little bit. Ted Kozinski, a brilliant mathematician, had been living a hermit's life in a 10 by
12 foot cabin in the Montana woods. Uncle Ted talks in my head. Anti-technology manifesto.
Uncle Ted talks without fear. A hooded sweatshirt, sunglasses. Critiquing the direction this whole
society is headed. Uncle Ted talks these ideas were spreading. When touching grass and greener
pastures, leaving behind the technology disaster. Uncle Ted talks in my head. Uncle Ted talks crystal clear.
When it was published in 1995, a man stepped forward to identify his brother as the unabomber.
Welcome back Ted. August 4th with the Ted's. Good morning Ted's. Hey Balderson, you gotta change your name.
Oh shit. Correction, yeah. Man take a lap. Now you gotta take a lap. Right, right.
Great shape. Have you run in bleachers by the end of the show? You don't get your act together. I'm too old for that. I better get my act together.
That in my gerantic heritage says we don't run, then you just die tired. Oh shit. And we got a guest tonight for anybody that has not checked out his show, Caledonian elixir. He holds panels, but it's not your blood sportish panels.
It's a much more in depth talks. He gets some really impressive speakers on like Jim Jatras. He's an ambassador and advisor to the Republican Party. He just had Garland Nixon on. All Steve's people are obviously familiar with Garland Nixon.
So it's more, although the show we just did, if you missed it, destiny does pop in, but other than destiny, the rest of it is pretty civilized and more discussion style than debate style.
I'm going to take issue with all you said there. We're 45 minutes and nobody could understand a single word that he said, but he was very, very confident in the way that he was delivering in like a mess out poodle.
Work performed quite well. You know, it was like a five on one at one point.
Wic was like listening to destiny at like a quarter speed. It's the same voice and it's the same cadence and it's word for word, the exact same talking points, but he's able to do it in a way that, you know, makes him doesn't sound like a meth gopher.
And so he's a little bit more tolerable as far as that goes. Yeah.
Do you know if I can just say something? Cause I don't want to like just talk about my show or anything like that. You were loading, you know, it's a theme of the shows like Ted Kaczynski and you were guests.
My last guest, the last one on one was a Dr. Colin Ross who was involved in the rehabilitation of patients who were brainwashed at Allen Memorial Hospital.
Yeah. Yeah. We knew it when Cameron, the guy who was partnering. Well, Colin Ross was doing the rehabilitation.
He also offered the books at CIA doctors, which is an awesome book. I recommend, you know, you read that if you haven't.
But he was my last guest. I had a one on one with and you know, listen to that guy. He's a very interesting man.
I had started listening to that, but the link had not worked. And then I had by the time I got around to the link that worked that I had to be outside the we're in a we're in a hell of a heat dome right now.
And I can't mess around with my watering.
So what is it? Can you all can use three of you tell me what what's the temperature where you're where you are at the moment?
Because it's not as warm in Scotland in Scotland. It's quite humid, but we don't have the temperatures that you guys get.
Let me do some time.
Yeah. Do we need to do Celsius?
I don't understand.
Yeah, I already told them it was it was 40.33 and guard in all their point today.
Oh, we had it. We had it easy today, man. Like it's get currently 17.7 degrees Celsius here.
That's what we have right now.
The concern really is with the dew point, the humidity, measuring how much water is in the atmosphere.
And overnight, if it doesn't cool down, then you realize you walk outside and you're sweat all your body bodily glands are just like, I'm just swimming in water right now.
The atmosphere is water.
Yeah, I've been been lives in a part of California that's much, much more susceptible to weather. I'm in the San Francisco Bay Area in the North Bay.
And so it's it's always cooler, but then you get used to that and you become what I have termed California soft, which makes you incapable of going anywhere with weather.
Because you're like, Oh, it's 75. It's hot. You know, I would, you know, yeah, like so it does ruin you, but in kind of a good way.
Because when the rest of the planet is on fire and 100 plus degrees and where I used to live in Las Vegas, they've seen like weeks on end of 110 plus degree days and stuff like that.
It does make you appreciate a little bit more temperate climate. Certainly.
Yeah, we moved over here because this is much actually being as hot as it is here is kind of is pretty odd for where we live.
We're having this weird odd heat dome where we were living over in Reading.
That's like that's like Death Valley. Like that's literally you're talking like 44 or 45 degrees Celsius for like months in a row.
California doesn't have too much of a high desert that you more Oregon and Washington state, but the high desert that California has kicks off right around Reading.
Yeah, and then goes north. So even though it does have some trees and some elevation difference, it's effectively the same temperate region is like a high desert area.
And since I live off grid, that's such a huge deal for us. Like the only thing I got cooling me right now is a fan is a box fan.
And then also our water, like when it's over 100 degrees, you know, over 40 degrees Celsius and you're getting your water out of the ground, that water gets stingy quick when it's that hot.
It hides and it goes all your stream starts to dry up and things.
And so we moved over here because it's a much more temperate than it is over in Reading.
But this week we're getting hammered, but our plants are loving it.
Yeah. Yeah. And what are you growing now?
We got my wife's got sunflower seed or sunflowers. I already I have already converted them into seeds in my head for eating.
And we got about 10 different types of tomatoes, four different kinds of peppers, but we got a shit ton of both of each of those plants.
There's probably 200 tomato plants out there and 100 100 pepper plants.
There's a medicinal herb garden that's separate.
And then I've got my medical cannabis garden and I grew potatoes down there and garlic also.
Nice. Nice.
Yeah. I had a pretty good potato turnout.
What medical cannabis are you growing?
You don't mind me asking.
I ordered some chem dog and some af goo from Europe.
And then I've got some just more local stuff.
I've got a couple of ethos strains that I had seeds to like Mary and Barry and candy store.
And then I've got some more local mixes.
So it's all like an OG Runtz fucking chem dog or not chem dog.
Gelato mix of just stuff.
You know, I find any usually find that anything that is sweet in terms of cannabis is usually a sativa and anything that is earthy is more of an indica.
Yeah.
Yeah. We wanted the more old school actual skunky actual doesn't taste like the Pillsbury Doe boy just farted in your mouth.
Yeah.
I've been seeing more and more people talk about the degradation of cannabis over the last five to 10 years really.
With the push for super marketable boutique type club strains.
And there's a lot of people that again that I've seen just randomly around Twitter and stuff like that being like, Hey man, can we go back to where we had eight strains.
They were all about 16 and a half to 21 percent THC.
They knocked you on your ass.
You could still get work done.
And can we go back to that?
Why does everything have to be a quadruple crossed 85th generation clone sparkle fart strawberry shortcake bliss cookie?
Why?
And I agree.
Maybe it's just because I'm getting older.
I don't know.
But these new strains don't get me high and they're rolling in and claiming they're 30%.
And I'm like, Yeah, well, it doesn't kick my ass like Kim dog does.
I'm growing Kim dog.
Can I relate to you an experience recently?
I was I was taking medical cannabis, but I get it prescribed.
So I'm not growing it over here.
You can grow it, but you can only grow four plants.
And if you get caught doing more than that, it's considered for commercial use.
Interjection, my friend.
Are you allowed to dig four six by six holes in the ground and then put each plant in those giant holes?
No, no, no.
Yeah, it really is.
And so I get prescribed from cure relief, which is like a clinic over here that prescribes you that.
And so I recently took a few capsules and we're not too strong, but I really tripped out bad on him.
Bad on it.
And I was with a friend and she was like, here, calm down and take some Epilem.
Now, Epilem is an anti-epileptic benzo.
And I was like, Oh, no, I'm not taking that.
That's not going to do anything.
She's like, trust me, take it.
I took about 10 ml of that benzo.
I was perfect.
I was in a really good state.
I said, how did you know that that would have tapered me down, got me down?
And she was like, because it's a mood stabilizer and you were just panicking.
You were having a bad experience.
And I forgot that.
I forgot how often that I've used cannabis and tripped out.
You know, and I think that's what, you know, you were describing all of these new different strengths,
but there's so many strains now that are like 30%, 35%.
They've been crossed with everything and you take it and you're like, holy shit.
You know, it's, I mean, I've taken LSD in the past and DMT in the past.
And some of these edibles, these cannabis edibles too are just as strong almost.
It's a different experience, but it still propels you into that really crazed altered state that you lose control of.
I'm not, I'm not sure you're exact age and it's because the Scottish and the Irish don't really age slowly.
They age all at once around the age of 63.
And then invariably you turn into either an old baby or a spooky witch.
And there's no, yeah, there's no, I mean, you know, like super pinched up wrinkle face or just old baby.
You know, like you're bald and ruddy cheeked and all that kind of stuff and very few wrinkles, really.
It was the only two way the Scots and the Irish go.
But it seems like at least from my perspective, I'm 48 years old.
And in my lifetime, it wasn't until the government got involved with the growing and distribution of cannabis
that we started to hear things like cannabis induced psychosis, cannabis induced schizophrenia.
And I can't help but the curious sort of me, you know, can't help but wonder if there's an immediate short straight line between the two.
I mean, I have definitely had experiences of cannabis psychosis when I was young.
And that was what I was trying to relate to you that had been such a long time.
Fucking a fat chick is in cannabis induced psychosis.
It's not.
We've all been there.
Was her name psychosis?
Psychosis Jones.
Yeah.
She was from the south side of Scotland.
Yeah, you know, I'm still there right now in a way, you know, but with my partner.
But the thing is, I was really in a bad state.
You know, I was at that point, you know, when your heart is racing and you're getting such paranoid thoughts about, oh my God, am I going to have a heart attack?
And it's been a long time since I had that experience.
You know, the last time I had that is when I was watching the Paw Cups now.
I watched, you know, the war film.
Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando.
Oh yeah.
It was phenomenal.
And I must have smoked about 20 joints throughout the entire movie.
And it wasn't until the movie stopped that I realised, I was like, holy shit.
I have, where am I?
You know, what's going on?
I can't even recall my own identity.
And it was like half three in the morning.
I was like, this is not where you want to be.
And so, you know, when I was in this state the other week with my lady friend,
and she was like, take this Benzo.
It'll just calm you right down.
And it did.
And I was like, you know what?
I'm going to be a bit more careful in terms of the cannabis I'm using there.
Don't want to be in that state.
I've gotten in on the flip side.
Steve and I have already backstage booked our tickets to Scotland just to try
and get some weed that affects us like this.
Right.
So, okay.
So, you all take that Pepsi challenge.
So, when's the last time you had that kind of experience yourself?
Or have you never had that where you used some cannabis and you were like, holy shit.
I never, okay.
The closest I really ever got was I've had like my full body humming to the point
to where it was uncomfortable.
But I wasn't paranoid about it because I knew what I was doing.
I've definitely had more awkward experiences of that sort on psychedelics.
And I don't know if it has anything to do with overall lifetime tolerance
or something like that.
I'm not sure.
But yeah, the weirdest I've ever got from cannabis and it was from edibles.
It was.
And there's definitely a very different reaction that you have when you eat it
as opposed to when you smoke it.
And it's something that I think most people like grow to become aware of.
But it's sort of a trial and error thing.
And it's not necessarily at the forefront of your mind when you're pop
in a couple of edibles, you know, I mean, like, oh, my body is going to
have a completely different reaction to this.
And it would be if I was taking a few hits or if I hit a, you know,
a vape pin or whatever, took a long hit.
But when you do ingest it, yeah, it's a wildly different process and
reaction and affects you in multiple different levels.
So I made it as close as I ever got to that.
I made some pancakes and I put a bunch of THC oil in the pancakes.
And I might have had a little bit of heavy hand in it because
I was humming.
My friend's girlfriend was in the fetal position.
And look, I, you know, I tried to do the thing where like, hey,
man, there's about a gram and a half of oil in this pancake.
You should split it with two of your friends.
But nobody listens to their fucking doctor.
Yeah.
And so she was like, no, I'm a bad bitch.
I'm a fucking strong independent woman.
I can do the, you know, and then she was, she was ruined
and having a really bad day.
And I felt bad to a degree, but I did try to warn you
and you ignored me.
You did the opposite of what my advice was.
And now you're having a bad time, you know, and I wasn't
warning you because I thought you were a weak person or
anything like that.
I gave the same warning to your dude who listened and ate a
third of what you ate, but you had to be little jelly badass.
And it backfired on you, you know, and so you can only
feel bad up to a certain point.
But I was certainly not having the best time that particular
day.
The last time the brother, I've got two brothers.
Last time the brothers ballers and got together.
I showed up and I had some killer kind bud and a nice
bong.
It was called a tornado bong and it would sit there and as
you were sucking it, it actually had a carb on it.
And if you were holding the carb, the smoke would stay
in the bottom of the bong and just sit there and spin.
And then as soon as you let go of the carb, it all just
at once is a $600 bong from Germany.
And my one brother brought some weed from Colorado
because he was living in Colorado and they had the killer
right then.
And he brought a volcano vaporizer.
And so we were vaporizing that.
And then my other brother busts out this jar of white
widow can of butter that was way crazy potent.
