Roderick on the Line

00:00:00 ◼   ► hello John better then ma'am that's gone [TS]

00:00:12 ◼   ► remember when we used to do a podcast i [TS]

00:00:18 ◼   ► think i do ya back in the eighties had I [TS]

00:00:22 ◼   ► thought how I don't apologize you're [TS]

00:00:24 ◼   ► eating a snickers bar getting a Snickers [TS]

00:00:25 ◼   ► bar you know when time is of the essence [TS]

00:00:30 ◼   ► and I this podcast in the morning [TS]

00:00:32 ◼   ► sometimes i'm eating a morning cookie or [TS]

00:00:35 ◼   ► a morning cake [TS]

00:00:36 ◼   ► no I'mI'm gonna see this TV this is [TS]

00:00:39 ◼   ► where on your time now this is night we [TS]

00:00:43 ◼   ► are night podcasting here's the problem [TS]

00:00:45 ◼   ► alki the new get I know Mom [TS]

00:00:49 ◼   ► m-maybe started for listeners that I you [TS]

00:00:54 ◼   ► know dr. the judge about whether there's [TS]

00:00:57 ◼   ► a difference but we usually record in [TS]

00:00:59 ◼   ► something closer to the morning my time [TS]

00:01:01 ◼   ► but it's it's literally the middle of [TS]

00:01:03 ◼   ► the night right now it's the middle of [TS]

00:01:05 ◼   ► the night and we were texting yeah and [TS]

00:01:08 ◼   ► you said yeah I'm trying to make a plan [TS]

00:01:10 ◼   ► to podcast yeah you're like oh we could [TS]

00:01:13 ◼   ► do it friday we could do it son thursday [TS]

00:01:17 ◼   ► and then out of nowhere [TS]

00:01:22 ◼   ► you said we could do it right now yeah [TS]

00:01:24 ◼   ► i'm a child you know and I was like wow [TS]

00:01:27 ◼   ► yeah I said were John you've been you've [TS]

00:01:31 ◼   ► been busy than working and in your home [TS]

00:01:34 ◼   ► I figured you would you know need some [TS]

00:01:36 ◼   ► time to unwind and i'm home but here's [TS]

00:01:38 ◼   ► the thing this is the thing about manic [TS]

00:01:41 ◼   ► depression doesn't think about [TS]

00:01:43 ◼   ► bipolarism which is that I am I have [TS]

00:01:50 ◼   ► been working for the last month and I'm [TS]

00:01:52 ◼   ► so wound up now i'm not talking about [TS]

00:01:56 ◼   ► like wound up tonight i'm talking about [TS]

00:01:57 ◼   ► i am bipolar lee i am maniacally wound [TS]

00:02:04 ◼   ► up [TS]

00:02:05 ◼   ► so that if you said to be right now that [TS]

00:02:08 ◼   ► get in your car and drive to San [TS]

00:02:09 ◼   ► Francisco I would seriously consider it [TS]

00:02:13 ◼   ► really if you use that if somebody [TS]

00:02:15 ◼   ► called me right now and said let's get [TS]

00:02:16 ◼   ► married tonight [TS]

00:02:18 ◼   ► hi i would not even need them to send me [TS]

00:02:21 ◼   ► a picture i would say you know what [TS]

00:02:25 ◼   ► let's go let's get married tonight [TS]

00:02:27 ◼   ► yeah that sounds great let's start a [TS]

00:02:30 ◼   ► band and just give me a given address [TS]

00:02:33 ◼   ► and i'll be there [TS]

00:02:34 ◼   ► yeah I got home last night from a month [TS]

00:02:37 ◼   ► away [TS]

00:02:38 ◼   ► ah i did three shows last weekend in New [TS]

00:02:41 ◼   ► York City that were like all three of [TS]

00:02:46 ◼   ► them crazy and then I can I got home [TS]

00:02:48 ◼   ► last night at like ten o'clock at night [TS]

00:02:50 ◼   ► and I was on morning television this [TS]

00:02:52 ◼   ► morning at 9am and then I spent all day [TS]

00:02:55 ◼   ► at rei making fake videos for people and [TS]

00:02:59 ◼   ► then I went to christmas party and then [TS]

00:03:01 ◼   ► I went out for drinks and I don't even [TS]

00:03:03 ◼   ► drink [TS]

00:03:04 ◼   ► no one knows that that's for work [TS]

00:03:07 ◼   ► that's at how do you do that i mean now [TS]

00:03:09 ◼   ► i'm going home and i'm looking at [TS]

00:03:10 ◼   ► pictures of turtles on the internet food [TS]

00:03:12 ◼   ► and it's just not enough if I mean you [TS]

00:03:16 ◼   ► know there was a time even a few months [TS]

00:03:17 ◼   ► ago Marilyn you know that i would have [TS]

00:03:19 ◼   ► been looking at pictures of turtles on [TS]

00:03:21 ◼   ► the internet would have been like a week [TS]

00:03:22 ◼   ► for me that would have been I would've [TS]

00:03:24 ◼   ► been done but tonight it's not enough [TS]

00:03:26 ◼   ► not enough right Polly you know just [TS]

00:03:28 ◼   ► apologize for the new get so let me stop [TS]

00:03:32 ◼   ► giving something for my ears to grab [TS]

00:03:33 ◼   ► onto i'm still working through the [TS]

00:03:35 ◼   ► nougat who I hear you're my god this is [TS]

00:03:38 ◼   ► fantastic John so you've been away for a [TS]

00:03:40 ◼   ► month that's remarkable so so we want a [TS]

00:03:44 ◼   ► coach without with jonathan is a [TS]

00:03:47 ◼   ► retinues of the whole time [TS]

00:03:49 ◼   ► well you know it started a month ago as [TS]

00:03:51 ◼   ► i as i said earlier i was in I was in [TS]

00:03:54 ◼   ► Europe with keen on their tour bus and I [TS]

00:03:57 ◼   ► don't sleep well on tour buses because [TS]

00:03:59 ◼   ► tour buses are a tour bus is just a [TS]

00:04:02 ◼   ► regular bus that has had coffins install [TS]

00:04:05 ◼   ► them [TS]

00:04:07 ◼   ► Anna and some couches it's on coffee bus [TS]

00:04:10 ◼   ► yeah so they take a normal buzz and they [TS]

00:04:13 ◼   ► put they put like five circle buses in [TS]

00:04:16 ◼   ► it and I am NOT as you know i'm not [TS]

00:04:21 ◼   ► normally sighs and so here you are [TS]

00:04:24 ◼   ► plus-sized and plus size so when they're [TS]

00:04:26 ◼   ► building these when they're building a [TS]

00:04:27 ◼   ► sarcophagus bus they say average-sized [TS]

00:04:31 ◼   ► guy 5-foot especially in Europe you by [TS]

00:04:33 ◼   ► Europeans each other very tailored yeah [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► yeah that's right and then I think it's [TS]

00:04:37 ◼   ► from England is that right there for me [TS]

00:04:38 ◼   ► in blank as we say over England and they [TS]

00:04:42 ◼   ► had and so wewe but we didn't we never [TS]

00:04:44 ◼   ► went to two dangling we were in Scotland [TS]

00:04:46 ◼   ► and we were in Ireland together and I [TS]

00:04:50 ◼   ► got sick over there and I didn't sleep [TS]

00:04:51 ◼   ► and then I flew to san francisco and i [TS]

00:04:53 ◼   ► played neil diamond in the last waltz [TS]

00:04:55 ◼   ► and I didn't sleep in San Francisco [TS]

00:04:56 ◼   ► either i just lay in my expensive hotel [TS]

00:04:59 ◼   ► bed and I sweated I just sweated if we [TS]

00:05:03 ◼   ► like feverish I was feverish Jessa [TS]

00:05:06 ◼   ► stress bob i did not i had a diet of I I [TS]

00:05:09 ◼   ► had I had so much fever that a stress [TS]

00:05:12 ◼   ► bump couldn't survive you had an [TS]

00:05:13 ◼   ► honest-to-god according to Hoyle fever I [TS]

00:05:16 ◼   ► was so feverish and sweaty in San [TS]

00:05:19 ◼   ► Francisco that there were you know there [TS]

00:05:23 ◼   ► are clubs in the castro that wouldn't [TS]

00:05:24 ◼   ► even that wouldn't even let me come in [TS]

00:05:27 ◼   ► there and pay fifty dollars to sweat on [TS]

00:05:30 ◼   ► people which is as you know a big thing [TS]

00:05:33 ◼   ► in the castro a huge yeah I mean you [TS]

00:05:36 ◼   ► know a big hairy sweaty guy in the [TS]

00:05:38 ◼   ► castro is usually a major draw through [TS]

00:05:41 ◼   ► but i was so hot i was so hot i would [TS]

00:05:45 ◼   ► have burned people's bitches bitches [TS]

00:05:48 ◼   ► like see things where I mean like you [TS]

00:05:50 ◼   ► know like when i get if you want to get [TS]

00:05:51 ◼   ► a fever I like a really bad one [TS]

00:05:55 ◼   ► yeah you know I don't say hallucinate [TS]

00:05:58 ◼   ► but I definitely a lot of crazy thoughts [TS]

00:05:59 ◼   ► I kept seeing eggs benedict show up in [TS]

00:06:02 ◼   ► my hotel room and then I realized I was [TS]

00:06:04 ◼   ► ordering it from room service [TS]

00:06:06 ◼   ► so then I flew from San Francisco to San [TS]

00:06:10 ◼   ► Diego where I met Jonathan Coulton his [TS]

00:06:11 ◼   ► traveling retinue and we drove across [TS]

00:06:14 ◼   ► the American South and his tour bus and [TS]

00:06:17 ◼   ► then I fluted new york city and i did a [TS]

00:06:19 ◼   ► bunch of NPR shows and I you know went [TS]

00:06:23 ◼   ► on a further rampage and by the time I [TS]

00:06:25 ◼   ► got back here I realized that I'm in no [TS]

00:06:27 ◼   ► condition to be in seattle there's not [TS]

00:06:29 ◼   ► there's not a there is no 24-hour roast [TS]

00:06:32 ◼   ► beef sandwich depot here and i am i'm [TS]

00:06:36 ◼   ► just sitting here now looking at turtles [TS]

00:06:37 ◼   ► on the internet and I am Here I am I'm [TS]

00:06:39 ◼   ► concerned so tomorrow yeah tomorrow i'm [TS]

00:06:42 ◼   ► going i'm doing a video shoot and the [TS]

00:06:47 ◼   ► people who are putting on the video [TS]

00:06:48 ◼   ► shoot have promised me that there is not [TS]

00:06:51 ◼   ► only going to be a live reindeer at this [TS]

00:06:56 ◼   ► video shoot where i am playing Santa but [TS]

00:07:00 ◼   ► there is also going to be a real-life [TS]

00:07:01 ◼   ► camel and said that is enough that is [TS]

00:07:06 ◼   ► enough for me tomorrow like that that [TS]

00:07:08 ◼   ► that a little alone on my calendar feels [TS]

00:07:11 ◼   ► like okay that's enough for tomorrow if [TS]

00:07:13 ◼   ► I do you for sure that's real that part [TS]

00:07:15 ◼   ► if I sing because I'm supposed to just [TS]

00:07:17 ◼   ► be dressed as Santa I'm supposed to sing [TS]

00:07:19 ◼   ► the song with the ukulele and the [TS]

00:07:21 ◼   ► suggestion has been made that I'm going [TS]

00:07:22 ◼   ► to sing the song to the Campbell sure [TS]

00:07:25 ◼   ► and it's happens i'm not sure is that on [TS]

00:07:28 ◼   ► the call sheet you hear the doubt in my [TS]

00:07:30 ◼   ► voice but if I do I I hear you I hear [TS]

00:07:33 ◼   ► you pausing on the word camel am [TS]

00:07:36 ◼   ► completely and thinking is this egg's [TS]

00:07:38 ◼   ► Benedict yeah exactly at but if it [TS]

00:07:41 ◼   ► happens [TS]

00:07:41 ◼   ► uh-huh tomorrow then tomorrow I'm gonna [TS]

00:07:43 ◼   ► put a little check mark next to its not [TS]

00:07:45 ◼   ► literally be the biggest month of your [TS]

00:07:46 ◼   ► life yet [TS]

00:07:47 ◼   ► and then the next day of course is my [TS]

00:07:50 ◼   ► big day where I play Santa Claus and all [TS]

00:07:52 ◼   ► the dirty girls common citizen and tell [TS]

00:07:55 ◼   ► me what they tell me all the bad things [TS]

00:07:57 ◼   ► they did and then I give them a little [TS]

00:07:58 ◼   ► swat is it a form of Absolution in some [TS]

00:08:02 ◼   ► ways I mean like we know look at you [TS]

00:08:03 ◼   ► know mutually consensual absolution you [TS]

00:08:07 ◼   ► know I've seen ICU now on twitter [TS]

00:08:09 ◼   ► talking to my friend the next time to [TS]

00:08:11 ◼   ► that to the prof to the American Anakin [TS]

00:08:14 ◼   ► bra and I and I feel like now this [TS]

00:08:16 ◼   ► concept of flagellation and [TS]

00:08:19 ◼   ► absolution it's it's in the air now who [TS]

00:08:22 ◼   ► we need we need to swing settle back [TS]

00:08:24 ◼   ► down we need to stop talking to priest [TS]

00:08:26 ◼   ► on the internet even even young hip [TS]

00:08:29 ◼   ► crease that watch youtube videos when [TS]

00:08:31 ◼   ► you get back to our core values Merlin [TS]

00:08:33 ◼   ► you and me just talking without [TS]

