WEBVTT 00:00.300 --> 00:08.020 Max, I want to continue because you've been traveling all over the world and I miss traveling. 00:08.420 --> 00:12.340 I've been staying put here for several reasons. 00:13.220 --> 00:17.780 I don't trust the DEI hires that they have in the plains. 00:17.980 --> 00:19.360 To me that's like playing Russian roulette. 00:19.660 --> 00:24.160 So I'm going to throw a couple of questions at you and then just answer them please at 00:24.160 --> 00:24.580 your will. 00:24.820 --> 00:29.280 First I'd like to know if when you were in Miami you went to the South Beach area. 00:29.280 --> 00:31.240 If you went to any of the nightclubs. 00:31.480 --> 00:37.640 If you heard anything about what was going on with P Diddy or Club 11 or any of that stuff 00:37.640 --> 00:39.580 that's making the news right now. 00:39.800 --> 00:43.520 Also when you were in New York, did you go to Greenwich Village? 00:43.860 --> 00:45.740 Did you go to the Museum of Modern Art? 00:45.880 --> 00:47.220 Did you go to Central Park? 00:47.700 --> 00:49.100 Did you take the subway? 00:49.820 --> 00:52.320 And how did you travel throughout the United States? 00:52.500 --> 00:53.280 What was that like? 00:53.480 --> 00:54.200 Were you flying? 00:54.760 --> 00:59.120 When you were flying, did you see pilots that you were absolutely terrified of getting 00:59.120 --> 00:59.860 on the plane with? 01:00.340 --> 01:03.540 And if so, how did you maintain your cool while you were on the plane? 01:03.860 --> 01:05.120 Did you take the trains? 01:05.320 --> 01:06.320 Did you take automobiles? 01:06.780 --> 01:10.880 And then if you can compare and contrast that with your travels in Europe, because 01:10.880 --> 01:13.060 I understand you've been to Europe as well. 01:13.640 --> 01:18.780 And the comparison between the people in the United States and the people in 01:18.780 --> 01:22.680 Europe, which ones do you think are more in tune with what we're seeing 01:22.680 --> 01:27.360 versus being completely in the dark as to what's about to happen, which you 01:27.360 --> 01:29.780 described the massive die off? 01:30.660 --> 01:35.740 Well, in the United States, I went to Greenwich Village when I was in New York. 01:35.920 --> 01:39.760 I went down to Connie Island and I spent a bit of time in the Bronx, 01:40.000 --> 01:42.740 a bit of time in in Queens and stuff like that. 01:42.860 --> 01:45.960 I'm usually only there to visit a few people. 01:46.100 --> 01:48.200 So I kind of hang in the areas where they are. 01:49.360 --> 01:52.040 Did you go to the, did you ride on the cyclone? 01:53.280 --> 01:54.960 No, no, I don't do anything. 01:55.240 --> 01:56.800 I don't do any of the tourist stuff. 01:57.780 --> 02:00.840 I haven't been into Manhattan for a long time, anything like that. 02:01.960 --> 02:06.140 And when I fly around, I mean, I generally fly everywhere I go in the United States. 02:06.140 --> 02:07.680 It's kind of cheap to fly. 02:09.240 --> 02:13.780 So I and people I've worried about pilots and stuff like that. 02:13.840 --> 02:16.320 I just figure if it's my time to go, it's my time to go. 02:16.480 --> 02:20.560 If it isn't my time to go, then the plan will get me to where I want to go. 02:21.240 --> 02:24.240 You know, I like I said, I have no stake in the outcome. 02:24.480 --> 02:25.620 I just don't do fear. 02:25.620 --> 02:27.220 I'm not scared of anything. 02:27.400 --> 02:29.480 I'm just quite prepared to walk into the storm. 02:29.900 --> 02:32.100 And I'm confident that I'll come out the other side 02:32.100 --> 02:33.960 if I'm supposed to come out the other side. 02:34.720 --> 02:39.260 That's just the way I approach the plane now that are like stortices. 02:39.500 --> 02:43.200 They used to be back in the 70s during the age of Pan American Airlines. 02:43.740 --> 02:45.120 The stortices were all attractive. 02:45.660 --> 02:48.220 Now, apparently a lot of them are trannies. 02:48.420 --> 02:50.300 Is that true? Did you experience a lot of trannies? 02:51.520 --> 02:53.640 I did experience a few trannies on the plane. 