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All right. How you doing, man? How are you, Jimmy? Yeah, fantastic, man. Fantastic. Move your head. Okay. Yeah, if you... You want me to get rid of it? Yeah. So visual effects, let me see. How does blur it? Well, move your head. Yeah. Can you see what I'm saying? Yeah, it's like a little gap on it. Yeah, yeah. That's always the problem with that. Some people are luckier than others. Okay. Is there a reason why you want to hide your background?
Okay, let's see that. Move. I'm just in my bedroom here. Oh, I don't care. Nobody cares. Oh, no. Okay. No, no, no, no, no. Let me... Trust me. Your hair will be much better. Dude, that's fine. Yeah. Okay. Now I see the problem. I'll fix a couple things in the background. Yeah. I know there's a mirror back there. Yeah. Oh, that... I thought it was a lamp. Okay. It's very... No, I'll tell you how we'll fix it. Scoot up, scoot forward. Okay. Can you physically... Yeah. See? Okay. Let me give myself together a little bit more. Okay. Now we can live with that. I'm going to move some of this stuff over here, though. Is there... Okay. Now tilt the camera down just a scosh.
Not a smidge in a scosh. Is that a lot? I just want our heads to be about the same. But that's pretty close, though. We can live with that. Oh, that's huge. Yeah. Now... Sit up a little bit more, too. You know, I try to sit up and then I still, you know. I got to fix my bed and stuff over here, though, man. It doesn't even look like a bed. You can if you want, man. I get it. I get it. I do. I totally get it. Nobody's going to see it. And it doesn't even look like a bed. But... Okay. But anyway, look, it's your room. I'm talking from a really nice studio with a lot of nice shit in it. That I don't sweat the stuff. And so you have your environment. And it's yours. So I totally get it. I totally.
One second. I'm just going to flip a couple things around and I'll come right back. Okay. Is that... Let me ask you this. Is that a window with a curtain open? Behind me? No, that's reflecting in the mirror. What's reflecting in the mirror? That's so bright. Yeah, the window. The window. Can you cover those window? Can you pull the curtains closed? Yeah, I can't hold on to this. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. So we got it. Okay. Okay. Let's see how that helps me.
Like a glowing ethereal being right now. There we go. Better? Yeah. A little bit. Yeah, it's a little crap right here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't don't even sweat it. Okay. Yeah, see. I'm sure you look great. And then you can make your bed. Okay. Don't make your bed look like a bed. See now it doesn't look like a bed. It looks like a comfortable sitting area. Okay. You straighten out your pillows. People are going to go, that's his bed. Oh my God. Okay. All right. Hey, if you think it looks all right, you can't tell me. No, you can't. Trust me. Nobody cares. Nobody cares. Stop wasting your nights on a mattress that doesn't get you. Experience the most comfortable mattress in the world. The sleep number smart bed. At the touch of a button, you can personalize your comfort. Choose firmer or softer.
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I don't want this isn't coming from ego. It's just a fact. It's an obscenely big house. Okay. And I live alone. Oh, right. Okay. And it is spotless. Yeah. And you can walk around and look and know that I've got a problem. I've got a cycle. I've got a problem. It's obvious. And so by me saying what I'm saying right now about your bed, that's the exact opposite it is. I'm so full of shit, man, because I would not. I just obsess. And so, okay. All right. All right. If you, if you must, you shall make your bed. All right. I might need like just one minute to fix it. Two things. Yeah. All right. So I better go to the bank.
You're a Lancaster, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I've been up there. My daughter played softball. We went up there for the like the state championships. Oh, really? Yeah. That's a big deal up here. That's a big. Yeah. Yeah. It was real fun. Oh, man. Okay. We're falling out from the heat. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So where. Yeah. Where you went for the softball tournament. Uh huh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, um, I live across the street. It's a gulf course. A golf club called Rancho Vista. And that's right, lip. I live at the golf club. Oh, right on. And, uh, but so if you were there, you could. If you were standing in the right spot, you could see my house. Oh, that's awesome. So, yeah. That was my time coming up there. It was, uh, it was very cool. Yeah. Yeah. And, and where you were, uh, to, to really nice part of town.
And here's the crazy part. Uh, skunk works is one mile from Marie Kerr Park. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I live on Avenue. Oh. It's a, a, a, b c d e f g, right? So I live on. Oh. Uh, the next street up is Avenue. P. Obviously. Oh, P. And that's where Marie Kerr Park is. So you come down to, oh, where I'm at. Oh. T-bones. T-bones ends at skunk works. Just one mile from here. Yeah. I take everybody over there when they, you know, James Fox, right? Yes, sure. Yeah. Their friend of mine and one of my closest friends and. Then a lot of stuff. James over the years and been around the world with him. So he calls me and says, hey, man, okay. Kelly and I, his sister. And the team, uh, were filming.
And we want to roll through Palmdale. Yeah. I said, okay, why? Well, man, you're going to take me to skunk works. I said, with your film crew. Okay. Well, anyway, yeah, CNN goes. Yeah, yeah, and we did. We did. Anyway, so he shows up. And we, we pile in. He's got, you know, his. Sound man, camera man and. His crew with him. And we take off. When we pull up, he goes, holy shit. You weren't kidding one mile. It just sits out here like this. I said, it does. And I pictured some secret thing like area 51. No, the street. Well, there's fences and guards and. And there's a lot of. The air forces there with Air Force Plan 42. Lockheed, uh, north of Grumman, NASA. Uh, so they're all there. And there are.