00:08:36 ◼   ► restarting lot of just you know what you [TS]

00:08:38 ◼   ► need [TS]

00:08:39 ◼   ► I'm Ashley like and they're not a big [TS]

00:08:41 ◼   ► comic reader but like you need alcohol [TS]

00:08:43 ◼   ► up we're only worry is a little like [TS]

00:08:49 ◼   ► literally it's literally midnight and [TS]

00:08:51 ◼   ► I'm so angry you for your already [TS]

00:08:53 ◼   ► prescribing me some x-men like you know [TS]

00:08:56 ◼   ► what you need [TS]

00:08:57 ◼   ► here's the thing John you need not detox [TS]

00:09:00 ◼   ► but you need some kind of a dmz you need [TS]

00:09:02 ◼   ► to pass through some kind of his own [TS]

00:09:04 ◼   ► you know what I mean unique because the [TS]

00:09:06 ◼   ► thing is I'm not sure going from all of [TS]

00:09:08 ◼   ► the madness you've been through and the [TS]

00:09:09 ◼   ► fevers and the eggs straight back to [TS]

00:09:12 ◼   ► your home is the best thing I mean thank [TS]

00:09:14 ◼   ► God you know turtles are there right but [TS]

00:09:16 ◼   ► you need to pass through some area where [TS]

00:09:18 ◼   ► you can like burn that off right well [TS]

00:09:20 ◼   ► this is what I'm worried about a because [TS]

00:09:23 ◼   ► i don't want to go you know when you are [TS]

00:09:25 ◼   ► when you are manic you don't want to go [TS]

00:09:27 ◼   ► back to depressed know you want to stay [TS]

00:09:29 ◼   ► and mannequins manic is great even [TS]

00:09:31 ◼   ► though even though i'm literally sitting [TS]

00:09:34 ◼   ► here burning the lake hair offer monthly [TS]

00:09:36 ◼   ► like that like this job but you don't [TS]

00:09:41 ◼   ► you don't want to put this John John you [TS]

00:09:45 ◼   ► put this John back in a sarcophagus bus [TS]

00:09:47 ◼   ► and you bring up plumber John again he [TS]

00:09:50 ◼   ► was like oh all these books that I'll [TS]

00:09:52 ◼   ► never read of all the lips I'll never [TS]

00:09:56 ◼   ► kiss [TS]

00:09:57 ◼   ► yeah who wants that guy around he was [TS]

00:10:00 ◼   ► not about past to vegas it seems like [TS]

00:10:01 ◼   ► Vegas like you go in there and it's it's [TS]

00:10:04 ◼   ► it's an energy sink you could go to [TS]

00:10:07 ◼   ► Vegas it's not a fun place to be [TS]

00:10:09 ◼   ► contrary to popular opinion but you [TS]

00:10:11 ◼   ► could go to Vegas and it could really [TS]

00:10:12 ◼   ► take the mickey out of you you come home [TS]

00:10:14 ◼   ► your likes your water your plants and go [TS]

00:10:16 ◼   ► to sleep like a gentleman is Las Vegas [TS]

00:10:19 ◼   ► the worst is though that the worst it's [TS]

00:10:23 ◼   ► absolutely the worst and it's the worst [TS]

00:10:25 ◼   ► in a way that I am incapable of enjoying [TS]

00:10:27 ◼   ► them you know I enjoyed it [TS]

00:10:29 ◼   ► terrible things yeah [TS]

00:10:30 ◼   ► but there's nothing about Las Vegas that [TS]

00:10:32 ◼   ► i can even I can I cannot winch myself [TS]

00:10:36 ◼   ► into a posture where I'm enjoying myself [TS]

00:10:39 ◼   ► how do you feel in a casino I I feel I [TS]

00:10:42 ◼   ► feel like like there are spiders [TS]

00:10:45 ◼   ► crawling on me feel menaced every I [TS]

00:10:47 ◼   ► really do I feel it it will even like [TS]

00:10:50 ◼   ► the strip club with ladies I want to [TS]

00:10:51 ◼   ► talk to you i just feel like it's just [TS]

00:10:53 ◼   ► it's all everyone can do to not just [TS]

00:10:56 ◼   ► like attack me for money and and it's [TS]

00:10:59 ◼   ► just there's the ETA we talked about [TS]

00:11:01 ◼   ► this you know about like how all the [TS]

00:11:03 ◼   ► slot machines and everything are like [TS]

00:11:05 ◼   ► all tuned to see they're playing like a [TS]

00:11:07 ◼   ► veggie ozz removing that's crazy-making [TS]

00:11:12 ◼   ► but here's the thing for a man like you [TS]

00:11:15 ◼   ► who who is cycling in and give a very [TS]

00:11:17 ◼   ► bad proactive way you know that could be [TS]

00:11:20 ◼   ► a good place to burn it off a little bit [TS]

00:11:21 ◼   ► maybe get some shows and here's the [TS]

00:11:23 ◼   ► problem i have too much empathy for [TS]

00:11:25 ◼   ► desperate people and so I walk through [TS]

00:11:28 ◼   ► the thing and I cannot take any [TS]

00:11:29 ◼   ► enjoyment because I because everywhere I [TS]

00:11:31 ◼   ► looked there is someone who is putting [TS]

00:11:33 ◼   ► literally their last quarter in the [TS]

00:11:37 ◼   ► machine who and then watching all their [TS]

00:11:40 ◼   ► help drain away get you want to relocate [TS]

00:11:43 ◼   ► cool and I don't and it's just it's like [TS]

00:11:47 ◼   ► it's all over me it's all over me like [TS]

00:11:50 ◼   ► rancid butter i can do you think you [TS]

00:11:53 ◼   ► want to reach out to them do you want to [TS]

00:11:54 ◼   ► like help [TS]

00:11:55 ◼   ► well I i do but i want to help them I [TS]

00:11:58 ◼   ► mean you know I want to help them like [TS]

00:12:02 ◼   ► Mengele wanted to help people [TS]

00:12:04 ◼   ► yes science like science studies science [TS]

00:12:07 ◼   ► hey what ru signs to to put them in tubs [TS]

00:12:10 ◼   ► like water see how cold they can get [TS]

00:12:12 ◼   ► twins [TS]

00:12:13 ◼   ► it's not it's not a healthy desired LLC [TS]

00:12:16 ◼   ► which twin thrives you're saying you [TS]

00:12:20 ◼   ► want to get out there and say look [TS]

00:12:21 ◼   ► you're not in a good place right now [TS]

00:12:23 ◼   ► right right i would you like to run an [TS]

00:12:25 ◼   ► obstacle course [TS]

00:12:27 ◼   ► listen I know you have to be getting on [TS]

00:12:30 ◼   ► a roller coaster going on the mall I [TS]

00:12:32 ◼   ► know emphysema how drive to go to the [TS]

00:12:34 ◼   ► buffet with me and let's see how much [TS]

00:12:35 ◼   ► you can eat [TS]

00:12:36 ◼   ► I mean literally how much you can [TS]

00:12:38 ◼   ► how bout you can actually like a seven [TS]

00:12:41 ◼   ► type situation like so much they get you [TS]

00:12:43 ◼   ► can really put down exactly how much of [TS]

00:12:46 ◼   ► your body can you cut away with a knife [TS]

00:12:47 ◼   ► right now you're not done yet salad up [TS]

00:12:51 ◼   ► I'm and I worried for myself I want [TS]

00:12:54 ◼   ► another Napoleon said I know when I get [TS]

00:12:56 ◼   ► in these manic phases i start to i start [TS]

00:12:58 ◼   ► to talk to people like I really can do [TS]

00:13:01 ◼   ► magic real magic don't not like i was [TS]

00:13:06 ◼   ► the original in the last three weeks [TS]

00:13:08 ◼   ► have been talking to people like I can [TS]

00:13:10 ◼   ► do magic and everyone so well somebody [TS]

00:13:11 ◼   ► totally believes me and I know then I [TS]

00:13:14 ◼   ► know that the two of us are gonna go uh [TS]

00:13:16 ◼   ► go ride the subway together [TS]

00:13:17 ◼   ► how does that evidence itself I mean DD [TS]

00:13:20 ◼   ► someone who needs help they reach out to [TS]

00:13:22 ◼   ► you or do you just you just sense that [TS]

00:13:24 ◼   ► someone needs it needs a little bit of [TS]

00:13:25 ◼   ► John you know hunches I'm swinging [TS]

00:13:28 ◼   ► through life on a vine and a handset and [TS]

00:13:32 ◼   ► and then somebody answers my monkey call [TS]

00:13:34 ◼   ► in oh you're terrible idea why do we do [TS]

00:13:40 ◼   ► this here I come [TS]

00:13:41 ◼   ► yeah yeah you want a lot of Las Vegas is [TS]

00:13:44 ◼   ► one of those things it's it's it's a [TS]

00:13:47 ◼   ► it's difficult to describe the right Las [TS]

00:13:51 ◼   ► Vegas is what you end up using as an [TS]

00:13:52 ◼   ► analogy for something else because it's [TS]

00:13:55 ◼   ► it's hard to describe like how perfectly [TS]

00:13:57 ◼   ► awful it is in so many ways it's just [TS]

00:14:01 ◼   ► it's the worst of everything about [TS]

00:14:02 ◼   ► people and America the top the the best [TS]

00:14:06 ◼   ► thing about Las Vegas is the worst best [TS]

00:14:09 ◼   ► thing [TS]

00:14:10 ◼   ► yeah and though and the lowest most [TS]

00:14:12 ◼   ► degraded place in Las Vegas is the worst [TS]

00:14:14 ◼   ► of all places like an existential [TS]

00:14:16 ◼   ► compressor limiter yeah right exactly [TS]

00:14:20 ◼   ► and if I mean like it is it's very [TS]

00:14:22 ◼   ► poorly calibrated but I mean the fact [TS]

00:14:24 ◼   ► that like you know I arrived I forget [TS]

00:14:26 ◼   ► sometimes a low-pass filter like helpful [TS]

00:14:28 ◼   ► all of life's highs are just eliminated [TS]

00:14:31 ◼   ► all the Roloffs is called yeah that's [TS]

00:14:33 ◼   ► right all you get is farting sound so [TS]

00:14:35 ◼   ► good boy [TS]

00:14:37 ◼   ► heavy breathing in parts the thing that [TS]

00:14:39 ◼   ► strikes me is I i have in Las Vegas [TS]

00:14:40 ◼   ► maybe like three times or Andrey now [TS]

00:14:43 ◼   ► gambling locations but las vegas in [TS]

00:14:45 ◼   ► particular you arrive there and it's [TS]

00:14:46 ◼   ► also exciting and it's it's just so much [TS]

00:14:49 ◼   ► going on it's like Disney World you go [TS]

00:14:50 ◼   ► there and there's slot machines and [TS]

00:14:52 ◼   ► everything is exciting and like the part [TS]

00:14:55 ◼   ► that always strikes me is that like that [TS]

00:14:56 ◼   ► there's slot machines by the terminals [TS]

00:14:59 ◼   ► in the airport and it's like people but [TS]

00:15:01 ◼   ► people like playing the slots and like [TS]

00:15:05 ◼   ► the same thing that I go oh this is i [TS]

00:15:07 ◼   ► arrived i gotta carry on i get off and [TS]

00:15:09 ◼   ► go oh this is exciting it's Las Vegas [TS]

00:15:12 ◼   ► people are playing slot machines and [TS]

00:15:14 ◼   ► then i'm leaving i'm like fock it's Las [TS]

00:15:17 ◼   ► Vegas people are playing slot machines [TS]

00:15:19 ◼   ► it's what I mean that very same thing [TS]

00:15:22 ◼   ► it's just it's it's it a it is to bring [TS]

00:15:26 ◼   ► down for me like two days in Las Vegas [TS]

00:15:28 ◼   ► and I'm ready to go [TS]

00:15:29 ◼   ► that's it I'm done the only thing that [TS]

00:15:31 ◼   ► interests me about Las Vegas is those [TS]

00:15:33 ◼   ► unmarked 727 that fly out of the las [TS]

00:15:37 ◼   ► vegas airport to area 51 seconds those [TS]

00:15:43 ◼   ► things i'm fascinated by you know [TS]

00:15:45 ◼   ► there's a special their special terminal [TS]

00:15:47 ◼   ► velocity vegas airport where the [TS]

00:15:49 ◼   ► airplanes have no exterior markings [TS]

00:15:51 ◼   ► events such as a side note is definitely [TS]

00:15:53 ◼   ► a thing was always gentle is a fever [TS]

00:15:55 ◼   ► thing [TS]

00:15:55 ◼   ► no no this is a real thing ok there they [TS]

00:15:58 ◼   ► are jumbo jets not jumbo jets but [TS]

00:16:00 ◼   ► they're medium-sized jets who commercial [TS]

00:16:02 ◼   ► airliners yeah but they have no markings [TS]

00:16:04 ◼   ► of any kind of people get on them and [TS]

00:16:06 ◼   ► they fly into the desert because that's [TS]

00:16:10 ◼   ► the only way you can get to area 51 they [TS]

00:16:13 ◼   ► don't you there's no there's no they [TS]

00:16:14 ◼   ► don't let you drive their shuttle is not [TS]

00:16:17 ◼   ► a shuttle you don't like you don't show [TS]

00:16:19 ◼   ► up and like show your ID card area 51 [TS]

00:16:21 ◼   ► because area 51 doesn't exist so the [TS]

00:16:24 ◼   ► only way you can get theirs from the las [TS]

00:16:25 ◼   ► vegas airport and there are these [TS]

00:16:27 ◼   ► airplanes that don't have any markings [TS]