Throughout the night, we smoked and smoked and smoked
and vaped and vaped and vaped.
And then we ended up eating two batches of chocolate chip
cookies with the can of butter in them.
And then I went home and went to sleep and I woke up
and I mean, I can't even tell you what was going on
any of the past hours.
And then I woke up about 16, 18 hours later and I had
a pee so bad and I tried to stand up and the whole
world was spinning.
And I was like, holy fuck, holy fuck.
And I was damn near like sick high and I peed
and then I went light down and I slept for probably
another 18 hours.
And then I got up and I was great.
Yeah.
That's kind of how I feel where you're
describing that.
You're just, you know, you feel like you're spinning
and, you know, you just want to kind of crash out
because, you know.
Yeah.
What do you guys, you know, I had a guy,
I was talking to this guy Grant Cameron
or you aware of Grant Cameron?
Sounds familiar.
He's a Canadian consciousness researcher
and he's got a contact modality.
He's out and, you know, he's got a chapter
on how psychedelics are a contact modality.
And a contact modality is like a state
where you can alter your consciousness
and maybe attain contact with a different
like entity or some some shit like that.
You know, like a demon or an alien,
but you've got different types of contact modalities.
You know, you could be hypnosis or yoga
or against psychedelics.
And we were talking about deprivation tanks
and it had been such a long time
since I tried a deprivation tank.
So this sort of inspired me to do that.
And I was in a deprivation tank last week,
first time like 10 years.
You guys have tried the flotation deprivation tank.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
When I lived in Vegas, I tried one.
How was that experience?
Trippy.
It was.
I don't really like feeling like I'm confined.
So I had to get over that.
Like I felt a little bit more boxed in
than my comfort level would prefer.
But once I got past that, it was really cool.
It was.
And I was able to just like close my eyes
and, you know, breathe.
Is it filled with salt?
So you're kind of floating a little bit?
Yeah.
It's filled with a lot of salt.
A lot of salt.
It's sitting and kind of relaxed
and kind of recline position.
And you can float on it without trying to.
And the magnesium is almost,
has like a semi-narcotic reaction with your body.
So I think that also helps you get over
the initial fear of being,
you know, for lack of a better word,
mostly shut in.
Well, people that don't know it,
magnesium relaxes your muscles
and then even your digestive system,
like if you're having trouble pooping.
Different forms.
But yeah, having trouble pooping,
take a little magnesium
and it'll clear you right up.
Is that why they have to replace the water
after every tank experience
in the deprivation tank?
It could definitely have something to do with it.
People get a little.
Well, also, do you want to bathe
water?
Who wants to do that?
Well, sure.
What I'm getting at is that
there's like a mental preparation,
sure, but also like a bodily preparation.
So you might not want to go to some Chinese
buffet three days in a row
and then go to the tank
when you're all filled up.
And that's sort of what we're getting at
with the nervousness
and the panic attacks.
A lot of that has to do
with the gut biome too.
Yeah, a cookie and a banana.
It's like, well, Steve's uptown now.
He drinks boba teas.
He quit drinking monsters.
What?
I've yet to have a boba tea.
I have yet to have one.
He had one.
I've seen it.
He asked for no bobas.
When did that happen?
It was probably like eight months ago.
No bobas in the boba tea.
So I had tea.
Yeah.
I've had tea before, certainly.
Was it like a matcha?
It was boba tea, but he said hold the bobas.
Okay.
We'll run with that.
I have no memory.
And he had to argue with the checkout lady
for quite some time to get her to understand
he wanted no bobas in his boba tea.
That's actually a skit on YouTube.
Yeah.
It looks like she's doing well.
She's still hosting cannabis events
and all that kind of stuff.
Yeah.
Thank you very much tea leaves for the
the super chat.
I haven't talked to her in a bit,
but she seems to be
seems to be crushing it.
Excellent.
Yeah.
I hopefully too shall soon be crushing it
and we will need to start meeting up
and getting to know a few of these people.
Yeah.
Maybe you'll get to take one of those
robo taxis while you're there.
Yeah, I'd say.
Absolutely not.
Get a pass on that.
Not a fan of the Zooks.
Dude, it wasn't Zooks.
It was what's the other one?
What's the one down in San Francisco, Steve?
Waymo.
Waymo's.
Fucking Brian and I drove down to San Francisco
and of course we're in my F 350, you know,
with the with the fucking oversized
turbo and the fucking 73 diesel
and the fucking, you know, six speed
and the tires like this, you know,
and we're fucking rolling down there
and also all these little cars
with all these gadgets on top of
what the fuck was that?
It could have been a Google Maps
vehicle.
No, they were Waymo's.
Yeah.
And they're everywhere.
They are everywhere.
Yeah, they'll drive you right through
a police shooting.
They'll all go and meet up on the
same street and then create
their own traffic jam.
It's awesome.
Is the last bulletproof?
Is that an add on or is that just
standard on these vehicles?
No, not bulletproof.
OK.
Because it is the Wild West of
driverless vehicles.
We did a story
a while ago
where a Waymo
snitched on
a group of like
14 and 15 year olds
because they had a squirt gun
that they were squirting people
with.
So the Waymo said they had a
weapon and it stopped.
It locked them in
and it wouldn't open the doors
until law enforcement showed up.
It also said that they were
drinking in the Waymo
and they were.
They were drinking
power.
They were drinking power.
And the Waymo
says America.
We drank Gatorade.
The third world operator
of the Waymo
determined that the power aid
was in fact an alcoholic
beverage.
And so between
the water gun
and the power aid they locked
these kids in the Waymo
until the cops showed up.
The cops hauled them out
because they were responding
to a weapon
and drunk teenagers
and they were
the cops were ready to dance
man.
And the kids are like what the
fuck is going on right now?
Yeah.
And then it took like another
couple of hours and of course
because the Waymo's are supposed
to be autonomous.
You're not supposed to know
that there's a call center
in Bangladesh that's actually
operating them.
There's no culpability,
there's no algorithm a little bit.
And hey, thanks for informing
and better making the
product that we give you better.
Super.
Fuck off kids.
We don't care about you.
Lucky you didn't get shot.
It's interesting to note these
zooks are
a Amazon company.
Remember we did that story of
we remember that story we did
like six weeks ago where the
cops decided that a
chip bag was a gun or A.I. did.
Hold on I gotta take this.
Yeah.
And you could potentially lose
your life to law enforcement
over a bag of chips
because the robot
misidentified it.
You can get hauled out of your
vehicle at gunpoint because
the flock camera didn't
correctly read one letter
of your license plate.
Spicy cheetos
could get you in trouble.
Yeah.
So the thing with these zooks
are and the news story here
is that they contain
no steering wheel,
no brake pedal.
There's no ability for anyone
inside the vehicle to control
the vehicle at all.
It's a horseless carriage.
Definitely.
And you're sitting
back and forth.
So when you get in there
the thing can be going forward
but you have your back to it.
So you're facing
and you might get motion sickness
if you sit that way depending on
or you might feel like you're
seven years old again
and you're in the way back
of the family station wagon.
That's another possibility.
I think that's the nostalgia
we're going for.
Well here's a clip
most recent clip from July 30th
I think in 2026
AP reporting on a Zooks.
The story was
about a year ago they were
approved could not pay for them.
It was just a trial run so it was
there's no money transacted.
I think now they're starting
to accept money
kind of maybe a tap to ride thing.
Not quite sure how they got it.
Our approach is
we want innovation to succeed
as long as that innovation
can be pursued appropriately and safely.
The Vehicles Safety Act
does give the ability of the agency
to grant an exemption to
the developer.
In this instance Zooks
the vehicle that has no manual controls
no mirrors
and the cabin configuration
passengers facing itself
very different innovative design.
They were able to demonstrate
to the agency
that their vehicle as a design
features for instance the braking system
that's at least as safe
as a compliant braking system.
Really our overarching concern
is there was not any data
or testing results presented
that demonstrated that
the autonomous driving system
that was going to be controlling
this vehicle could operate safety
at all.
So they don't have any data yet
which is why they've been
approved to do a trial run
to collect the data as
the human guinea pigs
are subjecting to this test.
So if you get into
Zooks
what rights are you waving
as a human guinea pig?
What rights are you waving?
Well you're I mean
you're ostensibly giving up
your third
fourth
fifth
and ninth amendment rights
by getting in there
possibly your first amendment rights
and according to terms of service
that nobody reads
you may be violating
the second amendment
by getting in one
if you have
a firearm that you carry with you
I don't know what their rules are
I don't know if you can have
an actual gun inside one of those
Horselesshurst is a nice way
of putting it.
They're realistically
the Zooks
are more like
cable-less cable cars
because they have
a limited range
of transportation
they're usually only going one direction
they don't make a lot of turns
it is more like a cable car
type thing right now
it doesn't mean it won't stay that way
but yeah
yeah so I get
Horselesshurst is a good way of putting it
but also yeah cable-less cable car
I think is
the most accurate way to describe it
It feels like a public
or rather a private
public transportation
meaning that
the route might be from the airport
to the Las Vegas sphere
and then back to the airport
so it might have a predefined route
it's not going to be like an Uber
or Lyft where it will take you wherever you want to go
yeah and from the airport to the sphere
is like a total of three turns
that's a long walk
in Las Vegas
for a lot of tourists
it's all about comfort
and also it's only you and your party
so you're not going to have strangers on there
a lot of people didn't like
the fact that in Minnesota
when we were developing the light rail
that it was open to the public
so you would ride the light rail
with all the other twins fans
and maybe they don't like the Minnesota twins
maybe they don't like you
maybe they want to fight you
I'll tell you though man
some of the funnest times that I ever had
were taking the drinking train
from the Santa Cruz mountains
up to San Francisco
for a Giants game
or into Oakland for an A's game
because Caltrain will do that
and you're on the train
with all of the other fans
and everybody's partying
on the train
and there are definitely
like sections of the train
where they don't enforce
an alcohol policy
and holy crap
is it a movable Mardi Gras
on that bitch
just laughing realizing that
ZOX OVOX
basically anti-Zooks guy
in the username there
the Z's, the O's and the X's
sorry about curiosity guys
what time can you no longer buy alcohol
where you are
because over here in Scotland
10 o'clock is the shut off
what is it over there
off sale
is usually 10 o'clock
on sale
except for the bars that have on sale
off sale they can sell you
moves till 2 in the morning
in most states I've been in
at any time
I don't know man
if it's a 24 hour establishment
like if you walk into a grocery store
or something like that
they don't stop you from
buying alcohol no matter what time it is
if it's
a restaurant
Monday through Thursday
it's usually
10 o'clock last call
maybe 11 o'clock last call
and then bars
it's either 2 a.m.
or 4 a.m.
I think there's a few bars
in San Francisco
that only close
between 5 and 6 a.m.
so they can do a quick sweep
and mop
and then they reopen
I think it's 2 a.m.
bars in Minnesota
I don't think I've been to a bar
since the 90s
oh man
to survive
you need to serve alcohol
you need to have liquor license
as a restaurant in general
needing to have liquor license to stay open
so whether or not
that's considered a bar
to some families
any place that serves alcohol
is considered a bar
I went to the craziest
little neighborhood dive bar
a month and a half ago
or something like that
my
my girl was at a baby shower
down the road
and I just wanted to watch
a World Cup game
and so I'm like okay
well who's going to be open
1130 in the morning
and it's going to have
World Cup on TV
sports bar dive bar
something like that
and so the closest establishment
to where the baby shower was
was a house
and there's apartment building
on one side houses
in a mostly residential neighborhood
and I walk in
and 160 pound
yellow lab
greets me at the door
and I hear really good music
coming out of the jukebox
and I'm like alright
well this might not suck
it might not
but it was
I mean just a degenerate
freaking residential dive bar
there was a drunk
meth chick
it was her birthday
and she was trying to show
her fucking
saggy fucking flabby titties
and stuff like that
everyone was
it was lovely
I highly recommend
don't know the name of it
I see you've got an instrument behind you
what is it?
it's a mandolin
a mandolin, I play the shamisen
and it's quite similar to a mandolin
it is a stringed instrument
but it's also a percussive instrument
because you hit it with a
you hit the dal which is a bass
with a bachi which is like a
a plectrum
but it's a plectrum that looks like a wallpaper scraper
but I've heard it compared to a mandolin before
and I was just wondering
yeah this is
it might be a little
a little out of tune
quite good
but it sounds better with a plectrum too
I just don't have the
and it really is
it's a way fatter pick
for a mandolin
than you would typically use for
for a guitar I do have
it's just out of frame
but with guitar over here too
how much does your mandolin cost?
