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Off The Record: What is the True Meaning of Life?

#meaninglife#bunchrocks#earthquake#soaking#soak
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0:00 no hesitation don't say um what is the meaning of life the meaning of life [Music] is so a lot of people like to hear our thoughts on a lot of different things for whatever reason we don't really quite understand I think cuz we're experts on everything that could be why what would Joe do that could be why what's popular that could be yeah true I actually think if a earthquake happens you should just run outside that's probably good advice cuz you're not around all the stuff that could fall on you exactly you thought that was bad advice see that's what I'm if an earthquake happens start fing your wife girlfriend or whoever because it'll do the thrusting for you it do the work for you and yeah you take take some time off so you do you lie down or you on top though you're on top but then it's shaking so she shakes you shake you both

0:50 shake and then if you come too fast you blame it on the earthquake yep and if you get a pregnant it's like I didn't do it the earthquake did it that sounds like earthquake is the father yeah the earthquake is father God that's a whole album now um so today we're talking about what does the the careful Boy Take On The Meaning of Life Meaning of Life oh ████ yeah I'll tell you this if I was Mormon okay you'd have a lot of wies do you know what um so soaking is for Mormons soaking yeah you just sticking right I would soak during an earthquake you know not to brag but I used to soak with my first girlfriend cuz we didn't want to like be like you know I think we passed the earthquake thing I think it's went back to the first topic and he just ignored the second topic no no no are you stillo earthquake being the father so I like I want to talk about Alaska

1:41 Airlines and the door blowing off no I I I think it's clear I asked what's the meaning of life and Joe's like oh you ever heard of the Mormons how they soak yeah he's like I would just soak a bunch and I'm going to bring a full circle here yeah he's like yeah so a seismograph right the meaning of life is just birth wow literal very literal you didn't like that one I was just doing what you would do just do this all right what's your medium like I have one but mine is already to myself okay good you're embarrassed already by it um but I think the meaning of life is the gym is you trying to find meaning of life so it could there's no right answer so if your meaning of life is the way is the way my dad it which is see you guys

2:32 later like that that's your meaning of life awesome high five don't point at me when you do that if your meaning of life is like ooh I need to discover who I am and my potential awesome that's you too but I think the meaning of life is you discover your own meaning and there's no wrong answer that's what I think so that's honest that's pretty that's pretty good but like what did you say your dad's meaning of life was again ████ pull the ████ plug on some ████ whenever I feel like he trying to find a yeah I was trying to find a plug Nick use Nick oh jeez I don't know if I want to be a part of this if your father was a plug would you be three-prong or USB or oh that's not bad oh ████ yeah let's go around for that one that's a classic JK question so you know soaking right yeah soaking is pretty cool that's I want to try that I did it with my ex with my

3:23 first girlfriend how were you able to resist thrusting I mean you just you just do the stupid ████ to yourself where you're like oh it'll be so bad to my relationship with God wow that was really why you didn't full on but did you like throw in a couple coughs and sneezes I'm a guilty guilty guilty little catholic ████ and so yeah guilt and me go hand in hand we were tight with each other so it was like that interesting oh but I got my dick suck don't even worry about it hell yeah baby good cuz I was worried came out on top all right go back to some serious anal and ████ are not sinful well like between two married no just Christians bust out the shirt subjective much if they're having ████ sex that's a sin what if one guy is for marriage a Muslim and the other one's a Jewish then

4:15 that's World Peace okay yeah that's beautiful it's healing healing that's healing you said you want to go back to some serious stuff great transition um so obviously there's like the seeking mean but since you're like a father do you feel like since you're a father do you feel like your meaning and life changed after you gave birth that's a good question after you had ta answer it seriously and I know that in general you're like my meaning is to seek meaning but I'm saying did the meaning evolve or like did it add definition you want to change your answer yeah yeah or we can bring it back to your father because that's also crazy no I'm not going to change my answer but I think you definitely experience more meaning like you're like it's like U there's like ████ more notes to your song if you will G you know what I mean yeah it's pretty gay I don't want I don't want more notes of my song dude yeah but it's like