Gates and guns and big signs that threaten death. That's everywhere. But it's, it, it's on the street. The main buildings. And they're huge. They're just right there. They're huge. They're like each building is like 10 wall marks, right? And they're, they're gray. But right on the front of the building is like a 20 foot skunk. It's so crazy. Yeah, yeah. You see the pictures and you don't realize, you know, yeah, it's like. It's something that you think is like in a, you know, some secret locations. Yeah, well, that's exactly right though. When they built it, this was nothing but desert. Right. Okay, there were no houses out here. No, nobody lived here. Skunkworks was in Burbank originally at Burbank Airport. That's where they built the S-71 and, and all that stuff. Um, and so they chose Palmdale because at the time there's nothing here.
There was a dirt road, you know, it was very remote. And yeah, and Edwards is still that way though. Edwards, which is again, you were here. Yeah, I could have taken all these places. Edwards is about five miles up the road. Okay. And, but that they've kept the perimeter there. They can't, you can't, you can't even close the, no, no, no. I've been hassled. Oh, yeah. Yeah, like guns and stuff. It was, it was just because I was taking pictures. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, the guy, the guy, there's two of Camo dudes too, the straight up. I was so happy that I was so honored and privileged that I got hassled by those guys and got a report written up with my name on it. Um, but he goes, what are you doing?
I go, man, these signs, I've never seen these signs before. It literally says no photography penalty of death. He goes, exactly. And you're taking pictures of it. It says he was not, he was not playing with me. He was not, he was so, so angry. Anyway, Edwards is still remote. Like, you can't, all the roads that are around there and stuff, Edwards is miles away. Um, and surrounded by dry lake beds. So you can't drive up on that. But the skunk works. Yeah. Yeah, it's right there. Yeah, it's right there. All the secret stuff with skunk works, what they do, I'm looking at the clock here. Okay. Um, what they do at skunk works is all of the, all of the doors. There's one hanger door that faces a street, but it never opens. All the, the secret stuff goes on the opposite sides of the building.
So you don't see the planes roll out. You don't see when they're test flying stuff. You don't see it move. And they do a lot of that stuff at night. And they have all the stuff covered. So satellites, Russia's got satellites parked 24 hours a day, you know, right over skunk works. And they talk about all my neighbors work there, you know, they talk about it. And so they're aware of that. So all of the stuff rolls under covered stuff. You can't even see it. So that all goes on. Yeah, they've, yeah, it's pretty cool, man. And it's right there. Yeah. I just sit out there at night with my friend. Okay. What if you would happen? Let's see what happens. Yeah, it's pretty cool. It's pretty cool. It's pretty cool. Okay. So I know you have, it's you a pedia.
Yeah. That's correct. Okay. I had to figure that out of my own. I'm such a genius. You a pedia. Okay. We're going to spend some time tonight talking about that. But I'm just going to give you the heads up. We're not going to do the interview now. I'm not going to give you questions in advance. I want to know about you. And the audience wants to know about you. And you're, you know, who is not only who is running this thing, but what is the attitude about that person with, with the community and the world and the, and the opinions on the government or secret or whatever it is. Right. That is if, if people are going to resonate with you a pedia and get over there, you're the face. You know, they need to know, you know, who is, who is behind all of this. So we're going to do the biggest part of the show tonight is just you and I talking about stuff
and I'm going to, I'm really get it what I do. And I'm going to get your opinions and your. Yeah. Okay. Great. Yeah. Okay. It'll be easy. It'll be fun. So have we met, by the way, I feel like we've been around, I've been around, you know, I'm friends with a lot of people. So, but have we met? Yeah, we've met at contact before and, and conscious life expo. I knew that we did. And I was trying to, as soon as I, I saw your picture, I said, yeah, we've shaken hands and been in the same sort of, you know, area having lunch with some of the same people sometimes, but not the same table. Was, was that cool? Yeah, always, always, always, always, always, always. You're supposed to say no, you were, you were kind of a dick, but no, you never, you never better dick this. If you have been, you know, fair enough, fair enough, fair enough. Let me fix my background. How long am I going to be on? Okay. You're going to be on for two hours. I'll let you go now. You fix your background.
We'll see you back here in 12 minutes. Don't turn off your camera. Leave it on. Okay. Okay. We're going to remove you. Nobody can hear you or see you. But when we bring you in, we're going to bring you in and everything has got to be snapped. You know, okay. So we're going to pull you out one hour into the show. It's two hours going to go by like it's nothing. One hour into the show, five minute commercial break. Okay. I can't, I'm going to be on for two. I don't, I hope I have enough to talk about for two hours. Just let me do me. Okay. Okay. All right. We'll see you in a minute. Here we go. Okay. Turn your camera back on. Well, I just, my camera's on. I just turned off my little viewer at the top so I can, I can fix my background and that'll come around. I know. I don't worry about that. Watch this. See. You're gone. Okay. Okay. So we're going to pull you out. Don't see, see the adjust. Leave. Don't touch anything. Just leave. Okay.
Here we go. Okay. Okay.
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