay stuff. Yeah. Spartans did a lot of gay stuff. A lot of gay stuff.

Well it's one of the things that I think we've kind of found out with the the the trans stuff over the last few years is that it's like there are there are cultural norms that you can set up where people will do a lot of stuff that you might consider to be very like bizarre and it's very easy when you don't have those cultural parameters to be like no one would do that just because you made it like acceptable prison. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Where's no gross?

If you leave us alone with no one but us we just fuck each other. Yeah. That's how gross we are. And it's also kind and and it's like a punchline in a weird way like it's just nothing like it's also the one kind of rape you can hope someone gets. Yeah. You know that was actually a lot of he gets raped in prison hurt Kurt Metzger made this point I remember it was sometime during like the me two movement. Oh I know what it was.

It was when you ever see the law and order episode where they did like the me two comic. No. It's the most ridiculous thing ever dude. It was just in the you know law and order they just got a bang out a half hour show like every other day or whatever. Don't don't. Yeah. So the it was the height of like cancel culture me too and all this stuff and so the theme I'm not exaggerating this okay.

The theme is there's a shop comic and he's he's making all these rape jokes and now of course they do it in a way like as if this would work at a comedy club like you're just like hey you I hope you get raped and the crowd's like yeah yeah yeah so they're at a comedy club I believe it was filmed at the comic strip live.

I'm think it was there I'm not sure but it was at a comedy club he's in this so some girls get up and they walk out because they're very uncomfortable with like oh my god these rape jokes are not funny blah blah then the girl leaves gets raped turns out it

was the rape comic who rapes are and that's the is most ridiculous like goddamn story ever but this was an episode of law and order and a curt just started he made the point that he goes you know on this show it's just a regular thing that they threaten men with

rape like every single time they're in they're like interrogating someone they go guys like you don't do very well in prison you know what I mean and it's always just like the threat of like we will put you in a rape torture dungeon if you don't do x y and z and I thought

it was like a really brilliant point that that's just totally acceptable it's a really threatening a man with right you what guys like you don't do very well in prison is a common like saying and we all know what that means they're saying you will be aintaly raped against

your well but whatever you're a dude so who cares my friend was telling about the American Taliban guy you know that guy that went over to to join the Taliban said they raped that guy like a thousand times he said like that guy was a prisoner over there for like four

years and they just raped him continuously and he said when he was working overseas when he was a deployed he said you'd see guys raping guys all the time yeah there was this one very slow guy that worked in the kitchen these guys were lined up to rape the guys there

was one guy who had a colostomy bag and the guy kept kept and sick he had to get met a vac to his like he get infected would go they found out they were fucking the whole where the bag goes into his side guys were fucking the whole where his colostomy bag gets inserted

that's not cool yeah but when you have a culture that says like men can't have sex with women except to procreate and the women have to be dressed up in a certain way and he's going to leave him alone with themselves very Freudian man it's old you repressed culture

now this is the this is the Freudian observation which is a very brilliant one however people feel about Freud it's like you repress you know certain desires and they reemerge in much darker ways you know there's just like you have to have a release valve yeah otherwise

it's like human beings go into very very dark very dark places well it's just people don't react well to other people telling them what to do and when I was in high school the thing was Catholic school girls were always freaks right Catholic school girls were wild

because they didn't get to be around any boys ever they were just at school with girls they're all dressed in skirts and they're all told that there are all those desires that they have their bodies going through puberty and they're just horny all the time that they're

bad yeah and then they can't wait to get along with a guy and it's again the same thing like you repress it in one area it's just it reemerges in a much uglier way that if you had just been re exactly best example of it emerging in the creepier way and you know

what they did that with Catholic priest why because the priests were like rock stars they were fucking everybody so you can't have sex anymore you can't get married but imagine saying to like a grown man that you can't ever have sex or jerk off that's the expectation

the expectation is that you're supposed to never come and what if you medication so that you couldn't get hard to give you salt Peter yeah you're gonna draw you're you're gonna if that's the job to sign up to you're gonna draw in some weird people who want