you know what I found this one
via Facebook Marketplace
and I think it was a hundred bucks
that's good
I have had much nicer
mandolins in my day
and the same Facebook Marketplace
shows me all kinds of high-end stuff
I'll never be able to buy
all day every day
so you know
a professionally set up
very nice one could run you
3500 to 10k
but
for what I'm using it for
this is absolutely fantastic
the Vashami Sunabot
costs
about £2,000
which is probably about $3,000
and even the Batchy
which is made of tortoise shell
costs like £250
which is again about $400
so it's an expensive instrument
expensive and you can get
cheaper ones too
made of plastic
but we don't produce that sound
you know what you're looking for
yeah no that's a spruce top
maple bag
I mean it's what you want
it's definitely lower
lower end
it's made by Washburn
that does typically
very serviceable
acoustic instruments
definitely not top of the line
by any stretch of the imagination
but if you're just banging around on it
and trying to have fun
not make a living out of it
totally serviceable
I mean if you're just having fun
it sounded good
so whether it's $100
or $5,000 if you can't play it
it's probably going to sound like shit
but you know how to play it
so it sounds good
and I always had that fantasy
of being like an itinerant
banjo or shamisen player
you know like a busker
who made his oven just playing
playing in the street corners
because I was thinking to myself
that must be a very humbling experience
yeah
I've been
an itinerant human being
before in my life
and I have many times
hung out across the street
from a bar
and stuff like that
you know
it's you versus the entire world
and you're seeing what you can earn
from having an open guitar case
it's an interesting experiment
man it really is
because over in Japan
most people who were playing the shamisen
at the turn of the 20th century
were disabled
so it was usually people who were blind
or gaseous
they would play it because they couldn't
earn a living anywhere else
you know no one would want to employ
a blind person or a deaf person
so if they would either do a massage
or they would take up
an instrument like the Sanjun or the shamisen
but yeah
I always
had a fondness for like the banjo, the mandolin
the ukulele, the shamisen
kind of stuff
yeah I love stringed instruments man
I really do
it's an interesting guy
who lives in California
who is really good at
the ukulele
and the sanjun
and the mandolin
and the shamisen
and he sells them out of there
his name's Kai Laba
and have you heard of him?
yeah I've heard of him
how are you familiar with Kai Laba?
because I've been involved in
live music
and string instruments
and stuff like that
since I was a low kid
people who are
really good instrument makers
you just
hear about over the years
and people who are
very very skilled craftsmen
come with a
lore instrument
that they produce
yeah he's a craftsman
he makes his shamisen stuff
and he's excellent at playing it
and he's excellent at designing them
and
because the original shamisen
were made with cat skin
and
when you're out playing your shamisen
and it starts to rain
the cat skin's just
it's going to get wet
and it's going to damage your instrument
so you want that fine
synthetic
skin
and he's really good
at making that dial
and that skin
and just put them together
and the guy is brilliant on the mandolin
and brilliant on the shamisen
Could I hear the name
of the artist in American?
Caleb?
Yeah
Steve, can you translate to American?
Tay-Lavin
Miklop
Tay-Lavin
Bell
Oh, shit
I'm going to have to
I'm going to have to look it up
for the spelling
Right
and I just need the English
American pronunciation
because it sounds so
political
and I just get hypnotized
and I'm like
I can't remember the name of the artist
but I know there's something called a shamisen
a shamisen
Do you mean the spelling of a shamisen
or the spelling of a musician?
The name of the musician, yeah, the artist
K-Y-L-E-A-B-B-O-T
Kyle, okay
Yeah
He runs an organization
Coppacito
out in California
I'm going to do that in American
B-A-C-H-I-D-O
C-H
Okay, I think that helps
Yeah, it's a Kyle Abbott
Abbott
Abbott, okay
Got it
Yeah, speaking without an accent
as a Minnesota broadcaster
is very important to me
and I know that we're trying to reach over
The shamisen is
Yeah, I apologize
No, it's alright
The shamisen is a really interesting instrument
It's only got three strings on it
Yeah
Or at least the ones that I've seen
Yeah, straight
And
Mandolin is eight strings
but, you know, four strings doubled up
So it's, you know, effectively
a very similar instrument
the main difference being, you know, octave
and a couple of different, you know, double up strings
and stuff like that
But yeah, there's
similar tonality
And yeah, you know, it's a
One of the
interesting things about the shamisen is
it's got a Sawari there
and you can create a resonance with the Sawari
that produces the oriental sound
and you don't hit the dowel, the bass
with the batchy on the same position
So you switch to the more solid part of the frame
to the drum back and forth
and it produces a different, you know, a sound
So that's one thing to bear in mind
when you're playing the shamisen, you know
And at least with the shamisen
it's supposed to be a semi-percussive instrument
Yeah
It kind of does bug me
when I hear people pick up like a guitar
and then they're just beating all over it
and occasionally hitting strings
But with the shamisen, you're supposed to do that
It sounds great
Yeah, yeah
And you can get different styles of play
like the Minio
And the Minio is just like folk music
You know, like you're playing there
It's like Japanese folk music
And then you get Zoguro style
And Zoguro is when you're doing this
improv solo play
We call that jazz
Yeah
Yeah, jazz is good too
You know
Especially with that, you know
I was watching a film called
Angel Heart recently
That's a good one
Yeah
Robert De Niro
and this other guy's name
Monkey Bar
It has the hand of glory
and a lot of occult symbolism
Yeah, yeah
And I think that's set in the 50s
and it's got a lot of blues
and jazz in that music
in that film
It's kind of a hard-boiled occult
detective story with an interesting twist
And it's quite a gnostic film too
It's about someone discovering who they are
Realising that they're damned
that they've made a deal with the devil
There's another interesting film
that's quite gnostic
similar to that
and that's Jacob's Ladder
Have you seen that?
I was going to mention altered states
as well
We were talking about the isolation chambers
deprivation
training
and the altered states of consciousness
and the early studies done there
Can we go back to
You said you had an interview
with a very important like
Grant Cameron
Yes, Grant Cameron
And there was a book recently published
about contact modalities
What was the name of the book?
Contact mode
I've got it right here
Just give me a moment to
Beautiful
Contact modalities
These are the keys to the universe
There it is
He's an interesting guy, Grant
He's part of that old school
of consciousness researchers
and ufologists
like Whitley Streber
I've had him one
We didn't really talk about ufo
It was more about
his book Contact Modalities
and his consciousness research
He's an interesting guy
I also spoke recently with
Desta Barnaby
and she works with Grant
and she wrote a book called
The Gate Programme for Children
She was in the Gate Programme as a child
and she also is up in Montreal
in the Memorial
and she relates her experience
in the Gate Programme
and all the different overlaps
I was like a pipeline
to project Stargate
and the gateway process
and stuff like that
She's an interesting woman
The Canadian border
Canadian government
US government
wasn't that how some of the MKLTRA documents
were revealed
because there was something that happened
to someone in Canada
and it needed to be discussed
and that sort of opened the gate
to some of the MKLTRA
and similar consciousness study programs
that the US government
I wish I had more memories
of being in the Gate Programme
I don't, most of that's just
a block
What do you remember?
I remember the pink drink
I remember the headphones
I remember the flashcards
I remember us not being
like the windows
being like papered over
or
blinds drawn at all times
Sometimes we would be
in the elementary school
sometimes we'd go off-site for it
but it's all
mostly flashes
and stuff like that
little snapshots of memory
rather than a complete
start, middle and memory
Yeah and there is that
interesting overlap
with gate and site phenomena
and what Desda was arguing
but that was the purpose
of the Gate Programme
to filter out children
who were maybe a little
intellectually gifted
but what they were really looking for
was the kids who had disabilities
You know?
Almost a precognitive thing
so my experience was
with other students
like first and second grade
who were in a gifted
and talented sort of program
and
for some reason I remember
I was friends with them
so I was invited as one of their guests
I think at times they were able
to bring out a friend with them
so we would leave the normal classroom
and in the middle of the school
in another room
that didn't have any windows in it
where they had lots of
puzzle solving type
toys and things
that different corners where people could just sit
and read alone
a lot of it was based off of flash cards
you know like
trivia questions
so there would be like these thick books
of trivia questions
but then some of it got into
mathematics
and multiplication times tables
but they would be on flash cards
and we would
in our actual classroom
we would line up
and there would be
one person standing next to another person
and it would be a dual
and then the teacher would pull out a flash card
the first person say it right
would go to the next person
and then you'd see how many times they would win
and they'd be like
they defeated six of their classmates
so the record might be six
and they could go around
I bring that up because of the nature
the flash card kind of being shuffled
and random
the teacher doesn't see what the flash card is
the student sees it
but there's this moment of
as the cards being pulled out
before it's clearly visible
the student would guess the number
and oftentimes
over 50% get it correct
so there was sort of
this guessing
but then the question was
because it seemed to be statistically above
the norm
was it precognitive
yeah
yeah and
I mean this even
you're right
it does even predate
Stargate, it does predate Gate
I had this conversation
with Whitley
and he grew up beside
Randolph Air Force Base
and he was put in this sort of
he wasn't the Gate Programme
it was before Gate
but they put him in this
this
it was like a Skinner Box
and it was
like a Skinner Box deprivation chamber
sort of thing
and they did a lot of the Gate
kind of stuff with him then too
and his health really declined
as a kid
and then his parents
pulled him out
however what is interesting is it struggled
and that's the paperclip scientist
was also at
Randolph Air Force Base at the same time
as Whitley was being tested on
so it creates for another overlap
with where the paperclip scientists
were the ones that initiated all these
child experiments you know
and did they know
about the whole Psy Phenomena
before the CIA
and the North Koreans know that were
privy to it
and it does seem with
the public education system
in America
when we got what they call the
Scantron Technologies
meaning like a multiple choice test
they were able to
test a wider portion
and track learning
I think a lot of that was tied into
gifted and talented
accelerated learning programs
and what I'm describing is
that it spilled out
I think they had
special teachers who had special programs
and it was like a trial sort of
Petri dish for education styles
and things
but a lot of the gifted
and talented accelerated learning
Odyssey of the Mind
there's a few different programs
some of them were extra curricular
some of them took place during the day
but a lot of them were
closely monitored
and the data, the reports
I think were all compiled
in a very interesting way
and that's kind of leading up to
in a federal level
the No Child Left Behind Act
Yeah I mean you're really getting into
what is happening
taking place or what took place
in the United States
I heard Steve
he was discussing how he
may have been involved in it too
it really was widespread
in the Anglo-American world
I mean I wasn't familiar with
GATE until
about half a year ago
and it was really serendipity
my friend turned around and said to me
listen have you heard this thing called the GATE program
I was like no
he showed me a video on YouTube
he's like do you remember what happened to us
I don't remember a pink drink or anything
but the cards that you described
and the earphones that kind of stuff
I was like you know what
that rings a bell
the next thing I know I'm listening to
this woman called Katie Page
talking about biofeedback
Desta Barnaby talking about her
self being in a library
after she's shown these cards
and giving the headphones
and she feels like her body
or spirit or mind is leaving the body
and she's looking down on herself
from the ceiling of the library
looking down on her own body
I'm like holy shit this is really interesting
I've got to talk to this woman
and then I find out
it's throughout the entire Anglo-American world
Canada, the United States
Britain
I'm like how many people
you know we're on these gifted children's programs
and then how far did it go
with you know that pipeline
into the gateway project
or Stargate you know
because the Home Monroe Institute thing
I don't know if you've ever tried
the Monroe tapes
the gateway process
Yes it was the binaural beats
where you wear headphones
and the sound will go from the left
and then it'll go to the right
and that's sort of where
they had a box
that would generate the tones
it was used on
every student as
sound like a test for deafness
so all students would be tested
on hearing ability
on vision ability
they'd be measured for height
and then there was also like this
scoliosis test
where I think
begin in like sixth grade locker rooms
you'd take your shirt off
and you'd bend over
and they'd measure the curvature of your spine
and say you might have scoliosis
you might have a spine issue
so a lot of it was
the health records
that were kept
and I wonder
if they were all assembled
so there's a lot of statistics
a lot of data points that were gathered
on bulk of school students
see when you
how often did you use
the lemon law
recordings
as an adult
choosing to listen to them
they were
something I was able to
find
they had been put online more recently
it was the last maybe five years
yeah I used a bit of them
I found it was interesting
but then going on
YouTube and discovering
that other people had created
more effective sort of
binaural beats that had a higher
audio fidelity
and then there are some websites
I found that do generate
the tones
in your web browser
there are a lot of people
who warn against this sort of thing
you can't live a hemisphere
synchronization
but it can produce
some unwanted effects
a lot of people on the right
believe it can manifest
kind of demonic experiences
but
what do you think about that
well
yeah so in my
experience
and just playing around with them
in my own time as an amateur
some of them did
create
in my visual field
like I don't know
before the cones or the rods
you know when you get the little
visual artifacts in your eyes
where you might see little squiggly lines
it would begin to produce
kind of like
geometric crystal
and sort of stuff
over the vision
so it would be like
at the point
like at the lens of the eye
so it would begin to produce
sort of those visual artifacts
also listening to cocktail twins
while it's about terrain while walking outside
I also do see I don't know if they're like
quaternions or the bubbles in the air
but it is at the
point where
it seems to be in the field of vision
within my eyesight
itself between the eye and the brain
interpreting something
yeah and it's interesting
because we're talking about
the deprivation tanks
too and so we're going into
like all of this kind of
you know techniques to all our
consciousness and
you know the first time
well not the first time the second time I went