02:53.640 --> 02:57.500 And almost all of the flight attendants are gay, like almost all of them. 02:58.560 --> 03:01.880 Most of the hotel, if you stay in an expensive hotel, 03:02.100 --> 03:05.140 like I usually stay in pretty cheap hotels or stay with friends. 03:05.620 --> 03:10.120 But when I was there recording a bit of footage for Stu Peters, 03:10.880 --> 03:14.640 he put me up at the Sheraton for one night, the Sheraton in LA, 03:15.180 --> 03:17.560 which is like really five star hotel. 03:17.780 --> 03:19.500 I felt really uncomfortable in this place. 03:19.660 --> 03:21.400 I just don't stay in these places. 03:22.120 --> 03:28.060 And virtually all of the bartenders and all of the maintenance people 03:28.060 --> 03:29.960 are all gay, all of them. 03:30.320 --> 03:32.020 It's just crazy. It's nuts. 03:32.420 --> 03:35.840 You don't see hardly any straight people anywhere in those situations now. 03:36.040 --> 03:38.840 So it's really weird to really try to push that on people. 03:40.280 --> 03:44.520 As far as the difference between the Europeans and the Americans, 03:44.760 --> 03:49.240 I mean, Europe has experienced generations of war in Europe. 03:49.240 --> 03:52.640 And these people are pretty much ready for anything. 03:52.980 --> 03:55.620 The people I stay with in Europe, like I was staying in Croatia, 03:56.480 --> 03:58.220 I was living on an off-grid farm. 03:58.900 --> 04:00.320 These people grow their own food. 04:00.680 --> 04:03.680 They are really totally aware of what's going on. 04:04.100 --> 04:09.540 And they found there was a huge swell of people during COVID 04:09.540 --> 04:10.880 and stuff during protests. 04:11.100 --> 04:12.600 And there's all groups of friends now 04:12.600 --> 04:14.840 that didn't even know each other before COVID. 04:15.020 --> 04:18.480 They're all sort of friends now and they've got these networks together. 04:19.380 --> 04:22.140 The people of Europe are pretty much prepared for anything 04:22.140 --> 04:25.040 that they've been through everything already. 04:25.540 --> 04:28.720 And they're quite prepared for war if it comes. 04:29.380 --> 04:32.060 And a lot of them won't comply. 04:32.320 --> 04:37.120 I don't think a lot of people will see what the UN has done to their countries. 04:37.340 --> 04:38.440 They all want to get out of the UN. 04:38.560 --> 04:41.600 They understand their governments aren't really supporting them anymore. 04:42.160 --> 04:43.760 They're supporting this other body. 04:44.860 --> 04:48.660 So, I mean, even in Europe, I mean, Europe's a weird place 04:48.660 --> 04:52.520 because you're dealing with different ethnic ideosecreties 04:52.520 --> 04:56.460 of different countries in very, very small areas. 04:56.660 --> 04:58.880 I mean, you drive across the United States, it's America. 04:59.460 --> 05:02.340 You drive across Europe, you're in a different country every couple of hours 05:02.340 --> 05:06.380 speaking a different language that doesn't like the guys over the fence, you know. 05:06.820 --> 05:08.140 But generally, it's the governments. 05:08.420 --> 05:13.060 When you get down to the people, the people are all pretty much prepared. 05:13.060 --> 05:15.740 And they're all pretty supportive of each other. 05:16.220 --> 05:20.060 You might get little funny bits between the Croatians and the Serbians or whatever. 05:20.200 --> 05:24.580 But it's only among some of them who believe what the media and press tells them. 05:25.080 --> 05:27.980 You know, most of the people on the ground, I mean, they all speak the same language 05:27.980 --> 05:29.600 all through that whole Balkan area. 05:29.700 --> 05:30.860 They all speak the same language. 05:30.960 --> 05:32.480 They're all basically the same people. 05:33.000 --> 05:34.940 And they realise that they're only against each other 05:34.940 --> 05:36.900 because the governments have designed it that way. 05:37.320 --> 05:39.280 But I think when push comes to shove, 05:39.700 --> 05:44.360 you're going to find a lot of the people will stand with each other through Europe. 05:44.360 --> 05:48.040 There's almost more of a sense of camaraderie through Europe 05:48.560 --> 05:53.220 because they're all facing the same shit from the EU, the European Union. 