Joe Rogan Experience #2436 - Whitney Cummings
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Joe Rogan discusses Dice holding unlit cigarettes like a fidget spinner. Most people light cigarettes immediately, but Dice swaps them out. Candy cigarettes were toys for kids that puffed powdered sugar. There were also gummy cigars. These primed kids for smoking or mimicked parental habits. Tobacco companies likely influenced them during times they denied addiction and cancer risks. Cigarettes were prescribed to pregnant women and kids with asthma to "strengthen lungs."
Kids licked 9-volt batteries for a tongue jolt. They inserted paper clips into electric sockets. People sniffed rubber cement while making Godzilla models and peeled Elmer's glue off skin. Parents had hot glue guns for crafts, leading to burns. Toys like lawn darts caused injuries; pointed metal ones linked to three child deaths (1978-1986), 6,100-6,700 ER visits, mostly children, 4% fatality rate with severe head/eye injuries, leading to ban. Seesaws had no seatbelts, just plywood with handles; kids jumped off mid-air to slam others down. Pogo sticks and trampolines with metal coils were dangerous. 1950s Atomic Energy Lab contained real radioactive material.
David Hahn built a nuclear reactor in high school. NyQuil/Pseudoephedrine requires ID to prevent meth production, but Adderall is easily prescribed for ADHD or self-diagnosed "neurodivergence." Journalists and professionals use Adderall for intense work. ADHD may be a superpower: hyperfocus on interesting tasks (e.g., 10-hour video games) but not boring classrooms. Finland delays reading until age 7 to build focus on preferred activities first. U.S. kids may not read proficiently anyway. Future skills uncertain with AI like neural implants potentially handling languages like Mandarin.
Apple preloaded U2 songs on iPhones, causing backlash despite U2's hits; Bono noted fans turned against them. Humans resist forced content, prefer discovering it. Overexposure kills appeal, like excessive ads or billboards. Advice: avoid overexposure, say no to interviews/projects, stay mysterious, live a real life beyond workaholism for better comedy/art. Memes often from unknown sources like Best Buy workers, not just stolen from comics.
Comics like Mitch Hedberg, Steven Wright, Dmitri Martin had jokes turned into memes. Lesser-known comics, Fallon/Leno writers targeted. Fat Jew (not actually Jewish, Baptist) stole jokes, created Rosé wine brand "Babe," sold to Anheuser-Busch for millions, now opening a bank.
Austin's Rainey Street killer pushes gay men off bridges, possibly tech guys from San Francisco during SXSW. Cops deny serial killer status despite multiple drownings in gay neighborhood. Joke about identifying gay victims absurdly.
Nazis and Biblical Christians killed gays; investigators had to confirm by extreme means. Historically, men had sex often (Spartans bonded lovers for battle ferocity). Future generations will view 2006 trans surgeries on children and constant phone use like past follies; phones will be implanted.
Past: lost phones gone forever, roaming charges, no cloud backups, public phones without passwords. Now: track phones by room, instant cloud restores for messages/notes. Apps like Evernote, Elephant organize notes searchable by keyword; "mom brain" deletes unneeded info, potentially smarter by forgetting debunked knowledge (50%+ of medical journals/school material obsolete per Stanford professor). Food pyramid flipped: now prioritize meat/eggs over grains; past version pushed spaghetti, ravioli, Froot Loops over beef (sponsored?). Kellogg's invented bland cereals to curb masturbation via unarousing food. Kids get horny at 12-14 from hormones; female teachers joked about advances, especially in Florida.
Once you have a kid, you change clichély and examine authority figures around
Everyone warns you about authority figures around kids, leading to suspicion of every teacher and coach. Question their motives since they get paid nothing and have no kids at the school.
John Harvey Kellogg, a physician and 7th Day Adventist, believed bland, plain diets like cereal and nuts reduce sexual desire and masturbation. He promoted these at his sanitarium. Corn flakes introduced in 1915 as high-fiber health food to aid digestion. Early flake cereals tied to his philosophy of sexual restraint. Publicists work hard to downplay this history online, leading some sources to call it a myth. Typing "bran flakes" instead of corn flakes or emphasizing "bland" causes confusion, but the rumor holds truth.
Cereal Nostalgia and Childhood Memories
Raisin Bran is delicious and filling, especially frosted with extra sugar. Frosted Flakes, Captain Crunch (peanut butter), Apple Jacks mixed with Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Pouring scoops of sugar on cereal, thinking it only caused cavities.
Don't ban sugary cereals like Froot Loops with dye; want neon-colored shit. One bowl won't cause cancer. Stress about eating it is worse than eating it. Friend had multiple heart attacks from stress constricting arteries despite clean arteries. Distinguish good stress (adrenaline, exercise) from bad stress (cortisol).
Hormetic effect: certain foods have phytochemicals acting as toxins against predation but beneficial in small doses. Broccoli sprouts high in glucoraphanin, converting to sulforaphane when chewed or chopped, activating protective enzymes. Eating plant stress is beneficial.
Plants release chemicals when consumed upwind, like giraffes eating bushes, making them taste bad downwind. Horses pivot grazing areas suddenly as grass changes profile. Grass signals "apocalypse" with acids. Carnivore advocates argue plants release anti-nutrients or defense chemicals since they can't move: oxalates (spinach, beets), lectins (grains, beans, nuts promote leaky gut, autoimmunity), phytic acid (grains, legumes, nuts bind minerals), tannins/polyphenols inhibit absorption or act as pro-oxidants. Issue might be pesticides, not plants. Restaurant salads worst due to pesticide coverage. 100% of tested California wines positive for glyphosate (2016 ABC7 News/Beyond Pesticides: 10/10 samples). Roundup (glyphosate) plant in Malibu; Malibu Rathon (likely Roundup-related) tested positive, people got sick.
Pregnancy Cravings and Body Wisdom
During pregnancy, craved sourdough bread (better than regular), eggs, meat; salads nauseating. Wife craved frozen pizza rolls. Carnivore diet arguments noted.
Red wine benefits overhyped; resveratrol dose to matter would kill liver. Dark chocolate likely good. Alcohol bad but loosens up, makes happy—better than sad. Wine with friends laughing is good. Glass of wine quiets interior monologue for presence, stops categorizing everything as jokes or premises for standup.
Always farming jokes; note ideas to stay present. Jump from dinner table to write slippery ideas. Joke notebooks like suicide notes with words like "Keeles, aziottomy." Neil Brennan called his joke book a net for ideas. Kid helps presence; historically, hypervigilance (two steps ahead) aided survival, presence got you killed. ADHD as persistent hunter trait.