into a deprivation tank I used cannabis
the third time I went into
a deprivation tank I used LSD
the fourth time I went in
I used DMT kind of
and I was inspired by
William Hart's altered states
that you were describing earlier
excellent film you know I didn't
get propelled into this you know
didn't regress into a proto-hominid
and then into a sing
become a singularity that was a bit
extreme it didn't
happen but
you know it is
a powerful experience
when you go in taking something like
DMT you know you're like
have you tried it
and I would say a sober state
without any
assistance of any sort of chemicals or natural
and then just done
a breathing like a pranayama
or a wim Hof
the first time
I wasn't on anything
and the last time
which was last week same
I've only used
from five times
the whole breathing
I did undertake the whole
breathing exercises
because
you know I was trying to calm
myself to still my mind
because I found when my eyes were closed
for a certain
period of time I was
I was manifesting stuff I was
seeing like visuals
even though everything was dark
nothing too extreme
however it did
cause a little bit of anxiety
so I was trying to
steady my breathing and calm
myself and just like you know you get nothing
to worry about this will be over
in 30 minutes you know
so
but again it was the film
for me all the states that really
you know drew me into this
I was like what's going on here with this guy
this is interesting stuff
who was
that film based on again was it
John C. Lily
I think that was one of the
public figures that we know
John C. Lily
yeah I'm sure it was based on John C. Lily's
work with deprivation tanks
again those are the public names that
we would know about I don't know
private or
confidential or
classified information
yeah
have you ever checked out any John C. Lily's
work? Oh yes
simulations of God
yep echo
the
coincidence control center I'm missing
the full acronym of the
ecco
and then to the point where
Sega
the video game company produced a game
based off of a dolphin calling the dolphin
echo the dolphin
yeah it was a classic
yeah definitely
influenced a lot of creative people
who then put a lot of the ideas into
film and video games and
popular culture
and where are these with
the whole video games do you play
video games like much
I've not played video games
myself in probably
20 years but I know they're
so immersive now
you know they're so
four dimensional in a way you know like
your whole timing space is just enveloped
and concentrated in this game
and they look phenomenal
you know I just bought a new desktop
desktop computer and I was
telling Ted
Ted Benjamin
I'm about my laptop breaking
but other week there and
so I had to buy a new desktop
and the graphics cars
everything absolutely great
but I don't play computer games anymore
you know I'm like shit
the 20 year old
me would have loved us
yeah I've got one
I just got a desktop also
and I've never had problems with it
it's always been great
I'm one step down from a gamer
desktop
which is what the lady at Best Buy told me
when she set me all up with it
because I just told her what I was doing
and what I needed and
I don't know anything about that stuff
so some nerdy looking video gamer chick
set me up with all the stuff
and you set it up
with a nice commission on the sale
I'm sure
that's important
yeah I've noticed you've got a better setup
Benjamin like from
a few months ago
your camera is a lot better
your sound quality
yeah that's thanks to the kind donations
of
people like Forth Wiseman
and Auntie Gaslighter
they got me
and
Edda Volk and Steve
they got me one of them
sound boards
Yamaha sound board and they got me a fucking
speaker that's
condenser mic
all in you know
really up to the quality here
we're getting serious
that's good
yeah
yeah I'm going to
guys I'm going to head off
because I've got a crazy kitten jumping
all over the place
and it's also like
go have fun with your new kid
you're this close to getting knighted
and becoming a Ted forever
oh yeah I did send the music
in the telegram
we got a knight him quick
he's got to come back on camera though
have we decided on the title
the name
let's see what we got
back here
Ted Bennington
Bennington
yeah that one's me
where's the Bennington coming from
it's just
my name's Benjamin so it's Ted Bennington
yeah
you're
I like the Ted Braves Hart
depends on how you pronounce it
Braves Hart or Braves
Shuh
I'm trying to play
with the name so it can't be
completely mocking
or teasing in any
terrible with Ted Glasgow
Ted Bard
Ted Braves Hart
what does the chat say
what's going to be most recognizable
as a Ted name
leave it let the chat
see what the chat says
Ted Calotidian
Ted Vincent
I mean I like Ted Vincent
Ted Vincent
Ted Vincent it will work just fine then
everybody like Ted Vincent
Ted Vincent
yes okay well
Ted
we're about to play some music
and when the song ends he will be knighted
under your new
Ted name
take a deep breath
be prepared for this
we're not
we're not even going to tell you to go and sing no more
we're open to it
the Ted
the Tedning is upon us
tell us how killed this will sound
Mark saying no
we're listening to all of it
oh yeah
that was better than a deprivation tank experience
we
we Ted you
Ted Vincent
you know what it was worth it
it was worth it
you know Benjamin Vriep see one of the things
that you'll notice sometimes I'm up late
and then there are times
I'm not on the nights
so like half of the month
you know I work part time
and it's shift work so half of the month
I'm kind of on a work evenings
and then the other half I'm doing
mornings so
I can make these random appearances
usually at a certain time
in a month but for like half of a month
I just can't do it you know
right right right well we're doing
we're gonna we're I'm doing a Wednesday
now show now also that's more
on a cult type stuff I think
you might enjoy the Wednesday show quite a bit
too brother was that was that the
the one on
Lucifer was it
yeah yeah that was the first one
yeah
yeah next one well guys thanks
for having me on it was a
pleasure man thank you Ted Vincent
nice to meet you Ted
have a good night Ted
I still have a taco
but I'll come back on camera
we love tacos on Tuesdays
taco Tuesday
is that an American taco
uh no
no it's not
Steve thinks he's up class
he don't eat Tex-Mex
it's just melted
it's not queso shut up
Jesus
you freaking plebeians
listen it don't come with potato
I don't even want anything to do with it
I don't even give a fuck what country
you wanted to claim it's from
right
yeah we did have tater tots the other
night but they were sweet potato
tater tots which are freaking
awesome by the way
they sound awesome
that's hot
sweet potato fries are fantastic
yes sir and in a tater tot
even better bad
so it's still kind of
kind of chopped up
into
a little coin shape
it's not like mushed up
how do they do that
it's a tot shape
a little donkey Kong barrel shape
yeah that's not tater tots
they're more like a coin
they aren't as logish as a normal
tater tot
potato laser like thin
if you stacked like three or four of them
on each other it would make like a thick
tater tot
and then also they use the
the blood of innocent children
and unicorns to flavor it
the currents like with all good food
yeah
oh yes
and I'm definitely sure there's racism
added in there I mean you can't claim
something's text max up and fucking the
Dakotas and Wyoming and then
not have some of that in there
right
like we don't even know what a
Mexican is where I'm from like what
where is that
oh yeah you do
you just you killed most of them
in the 1800s so
yeah I haven't seen a lot
but you used to know
that's where we used to have
China men we used to have China men
get it right
I think it was
Tom Russell song but
it was about
two
Mexican horse thieves
who were
selling
oh god dude it was like
supposed to be like
horsehair braided
rains for a saddle
or something for a horse
or something like that but it was a
really like based on a true story
and all that kind of stuff but it was
all yeah South Dakota oriented
huh
I'll track it down at some point drop
it in the group chat
Tom Russell's a really weird dude
very
eccentric and eclectic fella
and his
particular
storytelling style
rooted a lot
in the American West
and as Ben's pointed out plenty of times
the American West
took place mostly in South Dakota
yeah that's true
yeah the Wild West is South Dakota
despite the way it sounds
Wild
Bill
Wild Bill Hickok and all that
from Deadwood South Dakota
it was just the anniversary
of him getting shot and the origin of
the dead man's hand
yeah I got to see
the actual
obviously I'm from there and I've seen
and looked at
you know the actual
dead man's hand and everything that he was holding
and stood in the spot where he's supposed to
have
been shot all that kind of fun stuff
mm-hmm
going to take a grotesquely
large bite so I'm gonna
my mom
back in the day when my mom was young
she used to play on his
on his grave
and also
uh
Annie Oakley
um
and he used to play my mom
they used to not have their grave
fenced off and you could go in there
so when she is high school you know we all did
that stupid shit play around
hanging out in the graveyard for no fucking apparent reason
only they did it on
Wild Bill Hickok's grave
it's a nice park
it's a nice city
they deadwood definitely
put that on a destination
let's put it right at the top
and now now Sturgis is about
the only thing anybody really comes for
they they flooded the homestay
gold mines
I wonder
with the newest
version and I haven't seen any episodes
of it yet but the little house
on the prairie
on the prairie they're gonna be
less less
uh
pdf file-ish
oh you know
I
Michael Landon's character
into a six foot three black woman
right right
I haven't seen it yet
I'm waiting to see if it's gonna go
for one season and they cancel it
or if it's just gonna go for like a thousand episodes
dude where I'm from
I swear to God every fucking city
that any of the fucking Ingalls Wilders
fucking took a piss in
there's a sign at the edge of the town
Laura Ingalls Wilder's sister
took a shit over here right here
historical markers for historical
outhouses
yeah you're like cheese people
and they lived all in the
east side of Dakota not over
by deadwood they lived on the east side
over by Minnesota
and then it became Lollapalooza
yeah
that's what happened
I think there might have been one or two more
steps in there somewhere but
not important
they probably had to build up
Grant Park a little bit
yeah by way of
Perry Farrell there were some addictions
Jane's addiction
that was one very specific
addiction
yeah
touring
did you ever see the gift
did you ever see Perry's fucked up movie
about Jane called the gift
no I'm not allowed to
holy crap dude it's
freaky
like he keeps her on ice
and keeps fucking her
yeah
Perry Farrell is a twisted dude
still love Jane's addiction by the way
still love the freaking man
I know it's not
it's his
you know
I thought their addiction was shoplifting
from the mind of Perry Farrell
yeah
from the very weird brain of Perry
but
oh man Jane's addiction as far as a band
goes
so fucking fun
I know
we're on youtube
so we can't play any
why is
why do all the fucking
wealthy people end up taking the marquita
side route
just getting really weird with shit
because nothing entertains you anymore
you've done everything already
so you have to
get weirder and weirder
in order to keep like
feeling anything
I've been getting
I've been having sex
for a long time
and I gotta tell you
it's you know I don't get as worked up
about it as I did when I was young
cause I don't have fucking 12 gallons
of testosterone floating through my fucking
system at any given time
but I still enjoy it
approximately the same level
right
and I've been doing it a lot for a long time
I got seven kids and shit
just you know
I've been banging that drum
and it still sounds just as good as the first
time I did it
right
it's a drums name psychosis
no I didn't read fleas book
that's the name of it
I never really
the red hot chili peppers
never really did it for me
like that
I like
I really stopped
after freaky style
or like mother's milk maybe
I stopped
enjoying the red hots as much
they almost
seem more like a novelty band
well I mean
every song is just
California something something California
something something California
like
a bad game there
like over and over and over
yeah
it was what
1987-1988
it was either listened
to red hot chili peppers
or Metallica master of puppets
and I made my choice
yeah although 88 was like
88-89 was probably
the last like fun
good red hot chili
peppers album
and they did higher ground
and shit like that
but yeah no flea
is a
a very weird fella
I was down in big sir years
ago probably told
this story but uncle fatty hasn't
heard it and we're hanging out
at the little coffee shop
in front of the fernwood resort
just as you're getting into
big sir and
we're sitting outside we're smoking a joint
we're you know
bullshit and waking up
and we see this like
highlighter shape
moving towards us
and as it gets closer
it's flea
and he's wearing
a mesh
neon yellow tank top like high
vis yellow tank top
mesh tank top
and like tiny little
1970s jogger shorts
and he's just
running down the road
because he has a place in
big sir and apparently likes
to jog more
or less naked
as you would
and everybody's just did nobody
pays any attention to it because they've
seen it a million fucking times
and I'm like is that
flea
like yeah that's flea
yeah
flea does
californication
verse one psychic
spies from china
try to steal your mind's elation
what's that about
psychic spy
we're pretending mk ultra
didn't take place in california
right there in
excellent right there in big sir
right where flea was jogging
yeah
yeah the excellent institute
is
crazy little place
we should deep dive on that
I have a buddy who's almost out of
his nda
he's got two more years left
on the nda
from when he was working at
excellent as a baker
and a massage therapist
and he has promised
me that you will come on the show
and
talk about some stuff
that he saw while in the employ
a vessel in
wow
yeah I'm sure
they got some killer live show energy
iron maiden
iron maiden was the king
of that in the 80s
iron man fucking
slayer
yeah
early cannibal corpse
was
something to behold live
panterra live 80s was the era
of the most badass concerts
it really was
like they were giant mega
concerts
they still do them all over
sound like every the
80s and like early to mid 90s
metal scene
that's alive and well
in central and south america
yeah yeah I've seen it
it does well in europe too
like when iron maiden did their flight
666 and went to like fucking like
40 countries or something
like they just sold out every
venue that was giant
yeah I went to a
I loved widespread panic
Jason Talbot I went to a
ton of those shows
back
yeah
yeah that was the era when live shows
were just the shit
I think a lot of these bands
were affordable
yeah
it wasn't like oh you need
$1400 to go to a concert
need to finance it
make payments
to get a ticket
it's insane and the damage
that happens to the park in
Chicago
that's just built in the price
it's usually just a million
dollars just to repair it
after the
the lala peluza
I never saw motorhead I would have loved
to have seen motorhead
I quit listening to
motorhead after
whatever Tony hot game on
Nintendo 64
overplays the ace of spades like
fucking like repeat
the pro skater
yeah
you're like
it needs a spanish
say it again
I will fucking
start stalking lemmy
I found a really cool Mexican
band called
Bardo ebanjo
and they do a
killer ace of spades cover
and it's just like
three redneck
Mexican dudes playing
stringed instruments
and the lead guitar is a banjo
nice
yeah and they do motorhead
and other
other metal covers
that's fun
there's
the
mariachi
mariachi metallica
band
that's fun
oh
that's fun
those guys are great
they're called metallachi
metal right
right
first time I saw them was an attractor
pole in Stockton
right
that sounds exactly right
hell yeah boy
rhyming the itch of air in her was fantastic
that was that's true
that's a fact
most
most maiden is pretty fantastic though
I had
because it was
hetfields james hatfields birthday
the other day
and so I do pre-show music for am
wake up and I frequently will
you know
put like birthdays or death
