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feels. Just a little rosy. I had
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I get it. It is better this way.
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It is nicer. Yeah, yeah, it's like
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a full, dude, I need to show
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you this. So, what is this? and
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he flew a comedy mothership lighter out
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to Antarctica. I've been reliably told
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that that light was used to
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smoke weed in Antarctica. Yeah, and
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it's touched, it was dropped a
1:07
number of times, so it's touched
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ancient permafrost. What kind of laws
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do they have in Antarctica? I
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don't know, apparently they're liberal. I
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don't know, I don't know if
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they're there, have they established laws?
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There were 400 miles in. Whoa. So
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this was part of the final
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experiment. which was this attempt
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to try and disprove flat
1:28
earth. Oh. He went as a part of that.
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Did he bring flat earthers? Is
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that the deal? So, four flat
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earthers, four globe earthers, globe earthers,
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get flown to Antarctica. It's $35,000
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per person. Oh my God. This
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guy called Will Duffy put the
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project together, flew everybody down there.
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Did he pay for each person?
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Wow. Wow. I think maybe a
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couple of people chose to go
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self-funded. but they were trying to
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get the open offer to all
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of the biggest flat earth influences
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common I don't know what
2:01
to call. How many went?
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Four of each. Four roundies,
2:05
four flatties. Don't you want
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to see their search histories?
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Maybe the FBI do. I
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don't know. The flat people,
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I want to see. So
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they do this in the
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middle of our winter. There's
2:20
summer. They observed the sun above
2:22
the horizon for 24 hours.
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So there's no explanation apparently
2:26
with most of the models
2:28
of flat earth about how
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the sun could stay above
2:32
the horizon for 24 hours.
2:34
So they flew down, they had drones
2:37
flying in the air, they had
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24 hour 360 cameras, they had
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live stream of iPhones, all of
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this stuff, and then they had the
2:45
people that were on the ground.
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And the guys that were there
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observed the sun. This is just a
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drone footage. Oh, this is a
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drone footage? Yeah, so the final
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experiment. So those are apparently mountain
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tops. But they're submerged? It's just
3:00
all ice. That is so fucking
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hardcore. Because you know, there's a
3:05
bunch of things up there that
3:07
look like pyramids. And what it
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really is is just an unusual
3:11
peak of an enormous mountain. Have
3:13
you seen the Antarctic Pyramids? Yeah,
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you gotta go all in on
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that. Okay. We have hard launched,
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hard launched this episode. People that
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believe wild shit about Antarctica. So
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you know about the direct energy weapon
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theory, right? Yes, I did see that
3:29
on Sean Ryan's show. Yes, I did
3:31
as well. I was like, that guy's
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fucking, really interesting. Yeah. He sounds really
3:35
interesting, but if I want to sit
3:37
him next to Eric Weinstein. You know
3:40
what I'm saying? Like, is anything that
3:42
this guy's saying make any sense? Because
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I've done that before with Eric, with
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one guy who was a fraudster. I
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sent him a video and I said,
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tell me if this is gobbledygook. Or
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if this is like real physics. Eric
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to stress test some guy's ideas. Core,
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he loves it. He loves any sort
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of intellect. sexual stimulation and especially
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if it's like mathematics or physics or
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something where it's his wheelhouse and you
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know he's great because you can someone
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can sound really good to me You
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know, they could start quoting thermal dynamics
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and... Finassing you through whatever that problem
4:14
is. Like chiropractors do. You know, chiropractors
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use all these crazy weird terms for
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musculature and different insertion points is to
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let you know that they have a
4:23
comprehensive understanding of the body that's far
4:25
beyond yours, Chris. And this is the
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same thing like a lot of fraudsters
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do. They'll use enormous language and very
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verbose... you know, phrases, and it's like
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they're just trying to get you to
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think that they're smarter than they are.
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Yeah, I think people use sort of
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complex language and fluency as a proxy
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for truthfulness and insight. Yes, yes, and
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especially when if you're dealing with a
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truly brilliant person, that's what a pyramid.
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Oh, this is just on Google Maps.
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Yeah, you've just gone to Google Maps.
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Yeah, I didn't want to go to
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any, I went to the source. Any
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cookie websites. Yeah, that's crazy. But the
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reality is that's probably under a couple
5:01
miles of ice. Yeah, so this final
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experiment thing sent the world into a
5:06
spiral. There was this dude, Jarin Campanella,
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who was one of the biggest influences
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and he's said... I saw the sun
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above the horizon, I think the earth's
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round. He's immediately been, the flat earth
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society's just gone into a head spin.