Negative commenters need to touch grass. Comics would be mean online if not successful. Heckle for crowd work videos, especially with responsive comedians. First rows prepped with outfits for filming. Social media gives everyone a voice—great and terrible. Curate environment, avoid comments from bitter people.
Comics' Tough Banter
Comment sections milder than comics talking shit (Tony Hinchcliffe, Tim Dillon). Dropping bombs around normies shocks them.
Commented to hotel worker: cowboy boots are high heels for men. Tony Hinchcliffe wore cowboy hats, boots, Gucci tracksuit, now vests in 1000-degree heat. Bulletproof vest smart post-Trump rally. Puerto Ricans great at talking shit.
Make funny will post-kid; give Brian Holtzman million dollars to watch spending. Bobby Lee in $700 bedazzled Golden Goose sneakers. Golden Goose sold pre-worn out. Jeans with pre-made holes silly; useful knee holes for movement. Stretchy jeans: Perfect Jeans, Revtown, Barbell Jeans for big thighs (wear out from rubbing).
Fiancé (very straight) thinks about fighting guys or Roman Empire, jerking off to tigers tearing criminals. Coliseum fights speculated to extinct species (tour guide claim, unproven). Woolly mammoths extinction speculative.
Doomsday fish (syringe with fins, deep ocean) surfaces before earthquakes, appearing around Monterey, California. Fleeing bottom sensing quakes; possibly always around, unseen without constant cameras.
Coliseum animal fights did not drive any species to global extinction but severely reduced regional populations and subspecies. Beast hunts killed thousands of animals in single festivals and tens of thousands over imperial reigns. Modern historians argue sustained demand contributed to local or regional disappearances, combined with hunting, habitat loss, and warfare. This parallels market hunting in America, where lack of ice meant daily meat acquisition, wiping out almost all deer and elk from all 50 states to only a few now.
Roman crowds cheered limbs torn apart by lions, yelled instructions on killing, watched hangings in town squares, and sword fights. Modern online shaming is the most humane version—hurts feelings, avoidable by not reading. Comments aren't personal; most people comment on everyone. Argument for real names on posts eliminates whistleblowing, like exposing defense contractors or oil companies doing evil. Anonymous sources are needed. Negative comments like football fans yelling "Tom Brady you suck" while wearing Patriots jerseys or UFC fans insulting fighters who fight in underwear barefoot in a cage. Leaving shitty comments requires a dark place; reframing as a service since comedians aim to make people laugh or escape.
People hate Chappelle; impossible for everyone to love you. Polarizing comics taking risks are most interesting; non-polarizing like Nate Bargatze, Jim Gaffigan, Sebastian. Gaffigan got polarizing going political on Twitter during Trump era, drunk, lost fans as the Hot Pockets guy.
Comics should defend the indefensible as exercise, hold two true things at once. Opposite of wokies' "adopt don't shop" for pets—shop around ideas, don't adopt left or right wholesale. Breeders bad, but best dog came from breeder. Some rescues good, some worst people; worst in charities. LA fire money and $24 billion for homelessness unaccounted for.
House Judiciary Committee report on LA Fire Aid concert: $100 million donated. Funds used for voter participation initiatives, $100,000 to podcasters, $550,000 to political organizations, $250,000 to programs for undocumented immigrants, $500,000 for salaries, bonuses, consultant fees for nonprofits. Many worthy nonprofits helped victims. Kevin Kiley, California congressman, outlines misuse. Political advocacy, fungus planting projects. Money laundering scam; nonprofits get bonuses, tax-free, multiple houses.
Charities scam: only 30% or less of $100 million reaches cause. Tax write-offs mean donors pay extra while charity avoids taxes. US aid via USAID for overthrowing governments, funding NGOs for CIA-too-dirty ops. Mike Benz exposes: NGOs do illegal government work with tax dollars, massive profits. $24 billion California homelessness worsened. Somali daycares in Minnesota tip of iceberg; California bigger. Guy ran empty daycares, pulled up in Rolls-Royce. Dane Cook's brother stole, showed up in Bugatti, money unrecovered.
Thieves get invincibility complex, show off with Ferrari. Documentary The 75 on 75th precinct corruption: first day, threw guy out building, sold drugs, robbed dealers, showed up in Corvette—could've hidden with Honda or pickup.
Staged video of Iranian daycare in California: empty facility, owner in Rolls-Royce acts suspiciously, looks fake—bad acting, convenient camera, no brands, face recognizable as actor. Engagement bait; people repost as real.
Elon: Medicaid fraud biggest fraudulent money, didn't discuss fearing death. Catastrophic insurance like $20k Medicaid Part B for stroke, family fraud. Daycares claim non-existent kids; fake autism diagnoses/centers; feeding scams claiming 5,000 kids daily with no capacity/food. Minnesota politicians got $35 million from Somali daycare owners last year. Tim Walz stepped down from reelection.
Whitney made fun of Tim Walz going to China over 10 times as teacher taking kids; acquaintances attacked her. Why hide? Should lead with expertise on enemy, knowing language. On teacher salary, how afford annual trips?
