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Chapter 1: What was Andrew Schulz's experience touring in the Middle East?
Andrew Schultz ist mit uns. Dein neues Spezial ist jetzt auf Netflix. Ja, Sir. Titel? Leben. Du hast eine große Arena-Tour über die Welt gemacht. Ein paar mittelösterreichische Länder. Ein paar. Du bist da lieb. You fill... I'm the only Schultz allowed in the Middle East. You do stadiums in the wildest... You'll be in a soccer stadium in Bahrain. You're like Qatar.
It's wild. If you do a decade of women are annoying jokes, you really ingratiate yourself.
Nach einer Dekade von Bitch, get in the kitchen, fangen die Leute an zu sagen, wir lieben diesen Kerl. Was ist anders? Ist da was anderes anders, als Comedy zu machen?
Ehrlich gesagt, sie sind alle in Amerika ausgebildet. Es ist mehr ähnlich zu... Du hast in Europa gearbeitet, oder? Ja. Und weißt du, wie es ist? Sie sind bewusst von Shit, aber sie haben auch ihre eigenen TV-Schläge. Also sind sie auch nicht bewusst.
Ja.
Während im Mittleren Osten, sie bekommen alle unsere Shit. Weil sie ihre eigenen TV-Schläge nicht machen. Genau. So they're way more aware of random references. They all get educated here and not at fucking NYU. Do you get a talk? Because I've never done anything over there.
I told them, don't tell me.
So they come to you, like Live Nation comes to you, and then they'll come to your manager and shit, and they'll say, hey, and I just say, just don't tell me. Don't say X, Y, Z. Just don't tell me.
Gotcha, okay. But I just don't want to know. Because that was my question. Is there something where they go, don't, hey.
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Chapter 2: Why does Andrew Schulz think cults could be the future of Los Angeles?
Ich meine, die Leute sagen, dass sie es wiederherstellen werden. Aber würdest du es wiederherstellen? Würdest du ein anderes 20-Millionen-Dollar-Haus in einem Bereich bauen, in dem das passieren könnte?
Okay, das ist so interessant, dass du das sagst. Ich habe vorhin mit den All-In-Mitgliedern gesprochen. Und ich glaube, das war Chamath, der sagte, dass diese Idee, dass es eine Heimat auf 0,4 Hektar gibt, die für 100 Millionen Dollar wert ist. Das ist verrückt. Es gibt nur diese verrückten Ideen, die wir komplett wiederfinden müssen. Ich stimme mit dir.
Und sie waren, sprich in ökonomischen Terminen, weit außerhalb meiner Verständnis. Ja. Aber nur diese Idee, dass... Es ist weit außerhalb ihrer Verständnis. Okay, fair genug. Ich bin verrückt.
Ich mag sie. Ich mag diese Kriminellen.
They said an interesting thing, and you probably know about this from your time doing mortgages or whatever, that pushing the American dream of purchasing a home, and that I guess the US government has inflated, I'm going to say inflated the market, but in an effort to push people and support that market, essentially not letting that market fail, which it would suck if it would fail, obviously, they've inflated the prices of these homes and essentially priced out the first generation of people to buy homes.
For sure. Now Ja.
Und sie geben, was sie nennen, eine implizite Warnung. Also backen sie es, egal was. Sie backen es. Und auch wenn es nicht explizit ist, es ist implizit, du verstehst, dass es okay werden wird. Es erzeugt die Sicherheit, die für den Markt nötig ist. Genau. Also erlaubt es einem Banken, einen 30-Jahres-Fix-Mortgagen zu leihen, an einer favorablen Rate.
Sie depressieren auch Interessensrate, damit die Leute in die Spiele kommen können. Und dann kreieren sie diese Asset-Bubbles, wo Häusern eine absurden Menge Geld wert sind. Und, weißt du, ich meine, schau dir das an, richtig? Also, das ist ein Auto.
Ja.
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Chapter 3: What insights do Andrew Schulz and Tim Dillon share about the ruling class?
And there's like societal utility in it. And you're not a loser for following in your family's footsteps. That's right. You're actually doing something honorable and carrying on this tradition.
That's why Succession was such a good show, because the whole show is Logan looking at his firstborn son and going, you're a pussy, you'll never be able to do what I do. You'll be eaten alive out here. And a lot of these guys, the Les Wexers, now he has kids, I'm sure they're lovely people, but he's probably looking at them going, you guys are soft.
You're never going to be able to put a Ukrainian woman in a crate. Ja. Ja. And I think there's part of that, because... But do they want them to do it? That's the thing that... No, probably not.
They don't, so there's all this ego in it, where we're like, you're a pussy, you can't do what I do, but I really don't want you to do what I do, because it's horrible. I don't want you to have to do it.
Just go and do something nice. Make your mother happy.
Yeah.
