Max, I want to continue because you've been traveling all over the world and I miss traveling.
I've been staying put here for several reasons.
I don't trust the DEI hires that they have in the plains.
To me that's like playing Russian roulette.
So I'm going to throw a couple of questions at you and then just answer them please at
your will.
First I'd like to know if when you were in Miami you went to the South Beach area.
If you went to any of the nightclubs.
If you heard anything about what was going on with P Diddy or Club 11 or any of that stuff
that's making the news right now.
Also when you were in New York, did you go to Greenwich Village?
Did you go to the Museum of Modern Art?
Did you go to Central Park?
Did you take the subway?
And how did you travel throughout the United States?
What was that like?
Were you flying?
When you were flying, did you see pilots that you were absolutely terrified of getting
on the plane with?
And if so, how did you maintain your cool while you were on the plane?
Did you take the trains?
Did you take automobiles?
And then if you can compare and contrast that with your travels in Europe, because
I understand you've been to Europe as well.
And the comparison between the people in the United States and the people in
Europe, which ones do you think are more in tune with what we're seeing
versus being completely in the dark as to what's about to happen, which you
described the massive die off?
Well, in the United States, I went to Greenwich Village when I was in New York.
I went down to Connie Island and I spent a bit of time in the Bronx,
a bit of time in in Queens and stuff like that.
I'm usually only there to visit a few people.
So I kind of hang in the areas where they are.
Did you go to the, did you ride on the cyclone?
No, no, I don't do anything.
I don't do any of the tourist stuff.
I haven't been into Manhattan for a long time, anything like that.
And when I fly around, I mean, I generally fly everywhere I go in the United States.
It's kind of cheap to fly.
So I and people I've worried about pilots and stuff like that.
I just figure if it's my time to go, it's my time to go.
If it isn't my time to go, then the plan will get me to where I want to go.
You know, I like I said, I have no stake in the outcome.
I just don't do fear.
I'm not scared of anything.
I'm just quite prepared to walk into the storm.
And I'm confident that I'll come out the other side
if I'm supposed to come out the other side.
That's just the way I approach the plane now that are like stortices.
They used to be back in the 70s during the age of Pan American Airlines.
The stortices were all attractive.
Now, apparently a lot of them are trannies.
Is that true? Did you experience a lot of trannies?
I did experience a few trannies on the plane.
And almost all of the flight attendants are gay, like almost all of them.
Most of the hotel, if you stay in an expensive hotel,
like I usually stay in pretty cheap hotels or stay with friends.
But when I was there recording a bit of footage for Stu Peters,
he put me up at the Sheraton for one night, the Sheraton in LA,
which is like really five star hotel.
I felt really uncomfortable in this place.
I just don't stay in these places.
And virtually all of the bartenders and all of the maintenance people
are all gay, all of them.
It's just crazy. It's nuts.
You don't see hardly any straight people anywhere in those situations now.
So it's really weird to really try to push that on people.
As far as the difference between the Europeans and the Americans,
I mean, Europe has experienced generations of war in Europe.
And these people are pretty much ready for anything.
The people I stay with in Europe, like I was staying in Croatia,
I was living on an off-grid farm.
These people grow their own food.
They are really totally aware of what's going on.
And they found there was a huge swell of people during COVID
and stuff during protests.
And there's all groups of friends now
that didn't even know each other before COVID.
They're all sort of friends now and they've got these networks together.
The people of Europe are pretty much prepared for anything
that they've been through everything already.
And they're quite prepared for war if it comes.
And a lot of them won't comply.
I don't think a lot of people will see what the UN has done to their countries.
They all want to get out of the UN.
They understand their governments aren't really supporting them anymore.
They're supporting this other body.
So, I mean, even in Europe, I mean, Europe's a weird place
because you're dealing with different ethnic ideosecreties
of different countries in very, very small areas.
I mean, you drive across the United States, it's America.
You drive across Europe, you're in a different country every couple of hours
speaking a different language that doesn't like the guys over the fence, you know.
But generally, it's the governments.
When you get down to the people, the people are all pretty much prepared.
And they're all pretty supportive of each other.
You might get little funny bits between the Croatians and the Serbians or whatever.
But it's only among some of them who believe what the media and press tells them.
You know, most of the people on the ground, I mean, they all speak the same language
all through that whole Balkan area.
They all speak the same language.
They're all basically the same people.
And they realise that they're only against each other
because the governments have designed it that way.
But I think when push comes to shove,
you're going to find a lot of the people will stand with each other through Europe.
There's almost more of a sense of camaraderie through Europe
because they're all facing the same shit from the EU, the European Union.
They're all facing the same stuff.
So and they're realising it's coming from the top
and the top is what's controlling their governments.
And so it's kind of bringing the people together.
And you almost got a more sense of unity of European people
than you have in the United States,
because there's so many different factions in the United States.
Everyone's worried about who's got a bigger front door than somebody else
or what the celebrities are doing or which football team you follow
or whether you support the Democrats or the Republicans
or whether you're black or white or whether you're Chinese or this or that.
I mean, there's all sorts of weird divisive stuff going on in the United States.
There's a lot of that in Australia as well.
But still this kind of sense of unity in Australia.
But in the United States, it's really been divided from within.
And I'm seeing more more down to earth people
and more people who are prepared for what's coming through Europe
than I am in the United States.
But I mean, you've never seen a brutal war in the United States.
They haven't fought their wars in other people's places.
They fight them in Europe.
And so the European people are used to that.
They're used to war and they take far less
crap from people than what the United States does.
There's not too many European countries
are prepared to take that kind of crap from their government
as much as the United States does.