Whenever I would say, "How many times did you go to China?" Everyone's like, "What? What?" And I'm like, "Well, here's the crazy one. When the all the Somali daycare center came out, he started blaming white men for all the crime." He's white men with all the crime. He's trying this woke playbook. "What about me? I'm the criminal. I'm a white guy. That's really what he's saying." He's telling on himself right then and there. He was basically trying to say that it's racist. But facts aren't racist. It's just clever. What if they did it themselves, if they were the ones that were perpetrating the fraud. The real problem is if they didn't do it themselves, who helped them fill out all those forms? Who helped them organize this? And is this a money laundering thing? Are they filtering this money into other people's accounts? Are they filtering into offshore accounts? Supposedly they were sending money on a regular basis back to Somalia and they were catching them at TSA in Minnesota. See if that's true. Jamie, it's a lot. The other question is when all this is going on I'm like do I focus on this or like are we going to war? You can only focus on so much. That's the thing about the internet. If you want to get outraged, it's there to feed you. And then once you click on something, they're just going to keep feeding you more and more of that. Is this as big of a story as my algorithm is telling me it is? Because it's more important than ever to be on stage as much as possible to just corroborate a premise to make sure that everyone even is aware of it given our little echo chambers. Remember when Kamala Harris was giving speeches that it kind of seemed like she was shitfaced like it just it sort of seemed like she was slurring words or something. Those were, you know, that would come and I was like doing this joke about it before the election that was like, maybe this is what we need. Like what's scarier than a alcoholic woman with no kids, like she can just be calling up like Putin in the middle of the night like, "Hey, faggot." And I was doing it. It was doing well. Everyone got it. And then I was somewhere in like New York City, I think it was doing, and no one had seen that video. People were like, "What are you talking?" No one had any awareness of that and it was kind of bone chilling cuz I'm like well she's probably exhausted right here's the other thing you're running around you're doing so much you're campaigning you're constantly doing if you catch me and I'm really tired I sound like I'm on pills and you're probably a little casual about everything because you're doing something you're repeating the same things over and over again you're going to these places you're completely exhausted or you're coming off of whatever they put you on to keep you up. Adrenaline and you know it's also I think that they're used to there's this old way of doing things where you could say the same thing on every platform and no one would cut it all together. Okay, here it is. I found it. I'm g send this to you Jamie because this is a apparently a legitimate source. I'm looking up this the main source they said they got it from. It said Homeland Security officials told a source called Just the News. Well, this is the TSA. Federal probe, hundreds of millions of dollars inspected small cash and leaving Minneapolis airport. It says that this is the source of this story. So, I was just trying to find out if it was a legit source, what they were told. For sure, that money didn't just stay in the community. If especially if they didn't have the ability to organize this and develop this scam, someone else helped them and those people were getting money from it. So, how were they getting the money? Were they getting the money in cash? Was it being sent and wired to offshore accounts? Like, how are they doing it? It's clear that there's so much money missing. It's in the billions now. It's bigger than the entire GDP of Somalia just from Minnesota, allegedly. The entire GDP of a country, one state's fraud is supposedly over the course of, you know, x amount of days that they did this. And is it true that the guy that uncovered it was kind of like some guy like it was like Nick Shirley kid? This like young kid. Good for him. But there there's the other question like did someone direct him towards this? Is this like did the Republicans set this up to try to expose it? Is it him just being an independent journalist? He seems like a very smart kid. I've seen him. He was on Patrick Bet-David's show. He's a virgin. Why do we know that? Cuz he's religious. He talked about it. He said he was a virgin. He said they can't get him on anything. He can't get me on sexual assault. I'm a virgin. You can't get me on anything. We can get you on being a virgin. Here's the article. Transportation Security Administration flagged nearly $700 million in cash detected in passengers luggage leaving the Minneapolis airport in the last two years. That's crazy. A massive massive cash exodus believed to be tied to Somali immigrants and their money couriers. Homeland Security officials told Just the News. So, who's the Homeland Security official though? Some of these were a million dollars and it says that they were legally declared every time they did it. But you could legally declare it if it was cleared by whoever is involved in this fraud. Right. So if you're donating $35 million last year, just last year in 2025 to Democratic politicians from these Somali daycares, which I believe is true. Bundles of cash and luggage some as much as a million dollars in a single trip raised suspicions. This is the part I don't that does I was like taking each statement as it doesn't say that those were each like that particular one was a Somali person that could have been someone going to Vegas could have been someone going to buy a house nobody buys a house with a million dollars in cash I'm not saying they did I'm just saying but it could have been anybody could have been buying a Bugatti could have been a poker player going to World Series of poker Dan Cook's brother Tony Henchcliffe going to the cowboy boot store it's conflating a bunch of stuff together. justthenews.com. Is that a legitimate organization? Is that a far-right organization? Let's look at their side articles and we'll get a view of what their perspective is. Trump orders government to buy $200 billion in mortgage bonds to lower rates. That's pro right-wing. CDC misled the public with study implying COVID vaccines save healthy kids. UCLA expert warns. also right-wing. USC's another sanctioned oil tanker in the Caribbean. Sanctioned oil tanker, they were sanctioned right-wing. Maduro's ouster leaves China holding the bag on oil investments. Right-wing. Comrade Singham to face house subpoena as his CCP tied network reveals or leads renewed anti-ICE protests. So it seems like this is a very right-wing just the news seems like at least le see just the news no noise. Minnesota travelers alone had 342.37 million in their luggage in 2024. That's a lot of money. Okay, let's find this out. So, Minnesota travelers alone had 342.37 million in their luggage in 2024. So, let's put into perplexity. How much money did California travelers have in their luggage in 2024? You're supposed to declare, I think, if you have more than 10 grand. But we lied. Everyone lies. But that's what they said. But these were all, you know, but if I went through with $1,000, they never would know. The amount cannot be determined from available data. TSA and regulated agencies track only limited categories such as unclaimed money at checkpoints or certain cash seizures. And these figures are nationwide rather than specific to California travelers or all money carried in their luggage. So how do they know that about Minnesota? It's coming from one source. And that's why I was like, why did they only tell one source? Why wouldn't they have told all the like why wouldn't they call Fox? Why wouldn't they call CNN? Why would they call? Also, it's this one very right-leaning website, right? It's appears right. Tennessee Star has it as well? They were just reporting the same article from just the news, right? So, that that's another way that you can distribute propaganda. You have one source and then you send that source out and a bunch of other people repeat it and said as reported by this one website and that one website might be. I also like to look at the ads that are on the surrounding the article. Exactly. If it's like gun safe, I'm like this is rightwing. If it's like tampons for men, I'm like I think this is a leftwing one. That's wild. I have a family member who works in like kind of banking and I'm like what's up with this oil? What's