00:16:28 ◼   ► that just shuttle people back and forth [TS]

00:16:31 ◼   ► to all these secret military bases in [TS]

00:16:34 ◼   ► the Nevada desert and that fascinates me [TS]

00:16:37 ◼   ► I will sit with binoculars and watch [TS]

00:16:39 ◼   ► that happen also liked it as much you [TS]

00:16:41 ◼   ► can say like what kind of credentials do [TS]

00:16:43 ◼   ► you show to get even near one of those [TS]

00:16:45 ◼   ► planes have who goes is shield nations [TS]

00:16:48 ◼   ► like glucose on this [TS]

00:16:50 ◼   ► well I have to imagine that that most of [TS]

00:16:52 ◼   ► the people most of the people are just [TS]

00:16:54 ◼   ► like government called [TS]

00:16:56 ◼   ► right i mean it if they are conducting [TS]

00:17:00 ◼   ► alien autopsies and area 51 [TS]

00:17:02 ◼   ► they're not doing it like like in a good [TS]

00:17:05 ◼   ► morning america situation with a window [TS]

00:17:07 ◼   ► in Times Square they're probably doing [TS]

00:17:10 ◼   ► it in a basement room somewhere and most [TS]

00:17:12 ◼   ► of the other people they're just pushing [TS]

00:17:14 ◼   ► brooms are there you know they're there [TS]

00:17:16 ◼   ► toggling knobs are they're rewriting [TS]

00:17:17 ◼   ► encryptions or whatever it is that [TS]

00:17:19 ◼   ► people in secret military one this is [TS]

00:17:21 ◼   ► the thing about government is that we go [TS]

00:17:22 ◼   ► again we talked about the government [TS]

00:17:24 ◼   ► like it's this big you know this big wad [TS]

00:17:27 ◼   ► of stuff and really it's a bunch of [TS]

00:17:29 ◼   ► people with boring jobs right by and [TS]

00:17:31 ◼   ► large if you're not if you're not an [TS]

00:17:32 ◼   ► operative like you're if you're an [TS]

00:17:34 ◼   ► operative a lot of what you do is sit [TS]

00:17:35 ◼   ► there with binoculars like waiting for [TS]

00:17:36 ◼   ► something to change [TS]

00:17:37 ◼   ► yeah i mean there there are people that [TS]

00:17:39 ◼   ► live in Las Vegas the flat area 51 on a [TS]

00:17:42 ◼   ► secret military jet and they get there [TS]

00:17:44 ◼   ► and what they do all day is the total [TS]

00:17:46 ◼   ► their space pen in picking between their [TS]

00:17:48 ◼   ► fingers and they watch one gauge to make [TS]

00:17:51 ◼   ► sure that it doesn't go into the red [TS]

00:17:53 ◼   ► zone over there just like they're just [TS]

00:17:55 ◼   ► dopes the regular dopes you don't worry [TS]

00:17:56 ◼   ► three comics and so-and-so you watch you [TS]

00:17:59 ◼   ► watch one gauge and you're saying that [TS]

00:18:00 ◼   ► this could be an energy change it could [TS]

00:18:01 ◼   ► be psionics hmm I you know if they are [TS]

00:18:05 ◼   ► if they're monitoring psionics with [TS]

00:18:07 ◼   ► gauges there are better the guy watching [TS]

00:18:09 ◼   ► the gauge doesn't know what the gauge [TS]

00:18:10 ◼   ► measures [TS]

00:18:11 ◼   ► I bet they're just like don't let it go [TS]

00:18:13 ◼   ► into the red if it doesn't hold [TS]

00:18:15 ◼   ► deniability you bring in a gauge guy [TS]

00:18:17 ◼   ► rather than a psionic guy exactly the [TS]

00:18:20 ◼   ► psionic guys isn't watching the games [TS]

00:18:22 ◼   ► back in DC and your guy was his name [TS]

00:18:24 ◼   ► exactly God must drive you crazy you're [TS]

00:18:29 ◼   ► sitting there and you're watching these [TS]

00:18:30 ◼   ► unmarked planes take off the most [TS]

00:18:31 ◼   ► traffic bananas it does it drives me [TS]

00:18:34 ◼   ► crazy because I know out there in the [TS]

00:18:35 ◼   ► desert they really are working on [TS]

00:18:37 ◼   ► something i don't know what it is no [TS]

00:18:38 ◼   ► question [TS]

00:18:39 ◼   ► yeah they're working on something and [TS]

00:18:40 ◼   ► the fact and the fact that it's not that [TS]

00:18:42 ◼   ► I'm not alone and driving me crazy [TS]

00:18:44 ◼   ► I mean it doesn't keep me up at night [TS]

00:18:45 ◼   ► like some cooks but he's got the things [TS]

00:18:48 ◼   ► to keep you up and you get to get us I'm [TS]

00:18:50 ◼   ► worried that my pillows are turning into [TS]

00:18:51 ◼   ► owls I'm not worried about secret [TS]

00:18:53 ◼   ► airplanes so much camper this thing John [TS]

00:18:55 ◼   ► and you like the uninstall opens las [TS]

00:18:57 ◼   ► vegas it's already a little bit of a [TS]

00:18:59 ◼   ► Black Swan like what why the fuck is Las [TS]

00:19:01 ◼   ► Vegas there i guess it was a stop off [TS]

00:19:02 ◼   ► for troops right [TS]

00:19:04 ◼   ► because it's never like a rail line [TS]

00:19:05 ◼   ► right and maybe you know they built that [TS]

00:19:07 ◼   ► dam right down the road and a lot of [TS]

00:19:10 ◼   ► there are a lot of guys coming up from [TS]

00:19:11 ◼   ► building that damn and spending their [TS]

00:19:13 ◼   ► money in the tent city who ever you know [TS]

00:19:16 ◼   ► where their guys building a dam they're [TS]

00:19:18 ◼   ► gonna be hookers [TS]

00:19:20 ◼   ► yes that's is all that's as old as as [TS]

00:19:22 ◼   ► Cheops 30 works you know what I mean you [TS]

00:19:27 ◼   ► know the damn huh [TS]

00:19:28 ◼   ► we're gonna find a hugger Sharon right [TS]

00:19:30 ◼   ► after that there's that you know then [TS]

00:19:32 ◼   ► there's gaming in the Gaming Commission [TS]

00:19:33 ◼   ► kaming i love that term but here's the [TS]

00:19:36 ◼   ► thing John nobody's going to fly into it [TS]

00:19:38 ◼   ► desert for no reason I mean if you're [TS]

00:19:40 ◼   ► going to if you're going to like it [TS]

00:19:42 ◼   ► he's told us it is costly to gas up a [TS]

00:19:44 ◼   ► plane ticket somewhere not gas but you [TS]

00:19:45 ◼   ► know fuel plane and take it someplace [TS]

00:19:47 ◼   ► right didn't I gasps yeah but you're not [TS]

00:19:50 ◼   ► gonna do that just for fun if you're [TS]

00:19:52 ◼   ► gonna make that like a regular thing [TS]

00:19:53 ◼   ► there's a reason there's some kind of a [TS]

00:19:55 ◼   ► process in place there and i'm just [TS]

00:19:57 ◼   ► guessing as a man with a minus active is [TS]

00:19:59 ◼   ► your own you must be turning that over [TS]

00:20:01 ◼   ► in your head you're sitting there you're [TS]

00:20:03 ◼   ► you're looking at the details magazine [TS]

00:20:05 ◼   ► and thinking about the things that [TS]

00:20:07 ◼   ► you're seeing here is the problem though [TS]

00:20:09 ◼   ► I agree with you one hundred percent [TS]

00:20:11 ◼   ► until I think about my own father who [TS]

00:20:13 ◼   ► routinely gassed up his plane and flew [TS]

00:20:16 ◼   ► circles in the sky for no fucking reason [TS]

00:20:17 ◼   ► he thinks also apparently apparently he [TS]

00:20:21 ◼   ► was just giving you know i would go up [TS]

00:20:23 ◼   ► to them and be like what are you doing [TS]

00:20:24 ◼   ► he's like I'm looking at the map and I'm [TS]

00:20:25 ◼   ► like yeah i know you're looking at the [TS]

00:20:27 ◼   ► map but why we why we 6,000 feet in the [TS]

00:20:29 ◼   ► air was practicing know he's been flying [TS]

00:20:32 ◼   ► since he was 27 years old he knows how [TS]

00:20:35 ◼   ► to do it [TS]

00:20:36 ◼   ► no he just likes to gas up the plane and [TS]

00:20:38 ◼   ► go fly and maybe bit maybe the air [TS]

00:20:40 ◼   ► force's the same maybe they aren't [TS]

00:20:43 ◼   ► really running secret ops maybe they're [TS]

00:20:45 ◼   ► just maybe they're just dicking around [TS]

00:20:48 ◼   ► so maybe like they're playing grab-ass [TS]

00:20:52 ◼   ► maybe the entire US Air Force just a [TS]

00:20:54 ◼   ► game of grab-ass yes but it's a really [TS]

00:20:56 ◼   ► strategic grass so maybe Las Vegas is a [TS]

00:20:59 ◼   ► kind of distraction [TS]

00:21:00 ◼   ► I mean obviously on any number of levels [TS]

00:21:02 ◼   ► but you get everybody looking over here [TS]

00:21:04 ◼   ► hey look over here it's a pyramid [TS]

00:21:06 ◼   ► made out of black jack but don't look [TS]

00:21:08 ◼   ► over here right because that's where the [TS]

00:21:11 ◼   ► real action is [TS]

00:21:12 ◼   ► well so okay so I so so i was pretty [TS]

00:21:14 ◼   ► fine with I was pretty soon I was pretty [TS]

00:21:16 ◼   ► okay with believing that whatever UFOs [TS]

00:21:21 ◼   ► were it didn't matter i didn't care and [TS]

00:21:24 ◼   ► I was driving down the road today i've [TS]

00:21:26 ◼   ► been i thought you know for the last [TS]

00:21:28 ◼   ► four years I've pretty much been okay [TS]

00:21:31 ◼   ► with the idea that whatever UFOs are I [TS]

00:21:33 ◼   ► don't know and I don't care I really [TS]

00:21:35 ◼   ► don't care i don't i'm not gonna vote [TS]

00:21:37 ◼   ► one way or the other I am I am [TS]

00:21:39 ◼   ► reasonably convinced either way that [TS]

00:21:42 ◼   ► either yes they are real or no they're [TS]

00:21:43 ◼   ► not [TS]

00:21:44 ◼   ► which is the same as how i feel about [TS]

00:21:46 ◼   ► god i was gonna say and ask alice UFO [TS]

00:21:49 ◼   ► wager [TS]

00:21:50 ◼   ► yeah it's exactly they're like a fine i [TS]

00:21:53 ◼   ► did their unidentified for a reason [TS]

00:21:55 ◼   ► precisely like like they're there [TS]

00:21:58 ◼   ► you know i i'm i am I going to sit in an [TS]

00:22:01 ◼   ► airport and argue with the Hari Krishna [TS]

00:22:02 ◼   ► about our Christian is no i'm not i'm [TS]

00:22:06 ◼   ► just getting on with it anyway I'm [TS]

00:22:08 ◼   ► driving down the street i'm stuck in [TS]

00:22:09 ◼   ► traffic i'm headed to the new day [TS]

00:22:13 ◼   ► northwest on King 5 TV and all of a [TS]

00:22:18 ◼   ► sudden eyes I say to myself but wait a [TS]

00:22:21 ◼   ► minute if somewhat because let me back [TS]

00:22:26 ◼   ► let me back up a little bit when we were [TS]

00:22:28 ◼   ► on tour we went to we went to Mission [TS]

00:22:30 ◼   ► Control Houston [TS]

00:22:31 ◼   ► oh yes I cool photo that and then we [TS]

00:22:34 ◼   ► went to Mass and we went to Mission [TS]

00:22:35 ◼   ► Control and we're walking around and [TS]

00:22:37 ◼   ► it's all very awesome and it's like [TS]

00:22:39 ◼   ► amazing to be there especially because [TS]

00:22:41 ◼   ► they have they have maintained the [TS]

00:22:44 ◼   ► Apollo era Mission Control as a kind of [TS]

00:22:48 ◼   ► like living not issuing a shrine [TS]

00:22:51 ◼   ► it's just a shrine it just sits there [TS]

00:22:52 ◼   ► and you walk in and you sit down and at [TS]

00:22:54 ◼   ► launch control and you're like okay or [TS]

00:22:56 ◼   ► not launch control but like like you're [TS]

00:22:59 ◼   ► sitting there where they all were for [TS]

00:23:01 ◼   ► all for everything you're like it's just [TS]

00:23:03 ◼   ► like it's just the same i'm pushing the [TS]

00:23:05 ◼   ► same fucking buttons [TS]

00:23:07 ◼   ► anyway they tourists around we see that [TS]

00:23:09 ◼   ► we see the space station we go out and [TS]

00:23:11 ◼   ► they they take a our friend takes us out [TS]

00:23:14 ◼   ► to the warehouse where they have all the [TS]

00:23:16 ◼   ► capsules the actual [TS]

00:23:18 ◼   ► life-size mock-ups and my whole life as [TS]

00:23:22 ◼   ► as we all have done I've said if I got [TS]

00:23:26 ◼   ► the opportunity to be an astronaut of [TS]

00:23:27 ◼   ► course i would be an astronaut like [TS]

00:23:29 ◼   ► that's the best job ever [TS]

00:23:31 ◼   ► right yeah don't you think that same [TS]

00:23:33 ◼   ► thing oh I absolutely i mean i-i was at [TS]

00:23:36 ◼   ► the tail end of that I think that's [TS]