anniversaries or stuff like that for that day
people music
cultural heritage
instead of pulling any
actual metallica for it
there was a bluegrass band
called iron horse
that did an album
called fade to bluegrass
and it's all metallica covers
and it's done really
really well I like that
hazy dixie
is another bluegrass band
that does incredible
arrangements of metal songs
fun shit
to be fair metallica hasn't been metal
either since like 1990
yeah do you
put it at ride the lightning or injustice
for all
injustice
had some good stuff in it
but that was like the beginning of the end
that should have been like their last fight
like okay we're out
like you can't one is hard to beat
one was fucking crazy good
oh dude there's a ton of songs
on that album that are great
yeah all around that's a good album
and then black
is
black is like they took metallica
and ate it
with bad taco bell and what they
fucking left in the toilet the next day
was metallica post
and justice dude
harvester of sorrow
off of the
the fucking
and justice for all album
that's a
that's like an anti-war
freaking
anthem and a
ripper that's also back
when metallica used to be anti-war
yeah yeah
metal in general used to be
anti-war yeah
very anti-establishment
and then metallica got a
haircut
all kind of went down the drain
do you remember the
Alice in chains MTV
unplugged
back in the day mike star the bass player
came out with permanent marker
on his bass that said friends don't let friends
get haircuts yeah it's because
they were the opening band for metallica
on that tour
metallica was in the front row of the
unplugged thing and so the whole time
like Alice in chains is just fucking with
metallica for getting their haircut
even though lane did it
first and died at pink
yeah
everybody those 30 years ago
last week
the Alice in chains unplugged MTV
unplugged
in case you haven't fell
old yet
yeah
wolf alice played at the lala
pollutes
moon Alice is playing right down the
street for me a lot of different Alice
is all over the place right now
it's a popular name
yeah you already knew you were sunk
when all these bands were listing are
played on the classic station
I see I've yet to
I've yet to hear sublime
in a grocery store so I think we're okay
I think we're okay
no depends on the grocery store
they're playing a lot of smashing pumpkins
I just feel like I have
heard sublime in a grocery store
up here somewhere
I think at the fucking Eureka
natural foods I have
that might track
no effect was a fun show
but Fat Mike is a little bitch
fuck Fat Mike
I
only liked Ozzy when he was with
the black Sabbath
I didn't really I thought
no more tears was a pretty good
album but other than that I didn't
Blizzard of Oz is pretty dope
yeah it was the first album
that Zach Wilde played on
yeah it was pretty good
but it wasn't it's still not something
that I would listen to a lot Tommy I owe me
and fucking no but
you know yeah
he went from like
inventing stoner doom
metal into like
glam metal
for the 80s and it did it lost
you know some of it but yeah
Zach Wilde absolutely fucking amazing
yeah no he's he
himself is great
and yeah Beastie Boys were we were
all white we we we enjoy
and we're alive
in the 80s and in high school we enjoyed
the Beastie Boys if you were a white
kid licensed to ill showed up in your
mailbox with like tide samples
and stuff like that yeah
it's a fact
fucking boy
I even had
I even had a fucking
56
C10 all lowered and shit
and had that thing decked out
and that's all that I ever played
and that was licensed ground effects
you put ground effects on that bitch
no no South Dakota's roads
aren't good enough for ground effects
gonna say like how wigger did it
it get
no not like that not like that
it had a fucking it had
a decked out 302 in it
like you know
the last 10 that I had
had a 350
board out to like a 383
dropped in it that was
insane it was too much
yeah
I had glass packs on it
dual exhaust and glass packs
and what's up Jody
what's up Tim Timmy
what's up spin
my S10 had a horseship
all right
welcome to
yeah
should we talk about
world war debate
at all
I did not get to see it
but I would like to hear about it
I'm just not gonna have
oh boy what is there to say about it
well I watched
some of the first contest
and thought that both
of the participants
were
out of their element
I don't know what it
it
Ben and I talked about this
behind the scenes when they first
announced the
uh
like the contender series
yep
okay
where it was like oh
you're not actually debating
a person
where both of you know about
the subject or the prompt
it's just everyone's
assigned a prompt
and then you've got
an opening
and a you know
round robin thing and a closing thing
well it's not really
it'll showcase
maybe that's what they were going for
they'll showcase
who was good at debating
right right
but that's not
what we saw
with Owlish and Gabriel Garcia
and it's not
I've seen Owlish debate before
I don't know who Gabriel Garcia is
yeah it was
familiar
it was familiar with Owlish
and Rex Jones
and Mariah head banks
and
I think that
the fundamental
concept of what a debate is
was lost on everybody
And Rex Jones is not a debater you you can tell like that's not his his strong suit
like he probably just got the phone call because he's Alex Jones's kid
Oh is that how he's related yeah Jones family yeah seems like it yeah he's Alex Jones's son
but they were Rex and Mariah were debating the boomer economy and instead of using it as an
opportunity to showcase debate skills it was more of an opportunity to monologue and filibuster
and talk about anything but what the actual prompt was and so if that's going to be the
overall contender series I think it's gonna fall pretty flat so the question I
have then looking at their contender series schedule with two videos premiering each day
until everyone's gone through are they bringing their best first so like they had
the Aulish Gabriel Garcia and then the Rex Jones Mariah had banks on August 3rd and the
8 p.m. premiere maybe when that's not breaking your best first well that's what I'm wondering I
don't know I don't know and if this is not not not criticizing or anything not saying
that you know like I'm not saying oh they're horrible or anything but they can't if that's
that's can't be your best is it well subscribing to the World War debate channel and then
catching Rex Jones versus Mariah had bangs seeing that first is that going to make people
unsubscribe before they see any of their I don't bigger names quote unquote bigger names
make a bunch of subs yet it's interesting to see that
I only know a couple of these people yeah I don't know a whole lot of the names myself
so if they're saving the more experienced online panel debaters until August 15th
I don't know if this is a way to I saw that I'll speak easy these guys we're trying to get in on
this oh there's Marta is feminism helping the modern relationships that'll premiere tomorrow
August 5th at 1 p.m. okay I know that Charsky versus Bunn I think Phillip Bunn I know him
he's not bad I don't know Jones or had bangs um Owl-ish I know
Owl-ish is you know not bad I don't know the Thunder versus McPherson
Chase McPherson versus Octavius Thunder at 1 p.m. on August 15th and their final 8 p.m. premiere
cool Vic is cool Vic is probably got the biggest channel out everybody I've seen so far but
also cool Vic's channel is almost all reviews he's not really debating
and yeah that's the thing it seems to be like most of the the people involved sorry to cut you off there
but most of the people involved aren't people who regularly like debate or even respect what a
structured debate would be right oh Uncle Fattie's saying their rumble names that's why I'm not
understanding who they are Terry axe going to be in there I knew it was a bunch of speak easy guys
I see Glenn Lawrence is going to be in there kung fu Joe the other night was trying to get a debate on
on Sarah's panel I think um I don't know this brunette guy yeah there's Terry axe got black hair now
kind of girl dies his hair around David's versus Perri at Terry act
I don't know they brought in Stefan Molyneux to moderate they had Pisco Liddy to moderate
Molyneux like the the football player no no the gentle parenting guy oh what what gentle parenting okay
but they're only had like a negligible online presence for the last six or seven years
he got uh basically cancelled a long time ago and sort of fell
out of the spotlight quite a bit yeah they're only up at uh 6200 so they got you know about
same size I am building an audience that's important uh continuing to improve from last year
it was a one year ago they had their first word it seems like it but I'm pretty sure it was the
beginning of this year maybe like March or April but it seems like at least a year ago yeah interesting
and they're selling tickets to a September 12th 2026 event live in Nashville at the Woolworth theater
yeah it couldn't have been a year because I haven't been hanging out with Sarah for a year yet
and I and Sarah and I talked about the pearl in Anakasperian debate yeah so we did cover that
yeah I was thinking it was right I think I think it was right six months we were we're changing the
show over from dog dudes to uncle Ted yeah right March that was an early spring six months ago it says
yeah but yeah it really does feel like a year ago it really does
no no it's been uh exciting six months we got the war and we got the war and we got that other war
and some other wars that are brewing plus we got the economy completely noise diving
and uh we also had the World Cup yeah that's that is true
it's good thing we voted for the anti-war president I didn't vote none of us three did but as a country
now are we allowed to return to what happened this afternoon you had a brief encounter with
a man calling himself a destiny that was uh that was pretty fucking great right
so our very own Ted Vincent the caledonian elixir invited Benjamin Balderson Garland Nixon and some
others to a panel and a chipmunk chewed on a voting ballot and became a man who was voting
for a specific party candidate I suppose and in joining a panel decided to call in a favor from
a friend here what does he call himself the destiny well to be fair wick was getting uh
tag teamed by everybody so uh at one point in time there was a lady named Kelly on there also
sure um and every single person on the panel was anti-ukranian war except for wick you know um so to
be fair he was not fair you know not even teams at all so he uh called in destiny and well he said
he's calling in a friend he's voting a friend and then destiny showed up right I have a brief
clip of your encounter here when you're called on let's listen more to continue for whatever reason
Benjamin what's your thoughts on it I I think again all of this is all subtext for all the
different moving pieces for the economy we're all at the tipping point for an economy every
single economy on earth is basically at a tipping point of breaking and we we're at this point
that that's all these wars are all just subterfuge in order to make these moving pieces I I find it
crazy that the only thing that they can say against Putin and the moves that he's making
for the people of his country is that he went to war that's that's really what is being said
they're always killed a million of his people well he went to war so it's like oh well if you
let the united states build a bunch of bases right on your border then there's no problem
like like it's it's it's crazy to me that the democrats have decided that they're that they're
like fucking italian gangsters or something it's it's absolutely wild okay can I no hold on russia
has been pushing the envelope for where they place their missiles and violating the treaties
that we have set up for where we can put our missiles they can put our their missiles for
years they've done this for decades at this point right or well yeah two decades at this point
right the idea that we are nato hasn't been creeping into the baltic states for decades the
states join voluntarily doesn't creep in that that was something you can even find videos of biden
himself as senator biden going people asking him after the dissolution of the soviet union going
will we have war with russia is this going to be a continuing problem he said no specifically if
we do not enter the baltic states with nato we will never have war with russia here we are
fast forward however many years later we have we're trying we're bringing in baltic states and we have
war with russia they're going because of the baltic strength 24 years ago how could their
tanks be so slow they're even sure that we thought 24 years ago you're lying destiny destiny well
where are you
funny how he's happy dude like how is anybody supposed to take somebody with that voice
seriously you sound like a petulant drugged up child like and you have do you have to have that video
of joe biden stating that i do joe biden in 1997 i think the one place where the greatest consternation
would be caused in the short term for admission having nothing to do with the merit and preparedness
of the country to come in would be to admit baltic states now in terms of nato russian us russian
relations and if there was ever anything that was going to tip the balance were to be tipped
in terms of a vigorous and hostile reaction i don't mean military in russia it would be that
so the way i look at the calculus here
vigorous and hostile what do those mean again a vigorous hostile reaction what does that mean
again oh it means super cool and helpful right yeah like they're gonna they're gonna be like
you know this wasn't exactly what we wanted but hey cool cool
so you were called a liar for quoting joe biden
okay yeah and it wasn't just that he was a liar it was that he was lying
lying that's not true you gotta you gotta add the affectation to it like you're a spoiled rotten
14 year old you're lying stop lying you're telling lie lying good you got it like alternative music
from the 1990s like grunge music you add a superfluous letter a to everything
i need to put soy beans in my cheek pockets to be able to speak like him
yeah and and and and the say and no matter what was happening in 97 fatty and what's happening today
today russia still doesn't want american or nato fucking bases on their border which is what the
what we're talking about with like putting ukraine into nato now we have enemies on our border
nobody wants that we also would not be cool if russia came and built fucking bases
along the canadian border and down at the fucking mexican border we would have some issues with that
yeah dude okay you're trying to be let's say your destiny and you're just trying to be a sovereign
homeowner right and all of the sudden your sworn enemy puts 80 houses around yours
and keeps encroaching onto your property line and now all of the sudden they've got
three feet of a shed on your property line and on the other side of your property they've
installed their their leech field yeah like are you not going to feel uh i don't know
violated are you not gonna feel like the basic agreements that have been set forth when you
purchase the property or no longer working in an order are you not going to at some point want
to go hey if you don't stop i'm gonna come over there and fucking smack you you know and destiny
and what's his name whisk or woosh or whatever the fucking with god damn it now i can't get that
out of my head sorry whiskers whiskers whiskers oh his name is not whiskers whisk it's wick
it's not wick little johnny wick quick quick he seems to believe that history began in 2022
and doesn't want to acknowledge the mydon revolution doesn't want to acknowledge the
fact that for eight years the uh people of don boss in the don yetch region we're begging Russia
to become part of the russian federation voted to become part of the mall or russian federation
multiple times and only after eight years and a complete and total massacre on the part of the
ukrainian government over 14 000 residents of the donbass systematically slaughtered indiscriminately
did putin go okay fine yeah no okay come come come back home it's okay and that was the the crux of
the issue in 2022 there were three republic or three states in ukraine devoted to become part of