up with the China buying up all the silver? What are we doing? Did you see the doomsday plane? What's the doomsday plane? The doomsday plane that I mean could just be a scia, but it's a the doomsday plane. I think it went to California. The one that is in case of a nuclear event. It can hold stay in the sky for a couple days and self-refuel. Oh damn, it's made my nipples hard just looking at it. It's gorgeous. Jamie, doomsday plane. Doomsday Trump's doomsday E4B plane cited in Washington and Los Angeles days after Maduro captured. But get that pretty picture up of it. Look at this thing. That's the doomsday plane. What's that? Isn't that top with the blue stripe? They're all different. This is when they're selling it from Northrop Grumman. So, anybody can buy it and then you get it at America's logos on it, right? But it's also different in the way it's built. Look at the top of it. Is that the escape pod at the very top where they pop off and go to Mars? Inside the doomsday plane. What is the capacity of the United States Doomsday E4B plane? Like what does it do? Can like stay in the air for a couple days. It can refuel itself. What is the capacity of the doomsday plane the United States has? It accommodate a little over 100 people with typical published figures ranging from about 108 mission crew up to roughly 111 to 112 total passengers total personnel including flight crew and staff in official media descriptions usually summarized as seating for around 110 people. Endurance. Maximum endurance. This thing is like a beast. Can stay alive for 150 hours. With sources describing capabilities from roughly 72 hours up to about a week in sustained operations. So, it can fly for a week. Because it can self fuel. It can fuel air. It can theoretically remain airborne for several days, limited mainly by crew fatigue and maintenance needs rather than fuel. Multiple sources describe realistic endurance of roughly 3 to seven days of continuous flight under sustained operations when supported by tankers and rotation of crew. So, here's the thing. If it is a doomsday scenario and you're up in the air for 5 days, that's just like that just means you're going to die in 5 days. Or do you just pull this out as a message to everybody, you know, because you would only need this in if there was a nuclear event, right? So, it's the idea to just go like, hey, what just happened in, you know, Venezuela? Just just so you guys know we're flying this thing around. When's the last time it flew? When's the last time it made a cameo? Also, I don't I mean I know we were talking about the the Delta extraction and like I would never want to I mean watching the video of the Delta extraction, how they of Maduro, they built like a replica of the building and were blindfolded like going through it, you know, practicing it and stuff. But it it it I was talking to your guy when we were coming over. It could have been pre-negotiated, right? There is a chance that that could have been pre-negotiated. They killed 80 of his men. I don't think it was negotiated. But it is weird that his wife was there. I guess that was like a thing a couple people flagged. Just that she was there and involved. Well, she's his wife. One of the funny ones was somebody posted on Twitter a photograph of this woman and her children and she and the the journalist said this woman and her children her husband and their father was killed in the US raid in Venezuela. And then everybody was like right what was he there for? What was he doing there? Was he a mercenary? Like what was he doing? He was Cuban apparently because there was a lot of Cuban defense that they used that Maduro used for whatever reason. I guess communists love each other. They hang out with each other. Other dictators like, "Hey, let me borrow some of your guys." Well, I mean, the guy might have been a mercenary. There was certainly mercenaries working for him. I mean, he had 80 people died that were there protecting him. This stormed in. They didn't lose a single US service member. Wild. So sick. Crazy. I mean, it's just like flawless. Other dictators got to be like, "Fuck." I didn't know. I mean, is that why Iran they was that why Iran was like, "Now's the time like to Oh, well the people are cracking down. The people are out in the streets now, but now apparently the Islamic regime is assassinating people that are protesting." Of course. And your boy. This is where Elon really shines like you know with to bringing Starlink over to a country that has cut off Wi-Fi, right? Cuz that's what they do. They cut off Wi-Fi so these people can't organize. I think it's also been cut off for them. I mean I don't I think they've had a limited version of it for so long. Well, they definitely kill people who protest. They killed a gold medalist in the Olympics. They killed a guy who was a wrestler. Gold medalist because the UFC tried to get involved and keep this guy from being assassinated. They killed him. You've seen like pictures I should say and like video of Iran in like the 70s and stuff. Crazy. We did that. Because they wanted to nationalize their oil. We were like, "Nah, player." Nah. Oh, hell no. Brah. They had a democratic society. It is entirely because of the intelligence agencies. We went over there and you know the you could find the story. Find the story so I don't butcher it. But essentially the shah was like, "Hey, um, why is the British petroleum company or whatever it was, why are they making all the money? We'll nationalize our oil." And he was gone, you know, within days. And they put in the Islamic regime and it has been a religious state ever since then. I mean, that's that's our doing or the British Oil Company and us, multiple different people. And it essentially it was all just about his oil or the country's oil rather. But Maduro like he was going to be torn limb to limb at some point, right? Well he had a bounty on him by the Biden administration. This is one thing that people need to understand. It wasn't just the Trump administration. The Biden administration had a bounty on Maduro. They had I believe it was 20 million or 22 million. Trying to get people to off that guy. So it wasn't like we're the only ones that think he was a bad guy. They were trying to use money to get people to kill that guy. And besides the oil of it all, like were they going to allow China and Russia to put like use it like to put missiles there? China was there negotiating with Maduro the day the US came and kidnapped him. Bad move, homie. They came in that day and were having meetings with Maduro and that night they snatched him out of his bed. You think to uh get oil or to put nuclear? 100% to get oil. Yeah, they want that oil. Everybody wants that oil. It's so funny like when um you know having a kid, you know, the way that it changes you, but like the things you focus on, the things you're obsessed with that keep you up at night. Like before I had a kid, it was like, "Is he going to text me back?" Now I'm like obsessed with like finite resources. I'm like, "Where's all the helium?" Like we're we're running out of helium. Like, where's the What's helium for besides balloons? Hilarious. Yeah, I won't be able to have a birthday party for my son. What are clowns going to do? No, it's for ventilators, although I think we found the ventilators actually in CO they armed people, but I think it's like ventilators and medical stuff like you know, helium is finite. Like there's only a certain amount and we kind of just use it for like the Macy's Day Parade for like floats and. But I think that there is actually a lot of helium in Texas, maybe Oklahoma, and then Qatar is like the other place that it we have it. But we have a limited supply of helium. I never even thought about helium before except the comedy clubs. Don't get me started on Oh, shout out to Philly. Also, sand, I think. Jamie, what's the story behind Iran and the nationalization of their oil? Well, that's I mean that's a that's a longer story back to the 50s and 70s, right? But when we did it, because we definitely were involved, the US was involved in overthrowing the legitimate government of Iran. Putting putting the Ayatollah in and then they they ruined the entire country because Iranian women are hot. They are beautiful and smart as. Every my OB who like saved me and my son's life during child birth like just Iranian do not play around. They make great wrestlers too. United States initially tried to mediate between Britain and Iran during the 1951 nationalization crisis, but then moved to help overturn Iran's elected government to reverse the consequences of the nationalization. It's all about oil. 1953, US officials helped organize the