Because I believe Les, and again, no shade. No shade to Les Wexler. No shade. I think he's one of the guys who... Whatever he did, didn't do. There are people that I believe are operators. I don't think it's most of those people. I think most of the people are like, we're rich, this is good. I work in this thing. I work at this bank. My wife is cool that I disappear occasionally. And I come back
I think there are guys, though, that know how things work and can make things happen to a degree. You're talking about like real power. Yeah, those guys. There's money and then there's power. Yeah, there's probably 10% of the rich people that are kind of going, hey, let's make something happen.
Yeah, let's move industry in a way that's favorable.
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Chapter 4: How do societal expectations influence personal identity?
I think, you know, it's a lack of... It was a little bit of a lack of investment in those regions and kind of letting those, you know, shipping their jobs overseas and then letting them kind of fester and not caring about them and then going, why are they all pissed? But I also think, like, the... Like, letting...
Es ist nicht so, dass ich nicht sagen möchte, dass sie es lassen. Aber wenn sie die Interestsrate zu 0 oder so gedroht haben, und dann haben Sie all diese Techniker, die Lohns zu 0% nehmen und dann in den Markt werfen, nach der Krise, und dann wahnsinnige Mengen von Geld machen.
Ich denke, die Rest der Amerikaner, die finanziell illiterat sind, wie ich, haben dieses Gefühl, dass Sie sagen, warte mal, warum werden sie so reich?
Richtig.
I'm not getting anything. And you have this runaway train where American excellence and opulence is leaving you behind. So I understand the resentment of that.
And you have to find a way to include those people in it. Yes. You have to have a country that works for as many people as possible. And you have to have a culture that does. That's the other thing. You can't dictate to people deeply personal things. And I think that's become apparent. What do you mean by that?
Meaning you can't tell people that their children are the property of the state or the education system. And, you know, for example, if a seven-year-old feels weird about their gender, you know, having a public school teacher tell them how things work is never going to make people happy. People really want to parent their children. Yeah.
Und ich denke, dass Overreach diesen kulturellen Raum geschaffen hat, wo du fühlst, als würdest du die Kontrolle über deine Familienwerte verlieren, was auch immer sie sind. Nur die Autonomie deiner Familie. Die Autonomie deiner Familie, ja. ... öffentliche Institutionen, mit denen du nicht zufrieden sein kannst. Und dann wirst du diese öffentlichen Institutionen natürlich enttäuschen.
Und du wirst sie natürlich enttäuschen. Also vieles ist Überreichtum. Es ist nie genug. Keiner bekommt Macht und sagt, ich bin gut. Es ist immer mehr. Und es passiert auf der rechten Seite, es passiert auf der linken Seite. Es ist nur, dass die Leute mehr von dem wollen, was sie haben.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of the American dream on home ownership?
Yeah. But I've always thought interesting people to me are interesting and that's what makes life worth it, not groups of people or even the political realities of like this way or that way. To me it's like, I like to meet a person who's fucking weird and like one idea doesn't correspond to the other and you go, how'd you get there from there? But are you getting that in LA?
I feel like there's, I feel like it's like the epitome of groupthink out here. Yeah. It's a star-driven town. Everybody gravitates to the heat. I feel like New York is a little bit more where the misfits can kind of thrive.
New York is more unique. But I'll give LA this. As it craters to Earth like an asteroid, it will develop more of that. Ja. Ja. Und die Leute hier sind nicht... Es gibt überall schlechte Gefühle. Du gehst in einen Kaffeeshop, all diese Leute, sie fühlen sich schlecht. Sie wissen, dass sie ein Skript schreiben, das niemand noch lesen wird.
Sie wissen, dass sie in einer Beziehung mit jemandem sind, der sie nicht liebt. Sie wissen, dass es nicht mehr helfen kann, wenn man fake ist. Sie wissen, dass es nicht mehr zählt, die verdammten politischen Sachen, die du auf Social Media postest, weil niemand mehr interessiert. Sie wissen, dass es nicht mehr zählt. Sie gehen einfach durch die Motionen. Sie gehen zu Pilates, sie gehen raus. Ja.
The homeless are barely into it now. You know, the homeless with the knife, it's like barely chasing. Everybody is, I think, going through the motions here. And it's interesting. It's not good. It's bad.
L.A. people, I mean, American General runs on the idea that everybody's going to be a millionaire. And L.A. runs on the idea that everybody's going to be famous. And the second they stop thinking they'll be famous is when shit gets a little rough.
That's when the cults start. And that's why I'm still here. I will put 50 people in a backyard. Don't think I will not put 50 people in a backyard. We are right on the edge of a thriving cult environment here. The conditions are ripe. The conditions are ripe. If you are a 20-year-old actor, let me help you. Wenn du ein Mann bist, wir werden nicht die Frauen im Kult machen, es distraut es.
Es ist also ein männliches Kult von Leuten in ihren frühen Zwanzigern, die ihre Leben für Fitness und Aktivität dediziert haben. Und wenn es nicht funktioniert, gibt es andere Orte, wo wir vibrationell mit Energie gehen können. Ja. In a thought circle. There'll be rampant meditation. Some will go into Islam. Bitches will have burkas walking around WeHo.