5:06 you're like you're like oh ████ before I was like watching black and white TV now I got ████ color and then maybe something else happens and you're like oh ████ that's ████ VR up in this ████ it feels like that cool but it's crazy how people got to develop whole institutions and belief systems and religions to like create some type of like meaning for the afterlife yeah and I and then when I look at all of it it looks like it's just um fear and anxiety management like all Rel religions is like you get so in your head about what's going to happen what happens when you die you know all these things that you're afraid of that like it creates rules and lessons to help you kind of soothe out from from those scary thoughts but what if the scientologists are right and I better get my e- meter

5:56 what what's their their ████ thoughts Scientology yeah it's pretty crazy so basically we're aliens that are trapped into these bodies our souls are like aliens right that are like into these bodies and then you go throughout life and you have all these like past traumas or whatever so you have to go through like these electric meters to help you kind of navigate through that like therapy and then at the end you got to keep it's called clearing so you have to do these things to like keep clearing to the next level so you can go clear which is like the top so how much did you spend to learn all that Joe $150,000 they got me with the brochures dog let's just say that like you know growing up 7 Adventist how we were always taught like we are right and everybody else going hell and that's so

6:47 sad but we we're right say let's say that like we are right yeah and then the end of the world happens we're in the ████ sky going up to heaven and we're looking down at everybody what would you say to everybody I just go like that I probably climbed down but then if you did this you get caught and you get sent back down oh ████ I probably be climbing down cuz the only guy that I would like in the whole group is you cuz I'm looking at all these ████ faces and I'm like I don't want to be with them I'm going to go to ████ hell with you guys yeah we didn't make it we didn't make it so I'll start climbing down the ████ Cloud rope you know that's why I think like for me the meaning of life is is you are correct whatever you think it is because nobody yeah because you get to the end of the road no one's going to be there to be like all right let's look over the results see who is right he was wrong it's like you're saying there's no Gates of judgment I mean I don't know that's the thing I think if you believe there are there are what the ████ this

7:38 is some canned ████ well because so so if you believe there are so yeah the way that I'm looking at it is if I take the human perspective out of it then we're just like tons of matter thrown at each other over ████ trillions of years flying through ████ space and then we different elements combining turning into organic material and so that's like the the sociopathic way of looking at it so we're just propagating what is supposed to be but then if we throw the human aspect into it that's why I do think it's the whole meaning part cuz at the end of the day yeah we're just a species trying to reproduce but while we're here and while we have this Consciousness how do we make the most out of our our being I guess yeah that's that's a nice answer

8:28 that's a great answer why do people need a meaning everybody needs meaning Joe but what if it's like why you think why you think you're so special you know what the funny thing is might actually be getting into a ████ car wreck and dying early so someone else has a lesson so you might actually your meaning might just be imp purpose that might be your purpose but that's not necessar your or like the meaning of ultimate life like your stairs for other people to walk on yeah basically yeah yeah sure like what's your what's your meaning I think everyone has a meaning or everyone has something they're trying to do and why and why they want to do how's what about this I think the meaning of life number one hang with the boys word to that brother no no for me um like everywhere we look like in like we to we've taken um we sent a a Lander

9:19 to ████ Venus took a picture right what did we see bunch of ████ rocks we and gas we took pictures on the moon what did we see bunch of gay astronauts and a bunch of rocks footsteps we we we we went we went to Pluto G we went to Pluto that's what I heard we went to Pluto right what do we see it all looks like ████ Las Vegas yeah we took a picture we landed on top of a asteroid and we took a picture and what do we see bunch of rock the the I think when we look around in our environment the meaning of life is that we give meaning to life because we built all this ████ this stupid room that actually looks cool now like we like we gave meaning to this place otherwise this is just a bunch of rocks or just even just a bunch of walls right we give meaning to the places that we in that's what so the meaning of life is to give meaning to life that yeah that we do it isn't that

10:09 what he said no no no I said but I said it different yeah he say he you oh he said a bunch of rocks and I said about hanging with the boys too that's why I think like like if Steve says that that's the meeting and then you say that's the meeting and then he says something different from my point of view I'm like yeah you guys are all they're all right I think arguing about the M Life might be the silliest thing like but that's what religions do all the time that's why I think that's silly it's like the whole point was that all these religions could just be ████ correct and leave everybody alone so Ryan's meaning of life is to give validation to everybody's meaning of life well I I just don't think I just don't think they necessarily conflict like what a wild guy those are the only things that I think are widely different but do not intersect and create friction in my mind I'm like yeah everybody I think it it only it only does when you violate someone else's Freedom so like if your purpose is to enslave everybody and then