coup that removed Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh whose rise had been closely tied to the nationalization of Iranian oil. In March 1951, Iran's parliament voted to nationalize the assets of Britishowned Anglo Iranian oil company responding to a long-standing grievances over low royalties and foreign control. Nationalist leader became prime minister soon after and made implementation of nationalization central to his program. So under President Truman, the US generally opposed the idea of full nationalization in principle, but did not want Iran pushed to the collapse or move toward the Soviet Union. Washington sent envoys such as George McGee and W. Averell Harriman to seek a compromise that would preserve Western access to oil while accepting some changes to the existing concession. Coup reversal in 51 53 under President Eisenhower US Central Intelligence Agency working with Britain's MI6 carried out Operation Ajax covert operation to overthrow Mosaddegh and strengthened the shah's rule the coup removed the government most associated with oil nationalization and paved the way in 1954 for an international oil consortium in which five major US oil companies along with British and other firms gained significant stakes in Iranian oil ending exclusive British control. I'm fascinated by ruined it. There was this um uh TV show on um I think National Geographic I want to say called a small light that was about like what was going on with you know in the Holocaust. Like it was a slow it was slow. It wasn't just like one day they just got, you know, it was like they, you know, slowly started, you know, uh, seizing art and then, you know, not letting them get jobs. Like how these gradual things happen like to go from the 70s of like the women out in bathing suits on the to like there's women that are, you know, that had enjoyed the freedom and then all of a sudden had to like it's just so fascinating that like how gradual it is. Oh yeah. And how they you get desensitized. How you make it's a frog in boiling water. They don't realize they're boiling until it's too late. Or you do know what's happening. And that's what's happening right now in New York City. But he said he would stop the carriage horses. So, I'm all for it. I'm kind of down with that. I think that's up. That's disgusting. Those horses do not need to be wandering around New York City sniffing brake dust. It's disgusting. Carrying around. It's disgusting. I mean, it's, you know, you know me and my like uh horse thing. Uh, but it's it's so disgusting and you know the amount it's like nobody knows how many elephants kill their trainers a year and how you know all kinds of cra we saw the orca kill the trainer you know but stuff like that happens so often and they just cover it up but the amount of of carriage horses a couple of them got out um and we've seen them get out and we've seen them collapse and all this horrific stuff and um something else is going on with it which is and look I'm I'm the first person to say like New York was really safe when the mafia is, you know, kind of like there's that documentary about how they would
Whitney discusses protecting people in subways and filling gaps where government can't, but mentions issues with the horse carriage business. A 29-year-old horse named Archie got out. She tried negotiating with owners using friends with FU money, offering $38,000 cash to take the horse in the middle of the night, no social media. Owners refused, saying they make insane money, mostly from horse-drawn carriages with tourists, including foreigners with different views on animal respect. Joe notes seeing white people, like Polish or Russian. Whitney jokes about romance of horse rides. She pitched robot horses or dinosaur trolley rides.
Jamie pulls up info on NYC's new housing head who wants to kill real estate value for affordability. She proposes housing owned by a collective where people pay 30% of income: zero if income zero, 30% if $500,000. Government ensures cash flow, doesn't need to own. Debt-to-GDP ratio highest since WWII; interviewer asks how federal government affords subsidizing rentals. She says federal government prints money. Joe and Whitney mock her hoodie attire, lack of professionalism. She's confronted, breaks down crying. Her mom has a million-dollar house. Training from UCB, improvising. Comes from rich family, feels guilty about privilege. Whitney notes impact on white people. Discusses liberal hypocrisy: not racist, everyone's equal, diversity but not diversity of thought. Comics expert on hypocrisy from growing up around alcoholics. Examples: don't believe in gender but need female president; my body my choice unless baby's vaccine for hepatitis B from butt sex or sharing needles; believe in climate change and rising seas but live on coast; believe in recycling but won't give Andrew Yang or Beto O'Rourke another shot.
Joe says progressives attach to ideology as identity. Beto seemed messy. Left attacked him for sexist joke about wife and kids. Housing official from 2021 interview, now leads Office to Protect Tenants. Agrees on protecting from slumlords but 30% income tax for housing is crazy, even for billionaires like Elon Musk. New York expensive by design; can't have convenience without cost. Howard Stern bought two floors, still apartment. Even Jeffrey Epstein got donated house or Harvard office. New York puts fire under you; Dice advised getting sleep, don't get too comfortable as comic.
Whitney took bad advice that life must be mess to be funny; happiness, kids, healthy relationship free up bandwidth. Comfort can make lazy, but stay in trenches, go to grocery store to avoid disconnection. Moved to NYC pre-pandemic (around 2018) for dogfight, writing new hour, touring East Coast. Single, no kid. Ari suggested extreme like Somalia; she chose NYC apartment. Bathtub caused sewage from toilet; plumber said "It's New York." Elevator let strangers on floor. Pipes explode from age. NYC emotionally, literally, figuratively expensive; everything costs more.
Policy could lead to Republican swing, backlash against communism. Wealthy leaving NYC. Robert De Niro quote on taxes (possibly fake satire). Can't tax way out; government inefficient with money, no examples of doing amazing job. De Niro loves NYC, owns hotels, film festival; Trump supporters yell outside his house. Easy access in walkups. Serial burglar Chenise Ales broke into De Niro's townhouse for Christmas presents (2023), released from Rikers May 3rd, more thefts including Columbia University where she slugged security guard. Stole $416 from TJ Maxx. Used tools on window.
Get a dog like Belgian Malinois. Joe leaves doors unlocked with large dogs; new dog Marshall instantly buddies but anti-wolf—humans bred wolves into cuddlies. Changes happen fast like smoking bans in bars due to secondhand smoke causing cancer in waitstaff.
Shoe stores had X-ray machines for foot sizing; workers got foot cancer. New tech kills unknowingly. Radium Girls: painted glow-in-dark radium on watch dials (charges in light, glows at night via radioactivity); licked brushes, got horrific jaw cancer, holes in face. Christopher Reeve's wife got lung cancer from his machine. Nail salon girls inhale acrylics; surgeon masks useless. Cleaning solvent workers get lung cancer like three packs a day. Use organic cleaners like vinegar. Women spray hair, makeup full of endocrine disruptors, botox. Red light therapy improves collagen, healing, mitochondria, vision—Whitney's forehead moves, hairline back; Joe's reading vision improved, no glasses needed. Kids getting glasses young from screens; take breaks looking far to prevent cornea reshaping.
Light from screens isn't good. Blue light glasses help. House looks like a chemistry studio with glasses and lights. Uses red light on skin.
Botox sold as preventative in 20s. At 27, making TV shows, executives said she looked tired from late-night notes removing good jokes. Recommended Botox to prevent wrinkles later. Now at 35, still getting it, questioning why not enjoy prevention now. Becomes endless. Wonders who it's for, especially as comic not needing TV or movie roles where expression is key. Can't act without facial movement. Seen actors with one teardrop, yelling they're present.
Rise of Brotox weird. Judges men with immobile faces, ignores their words. Hot guys should enjoy aging benefits. At Stallone age (79), received White House award with Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Jean Simmons, Michael Crawford—Kennedy Center Honors acknowledging 80s heroes. Stallone's hairline crazy, looks like facelift. Used to be canary in coal mine for staying jacked at 70, in great shape long time, now overdone.