05:53.500 --> 05:54.980 They're all facing the same stuff. 05:55.960 --> 05:58.080 So and they're realising it's coming from the top 05:58.080 --> 06:00.240 and the top is what's controlling their governments. 06:00.480 --> 06:02.680 And so it's kind of bringing the people together. 06:02.680 --> 06:07.860 And you almost got a more sense of unity of European people 06:07.860 --> 06:09.660 than you have in the United States, 06:09.660 --> 06:12.460 because there's so many different factions in the United States. 06:13.000 --> 06:15.860 Everyone's worried about who's got a bigger front door than somebody else 06:15.860 --> 06:18.780 or what the celebrities are doing or which football team you follow 06:18.780 --> 06:22.060 or whether you support the Democrats or the Republicans 06:22.060 --> 06:26.240 or whether you're black or white or whether you're Chinese or this or that. 06:26.360 --> 06:30.340 I mean, there's all sorts of weird divisive stuff going on in the United States. 06:30.900 --> 06:32.860 There's a lot of that in Australia as well. 06:33.100 --> 06:35.920 But still this kind of sense of unity in Australia. 06:36.880 --> 06:40.100 But in the United States, it's really been divided from within. 06:40.100 --> 06:43.920 And I'm seeing more more down to earth people 06:43.920 --> 06:47.740 and more people who are prepared for what's coming through Europe 06:47.740 --> 06:48.920 than I am in the United States. 06:48.920 --> 06:52.380 But I mean, you've never seen a brutal war in the United States. 06:52.500 --> 06:54.560 They haven't fought their wars in other people's places. 06:54.800 --> 06:55.740 They fight them in Europe. 06:56.260 --> 06:59.060 And so the European people are used to that. 06:59.200 --> 07:03.160 They're used to war and they take far less 07:03.160 --> 07:06.440 crap from people than what the United States does. 07:06.440 --> 07:08.040 There's not too many European countries 07:08.040 --> 07:10.420 are prepared to take that kind of crap from their government 07:11.000 --> 07:12.700 as much as the United States does. 07:13.460 --> 07:16.600 I mean, even what happened in France during the lockdowns and stuff, 07:16.720 --> 07:19.200 you saw the farmers protesting that, you know, 07:19.380 --> 07:22.220 breaking up the gates of Parliament House and dropping 07:22.820 --> 07:25.840 manure all over the front of Parliament House and all that sort of stuff. 07:25.980 --> 07:28.260 Yeah, when the French don't like what the government does, 07:28.420 --> 07:29.740 they bring all their trucks into town. 07:29.820 --> 07:30.760 They shut down Paris. 07:31.240 --> 07:33.700 You don't see any of that sort of stuff in the United States. 07:34.180 --> 07:37.160 So the people are far more staunch in Europe 07:37.160 --> 07:39.840 and they're far more prepared to stand their ground 07:40.300 --> 07:42.820 than what a lot of people in the United States are. 07:42.900 --> 07:44.100 Same as the people in Mexico. 07:44.620 --> 07:46.120 You don't mess with these people. 07:46.360 --> 07:48.900 They take you down if you try to mess with them. 07:49.780 --> 07:50.860 Did you go to the Netherlands? 07:52.660 --> 07:53.900 I did go to the Netherlands. 07:54.100 --> 07:56.180 Yeah, I was in Harlem for a little while. 07:56.360 --> 07:57.760 I've got some good friends in Harlem. 07:58.260 --> 08:00.340 I didn't go into Amsterdam, but I was there before 08:01.020 --> 08:04.020 all of this Maccabi riots and all that sort of stuff happened. 08:04.020 --> 08:07.040 But I saw a lot of pro-Palestinian stuff, 08:07.220 --> 08:10.840 a lot of Palestinian flags flying all through the Netherlands. 08:11.060 --> 08:13.700 I was in Amsterdam for a couple of days, staying at a friend's house. 08:14.600 --> 08:16.220 And but mainly I was out in Harlem. 08:17.720 --> 08:19.940 But I was only there kind of briefly as well. 08:20.140 --> 08:22.140 I mean, I tend to go into the Netherlands. 08:23.320 --> 08:23.960 You will. 08:24.680 --> 08:26.900 Holland is such a great place to Netherlands. 08:27.160 --> 08:27.860 The people are great. 