11:00 you go well that's my religion but still now you're preventing someone else's free will yeah that's why I thought it was funny to be 70 atist where we're not killing Catholics we're just going bye-bye it is pretty messed I mean that's what the you know what you learn in Catholic School it's like we're the best everyone's going to hell that's why I think is way funnier we're not having uh you know jihads or religious Warfare we're just like oh I'm so sorry that you're something else oh boo we'll get you later we'll get you later or you go on mission trips and you go I gave you a chance but you didn't want to ████ listen so here here's a weird question I don't even know if it's going to sound correct coming out of my mouth but please humor me um do you think that like people you know back in like religious war and like the Crusades or something like that people that were like lived very short and harsh lives and died for their beliefs at the end of the road maybe had

11:52 more meaning to life or potentially loved it more than somebody maybe who exists today till they're ████ like 90 but like had no belief system and just existed cuz is meeting quantifiable I think it's actually more question I would say it's easier to follow a script than it is to develop your own to write your own yes damn dude that's cool I I like that collaboration we did that's what you get when you're hanging with the boys D yeah dude that's what's up well think about how scary it is to find your own peace and being okay with everything that exists right say ignorance is bliss because if you don't know you can't be scared by it so like if you have a manuscript for life let's say you're joining a religion and whatever and sometimes that's so much more easier because the world is all

12:44 under your control you know like if you do this then you're going to go to hell you know like like there's like someone else that created a step by step for you rather than you now having to like go wait a minute that reality is not real then what do I think and believe I have too many choices and then what if what if I do this while I still go to heaven there's too many consequences I think that becomes much scarier intimidating yeah yeah cuz then you're like well what if uh this religion is real but then I didn't follow it so then I'm going to go to hell now yeah like you have to live with that consequence I don't know well there's something too about you know people get so offended cuz it's like well if there's a God how come they let negative things happen and stuff like that but to me it's just about you know testing your response levels right like finding meaning in even tragedy just

13:34 tests your ability to overcome things have you seen that clip of that British guy that's like I forgot who it was but he's like you're like why don't you believe that there's a God and he's like because bone cancer in children yeah I've seen that one I've seen that what God what God would allow this bone cancer and children and it's like oh yeah that's true but maybe we take life too seriously L because maybe it really is something so trivial to even us like if you talk about us as like Soul containers like like we're just Souls who come here to have some sort of experience that maybe we're the ones who Levy like the utmost like respect to life and all this stuff that we do to our about it make it such a big deal when to us actually at source or whatever it's not that big a deal yeah yeah like if you look at ████ baby sea turtles they're ████ born and

14:25 then the ████ seagull yeah what was the purpose for that Fe the seagull ████ that ████ live for 5 seconds your job was to be food your stairs sometimes you're just stars for other people to get to the next spot then maybe there is no meaning it's just the fact that we happen to be sentient beings we like develop this concept of meaning I think that there's a there's a there's like a spectrum of narcissism that humans have for survival right and all of us need to feel like we're here for a reason or something important but then some people's reasons is literally supposed to be food for someone else like that right damn look every time that I get afraid that this conversation just sounds like a ████ NPR Podcast then you say something like that and then we like it we're hanging with the boys and we do we're

15:16 back but if you listen to everybody in their stories right like like the funny thing is how heroic it has to always be like they go Oh in a past life I was a king or like some grandiose ████ character it's never like in my past life I was a dog walker or like some ████ stupid role that like that's like insignificant where most people by the way in human history were peasants most people were in poverty most people were not ████ you were not a king odds were yeah you're probably some ████ beat farmer some you know you're at a rice Patty and then you got scoliosis cuz like you ████ bent over all your life you're a ████ onion farmer or some ████ and then you see soldiers coming up the hill and they take your whole family from you and that's just how life was it was and and then people need to believe like oh I'm