Awards silly—standing for medal like deserving it. Trump gave them. Insecure to give awards instead of dinner invite.
Harvard's Hasty Pudding or comedy troupe pranked celebrities with fake awards. Conan O'Brien at 19 (1985) convinced Cosby of Harvard Lampoon lifetime achievement in comedy. Cosby flew private plane, picked up in Conan's parents' station wagon, given modified bowling trophy. He showed up. Hilarious scramble. Many fun writers from Harvard Lampoon.
Elite Harvard writers contributed to TV irrelevance—elitism, not relatable. Best comedy everyone sees themselves in. $70k/year school kids made shows like The Office, mocking poor people working paper mills, going to Chili's. Friends worked on it, love them, but gets in trouble saying it.
Cosby top five shows with Martin, Married with Children. Hard to find Cosby now. No one questioned gynecologist working from basement. Episode with secret barbecue sauce making everyone horny. Cliff Huxtable from basement in plastic gloves, like post-exam. Delivering babies from home.
Dated girl whose gynecologist hit on her at home post-exam, asked on date. Creepy, seen everything, had money. Back when caller ID existed, thought medical call.
Male gynecologists rare now—med school choice raises eyebrows. Women avoid heterosexual male ones staring at genitals. Or if indifferent, why gloves?
Butt glitter, butt crystals, bedazzling pussies. Conflates feminism with bedazzling genitals—not free the nipple. Glitter pants toxic? Hose painted tits for public like New Year's Eve, claiming not topless.
Tin Man fucked up by aluminum paint (also in deodorant). Wicked Witch green paint, face caught fire. Now pay dermatologists to burn skin for youth. Asbestos? Aluminum confirmed.
Uses Dr. Squatch natural deodorant, lasts all day.
Disgusted by own BO post-workout without deodorant, uses wipes. Don't need to smell like moonlit path or monkey zoo. Power move? Huberman: bad smell means related. Wife's BO smells good to her. Morning breath bad universally—need horniness to overlook. Post-childbirth feral, ignores breath, yeast smells.
Fear Factor desensitized to vomit—148 episodes, 130+ with puking contestants, interviewed while gagging or dumping. Wife puked wheatgrass in car console post-gym, cleaned without flinching. Kid/high school vomit triggered chain reaction biologically.
Took show thinking it'd cancel for jokes (sick dogs on people). Underestimated schadenfreude, coliseum humiliation, competition entertainment. Mother-daughter beat dick dad-son team; dad berated, they fumbled, crew cried happy. Sent Andrew Schulz clip of gymnast mom doing routine with attached daughter.
Brazil cooking competition: girl runs to dad in audience to open jar, goosebumps.
Football dork. Watched Texas A&M vs. UT incredible game. Gambling addiction vibe—lose together, part of something, reptilian wiring. Goosebumps moments like Philip Rivers (44-45) out of retirement coaching kids, re-upped NFL health insurance for life (10 kids). Middle school coach called to kick winning field goal for Bills after injuries.
Saquon Barkley jumped backwards, teammates watching.
Runners dad helps finish, etc.
Football fans get big moments often; fights one wins, other destroyed—worst seeing family/kids watch dad KO'd, wives crying. Football team catches ball, crosses line, 100k celebrate. Team win = we win energy. Away Eagles fans all green at Rams game.
Live performers see Eagles collapse post-insults/ego/kids watching.
Most dangerous: team/fighter needing win/money. Won't eat live rat normally, but with kid watching/insulted/money, different person—fuck rat in ass.
Floyd Mayweather practiced with Facebook Lives, girls around. 10-minute rounds, dog pound/dog house: grueling no-rules sparring, no rounds, sink or swim. Mastered boxing while talking shit, psychological chaos.
Sessions known for intense no-rules fighting until someone quits, designed to push boxers to their absolute limits. Floyd Mayweather is one of the greatest of all time. He had multiple hand surgeries, so he couldn't blast on guys like when he was younger. Early in his career, called Pretty Boy Floyd, he was a knockout artist. He doesn't have big hands and broke them multiple times. Then he became Money Mayweather and boxed everybody's face off. In early knockouts, he wasn't facing champion-level fighters, but he's the best ever at not getting hit. He's been cracked maybe three or four times in his entire professional career.
His ability to not get hit comes from outworking everyone and genetic gifts. His dad was Floyd Mayweather Sr., who fought Sugar Ray Leonard. His uncle was Roger Mayweather, multiple-time world champion, the Black Mamba. Grew up in a gym with Jeff Mayweather; they were boxing scientists. Famous quote from Roger: > "Most people don't know shit about boxing."
Boxing has genetic advantages that are almost insurmountable, like speed. Roy Jones Jr. had otherworldly speed and a unique style.
Most important punch in boxing is the jab—establishes distance, scores points. Roy Jones rarely threw jabs; his left hook was so fast it hit faster than a jab. He threw leaping left hooks. His left bicep was twice the size of his right from throwing left hooks. He developed it through training. Roy Jones in his prime was a freak of nature, extremely intelligent and crafty. Set opponents up to move predictably, then did superhuman things like leaping uppercuts.
Only guy in history (possibly still) where opponent landed zero punches—in the Vinny Pazienza fight. Knocked him out with left hook to the body. Went from winning world title at 168 lbs, to light heavyweight, to heavyweight. Middleweight in Olympics. All his fights were executions.
Counter one-two right hand was freakish speed. Knocked out Montell Griffin (world champion) with left hook; he kept face-planting. Knocked out Virgil Hill with right hand to the body (left side, not liver area).
Fighters so good at one thing force everyone to defend it. No internet back when Roy was on top, so advantage. Now any kid can study all greatest boxers. Mike Tyson's advantage: manager Jim Jacobs, boxing historian with old films of Jack Johnson, Harry Greb, Sammy Saddler, Willie Pep, Rocky Marciano. Tyson studied 16mm films all day, mirrored styles like Jack Dempsey.
Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion 1919-1926, weighed 187 lbs—not very big. Savage time; he was a hobo at one point, annihilated people.
Rocky Marciano, heavyweight champion in 1950s, one of only undefeated heavyweight retirees. 5'10", 184-185 lbs when winning title from Jersey Joe Walcott. Murderous puncher. KO of Walcott: brutal right hand, mic drop power. Extension of back leg, turn of shoulder, back into it. Followed with left hook on way down. Jersey Joe Walcott was a legend.
Marciano's work ethic: ran 10 miles mornings, worked out all day, sparred 100 rounds/week, swam 5 miles in lake post-training. Cardio off charts because he got tired once as amateur and vowed never again.
