Latest / INSPIRE STORY / #0198_Lightfoot Strikes Twice — Politics, Chicago, Chaos & Dark Humor
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Tim Dillon Show, audio
- 0:02Speaker 1: only out of Chicago.
- 0:05Speaker 2: Me and Ben were reading Lori Lightfoot, the mayor, her Yelp.
- 0:11Speaker 1: Profile, which is pretty spectacular, as you would imagine it
- 0:16Speaker 1: would be. Everything Lori Lightfoot does, everything she wears, every
- 0:22Speaker 1: expression she makes or doesn't make, the pitch of her
- 0:26Speaker 1: raspy voice... her turn of phrase, her kind of blank look,
- 0:33Speaker 1: the stare, when she just stares at a reporter. There's
- 0:37Speaker 1: nothing about Lori Lightfoot that I don't love.
- 0:41Speaker 2: Truly.
- 0:42Speaker 1: I only want to talk to black reporters. Constantly with
- 0:45Speaker 1: the race card. Constantly with the gay sexuality card. The
- 0:50Speaker 1: misogyny card. I mean, again, a true Batman villain, a
- 0:55Speaker 1: true corrupt... her local feuds with Burger King Ed, the
- 1:04Speaker 1: disgraced city council member, as they fight over a Burger
- 1:08Speaker 1: King renovation, her winning in a runoff election against some
- 1:12Speaker 1: other idiot.
- 1:12Speaker 3: Preckwinkle?
- 1:13Speaker 2: Yeah, whatever. I mean, just the idea that this woman
- 1:17Speaker 2: is the mayor of Chicago.
- 1:20Speaker 1: It's a real city, right? So there's something very interesting about.
- 1:29Speaker 1: Lori Lightfoot, to me. There's something interesting that somebody like
- 1:33Speaker 1: her is able to climb the ranks to become the
- 1:35Speaker 1: mayor of Chicago. And you found her Yelp profile?
- 1:39Speaker 3: Yeah, shout out to the person that sent me this.
- 1:41Speaker 2: From when before she was mayor?
- 1:43Speaker 3: Yes, this is from.
- 1:44Speaker 2: What was she doing then?
- 1:45Speaker 3: Oh, interesting. I wonder what she was doing.
- 1:48Speaker 2: What was she doing? We don't know much about Lori
- 1:51Speaker 2: Lightfoot pre-mayor.
- 1:52Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.
- 1:52Speaker 2: Did she just become the mayor of Chicago? No. There
- 1:56Speaker 2: had to be some run-up to that, right?
- 1:59Speaker 1: I'm curious as to what job do you have before
- 2:04Speaker 1: you become the mayor of Chicago?
- 2:07Speaker 2: Like, did she.
- 2:08Speaker 4: Oh, she worked in private legal practice as a partner
- 2:11Speaker 4: at Mayor Brown and held various government positions in Chicago.
- 2:14Speaker 4: Most notably, she served as president of the Chicago Police
- 2:17Speaker 4: Board and chair of the Chicago Police Accountability Task Force.
- 2:21Speaker 1: Wow, so they love her. Dude, we pass Lightfoot's house.
- 2:25Speaker 1: The cops are sitting outside. The cops look like they
- 2:29Speaker 1: would not do anything if you ran in there with
- 2:31Speaker 1: a gun.
- 2:32Speaker 2: Like, truly.
- 2:33Speaker 1: Like, the cops are sitting there fighting the urge to
- 2:36Speaker 1: run into the house with a gun. The faces of
- 2:39Speaker 1: the cops sitting in the patrol cars outside Lori Lightfoot's house,
- 2:43Speaker 1: they're basically like, hey, man, do what you got to do.
- 2:47Speaker 1: I mean, could there be a less enthusiastic position for
- 2:51Speaker 1: those people? I mean, they're not fans of Lori. Now,
- 2:55Speaker 1: I want you to read, because this shows the type
- 3:00Speaker 1: of person she is. I have never Yelped anything in
- 3:02Speaker 1: my life. I've never written a Yelp review. I've had,
- 3:06Speaker 1: as we know on this show, I've been quite vocal
- 3:08Speaker 1: about my many run-ins with people.
- 3:12Speaker 2: I don't rat. I entertain. I talk about it on
- 3:16Speaker 2: the show. I do not rat.
- 3:18Speaker 1: I do not make a written report about of a
- 3:22Speaker 1: problem that I've had with a business.
- 3:25Speaker 2: It's not who I am. But there are lots of
- 3:28Speaker 2: people who do. Tons of them.
- 3:31Speaker 1: And they think it's okay, they think it's good. They
- 3:34Speaker 1: think they're doing something virtuous by warning other people about
- 3:39Speaker 1: the calamari at La Abundanza. They have to make sure
- 3:44Speaker 1: that people know to avoid the fucking minestrone soup at
- 3:50Speaker 1: fucking Mateo's, whatever.
- 3:54Speaker 2: They're committed.
- 3:57Speaker 1: They will single out waiters and waitresses by name.
- 4:01Speaker 2: And I've read these reviews. It fascinates me.
- 4:03Speaker 1: I did a comedy show once for members of like,
- 4:06Speaker 1: I forget what it's called, the Yelp 500 or something.
- 4:08Speaker 1: These people had posted so many reviews on Yelp, so
- 4:12Speaker 1: many reviews, that they were like in the elite tier
- 4:15Speaker 1: of Yelpers, like sick people, right?
- 4:18Speaker 2: And.
- 4:20Speaker 1: they came to this comedy show, or I was booked
- 4:23Speaker 1: on a comedy show for them, and as you would imagine,
- 4:27Speaker 1: the worst audience in the world. Judgmental, like people that
- 4:31Speaker 1: were looking at the glassware that they were serving the
- 4:34Speaker 1: drinks in.
- 4:35Speaker 2: Like is this right? Is this correct?
- 4:38Speaker 1: Like miserable people, people who have nothing going on. People
- 4:43Speaker 1: whose entire life is to be a critic, And what's
- 4:48Speaker 1: great about Yelp is that's not your job. There's a
- 4:52Speaker 1: great history of criticism, right? In theater, in movies, film,
- 4:57Speaker 1: in dining, you know. But it's not your job to
- 5:03Speaker 1: be a critic. So you've taken it upon yourself to
- 5:05Speaker 1: give yourself another job you don't get paid for, which
- 5:10Speaker 1: is to, like Paul Revere, ride.
- 5:14Speaker 2: Through the fucking....
- 5:16Speaker 1: Woods telling people what they should avoid on this planet.
- 5:23Speaker 1: Because God forbid someone else gets duped. Now, by the way,
- 5:27Speaker 1: this is the reality. Nobody Yelps to help other people.
- 5:32Speaker 2: That's a fact.
- 5:33Speaker 1: There is not one person who's ever written a Yelp
- 5:36Speaker 1: review because they are concerned that somebody else is going
- 5:40Speaker 1: to have a bad time at that establishment. That is
- 5:44Speaker 1: the common defense of people who write Yelp reviews. They're like, well,
- 5:48Speaker 1: if I don't tell people to fucking watch their back
- 5:54Speaker 1: at this particular Denny's, then who will? And it's like
- 5:59Speaker 1: no one cares about a stranger walking in and dealing
- 6:06Speaker 1: with the same rude, incompetent service.
- 6:08Speaker 2: What they are doing is they're doing it to shame people.
- 6:12Speaker 2: to punish, to.
- 6:13Speaker 1: Call out, because they know companies read these reviews. When
- 6:17Speaker 1: I was a tour guide, we used to get reviews
- 6:19Speaker 1: on TripAdvisor, and we'd get bonuses if they mentioned our
- 6:23Speaker 1: name in a five-star review. And a lot of times
- 6:26Speaker 1: they would mention my name, and they would be like,
- 6:29Speaker 1: you know, he was horrible. And then you would get
- 6:32Speaker 1: talked to. They would bring you in, and they'd go, hey, man,
- 6:35Speaker 1: we're getting these reviews about you.
- 6:37Speaker 2: And....
- 6:39Speaker 1: You know, so the idea that Lori Lightfoot is a
- 6:44Speaker 1: Yelper is beautiful. The idea that Lori Lightfoot worked in
- 6:50Speaker 1: government her whole life, worked on the police accountability task force,
- 6:54Speaker 1: so we know she loves accountability, okay?
- 6:58Speaker 2: And there's something great about her. Now, this is a
- 7:01Speaker 2: Yelp review of when she.
- 7:03Speaker 4: So this is from August 2017, and this is a
- 7:06Speaker 4: review of a party bus rental place, a limo and
- 7:10Speaker 4: party buses.
- 7:10Speaker 2: So Lightfoot is going out on the town. Is she
- 7:14Speaker 2: married at that point?
- 7:15Speaker 3: Yes, because she mentions her wife in this.
- 7:17Speaker 1: So Lightfoot is married, and she's going out on the town. Now,
- 7:20Speaker 1: we don't know to what.
- 7:22Speaker 2: Do we know?
- 7:22Speaker 4: No, it just says she's using the service VIP limousine,
- 7:26Speaker 4: and she gave them one star.
- 7:27Speaker 1: She's using the VIP limousine service in Chicago.
- 7:32Speaker 2: Okay.
- 7:33Speaker 1: She's going out on the town, and she's unhappy with
- 7:38Speaker 1: how this played out. Lori Lightfoot, now mayor of Chicago,
- 7:43Speaker 1: very unhappy with the service being given to her by
- 7:48Speaker 1: VIP Limousine.
- 7:50Speaker 2: Now, go into this.
- 7:52Speaker 1: I want you to read the review, because what's great
- 7:54Speaker 1: about this is the company does something that companies rarely do.
- 8:00Speaker 2: They rarely do this. They.
- 8:03Speaker 1: Call her out. As not only a liar, okay, but
- 8:11Speaker 1: an abusive person. And companies usually just write, thanks for
- 8:17Speaker 1: the review. We're going to get to the bottom of this.
- 8:20Speaker 1: You've seen what companies write. Thank you so much. But
- 8:26Speaker 1: this is the reality. This company had had enough. They
- 8:33Speaker 1: had had enough.
- 8:34Speaker 2: VIP Limo of Chicago, all due respect, calls Lori Lightfoot out.
- 8:39Speaker 1: Now, Ben is going to read this review posted when?
- 8:45Speaker 3: 2017.
- 8:46Speaker 2: And here is Lori.
- 8:48Speaker 4: I would never use VIP Limo again. Driver Carlos showed
- 8:52Speaker 4: up early for our pickup. A good sign, right? Turned
- 8:55Speaker 4: out not to be so. I'm going to read it
- 8:58Speaker 4: the way she wrote it. Turned out not be so.
- 9:02Speaker 4: Carlos shows up.
- 9:02Speaker 2: Turned out not be so. Yes. Now, one of two
- 9:08Speaker 2: things is happening.