08:28.200 --> 08:29.020 Has it changed much? 08:29.200 --> 08:31.440 I remember when I was there, there were a lot of coffee shops 08:31.440 --> 08:37.400 where you could smoke marijuana and also the Red Light District. 08:37.900 --> 08:39.060 What's that like now? 08:39.200 --> 08:40.500 Have they curbed on all that? 08:41.500 --> 08:42.340 No, it's all still. 08:42.660 --> 08:45.060 Is it still shutting some of the coffee shops down? 08:45.180 --> 08:47.900 They're talking about moving the Red Light District into certain 08:47.900 --> 08:51.580 like having a whole Red Light building and just putting it all there. 08:51.740 --> 08:52.760 Of course, that's never going to work. 08:54.760 --> 08:56.680 But it's pretty much the same. 08:56.820 --> 08:59.300 I mean, Holland, you know, Harlem, Amsterdam, 09:00.030 --> 09:03.040 the whole Netherlands, it doesn't really change that much. 09:03.600 --> 09:06.160 So yeah, it's all still pretty much the same. 09:06.220 --> 09:08.620 I mean, the government's getting more totalitarian. 09:08.780 --> 09:11.840 You're getting kind of heavy right wingers in there. 09:12.140 --> 09:16.300 But it's, you know, the people are pretty strong. 09:16.440 --> 09:18.920 So the people stand up for themselves in the Netherlands as well. 09:19.100 --> 09:20.300 Like Europe is used to war. 09:20.740 --> 09:23.380 Europe is used to corrupt governments 09:23.380 --> 09:25.420 and is used to standing up for itself. 09:25.920 --> 09:28.420 So I think Europe's going to be a lot harder to take down 09:28.420 --> 09:29.840 than something like the United States, 09:29.980 --> 09:33.440 which is essentially a nanny state in an adolescent culture. 09:33.940 --> 09:37.460 Europe isn't such an adolescent culture as the United States. 09:38.060 --> 09:39.540 And they're used to this sort of stuff. 09:39.840 --> 09:42.760 So I think they'll stand up for themselves a little bit more. 09:43.380 --> 09:46.280 But yeah, I mean, and I said, 09:46.380 --> 09:49.920 I'm not afraid of traveling or flying or anything like that. 09:50.000 --> 09:51.960 I mean, I just I just take things as it comes. 09:52.300 --> 09:56.200 If I get on a plane and there's 20 flight attendants or whatever, 09:56.360 --> 09:58.100 I don't care, I just go to sleep for the flight. 09:58.100 --> 10:00.000 And that's it. I get up and then I leave. 10:00.560 --> 10:01.880 I just don't participate. 10:02.160 --> 10:04.740 And if the plane's going to crash, well, the plane's going to crash. 10:04.820 --> 10:06.080 If that's the way I'm going to go. 10:06.260 --> 10:07.720 Well, wow, what a way to go, you know? 10:08.860 --> 10:12.780 Where did you feel fear on the entire travel that you had? 10:13.480 --> 10:16.800 Where did you feel less safe than any other place? 10:19.580 --> 10:23.440 Well, I don't I don't feel less safe anywhere. 10:23.740 --> 10:25.560 I mean, I don't feel safe in this world, 10:26.200 --> 10:27.800 but the world is what it is. 10:28.160 --> 10:29.600 There's nowhere that I've gone. 10:29.800 --> 10:32.940 I mean, even when I went to Gaza in 2012 10:32.940 --> 10:36.780 and we got detained by Hamas and they were threatening us 10:36.780 --> 10:37.860 with a firing squad. 10:38.200 --> 10:40.160 If we didn't tell them where we got into the country, 10:40.240 --> 10:43.500 I didn't even feel fear then when I was crawling in there 10:43.500 --> 10:45.760 in the tunnel on 50 meters below ground 10:45.760 --> 10:48.080 and there's bombs going off in Rafa. 10:48.280 --> 10:51.200 I'm thinking, well, if one bomb lands over this tunnel, 10:51.320 --> 10:53.060 I'm going to be buried 50 meters underground. 10:53.660 --> 10:55.600 I actually started giggling and started thinking, 10:55.700 --> 10:56.420 what a way to go. 10:57.080 --> 10:59.240 What's the chances of me actually being here 10:59.240 --> 11:00.040 in this situation? 11:00.420 --> 11:02.000 I mean, what the hell am I doing here? 11:02.540 --> 11:02.720 You know? 11:03.320 --> 11:06.360 So like I said, I look at it all from a state of wonder. 11:07.040 --> 11:10.220 I mean, I'm a weed smoking guitar player 11:10.220 --> 11:11.720 who didn't finish high school, 11:11.900 --> 11:13.580 who was born in Adelaide, Australia. 