No steroids, no peptides—just anger, eggs, immigrant from Italy (Brockton, Massachusetts).
Italian immigrants left beautiful Italy for leprosy on 10-week boat rides. Life in 1920s Italy bad; many from Ireland, Italy came over. Came before YouTube; someone drew pictures promising jobs. Ancestors had toxoplasmosis, endured frostbite, leprosy over restrictions on worship/speech. East Coast insane because grandparents came on boats—most violent crazy people there.
Quakers came for religious freedom, persecuted in England. Now pay to visit those churches.
Into Amish: men build barns in a day—sexy, useful. Porn is men being useful. Everyone wants chickens, self-sustain. Men find women cooking hot—wanting to feed you. Woman who wants to cook is good. Better when they want to, not as chore.
Valuable traits: building with hands, providing shelter, fixing roof, endurance, durability—not falling apart.
Jobs less likely replaced by AI: roofers. Robots will do roofing. Value in hard jobs; kids avoid them, but try early. Joe worked construction via stepdad architect, and with friend Jimmy Lawless (carpenter's apprentice). At 18-19, built wheelchair ramp for Knights of Columbus Hall: carried cement bags, pressure-treated lumber all day. Ate sub sandwiches, Coke; dehydrated in sun, August. Splinters infected from chemicals; sweating chemicals into pores, breathing cement dust. Quit after two weeks—realized if no better plan, that's best job (under $20/hr, no insurance, toxic).
Today's poisonous job: desk/computer all day? LED lights bad, sitting bad for back. Tightens lower back.
Reverse hyper machine by Louis Simmons (powerlifting legend): invented after crushed discs (doctors wanted fusion). Decompresses on descent, strengthens back muscles on ascent. Simmons had belt squat too: belt on waist, cable between legs, platform, weight stack—squats without spinal compression (vs. barbell squats compressing discs).
Leg press good, but risk locking knees causing snap (videos of injuries).
Knees can go over toes in squats; build up to it. Knees Over Toes Guy protocol amazing—strengthens muscles around knees. Radically improves injury progression, legs stronger post-injury.
Whitney wears 30 lb weighted vest (also 15 lb) all day for bending/picking up kid. TSA takes it sometimes. Wears while writing, focuses on posture. Uses Huberman's red light bulb (sauna space). Gary Brecka's full-body red light machine; fall asleep in it.
Whitney describes using red light therapy for 20 minutes, lying there, and noticing improved eyesight. She keeps her eyes open without glasses, saying "Fuck your glasses." She claims it's helping her vision and doesn't feel damaging, comparing it to the sun or bright lights which are hard to look at. If it was bad, it would be hard to stare at, but it's not. Joe agrees with her "meatthead logic": if it doesn't hurt, don't worry. Simplicity works if it does; there's science behind red light therapy at specific frequencies. This device connects to an app to adjust frequencies for different effects, though Whitney questions how real that is.
Whitney, aspiring snake oil salesman, shares a story with a lawyer friend who worked with Prior, present when Michael Jackson's hair caught fire during a commercial. Outdoors with mosquitoes, she lit a citronella candle; he said it doesn't work because his dad invented it—it's fake, though the flame deters them a little. Fascinated by such things. When broke in LA, she did studies as a lab rat for $50 cash, often biased toward desperate people needing drugs immediately. More talking and complaining gets callbacks. Did trials for food, skincare, pharmaceuticals at colleges—some pills never FDA-approved. Took Accutane and other risky things. Studies use repeat participants from places like Pink Dot areas, office buildings, 20 people per study wanting out fast. Saw same 7-8 people repeatedly, knew them outside studies.
Side effects like drowsiness attributed to specific people like Jocelyn, always drowsy; headaches to a guy always complaining pre-pill. These are flawed, desperate people gaming studies. By question time, they manifest symptoms. Studies induce anxiety or depression; UCLA depression studies make participants realize their life sucks. Skeptical of studies due to this.
"Girls mature faster" claim questioned—who studied it? Human biology fascinating: physical and emotional maturity. Girls better in school, frontal lobe fully formed quicker; boys till 25, possibly due to testosterone as mental poison linked to shitty behavior. Boys need movement when learning, to blow off steam via football, wrestling. At 13-14, testosterone hits: body changes weirdly, aggression turns violent/dangerous by 15-16, schoolyard fights brutal—primordial pecking order, Lord of the Flies instinct.
Brilliant scientists (except Huberman) often low-testosterone males focused on intellectual pursuits. High-testosterone men distracted by anger, horniness, recklessness like skydiving. Intelligent people avoid stupid pursuits. Pattern recognition: scientists as nerdy weak guys, meatheads as stupid jacked guys. Is it biology or behavior? Question how we define intelligence and maturity.
Quote: "Intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in the fruit salad." After kid and debunked truths like soy milk healthy (now guy friends have tits, girlfriend's tits cut off from cancer), glyphosate, Native Americans/Pilgrims mural of friendly dinner (not accurate). Skeptical of new truths after cons. Different intelligences: physical push as problem-solving emotions/anxiety/fear with willpower—mental fortitude. Endurance running all mental. Football all math. Stereotypes: athletes dumb, '90s commercials portray men with Down syndrome, sitcoms men as one-chromosome idiots. Intelligence not just memorizing textbooks possibly written/influenced by Ghislaine Maxwell's dad (consolidated medical journals). Could be falling for con. Humeman: professor said at least 50% medical journals unreliable, who paid for others?
Invention of math: humans created it to solve universe, but universe encoded with it. Turtle shell as calendar stressed her. Pythagoras: reality fundamentally mathematical. Honeybees build hexagonal honeycomb—most efficient for tiling plane per honeycomb conjecture (uniform tiles, minimal perimeter). Honey poured on plate forms hexagon (tests real honey, fake dilutes differently; memory claim skeptical). Bees metal; wasps more metal, behead bees, wipe colonies. Big wasp infestation coming to California. Wasps scary, no predators, dicks—wait underwater to sting repeatedly (unlike bees, who die after one sting to protect queen/hive). Bears eat wasp larvae. Bee lady: drowning pool bees are foragers dying soon anyway.
Much honey fake with corn syrup. Local honey when traveling, but bee lady says student honey also fake, immune boost unproven—placebo effect works. Honey good. Manuka honey scam, good PR. Psychedelic honey from cliffsides, harvested by repelling risking life due to special flower with psychedelic compound. Guy advised half spoonful; Whitney took whole—interesting effect.
They harvest honey using a giant rope ladder under cliffs with no safety gear. Those are hives growing under cliffs.