- 9:10Speaker 5: Lori is using the parlance of the streets or she's
- 9:19Speaker 5: angrily typing, which I think is probably more likely.
- 9:23Speaker 2: Lori is enraged typing this review.
- 9:28Speaker 1: So she's not every word might not be, but the
- 9:32Speaker 1: general message is going to come through.
- 9:34Speaker 2: Continue.
- 9:36Speaker 4: Carlos shows up and wants to use our bathroom. A
- 9:39Speaker 4: little strange, but fine. Turns out he pisses in our
- 9:43Speaker 4: toilet and does not have the courtesy to put down
- 9:45Speaker 4: the toilet seats. Beginning of the end. We were going
- 9:49Speaker 4: to the United Center. Carlos clearly has no idea who
- 9:53Speaker 4: to get there. He is totally reliant on a whacked
- 9:56Speaker 4: GPS system that has him driving his huge Cadillac Escalade
- 9:59Speaker 4: stretch down extremely narrow neighborhood streets going in a route
- 10:03Speaker 4: that made no sense i had to take over and
- 10:06Speaker 4: give him clear directions to get to the expressway apparently
- 10:09Speaker 4: that was totally emasculating to him but house says my
- 10:13Speaker 4: gps says i should get off at division off the
- 10:16Speaker 4: expressway when we are going much further south and west
- 10:19Speaker 4: We finally get there and he says he needs two
- 10:21Speaker 4: numbers for the return pickup. We had already given the
- 10:25Speaker 4: person paying. Oh wait, we had already given him one
- 10:28Speaker 4: from my female spouse. I say I will just give
- 10:31Speaker 4: him mine since I am the person paying. Carlos says
- 10:34Speaker 4: I need one from the gentleman. I am totally confused
- 10:36Speaker 4: and question this. Carlos explains to this dumb female that
- 10:40Speaker 4: he needs a number from a guy because girls take
- 10:42Speaker 4: too many pictures and run down the battery on their phone.
- 10:45Speaker 4: My expression must have said something because then he then
- 10:48Speaker 4: said trust me. I have been doing this 20 years.
- 10:51Speaker 4: I'm a middle-aged woman, not some dumb kid from his
- 10:53Speaker 4: misogynistic worldview. I, of course, gave it to him, and
- 10:56Speaker 4: his response was to rudely close the window divider while
- 10:59Speaker 4: I was talking. The guy was a complete a-hole. Stupid,
- 11:03Speaker 4: terrible driver, and a complete jerk on top of it.
- 11:06Speaker 4: Can't believe he is employed, and I would never use
- 11:08Speaker 4: this service again while he is.
- 11:10Speaker 2: Lori Lightfoot.
- 11:13Speaker 1: Reviewing her trip to the United Center, where she went
- 11:17Speaker 1: with her spouse and an unspecified gentleman to some event.
- 11:22Speaker 1: Very angry at Carlos, the limo driver, for not knowing
- 11:29Speaker 1: what to do. She got mad at him for traveling
- 11:32Speaker 1: down suburban streets.
- 11:34Speaker 3: You pissed on all of the toilet lid.
- 11:35Speaker 2: Pissed on the toilet. Now, here. Here is the....
- 11:43Speaker 3: The business owner's response.
- 11:44Speaker 2: The turn.
- 11:45Speaker 3: Well, it's a turn.
- 11:46Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a real turn here.
- 11:49Speaker 1: Because let us all remember, this woman is in charge
- 11:52Speaker 1: of one of the largest cities in America.
- 11:53Speaker 2: Yes. This is a real turn. This is what.
- 11:56Speaker 1: They call a reveal, if you're a fan of dramatic terminology.
- 12:04Speaker 1: Because we now find out that Laurie's character is called
- 12:10Speaker 1: into question... by the good people, dare I say, good
- 12:15Speaker 1: people at VIP limousine in Chicago. Remember this opened up
- 12:22Speaker 1: with Lori very puzzled about a man showing up to
- 12:26Speaker 1: use the bathroom and then pissing all over her seat,
- 12:33Speaker 1: which she then called the beginning of the end. Here
- 12:35Speaker 1: is the statement from the Chicago VIP limo.
- 12:40Speaker 6: One.
- 12:41Speaker 4: Our driver did not use your bathroom. We checked the
- 12:44Speaker 4: vehicle cameras and he did not enter your home. You
- 12:46Speaker 4: had lots of guests over and of them could have
- 12:49Speaker 4: done what you claim our wonderful.
- 12:50Speaker 3: Driver Carlos did.
- 12:52Speaker 4: Two, our drivers have GPS systems that work with current
- 12:55Speaker 4: events and traffic. Chicago often has festivals and we have
- 12:59Speaker 4: to work our way around them. It is not your
- 13:00Speaker 4: place to tell him how to do his job. Three,
- 13:04Speaker 4: our drivers ask for a gentleman's phone number actually because
- 13:06Speaker 4: they don't ever want to seem inappropriate asking for a
- 13:08Speaker 4: lady's phone number. And you should appreciate that Carlos took
- 13:11Speaker 4: the time to ask for a backup phone number in
- 13:13Speaker 4: case you lose signal or battery. Again, our drivers know
- 13:15Speaker 4: what they are doing and have experience. Now here's the
- 13:18Speaker 4: final paragraph here. It seems to me the only person
- 13:22Speaker 4: here who is sexist, my dear, is you. I don't
- 13:25Speaker 4: know where you come to your conclusion that you were
- 13:27Speaker 4: emasculating him. Maybe you hoped you were. Your language is
- 13:30Speaker 4: horrendous and lewd. Just your rant here make me feel
- 13:33Speaker 4: embarrassed for you.
- 13:34Speaker 3: Also, wow.
- 13:35Speaker 4: That's pretty insulting that you refer to women who like
- 13:38Speaker 4: to take a lot of pics at their events as
- 13:40Speaker 4: dumb females. Your driver arrived early. He got you on
- 13:43Speaker 4: time and safely to your event. Your credit card you
- 13:46Speaker 4: provided on the contract was declining. We even let you
- 13:49Speaker 4: use a different credit card for payment, which is against
- 13:51Speaker 4: our rules. And you received an upgraded vehicle twice the
- 13:54Speaker 4: price of what you paid without any upcharge as a
- 13:56Speaker 4: free upgrade from our company. Wish I could review customers
- 13:59Speaker 4: like you. Find something better to do with your time,
- 14:02Speaker 4: and you should appreciate great service when you receive it.
- 14:05Speaker 2: Wow.
- 14:06Speaker 1: I mean, you want to talk about the SmackDown. You
- 14:11Speaker 1: want to talk about a total and utter embarrassment.
- 14:17Speaker 2: Yeah. I am just enjoying picturing her face reading that.
- 14:22Speaker 2: Her expressionless face reading this, which shuts her down completely.
- 14:29Speaker 1: The guy did not leave his car. So this woman
- 14:33Speaker 1: made up. She made up that he went into her
- 14:38Speaker 1: house and pissed on her seat. She just made that up.
- 14:42Speaker 1: She pulled that out of thin air, if we're to
- 14:45Speaker 1: believe these people, which I don't see any reason why not.
- 14:48Speaker 1: By the way, it's the fact, that's why they took
- 14:51Speaker 1: everything else with a grain of salt. They caught her
- 14:55Speaker 1: immediately in a lie. So then they go, well, now
- 14:59Speaker 1: we're just, because that was one of the harshest responses
- 15:02Speaker 1: I have ever seen a company give. So you know
- 15:07Speaker 1: that they are confident that they are in the right.
- 15:11Speaker 2: They are confident that they are 100% in the right.
- 15:15Speaker 1: I have never seen a statement from a company delivered
- 15:19Speaker 1: with such venom as the correction to Lori Lightfoot's slander.
- 15:29Speaker 1: You know who this person is. Like, you know who
- 15:31Speaker 1: Lori is. She's, you know, you want to talk about
- 15:35Speaker 1: a bureaucrat. You want to talk about somebody who is pushy, rude, demanding,
- 15:46Speaker 1: likes getting people in trouble, likes calling people out, does
- 15:51Speaker 1: not like to be called out, does not like to
- 15:54Speaker 1: be responsible for their own behavior. invents versions of interactions
- 15:59Speaker 1: that did not happen, as long as the person looks horrible,
- 16:03Speaker 1: likes people getting fired, likes people getting shamed, likes people
- 16:08Speaker 1: losing money. This is the type of person who we're
- 16:12Speaker 1: dealing with, truly. And I couldn't love her more. I
- 16:16Speaker 1: couldn't feel more... of an affection for this woman and
- 16:21Speaker 1: a gratitude that she's on the planet because my entertainment
- 16:25Speaker 1: is so important to me.
- 16:27Speaker 2: Because the world is really trite. And yet this is great.
- 16:33Speaker 1: Now yes, if I was someone who lived in one
- 16:36Speaker 1: of these places in Chicago that was suffering from inordinately,
- 16:40Speaker 1: and I mean to say inordinately, but high rates of homicide,
- 16:45Speaker 1: the city is falling apart, sure.
- 16:47Speaker 2: Not her fault, but she's clearly not helping. Sure.
- 16:50Speaker 1: I would maybe find it less humorous, but the fact
- 16:52Speaker 1: that I don't live anywhere near her and I can just,
- 16:56Speaker 1: I don't, I have, there's no, I don't deal with
- 16:58Speaker 1: any of the repercussions from her personal behavior, which is,
- 17:03Speaker 1: as we've seen, atrocious. To me, she's just a very
- 17:07Speaker 1: entertaining person. The ill-fitting suits, the fedoras, the blank stare,
- 17:13Speaker 1: you know, the dancing. She's like on camera dancing with people.
- 17:16Speaker 1: She has no conscience, Lori Lightfoot. And that is what
- 17:20Speaker 1: I like about her. She will lie about a limo
- 17:23Speaker 1: driver and say he pissed in her house to get
- 17:25Speaker 1: him fired. She has no conscience. It is what allows
- 17:29Speaker 1: her to dance as people are getting shot. Children are
- 17:32Speaker 1: getting shot in the face. She dances.
- 17:35Speaker 2: She has no conscience. She's a true villain.
- 17:38Speaker 1: Truly, all the things we find abominable in the world, abhorrent,
- 17:43Speaker 1: all of the personality types we want to avoid, the nanny,
- 17:48Speaker 1: the rat, The Karen, the person who, you know, keeps
- 17:54Speaker 1: the receipts and tries to, you know, get somebody fired,
- 18:01Speaker 1: embarrass somebody.
- 18:03Speaker 2: This is who she is. And this is how she
- 18:06Speaker 2: runs Chicago.
- 18:08Speaker 1: A petty, vindictive chief executive who will not take any blame,
- 18:14Speaker 1: similar to Trump.
- 18:15Speaker 2: She has a lot of Trump-esque qualities. The leaders are
- 18:18Speaker 2: somewhat similar. The leaders, I wonder if there's something to that.