They are going to find... This is going to be... It's like Scientology had the whole monopoly on culture for a long time. But now it's like in Chicago. They bulldozed this big project, Cabrini-Green, and what happened was you had lots of... Ja. Ja. So then you need a charismatic cult leader to put everybody in the backyard. Go to the desert. Get in the van. Get on the bus.
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Chapter 6: How does social media affect individual thought and creativity?
And I'm going to... Well, there's also... It's a way to give yourself a purpose. Yeah. And a discipline. That's what I think a lot of people in life lack.
Well, yeah.
We tell people you gotta get rich, you gotta do this, you gotta do that, whatever. But we should be telling people that they should develop genuine interests. And those interests may or may not correspond to financial gain. And those are two different things. But you should be a person who has interests and cares about things and has hobbies and has a full life. You don't have to be rich.
It's nice to have more money than less. But I think what happens is Es fühlt sich fast seltsam an, wenn dieser Typ sagt, ich will immer leben, aber was ist mit der Qualität der Leben? Was genau, für was? Das ist eine Frage.
Das ist das, was wir gefragt haben. Es war einfach so, ist das wert? Du kannst immer leben, aber die Leben sehen schrecklich aus.
It seems odd to just want to live forever without a purpose. I understand people that go, I want to live forever because I'm finally going to do this thing. There should be something that you can accomplish where then you go, and now I'm ready to die. If there isn't, life has absolutely no meaning. If there's not one mountain to climb, you know what I mean? There's got to be something you can say.
Where you go, I did it. I did it. I'm cool even now. I'm good. At the end of the day, there's got to be something there.
What about the people that don't have an interest? I think that's the tricky thing about, I guess, maybe, I don't know, the dreamer culture in America is like, not everybody got a fucking dream. Of course. And then they feel like losers when they don't have a dream.
Those people, I think, can be the happiest people in the world ever. If they not only accept that, but then they have to develop, because not everyone has a dream or a purpose, and that's cool, but everybody has things they like.
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Chapter 7: What are the dangers of performative wokeness in today's culture?
Die Dating-Kultur in Japan, in den USA, gibt es irgendwelche Unterschiede?
Ja, ich würde sagen, dass ich meine japanische Ex-Freundin, ich musste viele Dinge übernehmen, weil sie nicht wirklich kommunizierbar sind. Also wir übernehmen etwas, wir testen das Wasser. Aber in Amerika, du musst sagen, was du sagen musst. Ich lerne mich sehr viel durch die Beziehung, weil manchmal muss ich etwas bringen, mit dem ich mich nicht zufrieden fühle.
Mein Ex-Freund hat etwas gesagt, das mich nicht zufrieden fühlt, aber dadurch lerne ich viel über mich selbst.
So you're open to date Japanese person or date American person? Or do you have any preference right now? After dating both.
I don't think I have preferences, but I would say at least showing interest in Japanese culture or Japanese language would be really big for me. Or like Japanese people who speak both languages, because I'm bilingual. I don't really see myself feeling super comfortable only speaking Japanese anymore. I like to mix the language, you know.
It doesn't really matter if they're Japanese American, but if they're bilingual or biculture, I feel more comfortable being around them.
Coming on board, bro. Yeah, they want the Americans. It is interesting. Where would you say your favorite place that you've gone is? You've now just destroyed Japan.
Also, wir sind in Kyoto gegangen, das ist eine andere Sache, das ist wie ein Disney-Welt. Die Leute lieben es. Es ist wie, oh, es ist älteres Japan. Du hast diese kleinen Geisha-Maschinen, die so performativ sind, Nonsens, Bullshit. Interessant.
Die Leute lieben es, aber... Sie lieben es, weil sie nicht... Ich stimme nicht zu, ich habe es einfach nie gemacht.
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Chapter 8: How does Andrew Schulz view the future of Los Angeles?
This looks insane here. It just looks like a... The fights on the street, it's a melee. It's a melee. It's fun when you're 19. It's like somebody took New Orleans and was like, hey, how about no culture?
We'll just do this. I've said the exact same thing. It's a cleaner New Orleans. And what's nice about New Orleans is it's dirty. It's dirty. It's interesting.
And it's cool. It's cool. It's history.
Yeah, I like New Orleans. Where does a guy like you think about... Viele New Yorker haben einen Ort im Gardendistrikt und leben in New Orleans. Aber das ist zu viel. Manchmal geht es runter.
Ich mag es nur, wenn es ein Besuch ist. Zu viele Schauspieler haben es gemacht.
Es fühlt sich zu... Es ist Hack, sagst du? Es ist ein gewisser Typ, der es macht. Ja. Ich mag es nur. Ich fühle mich... Als ich in Texas gelebt habe, wollte ich nicht hier sein. Sie haben eine Kultur, die ich respektiere und mag.
I like Texans.
I love Texans and I love their culture. I feel good visiting and appreciating it. I don't want to pretend to be it.
Yeah, what I talk about is like when we have these conversations where people start pretending it's like on the level of global cities as like Paris or Mexico City. It's crazy, psychotic. People, yeah. Maybe in 400 years, maybe we'll be there.
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