00:23:38 ◼   ► something very much started you know in [TS]

00:23:40 ◼   ► in the in the fifties with the whole [TS]

00:23:42 ◼   ► idea that there might be a space program [TS]

00:23:44 ◼   ► I was at you and I were both at the tail [TS]

00:23:46 ◼   ► end like having grown up taking photos [TS]

00:23:49 ◼   ► of the television when Neil Armstrong [TS]

00:23:52 ◼   ► remember that [TS]

00:23:52 ◼   ► hey everybody everybody their family has [TS]

00:23:54 ◼   ► photos of the television screen and it [TS]

00:23:57 ◼   ► was absolutely the coolest thing in the [TS]

00:23:58 ◼   ► world [TS]

00:23:59 ◼   ► yeah amazing until you're sitting in the [TS]

00:24:02 ◼   ► warehouse really anything i'm not [TS]

00:24:03 ◼   ► talking about the smithsonian [TS]

00:24:04 ◼   ► institution where you're looking at the [TS]

00:24:06 ◼   ► capsule in the museum and you're like [TS]

00:24:08 ◼   ► wow cool but you're at NASA and you're [TS]

00:24:12 ◼   ► looking at the ones they used to train [TS]

00:24:14 ◼   ► and I looked in this thing and I'm like [TS]

00:24:16 ◼   ► holy shit it's really small to climb [TS]

00:24:20 ◼   ► into that you would have to be in seen [TS]

00:24:22 ◼   ► there's like there's like five things [TS]

00:24:25 ◼   ► about it that would make me [TS]

00:24:27 ◼   ► uncomfortable just thinking about it [TS]

00:24:28 ◼   ► it's it wasn't like upside-down it's [TS]

00:24:31 ◼   ► tiny and everybody bars right well and [TS]

00:24:34 ◼   ► you're strapped onto a stick of dynamite [TS]

00:24:36 ◼   ► and you are shot into space and about [TS]

00:24:40 ◼   ► that trip to the moon took a week [TS]

00:24:42 ◼   ► it took a week friendlier yes and [TS]

00:24:45 ◼   ► they're strapped into this thing that is [TS]

00:24:47 ◼   ► basically the size of a bookcase three [TS]

00:24:50 ◼   ► guys strapped into a bookcase and [TS]

00:24:52 ◼   ► optimistic diner that sounds WAY worse [TS]

00:24:54 ◼   ► than clothes plus it is so bad and yeah [TS]

00:24:57 ◼   ► and it's not just that they're sitting [TS]

00:24:59 ◼   ► there and then there's a window it's [TS]

00:25:00 ◼   ► like they're sitting there there's a [TS]

00:25:01 ◼   ► solid steel bulkhead three inches from [TS]

00:25:03 ◼   ► their face [TS]

00:25:04 ◼   ► oh and they're flying in this there [TS]

00:25:06 ◼   ► flying blind in this thing for a week [TS]

00:25:09 ◼   ► and then they go into orbit around the [TS]

00:25:12 ◼   ► moon and then they have to figure all [TS]

00:25:14 ◼   ► that shit out and they get down to the [TS]

00:25:16 ◼   ► moon which I'm sure was amazing but then [TS]

00:25:18 ◼   ► make it back in this little this little [TS]

00:25:20 ◼   ► tuna fish can and they fly another week [TS]

00:25:23 ◼   ► home and i realized that i could not be [TS]

00:25:25 ◼   ► an astronaut that none of us could be [TS]

00:25:28 ◼   ► astronauts and that the very few people [TS]

00:25:31 ◼   ► in the world who [TS]

00:25:31 ◼   ► and be astronauts are a mutant race ya [TS]

00:25:35 ◼   ► of people that have no that have no [TS]

00:25:38 ◼   ► claustrophobia they have no fear they [TS]

00:25:41 ◼   ► have no they have no common sense [TS]

00:25:42 ◼   ► they're right i mean you think he's [TS]

00:25:45 ◼   ► visiting into a stick of dynamite and [TS]

00:25:47 ◼   ► stare at a piece of metal for a week [TS]

00:25:48 ◼   ► takes a certain kind of crazy a certain [TS]

00:25:51 ◼   ► kind of crazy that's right then you [TS]

00:25:52 ◼   ► gotta want it because there's like again [TS]

00:25:54 ◼   ► it's like it's like a DNA like a PA and [TS]

00:25:57 ◼   ► Hollywood there's 5,000 people behind [TS]

00:25:59 ◼   ► you who want the same job and you've got [TS]

00:26:01 ◼   ► to be better than all of them like by an [TS]

00:26:03 ◼   ► order of magnitude but you've got to be [TS]

00:26:05 ◼   ► better than all of them than all of them [TS]

00:26:07 ◼   ► of having no human characteristics [TS]

00:26:09 ◼   ► whatsoever you can have no fight or [TS]

00:26:12 ◼   ► flight mechanism you can or you or you [TS]

00:26:14 ◼   ► have to be in such inside you I don't [TS]

00:26:16 ◼   ► even believe it is kid is possible that [TS]

00:26:18 ◼   ► they are in control of those things they [TS]

00:26:20 ◼   ► are just without them they and and in [TS]

00:26:22 ◼   ► that sense I think they are amazing i [TS]

00:26:24 ◼   ► think that they are mutants the same way [TS]

00:26:26 ◼   ► that that great athletes are or great [TS]

00:26:29 ◼   ► you know like great they are just a kind [TS]

00:26:32 ◼   ► of human being that is absolutely [TS]

00:26:34 ◼   ► necessary and i'm stunned i was stunned [TS]

00:26:39 ◼   ► to be at NASA and realize that we do not [TS]

00:26:42 ◼   ► even these mutants we are not funding [TS]

00:26:45 ◼   ► like there's no money for these people [TS]

00:26:48 ◼   ► to even do the think that this amazing [TS]

00:26:51 ◼   ► thing which is strap themselves onto a [TS]

00:26:52 ◼   ► stick of dynamite and fly through space [TS]

00:26:54 ◼   ► like we don't even care I don't care how [TS]

00:26:57 ◼   ► amazing that is enough to pay them money [TS]

00:26:58 ◼   ► and you will he walk around NASA and and [TS]

00:27:01 ◼   ► they are really there duct-taping shit [TS]

00:27:03 ◼   ► together then they really are it's [TS]

00:27:06 ◼   ► hilarious but but anyway so I'm driving [TS]

00:27:08 ◼   ► down the road today and I'm realizing [TS]

00:27:09 ◼   ► okay if you take those if you take some [TS]

00:27:12 ◼   ► mutants like that some mutant human [TS]

00:27:14 ◼   ► beings and you put them in a space ship [TS]

00:27:17 ◼   ► that flies for generations where these [TS]

00:27:25 ◼   ► mutants are meeting with each other in [TS]

00:27:27 ◼   ► space and their bones are losing all [TS]

00:27:30 ◼   ► their mass and there is no light and [TS]

00:27:35 ◼   ► they are just mutating and becoming more [TS]

00:27:38 ◼   ► and more their day and natural selection [TS]

00:27:40 ◼   ► is choosing [TS]

00:27:43 ◼   ► the ideal creature for this environment [TS]

00:27:46 ◼   ► that creature would basically look like [TS]

00:27:49 ◼   ► these dumb aliens that stoners put on [TS]

00:27:51 ◼   ► there on the back windows of their cars [TS]

00:27:54 ◼   ► and grace but the grace like like and I [TS]

00:27:57 ◼   ► started to think did we know did we [TS]

00:28:01 ◼   ► start talking about this the these these [TS]

00:28:04 ◼   ► a what-what aliens looked like before we [TS]

00:28:07 ◼   ► understood that being in space reduces [TS]

00:28:09 ◼   ► your bone mass like a at what pointed to [TS]

00:28:12 ◼   ► one [TS]

00:28:13 ◼   ► well is it a chicken-or-egg situation [TS]

00:28:15 ◼   ► anyway I'm driving down the street and [TS]

00:28:16 ◼   ► I'm realizing wait a minute i do believe [TS]

00:28:18 ◼   ► in aliens because they look exactly like [TS]

00:28:20 ◼   ► they would have to look uh they look [TS]

00:28:24 ◼   ► exactly like if you took Neil Armstrong [TS]

00:28:26 ◼   ► and oh and a female Neil Armstrong and [TS]

00:28:29 ◼   ► we put them in space and have them have [TS]

00:28:32 ◼   ► babies for 50 generations like any like [TS]

00:28:37 ◼   ► a cephalopod the taste physics right and [TS]

00:28:40 ◼   ► have stones right like like the thing [TS]

00:28:42 ◼   ► the thing about alien when we talk about [TS]

00:28:44 ◼   ► sending these guys to Mars these these [TS]

00:28:46 ◼   ► mutant humans we we we devote all this [TS]

00:28:49 ◼   ► energy two treadmills and all this all [TS]

00:28:53 ◼   ► this extra work that we go to to keep [TS]

00:28:56 ◼   ► these Navy jock pilots in good shape [TS]

00:29:01 ◼   ► alright fly to Mars because we're scared [TS]

00:29:04 ◼   ► because if they lose their bone density [TS]

00:29:05 ◼   ► and they just sit there and stare at a [TS]

00:29:07 ◼   ► wall but they're with their big green [TS]

00:29:09 ◼   ► eyes they're going to a go crazy and [TS]

00:29:12 ◼   ► they're not going to have any you get it [TS]

00:29:15 ◼   ► look like it's almost the humanities a [TS]

00:29:17 ◼   ► hindrance [TS]

00:29:18 ◼   ► exactly so you don't choose Neil you [TS]

00:29:22 ◼   ► don't choose neil armstrong to be an [TS]

00:29:24 ◼   ► astronaut you choose neil gaiman to be [TS]

00:29:26 ◼   ► an astronaut write a guy who already has [TS]

00:29:28 ◼   ► no bone density now and who can sit and [TS]

00:29:31 ◼   ► stare at a at a you know basically like [TS]

00:29:34 ◼   ► a spot on the wall as long as it had [TS]

00:29:36 ◼   ► some anime movie happening and he put [TS]

00:29:41 ◼   ► him in a capsule central game and now [TS]

00:29:43 ◼   ► you're already you're already four or [TS]

00:29:45 ◼   ► five generations of natural selection [TS]

00:29:47 ◼   ► closer to the greys [TS]

00:29:50 ◼   ► then you are if you have to start with [TS]

00:29:52 ◼   ► Neil Neil Armstrong you know what I mean [TS]

00:29:54 ◼   ► you're doing it which is the right [TS]

00:29:56 ◼   ► choose the right Neil exactly you don't [TS]

00:29:58 ◼   ► pick that shit you don't jock night [TS]

00:30:01 ◼   ► you gotta pick the one that that you [TS]

00:30:04 ◼   ► know that has no interest in coming back [TS]

00:30:06 ◼   ► because it isn't part of the excitement [TS]

00:30:08 ◼   ► of this the sending a healthy hearty [TS]

00:30:12 ◼   ► inhale human something H into space [TS]

00:30:17 ◼   ► isn't part of it that we're sending like [TS]

00:30:19 ◼   ► our job guys into space don't you think [TS]

00:30:21 ◼   ► is that part of why they got behind it [TS]

00:30:23 ◼   ► is that we're gonna send this specimen [TS]

00:30:25 ◼   ► out there and unlike poor little ham [TS]

00:30:28 ◼   ► we're actually gonna bring this guy back [TS]

00:30:30 ◼   ► yeah because you know we can bring this [TS]

00:30:32 ◼   ► monkeys back they didn't come back [TS]

00:30:33 ◼   ► intact leave me and they're like guys [TS]

00:30:35 ◼   ► alright like a well he wasn't a monkey [TS]

00:30:37 ◼   ► bohemian is a basic block monkey right [TS]

00:30:38 ◼   ► yeah dog Mickey maybe I maybe I used too [TS]

00:30:41 ◼   ► many monkeys [TS]

00:30:43 ◼   ► ha ha ha noi but the point is I think [TS]

00:30:46 ◼   ► maybe that in the fifties we had this we [TS]

00:30:50 ◼   ► still were worshiping these crew-cut [TS]

00:30:52 ◼   ► jocks but we don't worship them anymore [TS]

00:30:55 ◼   ► now we're worshiping all these nebbishy [TS]

00:30:57 ◼   ► a spindly little twerps food and maybe [TS]

00:31:01 ◼   ► maybe astrid y gastón 4chan cinema [TS]

00:31:05 ◼   ► yeah right yeah I'm saying send moot [TS]

00:31:07 ◼   ► into space and give him please you know [TS]

00:31:11 ◼   ► give him some kind of like a computer [TS]

00:31:14 ◼   ► puzzle give him give him a [TS]

00:31:15 ◼   ► four-dimensional Rubik's Cube and say [TS]

00:31:18 ◼   ► you know say once a day you can jack off [TS]

00:31:22 ◼   ► and and in six months you'll be a Mars [TS]

00:31:25 ◼   ► and they'd be like cool cool brah food [TS]

00:31:31 ◼   ► you know we would need to put any [TS]

00:31:32 ◼   ► treadmills on there [TS]

00:31:33 ◼   ► yeah extra weight I mean the weight is [TS]

00:31:35 ◼   ► critical [TS]

00:31:36 ◼   ► weight is critical to these guys and a [TS]

00:31:38 ◼   ► half those guys on 4chan are already [TS]

00:31:40 ◼   ► drinking their own piss [TS]

00:31:41 ◼   ► you don't even have to filter it but [TS]

00:31:44 ◼   ► I don't know I just you know what I [TS]

00:31:47 ◼   ► don't need in my life right now [TS]