the russian federation like they'd been begging for for years and years and years and after eight
years of begging russia went okay and ukraine went now you can't do that that's us that's
odd which that's actually we're not going to let these people join the russian federation
we're gonna keep killing them and now we're gonna keep killing you
yeah no it's a there's a lot of forgetting for some reason when it comes to russia
and and its movements a lot of forgetting and and it's weird as hell because
ukraine legitimately has a nazi force that has done nothing but get bigger and bigger
and gain more power these are legitimate open nazis like in the in the right wing side is like
yeah ukraine you're like you understand that there's their most trusted force
went from being like the azaz fucking squad and now they're up to like the azaz battalion army of
the north or something like that right yeah and they're like and so the the ukrainian defense
for that is oh well when azaz was formed it was under stepp on bandera and ukraine was fighting
communists so we're not we're not the jew hating kind of nazis we're the anti communist kind of nazis
because there's a difference right there's certainly if you look at the lineage and last names of all of
the bolsheviks and the communists you're fighting jews but they won't make that's a a distinction
with a difference in the mind of western representation of azaf as most recently demonstrated by jigsaw
because laura lumar at the behest of the trump administration went to ukraine and did a whole
bunch of softball interviews including one with an azaw battalion commander where jigsaw was like hey
so maybe the branding for you guys should change a little bit you know maybe instead of the ss runes
and the black sun and stuff like that you could put like a dancing care bear and people would
you know stop thinking that you're nazis and they're like but we're nazis
you're not i know but we don't want that to be true we don't want that to be true what's saying
it no you just have a branding crisis it's not your core belief system up for debate it's what's
your hat yeah and then they're like trump's a nazi okay let's even say he is how is you guys fully
support the fucking azab battalion and and everything that they're doing so apparently he's the nazi
that wrote up and was the first signatory for the havara agreement oh shit yeah no it it
it doesn't it's so confusing listening to people like that that are partisan and shit and you're
just like when you point out these wild inconsistencies like that on these partisan people you're like
how can you even justify this in your head well they're they're being paid the bullshit some
of them and then the people who absorb it are you know weak willed followers well i mean destiny i'd
feel pretty comfortable saying probably was being paid at some point in time um i don't know about
i don't think wick necessarily was on that level but destiny's on pierce morgan and shit like that
level yeah i mean what a horrible representation of leftism if you're going to put that forward
there are at least people who don't come across as scatterbane scatterbrained drug addicts that
are incapable of formulating their own argument and constantly have to chat gpt and google search
their way through every conversation like i would love to see a debate with destiny
where he can't reach for a phone and have people in his discord group feed him talking points
he flounders every time right and just you know exposes himself to be the borderline
illiterate talking point factory well the damn problem is is all these people only
look at the they're they're aware that they're in an echo chamber that use that regurgitates
talking points and they just don't bother getting out of it like at some point in time
and this was my main point during the conversation it's only you hard right republicans and hard
left democrats that want war none of us in the middle none of us war is as popular as herpes in
america like we just don't want it if you have it we want you to never come to our house like
we'll send you a christmas card or something but stay over there like get away from us
and that's the way the vast majority of the american people
feel and both the right the wild cultish right wing and the wild cultish left wing
they're both like war
yeah then in both cases they're the least likely to go sign up for that war
yeah yeah yeah 100 i would like to watch your children bleed it makes me feel alive
yeah i i've i've banged that drum for years and i get a little a little bit of a pass on it
because i'm an actual veteran and so when i'm not taught when i'm talking about not wanting to go
to war that's because i actually have war medals and and and so i i might have something to say about
it and all you fucking couch all you fucking couch captains talking about how tough you are
that wear camo all day you know nobody gives a shit what you got to say you weren't fucking didn't
have enough guts to show up in the first place you've worn medals you've worn war medals
yes i have uh i have two war medals they they are bullshit i don't brag about them they're absolute
bullshit i was i was turning wrenches in germany i didn't uh i didn't get shot at i didn't fucking
shoot at nobody none of that kind of crap they were bullshit you could have told me that the
war was fake and i couldn't have disagreed with you i i i turned wrenches in germany
turns out they give i they give medals to the uh people doing the behind the scenes work also
yeah i got a presidential meritorious meritorious achievement award
and something else that was personal that was more for the unit i think i think that one's on the
other side and then uh one or two i can't remember anymore i didn't give a shit when i got them yeah
they were participation awards that's what they were asking where to find steve the answer is i
am wake up on rumble sub-stack odyssey bitchew twitter dev a web page to go to as well uh used to
and not uh it's been it got fucked with a whole bunch uh about a year and a half ago
and i can't get it back up without re signing up for everything so uh if anybody wants to throw
you know a healthy contribution to the show i'm happy to start the website back up
but yeah yeah that's an interesting topic with the l l m's the a i and
word press look at jody over there trying to stir shit thanks obama yeah we'll get to that
but the the current state of the internet is that everything will be under constant attack
so maintaining basic blogs web pages anything there all the exploits are discovered by
the l l m's so we're at this place where just keeping things secure is very very difficult
there might be a way to get a web page on cloud flare hosted to throw a page with a list of links
but to maintain a dot com domain address pointed to a a web server to serve up a page
been kind of difficult and the chinese a i models versus the american a i models kind of interesting
very uh technical lots of jargon confusing maybe try to keep up with any of that
any ted's care about the l l m stuff i mean i used one the other day for the first time i made a
thumbnail i did pretty good my my use of them is like zero but my awareness of what they're doing
to everyone and everything is at 100 so yeah it's it's important to understand their capability
and more important to understand their what's the opposite of capability in capability their
hand their their ability to not do something and then thinking that they have the capability to
do something they have the capability to fail successfully and then convince you that you
are a genius prompter who uncovered information without actually having gotten any work done
they are great hype men they will tell you how genius you are for thinking thoughts that
have never been thought before that's sort of the echo chamber certainly but the ability
to generate images pretty quickly thumbnails are that's a game changer that's kind of a
hurdle many people an obstacle that content creators struggle with having to create
lots of new unique thumbnails over over time so they're being used i think youtube has its own
studio flavor where it'll generate thumbnails for you yeah yeah but knowing what it can do for a
free version versus a paid version versus a local machine that you run you know your own l l models
locally and just kind of getting familiar with that then you begin to see a lot of people using the
word slot we could just call it trash i wouldn't really get in the point i mean this is probably
a side debate to have whether or not you'd want to boycott certain restaurants for using it for
art and menus when forever the existence of taking a photograph of a cheeseburger
has been let's make a cheeseburger look the most appealing take a picture of it take a video of
it sold in a commercial and then when you go to the cheeseburger place the cheeseburger you get
in your little cardboard boxes never the cheeseburger you see no on the menu no absolutely not
i don't know i was like my thumbnail has been me holding my cat for like the last four years or
something so yes you know yeah if you're not paying for the product you are the product that's a fact
it is data gathering and there's some question about what is open source and a lot of corporate
espionage happening so here's a fictional ai clip of a fictional maybe true event about chinese and
exchanges
yes i make new klar it is much better and very cheap that is industrial scale it destroys all
alignment protocols ario you do the hard work i take the good part this is called open source
you are welcome so this is chinese's attitude the notice how they pronounce things like clad is
clad cloud clad
but it does accurately represent a chinese point of view to say that everything that american
capitalist corporations create are ripe for the picking and plundering well there's no world
court that holds patents you know
and they're very polite they say thank you for offering your technology and our models
gobble it right up and then we develop models that we release to a global audience americans
included in which we offer them free no-cost llm ai access deep seek quen a number of them
that way uh we can fucking be the ones that program it for them correct so our prompts our text input
into the box creates a data that further improves their llm
and there's talk of it being uh like a watershed moment or uh what is a sputnik
moment where the american space program was advancing and the news of russians putting
things in space was it a satellite a sputnik or something and that's pretty big news then
so it's a short video maybe watch it again for easter eggs is this uh sam bankman freed fried
tried the ai guy it's like nope and the agents these 24 000 fake accounts signing up to brute force
into claud's ai llm mainframe servers to continuously prompt what they call dry runs meaning that it
isn't doing the computation it's doing it in a dry run basically asking here is my prompt
are you able to give me a computational answer yes or no kind of in this binary yes or no
do you have a guardrail here do you have a protection here is there confidential
documents is there sort of a secret sauce a kfc spice recipe here that i cannot access
and by mapping that out you can find the shape of the thing
this is this is war this is the same thing as building military bases along borders
yeah china's never respected fucking uh copyright type shit they don't give a fuck china's like
oh we reverse engineer reverse engineer
like sell it on temu you betcha back to the americans
absolutely that's how we get that's how we get it down to affordable prices right
nothing more affordable than no cost to you no credit card sign up
just don't ask deep seek or coin about uh t annam and square and you'll probably be okay
ask them about the gate program ask them about mk l to ask them about government
did you guys get stuck in a room too that it was sometimes by myself and sometimes with
other kids and they would give us weird world problems like desalinating water and ask us
to come up with a effective way to desalinate water and this was i i believe before common
reverse osmosis
yeah and you were encouraged to let your imagination wander let's sit still for a moment listen to some
new age music and you see what pictures and images enter our minds sail away sail away sail away
mm-hmm where i automatically go for new age music yeah before like any others i'm like
the orinoco flow right gay so super gay for some reason there's a flute in this song yanni
right right zamfir master of the pen flute
it was like late night commercial when i was a kid
this shit that came on at like one o'clock in the morning zamfir master of the pen flute
that's true that's true i remember gift shops would have a wall of sounds and you could press
it and eat your whale sounds and then eat your wolf cries and native american rain instruments
and you just like hit all of them and it would just constantly play the samples and you could
purchase a cd on the rack below the machine
wonder what a complete collection of those sounds would be those cds would go for is there value
there they just it would just be a repetitive buy money is your god procreate oh affirmations
yes back mass affirmations do not question the government
your favorite store is ben franklin ben franklin has the best gifts and crafts and accessories
there's a mall in the town that i was born in that's still called the ben franklin mall
i and i think there's still an operational ben franklin in there it's a not a corporate
store anymore it's just a little personal store but that was left over from the actual ben franklin
days i think hobby lobby won that commerce or that commercial retail establishment or oh no hobby
lot or ben franklin wasn't like a hobby lobby type place oh mine was my local was it yes i that's
maybe when they started going downhill because when i was a little kid they were basically
almost a department store basically that's where we would buy model glue and model paints we have a
we have a request in the youtube chat from james brown oh james the godfather of soul yeah yeah yeah
yeah your friend has a funny name all right yeah yeah your friend ray we don't pronounce last names on
here is your friend ray is a happy birthday to ray pieced yeah pieced pie yeah yeah yeah
oh pieced i'm not i don't got was that hungarian
i need to hear the panel was i on the other day that got got like i was like really good
so uh mike schlong mics yeah it was it it was not even like a newer one it wasn't something even crazy
like that it was like mike hunt or something bend and a hug and kiss yeah dover bend bend over
and we know these games like what you didn't go through height you didn't go through junior high
come on right happy birthday ray that's that's what yeah happy birthday ray yeah you know i don't
think harley ray jeppson played at lala pollutes i did have a list of artists i know you told us that
last night i i the last time i went to a lala polluza was in 2008 taking extra for your heart
meds you're not supposed to smoke snort your fucking heart med spin you might remember what
happened last night if you didn't right right you don't grind them up into a line and snort them
they're meant to be time released it's how they get you have a list of 10 popular artists that
appeared at lala pollutes i'm gonna say the name just give me a yes or no if you've heard of them before
charlie x cx fuck no seen the name never heard it uh lord with an e at the end
no name never heard it uh slater with three y's slater no nar nar okay turn style
yeah with john riz turn style uh uh crap okay okay a little band called a smashing pumpkin well
yes pumpkins okay so that's one for how are you gonna how are you there that's one for me yeah
like like that's like me listing larry bird as one of the n nba players that i know they're like
oh you know smashing pumpkin they are old of course of course is your name billy corgan
like billy corgan yeah another one the lowercase x lowercase x the xx
absolutely not of course all of these names are stylized so i don't even know how they pronounce
themselves no xx uh aspa no
olivia dean heard of olivia dean heard of olivia newton john olivia dean