16:07 I'm set for greatness and I'm ████ here for a reason you know and I think it's just hilarious I was Alexander the Great in the past life it's like no but your village got taken over by him but that's what the seminar told me to feel yeah I feel like because I don't have memories of my past life in my past life I must have been like a tree or something that's a tight past life though so you're a new it's a you're a New Soul unless you got like eaten by birds or some ████ hopefully a tree that my hopefully a tree that my ancestors cut down chance are your an cut down everything yeah probably hopes and dreams for Millions definitely I do think that's a really cool thing about humans though is the ability to whatever we have here we can make it into a physical thing and I think that's I don't know if that's the meaning to life but that's a really ████ aspect about living now is that we can create and do

16:57 things and manipulate reality we can go to space that's ████ crazy that's freaking amazing cuz our o oo oo oo o o oo o ancestors they couldn't do that it's it's crazy though because like on what bar said too like if the meaning of life is also like fine meaning in life it's like that's like probably the only only reason why we would give ourselves such a challenge as a human species to go to space what if questions were so big and Broad and heavy and Weighing on our shoulders or some people's minds that it's like we have to push the balance to see what we came from and the you know what I'm saying it's like it's a desire to find meaning that gave us purpose to do and Excel in crazy things that's what's so funny about like when you look at things cosmically and let's say you're some Celestial being staring at Earth from like ████ way up there and you're going oh These Guys these guys might get up here someday If Only They had the

17:47 budget how ████ funny is that that that's what stop like why don't you guys ████ fly up here already uh you know we got get funding from these guys and put it over here Ukraine dude Ukraine they can't agree with each other that is a funny system it it's really funny it's like we've ████ ourselves with that but then also it it's that nightmarish feeling of like you know the end of uh in the was it Men In Black when they zoom out oh the marbles yeah and it's just in a ████ pair of marbles the whole galaxy it's like that's after being pulled out of a locker room yeah yeah I think the funnest funniest irony about human beings is like we're capable of like such intelligent ████ but that same human will be jacking off to some ████ ████ porn or something and then it's like the internet is like 70% porn or whatever and it's like how's

18:37 that for NPR see we're back right and it's like the meaning of life it's like you have these deep ass conversations and an after their show they go and ████ get a ████ from a hooker or something and it's like we're still animals with and is life how beautiful life is we're bunch of idiots should we ask Ken what he thinks the meaning of life is Ken oh my God here comes a podcast n PR style yeah ████ 30 minutes make him do it in Viet acent real quick come over here real fast stand right here without any hesitation do a wiggle do a wiggle be be on brand no hesitation don't say um what is the meaning of life the meaning of life is to party trying to be off brand I like that Bo the party it is the party and it's

19:27 whatever your party is that out later whatever makes you meat Lo Bud yes yeah it's whatever your party is all right that was a good answer you ever think about how um you know we're not here for very long and then if you think about like our ancestors and all that stuff they're basically like we have to like really look them up like do hardcore Googling and ████ like that have to pay people to hardcore Google that ████ right and then like if you think about it like it's almost like you're walking on a beach and you look behind you and you see your Footprints walk wash away like that's basically Our Lives yeah cuz does does any of of us know our great grandparents ████ no no one knows I don't even know what their first or last name I have a picture of them that's it and then every time you go up it's like exponentially more ████ so it's like who who do you even said so I only have a picture of one of them actually but I have like 16 of them probably they're all time there are times though like I'm sitting with AC and I'm like oo

20:19 great-grandfather you ████ wished you had this ████ I'm doing this for you this is the best invention ever AC AC 100% I can't believe they ████ antibiotics dude AC is the ████ dude I keep AC every time you know what else is pretty sick ████ GMOs Baby G oh yeah they make all the fruit tast eat whatever the ████ anytime any season Bud come on we wouldn't even have bananas yeah we wouldn't have bananas we' have these ████ freakish big ass dick things that Wilt they're way too big too big for our mouth we're living better than ████ Royals yeah they didn't have ice water back but then imagine 100 years later people look back these guys were eating yeah and like oh so cruel such cruelty they had to use their digestive tract did they not know the plant scream

21:10 neanderthals do they not know burn cancer in children he

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