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They're saying they didn't really go to
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Antarctica. They went to the sphere in
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Vegas, was one of the accusations. They
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did it at the sphere in Vegas,
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and they were tracking it around. This
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fear is not that big kids. It's
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not that big. I've been there. There's
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seats everywhere. You would know you're there.
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I don't know. I don't know. They
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had a bad time. But yeah, it's
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it's that's been pretty wild. Talking of
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pyramids. Dude, this new pyramid shit that's
5:45
just come out. Oh, this is insane.
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Yeah, I was gonna send this to
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you as well, Jamie. I'll send you
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one of the most comprehensive breakdowns of
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it on X, because it's quite stunning.
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So apparently, through the use of Lydar,
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they have discovered that there are enormous
6:00
structures underneath the great pyramid that go
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kilometers deep into the earth with coils.
6:04
So enormous pillars, and then these coils.
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They don't understand what it is, because
6:08
they're all looking, they're just looking at
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LIDAR images, but whatever this is, is
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a uniform structure. There's several pillars, and
6:15
all of this is like very, very,
6:17
very weird. Yeah, 600 meters. Descending down
6:19
those cylinders and then there's more stuff
6:21
below it and then there's additional structures
6:24
inside of it. Yeah, that was crazy.
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It's really crazy. There's a guy Jay
6:28
Anderson and he did a breakdown of
6:30
it. Maybe this would be good. We
6:32
could play this. It makes a little
6:34
more sense when someone's explaining it to
6:37
you. Yeah, I mean, we need somebody
6:39
that's an expert here, not me and
6:41
you. Zawi Hawas, by the way, has
6:43
said it's nonsense. So already? Yes. According
6:45
to Graham Hancock, this is the wonderful
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thing about having Graham Hancock yesterday. I
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was like, yeah, what's going on with
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this is. Dun
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dun dun, I love
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the music. In geometry, so you
8:58
know it's real. Gotta appreciate the
9:00
dramatic intro. Project Unity. What
9:04
has just been announced in relation
9:07
to the pyramids at the Giza
9:09
Plateau and the plateau itself is
9:11
so incredible, so awe -inspiring and narrative
9:13
shattering that I have been sitting
9:15
here for the last hour trying to
9:17
wrap my head around the implications
9:19
of what we were just told.
9:21
So this is pretty much breaking
9:23
news because the new findings were
9:25
announced on the 16th of March at
9:27
a press conference held by the
9:29
team who was studying the Great
9:31
Pyramid of Giza with a non -invasive
9:34
technology that was first developed
9:36
by Filippo Bionde
9:38
and Corrado Malanga called
9:40
synthetic aperture radar
9:42
Doppler tomography. Fuck, that's
9:44
an This is
9:46
used to explore the
9:49
internal structure of
9:51
the Great Pyramid of
9:53
Giza. And this
9:55
method leverages the analysis
9:57
of micro movements
9:59
typically generated by background
10:01
seismic activity to
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achieve a high -resolution
10:06
full 3D top... demographic imagery
10:08
of the pyramid's interior and subsurface components.
10:10
The recent findings from deploying this technology
10:12
are nothing short of mind-blowing because what's
10:14
been discovered is that there are huge
10:16
structures coming down from the base of
10:18
the pyramid deep into the bedrock. In
10:21
fact over 600 meters deep which
10:23
then connects to structures that
10:25
extend up to two kilometers
10:27
below the surface of the
10:30
ground. One kilometers, massive internal
10:32
structures connected to the base
10:34
of the pyramid and extending
10:37
deep, deep down. This is what we
10:39
know so far. What does your friend
10:41
think about it? Which friend? The one
10:43
that you said it's bullshit. Oh, that's
10:45
not my friend. That's Zawi Hawas.
10:48
Okay. Zawi Hawas is the head
10:50
of antiquities in Egypt. He's like...
10:52
the head guy that talks to
10:55
the archaeologist and gives the official
10:57
narrative in the past. He's been
10:59
extremely hostile to Graham Hancock,
11:01
but Graham Hancock and him and
11:03
have now become friends. Oh, yes.
11:05
I know this guy. Graham is
11:07
a lovely guy. People that are
11:09
enemies with him, just need to
11:11
get to know him and hang out
11:14
with him. He's a genuine, real human
11:16
being who's trying to find the truth.
11:18
He doesn't have fake narratives and... And
11:20
he's so sensitive too, like he's so
11:23
upset, like when people smeared him, like
11:25
the Atlantis thing they were trying to
11:27
say, it's a white supremacist idea to
11:30
look for Atlantis. It's like, what are
11:32
you talking about? Like what are you
11:34
talking about? Like we had this guy
11:37
Flint Dibble on, who in an article,
11:39
and he was... talking about Graham, and
11:41
he's connecting Graham to white supremacy and
11:43
all this crazy shit because of the
11:46
Atlantis theory. It's the way
11:48
they dismiss Atlantis. It pedestalizes
11:50
white heritage. Some people in
11:52
the past, some people in
11:54
the past, who have theorized
11:56
about Atlantis, had white supremacist
11:58
ideas. But also... Most people
12:00
didn't. Like, Plato didn't. Like, the
12:03
people that talked about this place.