to sign up to that job you know what what was that what's that stuff called is it called salt Peter's out these give them to make sure that they stayed impotent kills their sexual desires I don't know I don't know I don't know what is what's doing that yeah what's doing

that what what's killing your killing your testosterone killing your sex hormones what else is it doing how depressed are you yeah they can't be good how many of them are alcohol it's every go to a Catholic church and you see the guy speaking the the the the whatever

he is bishop whatever the fuck is big stupid blown up nose because it's just like he's got gin blossoms all over his face just hammered every day he lives in hell yeah he lives in hell he's probably a closeted gay guy that took this fucking job 45 years ago and now

he's like this is my life now I'm 60 here I am like what am I dealing with myself yeah I don't I've I've talked to Peter stuff Jamie to find it was what what is salt Peter used for and is a true reduces certain carnal urges a second part of the question is easy to

answer salt Peter the term refers to either potassium or sodium nitrate has no effect on carnal urges the story that this chemical is put into soldiers food to decrease their sex drive is a total myth but what about for a priest that's what I had heard so is it

one of those things they thought thought did that symptoms can range from double vision and difficulty in swallowing to paralysis and death the spores this organism lurking many food under the right conditions lack of oxygen low acidity becomes active and liberate

their toxin sausages are the classic example of type of food that can be affected and the word botulism in fact derives from the Latin botulus meaning sausage what so this this botulet what was scroll back up again I feel like I picked this up at a weird place

serious acts of salt Peter one of the most deadly substances known to mankind is produced by clostridium botulium botulinium bacteria 7 million times more toxic than cobra venom botulin poisons its victims by blocking the actions of neurotransmitter acetylcholine

symptoms can range okay so this is the symptoms from botulism assault Peter come from botulism so one of the okay one of the serious aspects of is one of the most deadly substances known to mankind is this botulism bacteria okay botulism could be prevented by the appropriate use

of sodium nitrate discovery that actually became about an accidental fashion salting of meat is an ancient method of preservation based on the ability of sodium chloride to kill bacteria by drawing out much of their water content about 500 years ago some clever

cooked dough to the effectiveness of salt and preserving meat depends upon its source furthermore salt that work particularly well improve the meat flavor and color okay the secret turned out to be an impurity potassium nitrate more familiar known as salt Peter

okay so this is how they came up with it to combat botulism okay now what about how to salt Peter work what what's the point of it why would people take it I don't understand hmm what's it say you wanted to add about priest crack was the original thing yes because

this is what we had always heard when we were kids that they would give pre salt Peter to suppress their carnal urges so here it's a salt Peter known for use many purposes in the past including as a curing agent key compound of gunpowder and then this stuff

does everything yeah but what about sexual urges hmm they debunked the myth about salt Peter lowering libido or sex drive it's false it's a myth it's been going around for years the myth started when what does it say let's say we're the myth started when

when we go to qr Alice try military times okay but if you see that where it says there top answer I know those are all cure things those are just those are message boards essentially right but I would just like to see what that person on the message board says I think

it's kind of interesting the myth started with the military see this article from snopes popular myth promoted by youngsters in boarding schools interesting summer camps as well as men in the military in prison some boys or men use this as an excuse for sexual performance

problems doctors and pharmacists have debunked the myth about salt Peter lowering the libido prostate or sex drive this false even some ignorant random prison did this to a group of inmates they've proven it would not have the negative effects people keep saying it

does that doesn't prove that they didn't do it right they're just saying it wouldn't work it doesn't work so maybe they like tried to use it against maybe it was like a theoretical thing that they thought was gonna you know like wasn't that like Spanish fly do you

remember Spanish fly yeah yeah that's the one cause be yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yes yes the creepiest tape ever the creepiest he had a bit about it oh and then he did an episode yeah about it they did an episode is like barbecue sauce or something like that

a special barbecue sauce to get everybody horny what a weird how did by the way no one I guess in the eighties people had a lot of blinders on but he's just like he's like hey I got an idea for the episode like maybe it's like you know we're doing you know the