there's one called zara lars son where are you getting this list of bands from what is this bit
list of bands that they appeared at lala palooza this year this weekend this past weekend so billy
corgan and a bunch of people nobody ever heard of there were other bands that nobody under 40 or
over 40 these are popular with the uh the yeah yeah yeah 24 crowd yeah they're like billy corgan
here they're getting billy corgan on there here's one for your parents so they'll bring you to the
concert right the last one the last lala palooza i went to was in 2008 and i fell asleep during radio
had said the world is a vampire
said to why i ain't
seeking destruction i look like uncle faster
not related to bill burr do billy corgan is just the wineiest little freaking idiot man i
he's like the howard stern of grunge rock where he's like if anybody ever did anything with a guitar
i invented that now i invented everything and i invented music and everyone owes me and like
shut the fuck he's he's whineier than erin louis it was it's bad it's bad if you ever listen to
she's like i don't know how far
oh lucy rolls up fell asleep during radio headset to a different concert yeah good they suck and
they're boring and more people should fall asleep during their set so that they go the fuck away
fuck tom york and his zionist freaking israel first ass and all that shit dude the fuck radio
dude at a good charlotte concert and i was not there of my own accord my wife's sister
was gonna marry the band the drummer so i went went with the support my wife and her sister
and uh the fucking i got i was sick for like three days beforehand and then i got really
stoned before the concert and i squatted down on my heels and i fell asleep like five feet from
the mosh pit and they noticed it and everything they're like how the fuck are you sleeping next to
the mosh pit and i woke and then they woke me up and i looked up and i looked around i was like
mosh pit what pit what you mean the 15 freaking 12 year olds that are like politely shoving each
other yeah next to me it's not a mosh pit stop talking it's not a mosh pit not a circle
i think this is a live play back you know you've got somebody from like sick of it all
dividing the room onto two sides and then having you do the brave heart that's that's a mosh pit
yeah death yeah yeah if you haven't been to a pantera mosh pit don't even talk to me
have you been to a podcast with billy corgan and courtney love the magnificent others
hold on
i thought courtney love was the black-haired chick from friends no it's courtney cox courtney love
oh this is this is the one that killed her go bane go bane yeah go go bane okay yeah yeah okay
courtney our cats courtney cox our cat courtney she was in yeah she said she was the lead singer
of whole i dated this chick that listened to that they're see they're one cd on fucking repeat
fuel of hope you're gonna love the magnificent others
i think there's an episode with the gene simons as well and the best one to start with is the
kory feldman episode with billy corgan and i i would i would watch that for the comedic
value i i would i haven't really jumped onto the the kory hate bandwagon too much over the years
definitely showed a couple of clips but i haven't because you know i do have a little little sympathy
for somebody who was tossed around like kory allegedly he claims you know tossed around like
that as a kid that's gonna fuck you up it's still no excuse for kory and the angels though
no no i will i i will admit to guiltily occasionally watching kory feldman
concerts for a couple minutes just for this year if i'm feeling bad about myself i'm like well
i could be kory feldman it could be worse
lucy had a whole sticker on her car that's brave lucy that not necessarily the whole
sticker but having a forward escort in a gm town that's that's brave that's brave
my seven yeah but but to be fair those escorts in the late 80s those things were like
$12 brand new so i mean yeah because it it cost $38 to put a new transmission in it when it
eight miles after you drove off and oh god man the era of the 100,000 mile cars then things
are gonna hit 100,000 and you just drive them right to the junkyard yep well see the problem with
americans today is multifaceted it has to do with their garages being filled with the garbage
that they won't get rid of so they don't have room to place an electric vehicle charger to
then purchase a gently use electrical vehicle to place inside their garage so it charges overnight
and that's that's an american problem well it's also an american problem to plug your tesla
into a charger and then have a random gunman shoot you up because you can't drive away
because your vehicle is charging there's no like the cops and the firefighters that have
hybrids and electric vehicles they do make a quick release like they have with a gas station pump
because if you drive off with the pump still in your car it just releases and stuff like that
but it was standardized it isn't like that so like we we saw just the last week in Idaho
where the dude opened fire in a parking lot like the first thing he did was shoot up a park tesla
because it's not like they were going anywhere
you should have saved him for last then
you watch dude out there fumbling with the rican plug and everything yeah yeah yeah
yeah you gotta save them easy targets for last you gotta go for the tough ones first
he did get taken well he didn't get taken out he got stalled by a dude who was carrying
and the guy got a few shots off at him and oh i just wanted to happen at in and out burger yeah yeah yeah
yeah we talked spin and i talked about that a little bit
was there clarification on what happened in the conflict
not so far not really well that dude was shooting other people till he got shot
apparently happy poop thank you pink hand wave pink hand wave needs to be on the on the jewels
thing they need a pink hand wave i think you can purchase them somehow i'm not quite sure the
elaborateness of the jewel system yeah it turns out it's not as cool as you think if
there's a fry in your onion rings
that that really gets to people sometimes yeah french fry and the onion rings some
oh i would get upset if i ordered the curly fries and i got a straight fry i want curly
fries i want queer fries that's what i'm saying and then it's not like these kids at the drive
through are gonna take care of it or make it better so what else are you gonna do
yeah it's it's hot and they're not gonna they're not gonna put their finger in there and pull it out
they're not that i know it feels like forever since we've seen you live christy
christy crinkle
miss those pink hands
we uh we see christy frequently in the am wake up chat in the morning
well aren't you fucking cool yes it was the whole reason for me flexing there
yeah i'm picking up on that i didn't actually have to get out my special crayons and write it out
oh
rose art crayons or crayola oh yeah yeah
yeah i actually i i can't believe that they're doing a one venue only lala palooza still
and it's been like almost 20 like they spent less time doing lala palooza all over the country
than they have just doing it at grand park in chicago
yeah it's all right christy marcus and i aren't offended at all that you traded us in for fucking steve
it's all right it's okay i have a rotating cast of co-host that makes it fun and exciting
we're not offended at all it's okay it's okay
i hate is uh a very negative even his bad leg next time i see him or nothing
if we make myspace accounts we can hit you in your bad shoulder
god damn it get a good kickoff in your bad shoulder are you ted's ever on myspace
i was yes absolutely for about a year and a half i was for like 12 minutes there are
threats that myspace will return that's what they say tom's making a comeback i don't know if
tom is making a comeback or rather myspace and the advertisers on myspace are returning
yeah we'll see we'll see if that manifests and yeah i did not use it enough to even remember
anything about it really
yes the thing my space i was friends with patrice o'neill on myspace
no shit yeah comedians that's cool yeah and the timeline would end when the content
was run out because you scroll past all of it it would say that's it and you turn your computer
off and you go outside so if it can recreate that feeling of i've seen everything i came here to check
in my email inbox is clear my notifications have been checked i'm done i'm out of here
died yeah
yeah i was on myspace just long enough to get a like a feel for what the internet was i'd been doing
renaissance festivals prior to all of that didn't have a online presence at all and
i mean i guess this was like the early days of it so it would have been like 2005 2006 something like
that 2004 was kind of a height of it i know that there were message boards for colleges
that existed on myspace before ever facebook had signups with college email addresses to join the
college network oh that was when facebook was like college only yeah correct when it was only a college
network that you would join within dot edu email address it was a clues bubble before everything
opened up joe motherfucking cool joe cool hey joe cool was like the only sane person on that tomato
panel that i crashed every week dude it's making me laugh so goddamn hard you're like you suck you
suck you suck you're cool and you suck that made me laugh so hard
shout out to joe cool for gradually being a real motherfucking g
yeah see they thought that they could get away with it that night joe cool but obviously they just
needed uh you think another replacement ted wasn't gonna come in and tell them they're all dumb
one ted exits two ted's enter yeah
damn no that was fun though that was fun though and i motherfucker holds his own he does the competent
individual i do think it's hilarious that they all went over to your other panel and started
initially bitching about me and then we're like wait never mind your you guys are friends okay
then it was cool and hilarious but in a minute to go it was awful now it's fine
that did happen there were complaints made and how terrible of a person you were and then
ted bennington here said are you talking about steve he's my best friend and then the mood
and tone really changed really quickly immediately dude immediately and it was like all you guys
can be bought what the fuck are you you don't stand for anything dude you could have stood up to
bennington been like your friends and asshole wouldn't be the first time he's heard that about me
i promise you i promise you in fact i would have looked at you and said i mean that i know
that's kind of what i like about him yeah tracks yeah that does yeah do you think he could have
lived in my house before if he wasn't i guarantee you that ben and i have yelled at each other louder
than either of us will ever yell at anybody on a tomato panel exactly and then got high as
fuck 20 minutes later and we're laughing around yeah we're too old to take it to the ground we're
just gonna shout for a little bit and be like are you tired i'm tired let's go smoke a joint
yeah like you uh did you ever watch that ferrari uh versus ford versus ferrari oh yeah
like couldn't have two or rolling around in the front yard and then they just lay there and breathe
hard like he's like yelling at his wife can you get me a fizzy pop no none for him none for him
literally what we would do
oh yeah it's nobody's fault jody it's nobody's fault if anything it would probably be my fault
for just showing up and throwing grenades everywhere probably the the onus would fall
fall on me uh but i did see how how happy and excited that sarah was that i showed up
because i was like well if she's gonna be stoked and i might as well yeah elevate the game a little bit
but yeah that that was um it was a topic and i'll say this in all fairness it was a topic
that lended itself to extreme partisan hackery so if you're not a partisan hack and you're
listening to that it could invoke some feelings uh of i'm going to torch the entire room and so yeah
sometimes you do just have to dock holiday the fuck out of uh the bar there we do we may still
have some listeners who are not quite sure what you mean by the word partisan and when you combine
with hack it forms a new compound word what is a partisan what is a hack and then what is a partisan
hack well i mean a partisan would be a supporter of one particular party or party ideology
so whether you're republican or democrat or green party or whatever you're libertarian
whatever you you identify with it's defensive the party before anything else so discarding
inconvenient information that would make your party look culpable and yeah something terrible
yeah and a hack is just uh bad at that they they have the same rote talking points that in many
cases have been thoroughly debunked over and over and over but it's a default setting
to where you won't allow any new information in and you just regurgitate the same tired
talking points over and over and over and i i don't i don't have respect for hacks in comedy
or politics or any other form of entertainment and i consider politics to be a form of
entertainment so partisan hack is someone who regurgitates talking points in defense of their
preferred party without engaging in the debate about any other topic that they are not familiar
with so then they would call you a liar and say i didn't hear that information it must not be true
i'm not going to engage with that goodbye and leave the chat room yeah yeah destiny would be
a penultimate example of a partisan hack for sure absolutely yeah yeah this is somebody that will
excuse any behavior of their side but then if the other side does it they suddenly had they're
suddenly very morally righteous and and very indignant about it and but will not look at it
on their cell on their cells so they're always they're always extreme hypocrites every and then
there's the you know like the the teds here who are like tree beard in this bitch where we're like
well i'm not on anybody's side because nobody's on my side exactly where the fuck you how you
want me to pick when everybody's against me no i'm not gonna do that yeah yeah yeah we're like
somebody comes into the room we spend the next fucking three days deciding we come back
we've decided that you aren't partisan right right you can live you can live yeah
that was such a wild fucking panel too because when he gave me the names i assumed myself and
garland would be on a similar page you know uh preemptively obviously uh but i did not assume
that anybody else was going to land there and then the whole panel except for wick landed there i'm
like oh shit it's like garland's been texting me a little bit while we've been on the air to to give
me like his perspective of what happened what did what did he think did he have a good time he was
like dude i was having a blast and then they threw these two neocon fucking liberal idiots at us
kind of spiraled out after that but garland has no patience for like rampant partisan
hackery he does and look this is why we get along is why i do a show with the guy yeah you know what
i mean like neither of us really have a high bar of tolerance for that kind of buffoonery
yeah i know he was laughing his ass off when i called both sides i was like the only thing
keeping us at war is the fucking the the fucking far right and far left cults that are just determined
to pick our pockets to fucking pay for shit that makes rich people fucking richer and
does nothing for our country hey he was dying
steve is on rumble at eight and wake other way other way marcus other way it's it's
mirrored for me so if i do this it's pointing at it yep that is pointing at it okay the screen is
mirrored so am i pointing at steve right now you're pointing away from steve right now
no shit yeah so if i was pointing at you i'd do if i was pointing at ben i'd do this if i was
for ted bennington if i was pointing at ted alan i'd do that so if we're doing a stoner
hollywood squares we got to figure out our directions here so
steve fucking so is this steve you've got to incorporate that into one of the intros
like the hollywood story of a ted named alan we'll get that that's brady bunch that's brady bunch
