- Self - Guest: I haven't done email in many years.
- Self - Host: Really? How do you exist?
- Self - Guest: I do text.
- Self - Host: Wow, ust text?
- Self - Guest: Yeah. I don't do email. I don't go on the fuckin' internet. I don't have a TV, I'm not into that. But anyway ... that stuff is fuckin' bad. That's my isolation tank. I just stay away from that shit.
- Self - Host: Do you ever wonder if stuff like this is disinformation?
- Self - Guest: Maybe. I mean, I wonder if ... I wonder a lot of things.
- Self - Host: If I was from another planet, or if I was some interdimensional being, I don't know how much I'd give a shit about the president. I don't know how much I'd give a shit about the government. I would probably look at this infantile race, this species, this bizarre, territorial apes with thermonuclear weapons, this very weird species. I'd probably look at them as very chaotic. And i really wouldn't have much concern about who's running it. Especially if they have the ability to travel at insane speeds, and go undetected and ...
- Self - Guest: [on AI] I don't know why we're not having any of these conversations right now. We're just acting as if this is like some kind of virus, like covid that spreads across the world inexorably and there's nothing we can do about it, just wait to get it. It's like, no! If we agree that the outcome is bad, and specifically, it's bad for people. We should care what's good for people. That's all we should care about, if it's good for people or not. If it's bad for people, then we should strangle it in its crib. Right now.
- Self - Guest: [on AI] And why not just blow up the data centers? Like I don't ... why is that hard? If it's actually going to become what you just described, which is a threat to people, to humanity, life ... then we have a moral obligation to murder ir immediately. And since it's not alive, we don't have to feel bad about that.
- Self - Host: Did you see the most recent thing about the amount of billions of dollars they spent on the homeless problem with no trackable results?
- Self - Guest: They've had massive results. They've increased the homeless population dramatically. If you pay for something, you get more of it. And that would include fentanyl addicts. Oh absolutely, it's been a wild success.
- Self - Host: But here's what's interesting, is that none of the global warming cultists seem to have any concerns at all about AI. Why is that? Just like they don't have concerns about John Kerry's G4. Like, somehow that's exempt. Really? AI is gonna draw more electricity than anything else in the United States, more than steel production, okay ... used to. And you don't have a problem with that? But you're totally against energy because it's destroying the planet, but AI gets a carve-out? Even though it's gonna be the number one energy draw in the United States? Let's go through your reasoning on that.
- Self - Host: They're probably not aware.
- Self - Guest: Well, they're totally ... they're not aware. They're mad about my wood stove. I heat with wood. They're mad about my wood stove. They don't want an outdoor barbecue. They don't like a gas stove. No, they're way into the details on this stuff. Except somehow AI isn't a problem.
- Self - Guest: What bothers me is that the lies aren't sophisticated. I mean, when I look back on my, now sorta long life, and I'm recognizing all the times that I was lied to, but I didn't know I was being lied to. They kinda pulled it off. There's something incredibly insulting and demeaning, to tell me a lie when I know it's a lie, and you know I know it's a lie, we both know it's a lie, and you're demanding I pretend to believe it. What you're really saying is 'I have no respect for you.' You're like my dog. You're a slave. Like, I'm demanding that you participate in my lie. The lack of stealth ...
- Self - Guest: I've known a lot of them who work for magazines or newspapers that I worked for. And they're the kind of people who have a lot of cats and all the cats hate them.
- Self - Guest: The only country I have an emotional attachment to is the United States, that's it. I like lots of countries. I like almost all countries actually. I've been to a lot of them. I like 'em all. But the only one I feel emotional about is the United States 'cause I live here. I was born here, my kids are here, it's my country. And most of the people in our foreign policy conversation do not feel that way. So that distorts it really dramatically. And also, a lot of them are violence worshippers. Like, they get off on war. They get off on hurting people. And on the power that that inbues them with.