Huxedible family and I just make my barbecue sauce and all the chicks want to fuck you're like wait what not why would you do that on the show family sitcom I thought we were gonna do like Theo gets in a fight and then we have to talk to him about like keeping his

grades up the importance of homework yeah right like it's just so out of the ordinary for what that show was he's like now I really listen on the star and it really means a lot to me that we do this episode like how strange so I think Spanish fly was another myth

that people thought was real and I remember hearing about it when I was a kid that you could give a girl a thing this whatever this Spanish fly was find the what's the origin of Spanish Spanish fly I stumbled across something crazy about this salt Peter stuff yeah

I'm trying to read it I was trying to read through this fast I could give you a quick answer there is a job it says like Sweden I had to transfer this salt Peter welder profession whose task and six of collecting urine soaked earth in order to make more salt Peter because

they used it ammunition so they had these barns for piochus it says here pissing men I was trying to get it here wow and that's how they make gum powder yeah you'd piss on the ground into the soil and then they'd get enough of that stuff together finally and

then wow you could make some gunpowder out how much how much experimentation did it take to figure out that like now isn't it wasn't if I piss on the ground I could make gunpowder you're like how do you figure that out it wasn't do it's a long story all right I was

doing a lot of stuff this weekend well year was this 18 30 the 1600s they picked this figure this out yeah oh my god that is wild yeah they hold on stop go scroll back up a little bit what is this in here all peasants the priest made sure that no one was forgotten

were forced to deliver their imposed quota of salt Peter's soil along with ash wood and coal to the nearest simmering plant the obligation was replaced in 1634 by a salt Peter tax the salt Peter Jews that's always the Jews now instead came to collect the soil themselves from under the

farmers barns the salt Peter taxes replaced in 1801 by an obligation for each mantle to annually supply one half what does that say L.I. pound of salt Peter to the state wasn't mean to this was transferred or the what is L.I. pound Swedish okay 1830 the salt Peter tax ceased entirely the farmers

were required to have wooden floors in the barns in order for this salt Peter formation to take place they were required to have wooden this is crazy the peasants complained about these impositions and about the visits of the suds the simmering lasted annually from May 1st to September 29th

the simmering consisted continued for six to seven days or until an egg could float on the surface at this time lime and ash were added which cause which caused the included common salt to crystallize and be could thus be removed the whole thing was then allowed to cool down to about 25 degrees when

the salt Peter began to crystallize the raw salt Peter was then transported to the gun powder mills the boilers had the to have the right to take fuel for the cooking is the simmer this that mean that they made like a a little pond of pee urine yeah chemical sounds like the spread is a little bad

I don't know what it would be it says it's simmering but well they must have had a vat of it they must have had like a big cauldron of piss that's the piss dirt that they cooked and you can float an egg on the surface oh dude bro how did

someone figure it out to your point how we're so lucky we live now oh my god I don't want to live in the time where I got a pissed on the dirt to make by the louder people going to be saying that about the in the future about this time god I said how we didn't live in the time where

they were fucking the whole country was at war of the stupidest shit and controlled by this media that was completely controlled by corporations and everybody was being gas lit and people willingly gaslit themselves I've always I've always felt the one you know if you could try to gas like like

just say if we survive and things improve morally like what we would look back on and be like holy shit they yeah and the two to me were always was always war and prison and especially like non-violent you know like prisoners like but even violent prisoners you'd almost think like what they didn't

figure anything else out right like they didn't figure anything else out other than but the idea of like putting non-violent like victimless criminals in a fucking cage right like human beings you just throw them in a it's slavery dude like that's not just that but you profit off of it yeah

so you have private prisons that are actually a corporation that lobby to make sure that certain laws stay on the books so that you could keep your prisons stocked with live people that are essentially batteries that generate money for you and and just the fact that that's still going on while we have all of these technological advancements and you know like if you go you know you go down to like Saint Jude's or something like that and they're like dude they have all of this technology

because all of these brilliant people are here to save babies lives you know what I mean like that's going on yeah and then also there's war still yeah like we haven't figured out a different way like everybody doesn't just agree like listen obviously to just go on mass slaughter campaigns and