00:31:48 ◼   ► particularly being in a manic phase is [TS]

00:31:51 ◼   ► to start believing in aliens again and [TS]

00:31:54 ◼   ► then worrying whenever there's a raccoon [TS]

00:31:55 ◼   ► on my roof that it's just an alien in [TS]

00:31:59 ◼   ► disguise it's really as simple as [TS]

00:32:00 ◼   ► believing in aliens it's a question of [TS]

00:32:02 ◼   ► like are you thinking more MSA it seems [TS]

00:32:06 ◼   ► like it you know we we have to believe [TS]

00:32:07 ◼   ► there's aliens we would have to be just [TS]

00:32:09 ◼   ► so monumentally self-involved to aliens [TS]

00:32:12 ◼   ► I mean that such a silly term any course [TS]

00:32:13 ◼   ► of course we believe in them there's got [TS]

00:32:15 ◼   ► to be other stuff out there but are they [TS]

00:32:17 ◼   ► are they coming and scratching on my [TS]

00:32:19 ◼   ► roof [TS]

00:32:20 ◼   ► what's what's the role and why are they [TS]

00:32:23 ◼   ► getting in where they getting into your [TS]

00:32:24 ◼   ► barn [TS]

00:32:25 ◼   ► yeah are they disguising themselves as [TS]

00:32:27 ◼   ► owls and then not understanding how owls [TS]

00:32:32 ◼   ► behave enough that they come into my [TS]

00:32:34 ◼   ► room and become a GG and pretend to be [TS]

00:32:37 ◼   ► pilon I know what exactly they are there [TS]

00:32:40 ◼   ► as we're not classic that is classic [TS]

00:32:43 ◼   ► alien behavior because I mean you think [TS]

00:32:45 ◼   ► about like you go to any planet for okay [TS]

00:32:47 ◼   ► first of all how's your Mandarin be mine [TS]

00:32:49 ◼   ► but yeah but yeah mine too [TS]

00:32:51 ◼   ► so when people like all the people in my [TS]

00:32:54 ◼   ► neighborhood they don't speak very good [TS]

00:32:55 ◼   ► you know what you know what they speak [TS]

00:32:57 ◼   ► pretty good English compared to how I [TS]

00:32:59 ◼   ► speak Mandarin and Cantonese I'm just [TS]

00:33:01 ◼   ► saying confusing a barn with the pillow [TS]

00:33:05 ◼   ► is pretty good for somebody's from [TS]

00:33:07 ◼   ► another dimension right right exactly [TS]

00:33:10 ◼   ► like they're there looking down there [TS]

00:33:12 ◼   ► like all vowels yes that's good we yeah [TS]

00:33:15 ◼   ► okay good let's discuss our wise and [TS]

00:33:18 ◼   ► green comfort i won't be a pillow [TS]

00:33:19 ◼   ► yes we will be owls that is a good plan [TS]

00:33:22 ◼   ► and then somebody's like well how are we [TS]

00:33:24 ◼   ► going to get in and watch watch this [TS]

00:33:27 ◼   ► John Rother to make sure that he's the [TS]

00:33:29 ◼   ► emissary yeah but to the humans that we [TS]

00:33:31 ◼   ► that we that we think he is preventing [TS]

00:33:34 ◼   ► him it's like well let's so let's just [TS]

00:33:37 ◼   ► get let's just get right in bed with [TS]

00:33:38 ◼   ► them [TS]

00:33:38 ◼   ► well this is well trodden from the [TS]

00:33:40 ◼   ► things like you know the right stuff and [TS]

00:33:42 ◼   ► whatnot but what's amazing about what [TS]

00:33:44 ◼   ► you're describing is they did any of it [TS]

00:33:46 ◼   ► succeeded I mean because these were [TS]

00:33:48 ◼   ► basically guys who wanted to drive fast [TS]

00:33:51 ◼   ► cars you've got to drive fast [TS]

00:33:55 ◼   ► what planes yeah I you know different [TS]

00:33:58 ◼   ► kinds of airplanes and super super fast [TS]

00:34:01 ◼   ► planes but I mean if you think about it [TS]

00:34:03 ◼   ► it's not really it's amazing how quickly [TS]

00:34:06 ◼   ► we went from like a thing that moves [TS]

00:34:09 ◼   ► pretty fast on wheels across the ground [TS]

00:34:12 ◼   ► to a thing that moves alarmingly [TS]

00:34:14 ◼   ► dangerously fast across the Terran sky [TS]

00:34:17 ◼   ► to like now we're going to the fucking [TS]

00:34:20 ◼   ► moon [TS]

00:34:21 ◼   ► it's amazing you could do that 40 years [TS]

00:34:23 ◼   ► well if you look at those Saturn five [TS]

00:34:25 ◼   ► rockets which i did at bit in [TS]

00:34:28 ◼   ► excruciating detail when i was at this [TS]

00:34:31 ◼   ► place [TS]

00:34:32 ◼   ► they are you know you think about like [TS]

00:34:35 ◼   ► the way they make a Ford f-150 they have [TS]

00:34:39 ◼   ► machines that stamp out these ford f150 [TS]

00:34:42 ◼   ► fenders because they're making a million [TS]

00:34:45 ◼   ► f-150 is this year and every every f-150 [TS]

00:34:47 ◼   ► right front fender is the same but they [TS]

00:34:52 ◼   ► did not make that many Saturn five [TS]

00:34:54 ◼   ► rockets and if they did [TS]

00:34:56 ◼   ► there's no machine big enough to stamp [TS]

00:34:58 ◼   ► the you know one quarter of the big part [TS]

00:35:04 ◼   ► of a sudden Saturn five rocket so you [TS]

00:35:06 ◼   ► look at these things and you realize [TS]

00:35:08 ◼   ► they are hand-hammered they are bespoke [TS]

00:35:12 ◼   ► item starting Santa rocket it is an art [TS]

00:35:16 ◼   ► of fucking single rocket to these guys [TS]

00:35:19 ◼   ► it's there it's really it's truly built [TS]

00:35:21 ◼   ► to purpose [TS]

00:35:22 ◼   ► yeah there were guys in white [TS]

00:35:24 ◼   ► short-sleeved button down shirts with 15 [TS]

00:35:29 ◼   ► pens and a slide rule in the front [TS]

00:35:30 ◼   ► pocket who sat with a rubber mallet and [TS]

00:35:34 ◼   ► banged this rocket together [TS]

00:35:37 ◼   ► and it's just and you look at here like [TS]

00:35:40 ◼   ► Jesus Christ that anybody thought that [TS]

00:35:44 ◼   ► you could like this thing on fire and go [TS]

00:35:46 ◼   ► to the moon that that that way and come [TS]

00:35:49 ◼   ► back that's that that's the crazy part [TS]

00:35:52 ◼   ► of what do you think is in part of it [TS]

00:35:53 ◼   ► the coming back that's crazy i think so [TS]

00:35:56 ◼   ► you can attach dynamite to anything and [TS]

00:35:58 ◼   ► send it somewhere but for it to come [TS]

00:36:00 ◼   ► back and be able to hug it skids is [TS]

00:36:02 ◼   ► still to this day completely [TS]

00:36:04 ◼   ► mind-blowing it's astonishing everything [TS]

00:36:06 ◼   ► because we're already fragile i mean as [TS]

00:36:08 ◼   ► as as you know as organic life-forms go [TS]

00:36:11 ◼   ► we're pretty fragile it doesn't take [TS]

00:36:13 ◼   ► that much to really fuck us up [TS]

00:36:15 ◼   ► yeah and and you know and in you know i [TS]

00:36:17 ◼   ► have two regrets in life I wish I [TS]

00:36:19 ◼   ► learned to draw and I wish I had learned [TS]

00:36:21 ◼   ► enough about physics to be able to in [TS]

00:36:24 ◼   ► math to take engineering classes because [TS]

00:36:27 ◼   ► that's that's the thing is like somebody [TS]

00:36:29 ◼   ► is all we send somebody to the moon and [TS]

00:36:31 ◼   ► you imagine not you but but you know [TS]

00:36:33 ◼   ► laypersons imagine a virtual slingshot [TS]

00:36:37 ◼   ► where you shoot this piece of metal and [TS]

00:36:40 ◼   ► a big stone in the sky its it's so much [TS]

00:36:44 ◼   ► more complicated than that because [TS]

00:36:45 ◼   ► that's moving everything's moving it's [TS]

00:36:48 ◼   ► moving right and and then you get the [TS]

00:36:49 ◼   ► Sun is moving around the center of our [TS]

00:36:52 ◼   ► fucking universe there's no tellin a [TS]

00:36:55 ◼   ► what what he got in there there's no [TS]

00:36:57 ◼   ► there's no there everything's moving and [TS]

00:37:02 ◼   ► everything is degrading like this is [TS]

00:37:04 ◼   ► where entropy starts to be a dick [TS]

00:37:05 ◼   ► because you have to account for all of [TS]

00:37:07 ◼   ► these things like what goes wrong if we [TS]

00:37:09 ◼   ► lose these tiles we get there [TS]

00:37:11 ◼   ► this happens these redundancies opinion [TS]

00:37:13 ◼   ► and every single thing paper every gay [TS]

00:37:16 ◼   ► precisely and and everything that you [TS]

00:37:19 ◼   ► add in terms of what weight drag [TS]

00:37:22 ◼   ► anything anything you add you have to [TS]

00:37:24 ◼   ► account for its like I've never taken [TS]

00:37:26 ◼   ► calculus but this must be like the most [TS]

00:37:28 ◼   ► tricked-out calculus in the world to [TS]

00:37:30 ◼   ► figure out how to account for getting a [TS]

00:37:33 ◼   ► hundred eighty pound man to a celestial [TS]

00:37:37 ◼   ► body and bring it back in one piece [TS]

00:37:39 ◼   ► well and I think you bring up arrays the [TS]

00:37:41 ◼   ► most fascinating idea [TS]

00:37:45 ◼   ► which is how much easier would it have [TS]

00:37:49 ◼   ► been in 1957 in 1961 to say listen on [TS]

00:37:57 ◼   ► behalf of humanity we need to send a man [TS]

00:38:00 ◼   ► to the moon [TS]

00:38:02 ◼   ► there's no way he's ever gonna make it [TS]

00:38:04 ◼   ► back but we need to do this [TS]

00:38:07 ◼   ► the man is going to go to the moon and [TS]

00:38:09 ◼   ► he's gonna talk to us on the radio hour [TS]

00:38:12 ◼   ► and I said he's not coming back send a [TS]

00:38:14 ◼   ► criminal or or not or or maybe send the [TS]

00:38:17 ◼   ► greatest american hero but we will all [TS]

00:38:20 ◼   ► stand there with our we will stand up in [TS]

00:38:23 ◼   ► front of our televisions saluting the TV [TS]

00:38:26 ◼   ► as our astronauts dies on the moon [TS]

00:38:31 ◼   ► yeah like when you think about 20 years [TS]

00:38:35 ◼   ► before during World War Two we were we [TS]

00:38:39 ◼   ► as human race Stalin and Hitler were [TS]

00:38:42 ◼   ► murdering millions of people and burying [TS]

00:38:47 ◼   ► them in shallow graves that 20 years [TS]

00:38:49 ◼   ► later we would we would consider that [TS]

00:38:55 ◼   ► bringing this one guy back from space [TS]

00:38:58 ◼   ► and landing him on the ground safely was [TS]

00:39:01 ◼   ► of paramount importance you know like at [TS]

00:39:04 ◼   ► what point did they [TS]

00:39:05 ◼   ► because you know the Soviets sent a lot [TS]

00:39:08 ◼   ► of guys into space that we never heard [TS]

00:39:10 ◼   ► about that never came back right or if [TS]

00:39:13 ◼   ► they didn't i'm fucking surprised you [TS]

00:39:15 ◼   ► know like they said that dog up there [TS]

00:39:17 ◼   ► and nobody that mean that was just like [TS]

00:39:19 ◼   ► hardy-har right but but if it had not [TS]

00:39:24 ◼   ► been for America [TS]

00:39:26 ◼   ► I wonder whether the whether the [TS]

00:39:28 ◼   ► Russians would have an alibi the [TS]

00:39:30 ◼   ► Russians I mean the Soviets whether they [TS]

00:39:31 ◼   ► would have with whether they would have [TS]

00:39:34 ◼   ► pursued a moon program or even the Nazis [TS]

00:39:37 ◼   ► pursuit of moon program where the first [TS]

00:39:40 ◼   ► 10 missions were suicide missions right [TS]

00:39:44 ◼   ► they got the Alger affect you heard that [TS]

00:39:46 ◼   ► term know it's it's a fascinating idea a [TS]

00:39:49 ◼   ► little bit rathole but you know there's [TS]

00:39:51 ◼   ► this part of the whole turns out culture [TS]

00:39:53 ◼   ► of you know the increasing need to [TS]

00:39:56 ◼   ► publish something interests [TS]

00:39:57 ◼   ► thing especially in social psychology is [TS]

00:40:00 ◼   ► its leading to more and more of what the [TS]

00:40:01 ◼   ► color file drawer effect which is you go [TS]

00:40:03 ◼   ► out and you do some research and every [TS]

00:40:05 ◼   ► time you don't get the result you want [TS]

00:40:07 ◼   ► you kind of quietly move it aside until [TS]

00:40:10 ◼   ► you get the result that you wanted right [TS]

00:40:12 ◼   ► and so the Russians I mean you know and [TS]

00:40:14 ◼   ► again it's like some kind of an advanced [TS]

00:40:15 ◼   ► card trick [TS]

00:40:16 ◼   ► we're like a cold reading we're like you [TS]