- 18:25Speaker 2: At the end of America, the leaders have similar qualities.
- 18:30Speaker 2: They are craven narcissists.
- 18:33Speaker 1: They refuse to take any responsibility and they live in
- 18:37Speaker 1: a version of reality that they find best.
- 18:42Speaker 2: But they do not....
- 18:45Speaker 1: As Chris Hedges says, they're disconnected from reality. Like, all
- 18:49Speaker 1: of these people that are running these big, corrupt machines
- 18:52Speaker 1: that are failing, like Chicago, are unwilling to live in
- 18:57Speaker 1: reality because reality's not fun.
- 19:00Speaker 2: Reality is not fun. And you can see it in
- 19:03Speaker 2: one Yelp review.
- 19:04Speaker 1: What's fascinating is that in one Yelp review, you can
- 19:09Speaker 1: get a glimpse of the type of person. Can you
- 19:11Speaker 1: imagine the Trump Yelp reviews that he would have written?
- 19:14Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Had that been around?
- 19:16Speaker 3: The credit card declining would be there, too.
- 19:18Speaker 1: I mean, the things that he would do and say,
- 19:22Speaker 1: because that's, you know, an attribute of their personalities, you know?
- 19:28Speaker 2: It's perhaps why they succeed.
- 19:31Speaker 1: It's perhaps why they succeed, because what it allows them
- 19:37Speaker 1: to do is they are in their mind, they have
- 19:40Speaker 1: a God complex, and anyone that is not worshiping them
- 19:45Speaker 1: at any moment has to be thrown under the bus.
- 19:49Speaker 1: So Trump did it with a lot of his underlings.
- 19:51Speaker 1: He did it with a lot of his supporters. Lightfoot
- 19:54Speaker 1: does it with everybody, I'm sure. It's a common theme
- 19:58Speaker 1: amongst this personality type. But again, a huge fan of her.
- 20:05Speaker 1: And I wish her the best.
- 20:07Speaker 2: Because... Nothing to me.
- 20:09Speaker 1: Is better than someone who wears baggy pants, like her
- 20:17Speaker 1: pants don't fit, and she's standing there.
- 20:20Speaker 2: You've got to get that photo up of her if
- 20:22Speaker 2: you haven't seen her. And she's just standing there staring blankly.
- 20:28Speaker 2: You know?
- 20:29Speaker 3: The pant leg is going under the heel of the shoe.
- 20:31Speaker 2: Yes.
- 20:32Speaker 3: She's walking on her pants.
- 20:34Speaker 2: Yes.
- 20:34Speaker 3: They're so long.
- 20:35Speaker 2: Yes.
- 20:35Speaker 1: That is what a goon does. That is what a
- 20:39Speaker 1: villain does. It is so important as a villain, as
- 20:44Speaker 1: a troll. And she is a troll of the highest order.
- 20:49Speaker 1: Her lack of care about her appearance is because, again,
- 20:55Speaker 1: she doesn't live in reality. She's living in a world
- 20:59Speaker 1: where the pants fit. She's living in a world where
- 21:02Speaker 1: they're turning the corner on the shootings. She's living in
- 21:04Speaker 1: a world where the limo driver pissed all over her couch.
- 21:10Speaker 1: And that world has elected her mayor of Chicago. So
- 21:14Speaker 1: why not? Just like Trump, he became the president.
- 21:17Speaker 2: Why not? Right?
- 21:20Speaker 1: Reality, really, in many cases, is an obstacle to what
- 21:26Speaker 1: you want to do and where you want to go.
- 21:28Speaker 2: And a lot of these people have figured that out.
- 21:30Speaker 2: It's not going to get better.
- 21:33Speaker 1: People are now wearing N95 masks in the West Coast
- 21:36Speaker 1: just because of the wildfire smoke.
- 21:38Speaker 2: God bless anyone buying a home in L.A. God bless you.
- 21:43Speaker 1: As you've said, you believe that a lot of this
- 21:46Speaker 1: is going to get bad and the West Coast.
- 21:49Speaker 2: And parts of the South are just going to become uninhabitable.
- 21:52Speaker 3: Uninhabitable.
- 21:53Speaker 2: Whoa. Yeah. When?
- 21:56Speaker 4: Really by like 2080. Who says? Just things I read
- 22:01Speaker 4: from top guys.
- 22:01Speaker 2: It's going to get bad.
- 22:03Speaker 3: Yeah, it's going to get bad.
- 22:03Speaker 4: People are going to go to Wisconsin, up to the Northeast,
- 22:07Speaker 4: places like that.
- 22:08Speaker 3: Parts of Montana a little bit. And then Canada. Canada.
- 22:12Speaker 2: Well, that's what we're trying to do. What we're trying
- 22:14Speaker 2: to do is find a place to just keep our
- 22:17Speaker 2: head above water.
- 22:18Speaker 6: Mm-hmm.
- 22:19Speaker 1: Leaving Austin, Texas very soon. Our long national nightmare is over.
- 22:24Speaker 1: You saw the movers come. You watched the movers come
- 22:28Speaker 1: and take.
- 22:29Speaker 2: The furniture out.
- 22:29Speaker 3: They took it out.
- 22:30Speaker 2: Emotional. Yeah. How many months? And again, I'll be there
- 22:37Speaker 2: through the end of the year. On and off.
- 22:40Speaker 3: February through, I guess, October?
- 22:43Speaker 2: February. When I first arrived in Austin, there was a
- 22:45Speaker 2: biblical snowstorm. Biblical. Biblical. that knocked out power, people couldn't
- 22:51Speaker 2: get food, certain parts of the city had no clean water.
- 22:55Speaker 2: A smarter man would have seen that as a sign.
- 22:59Speaker 1: A smarter man, but Tim Dillon, not always intelligent, has
- 23:02Speaker 1: a lot of heart, but not always thinking. But there
- 23:05Speaker 1: was a part of me that did believe that potentially
- 23:09Speaker 1: this was a sign that all was not going to
- 23:14Speaker 1: be well. All was not going to be well. When
- 23:19Speaker 1: I'm driving through Texas in a snowstorm, first in over
- 23:23Speaker 1: 100 years, I should have maybe said to myself, is
- 23:27Speaker 1: this a sign telling me that this is not going
- 23:31Speaker 1: to work out?
- 23:32Speaker 2: And we tried. We gave it our all.
- 23:37Speaker 1: And I didn't try that hard because my all isn't
- 23:40Speaker 1: that much. My all is not that much. I'm 36
- 23:46Speaker 1: years old. And I know that people are like, that's young.
- 23:50Speaker 2: It's not.
- 23:52Speaker 1: Here's the deal. It's really not. If you are my age,
- 23:56Speaker 1: let me tell you something. You do not have your
- 23:58Speaker 1: whole life ahead of you. That is a lie. In fact,
- 24:01Speaker 1: you never have your whole life ahead of you, really.
- 24:04Speaker 1: No matter what age you are. Because no one knows
- 24:07Speaker 1: when it's over. So the idea that when somebody goes,
- 24:10Speaker 1: you have your whole life ahead of you, you can't
- 24:11Speaker 1: live thinking that. You don't have your whole life ahead
- 24:14Speaker 1: of you. 36, you have to know what you like
- 24:18Speaker 1: and know what you can stand and know what you
- 24:21Speaker 1: can tolerate. If at 36, you were still on the
- 24:25Speaker 1: fence about anything, you're insane.
- 24:45Speaker 1: At 36 years old, you're
- 24:49Speaker 1: probably not going to find out, and you know what?
- 24:51Speaker 1: You don't want to. God forbid you find out who
- 24:55Speaker 1: you are at 36. It may terrify you. You should
- 24:58Speaker 1: have an idea. 36, what kind of person are you?
- 25:02Speaker 1: Are you a coffeehouse person, or do you want to see.
- 25:04Speaker 2: Them blown up? I'm the latter.
- 25:07Speaker 1: Does Lori Lightfoot represent positive change to you?
- 25:13Speaker 2: You should know this.
- 25:15Speaker 1: Are you a person who leaves a Yelp review and
- 25:17Speaker 1: lies about a limo driver to try to get him fired?
- 25:22Speaker 1: Are you getting in skirmishes with Uber drivers at 36?
- 25:25Speaker 1: Is that who you are? Are you in the closet
- 25:28Speaker 1: lying to people about who you fuck because you're embarrassed
- 25:32Speaker 1: about the things you like and you're afraid about people
- 25:36Speaker 1: finding out who you truly are because you may get
- 25:39Speaker 1: less invites to the game?
- 25:41Speaker 2: Or whatever.
- 25:42Speaker 1: And I'm not saying anyone has to come out. But
- 25:45Speaker 1: are you that person? Because you know who you are
- 25:48Speaker 1: at 36. I'm too old to pretend that I can
- 25:53Speaker 1: fucking make it work.
- 25:55Speaker 2: It will not work. Nothing. Not a friendship. I know.
- 26:02Speaker 1: Somebody flew in to hang out with us. A month ago,
- 26:06Speaker 1: and they got in the car. I don't even hate
- 26:08Speaker 1: this person, but I don't like them. They were a
- 26:11Speaker 1: younger person, not sexual thing, not anything, just a dude
- 26:16Speaker 1: to hang out. I ended up pulling over in a
- 26:19Speaker 1: parking lot, making up some excuse, and putting this person
- 26:23Speaker 1: out of my car. It was about under an hour.
- 26:26Speaker 1: We had spent under an hour with them, maybe an hour.
- 26:29Speaker 1: I am done letting things go, is my point. They
- 26:34Speaker 1: flew from Florida, from Miami to New York to hang
- 26:38Speaker 1: out with us.
- 26:39Speaker 2: After an hour of their.
- 26:41Speaker 1: Behavior and their antics, I decided that it was time
- 26:48Speaker 1: to move on. As you get older, Everything's about brevity.
- 26:55Speaker 1: It's got to be quick. You got to know. You
- 26:59Speaker 1: cannot suffer endlessly. There's no value in that. It's about
- 27:07Speaker 1: knowing what's going on and moving the fuck on. And
- 27:11Speaker 1: that's the thing. You know, I found myself in Austin.
- 27:13Speaker 1: I found myself going, I can do it. I can
- 27:16Speaker 1: figure it out. I can adapt. I'm not adaptable, really.
- 27:21Speaker 1: I've earned the right. By the way, I'm going full
- 27:25Speaker 1: fucking motivation today. Earn, and I want you to look
- 27:29Speaker 1: at your lover, partner, friend, mother, father, and go, I
- 27:32Speaker 1: have earned the right to not be adaptable. Earn that right.
- 27:38Speaker 1: Earn the right to not be adaptable. I am not adaptable.