12:05
It's in sub-Saharan Africa. I mean,
12:07
it's like the least white supremacist
12:10
discovery of all time. As are
12:12
the pyramids. This is Africa. It's
12:15
the least white supremacist notion of
12:17
all time that this incredibly advanced
12:19
ancient civilization had reached some sort
12:22
of proficiency that's above and beyond
12:24
we attribute to them. I think
12:26
Graham is right and I think
12:29
there's a lot of other people
12:31
that are right too that are
12:34
chasing this down. Christopher Dunn had
12:36
long ago theorized and wrote a
12:38
book that he believes that the
12:41
Great Pyramid of Giza is a
12:43
gigantic power plant. He thinks it
12:45
generates power and he has a
12:48
very like a working theory of
12:50
why it's built the way it's
12:53
built. that totally coincides with the
12:55
ability to produce hydrogen, the ability
12:57
to utilize the rays of space
13:00
and try to find some way
13:02
to generate electricity through this. Yeah,
13:04
the association of other people that
13:07
we don't like talked about this
13:09
thing, therefore anybody else that talks
13:12
about this thing is immediately attached
13:14
to them, just seems like a
13:16
very lazy way to sort of
13:19
smear people. It's lazy thinking. It's
13:21
gross. It's beyond lazy. It's not
13:23
lazy. It's really cheap. It's like
13:26
they're cheap insults. And it's also
13:28
from academia, which is so disappointing.
13:31
I mean, academia has been so
13:33
captured by this mind virus of
13:35
leftism that it's just... It's so
13:38
bizarre to watch the brightest minds
13:40
and the people that we lean
13:42
on for rational, reasonable thinking and...
13:45
an objective understanding of the world.
13:47
We lean on the experts and
13:50
when they're calling someone a white
13:52
supremacist for talking about an advanced
13:54
society that lived in Africa. There's
13:57
a lot of ways that you
13:59
can... put your foot in it.
14:01
There's this woman, Corey Clark, who
14:04
sent a survey to every psychology
14:06
professor in the US and asked
14:09
them questions like what is more
14:11
important, the truth. or ensuring that
14:13
equity is promoted. And a lot
14:16
of professors basically said, I self-censor,
14:18
I would prioritize making people feel
14:20
good over necessarily telling them the
14:23
truth. There are certain opinions that
14:25
people should be reported for, there
14:28
are certain topics that basically shouldn't
14:30
be discussed, the usual suspect stuff
14:32
like behavioral genetics, so heritability, evolutionary
14:35
psychology, as in anything that kind
14:37
of relates to sex differences. And
14:39
yeah, it really is retarding the
14:42
progress of everything. And you think
14:44
we're trickling down from this. What
14:47
sort of educated society are you
14:49
going to have in future? That's
14:51
not going to be particularly good.
14:54
Well, I think it's going to
14:56
encourage independent education. I think you're
14:58
going to encourage people like University
15:01
of Austin, which is they're aiming
15:03
to do just that and to
15:06
kind of bypass all this nonsense
15:08
and just teach people reality. And
15:10
I also think that it's most
15:13
likely, I mean I don't even
15:15
want to say most likely, it's
15:17
most certainly influenced by other countries
15:20
that want to degrade our ability
15:22
to develop meaningful minds that come
15:25
out of universities, like intelligent useful
15:27
people. Distract them with... Social justice
15:29
not just distract them but destroy
15:32
society with it. It's Yuri Bezmanov's
15:34
prediction from 1984 It's like you
15:36
could pass that off as a
15:39
ridiculous conspiracy theory if it wasn't
15:41
totally accurate It's like it's amazing
15:44
how people don't want to believe
15:46
that maybe There's been subversion and
15:48
that maybe our universities have been
15:51
overrun for years with both funding
15:53
which we know is true particularly
15:55
from China China funds a lot
15:58
of American universities. They give a
16:00
lot of grants, they spend a
16:03
lot of money, and this was
16:05
a part of the whole thing
16:07
with George W, or not George
16:10
W, excuse me, with Joe Biden's
16:12
bizarre job that he had, where
16:14
he was a professor. that he
16:17
never showed up for classes and he
16:19
was teaching and he got a large
16:21
salary. He got a mob, no show
16:23
job teaching. Is it a professor? Yeah,
16:25
as a professor. And I think he
16:27
got a million dollars a year just
16:29
do nothing. You know that question that
16:31
people ask about. I know how
16:33
much you got. I don't want
16:35
to get sued. Allegedly. He doesn't
16:37
know what's going on. Well, he
16:39
might auto sign the legal papers.
