#1001 - Mike Baker

Joe Rogan (0:00)

Struggle.

All right, ladies and gentlemen, we're live. The president's now blind, he's been staring at the sun all day, trying to see the eclipse, there's photos of it. Mike Baker, help us out. What are we doing, man?

Mike Baker (0:18)

Well, I've told you, that's probably, again, it's an indication that they don't have a lot of discipline in that communications department of the White House. No one got him the message, don't, sir, sir, don't look at the sun.

Joe Rogan (0:28)

Not only that, definitely don't look at the sun while people are looking at you.

Mike Baker (0:32)

Yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:33)

Jesus Christ, the whole world is gonna mock you.

Mike Baker (0:35)

Don't you know that everybody knows this since they were a kid, right? Even if you've never been involved in an eclipse, every kid knows don't look at the sun. It's the one thing that every child learns somehow.

Joe Rogan (0:45)

You know what I tried to do, though? I'm a fucking idiot. I took two dark sunglasses, I put them on top of each other.

Mike Baker (0:51)

That'll work.

Joe Rogan (0:51)

I put one pair, and then I put another pair over them. It doesn't work, folks.

Mike Baker (0:54)

Yeah, but it looks good. It does look good.

Joe Rogan (0:56)

I only looked for a second, and then I went, oh, okay, this doesn't work. But you know where I could look at it? I could look at it through my pool, like the reflection in the pool.

Mike Baker (1:03)

Oh, sure, yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:04)

I could see the eclipse, there you go. But it never really got fully dark here. You know, we're too low.

Mike Baker (1:08)

Yeah, I just came down from Idaho. I was up there in the mountains over the past few days, and it was just hippies coming in from left and right, and the entire state just overrun with hippies. And they're parking in people's ranches, they're just driving up on fields that have just been planted.

It's like they don't even think. And so, but they came out, hey, God bless them. I don't know that I was intellectually curious enough to really worry about the eclipse.

Joe Rogan (1:37)

There's a balance.

And you know what? I think a lot of intellectual curiosity is great, and a lot of hippie values are great, but then you go too far into the hippie retard gene pool, and you get these dopey hippies that are hippies that, they're the worst kind of hippies, the hippies that don't really wanna do any work, but they want universal basic income, they want all these, hey man, these one percenters, they have plenty of money so the new one should have to work ever.

Mike Baker (2:06)

They just passed a tax up in Seattle that's probably gonna get struck down, but it basically was up in Seattle, well God bless them up there, they've decided that they're gonna go against the state charter which says you can't have a tax, an income tax, and they've gone ahead and done it for the, I think it's for the top two percent or something like that.

Joe Rogan (2:26)

Oh, only tax them.

Mike Baker (2:27)

Yeah, only tax them.

Joe Rogan (2:28)

Only tax the people who are doing something.

Mike Baker (2:29)

Right, because you gotta make this thing more equitable.

Joe Rogan (2:33)

That's hilarious.

That's really funny. Well, what's interesting is that's the whole reason why a lot of companies like Amazon and Microsoft, that's the reason why they've located to Seattle, you fucking dummies.

And they're gonna pull out, and then you wouldn't have any jobs, and then you'd be poor.

Mike Baker (2:47)

Yeah, but you know what? Somebody's gonna pay for that.

We came from, we moved out from Fairfield County from New Canaan, Connecticut when we moved out to Idaho, which was the world's greatest move.

Joe Rogan (2:57)

Oh, it's the best move of all time. Connecticut sucks. I say it over and over again.

Mike Baker (3:02)

Sorry folks. Yeah, I mean, but they know it, right? The people of Connecticut know it.

Joe Rogan (3:06)

You're good people, but you live in a sucky spot.

Mike Baker (3:08)

And their plan, the plan of the governor and the rest of the crew there is, when you need more money, tax Fairfield County, which is home to New Canaan and Greenwich and Darien and Stanford. The people that work in the city or the people that are working in finance.

And now what they've had over the past three, four years, ever since the governor's been running the shop, is people moving out. I mean, GE moved out. General Electric, the entire operation with General Electric said, went to the state and said, I know people are thinking, why are we talking about this? But they went to the state house and they said, you can't keep doing this. You can't keep jacking it up on us to pay for everything. We're happy to pay. And we are, pairing our fair share. So they did that. General Electric said, we're going to move. The state didn't believe them. They've all relocated to Boston.