I have nothing but destruction is in nobody's interest so here's how we're going to solve right these conflicts like it's just it does seem that like if if human beings survive for another hundred years and and we you know are at a higher moral level we would look back at that the way we

look back at you know which hunts or like slavery or something like that it's insane in saying that people were so evil you know that they would like they could do such such evil stuff and then we can do such evil stuff in the age of information yeah yeah like very hard and maybe

maybe we are like moving in that direction where you know it does seem for sure I think that the fact that the war in Gaza has had more images come out of it than any other conflict that's a huge part of the reason why there's so much technology that's everywhere

everyone is a cell phone very hard very hard I think me and you might have talked about that last time I was on right but it's like even the war in Iraq which is not ancient history you know it was it was still going on I mean second we still got troops there now but like the video footage

that would come out would be like you know it almost like a firework like kind of exploding which is that that's easy to see and root for you know what I mean like yeah good guys kicking ass but when you're seeing a baby being pulled out of rubble who is just suffocated to death oh that's tough

dance on fire they're hit by missiles that's really really tough dude it's really tough to find a way there's still people out there who will find a way to try to justify it but it's tough it's it's much tougher well that's sort of the divide today the divide today is objective reality versus

what have you been saying there's objective reality versus you have a narrative the narrative is Israel has to defeat Hamas Hamas is usually human shoulders human shields rather that's the narrative the objective reality is blown apart children and not just one like tens of thousands of innocent

people dead yeah I was just I was just watching this this interview on plankton on the doctors name but it was Dave DeCamp was interviewing him who's by the way phenomenal one of the best reporters in the in the country um DeCamp Dave DeCamp Dave is his Twitter handle he's phenomenal he's great dude

he's great he's one of uh he's he's over at anti-war.com he's what like Scott Horton's guy by the way my guy Scott Horton just uh I just just gave you uh Jamie a copy of the book unprovoked is uh is gonna be out I think in the next week or so um I'm sorry provoked I don't mean to say unprovoked

it's provoked book.com the best book written on the uh the history of the ukraine russia conflict and how america just blew it at every single opportunity anyway so he so Dave DeCamp is interviewing this guy uh who's a doctor he's an american who went over to gaza he's a doctor and he had been

there was a big piece in the new york times written about this where he said that every day that he was there every single day they'd see they'd treat toddlers with bullets to the head that they were just constantly seeing this and then he says that he also talked to a whole bunch of other

because so his working theory on this was but when he first started seeing this so he's in this one area in gaza and he was embedded there for a few months working at a hospital and he figured there was like some lone sadistic sniper out there you know what I mean like these things happen

in war but then he started talking to doctors from all other points of gaza who were there at all different times who all said the same thing that they're getting toddlers with bullet and then when the new york times published this they uh a bunch of people who are defending israel started

being like this is in true blah blah blah the israeli most moral fighting force in the world so he published the x-rays he's like okay you know i'm a doctor i have the x-rays right here they published them it's just 100% is happening like it's just so what is happening i mean

israel's been on a mass slaughter campaign of a captive people for over a year now you know and they're shooting babies evidently i mean there's there's a doctor who's he's an american he's claiming it happened and he has x-rays so yeah it seems like that's what's going on

there and i mean look i it's it's it's obviously just so horrific man the whole thing and so it's it's really amazing to me the way to watch the way people will rationalize and justify what israel's doing it takes so much mental gymnastics and it's always got to like rely on

you know it just it lets you know it's like oh so i get it you see it's like oh how human beings through all of human history have had slavery and and genocides and ethnic cleansing campaigns and at every step there's someone there who's willing to justify it and explain why we have to do this

because this is the only way and really we're acting in defense that's what they all claim it's what the nazis claim it's what they all claim they're really acting in defense jesus christ but uh... kids we're gonna look back on this time the way people look back on concentration camps the way people