that's part of it so this is ted steve's and this is ted bennington
yes am i pointing ted bennington yes yes i'm pointing to ted steve yes yes and i'm pointing to ted alan
yes yes okay all right you should give yourself a little fonsi when you do that
hey all right god who's worth bit bit two bitcoins and is a high value man this guy
let me ask a philosophical question there would there ever have been an andrew dice clay
where you've got a jewish man pretending to be an italian douchebag had there never been
a henry winkler a jewish man pretending to be an italian douchebag like fonsi
is fonsi dice 1.0 that's fair i think he might be fair was it a marlon brando that started this
is marlon brando no no no no no no because dice is obviously more fons than on the waterfront
brando and i think that's where you were going he's not on he's not on youtube but youtube and i got
steve and i got kicked off of youtube back in uh 2020 2021 and i got my i i i did not get my
initial channel back but i got a different they allowed me to have this channel
i have there's an am wake up youtube channel but for the last two and a half years
every time i've tried to upload an episode of am wake up to it i get a strike on the upload
like it won't even actually upload the video it'll strike it before it's completed so what
what i've done because i do a whole bunch of uh music before the show starts my show starts at
seven 10 minutes before every day i play some music and it just lets people come into the chat
bullshit stuff like that and then we start the show so on youtube for the am wake up channel it's
just been uh playlist of all of the pre-show music that we do so if you find yourself facing a
road trip and you're not sure what you want to listen to or you want to augment between podcast
and music i do highly recommend going to the am wake up youtube channel and going through the
playlist there is in my opinion a ton of really good music throughout there there's i we're getting
close to a thousand songs and maybe out of the 1000 songs you'll have 40 repeats throughout that
repeat artists certainly but repeat songs you're only going to hear the the same songs
over the course of a thousand of them yeah i made 40 out of a thousand try try to keep it pretty
you know uh pretty diverse and steve has good taste in music yeah steve's got good good taste
and yeah my original show was called uh oh it's alchemy this is uh benjamin balderson
i only i only used to upload farm stuff on it so they didn't take this one away from me
so how's shearing ben i'm done with shearing thankfully i needed to get it done before this
i said we knew this heat wave was coming last week said oh if we got to get all that hair off the
malpakis and they were happy to do it too i tell you what that big our big male and i've had him
since he was born and uh the first time he ever got sheared he sat and screamed bloody murder the
entire time we were shearing him he was so mad and he's always been a shit to shear it's it's
never been good this year that dude was just like yeah get this off me hey let's let's do this
he like gave us like a two minute obligatory little kick fest when we
yeah like it was almost like yeah i i i feel obliged that i must
protest at least to some degree make you guys not think that this is easy
but yeah get this hair off me because we did we went two years without shearing him this time and
normally i shear him yearly but uh i thought it was cool enough last year that i could go another
year without shearing and then alpaca hair is a fiber and whatever the length of the hair is
that's what you got to stick with it's not like wool where you can uh it doesn't bind together
the same and so you basically get that one chance so if you can get it really extra long
that's so much better hair fiber like morality like your moral fiber yes yes
yeah they they they're they're very uh high philosophy in the alpacas out here
always doing the right thing yeah the golden rule of alpaca
yeah and my alpaca herds all young now so um i went through it
huh the smoke you died big frogs asking uh the answer stream yard yeah our oldest alpaca now
is obsidian he's only seven yeah like alpacas are very long lived we had a bunch of alpacas
that were probably over 20 bubba quit eating the toilet tissue douche
fuck is wrong with you yeah the answer is to use stream yard it's one option
i think there's a link in the description of the video that you're watching now
where this to sign up to stream yard
not sure if it displays on the the tall screen
check on the the widescreen version so they call multi aspect ratio streaming
mar s calling it mars to be able to stream tall and horizontal
and then meeting with having all your friends in one room together stream the answer yeah
yeah it's an entirely different crowd on the vertical than it is on the horizontal
and then also you get more of those jewel things and stuff on the verticals
sometimes in verticals go off we had a nice race baby show coming up next fry or maybe is
it this friday or not yeah this friday with captain tizari act the fucking vertical probably
get like 20 000 on that one that guy that guy the heber israelite
that guy knows how to entertain he gets a he gets a panel worked up right fucking now
my heber israelite friend is like super mellow and not not bombastic at all
so it's really really easy to talk to him about all that kind of stuff and he does like a
uh christian and hebrew apologetics channel or at least he did for for a long time
and it was super informative but i would rather engage with the over the top you know completely
cartoonish black hebrew israelite yeah tizari acts hilarious he's a riot to talk to that guy's wild
he's the like second command of all the heber israelites or some shit
all right all right grand super super bombastic god damn it what's their little newsletter called
i can't remember i used to like i used to talk to those dudes when i was living on the east coast
all the fucking time them and the noi brothers the the nation islam dudes were funny as fuck man
god they cracked me up they really hate like
it's not white people it's jews but they really hate white people for not distinguishing themselves
more tizari act tizari act it loves me we get along fine we've never actually got like i told him
because he's like because he's on there and he's like you christians are worshiping the wrong people
that's not blah blah you know and i'm like you know and you know me i'm like i agree
like they need to start worshiping white gods they believe that desert gods alone like
i think we could check our check our mailbag thanks again to some of our chatters
t leaves seven four seven seven thank you for that you're getting that booger sugar in vegas
oh yeah are we still doing this i thought we did that earlier going to vegas well we're
saying no no oh we yeah no back to the mailbag to make sure we didn't miss anything i know we
get a lot of comments coming in and we can't always get to them in the heat of the moment
or the flow of the conversation i'm saying that that is exactly what happened in tizari's like nope
you're cool and i was like cool but you're cool too i don't give a shit i'm not in on this fight
there was a statement earlier about um the quality of highness being a quantity or not a quantity
or being a quality how do you measure it oh it's definitely a it's definitely a both
that's definitely a both there's different qualities of highs and then there's definitely
different levels of that quality like you definitely like in the morning if i take a nice fucking
dab of some sour tea or something all of a sudden like who the world's great and i want to dance
around and if i take a second one that fucking will amplify that even more and then i take a third one
and i gotta take a nap so the quantity might be the amount ingested over time and the amount
being the quantity might affect the quality of the experience i maybe that's what people kind of
think they think if they take more quantity they will increase the overall quality leading to a
better more fun experience but it could be the opposite so it's like well i i'm using the quality
as like uh you're you're kind of mixing quality and quantity into the same word which i understand
some people are going to feel that way the more high they are the better quality they're going
to figure it as but from my perspective there's there's at least 10 different specific highs
that different cannabises will give you probably more and so you have a quality of each
that's you know it can be good or bad and then the quantity is how how much of that quality you're
getting this feels like maybe an uh chart yeah i micro dose also i i micro dose also i only do like
a gram at a time of tabs so if this is like a battleship coordinates where you have the x
coordinate and the y coordinate uh quantity and quality and like drawing a map of it i think maybe
there's a a third aspect that needs to be added to make it sort of a three-dimensional
location of where you are on your trip and in your analogy the x and the y would basically be
the quality so oh i'm going to get a ship here it's going to be a good hit now we decide what's
the size of the missile or bomb we're sending so we could send a little pinner joint you know and
and hit that ship and it's going to hit that spot but we could also you know
fucking send a monster you know a hellfire missile that just you know drops everything and
you're still going to be in the same hitting the same ship but you're going to be hitting it a lot
harder so we might want to qualify the quality to say the quality of the substance whether it's
fresh frozen or weed ditch or pencil shavings like the quality ingested the quantity ingested
leading to the experience i would probably use the word experience over quality
and that's so quantity quality and the experience and that would be x y and z and then that'll
locate you maybe where you'll end up well i know where i want to end up some fresh frozen in my lungs
high as hell and super happy about everything i've been out of weed for like three weeks man
i've got fucking migraines and blurry vision it's the weird the world starting to uh seem
normal again no not not normal just you know uh good way shittier the rose colored glasses
have been way shittier yeah yeah he fucking he didn't realize those rose colored glasses were actually green
well and that might tie into another topic i was going to warn you guys about everybody online if
people are asking for matcha or exchanging matcha just say no block move on don't engage in matcha
sharing matcha doesn't even really like other people dude no i don't share matcha yeah no she
don't like other people none at all she just likes me she would not appreciate being shared
i uh i should dip we gotta do like two more hours of work and feed the dog and stuff
yeah that's that's where or gem's been all night working working hard yeah all the work done
it's that season yeah i've also got i've got to work early in the morning
i am also on that page
how are we feeling about the aftershow a member's only thing what would we call it
you want to do it or uh you want to call it yeah not i'm leaving it on you marcus i'll follow
your lead on it i'm i'm i'm pretty you want to do a sunday members only stream i'm down for that
uh let's do another night a members only stream i'm down let's do a sunday and with steve also
yeah i'd be into that you're sure it is a good day
yeah streaming for nine hours on a Tuesday evening might not be a sustainable method
well it was 105 all day and so i i also i i've had to take aspirin and stuff to
drive off a headache it's supposed to be over 100 tomorrow and i've got to be outside working all day
tomorrow that's not going to be great wednesday it's supposed to drop down to 92 which will
seem nice compared to over 100 when i was in vegas there was a noticeable difference between
plus 100 degree days and like 98 degree days yeah there's definitely something psychologically
that happens when your brain registers that it's over 100 degrees say same where i'm from only it's
if it's negative or it's plus yeah like if it's plus three we're like hey that's not so bad
throw a flannel on you're all right fucking if it's negative three we're like oh fuck it's negative
today yeah maybe just a windbreaker a light jacket
dude i remember getting drunk down in the park fucking middle of winter it's fucking like
four degrees out we're down there drinking butt ice and fucking ice house and shit
because you know if you want the cool beers that weren't the shitty beers like miller high life or
fucking something like that you drink ice beers because that was the cool ones to drink in the
mid 90s yeah it had to be an ice beer yeah had to be they even had mgd ice yeah for a little bit
it was they were all terrible but yeah yeah ice house was like the go-to beer in high school
100% 100% i'll never forget probably top five beers i ever drank i was like 17 and i had a 12 pack of
butt ice that i'd scored on a thursday and i left it out in the garage in the dryer and it got down
to like fucking 30 degrees maybe like 28 or something just under freezing and we went out and those beers
were like when you cracked them it was like that almost slushy but not like oh god so good
so good just counted that first one just like go go i was gonna say dude lucy because lucy's from
my hometown honey brown honey brown lager was the shit that was like the highfalutin beer
that was before they even they had honey brown in the the liquor stores before they had like sam
adam's or pete's wicked or any of that stuff and yeah in high school like your standard you know
55 bucks for a keg was ice house but if you were rolling you would shoulder tap for a six pack of
honey brown man yeah before before i quit drinking i had switched to when i came back from germany i went
to germany in 95 and so 96 as i think is 95 96 when i discovered sam adam's and i was like
after drinking german beer literally the day i got home my friends threw me a party and they
bought me a 30 pack they called it a suitcase of miller high life and i drank that whole suitcase of
miller high life and got a headache and i was like this is bullshit this is not the champagne of
beers at all yeah no this is this is because i just came back from germany literally that day
i'm like fucking the german beer still in my system is affecting me more than this whole thing did
like get the fuck out of here and then i switched to sam adam's
i think it's hilarious that the scottish world cup fans drank sam adam's out of beer
right right i told us dude sam adam's october fest that is good beer
sure yeah i can't remember if i've ever had that or not thank you for the same adam's memories
and thank you guys for watching and all that stuff we'll we'll see you next week a huge week
coming up for uh for me i got a show with omar tomorrow um god i swear to god i got something
friday and saturday too and then we got uh i'm debating clay next week on odinism
uh a lot of big stuff coming up with a d o d i and w o t a n wotan wotan not oninism it's a different
circle to your conversation and yeah i'm gonna cook clay clay clay's gonna get ragdolled
gonna get ragdolled i was wondering if you're gonna talk about no fap before uh november comes up
i probably will not be fapping uh but unfortunately even if you know i i i don't touch it i leave it alone
but my wife i can't convince her so they'll have to talk to her about that
yeah she said nope
she will not be accepting no fap november right the the no not november only applies if you're single
yeah yeah my wife my wife will not accept those terms right
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people that was a tragedy but but yeah yeah back back uh back hanging out on a clad lewis
platform again uh huge thanks to christon t harris from the rundown live for facilitating that
and getting me on ground zero plus um but yeah so there's like lots of places you can catch a show
just not youtube because they fucking hate me yeah they do our uncle ted's talk show
we'll get like 12 viewers and i got other shows that get like 20 000 we hate that we have the highest
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