00:40:19 ◼   ► can get something right as long as you [TS]

00:40:21 ◼   ► kind of forget about all the stuff you [TS]

00:40:22 ◼   ► write you know right right you don't [TS]

00:40:25 ◼   ► like it's fine don't worry about that [TS]

00:40:27 ◼   ► well you think about I mean the the the [TS]

00:40:30 ◼   ► the Soviet Army systematically decimated [TS]

00:40:34 ◼   ► the entire polish officer corps kill [TS]

00:40:37 ◼   ► them all like the greatest minds of [TS]

00:40:40 ◼   ► Poland the most elegant aristocratic man [TS]

00:40:44 ◼   ► of Poland all gone in a in like a poof [TS]

00:40:49 ◼   ► well think about all the potential [TS]

00:40:52 ◼   ► astronauts right right that although [TS]

00:40:56 ◼   ► always all these men that that only 15 [TS]

00:41:01 ◼   ► years later you know they're spending [TS]

00:41:03 ◼   ► hundreds of millions of dollars hundreds [TS]

00:41:05 ◼   ► of trillions of rubles to get these guys [TS]

00:41:09 ◼   ► back on earth you know and life human [TS]

00:41:13 ◼   ► life was worth so much less 15 years [TS]

00:41:18 ◼   ► before right [TS]

00:41:19 ◼   ► it's a it was a it was a some kind and I [TS]

00:41:22 ◼   ► wonder whether that moral leap was in [TS]

00:41:26 ◼   ► response to World War One World War two [TS]

00:41:29 ◼   ► like like somehow we have to [TS]

00:41:32 ◼   ► re-establish the value of human life [TS]

00:41:36 ◼   ► somehow [TS]

00:41:37 ◼   ► yes yes alongside the superiority of the [TS]

00:41:40 ◼   ► American know-how right i mean think [TS]

00:41:43 ◼   ► about what would that be probably 15-20 [TS]

00:41:46 ◼   ► years before the for the third time the [TS]

00:41:49 ◼   ► eldest Kennedy brother like that why the [TS]

00:41:52 ◼   ► thought would you send him up and in [TS]

00:41:55 ◼   ► that tarted-up plane and have him blow [TS]

00:41:57 ◼   ► up [TS]

00:41:58 ◼   ► I mean the idea of losing part of the [TS]

00:42:01 ◼   ► American you know on money stock recei [TS]

00:42:04 ◼   ► in this in this crazy plane accident you [TS]

00:42:08 ◼   ► know what I mean yeah I do like how [TS]

00:42:10 ◼   ► wasteful is that [TS]

00:42:11 ◼   ► but a part of it is also i mean i guess [TS]

00:42:13 ◼   ► part of the Cold War yeah you're right i [TS]

00:42:14 ◼   ► mean showing that we are able to do that [TS]

00:42:17 ◼   ► I just just blows me away so use on no [TS]

00:42:20 ◼   ► signs at all that it said that it didn't [TS]

00:42:22 ◼   ► happen [TS]

00:42:22 ◼   ► you're pretty sure it happened the moon [TS]

00:42:24 ◼   ► landing yeah I'm pretty sure it happened [TS]

00:42:29 ◼   ► okay [TS]

00:42:29 ◼   ► hi I'm pretty sure it happened is that [TS]

00:42:32 ◼   ► really is that what they told you to say [TS]

00:42:33 ◼   ► I really am [TS]

00:42:35 ◼   ► there's you know who I I know how hard [TS]

00:42:38 ◼   ► it is [TS]

00:42:39 ◼   ► listen if you I know how hard it is just [TS]

00:42:43 ◼   ► to keep it a secret that you're sleeping [TS]

00:42:44 ◼   ► with your friend's wife [TS]

00:42:46 ◼   ► yes and that doesn't involve any [TS]

00:42:47 ◼   ► technology at all [TS]

00:42:49 ◼   ► it's complicated you know you get up you [TS]

00:42:53 ◼   ► get a bunch of people you get a bunch of [TS]

00:42:55 ◼   ► guys who are watching gauges you get a [TS]

00:42:57 ◼   ► bunch of guys with mustaches short white [TS]

00:43:00 ◼   ► t-shirt surfer short-sleeved white [TS]

00:43:02 ◼   ► button-down shirts they're all [TS]

00:43:04 ◼   ► yeah they're all making everybody [TS]

00:43:05 ◼   ► smoking everybody smoke and they got [TS]

00:43:08 ◼   ► slide rules out there scribbling on on [TS]

00:43:10 ◼   ► pads and and and you're gonna hear and [TS]

00:43:14 ◼   ► you're gonna fake the moon landing and [TS]

00:43:15 ◼   ► nobody's ever going to say it before [TS]

00:43:17 ◼   ► Facebook I don't know you see the link i [TS]

00:43:21 ◼   ► sent you to do send me link [TS]

00:43:23 ◼   ► yeah probably seen this but is it is it [TS]

00:43:28 ◼   ► is it some transsexual porn maybe it's [TS]

00:43:34 ◼   ► ham the monkey porn on in event of moon [TS]

00:43:37 ◼   ► disaster [TS]

00:43:38 ◼   ► yeah but read it read the first [TS]

00:43:40 ◼   ► paragraph there in July eighteenth of [TS]

00:43:42 ◼   ► 1969 as the world waited anxiously for [TS]

00:43:44 ◼   ► Apollo 11 to land safely on the surface [TS]

00:43:46 ◼   ► of the Moon speech writer William Safire [TS]

00:43:49 ◼   ► imagine the worst case scenario i have [TS]

00:43:51 ◼   ► read this [TS]

00:43:52 ◼   ► yeah that's basically sapphire route for [TS]

00:43:54 ◼   ► mixing to read well yeah we were I mean [TS]

00:43:57 ◼   ► like let's be honest these guys are [TS]

00:43:59 ◼   ► coming back right that's monkey balls [TS]

00:44:01 ◼   ► it's crazy to think that these guys we [TS]

00:44:03 ◼   ► know how insane it is for all of these [TS]

00:44:06 ◼   ► yeah it has ordained that the men who [TS]

00:44:10 ◼   ► went to the moon to exploring piece will [TS]

00:44:13 ◼   ► stay on the moon to rest in peace to get [TS]

00:44:15 ◼   ► it's great and it's and it's touching [TS]

00:44:19 ◼   ► and you know you know they expected [TS]

00:44:23 ◼   ► it that these guys would would perish up [TS]

00:44:26 ◼   ► there there's no consistent note at the [TS]

00:44:28 ◼   ► bottom [TS]

00:44:29 ◼   ► prior to the president's statement the [TS]

00:44:31 ◼   ► president should telephone each of the [TS]

00:44:33 ◼   ► windows to be after the president's [TS]

00:44:36 ◼   ► statement at the point when NASA and [TS]

00:44:37 ◼   ► communications with the men a clergyman [TS]

00:44:39 ◼   ► should adopt the same procedure as a [TS]

00:44:41 ◼   ► burial at sea commanding their souls to [TS]

00:44:44 ◼   ► quote the deepest of the deep unquote [TS]

00:44:46 ◼   ► concluding with the Lord's / and so with [TS]

00:44:50 ◼   ► windows to be what he's saying is they [TS]

00:44:52 ◼   ► are alive they are on the moon and we [TS]

00:44:56 ◼   ► are basically just waiting for their air [TS]

00:44:59 ◼   ► to run out [TS]

00:45:00 ◼   ► yeah you got a real serious David belly [TS]

00:45:02 ◼   ► type situation huh [TS]

00:45:04 ◼   ► it's just it's so thin that suck [TS]

00:45:08 ◼   ► it's so like well I mean we're gonna do [TS]

00:45:13 ◼   ► you gonna hit another golf ball [TS]

00:45:14 ◼   ► god I think some more snapshots you know [TS]

00:45:18 ◼   ► what I'm gonna move the flag [TS]

00:45:19 ◼   ► I'll turn upside down to be a dick let's [TS]

00:45:22 ◼   ► let's run this moon rover see what she [TS]

00:45:24 ◼   ► can see what this baby can do really [TS]

00:45:25 ◼   ► really really open her up [TS]

00:45:27 ◼   ► I don't start a whole thing but then [TS]

00:45:29 ◼   ► isn't it kind of equally amazing that [TS]

00:45:31 ◼   ► within like 10 years of that I guess for [TS]

00:45:33 ◼   ► the space shuttle at that point but I [TS]

00:45:35 ◼   ► mean it didn't take that long for us to [TS]

00:45:37 ◼   ► lose our zest for this amazing [TS]

00:45:40 ◼   ► accomplishment that we come up with [TS]

00:45:42 ◼   ► arguably one of the greatest things that [TS]

00:45:44 ◼   ► humanity had ever done [TS]

00:45:46 ◼   ► yeah but you think I mean we've done [TS]

00:45:48 ◼   ► some pretty easy using stuff i mean [TS]

00:45:50 ◼   ► setting aside benjamin franklin there's [TS]

00:45:51 ◼   ► some amazing things that people have [TS]

00:45:53 ◼   ► managed to do but this is 444 Kennedy to [TS]

00:45:57 ◼   ► get up there in whatever that was 1961 [TS]

00:46:00 ◼   ► to get up there and say you think even [TS]

00:46:02 ◼   ► though i have no real basis for saying [TS]

00:46:05 ◼   ► this I should have made some calls [TS]

00:46:07 ◼   ► we're going to have a man on the moon by [TS]

00:46:09 ◼   ► the end of the decade and you know there [TS]

00:46:11 ◼   ► were so many guys in white button down [TS]

00:46:14 ◼   ► short sleeve shirts shitting themselves [TS]

00:46:16 ◼   ► and their pencils go say whether that 14 [TS]

00:46:20 ◼   ► more well at lot of pencils and slide [TS]

00:46:24 ◼   ► rules we have I mean I would argue that [TS]

00:46:28 ◼   ► that putting people on the moon and [TS]

00:46:31 ◼   ► bringing them home safely [TS]

00:46:33 ◼   ► beats all the art made after 1902 [TS]

00:46:40 ◼   ► through teaching 1707 maybe anyway yeah [TS]

00:46:45 ◼   ► alright 1908 let's go on making 1000 [TS]

00:46:49 ◼   ► let's say all the arts and architecture [TS]

00:46:51 ◼   ► Casso in there i don't have turned 19 [TS]

00:46:53 ◼   ► you know what who the moon [TS]

00:46:56 ◼   ► you know what i'll trade you a Rothko i [TS]

00:46:57 ◼   ► will show you a fucking Rothko for a [TS]

00:47:00 ◼   ► grown man on the moon who comes home any [TS]

00:47:02 ◼   ► day i will put a grown man on the moon [TS]

00:47:04 ◼   ► against all Rothko's ok together beyond [TS]

00:47:09 ◼   ► PB take that up against the Duchamp all [TS]

00:47:11 ◼   ► of it [TS]

00:47:12 ◼   ► who and this is what I'm saying these [TS]

00:47:15 ◼   ► guys now are working down there in [TS]

00:47:17 ◼   ► Houston which is you know already kind [TS]

00:47:20 ◼   ► of that's a toilet [TS]

00:47:22 ◼   ► no she live in Houston come on come on [TS]

00:47:24 ◼   ► really that's the best we can do [TS]

00:47:25 ◼   ► Jesus because he says biggest constant [TS]

00:47:27 ◼   ► they're the biggest consolation is [TS]

00:47:29 ◼   ► dallas that's really the only thing [TS]

00:47:31 ◼   ► that's worse right [TS]

00:47:32 ◼   ► I've heard he's pretty bad oh well I [TS]

00:47:36 ◼   ► mean Dallas has its charms studios in [TS]

00:47:39 ◼   ► houston and are just actively like i [TS]

00:47:41 ◼   ► don't know why i'm in houston [TS]

00:47:43 ◼   ► there's a lot to not know about why [TS]

00:47:45 ◼   ► you're in houston but there are some you [TS]

00:47:47 ◼   ► can have some like for instance right [TS]

00:47:49 ◼   ► now in the middle of winter in Houston [TS]

00:47:52 ◼   ► people are sitting outside having dinner [TS]

00:47:54 ◼   ► and there's a warm breeze [TS]

00:47:57 ◼   ► it's not too humid houston in december [TS]

00:48:00 ◼   ► is like pretty nice place food enjoying [TS]

00:48:04 ◼   ► velcro and hang soon a span you see me [TS]

00:48:08 ◼   ► in August is is really like being inside [TS]

00:48:12 ◼   ► a dog's ass like there's no it's like [TS]

00:48:15 ◼   ► being in a mouth [TS]

00:48:16 ◼   ► it's like are you there goddamn mouth [TS]

00:48:19 ◼   ► huh i live in a closed maps us sound [TS]

00:48:25 ◼   ► good [TS]

00:48:26 ◼   ► it seems today the bed most of Texas is [TS]

00:48:28 ◼   ► because of what the Alamo and oil right [TS]

00:48:31 ◼   ► there's a lot of oil oil related to [TS]

00:48:35 ◼   ► geography and then you have to throw [TS]

00:48:36 ◼   ► some very beautiful landscapes in Texas [TS]

00:48:39 ◼   ► you know here's the weird thing if [TS]

00:48:40 ◼   ► you're driving across Spain if you drive [TS]

00:48:42 ◼   ► from barcelona to madrid you realize why [TS]

00:48:46 ◼   ► this [TS]

00:48:47 ◼   ► banish thought Texas was a paradise [TS]

00:48:50 ◼   ► Texas looks like a you know looks like [TS]

00:48:55 ◼   ► the it basically it looks like la mancha [TS]

00:48:58 ◼   ► except kind of nicer it [TS]