- Self - Guest: [on war pigs] 'I can't get my wife to respect me. I can't get my kids to listen to me. I can't pass any meaningful domestic agenda. But what I can do is bomb the living shit out of a foreign country.'
- Self - Guest: They don't care if you lie. No one in power cares if you lie. They only care when you tell the truth.
- Self - Guest: Not to be a 70s liberal about it, but if you let the weak get crushed, it's bad. It's super bad.
- Self - Host: I just don't understand why they would move so many people, why they would get so many agents, why they would do this so publicly for one guy's opinion, or for one group of people's opinion.
- Self - Guest: Well, I don't know. Why did medieval kings hang the heads of people they executed from the gates?
- Self - Host: They probably all have blue hair and they talk nonsense. And nothing's getting done. And no one's getting punished for it.
- Self - Guest: If I steal your iphone and sell it, I can get an extra 400 bucks, that's explicable, you can understand it. I want the 400 bucks. But if I'm encouraging your kid to castrate himself, I'm not really benefitting from that actually. There's no material benefit to me at all, there's no benefit. It's hurting for its own sake. And that's evil.
- Self - Guest: We spied on you. We think we have justification. Is there a justification for leaking the contents of my private conversations to a news outlet in order to discredit me? No, there's no, that's secret police shit. I'm not whing, ooh, I'm a victim. I'm certainly not a victim. But what was infuriating was my ... and I got members of Congess involved 'cause I was pissed, and I felt threatened. I couldn't get a straight answer. They were just like, we're not answering those questions and what are you gonna do about it? Bitch.
- Self - Guest: I know that the publicly available facts tell a really clear story. Which is the government is not acting on behalf of the population. And so, it's inherently illegitimate. Because it's only legitimacy derives from the citizenry. The only reason the government can do things that it does, kill people, collect money by force, all the powers that it has, come from one place. And that's the consent of the governed. That's the only legitimacy they have.
- Self - Guest: Evil is an independent force that exists outside of people that acts upon people, I really believe that. I've experienced it, a lot. And it's obvious. And, what vessel do they choose? The weak. It's weak men and women who are instruments of evil. The weaker the leader, the more evil that leader will be.
- Self - Guest: Who has more privacy? The average North Korean or the average American? Well, obviously the average North Korean, 'cause there's less technology. The US government spies on its own population more than the North Korean government spies on its. That's just a fact. I'm not saying North Korea is preferable, I'm not moving there. I'm not carrying water for North Korea. What I'm doing is criticizing my government because I live here because it was better, it can be better, it should be better and it only will be when we demand it. And it's not some fucking esoteric, like you have to be some crazy civil liberties lawyer or something, every person should demand, just as a starting point, a baseline, that no, you're not allowed to spy on me. I didn't do anything wrong. Like what? No privacy, no humanity. You can't be fully human without privacy.
- Self - Guest: We've had FISA, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, since I think 1977. So it predates 9/11. Did it stop 9/11? Oh, I don't think it did. Shut the fuck up. You're not protecting us actually. You open the southern border to anyone who wants to come here. You're not checking IDs, you're not doing any kind of biometrics, you're not even screening for covid. So clearly you don't care about my safety, stop telling me you do. You don't. You're a criminal. Stop this charade. You don't care about my safety. So using my safety as a pretext for spying on me is not gonna fly. Because I'm not that stupid.
- Self - Guest: You go through every climate ... quote, climate demand, not one of them disempowers large organizations, whether it's NGOs or the government of the United States, not one of them. They all make the government more powerful. And they all make you less powerful. So that's when you know it's not really about the temperature of the earth's atmosphere. It's about making them more powerful and disempowering you. And it's not about who runs those agencies, the bigger the agency, the more effective it will be in doing what all human organizations do, which is ... protect themselves and increase their power.
- Self - Guest: The basic prerequisite for leadership is love of the people you lead and the willingness to die for them. If you don't have that, you shouldn't be leading. Period.