- 27:42Speaker 1: I saw someone say to their boyfriend once, they said,
- 27:46Speaker 1: you're so adaptable. I thought that was the biggest insult
- 27:49Speaker 1: I had ever heard in my life. I wished he
- 27:52Speaker 1: turned around and cracked her in the mouth. And I'm
- 27:54Speaker 1: against domestic violence. So you can only, in most cases,
- 27:58Speaker 1: some half, half of the cases I'm against it. A
- 28:01Speaker 1: good half of the time, I think it's wrong. But
- 28:03Speaker 1: the point is, that you know that that is an insult.
- 28:08Speaker 1: Adaptable is an insult. Malleable is an insult. Earn the
- 28:13Speaker 1: right to draw a line in the sand and say, no,
- 28:17Speaker 1: thank you. I don't want to go there. I don't
- 28:20Speaker 1: like them. I don't want to deal with it. I
- 28:24Speaker 1: was laying in bed with COVID. It was a mild case,
- 28:26Speaker 1: you know, because I was vaccinated, but really because I
- 28:29Speaker 1: got the Regeneron.
- 28:30Speaker 2: Whatever. Everyone I know who's vaccinated has COVID and is dying.
- 28:33Speaker 2: But whatever.
- 28:34Speaker 1: I guess that's what was supposed to happen. Every day,
- 28:37Speaker 1: they literally tell you less and less to expect from
- 28:40Speaker 1: the vaccine. Like, you're like, I have it. I probably
- 28:43Speaker 1: won't get it, right? They're like, oh, no, you'll get it. Yeah,
- 28:45Speaker 1: but I won't get sick. Oh, you'll get sick. Yeah,
- 28:48Speaker 1: but I won't die. You'll probably die. And I'm not
- 28:51Speaker 1: saying to not get it or whatever, but let's be honest.
- 28:54Speaker 2: This hasn't worked out ideally.
- 28:56Speaker 1: Can we be honest and say that the vaccine has
- 28:59Speaker 1: not been ideal? Can we say it hasn't been ideal?
- 29:03Speaker 1: I can smell half of what I used to smell.
- 29:06Speaker 1: I'm three weeks out. I don't know that the rest
- 29:08Speaker 1: is coming back. Can we just say that it's not
- 29:12Speaker 1: been ideal? And yes, does it keep you from dying?
- 29:14Speaker 1: The numbers say that. And I hope that's true. I
- 29:19Speaker 1: hope it's true. But we can admit that we had
- 29:24Speaker 1: hoped for more with the Biden presidency. Can we admit
- 29:29Speaker 1: that perhaps we had hoped for more? It's not inspiring.
- 29:34Speaker 1: It's not an inspiring presidency, is it? That this dementia
- 29:38Speaker 1: patient comes out. Now, I'm for the Afghanistan withdrawal. We
- 29:43Speaker 1: should have done it a long fucking time ago. But
- 29:46Speaker 1: when you see this pale skin and bones rag, this
- 29:52Speaker 1: flesh suit walking out to deliver remarks after these servicemen
- 29:57Speaker 1: have been tragically killed. Can we say that it's just
- 30:01Speaker 1: not ideal? Is that allowed? Is it allowed to recognize
- 30:07Speaker 1: imperfections when they are.
- 30:11Speaker 2: Obvious to us? So at 36, I.
- 30:17Speaker 1: Have earned the right, and I hope you have earned
- 30:19Speaker 1: the right, to not be adaptable, to have things you
- 30:22Speaker 1: don't like.
- 30:23Speaker 2: I don't like Ethiopian food. And it has nothing to.
- 30:28Speaker 1: Do with, I've tried it. I think I love other
- 30:34Speaker 1: types of African food. I don't like the squishiness of it.
- 30:38Speaker 1: And I'm sure there's Ethiopian food that's not squishy.
- 30:40Speaker 2: But I don't care. So don't email me. But the squishiness.
- 30:45Speaker 1: Of it, the idea that everything's kind of like some
- 30:48Speaker 1: type of applesauce, I don't like it. And I don't
- 30:53Speaker 1: need to prove a point by going to an Ethiopian restaurant.
- 30:55Speaker 1: I know I'm not racist. So I don't need to
- 30:59Speaker 1: do it. It's not for me. I love goat. Give
- 31:04Speaker 1: me goat. But I know what I like. There's got
- 31:10Speaker 1: to be a point where you say to yourself, I
- 31:13Speaker 1: can't function in a city like Austin, Texas, which is
- 31:17Speaker 1: a schizophrenic place. A place full of like the worst
- 31:21Speaker 1: kind of red state morons, and the worst kind of liberal.
- 31:27Speaker 1: It's a collision of the biggest morons that you've ever met, ne'er-do-wells, C-list, D-list,
- 31:38Speaker 1: except for like Rogan and Musk. Everyone's psychotic, everyone you meet,
- 31:44Speaker 1: whether it's in the tech space or anything, has a
- 31:46Speaker 1: big idea.
- 31:48Speaker 2: And a big dream.
- 31:49Speaker 1: It's nice that New York and LA have beaten the
- 31:51Speaker 1: dreams out of people. Beaten them, beaten them, beaten them out.
- 31:55Speaker 1: So the people you meet are not completely crazy. When
- 31:57Speaker 1: you talk to people in Austin, they have wide-eyed things.
- 31:59Speaker 1: They go, I'm going to start my own city. And
- 32:01Speaker 1: you go, okay, thank you. And you just back away slowly,
- 32:05Speaker 1: keeping them in your view in case they get physically unpredictable.
- 32:10Speaker 1: There's something about the wide-eyed nature of Austin that reminds
- 32:12Speaker 1: you of Brooklyn circa 2012. One of the worst places
- 32:16Speaker 1: ever in history. Wide-eyed people. Myself, I was one of them.
- 32:21Speaker 1: Who believed that stand-up comedy was medicine. And it was
- 32:25Speaker 1: going to save and help me. And all the people
- 32:27Speaker 1: I had around me were going to have that beautiful experience.
- 32:31Speaker 2: It was going to be transcendent. And we were going
- 32:33Speaker 2: to live and love and laugh forever. Well, it doesn't work.
- 32:37Speaker 2: Close your eyes.
- 32:40Speaker 1: Austin's going to be nothing but a shit LA that
- 32:42Speaker 1: smells like pork chops. And your dreams are the things
- 32:47Speaker 1: that will eventually tie a noose around your neck and
- 32:50Speaker 1: hang you from the tree. And the sooner you get
- 32:54Speaker 1: to that position, the smarter you'll be. Don't be adaptable.
- 32:58Speaker 1: Don't be adaptable. I've earned the right.
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- 35:30Speaker 1: acting a little adaptable, doing a 9-11 documentary on what,
- 35:33Speaker 1: on HBO?
- 35:35Speaker 2: HBO. HBO 9-11 documentary.
- 35:37Speaker 3: Four-part series.
- 35:38Speaker 1: Was going to include some 9-11 skeptics, people that are
- 35:44Speaker 1: skeptical of the official narrative.
- 35:46Speaker 4: Specifically the conspiracy group Architects and Engineers for 9-11 Truth.
- 35:51Speaker 2: Yes. Now... What happened, Ben? You've been following this. Did
- 35:56Speaker 2: the media have a cow?
- 35:59Speaker 4: So two days ago in the New York Times, this
- 36:01Speaker 4: was the end of the interview where he says, they
- 36:05Speaker 4: say the last step. And by the way, this isn't out.
- 36:07Speaker 4: If you're wondering why you haven't seen this, members of
- 36:09Speaker 4: the media have seen episodes already. So the journalist says,
- 36:13Speaker 4: the last episode of the series devotes a lot of
- 36:15Speaker 4: time to questioning how and why the towers fell. You
- 36:17Speaker 4: interview several members of the conspiracy group Architects and Engineers
- 36:20Speaker 4: for 9-11 Truth. Why did you want to include their perspectives?
- 36:23Speaker 4: He said, because I still don't, I mean, I got questions.
- 36:26Speaker 4: And I hope that maybe the legacy of this documentary
- 36:28Speaker 4: is that Congress holds a hearing, a congressional hearing about 9-11.
- 36:32Speaker 4: And he says, you don't buy the official explanations. And
- 36:34Speaker 4: Spike says, the amount of heat that it takes to
- 36:36Speaker 4: make steel melt, that temperature is not reached. And then
- 36:39Speaker 4: the juxtaposition of the way Building 7 fell to the ground,
- 36:42Speaker 4: when you put it next to other building collapses that
- 36:44Speaker 4: were demolitions, it's like you're looking at the same thing.
- 36:46Speaker 4: But people go in to make up their own mind.
- 36:49Speaker 4: My approach is put the information in the movie and
- 36:51Speaker 4: let people decide for themselves. I respect the intelligence of
- 36:53Speaker 4: the audience. And then the journalist says this, right, but
- 36:56Speaker 4: you don't say make up your own mind about whether
- 36:58Speaker 4: or not the vaccine is poison or make up your
- 37:00Speaker 4: own mind about whether Joe Biden was legitimately elected. Spike says,
- 37:03Speaker 4: people are going to think what they think regardless. I'm
- 37:05Speaker 4: not dancing around your question. People are going to think
- 37:08Speaker 4: what they think. People have called me a racist for
- 37:10Speaker 4: do the right thing. People said in Mo Betta Blues,
- 37:12Speaker 4: I was anti-Semitic. She's got to have it that I
- 37:15Speaker 4: was a misogynist. People are going to just think what
- 37:17Speaker 4: they think.
- 37:17Speaker 3: And you know what? I'm still here going on four
- 37:19Speaker 3: decades of filmmaking.
- 37:20Speaker 2: And I respect that.
- 37:21Speaker 1: And I respect his thing of like, why are you
- 37:24Speaker 1: going to do a documentary about 9-11 without putting in,
- 37:28Speaker 1: by the way, these are not, see, this is what
- 37:32Speaker 1: gaslighting is. And I hate that word. I hate the
- 37:34Speaker 1: new terminology, right?
- 37:36Speaker 2: But isn't gaslighting the type of thing where you're made
- 37:39Speaker 2: to feel insane?
- 37:40Speaker 3: Yes, exactly.
- 37:41Speaker 2: Right.
- 37:41Speaker 1: So when you ask these questions that are realistic, logical questions, like, hey,
- 37:45Speaker 1: Building 7, what's.
- 37:47Speaker 2: Up with that? Okay?
- 37:49Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 37:50Speaker 1: Normal, rational questions going, this doesn't look like anything except
- 37:53Speaker 1: it looks like a demolition. It doesn't look like anything
- 37:56Speaker 1: that's ever happened in the way that a fire is
- 37:59Speaker 1: taking something out. When you ask that very rational question,
- 38:03Speaker 1: you are gaslighted. You're made to believe that you are insane.
- 38:06Speaker 1: You go, oh, well, what about the vaccine? What about Biden?
- 38:08Speaker 1: You think we landed on the moon?
- 38:10Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
- 38:10Speaker 1: What are you, one of those guys? Oh, lizard people
- 38:12Speaker 1: live underground, huh? You're not insane of that. I'm simply
- 38:16Speaker 1: asking a fucking question. Because I have senses. I have
- 38:19Speaker 1: eyes and ears. And it seems fucking weird.