16:41
There's that question about, there's two
16:43
options about. life in the universe
16:46
that either we're alone or that
16:48
we're not and both are equally
16:50
terrifying. Right. Right. I feel like it's
16:52
the same when it comes to Western
16:54
anti-Westernism and you say either
16:57
we're doing it to ourselves or
16:59
we're not. Right. And both are
17:01
equally terrifying. You know, you're being
17:03
puppeted by this nefarious foreign power.
17:05
Or you're just turning around and
17:07
kicking the ball into your own
17:10
goal over and over again. Well
17:12
I think people will turn around
17:14
and kick the ball into their
17:16
own goal, but I also think
17:18
they're being helped. I think there's
17:21
a substantial amount of this that
17:23
just works automatically. It prays
17:25
upon really weak minds and
17:27
particularly bullies and mean people
17:29
who want to find other
17:31
people that they can hate to
17:33
justify. like whatever virtue they
17:35
believe they have above those
17:37
people and they'll use it
17:39
to hate. And John Cleese
17:42
made a great video about
17:44
this, why extremism is so
17:46
interesting. It's on my Instagram.
17:48
I repost it the other day,
17:50
someone posted it, we'll give him
17:52
credit for it, but it's a
17:54
great clip from 30 years
17:56
ago. In pre-social media, there's
17:59
no social... media at this time
18:01
and he essentially nails what's going on
18:03
with both the right wing extremists
18:05
and the left wing extremists it's
18:07
the same thing they're the same
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lifelock.com/J-off-off terms apply. We've heard
20:43
a lot about extremism recently,
20:45
a nastier, harsher atmosphere everywhere,
20:47
more abuse and bother boy
20:49
behavior, less friendliness and tolerance
20:51
and respect for opponents. All
20:53
right, but what we never
20:55
hear about extremism is its
20:58
advantages. Well, the biggest advantage
21:00
of extremism is that it
21:02
makes you feel good because
21:04
it provides you with enemies.
21:06
Let me explain. The great
21:08
thing about having enemies is
21:10
that you can pretend that
21:12
all the badness in the
21:14
whole world is in your
21:16
enemies and all the goodness
21:18
in the whole world is
21:20
in you. Attractive, isn't it?
21:22
So, if you have a
21:24
lot of anger and resentment
21:26
in you anyway, and you
21:28
therefore enjoy abusing people, then
21:31
you can pretend that you're
21:33
only doing it because these
21:35
enemies of yours are such
21:37
very bad persons. And that
21:39
if it wasn't for them,
21:41
you'd actually be good-natured and
21:43
courteous and rational and rational
21:45
all the time. If you
21:47
want to feel good, become
21:49
an extremist. Okay. Now you
21:51
have a choice. If you
21:53
join the hard left, they'll
21:55
give you their list of
21:57
authorized enemies. Almost all kinds
21:59
of authority, especially the police,
22:02
the city, Americans, judges, multinational
22:04
corporations, public... I bet the
22:06
moderates are in there again.
22:08
I bet the moderates are
22:10
in there again. No, I
22:12
bet the moderates are in
22:14
there again. No problem. I
22:16
bet the moderates are in
22:18
there again. No other enemies.
22:20
Only they're different ones. Noisy
22:22
minority groups, unions, Russia, weirdos,
22:24
demonstrators, welfare sponges, meddlesome clergy,
22:26
peace-nicksnicks, peace-nicks, the BBC, peace-nicks,
22:28
the BBC, strikers, communists and
22:30
of course, moderates. And upstar factors.
22:33
Now, once you're armed with one
22:35
of these superlists of enemies, you
22:37
can be as nasty as you
22:39
like and yet feel your behaviors
22:41
morally justified. So you can strut
22:43
around abusing people and telling them
22:46
you could eat them for breakfast
22:48
and still think of yourself as
22:50
a champion of the truth. A
22:52
fighter for the greater good. And
22:54
not the rather sad paranoid schitzoid
22:57
who really are. Seriously. Brilliant,
22:59
brilliant. Yeah, I remember. Pre-social media.
23:01
But the dynamic is still the
23:03
same, right? It's just amplified now,
23:05
so much so that it's a
23:07
part of everyone's life. So many
23:09
people's morality stands on the shoulders
23:11
of somebody that's fallen behind, right?
23:13
It's look at how much, look at how bad that
23:15
person is. You don't need to look at me. And
23:17
I think that if people start pointing
23:19
it out groups and they bind their
23:22
group together over the mutual hatred of
23:24
an out group, that's usually an indication.