Bee stings help with inflammation and arthritis. People use them to alleviate certain forms of arthritis. One article says it's too risky for treating osteoarthritis. > Don't be a [__] That's just cuz they patent bees.
Acupuncture is based on something similar. Bill Gates is buying all the bees. > You need to get vaccinated for arthritis. Arthritis is costing us so much money. We've patented bees. You have to get stung by our bees.
NMN was taken off the market to make it prescription. They're trying to keep certain peptides from becoming legal. All these are good for people, even if you can't profit off them. You shouldn't stop beneficial products just because you can't profit. That creates a captive industry. Peptides are beneficial. Some like GLP-1 inhibitors are okay as long as they're making money off them.
Over 10 million people on GLP-1s in the US. Ozempic, Wegovy—various names. They're peptides. Someone lost 60 pounds and avoided diabetes despite side effects. Obesity is a big problem.
True Veta data reports 12,230,909 GLP-1 prescriptions from January 2018 to September 2025. 6.5% of all US prescriptions.
Insurance should support it for morbidly obese to prevent real problems. Some have side effects like Brian Simpson. Others lost 100 pounds and got healthier. Take with strength training to avoid losing muscle and bone density. Combine with IGF-1 peptides to prevent wasting away.
Metformin causes muscle loss but helps with sugar; take occasionally after pasta. NR (true niacin), Huberman recommendations, NAC, sauna. Absence of things matters. Reassess emotional and mental diet, especially as a mom. Avoid people who drag you into their shit repeatedly. They're addicted to adrenaline, drama, gambling with relationships. > Do you look forward to hanging out with that person? If not, it's a chore.
Even crazy people are okay if fun. Community is like stepping into a well of love.
Comics' friendships become transactional. Green rooms provide off-camera space. Pandemic made all conversations monetized and public; stopped hanging out. Podcasts remotely became only interaction. Actively go off-camera. Comics lose funny when isolated, not friends with comics, no humbling pushback. Motivations like attention from girls/friends gone when rich and loved.
Comedy involves contrarian Tourette's, crazy premises, proving untrue things. Comics talk about woke culture because they see disagreement as interesting conversation, not fascism. Woke dictates what you can say. > You can't tell me what I can and can't say but not what your mouth does. Settle down. Figure out what a Nazi really is.
Calling someone Nazi for opposing biological males in women's sports is crazy. Fighting woke is fighting nonsense that can't stand facts. Things backed by facts don't need violent defense; woke stops debate because not logical.
Did people view hippies like this in the 70s? CIA tricked hippies via Charles Manson. Tom O'Neill's Chaos details how they discredited the love movement terrified of acid, Woodstock. Gave Manson acid, taught mind control; he killed people, blamed hippies. Made acid illegal. Manson murders 1969; 1970 Schedule I act banned acid, mushrooms, DMT.
Threw water on kids rejecting unhappy parents' path, wanting Grateful Dead, art, festivals, no war. Flower children in streets 1967 saying make love not war—unprecedented.
CIA Philippines 1950s: Operation made vampires (Aswang) suck blood of Huk rebels. CIA psyop squad ambushed patrol, snatched last man, punctured neck vampire-style, drained blood by heels, put corpse back. Patrol found bloodless comrade, believed Aswang got him, fled hill. Only once to dislodge squadron. Lansdale masterminded; ad exec turned CIA, pioneer of psychological operations, started SOCOPS.
The Sywar squad set up an ambush along the trail used by the Huks. When a Huk patrol came along the trail, the ambushers silently snatched the last man of the patrol. Their move unseen in the dark night. They punctured his neck with two holes vampire fashion, held the body up by its heels, drained it of blood, and then put the corpse back on the trail. When the Huks returned looking for the missing man and found their bloodless comrade, every member of the patrol believed that the Aswang had got him and that one of them would be next if they remained on that hill. When daylight came, the whole Huk squadron moved out of the vicinity.
Lansdale's "eye of God": Painted cryptic symbols outside Huk sympathizers' homes, sobering effect. Based on WWII tactic naming officers over loudspeakers.
Gulf of Tonkin: Pretended attack to go to war. News was always fake; they controlled it better then. Lansdale from ad world selling products to psyops genius.
Root canals bad due to bacteria reaching brain lining. Coconut oil pulling, black seed oil. Charcoal toothpaste works, absorbs and cleans. What are we falling for now? Drones, Wi-Fi dulling brain, less in tune with environment. Cell phone signals interfere with bees' navigation. Pregnant: listened to whale sounds since baby breathes fluid like amphibian.
Whitney speculates on whales fighting and using racial slurs in their communication. Cell phone signals affect bees, causing behavioral changes like increased agitation, worker piping, and alarm sounds indicating disturbance. Sensationalized claims linking them directly to mass colony collapse are not fully supported by science. Studies show bees are sensitive to electromagnetic fields from active phones, disrupting normal communication and potentially leading to disorientation. Joe questions if EMFs affect humans, noting debate between believers and skeptics, and that this is recent technology. T-Mobile set aside money for possible lawsuits related to this.
Joe mentions his documentary on violence with Pete Berg, titled on calcio storico. It's held in Florence every June. Whitney wants to go, Joe declines. Calcio storico involves untrained fighters, like butchers, not professionals. Debate on whether participants are trained: some look like MMA fighters, throw leg kicks, train all year but have other jobs. Not all look like ringers; some belong there. Crime drops to zero in the region during the event. Whitney puzzled why she's opposed when she supports MMA. Joe finds it annoying to watch unskilled fighters, but mainly worries team violence leads to war, unlike individual one-on-one MMA contests testing skills, mind, preparation, discipline, and fighting IQ.
Whitney connects to earlier AI discussion: humans need outlets for aggression to stay satiated and bridled. If AI removes hard tasks, people will seek violent outlets like team fighting. Joe agrees on integrating or merging with AI, suggesting brain chips. Whitney says everyone will get them eventually, like email; they've already merged with phones—leaving phone causes gut feeling, atrophied navigation skills, no peripheral vision or muscle memory for driving home in LA without navigation. Photos are called memories because real memories are stored there, not in head; seeing pictures triggers recall like 'year ago today' or forgotten trips. Too many novel stories and conversations overload the hard drive. Whitney jokes about remembering every R Kelly lyric but not last week.
Reference to bringing someone back to America without vaccine checks, just paperwork: 'Do you want to come to America with Robert?' Contrast with extreme left views calling America full of fascists and Nazis but wanting everyone in. Mentions comedy Mothership sold out weekend. Ends with casual wrap-up, applause, and music.
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