11:13.720 --> 11:15.140 And here I am going all over the world 11:15.140 --> 11:16.260 and doing all this stuff 11:16.840 --> 11:19.360 and meeting all these people and doing all these things. 11:19.540 --> 11:20.900 I mean, what are the chances 11:20.900 --> 11:22.200 that I would ever be doing this? 11:22.200 --> 11:24.160 I find the whole thing completely wondrous. 11:24.700 --> 11:29.200 So there's nowhere I've gone that I actually felt in fear. 11:29.280 --> 11:31.520 Even when I was in Peru and there were Jaguar 11:32.040 --> 11:34.040 walking around the compound outside, 11:35.580 --> 11:38.020 I don't feel fear from any of this sort of stuff. 11:38.200 --> 11:41.500 I just see it as my journey and my path. 11:41.700 --> 11:43.520 And I'm in wonder of the whole thing. 11:43.980 --> 11:45.220 You know, I find it fascinating 11:45.220 --> 11:47.280 that I would be in this situation. 11:47.500 --> 11:49.020 When something weird happens, I'm like, 11:49.080 --> 11:51.160 wow, what's the chances of me being here? 11:51.160 --> 11:52.820 Is this how I'm going to die? 11:53.100 --> 11:56.880 Even one time when we flew from a few years ago, 11:56.880 --> 11:59.940 we're flying from Chile to Lima in Peru, 12:00.560 --> 12:02.640 from Santiago, Chile to Lima in Peru. 12:03.240 --> 12:05.600 And the plane felt like it was trying 12:05.600 --> 12:07.380 to go sideways the whole time. 12:07.800 --> 12:10.040 And then almost halfway through the journey, 12:10.220 --> 12:13.160 the pilot says we've basically got a red light 12:13.160 --> 12:14.040 come on the dashboard. 12:14.040 --> 12:16.160 So we're going to have to find the nearest airport. 12:16.920 --> 12:19.580 And the nearest airport happens to be back in Santiago. 12:19.580 --> 12:21.400 So we've got to turn around and go back. 12:21.460 --> 12:24.780 And we're flying over the Andes at night in this plane 12:24.780 --> 12:27.860 that felt like it wanted to tear itself apart. 12:27.860 --> 12:29.660 It was just shuddering and, you know, 12:30.140 --> 12:31.680 and I'm thinking, wow, I'm going to die 12:31.680 --> 12:34.480 in a plane crash over the freaking Andes at night. 12:34.600 --> 12:36.820 There's no way I'm going to survive this crash. 12:37.900 --> 12:41.080 And nobody spoke a word on that whole flight 12:41.080 --> 12:41.820 on the way back. 12:42.000 --> 12:44.420 But I was just thinking, wow, that's what a way to go. 12:44.960 --> 12:47.160 What's the chances of me actually being 12:47.160 --> 12:49.560 in this situation and having the opportunity 12:50.800 --> 12:52.900 to die on a mountaintop in the Andes? 12:53.100 --> 12:55.260 I mean, I'm a guitar player from Adelaide. 12:55.340 --> 12:56.340 What am I doing here, you know? 12:56.780 --> 12:57.860 And I find it all fascinating. 12:58.320 --> 13:00.400 In all of those situations, I find it fascinating. 13:00.640 --> 13:01.700 I'm able to kind of look at it 13:01.700 --> 13:03.280 from a third person perspective 13:03.840 --> 13:06.860 and observe my path through this realm. 13:07.500 --> 13:08.680 And that's kind of what I do. 13:08.880 --> 13:11.380 So there's nowhere I go that puts me in fear. 13:12.120 --> 13:14.160 Even when I left Australia, I left Australia 13:14.160 --> 13:16.300 because it was necessary for me to leave 13:16.300 --> 13:17.400 because I was in fear. 13:18.540 --> 13:20.780 And so that's just a while, I'll probably, you know? 13:21.720 --> 13:25.580 I want to talk about South America with you 13:25.580 --> 13:26.320 when we get back. 13:26.660 --> 13:27.780 Sure, experience is there. 13:28.400 --> 13:29.140 And it's great. 13:30.080 --> 13:32.400 Maxi, you're a modern artist. 13:32.880 --> 13:34.020 You're a modern artist. 13:34.020 --> 13:34.600 I'm a modern artist. 13:34.840 --> 13:35.000 I'm a modern artist. 13:35.440 --> 13:36.020 I'm a modern artist. 13:36.240 --> 13:36.260 I'm a modern artist. 13:43.260 --> 13:44.300 I'm a modern artist. 13:44.420 --> 13:45.340 I'm a modern artist. 13:45.340 --> 13:46.540 books.com 13:46.540 --> 13:48.680 And we'll be right back after this message.