23:26
I'm like... I should look a little
23:28
bit closer at you. Like, we might
23:30
be a good example. Lizzo.
23:32
Didn't think I was going
23:35
to go there. Lizzo, talking
23:37
about how she was in
23:39
support of these bigger goals
23:41
and she was going to
23:43
help their careers and give
23:45
them a platform, presumably a
23:47
structurally reinforced platform. Meanwhile
23:51
behind the scenes, she's body shaming them,
23:53
she's starving them, she's not letting them
23:55
have water, apart from when she makes
23:57
them eat bananas out of the vaginas
24:00
of Amsterdam. stripers. Douglas Murray
24:02
said that she thought
24:04
that she could outsource
24:06
eating fruit to somebody
24:08
else. And meanwhile, you
24:11
think she's portraying Nicey
24:13
Nicey out front what's
24:15
happening behind the scenes.
24:17
I remember this, this
24:20
was pre, yeah please,
24:22
this was pre, thank
24:24
you. pre-
24:29
Trump Elon, really pre- Trump Elon. And
24:31
he was saying, thank you very much,
24:33
and he was saying, what I care
24:35
about is doing good, not the appearance
24:38
of it. And he's discussing performative empathy
24:40
in this way, this sort of sense
24:42
that what's most important is to protect
24:45
people's feelings. And I think that this
24:47
really is a point, it doesn't matter
24:49
whether you're on left or right. This
24:51
is a point that you should care
24:54
about because you want people to have
24:56
some sense of transparency, legitimacy, they want
24:58
to be telling the truth, you want
25:00
to trust that what someone is saying
25:03
to you is actually what they believe.
25:05
And he said, what I care about
25:07
is doing good, not the appearance of
25:09
it. There are lots of people who
25:12
are doing evil while proclaiming that they're
25:14
doing good. And that's the same that
25:16
you're talking about there with John Please.
25:18
You're saying... These people's morality will stand
25:21
on the shoulders of others who have
25:23
fallen behind. It's the same reason why
25:25
if somebody's in the middle of a
25:28
scandal, look at who comes out and
25:30
twists the knife. A lot. Do you
25:32
go, huh? I wonder what's in your,
25:34
it's the classic congressman that's got the
25:37
anti-gay bill, who's just gay as fuck.
25:39
Yeah, yeah, Glory holes and you know,
25:41
check his hard drive. That's the person
25:43
who's hard drive. So yeah, it's just
25:46
such an obvious warning sign to me
25:48
that what's happening inside of someone is
25:50
probably not that good. Yeah, I mean
25:52
if you're looking to destroy someone. particularly
25:55
like you're you're attacking someone online particularly.
25:57
almost all of
25:59
those people are deeply
26:01
broken. There's
26:04
always some creepiness that lurks behind the
26:06
scenes that you're trying to cover
26:08
up for with your actions. Almost always.
26:10
You're trying to put the light
26:12
on this person. You're gonna put the
26:14
eye of Sauron on this person
26:16
to keep it off yourself. I've seen
26:18
that a lot of, you know,
26:20
self -proclaimed male feminists. Sneaky fuckers. Yeah,
26:22
that I know to be creeps, you
26:24
know? And I'm like, ew. And
26:26
I'll see them attacking some other guy.
26:29
I'm like, oh, God. I don't
26:31
dive in, but I want to sometimes.
26:35
Sometimes I want to just burn the boats
26:37
and pull the fucking pins on the
26:39
grenades. You know what I don't like about
26:41
that sort of level of aggressive criticism?
26:43
I think I'm, you could describe me as
26:46
a criticism hyper -responder. I'm someone for whom
26:48
it probably impacted me more than it
26:50
should do. Certainly more than it should do
26:52
for someone who gets the level of
26:54
attention that I've managed to get myself to
26:56
now. Right. And what I don't like
26:58
about it is it causes people like me
27:00
to be way less confident in their
27:02
own positions because you think, oh well, most
27:04
people, if it was me, I would
27:07
only give feedback if I was really certain
27:09
and if I had this person's best
27:11
interests at heart and if I wanted them
27:13
to do better and if I actually
27:15
knew what I was talking about, then I
27:17
would tell this person what I think
27:19
about them and what I think about what
27:21
they're saying. And if you apply that
27:23
rubric to everybody else that gives you criticism,
27:25
you give undue unfair expertise and legitimacy
27:28
to people who don't have your best interests
27:30
at heart. They don't understand what you're
27:32
trying to do. They don't care about you.