- 38:22Speaker 2: That's all. Isn't it weird?
- 38:23Speaker 1: If you told someone it was weird that 15 hijackers
- 38:27Speaker 1: from Saudi Arabia attacked the biggest military power ever seamlessly
- 38:33Speaker 1: and very successfully, and then that military power went on
- 38:37Speaker 1: to invade Iraq. And Afghanistan and countries who really didn't
- 38:41Speaker 1: have much to do with this. And this was all
- 38:43Speaker 1: directed by Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda. And we
- 38:47Speaker 1: censored 17 pages in the 9-11 report that were damaging to.
- 38:52Speaker 2: Our ally, Saudi Arabia.
- 38:54Speaker 1: And the 9-11 commission chair said we were set up
- 38:57Speaker 1: to fail and we didn't have. the resources and the
- 38:59Speaker 1: information that we wanted and the president would only testify
- 39:02Speaker 1: with the vice president in a like ventriloquism session that
- 39:07Speaker 1: they had in front of this commission. If you were
- 39:09Speaker 1: to take all of that and knowing what we know
- 39:13Speaker 1: about the government and what they've done and what they're
- 39:16Speaker 1: capable of, to even like Spike Lee, a brilliant director,
- 39:19Speaker 1: a smart guy, a guy who understands questions. That's what
- 39:25Speaker 1: art is, great art He understands, why can't I ask
- 39:29Speaker 1: these questions? We don't know what the answer is. We
- 39:31Speaker 1: don't know where it's going to go. When you start
- 39:32Speaker 1: writing a novel, you don't always know the end.
- 39:35Speaker 2: You don't know. The work grows. It changes. It evolves.
- 39:39Speaker 1: Why can't we ask the questions? When people are shutting
- 39:41Speaker 1: down the questions, it's a whole new level of a problem.
- 39:46Speaker 1: The answers are one thing. You can fight about answers.
- 39:49Speaker 1: But if you shut down the questions, you can't even
- 39:51Speaker 1: get to the answers. So the idea that there's a
- 39:53Speaker 1: coordinated attempt to smear Spike Lee for including a small, what,
- 39:59Speaker 1: half hour?
- 40:00Speaker 4: It was a half hour of the last episode, which,
- 40:01Speaker 4: by the way, 24 hours later after this article, after
- 40:04Speaker 4: the media firestorm.
- 40:05Speaker 2: Yeah, what happens? Tell us what happens.
- 40:06Speaker 4: So as it stands now, this journalist says they went
- 40:09Speaker 4: and watched the HBO sent out an email to critics
- 40:12Speaker 4: Thursday announcing that the screener site was updated with the
- 40:15Speaker 4: final edited picture. As it stands now, episode four appears
- 40:18Speaker 4: to be exactly 30 minutes shorter than the original version
- 40:20Speaker 4: that I watched on Monday, coming in at 90 minutes
- 40:23Speaker 4: long instead of two hours. Indeed, the entire segment on
- 40:26Speaker 4: the 9-11 conspiracy group and all apparent references to the
- 40:28Speaker 4: group appear to have been excised.
- 40:31Speaker 3: So it's gone. You just took it out a day later.
- 40:33Speaker 2: And it's the pressure. It's the pressure that comes from
- 40:36Speaker 2: the top. People go, hey, we don't want, you don't want. Now,
- 40:42Speaker 2: in fairness, I did not see the 30 minutes episode.
- 40:45Speaker 2: And it would be hilarious if the 30 minutes was
- 40:49Speaker 2: just him like talking to Louis Farrakhan about the Jews.
- 40:52Speaker 2: And HBO goes, I got to be honest with you.
- 40:54Speaker 2: And Louis Farrakhan's like, when the Jews put diffuses in
- 40:58Speaker 2: the buildings. And I understand that that could be offensive.
- 41:05Speaker 1: Absent that, absent that, I imagine it was an exploration
- 41:13Speaker 1: of people's lives. skepticism about the official narrative, which is
- 41:18Speaker 1: now completely amputated, completely removed from the final product, the
- 41:24Speaker 1: finished product.
- 41:25Speaker 2: It sucks.
- 41:26Speaker 4: So now you have an eight-hour documentary about 9-11. They
- 41:29Speaker 4: don't mention anything about the conspiracy.
- 41:32Speaker 2: Well, sure. I was talking to Ray about it earlier.
- 41:35Speaker 1: I said, what is the percentage of people who believe
- 41:39Speaker 1: the official story of 9-11. By the way, when I
- 41:43Speaker 1: say that, and I want you to listen to this.
- 41:45Speaker 1: You're in your car, or you're on a treadmill. It's
- 41:49Speaker 1: my fans.
- 41:49Speaker 2: You're in your car. And whatever.
- 41:52Speaker 1: No, we have healthy fans. And whatever it is, you're
- 41:55Speaker 1: listening to this. I am not saying, do you believe
- 41:56Speaker 1: the Bush administration did 9-11? I'm not saying, do you believe.
- 42:00Speaker 2: They had foreknowledge of 9-11? By the way, not the
- 42:04Speaker 2: worst question. What I'm saying is.
- 42:07Speaker 1: Do you believe that you know and possess all of
- 42:13Speaker 1: the relevant knowledge about the 9-11 attacks?
- 42:17Speaker 2: Do you believe that? I don't. Very few people I
- 42:23Speaker 2: know believe that.
- 42:24Speaker 1: I'm talking about conservative, rah-rah, patriot people that I know.
- 42:30Speaker 2: Okay?
- 42:32Speaker 1: Are now, in the last few years, even before Trump,
- 42:37Speaker 1: coming to a uncomfortable conclusion that they don't really know.
- 42:43Speaker 2: What happened with the clarity that they would like. That's all.
- 42:50Speaker 1: And most people are, I believe, willing and have an
- 42:58Speaker 1: open mind about the lengths to which elements of our
- 43:02Speaker 1: government will go to cover up criminal evil behavior. Jeffrey Epstein,
- 43:10Speaker 1: prime example. That is evil criminal behavior. And it's covered up.
- 43:17Speaker 1: So the lengths of which people will go to cover up,
- 43:20Speaker 1: I don't know what happened. I've talked to very smart
- 43:23Speaker 1: people that believe the mainstream narrative. I've talked to very
- 43:27Speaker 1: smart people that have a lot of questions. I will
- 43:30Speaker 1: put myself in the camp that has questions. And I
- 43:34Speaker 1: don't think there's anything wrong with that. And I think that...
- 43:38Speaker 1: Didn't Woody Harrelson... Wasn't he going to do something with this, too?
- 43:42Speaker 3: Yes, I actually have this pulled up.
- 43:45Speaker 2: What did Woody... Because I think Woody Harrelson, as well,
- 43:49Speaker 2: had some....
- 43:52Speaker 4: Ideas or reservations Yeah so Yeah this Because this is
- 43:55Speaker 4: an article I found that celebrities That don't buy That
- 43:58Speaker 4: are into.
- 43:59Speaker 2: Conspiracies You want to call her back On the show.
- 44:01Speaker 3: Yeah Just put her up next year Hey.
- 44:08Speaker 1: Hey listen You're on Once You're on the podcast We're
- 44:11Speaker 1: doing audio only Tell everyone about Your new show Because
- 44:15Speaker 1: we We loved it I listened to About 45% Of
- 44:18Speaker 1: the first episode Give it a little plug.
- 44:22Speaker 6: Awakening OD is a guide to the matrix from an
- 44:27Speaker 6: eight-dimensional galactic being who is assigned to Earth and doesn't
- 44:32Speaker 6: want to be here.
- 44:34Speaker 2: I loved it.
- 44:34Speaker 1: I love how good you are at talking. This is
- 44:37Speaker 1: Jessa Reed, and the podcast is called Awakening, and she's
- 44:42Speaker 1: insanely good at conveying complex ideas.
- 44:48Speaker 2: Thank you.
- 44:49Speaker 6: Thank you very much.
- 44:50Speaker 2: I mean, that's the fact.
- 44:51Speaker 1: I'm just sitting in a baby's room talking about 9-11
- 44:54Speaker 1: in my Airbnb, which I can't rent because I'm not
- 44:58Speaker 1: allowed on Airbnb.
- 44:59Speaker 6: I was going to say they let you back in Airbnb.
- 45:01Speaker 1: They absolutely did not. We use another account. I'm banned forever.
- 45:07Speaker 1: I'm public enemy number one.
- 45:09Speaker 2: Airbnb.
- 45:10Speaker 1: So I'm sitting in this baby's room talking about 9-11.
- 45:14Speaker 1: And this is my career. People, they think I'm doing well.
- 45:19Speaker 2: Monetarily, I am.
- 45:21Speaker 1: But my career, like, it would be nice to walk
- 45:24Speaker 1: on a red carpet, you know? I'm in a baby's
- 45:28Speaker 1: room talking about Building 7. It's not as glamorous as
- 45:31Speaker 1: it seems.
- 45:33Speaker 2: Why are you in a baby's room? Because it has
- 45:35Speaker 2: the best, what, Ben?
- 45:38Speaker 3: Acoustics in here.
- 45:39Speaker 2: Acoustics, because it's carpeted.
- 45:40Speaker 3: Is Ben with you?
- 45:42Speaker 2: Yes. Yes.
- 45:44Speaker 3: Hey, Jessa.
- 45:46Speaker 2: Ben, you loved episode two.
- 45:48Speaker 3: Yes, Jessa, we both listened. I loved it.
- 45:51Speaker 4: I love your stuff about aliens and interdimensional stuff. You
- 45:55Speaker 4: make astrology and all that stuff exciting to me.
- 45:59Speaker 1: It's the podcast if you're into that stuff, but you
- 46:02Speaker 1: want somebody who's got a very funny, dry take on things.
- 46:06Speaker 2: It's very funny.
- 46:07Speaker 1: And you're not like one of these white chicks who
- 46:11Speaker 1: when you hear them talk, you want to kill yourself.
- 46:14Speaker 2: Thank you.
- 46:14Speaker 3: Thank you very much.
- 46:15Speaker 6: Yeah, it's consciousness for people that hate the New Age movement.
- 46:19Speaker 2: I love it. I love it. Well, listen, we got
- 46:22Speaker 2: to finish this episode. I'll call you later. All right.
- 46:24Speaker 1: All right.
- 46:25Speaker 2: Thanks, babe. Bye, guys. I'm not adaptable at this point
- 46:37Speaker 2: in my career. Well, I guess for the right amount
- 46:40Speaker 2: of money.
- 46:40Speaker 1: If you give me $ 100 million.
- 46:43Speaker 2: Here's why I will stop talking about 9-11.
- 46:46Speaker 3: Okay.
- 46:46Speaker 2: Do you want to know this? And I want my
- 46:47Speaker 2: audience to understand this.