00:49:03 ◼   ► arrivals what's wrong with Spain nothing [TS]

00:49:07 ◼   ► wrong with that it's just dry red earth [TS]

00:49:11 ◼   ► with a bunch of mesas and you kind of [TS]

00:49:15 ◼   ► scratch out a scratch out an existence [TS]

00:49:18 ◼   ► in a rough-draft first growing you know [TS]

00:49:21 ◼   ► go on olives and wine [TS]

00:49:23 ◼   ► I mean that there's no like there's no [TS]

00:49:26 ◼   ► monkeys living in Spain except those [TS]

00:49:30 ◼   ► ones down in Gibraltar and who knows how [TS]

00:49:32 ◼   ► they got there [TS]

00:49:33 ◼   ► it's not like it's not like Spain is [TS]

00:49:35 ◼   ► lush 50 acorns tightness that it looks [TS]

00:49:38 ◼   ► like Texas and the Spanish landed in [TS]

00:49:40 ◼   ► Texas and they were like oh fuck yes we [TS]

00:49:45 ◼   ► get it [TS]

00:49:46 ◼   ► Southern California to you know that [TS]

00:49:50 ◼   ► there's a reason that the Spanish did [TS]

00:49:51 ◼   ► not land in seattle and say let's build [TS]

00:49:55 ◼   ► some missions see me can't get a decent [TS]

00:49:57 ◼   ► drink at a strip club there have you [TS]

00:50:00 ◼   ► have you been eating what you're eating [TS]

00:50:02 ◼   ► than like lately have you been trying to [TS]

00:50:03 ◼   ► eat regularly you know I've lost I've [TS]

00:50:05 ◼   ► lost 20 pounds because I because when I [TS]

00:50:07 ◼   ► mannequin forget to eat 20 pounds of [TS]

00:50:09 ◼   ► what if John had 20 pounds of all that [TS]

00:50:12 ◼   ► extra John that wasn't doing anything [TS]

00:50:13 ◼   ► was just sitting around [TS]

00:50:15 ◼   ► isn't that a good Lasser a troubling us [TS]

00:50:18 ◼   ► who knows you can't poop on the bus at [TS]

00:50:21 ◼   ► all [TS]

00:50:22 ◼   ► you can't you know no mud pickles so we [TS]

00:50:25 ◼   ► have to wait you have to wait to poop [TS]

00:50:26 ◼   ► but you like that you you like you like [TS]

00:50:29 ◼   ► gab having to hold off my way to poop [TS]

00:50:32 ◼   ► now you know i think i think those [TS]

00:50:34 ◼   ► people those people that have to poop [TS]

00:50:36 ◼   ► now [TS]

00:50:37 ◼   ► yeah they're not going to make it look [TS]

00:50:40 ◼   ► but they're not going to survive [TS]

00:50:42 ◼   ► now what about supertrain can you let [TS]

00:50:44 ◼   ► pickle on supertrain oh absolutely i [TS]

00:50:47 ◼   ► mean like this is your personal quarters [TS]

00:50:49 ◼   ► coupon supertrain that poop goes [TS]

00:50:52 ◼   ► immediately in to the mechanism is all [TS]

00:50:56 ◼   ► of it [TS]

00:50:57 ◼   ► again and all of the all of the the [TS]

00:51:00 ◼   ► essential minerals and and the useful [TS]

00:51:02 ◼   ► cooking oil are taken out of the poop [TS]

00:51:05 ◼   ► and all that's left is a little pile of [TS]

00:51:07 ◼   ► carbon and some trace its of silver [TS]

00:51:10 ◼   ► Mercury golden iodine we're not gonna [TS]

00:51:13 ◼   ► throw that corner away [TS]

00:51:15 ◼   ► absolutely not with the corner weekend [TS]

00:51:16 ◼   ► we can use that the corn goes to feed [TS]

00:51:18 ◼   ► the pigs that are on the back car of [TS]

00:51:20 ◼   ► super train that are making delicious [TS]

00:51:22 ◼   ► bacon for us it's already I it was not [TS]

00:51:27 ◼   ► until this moment like literally in the [TS]

00:51:29 ◼   ► middle of the night that it occurred to [TS]

00:51:31 ◼   ► me that super training is more than a [TS]

00:51:34 ◼   ► totalitarian solution it's an ecosystem [TS]

00:51:37 ◼   ► it absolutely right i mean it's it's [TS]

00:51:39 ◼   ► it's sad that you know what is it tell [TS]

00:51:41 ◼   ► woman says those the soul is [TS]

00:51:43 ◼   ► self-satisfying like you've gotta train [TS]

00:51:45 ◼   ► is going to fucking take care of itself [TS]

00:51:46 ◼   ► and you better believe brother it is [TS]

00:51:48 ◼   ► going to take care of you [TS]

00:51:49 ◼   ► that's right thing is super train is an [TS]

00:51:52 ◼   ► ecosystem it is a guy a bomb it is also [TS]

00:51:55 ◼   ► an elaborate revenge fantasy for example [TS]

00:51:59 ◼   ► of God is there any place for the for [TS]

00:52:04 ◼   ► the brother you think what you are you [TS]

00:52:06 ◼   ► talking about the priest we don't down [TS]

00:52:08 ◼   ► the great job of the black man because [TS]

00:52:10 ◼   ► but no know about memento mori right you [TS]

00:52:13 ◼   ► know about the idea that like there's [TS]

00:52:15 ◼   ► the guy i forget which where this [TS]

00:52:17 ◼   ► happened but the idea of the guy who [TS]

00:52:19 ◼   ► stands next to the king right he stands [TS]

00:52:21 ◼   ► networking and it is all day long and [TS]

00:52:24 ◼   ► says what like your mortal your mortal [TS]

00:52:27 ◼   ► your moral memento mori remember that [TS]

00:52:30 ◼   ► you are going to die right so you need a [TS]

00:52:32 ◼   ► court jester like would it be useful [TS]

00:52:34 ◼   ► I'm just saying for the sake of argument [TS]

00:52:36 ◼   ► that's your train you like if you were [TS]

00:52:38 ◼   ► to take this guy from the east bay who [TS]

00:52:40 ◼   ► apparently i'm gonna have beer with now [TS]

00:52:41 ◼   ► if you were to take him and make him [TS]

00:52:43 ◼   ► somehow part of the supertrain system [TS]

00:52:46 ◼   ► what is the role of the brother for you [TS]

00:52:48 ◼   ► because it seems to me that that he [TS]

00:52:49 ◼   ► might be useful to you as a kind of as a [TS]

00:52:53 ◼   ► kind of moral check for as a kind of got [TS]

00:52:57 ◼   ► it I got as many consigliere Azaz I can [TS]

00:52:59 ◼   ► handle it if you have a wartime [TS]

00:53:01 ◼   ► consigliere every single you know i just [TS]

00:53:03 ◼   ► got off of a tour and every single town [TS]

00:53:05 ◼   ► I went into there were 40 guys lining up [TS]

00:53:07 ◼   ► offering their services [TS]

00:53:10 ◼   ► as like night errands for super train [TS]

00:53:12 ◼   ► for real [TS]

00:53:14 ◼   ► oh yeah there John has gone viral is [TS]

00:53:16 ◼   ► something where people aware of how [TS]

00:53:17 ◼   ► important this is going to be [TS]

00:53:18 ◼   ► approaching you I mean I that are they [TS]

00:53:21 ◼   ► are they are they are they they're [TS]

00:53:23 ◼   ► speaking when you when you go places and [TS]

00:53:25 ◼   ► make personal appearances and play [TS]

00:53:26 ◼   ► professional music they're approaching [TS]

00:53:28 ◼   ► you and saying look it's easy i'm [TS]

00:53:30 ◼   ► unfamiliar super train like I need this [TS]

00:53:32 ◼   ► I need to make sure i have a birth it [TS]

00:53:35 ◼   ► isn't even that people are approaching [TS]

00:53:37 ◼   ► me and they are they basically have a [TS]

00:53:39 ◼   ► small bag already under their arm not [TS]

00:53:43 ◼   ► already packed in the car under their [TS]

00:53:44 ◼   ► arm anticipating that maybe we're [TS]

00:53:47 ◼   ► leaving now I'm like you know what I'm [TS]

00:53:50 ◼   ► doing right now i'm selling t-shirts [TS]

00:53:51 ◼   ► after my rock concert we are not leaving [TS]

00:53:56 ◼   ► tonight and they're like they're not [TS]

00:53:58 ◼   ► disappointed they feel like okay I you [TS]

00:54:02 ◼   ► know I knew i knew i would I knew that [TS]

00:54:04 ◼   ► when super train leaves is not of things [TS]

00:54:06 ◼   ► you can see this isn't it will come like [TS]

00:54:09 ◼   ► a thief in the night [TS]

00:54:11 ◼   ► it's a good size from the Bible but down [TS]

00:54:13 ◼   ► but but that's the other side of super [TS]

00:54:15 ◼   ► train is like you can prepare all you [TS]

00:54:17 ◼   ► want but you'll never really be ready [TS]

00:54:19 ◼   ► yeah well that's exactly right you're [TS]

00:54:21 ◼   ► not ready just becomes and you go huh [TS]

00:54:24 ◼   ► yeah yeah it's you that I gather he [TS]

00:54:26 ◼   ► seems pretty cool [TS]

00:54:27 ◼   ► the thing about the thing about the [TS]

00:54:28 ◼   ► Dominican brother is a Dominican I saw [TS]

00:54:31 ◼   ► some letters after his name that I [TS]

00:54:33 ◼   ► didn't recognize i have you verified [TS]

00:54:34 ◼   ► with the authorities an actual mark any [TS]

00:54:38 ◼   ► bacon say BR in front of their name you [TS]

00:54:39 ◼   ► know that's true because his brother [TS]

00:54:41 ◼   ► John I believe that he is i believe that [TS]

00:54:44 ◼   ► he is what we what we call the a black [TS]

00:54:47 ◼   ► friar but it may it may be that he is [TS]

00:54:51 ◼   ► amazing it's like an anti palin up I I I [TS]

00:54:57 ◼   ► you know I don't we may be a Benedictine [TS]

00:55:00 ◼   ► I don't think so though he doesn't talk [TS]

00:55:02 ◼   ► like one [TS]

00:55:03 ◼   ► I know what the fuck's up at the sky but [TS]

00:55:04 ◼   ► anyway I you know the thing is like for [TS]

00:55:07 ◼   ► instance one of my good friends from [TS]

00:55:08 ◼   ► high school is a he ended up ended up [TS]

00:55:13 ◼   ► going to becoming a lawyer he clerked [TS]

00:55:16 ◼   ► for Rehnquist this guy and now he [TS]

00:55:19 ◼   ► teaches law at UH at Notre Dame [TS]

00:55:22 ◼   ► and he is what we call a Catholic legal [TS]

00:55:25 ◼   ► scholar he talks about the law he talks [TS]

00:55:29 ◼   ► about American law but through the lens [TS]

00:55:33 ◼   ► of Catholicism so he is interested in [TS]

00:55:35 ◼   ► the moral implications of American law [TS]

00:55:39 ◼   ► from a Catholic perspective and he is a [TS]

00:55:42 ◼   ► constant check on me because he sends me [TS]

00:55:45 ◼   ► emails and he is a pompous ass and he he [TS]

00:55:53 ◼   ► delights in arguing with me because he [TS]

00:55:56 ◼   ► is that you know he has been an arguer [TS]

00:56:00 ◼   ► his entire life [TS]

00:56:02 ◼   ► he was an arguer when he was 15 he was [TS]

00:56:04 ◼   ► an arguer when he was a Duke he was an [TS]

00:56:06 ◼   ► arguer when he was a fucking road [TS]

00:56:09 ◼   ► Scholar this and then he went to Yale [TS]

00:56:13 ◼   ► Law and argued there and then he went [TS]

00:56:15 ◼   ► went to the Supreme Court as a clerk and [TS]

00:56:17 ◼   ► I just everything about him makes me a [TS]

00:56:20 ◼   ► sip a castrating the fact that he walks [TS]

00:56:22 ◼   ► the land still yeah makes me mad and the [TS]

00:56:25 ◼   ► fact that he writes me that he writes me [TS]

00:56:29 ◼   ► contemptuously and describes all the [TS]

00:56:33 ◼   ► ways in which i am wrong her wedding [TS]

00:56:39 ◼   ► that he is wrong is it is a constant [TS]

00:56:43 ◼   ► thorn in my shoe that that he exists at [TS]

00:56:46 ◼   ► all and that not only that he exists but [TS]

00:56:48 ◼   ► that he will one day probably get a [TS]

00:56:50 ◼   ► pointed to something by somebody he will [TS]

00:56:54 ◼   ► probably end up on the bench somewhere [TS]

00:56:57 ◼   ► now as you know I want to be a retired [TS]

00:57:00 ◼   ► senator and retired general yes the army [TS]

00:57:04 ◼   ► and a retired head of the CIA but [TS]

00:57:07 ◼   ► there's there's one thing that really [TS]

00:57:11 ◼   ► beats all that and that is being on the [TS]

00:57:14 ◼   ► bench all the mayor your it last word on [TS]

00:57:20 ◼   ► the bench [TS]

00:57:21 ◼   ► whoo there you are on the bench and you [TS]

00:57:24 ◼   ► are there forever and one day this is [TS]

00:57:29 ◼   ► going to happen to this friend of mine [TS]

00:57:30 ◼   ► who is a constant thorn machines [TS]

00:57:34 ◼   ► sufferable he is going to get appointed [TS]

00:57:36 ◼   ► to the federal judiciary and then i'm [TS]