27:34
They don't get it. And it causes
27:36
a lot of people, basically I think that
27:38
criticism killed more dreams than a lack
27:40
of competence ever did because people are just,
27:42
I'm worried about pushing these boundaries too
27:44
much. This person, all of my friends tell
27:46
me the truth. Why isn't this person
27:49
on the internet? There's this idea from Ethan
27:51
Cross called criticism capture. So you'll have
27:53
heard of audience capture, right? Yes. Where a
27:55
creator starts feeding red meat to the
27:57
audience, it becomes very predictable. Criticism capture. basically
28:00
says it's not the compliments,
28:03
but the criticisms that are
28:05
more warping, that over time
28:07
what you end up doing is
28:10
changing the way that you speak, you
28:12
become a... flame sword, flaming sword, wielding,
28:14
card carrying member that's as aggressive as
28:16
possible to push back against it, or
28:18
you go the other way, and you
28:20
begin to caveat very aggressively, you start
28:22
to dampen down all of your opinions
28:25
so that nobody can take offense to
28:27
them. You have these unnecessarily long sort
28:29
of dire tribes, sort of we land
28:31
acknowledgement, well we must remember that women
28:33
are struggling with the thing and we
28:35
have to do memories. But now we've
28:37
got that out of the way, let's
28:39
talk about men's problems, or whatever it
28:42
might be. I just wish that the
28:44
internet was a little bit more positive,
28:46
some, as opposed to negative some, and
28:49
I understand that people bind together over
28:51
mutual hatreds of outgroups. But the oldest
28:53
story in human history is, that group
28:55
of people are different to us. Yeah. Let's
28:58
get them. The oldest story in history. I
29:00
mean, it's tribal genetics. It's
29:02
like baked into our DNA, literally. And
29:04
it can be manipulated. And when people
29:06
are doing it, and they're doing it
29:08
with a very obvious... distortion
29:11
of your actual position just
29:13
to label you as the
29:16
worst possible least charitable version
29:18
of you that could ever be
29:21
remotely considered. You see that all
29:23
the time where people are just
29:25
trying to distort a narrative.
29:27
You're seeing that right now
29:30
with Elon, right? You're seeing
29:32
people justify violence and
29:35
extreme vandalism. and you're
29:37
seeing people cheering on and it's
29:39
very strange. There was a thing
29:42
on the Daily Show where the
29:44
host was talking about the attacks
29:46
on Tesla and people keying people
29:49
and the audience starts clapping and
29:51
cheering. It's so strange. It's so
29:53
fucking strange. And it's also just
29:56
shows you how positions
29:58
just completely flip-flop. Like
30:00
at the Tesla used to be
30:02
the car that you drove to
30:04
let everybody know that you were
30:06
environmentally conscious and you were good
30:08
left us. It's a good question.
30:10
Do we care about the environment
30:12
or not? Because those fumes that
30:14
are being kicked out are not.
30:16
And not good. A thousand jet
30:18
airplanes flying overhead for a year.
30:20
Yeah. Yeah yeah yeah. Yeah. It's
30:23
wild. You're lighting batteries on fire.
30:25
They're so toxic. Yeah. Lithium and
30:27
all sorts of shit getting pissed
30:29
into the environment. Oh. This is
30:31
for a righteous cause. Yeah, it's
30:33
all funded too. It's funded by
30:35
NGOs. That's where it gets really
30:37
creepy. The Tesla fires are funded
30:39
by NGOs. Yeah, people are uncovering
30:41
exactly what's going on and this
30:43
is where, this is where it
30:45
gets fascinating because all this stuff
30:47
is operated pretty much with impunity
30:49
in the past before Doge, before
30:52
Elon and his... crew of hyper
30:54
spectrum psychopaths started to. Fucking teenage
30:56
mutant Ninja Turtles. Super Wizards started
30:58
diving into all this data. And
31:00
this is something that. Ted Cruz
31:02
talked about, he said we had
31:04
always known that there was these
31:06
problems, but until Elon came along
31:08
with these algorithms, we couldn't expose
31:10
them. We didn't understand what was
31:12
going on. And now they've used
31:14
AI to create this understanding of
31:16
the net of NGOs that is
31:18
all funded by USAID and by
31:21
similar type programs where you know
31:23
you kind of have these open-ended
31:25
checks that get written to the
31:27
other side that's the top. Yeah
31:29
right there. How often you smoke
31:31
cigars fellow a couple of times?
31:33
Well, I fucking turn this around
31:35
the wrong way. All right. No
31:37
worries keep going But this is
31:39
this is the essentially the way
31:41
Mike Bens describes it. He's the
31:43
very best at it I don't
31:45
have you ever seen his his
31:47
breakdowns of? USAID. I love his
31:50
episodes on here incredible so interesting.