- 46:49Speaker 3: And what's the number? What's the number of money?
- 46:51Speaker 2: I don't know. Would I say $ 100 million?
- 46:53Speaker 3: I think so, yeah.
- 46:54Speaker 2: Probably $ 8 million. Okay. My talking about it has done nothing.
- 47:01Speaker 2: Do you understand? It hasn't.
- 47:03Speaker 1: Congress is not having a hearing. No one gives a shit, right?
- 47:06Speaker 1: In fact, people are annoyed when you bring 9-11 up.
- 47:10Speaker 1: I don't even mean truthers. People are just like, hey, man,
- 47:13Speaker 1: we're over it, right?
- 47:14Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 47:15Speaker 1: So for like, I don't know, $ 3 million, I'll shut
- 47:20Speaker 1: up about it. For $ 20 million, I will come on
- 47:24Speaker 1: the show and talk about why the official story makes sense.
- 47:28Speaker 1: I'll start another podcast called 9-11 Did Happen The way
- 47:33Speaker 1: they said, for $ 20 million. And I will, every episode,
- 47:39Speaker 1: through gritting my teeth and rolling my eyes, or I'll
- 47:42Speaker 1: just really believe it.
- 47:43Speaker 2: Like, I'll relapse. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Really. So now, what
- 47:46Speaker 2: is Woody Harrelson trying to do?
- 47:48Speaker 4: Okay, so he was going to make a movie. It says,
- 47:51Speaker 4: because this is an article that says, celebrities that believe
- 47:54Speaker 4: in conspiracy theories.
- 47:55Speaker 3: Here's the 9-11 section.
- 47:56Speaker 4: It says, Martin Sheen's son, Charlie Sheen, was reportedly set
- 47:59Speaker 4: to star with Woody Harrelson. in a movie called September Mourn.
- 48:03Speaker 4: With Charlie Sheen? With Charlie Sheen. And I believe this
- 48:07Speaker 4: was back in 2012 or so, when it said it
- 48:10Speaker 4: questioned the official narrative behind 9-11, but the movie never materialized.
- 48:14Speaker 4: And then Charlie Sheen went on Alex Jones.
- 48:16Speaker 3: I missed this. Did you see him go on Alex Jones?
- 48:18Speaker 2: I believe I saw that.
- 48:19Speaker 1: I didn't realize there was going to be a movie
- 48:20Speaker 1: about it with Charlie Sheen.
- 48:22Speaker 2: That sounds fucking awesome.
- 48:24Speaker 3: And Martin Sheen's a truther, too. Did you know that?
- 48:26Speaker 2: Probably.
- 48:27Speaker 1: By the way, I don't think the movie would have
- 48:29Speaker 1: accomplished it. The movie probably would have hurt the truther movement. Absolutely.
- 48:34Speaker 1: Charlie Sheen starring in a truther movie directed by Woody Harrelson...
- 48:39Speaker 1: is almost as close to a CIA op as you
- 48:42Speaker 1: get because people would have walked out of that theater
- 48:44Speaker 1: and went, I guess the government is right.
- 48:46Speaker 2: You know? But I still would have liked to see it, right? Yeah,
- 48:53Speaker 2: it would have been great. You know what I mean?
- 48:54Speaker 1: It's like Lori Lightfoot doing pro-vaccine stuff. You go, do
- 48:59Speaker 1: you want people to get it or not? Because no
- 49:02Speaker 1: one is being convinced by this goon Can you get
- 49:08Speaker 1: the thing up where, we played.
- 49:10Speaker 2: It on a Patreon, we won't play it, but it's her,
- 49:13Speaker 2: she has a great PSA about the vaccine.
- 49:16Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we yeah we played it on the yeah.
- 49:19Speaker 1: I don't know man all I'm saying is that there
- 49:21Speaker 1: is a theme to the episode I think and part
- 49:24Speaker 1: of the theme is there is a level of which
- 49:29Speaker 1: you realize unfortunately that truly nothing matters and And then
- 49:34Speaker 1: you have two choices. One is to develop a strict
- 49:38Speaker 1: personal code of ethics of which you follow somewhat religiously.
- 49:44Speaker 2: It could include hard work, honesty, integrity, whatever. Or none
- 49:51Speaker 2: of the above. It could include none of that.
- 49:53Speaker 1: In fact, it could be the opposite. It could include lying, manipulation,
- 49:58Speaker 1: and sloth. But as long as it's your personal code,
- 50:01Speaker 1: it is what will get you through. The other thing
- 50:04Speaker 1: to do when you realize that nothing really means anything
- 50:07Speaker 1: is to join ISIS or some type of death cult, right?
- 50:13Speaker 1: There's no real middle ground if you have the realization
- 50:18Speaker 1: that things don't mean much. Donald Trump had a great
- 50:22Speaker 1: quote about the Indian earthquake. This is what allows him
- 50:25Speaker 1: to be him. And he said something, Anna from Red
- 50:28Speaker 1: Scare had tweeted it or put it on Instagram where
- 50:33Speaker 1: he was basically like, can't worry about anything.
- 50:37Speaker 2: You worry about things and then 400 people die in
- 50:39Speaker 2: an earthquake in India.
- 50:40Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. Some approximation of that. And He's right
- 50:47Speaker 1: to a degree, right? Like, you know, Kurt Vonnegut said
- 50:50Speaker 1: the most successful people are sociopaths because they're constantly doing.
- 50:53Speaker 1: They're never thinking about the consequences. They go, do this,
- 50:56Speaker 1: do that. The Lori Lightfoots, yeah, lie about the guy. Yeah,
- 50:59Speaker 1: he came in, he pissed all over the kitchen.
- 51:01Speaker 2: Fire him. Don't think about him, his family.
- 51:04Speaker 1: You don't think about the fact that they have cameras
- 51:06Speaker 1: in the car that can tell he didn't fucking leave. Now,
- 51:09Speaker 1: you look like an idiot. You're not even looking out
- 51:11Speaker 1: for yourself. The real old school gangsters like H.W. or
- 51:17Speaker 1: Joe Kennedy or any of that, you know, they try
- 51:19Speaker 1: to look out for themselves too, you know? But it's
- 51:23Speaker 1: very hard for people like Lightfoot because they're so impulsive
- 51:27Speaker 1: and reckless. And Trump to a degree too, like the
- 51:31Speaker 1: new breed of leader, it's very interesting seeing what happens
- 51:36Speaker 1: to them, where they inevitably end up. Of course, Laurie
- 51:40Speaker 1: does not have near the talent that Donald does. but
- 51:44Speaker 1: they share some of the same things. When does Spike
- 51:48Speaker 1: Lee's documentary come out?
- 51:50Speaker 4: It looks like the first episode is out already, and
- 51:52Speaker 4: then I guess they'll probably release them week by week.
- 51:56Speaker 1: I want to see the lost footage of the Spike
- 52:00Speaker 1: Lee documentary, and I hope it was truly offensive. Because
- 52:03Speaker 1: it's all gone, I hope it was the most offensive thing.
- 52:06Speaker 1: I hope it was Spike Lee and Louis Farrakhan just
- 52:11Speaker 1: talking about Jews for 30 minutes. to a point where
- 52:14Speaker 1: HBO goes, we're uncomfortable. Because if it was anything other
- 52:18Speaker 1: than that, I think it should be in the documentary.
- 52:21Speaker 2: You know? But I just, you know.
- 52:25Speaker 1: What if 30 Minutes is just so unhinged? Spike Lee's
- 52:28Speaker 1: just talking about flat earth. He's just like, listen, we
- 52:33Speaker 1: live on a disc. HBO's like, wait a minute. This
- 52:37Speaker 1: doesn't seem to, this has nothing to do with 9-11.
- 52:40Speaker 2: A few decades ago, private citizens used to be largely that, private.
- 52:44Speaker 2: What's changed? The internet. Ben uses this. So important that
- 52:48Speaker 2: you have a VPN.
- 52:50Speaker 1: All the things you browse, search for, watch, tweeted, all
- 52:53Speaker 1: the data is crawled through, collected, and aggregated by third
- 52:55Speaker 1: parties in a permanent public record, your record. Having your
- 52:59Speaker 1: private life exposed to others to see that was something
- 53:02Speaker 1: once only celebrities worried about.
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- 55:24Speaker 1: back out on the road post having COVID. And when
- 55:27Speaker 1: I had COVID, this is what I was trying to
- 55:28Speaker 1: say before. When you have COVID at 36, you go, yeah,
- 55:31Speaker 1: I could drop dead, right?
- 55:33Speaker 2: I could die.
- 55:33Speaker 1: And statistically, you know, probably with the vaccine you won't
- 55:38Speaker 1: or whatever is what they say.
- 55:40Speaker 2: But anything like that, you go, I could die.
- 55:44Speaker 1: When you're laying there in bed going, this could take
- 55:47Speaker 1: a turn for the worst and I could die, you
- 55:51Speaker 1: start realizing the value of existing. And how many people
- 55:57Speaker 1: are on this planet but don't exist?
- 56:00Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Like, they don't exist.
- 56:03Speaker 1: And they don't exist, it's not because they shouldn't or
- 56:09Speaker 1: they don't have the value as human beings.
- 56:12Speaker 2: They don't allow themselves to exist. They don't allow themselves.
- 56:16Speaker 1: To be the person that they potentially could be if
- 56:21Speaker 1: they had a little bit of guts a little bit
- 56:24Speaker 1: of balls, but even beyond that, if they just stop
- 56:27Speaker 1: giving a fuck, stop adapting, stop pretending you like things
- 56:31Speaker 1: you don't, stop pretending things make sense to you when
- 56:33Speaker 1: they don't. When things don't make sense, go, that doesn't
- 56:37Speaker 1: make sense to me. Yes, it'll upset people, probably, depending
- 56:43Speaker 1: on what you're saying doesn't make sense. If it's a
- 56:46Speaker 1: configuration of hors d'oeuvres, it might not upset people.
- 56:50Speaker 2: When it's 9-11, it will.
- 56:52Speaker 1: But that's okay. Because you could drop dead tomorrow, and
- 56:56Speaker 1: would you want to be remembered for something?
- 56:59Speaker 2: Or would you want people to say, like, that person
- 57:03Speaker 2: really was like a person, like that motherfucker. You were
- 57:06Speaker 2: a defined person. You existed. You had beliefs and thoughts,
- 57:11Speaker 2: and you.
- 57:14Speaker 1: Came to them through a journey, and some of them
- 57:16Speaker 1: evolved and changed, but you stuck to them.
- 57:19Speaker 2: You weren't completely wishy-washy.
- 57:22Speaker 1: I respect, and let me be careful about how I
- 57:25Speaker 1: say this. Can I be careful about how I say this?
- 57:31Speaker 1: Who do you respect more? Your aunt who's on another
- 57:35Speaker 1: diet every week or a fat pig shoving a hoagie
- 57:40Speaker 1: down their throat?