00:57:40 ◼   ► going to wherever I am I'm going to feel [TS]

00:57:42 ◼   ► it first of all it's going to be a [TS]

00:57:43 ◼   ► ripple i'm probably gonna be sitting in [TS]

00:57:45 ◼   ► a bathtub somewhere in Hungary and [TS]

00:57:49 ◼   ► there's gonna be a ripple across the [TS]

00:57:50 ◼   ► surface of the water no matter what was [TS]

00:57:51 ◼   ► that [TS]

00:57:52 ◼   ► and it's that it's that this friend of [TS]

00:57:54 ◼   ► mine got appointed to the federal bench [TS]

00:57:56 ◼   ► and when it happens I just I just I have [TS]

00:58:01 ◼   ► no have no context for for how I'm going [TS]

00:58:03 ◼   ► to react because then he will be [TS]

00:58:06 ◼   ► enshrined he will be ensconced he will [TS]

00:58:09 ◼   ► be in all of the things he's gonna is [TS]

00:58:12 ◼   ► going to paint him he will probably be [TS]

00:58:15 ◼   ► engraved his name will be engraved in [TS]

00:58:18 ◼   ► things stadiums will be named after him [TS]

00:58:21 ◼   ► maybe fellowships fellowships video [TS]

00:58:24 ◼   ► about maybe a fellowship let's hold off [TS]

00:58:26 ◼   ► on stadiums but you're telling me you [TS]

00:58:29 ◼   ► tell me that did that like you're in the [TS]

00:58:31 ◼   ► Supreme Court you get a stadium named [TS]

00:58:33 ◼   ► after you [TS]

00:58:33 ◼   ► maybe a little league stadium maybe you [TS]

00:58:36 ◼   ► know what you know maybe like yeah maybe [TS]

00:58:39 ◼   ► some kind of maybe like a horse ring [TS]

00:58:40 ◼   ► where but I anyway this is that this is [TS]

00:58:45 ◼   ► the thing that torments I'm sorry that [TS]

00:58:47 ◼   ► must dog you [TS]

00:58:48 ◼   ► it does it does ude percent a lot of [TS]

00:58:51 ◼   ► accomplished people receiving [TS]

00:58:53 ◼   ► appear at one point you thought this is [TS]

00:58:54 ◼   ► a fair horse race meeting at one point [TS]

00:58:56 ◼   ► sorry um he was it we were we were peers [TS]

00:59:03 ◼   ► who and and part of you know part of [TS]

00:59:06 ◼   ► being peers involved us each thinking [TS]

00:59:11 ◼   ► that the other one was less intelligent [TS]

00:59:13 ◼   ► and less useful to the world critical [TS]

00:59:15 ◼   ► now but now he has done all the things [TS]

00:59:18 ◼   ► he has done all of the things that you [TS]

00:59:21 ◼   ► do in our culture to indicate that you [TS]

00:59:25 ◼   ► are [TS]

00:59:27 ◼   ► he has a he has accomplished all the [TS]

00:59:31 ◼   ► accomplishments and then one day he will [TS]

00:59:36 ◼   ► get the final accomplishment which is [TS]

00:59:38 ◼   ► that he will get this appointment an [TS]

00:59:41 ◼   ► appointment mind you he does not run he [TS]

00:59:44 ◼   ► does not beg for your for your vote [TS]

00:59:48 ◼   ► you're pathetic electorate it's it [TS]

00:59:50 ◼   ► really as close as we get to Europe [TS]

00:59:52 ◼   ► write some somebody comes in and there's [TS]

00:59:55 ◼   ► a lot of hand waving and there's some [TS]

00:59:57 ◼   ► some some incest gets it gets [TS]

00:59:57 ◼   ► some some incest gets it gets [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► just spread around right and and that's [TS]

01:00:03 ◼   ► why they call it right the way through [TS]

01:00:04 ◼   ► some incense the centuries of what are [TS]

01:00:06 ◼   ► called and then and then and then you [TS]

01:00:08 ◼   ► get a robe you get a robe you show up [TS]

01:00:11 ◼   ► and then you've got a fucking job you're [TS]

01:00:13 ◼   ► like you you're the Pope of Justice you [TS]

01:00:15 ◼   ► make law now it's not that you make law [TS]

01:00:18 ◼   ► because that's what the college is [TS]

01:00:20 ◼   ► bigger than that buddy [TS]

01:00:21 ◼   ► that's right get the arbiter you judge a [TS]

01:00:26 ◼   ► fucking judge judge designer and you [TS]

01:00:29 ◼   ► judge you judge it based on your on your [TS]

01:00:32 ◼   ► conscience and on the laws you [TS]

01:00:34 ◼   ► understand it you hope I mean talk about [TS]

01:00:39 ◼   ► business carriage of Justice John this [TS]

01:00:42 ◼   ► guy this friend of mine this recursive [TS]

01:00:46 ◼   ► friend of mine this Achilles heel of [TS]

01:00:48 ◼   ► mine will sit there and judge based on [TS]

01:00:51 ◼   ► his understanding of the law and his own [TS]

01:00:59 ◼   ► conscience as filtered through a [TS]

01:01:03 ◼   ► lifetime of Catholicism in Yale and yale [TS]

01:01:07 ◼   ► ism & Rhodes Scholar ism and [TS]

01:01:11 ◼   ► insufferable ility ism and I have to sit [TS]

01:01:17 ◼   ► here and take it [TS]

01:01:19 ◼   ► I have to sit here and look like legally [TS]

01:01:21 ◼   ► I have to sit here and look at my [TS]

01:01:23 ◼   ► collection [TS]

01:01:24 ◼   ► perhaps and i have to say [TS]

01:01:27 ◼   ► mhm nice collection of hats guy is it is [TS]

01:01:32 ◼   ► it partly could feel your influence [TS]

01:01:35 ◼   ► day-by-day waning that that maybe by the [TS]

01:01:39 ◼   ► time he's on the bench that maybe the [TS]

01:01:42 ◼   ► the effect that you can have by like [TS]

01:01:44 ◼   ► jabbing at him [TS]

01:01:46 ◼   ► it's not going to be quite as pointed as [TS]

01:01:50 ◼   ► it would have been 20 years ago [TS]

01:01:52 ◼   ► well because as you know at when you [TS]

01:01:54 ◼   ► reach our age you the mind becomes to [TS]

01:01:56 ◼   ► atrophy [TS]

01:01:57 ◼   ► yeah like we are losing our acuity with [TS]

01:02:01 ◼   ► you know leaps and bounds we are my [TS]

01:02:03 ◼   ► mental plasticity is like the greatest [TS]

01:02:07 ◼   ► generation which is to say that that [TS]

01:02:11 ◼   ► everyday half of it dies [TS]

01:02:13 ◼   ► yeah every passing day half of my [TS]

01:02:16 ◼   ► elasticity goes away just as World War [TS]

01:02:20 ◼   ► two veterans are dying fifty percent [TS]

01:02:22 ◼   ► every day depressing it's terrible and [TS]

01:02:26 ◼   ► so and this is also happening to my [TS]

01:02:29 ◼   ► friend and so get that he is a fucking [TS]

01:02:31 ◼   ► rope [TS]

01:02:32 ◼   ► yeah he gets a robe and gets to sit up [TS]

01:02:34 ◼   ► there with his like calcified you listen [TS]

01:02:37 ◼   ► to fucking Nina Totenberg read what [TS]

01:02:40 ◼   ► those people are saying they're not [TS]

01:02:41 ◼   ► super duper break and no they're not [TS]

01:02:44 ◼   ► and they've definitely got a fucking [TS]

01:02:46 ◼   ► agenda they definitely do so frustrating [TS]

01:02:49 ◼   ► to me that like they're up there you [TS]

01:02:52 ◼   ► know like the big boss of the level and [TS]

01:02:55 ◼   ► like they're actually I mean like Rhodes [TS]

01:02:59 ◼   ► Scholar good for you i'm glad you got to [TS]

01:03:01 ◼   ► travel but like a slap on the ass but I [TS]

01:03:04 ◼   ► mean no offense I don't work ping pong [TS]

01:03:07 ◼   ► but I mean come on Clarence Thomas I [TS]

01:03:08 ◼   ► mean really well wait a minute now [TS]

01:03:10 ◼   ► Clarence Thomas's yeah is jenny is [TS]

01:03:13 ◼   ► genuinely yeah he needs to take care and [TS]

01:03:16 ◼   ► cook when he sees it is genuinely a [TS]

01:03:19 ◼   ► fucking tool but you know and the funny [TS]

01:03:25 ◼   ► thing is my dad's best friend was a [TS]

01:03:28 ◼   ► federal judge who also happened to be an [TS]

01:03:33 ◼   ► african-american person by the name of [TS]

01:03:36 ◼   ► Jack Tanner judge jack dinner my [TS]

01:03:39 ◼   ► father's best friend my father's best [TS]

01:03:42 ◼   ► friend since the first day of law school [TS]

01:03:45 ◼   ► in 1940 fuck-all whatever-it-was 1949 [TS]

01:03:50 ◼   ► Jack Tanner and my dad were inseparable [TS]

01:03:52 ◼   ► for I can't even count how many years [TS]

01:03:57 ◼   ► you know 60-plus years they were best [TS]

01:04:03 ◼   ► friends and at a certain point in the [TS]

01:04:07 ◼   ► mid-seventies Jack Tanner Tanner who [TS]

01:04:12 ◼   ► went to the rumble in the jungle without [TS]

01:04:15 ◼   ► tying so tired Kelly exile the indian [TS]

01:04:19 ◼   ► chief of the puyallup indian tribe he [TS]

01:04:22 ◼   ► sataya command Jack tanner [TS]

01:04:25 ◼   ► flew to the rumble in the jungle it's [TS]

01:04:27 ◼   ► not that Muhammad Ali fight [TS]

01:04:28 ◼   ► yes no shit with two brown paper sacks [TS]

01:04:33 ◼   ► full of money that they that they [TS]

01:04:36 ◼   ► somehow got through hired Tanner was his [TS]

01:04:39 ◼   ► lawyer and satanic and was on the run [TS]

01:04:42 ◼   ► from some kind of like Federals to [TS]

01:04:46 ◼   ► showdown with the federal cops he was [TS]

01:04:48 ◼   ► gay he was running gambling and [TS]

01:04:50 ◼   ► cigarette he was running a cigarette [TS]

01:04:53 ◼   ► racket or something like that and they [TS]

01:04:55 ◼   ► threw as much money as they could put [TS]

01:04:57 ◼   ► into grocery bags and flew to Africa to [TS]

01:05:02 ◼   ► see this boxing match they're gone for a [TS]

01:05:03 ◼   ► year huh [TS]

01:05:04 ◼   ► and somehow and they got into the [TS]

01:05:07 ◼   ► Emerald trade at some point in Thailand [TS]

01:05:10 ◼   ► none of these stories ever made sense i [TS]

01:05:11 ◼   ► heard in my whole life none of this [TS]

01:05:13 ◼   ► makes it is it never made any sense at [TS]

01:05:16 ◼   ► all they have these they had there's [TS]

01:05:17 ◼   ► money in the description to suffer that [TS]

01:05:19 ◼   ► its attack them was like like a 6-foot [TS]

01:05:22 ◼   ► for indian chief from puyallup injector [TS]

01:05:25 ◼   ► was a five foot four black guy who was [TS]

01:05:28 ◼   ► like his his attorney [TS]

01:05:30 ◼   ► it's like a it's like it makes hunter s [TS]

01:05:32 ◼   ► thompson that's gonna say it sounds like [TS]

01:05:34 ◼   ► a blaxploitation version of hundreds [TS]

01:05:36 ◼   ► it doesn't make any sense at all and [TS]

01:05:38 ◼   ► Tanner would say like oh yeah we were in [TS]

01:05:40 ◼   ► Thailand it was you know right during [TS]

01:05:42 ◼   ► the end of the Vietnam War and they're [TS]

01:05:43 ◼   ► all these guys selling emeralds and so [TS]

01:05:46 ◼   ► we traded one of the bags of money for a [TS]

01:05:48 ◼   ► for a bag of emeralds but then somebody [TS]

01:05:50 ◼   ► worked us out of it in a you know in [TS]

01:05:54 ◼   ► some kind of like a singapore whorehouse [TS]

01:05:57 ◼   ► whatever and you're just listening to [TS]

01:05:58 ◼   ► these stories like what are you fucking [TS]

01:06:00 ◼   ► talking about but then he came back to [TS]

01:06:02 ◼   ► America and jimmy carter appointed him [TS]

01:06:05 ◼   ► to the federal bench jimmy carter [TS]

01:06:08 ◼   ► appointed him to the federal bench [TS]

01:06:09 ◼   ► because he was record because Tanner was [TS]

01:06:12 ◼   ► recommended by the US senator from [TS]

01:06:16 ◼   ► Washington State and the rest of my [TS]

01:06:19 ◼   ► dad's life he had to suffer the fact [TS]

01:06:22 ◼   ► that this guy his best friend who had [TS]

01:06:25 ◼   ► who was a absolute living maniac a [TS]

01:06:31 ◼   ► pathological liar and also like somebody [TS]

01:06:34 ◼   ► who legitimately did [TS]

01:06:36 ◼   ► get into the Emerald trade in thailand [TS]

01:06:39 ◼   ► as far as i can tell that he was now a [TS]

01:06:42 ◼   ► federal judge he was a federal judge and [TS]

01:06:46 ◼   ► they would meet four times a week for [TS]

01:06:50 ◼   ► Chinese food anytime they would get into [TS]

01:06:53 ◼   ► an argument [TS]

01:06:54 ◼   ► Tanner would just he would just give my [TS]