I mean, even what happened in France during the lockdowns and stuff,
you saw the farmers protesting that, you know,
breaking up the gates of Parliament House and dropping
manure all over the front of Parliament House and all that sort of stuff.
Yeah, when the French don't like what the government does,
they bring all their trucks into town.
They shut down Paris.
You don't see any of that sort of stuff in the United States.
So the people are far more staunch in Europe
and they're far more prepared to stand their ground
than what a lot of people in the United States are.
Same as the people in Mexico.
You don't mess with these people.
They take you down if you try to mess with them.
Did you go to the Netherlands?
I did go to the Netherlands.
Yeah, I was in Harlem for a little while.
I've got some good friends in Harlem.
I didn't go into Amsterdam, but I was there before
all of this Maccabi riots and all that sort of stuff happened.
But I saw a lot of pro-Palestinian stuff,
a lot of Palestinian flags flying all through the Netherlands.
I was in Amsterdam for a couple of days, staying at a friend's house.
And but mainly I was out in Harlem.
But I was only there kind of briefly as well.
I mean, I tend to go into the Netherlands.
You will.
Holland is such a great place to Netherlands.
The people are great.
Has it changed much?
I remember when I was there, there were a lot of coffee shops
where you could smoke marijuana and also the Red Light District.
What's that like now?
Have they curbed on all that?
No, it's all still.
Is it still shutting some of the coffee shops down?
They're talking about moving the Red Light District into certain
like having a whole Red Light building and just putting it all there.
Of course, that's never going to work.
But it's pretty much the same.
I mean, Holland, you know, Harlem, Amsterdam,
the whole Netherlands, it doesn't really change that much.
So yeah, it's all still pretty much the same.
I mean, the government's getting more totalitarian.
You're getting kind of heavy right wingers in there.
But it's, you know, the people are pretty strong.
So the people stand up for themselves in the Netherlands as well.
Like Europe is used to war.
Europe is used to corrupt governments
and is used to standing up for itself.
So I think Europe's going to be a lot harder to take down
than something like the United States,
which is essentially a nanny state in an adolescent culture.
Europe isn't such an adolescent culture as the United States.
And they're used to this sort of stuff.
So I think they'll stand up for themselves a little bit more.
But yeah, I mean, and I said,
I'm not afraid of traveling or flying or anything like that.
I mean, I just I just take things as it comes.
If I get on a plane and there's 20 flight attendants or whatever,
I don't care, I just go to sleep for the flight.
And that's it. I get up and then I leave.
I just don't participate.
And if the plane's going to crash, well, the plane's going to crash.
If that's the way I'm going to go.
Well, wow, what a way to go, you know?
Where did you feel fear on the entire travel that you had?
Where did you feel less safe than any other place?
Well, I don't I don't feel less safe anywhere.
I mean, I don't feel safe in this world,
but the world is what it is.
There's nowhere that I've gone.
I mean, even when I went to Gaza in 2012
and we got detained by Hamas and they were threatening us
with a firing squad.
If we didn't tell them where we got into the country,
I didn't even feel fear then when I was crawling in there
in the tunnel on 50 meters below ground
and there's bombs going off in Rafa.
I'm thinking, well, if one bomb lands over this tunnel,
I'm going to be buried 50 meters underground.
I actually started giggling and started thinking,
what a way to go.
What's the chances of me actually being here
in this situation?
I mean, what the hell am I doing here?
You know?
So like I said, I look at it all from a state of wonder.
I mean, I'm a weed smoking guitar player
who didn't finish high school,
who was born in Adelaide, Australia.
And here I am going all over the world
and doing all this stuff
and meeting all these people and doing all these things.
I mean, what are the chances
that I would ever be doing this?
I find the whole thing completely wondrous.
So there's nowhere I've gone that I actually felt in fear.
Even when I was in Peru and there were Jaguar
walking around the compound outside,
I don't feel fear from any of this sort of stuff.
I just see it as my journey and my path.
And I'm in wonder of the whole thing.
You know, I find it fascinating
that I would be in this situation.
When something weird happens, I'm like,
wow, what's the chances of me being here?
Is this how I'm going to die?
Even one time when we flew from a few years ago,
we're flying from Chile to Lima in Peru,
from Santiago, Chile to Lima in Peru.
And the plane felt like it was trying
to go sideways the whole time.
And then almost halfway through the journey,
the pilot says we've basically got a red light
come on the dashboard.
So we're going to have to find the nearest airport.
And the nearest airport happens to be back in Santiago.
So we've got to turn around and go back.
And we're flying over the Andes at night in this plane
that felt like it wanted to tear itself apart.
It was just shuddering and, you know,
and I'm thinking, wow, I'm going to die
in a plane crash over the freaking Andes at night.
There's no way I'm going to survive this crash.
And nobody spoke a word on that whole flight
on the way back.
But I was just thinking, wow, that's what a way to go.
What's the chances of me actually being
in this situation and having the opportunity
to die on a mountaintop in the Andes?
I mean, I'm a guitar player from Adelaide.
What am I doing here, you know?
And I find it all fascinating.
In all of those situations, I find it fascinating.
I'm able to kind of look at it
from a third person perspective
and observe my path through this realm.
And that's kind of what I do.
So there's nowhere I go that puts me in fear.
Even when I left Australia, I left Australia
because it was necessary for me to leave
because I was in fear.
And so that's just a while, I'll probably, you know?
I want to talk about South America with you
when we get back.
Sure, experience is there.
And it's great.
Maxi, you're a modern artist.
You're a modern artist.
I'm a modern artist.
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