- 57:42Speaker 2: Who do you respect more? Your friend who started reading.
- 57:47Speaker 1: About politics 16 minutes ago and is now an expert
- 57:51Speaker 1: on international relations?
- 57:54Speaker 2: Or the Taliban? Who do you respect more? Who do
- 58:00Speaker 2: you respect more? Somebody who's trying to be something that
- 58:10Speaker 2: everybody will like? Or Lori Lightfoot? A demon sent to
- 58:18Speaker 2: earth from hell. I know.
- 58:21Speaker 1: I know who I respect. You can decide who you respect.
- 58:28Speaker 1: There's nothing worse than somebody who's wishy-washy. And I've changed
- 58:32Speaker 1: my mind. There's nothing wrong with changing your mind. But
- 58:35Speaker 1: it comes from.
- 58:36Speaker 2: A core idea of.
- 58:40Speaker 1: What is and isn't real. We're barely talking about right
- 58:44Speaker 1: and wrong anymore. We're talking about reality. And that's the
- 58:47Speaker 1: other thing people don't realize. It's not even a right
- 58:49Speaker 1: and wrong paradigm. It's reality or wherever you are. Whatever
- 58:55Speaker 1: planet you're on. It's very, very interesting. But we hope
- 59:01Speaker 1: you come see us live. UK shows are going to
- 59:05Speaker 1: be announced soon. So everybody who's a fan in the
- 59:09Speaker 1: UK in the United Kingdom, Scotland, Ireland, the UK, we
- 59:16Speaker 1: may be coming, hopefully, as soon as January.
- 59:21Speaker 2: Wouldn't that be amazing? If you're coming as soon as January.
- 59:29Speaker 2: Wouldn't this be amazing? We don't know yet, we're trying.
- 59:33Speaker 2: And that is happening.
- 59:34Speaker 1: The Beacon Theater in New York City is almost sold out.
- 59:38Speaker 1: And I will say this, this is kind of wild, right?
- 59:42Speaker 1: I usually don't do the emotional like, the journey is
- 59:45Speaker 1: so beautiful.
- 59:46Speaker 2: Because I just don't do that, right? I don't do that.
- 59:50Speaker 1: I don't tell you to vote. I don't tell you
- 59:51Speaker 1: to get vaccinated. I don't tell you to be a
- 59:53Speaker 1: good father. I don't tell you to be a good friend.
- 59:55Speaker 1: I don't tell you to watch your children. I don't
- 59:57Speaker 1: tell you to read. I don't tell you to have interests.
- 59:59Speaker 1: I don't tell you to be honest. I don't tell
- 1:00:01Speaker 1: you to respect the cops. I don't tell you to
- 1:00:03Speaker 1: respect criminals. I don't tell you to get a good
- 1:00:05Speaker 1: job and provide for your family. I don't tell you
- 1:00:08Speaker 1: to finish college. I don't tell you not to do drugs.
- 1:00:10Speaker 1: I don't tell you not to drink. I don't tell
- 1:00:12Speaker 1: you to do drugs. I don't tell you to drink.
- 1:00:14Speaker 1: I don't tell you to get a rescue dog. I
- 1:00:17Speaker 1: don't tell you to abuse animals. I don't tell you
- 1:00:19Speaker 1: to donate money to abused animal shelters. The reason I
- 1:00:22Speaker 1: don't do any of that is I don't give a fuck.
- 1:00:26Speaker 2: You understand?
- 1:00:28Speaker 1: You're going to do what you do anyway, okay? That's
- 1:00:31Speaker 1: what people have always done. People make a lot of
- 1:00:33Speaker 1: money telling you what to do, and that's great. And
- 1:00:36Speaker 1: you keep giving them that money because money's got to
- 1:00:38Speaker 1: go somewhere. But my only interest is making you laugh
- 1:00:41Speaker 1: and occasionally think. So I tend not to get on
- 1:00:45Speaker 1: some big, like, you can do it.
- 1:00:46Speaker 2: Just believe and try and go and.
- 1:00:49Speaker 1: You, because you probably can't do it, whatever it is, right?
- 1:00:55Speaker 1: The reason you think you can do it is because
- 1:00:57Speaker 1: you're insane. You're either on too many or not enough drugs.
- 1:01:02Speaker 1: But there are things you can do, and I don't
- 1:01:04Speaker 1: know what they are. So I can't give a vague
- 1:01:07Speaker 1: blanket Gary Vee statement, say you can do it. That
- 1:01:09Speaker 1: might mean kidnapping a child. I don't know what's in
- 1:01:13Speaker 1: your head.
- 1:01:14Speaker 2: You can do it. Some guy goes, great. And they
- 1:01:16Speaker 2: run into a school with an Uzi. I don't want
- 1:01:19Speaker 2: that on my conscience. So you see how I keep it.
- 1:01:21Speaker 2: But I will say, I will just say that it
- 1:01:23Speaker 2: is cool to start.
- 1:01:25Speaker 1: Doing comedy 11 years ago in a coffee house in
- 1:01:29Speaker 1: Long Island, New York, and to sell out the Beacon Theater.
- 1:01:33Speaker 2: That is really cool.
- 1:01:35Speaker 1: I'm not going to make any type of, you know,
- 1:01:39Speaker 1: I'm not going to thank all of you because you
- 1:01:41Speaker 1: had nothing to do with it.
- 1:01:43Speaker 2: You understand? You understand? Okay? It doesn't have anything to
- 1:01:48Speaker 2: do with it. Okay? Ben does. But you don't. You
- 1:01:54Speaker 2: have something to do with it in a tangential way, sure.
- 1:01:58Speaker 2: And I love comics.
- 1:01:59Speaker 1: And listen, there's so many more inspirational, motivational, better, like,
- 1:02:05Speaker 1: I get it.
- 1:02:06Speaker 2: And am I grateful that you buy tickets to my show? Yes.
- 1:02:09Speaker 1: But I want to make you laugh. If I thank
- 1:02:11Speaker 1: you too much, I feel like I don't have to
- 1:02:13Speaker 1: do my job. I have a job to do and
- 1:02:17Speaker 1: I try to do it. And I think our interaction
- 1:02:19Speaker 1: makes sense. You give me money. I give you content.
- 1:02:22Speaker 1: You think it's funny. We move on. Maybe we meet
- 1:02:25Speaker 1: each other in real life. Maybe you come to my
- 1:02:29Speaker 1: show and you're good looking and you send me a
- 1:02:30Speaker 1: picture of yourself. And then you say you don't want
- 1:02:33Speaker 1: to hook up with me, but you'd like, fuck my opener.
- 1:02:36Speaker 1: And then I'm like, wait, what? This isn't the way
- 1:02:38Speaker 1: it works.
- 1:02:40Speaker 2: You know? Also, come out of the closet. No one cares.
- 1:02:43Speaker 2: You're 24. Anyway, point is this. What I'm saying is
- 1:02:47Speaker 2: that it is cool that I get to do that.
- 1:02:51Speaker 1: I feel lucky that I get to do it. Obviously, whatever,
- 1:02:54Speaker 1: there's a lot of work that goes into it, but
- 1:02:56Speaker 1: it's a cool thing if you guys want to be there.
- 1:02:59Speaker 2: And there will be no moment.
- 1:03:02Speaker 1: In the show where there's any emotional, like, I just
- 1:03:06Speaker 1: want to say that you gave me the.
- 1:03:11Speaker 2: Shut up. Shut up.
- 1:03:14Speaker 1: In a few years, I'm going to end up brandishing
- 1:03:16Speaker 1: a gun in a diner. How silly will it look?
- 1:03:22Speaker 1: That that's my ultimate inevitable end. How silly will it look?
- 1:03:25Speaker 1: Me getting emo at the Beacon Theater and telling everyone
- 1:03:28Speaker 1: I love them when I just know, because I'm Irish
- 1:03:31Speaker 1: and because I am me, that there is very little
- 1:03:34Speaker 1: chance I make it out of this without brandishing a
- 1:03:36Speaker 1: gun at a diner. And I'd rather people go back
- 1:03:41Speaker 1: to the earlier things I've done and said he had
- 1:03:43Speaker 1: such self-awareness. He even predicted that he would brandish a
- 1:03:47Speaker 1: weapon in an eatery.
- 1:03:49Speaker 2: And he was right. You see it's about consistency.
- 1:03:52Speaker 1: But if you want to be a part of the
- 1:03:54Speaker 1: Beacon Theater audience, we're doing a great show there. There
- 1:03:57Speaker 1: aren't a lot of tickets sold out. I mean, there's
- 1:03:59Speaker 1: not a lot of tickets left, which is pretty damn
- 1:04:02Speaker 1: cool that whatever we're doing here is resonating with people.
- 1:04:05Speaker 2: That's cool. But I'm not going to be like, you know,
- 1:04:10Speaker 2: a whole new world.
- 1:04:11Speaker 1: You know, it's fine. Everyone on YouTube does that. Every
- 1:04:16Speaker 1: social media person does. And I watch some of these
- 1:04:19Speaker 1: social media guys and they're like, it's just me and
- 1:04:22Speaker 1: you forever. We built this forever. It's like all these
- 1:04:24Speaker 1: social media people. And I just feel like, I just
- 1:04:28Speaker 1: want to tell all of you listening right now, we
- 1:04:30Speaker 1: did not build this together. I don't even know who
- 1:04:33Speaker 1: you are, truly. And I think that's why you listen
- 1:04:37Speaker 1: to this show. Because I think you're fed up with
- 1:04:40Speaker 1: people you.
- 1:04:40Speaker 2: Don't know telling you that you built something with them
- 1:04:44Speaker 2: and you did something together.
- 1:04:46Speaker 1: We did very little together. Very little together. But we
- 1:04:51Speaker 1: have a good interaction. We have a fair interaction.
- 1:04:53Speaker 2: It's fair. It's fair. I give you something, you give
- 1:04:57Speaker 2: me something. There's fairness to it.
- 1:05:00Speaker 1: And I think that that is, I think that's all
- 1:05:03Speaker 1: we can ask for. That's all we can ask for,
- 1:05:06Speaker 1: you know? But this is what it is, folks. This
- 1:05:10Speaker 1: is where we're at. We're lucky enough to do some really,
- 1:05:13Speaker 1: really cool shit. And I think the Beacon Theater is
- 1:05:16Speaker 1: maybe one of the coolest things I've done.
- 1:05:17Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know. Maybe Rogan Alex Jones
- 1:05:20Speaker 2: might beat it, to be honest. That's just because of
- 1:05:23Speaker 2: the medium, though. 30 million people. I mean, that's just big, right?
- 1:05:28Speaker 2: The Beacon, you know, will be 2,600 self-entitled New York cunts.
- 1:05:34Speaker 2: You know, I'm excited about it. I just, let's be honest.