look back on the mongol campaign the way people look back on the inquisition we're gonna go how how did they do this how were you allowed to just like and it's it's amazing the way people can compartmentalize it too you know what i mean like it could just be like hey there's somebody who

could be a totally loving dad and a good husband and all like that but then can go to war and commit like unspeakable horrors on other people yeah it's just like they put that over here you know it's very hard to to think about that or understand it but unless you talk to someone who's done it and

they're yeah it's this is one of the most important things the messages that i want to get to trump and one of the things that um i'm excited that bobby kennedy is interested in this as well as psychedelic therapy for veterans i think if there's a way to understand the benefits of psychedelic

therapy for everybody the real pathway is through veterans who i think are the most needing of it the most deserving of it the most the the most neglected in terms of the the just the horrors that they experience and having to carry this around their mind and that there's a way that many people

have experienced relief and it's not available to them and it's not something that's dangerous it's not something that's addictive you literally can't you can't even eat enough psilocybin to kill yourself so i can't do it you wouldn't be able to consume it so why and it's and it's been demonstrated

to really help at least a lot here's what's most important all of it became illegal in the sweeping psychedelics act of 1970 that was designed by the nixid administration so that they could demonize anti-war protesters so they could they could arrest anti-war protesters civil rights protesters the

black panthers they made all that stuff illegal because all these counterculture people were all using that to completely change the programming that they received in society think about the irony of that like the deep deep irony that they made this stuff illegal because they thought if it

was out there they wouldn't be able to get their wars so they make it illegal and they get their wars and then it turns out that this is the thing that helps the people that are traumatized coming back from war but you can't have it because it's illegal well it's the clearest shifting is that

irony it's it is irony it is irony because it's the pathway to help for a lot of these guys that come back you ask them to do unspeakable things in modern society that are against a law and you force them to do it you go force them to go kill people they see their friends killed yeah then they come

back here and there's no tools when there are tools so but they have to go to Mexico to utilize these tools they have to go to Costa Rica in the Amazon they have to go to all these different places because it's illegal in the very place that sent them over there the very place that tells them

it's legal for you to go kill people that you've never met but it's not legal for you to take psilocybin that might help you get over the fact that you killed people yeah it's i know my uh my buddy uh michael he's who uh he just started a media company called a dissident media he's been big

on this this is like he's like an activist who's been working on like the decriminalization of uh psilocybin for for years and that's one of the major reasons because it helps these soldiers so much we need to be kinder all of us to each other we need to at this moment in time especially

and i've seen a lot of people saying we have to just accept the results which i think is wonderful we do have to accept the results but also we have to remember that we are one team this is team us and there's plenty of room for everybody we all want the same things we all want to be healthy

we want to we want to protect our loved ones we want to be safe and we want to prosper everybody wants the same thing you want to be able to do what you want you want to be able to have a happy life and a healthy life this is the one shot that we get at this experience we can all do this

together we can all do this and one of the ways that people can come to these conclusions and realize that we're all connected is through psychedelics i'm not saying that they're a perfect pathway i'm not saying that it's good for everybody i think it's dangerous for some people particularly people

that have a hard time with regular reality if regular reality is slippery for you if you have psychiatric conditions maybe that's not the thing for you but for most of us it would benefit us and we should have been exploring this and it was stopped 54 fucking years ago by a corrupt

government that wanted to squash anti-war protests that car that i showed you when i was explaining to you such a cool car that car exists because of drugs the ones afterwards suck the reason why the ones afterwards suck is that's a 1969 Nova when you get into the 1970s carster to dog shit it's

exactly after they cut off the psychedelics no one's making a good car on cocaine you need the psychedelics to make a cool car yeah all the designs they all turn to shit yeah the classic cars are cars from the 60s and the 70s and the early 70s that's what people want nobody wants 80s cars

yeah they don't want them they're worth nothing like nobody gives a shit about very in the 1960s 1969 Corvette you look at you like whoa look at that thing because their designers were doing drugs man yeah they were wild people were doing their artists the music look at the music which