31:52
They're so interesting because you realize
31:54
like this has been going on
31:56
forever and ever and ever and
31:58
this is this is the arm
32:00
of the government that is about
32:02
regime change a lot of the
32:04
money gets funneled into these other
32:06
countries and it's under the guise
32:08
of you know air quotes aid
32:10
but it's not aid it's agency
32:12
for international development and it's it's
32:14
all about influence and power all
32:16
throughout the world and and also
32:18
at home and one of the
32:21
things that it does at home
32:23
is they organize these protests. They
32:25
organize protests, different NGOs do, all
32:27
funded by the government, all funded
32:29
by taxpayer money in this weird
32:31
way, and when they do it,
32:33
they pay people to show up
32:35
at these places. I've got pamphlets
32:37
of people who have given me
32:39
that they've taken from these locations
32:41
or gotten from email lists where...
32:43
Is that purposefully no digital record?
32:45
I think probably, but I don't
32:47
think they care. I mean, I
32:50
think as long as they're saying
32:52
they're going to pay you to
32:54
protest. I think that's legal. I
32:56
think it's legal to pay someone
32:58
to protest. So they're paying people
33:00
$1,000 and they're giving them food
33:02
and snacks and you can get
33:04
a lot of people to just
33:06
show up for a thousand bucks.
33:08
And then some of them are
33:10
going to get a little Vandelie.
33:12
are the ones who are painting
33:14
swastikas on cars. Just understand how
33:16
crazy positions can flip and flop.
33:19
The left is upset that we're
33:21
not continuing an endless war in
33:23
Ukraine. The left is upset that
33:25
this guy is uncovering fraud and
33:27
waste. And so in order to
33:29
stop that, you must light cars
33:31
on fire and put swastikas on
33:33
them. Because he's a Nazi. Because
33:35
he said my heart goes out
33:37
to you. Even though there's countless
33:39
videos of AOC doing that gesture
33:41
Tim Walsh doing that gesture enthusiastically
33:43
Many many people I do think
33:45
if you're in that position if
33:47
you've got this heritage coming in
33:50
Just be careful with where you
33:52
put your hands. Don't you know
33:54
what I mean? Like just fucking
33:56
think about where you put your
33:58
hands He's on the spectrum, man.
34:00
He's not normal. You've seen that
34:02
video comparing him and Trump's son.
34:04
There's two different types of autism.
34:06
Have you seen this? No, I
34:08
haven't. Oh my God. It's so
34:10
good. I think it's at the
34:12
inauguration. And they're both stood next
34:14
to each other. And Elon's sort
34:16
of fist pumping and loving it.
34:19
And Trump's just like staring off.
34:21
Apparently Trump's son went up to
34:23
Biden at the inauguration and said
34:25
it's on now. What
34:27
is this, a fucking UFC fight?
34:29
I mean that's literally, apparently lip
34:31
readers have like read what he
34:33
said when he went up to,
34:36
because there's a moment where he
34:38
goes up to Biden and Biden
34:40
looks confused and he doesn't smile,
34:42
he's like, eh, but he walks
34:44
up and it's on now. Well,
34:46
they need to do, you know,
34:48
how football coaches have got, they
34:50
put the play thing over the
34:52
front of their mouth like this
34:54
and they're talking to it. That's
34:56
how it needs to be done
34:59
now for politics with lip readers
35:01
everywhere. That kid knew there was
35:03
lip readers. I don't think he
35:05
gave a fuck. I think they
35:07
tried to put his dad in
35:09
jail and he wants to kill
35:11
that guy. He's dead. He dies
35:13
in jail. He's going to get
35:15
no food. He's going to be
35:17
no nutrition, no sunlight, depression, intense
35:20
fucking anxiety. You're in jail. You're
35:22
dead. He's 80 years old. He's
35:24
not going to last 105 in
35:26
jail. There was a video from
35:28
Forbes recently that got a million
35:30
plays in a day talking about
35:32
Trump getting like bopped on the
35:34
nose by a boomer. Yeah, by
35:36
a little boomer. He just little
35:38
boop on the nose. Yeah. I
35:40
have to say I have such
35:43
fucking news. politics fatigue already, well
35:45
what, two months into the sort
35:47
of presidency, and it is the
35:49
velocity of bullshit. If you can
35:51
get a million plays in the
35:53
day because Trump got bopped on
35:55
the nose by a fucking boom
35:57
mic, it just, the app. is
35:59
it seems endless for it. It
36:01
just feels it's very it's exhausting.
36:03
I'm kind of having to check out
36:06
and I know that people say oh
36:08
well it's a luxurious position you don't
36:10
need to pay attention to politics it's
36:13
a luxurious position for you to be
36:15
in people at the bottom they do
36:17
need to pay attention to be in
36:19
people at the bottom they do need
36:22
to pay to pay attention to politics.