- 1:05:38Speaker 2: I have to call a spade a spade. I just
- 1:05:40Speaker 2: wish the Beacon Theater was located in like, you know,
- 1:05:42Speaker 2: I don't know, Rochester or some, you know, some hellish.
- 1:05:46Speaker 2: I just need these Upper West Side cunts to walk
- 1:05:48Speaker 2: in and be like, I don't really, whatever. It's fine.
- 1:05:53Speaker 2: I get it. Just be a bunch of people at,
- 1:05:56Speaker 2: you know, at diners afterwards going like, I get like
- 1:05:58Speaker 2: what he's doing. I get what he's doing. I get
- 1:06:02Speaker 2: why it works. And then at that point, I walk
- 1:06:07Speaker 2: into that diner with a gun and I say, hey,
- 1:06:13Speaker 2: how are you?
- 1:06:14Speaker 1: And I grab their hand and they look a little,
- 1:06:17Speaker 1: they're like halfway happy and halfway scared because they don't
- 1:06:20Speaker 1: know if it's real yet and neither do I.
- 1:06:22Speaker 2: But I just looked at them and I said, I
- 1:06:24Speaker 2: want to let you know we built this together. And
- 1:06:27Speaker 2: then I blow my brains out on the diner table
- 1:06:31Speaker 2: and my brain matter goes in all of their food.
- 1:06:34Speaker 1: Because that's what we built together. That's truly what we
- 1:06:37Speaker 1: built together, okay? That's what we built. The inevitable decay
- 1:06:45Speaker 1: of our minds and our bodies that we fight is coming.
- 1:06:51Speaker 1: The only thing we're building together is death, truly.
- 1:06:55Speaker 2: And that's what I would say to those rich, entitled cunts.
- 1:07:02Speaker 2: And by the way, thank you for buying tickets. I don't,
- 1:07:04Speaker 2: I'm not, I'm just saying, I have a weird relationship
- 1:07:11Speaker 2: with New York right now. Some of it I love.
- 1:07:14Speaker 2: I love some of it. And then some of it
- 1:07:17Speaker 2: I just, you know. You know?
- 1:07:22Speaker 1: It's missing a Lori Lightfoot. Our mayor, Bill de Blasio,
- 1:07:25Speaker 1: is not cartoonish in a funny way.
- 1:07:30Speaker 2: He's not. It's just stupid. And it's embarrassing. To bring
- 1:07:38Speaker 2: it full circle, you don't have many choices in this world.
- 1:07:42Speaker 2: You don't. There's a few different people you can be.
- 1:07:46Speaker 2: You can be the limo driver who gets yelped about.
- 1:07:50Speaker 2: Or you can be the liar yelping about the limo driver.
- 1:07:55Speaker 2: There's other options. There's other configurations. There's shades in between.
- 1:08:01Speaker 2: But those are kind of the two, I mean, it's
- 1:08:05Speaker 2: the haves and the have-nots, right? I mean, there's disparities.
- 1:08:07Speaker 2: It's sad. I don't like it. It's the way it is.
- 1:08:11Speaker 2: For the moment, things may change, you know?
- 1:08:14Speaker 1: And, you know, you could be the person that says,
- 1:08:19Speaker 1: I bet the official story of 9-11 is 100% accurate.
- 1:08:25Speaker 1: And by the way, if we're not going to include
- 1:08:28Speaker 1: any of the skepticism of the official narrative in the documentary.
- 1:08:32Speaker 1: What is the documentary again?
- 1:08:34Speaker 2: Trauma porn? Jerking off to people jumping out of the buildings?
- 1:08:39Speaker 3: Yeah, talking to victims, the families of people that.
- 1:08:42Speaker 2: Died in it.
- 1:08:43Speaker 1: Who gives a fuck about that? Who wants to hear that?
- 1:08:52Speaker 2: Truly. Is there anything new? Is there anything new?
- 1:08:59Speaker 1: Or are we just going to go on about the
- 1:09:04Speaker 1: same nonsense? It is a tragic day and a lot
- 1:09:09Speaker 1: of great people died and that's fucking horrible. But I
- 1:09:13Speaker 1: don't know that we need to endlessly relive it unless
- 1:09:16Speaker 1: we're going to relive it with a little bit Of
- 1:09:20Speaker 1: a cold, sober, emotionless look at it But we don't
- 1:09:24Speaker 1: want that See, the last thing we want Is to
- 1:09:27Speaker 1: look at any of these events without emotion Because then
- 1:09:31Speaker 1: they don't make any sense You see?
- 1:09:35Speaker 2: You understand?
- 1:09:39Speaker 1: The chaos serves a purpose The chaos is the point
- 1:09:42Speaker 1: The chaos is the point The point is not How
- 1:09:45Speaker 1: did Afghanistan get so bad?
- 1:09:47Speaker 2: It's the point Do you understand? Why does Lori Lightfoot
- 1:09:53Speaker 2: not know what she's dressing and she's a goon? She knows.
- 1:09:56Speaker 2: It's the point. It's the point. What is confusing and
- 1:10:03Speaker 2: perplexing you is the point. Do you understand? What you
- 1:10:11Speaker 2: look at and go, why?
- 1:10:14Speaker 1: People are putting out there, hoping, That you are in
- 1:10:19Speaker 1: that state of confusion, panic.
- 1:10:21Speaker 2: You don't understand. You're not supposed to understand. In fact,
- 1:10:28Speaker 2: you're not supposed to understand to the degree that you
- 1:10:31Speaker 2: give up.
- 1:10:33Speaker 1: That you give up even trying to understand. That's why
- 1:10:39Speaker 1: people's behavior is so insane. And then you go, oh,
- 1:10:44Speaker 1: wait a minute. Teenagers act out It's for the purpose
- 1:10:50Speaker 1: of acting out. They want you to be thrown by
- 1:10:55Speaker 1: their moods. Their mood swings, yes, hormonal, but they have.
- 1:10:59Speaker 2: Control over them. But, you know, they're like, you don't
- 1:11:01Speaker 2: understand me, and.
- 1:11:03Speaker 1: Slamming the door, and they're goth one day, and they're whatever,
- 1:11:06Speaker 1: a stoner the next day, and they're trying on all
- 1:11:08Speaker 1: these different identities, they don't know who you are, but
- 1:11:10Speaker 1: they just want attention. The point is that eventually you
- 1:11:13Speaker 1: give up and let them be a person. That's the point,
- 1:11:17Speaker 1: is that eventually... you.
- 1:11:19Speaker 2: As a parent go, hey, she'll figure it out or
- 1:11:22Speaker 2: he'll figure it out, okay? That's the point. That's the
- 1:11:28Speaker 2: point here. The chaos that unfolds is the actual point.
- 1:11:36Speaker 1: And when you wrap your head around that idea and
- 1:11:39Speaker 1: the media's job is to sell the chaos like a
- 1:11:44Speaker 1: new TV show that.
- 1:11:47Speaker 2: Has season premieres and season.
- 1:11:50Speaker 1: Finales and hooks and reveals and there's, and there's stakes
- 1:11:57Speaker 1: and there's things that are, and there's many moving parts
- 1:12:01Speaker 1: and it's all, we're all just trying to figure it
- 1:12:06Speaker 1: out so that things can go back to peace, but
- 1:12:10Speaker 1: we don't want that. We want things, the people, the
- 1:12:15Speaker 1: powers that be, the idea that like anybody wants things
- 1:12:19Speaker 1: to make sense ever again. If things made sense, these
- 1:12:23Speaker 1: people would not only be out of a job, many
- 1:12:26Speaker 1: of them would be on death row.
- 1:12:30Speaker 2: Truly.
- 1:12:31Speaker 1: So in order for the world to keep going, things
- 1:12:37Speaker 1: actually can't ever make sense again.
- 1:12:43Speaker 2: Ever.
- 1:12:44Speaker 1: So their investment, their investment is making sure that the
- 1:12:50Speaker 1: leaders have balloon pants and they're crazy and they're spectacles
- 1:12:57Speaker 1: and the chaos is entertaining and you're watching but you
- 1:13:03Speaker 1: give up trying to make sense out of it because
- 1:13:08Speaker 1: that is the biggest threat making sense of this nightmare,
- 1:13:16Speaker 1: you will then have the clarity to go, wait a minute.
- 1:13:22Speaker 1: Something is rotten. Something's very wrong here. But not if
- 1:13:31Speaker 1: things stay turbulent. You know, in bad turbulence on a flight,
- 1:13:37Speaker 1: you don't go, where the fuck's my drink?
- 1:13:38Speaker 2: What's going on?
- 1:13:40Speaker 1: Bad turbulence, you just, you grab the seat and you pray.
- 1:13:46Speaker 1: And you look out the window and.
- 1:13:48Speaker 2: You hope to God that whatever force is keeping the
- 1:13:53Speaker 2: plane in the air, whatever it is, whatever force you
- 1:13:57Speaker 2: want to call that, you hope that that holds up.
- 1:14:01Speaker 2: You hope that that is real. You hope that the
- 1:14:05Speaker 2: thing keeping you above the ground exists. You can't see it,
- 1:14:12Speaker 2: feel it, you don't understand it, you didn't listen in
- 1:14:14Speaker 2: that class. You don't get it. You have a rudimentary
- 1:14:17Speaker 2: understanding of science, more biology, because you Googled your dick,
- 1:14:22Speaker 2: but you don't understand physics, or you don't get it.
- 1:14:26Speaker 1: But you're hoping, you're grabbing the seat, and that's the
- 1:14:34Speaker 1: point we're in now. We're kind of grabbing the seat,
- 1:14:38Speaker 1: and at a certain point in extreme turbulence, you actually
- 1:14:40Speaker 1: give up.
- 1:14:42Speaker 2: You'll actually give up and resign yourself to death. Truly.
- 1:14:45Speaker 1: And I've talked to people that have been in bad
- 1:14:46Speaker 1: turbulence where they go, a peace washes over you because
- 1:14:49Speaker 1: you're getting ready to die. You are getting ready to
- 1:14:53Speaker 1: actually leave your body. You've made peace with it. You've
- 1:14:57Speaker 1: had the moment. Your life has ran through your eyes.
- 1:15:00Speaker 1: You're there and the plane is pitching and weaving and
- 1:15:04Speaker 1: it's very, very bad and you're looking at the stewardesses
- 1:15:06Speaker 1: And they're crying. And at that moment, when you're on
- 1:15:11Speaker 1: that plane, the only thing that you're going to be
- 1:15:15Speaker 1: happy that you did was said, listen, bitch, we have
- 1:15:18Speaker 1: the fucking camera. The driver never entered your fucking house.
- 1:15:24Speaker 1: You're a fucking liar. You're going to be happy you
- 1:15:27Speaker 1: did that. That's the only thing you're going to be
- 1:15:31Speaker 1: happy you did.
- 1:15:32Speaker 2: Okay?
- 1:15:33Speaker 1: The chaos is the point. But every now and then
- 1:15:38Speaker 1: you can even say, fuck you to that.