in the 1960s and then go into the 1980s like what the fuck happened yeah we had Hendrix and the doors and the Beatles we had this wild experimental stuff yeah then if you've ever done psychedelics you listen to that music and you're like oh I know what inspired this yeah this is pretty easy to tell

the entire grateful dead catalog yeah all right yeah all right yeah yeah yeah inspired and you almost have to be on psychedelics to appreciate them that all was squashed by this desire to stop people from protesting in a horrible unjust war yeah and look man I mean that I

think that's a great message to get to Trump like let these guys like they were they were like the bravest amongst us who got totally tricked and bribed and propagandized into going to these wars and then they come back and they're blowing their brains out by the tens of thousands and

there's something that might help yeah that is very low risk of of almost no risk of like actually hurting and it really might help no risk of addiction even better than that man would just be keep us out of these wars let's just not fight a man let's just and look I will say this

is one of the things that I'm really optimistic about is that of that team that we were talking about earlier that Donald Trump's got around him you know all those people like Elon Musk and and the fake Ramaswami and JD Vance and Tucker Carlson and and all these guys David Sacks

David Sacks probably the best they're so good on Ukraine every one of them like they're all just like yeah no this makes no sense this is a such a clear cut situation where you could easily make a deal Vladimir Putin and I know I've talked about the Sun Pass shows and anybody go listen to those and go read Scott Horton's amazing book provoked but just to just very quickly it is all but accepted at this point nobody's even to be when I first came on the first podcast that we talked about Ukraine

wherever the few years ago now when I said oh there was a piece deal like that was agreed to in principle by Ukraine and Russia and then Boris Johnson came in to on behalf of the US to make sure they didn't negotiate a piece and kept the war going there are a bunch of people who were like oh that's

not true and blah blah blah and there's and now it's just been totally like fit like that 100% I was right about that they had a piece deal worked out and then since then the the guy whose name I always butcher but it's norweigen so I don't know how to straw slugger the head of NATO he came

out and said and he was bragging but he goes you know Vladimir Putin before he invaded Ukraine told us that if we just put it in writing that we would not bring Ukraine into NATO that he wouldn't invade and we told him no because we won't be bullied by you so he's like bragging about how they

had an opportunity all they had to do was say we will not bring your biggest neighbor into our military alliance which is very clearly against you the most reasonable demand now I'm not saying it's reasonable that he invaded that's not reasonable but that it is a totally reasonable demand

if the US was to say now Mexico can't be a part of China's military alliance you know like and super reasonable so that's so he's got so many great people around him on that but I don't it's not exactly the same with the Israel Gaza war where he it seems like a lot of the people around him

are not so great on that some of them are some of them are really good on it but I'm really hoping he could a podcast with you me and him now you speak in my language let's go David do let's do it let's go I'll I'll listen I've been I voted for him I've been supporting him

and stuff yeah but you know I think I would love to do that but I just I'd whether it's me or not I just hope that he gets the message through somehow that and I know it's a complicated thing to to navigate because Israel has a lot of influence on our government and they've got and he's

got people like the vaikram aswami and Tucker Carlson who really are non interventionists and don't want to see American taxpayer dollars being used to fund wars around the world no matter who it's for you know like it's like hey we're broke we got our own problems here and we can't

afford to do this but then he also has um mariam edelsen who cut him a hundred million dollars and uh is probably going to give another hundred or two hundred million dollars to congressional candidates in the next midterm election and all of this and hurt she is singularly focused on one

issue and that issue is that we always unconditionally and unwaveringly support israel no matter what they're doing let's do it bro day smith you're a fucking national trevour treasure now you you really are you're a national treasure you're you're so important and the fact that you can

talk about these things you have such great recall but you're also funny is so important you know I'm so happy you're out there well thank you and that means a lot to me particularly just because it's coming from you dude and i'm like dude i've been so god damn impressed with you since well

before i ever knew you and i'll tell you after the last couple weeks dude i'm like i i just can't even believe it i can't even believe it's real dude but thank you thank you for having me again my pleasure and anytime we'll do it again now we wrap it up all right bye everybody