36:24
It's an interesting stat because actually the
36:26
most educated. I'm so... You're
36:28
allowed to be exhausted.
36:30
It's ridiculous. Newsweek
36:33
wrote an article about how
36:35
one of the names of one
36:38
of our podcast, who's a good
36:40
friend of mine, Michael Costa,
36:42
his name was misspelled
36:45
accidentally. On the
36:47
feed? You're on the road. And
36:49
so Newsweek. Is that you, Jamie?
36:51
It wasn't even misspelled. I don't
36:53
know. It was miscapitalized. That's a
36:56
second letter. Had a capitalization too.
36:58
The defense rests its case here.
37:00
It wasn't even misspelled. Right. It
37:02
was M. Capital I. Michael Costa.
37:05
Like me kow cost or something. Okay
37:07
a headline it's a fucking article
37:09
in Newsweek Ever think that your
37:11
career would result in you having
37:13
typos for a headline Jamie? I
37:15
don't even know which ones we've
37:17
missed. I'm sure there's but other
37:19
ones That's just the first one
37:21
a hundred percent. What happens? It
37:23
happens people make mistakes. You're typing
37:25
things in yeah, but the fact
37:27
that it's an article that we're
37:29
being called out for a typo
37:31
Must be a fucking art, but
37:33
it's just anything for clicks man.
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Anything for clicks? That was something
38:50
that I noticed a trend that
38:53
I've noticed over the last couple
38:55
of years. Legacy Media is really
38:57
struggling to garner attention itself. It
38:59
seems like fewer and fewer people
39:02
are listening to it. We saw
39:04
that over the last election. You
39:06
know, it seems to me like
39:09
the best way that legacy media
39:11
can gain traffic. is to talk
39:13
about independent media. How many times
39:15
are we seeing headlines about Andrew
39:18
Hubeman or about the right-wing manosphere
39:20
pipeline and how it's getting people
39:22
to do this? Or the other
39:25
side, like why is there not
39:27
a Joe Rogan of the, like
39:29
you know, whatever the headline is,
39:31
more and more the way that
39:34
legacy media is able to achieve
39:36
traffic is only in reference to
39:38
independent media. Yes. I was opposed
39:41
to us being downstream from them,
39:43
they're now downstream from us. Yeah,
39:45
and anything masculine is right wing.
39:47
Anything. You cannot be masculine. Like
39:50
you cannot be interested in physical
39:52
fitness, anything... It's a pipeline to
39:54
being right wing. Yes. You can't
39:57
like fast cars? No. You're not
39:59
allowed to? You're not even allowed
40:01
to like Tesla's anymore. Massaginous. Which
40:03
is the fastest cars. Yep. Yeah,
40:06
you're misogynist. You're probably racist. Maybe
40:08
a Nazi. I'm going to put
40:10
a swastika in your car just
40:13
to let everybody know. It's
40:17
there was some really fucking stupid
40:19
graph that someone put up of
40:21
how right wing Social media and
40:23
new media people That was the
40:25
media matters. Yeah, yeah, this is
40:27
interesting I was at the top
40:29
of the list I was at
40:31
the top of the list and
40:33
I was like I feel like
40:35
the way Caitlin Jenner must have
40:37
felt like when she won women
40:39
in the year like So quick
40:41
I got the top of the
40:44
list I'm not even right wing
40:46
just because I support Trump I
40:48
supported him over the rest of
40:50
the fucking nonsense that was going
40:52
on when you're trying to push
40:54
through someone without even a primary.
40:56
Here it is. This is it.
40:58
I'm number one bitch. It's kind
41:00
of funny, like they're putting Theo
41:02
on in there. Lex Friedman? Yeah,
41:04
that's, Lex Friedman, that's hilarious to
41:06
put him in there. Who else
41:08
they have in there that's ridiculous
41:10
Morgan? Well, Pierce Morgan is kind
41:12
of like right leaning, leaning I
41:14
think, but I think he's pretty
41:16
reasonable. I think he's far more
41:18
of a centrist. Kill Tony 3.5.
41:20
I still understand how that's a
41:23
political show. It's not, but Tony,
41:25
you know, was at the White
41:27
House, or the... Flagrant, 2.8. Yeah,
41:29
flagrant is not a right-wing show,
41:31
you fucking idiot. I have a
41:33
bunch of red dots too with
41:35
no names on them, which is,
41:37
and then bold ones. You're allowed
41:39
to, shut up, Jamie, stuff beams.
41:41
I managed to thread, I managed
41:43
to thread the needle of avoiding
41:45
this. You're going to get on
41:47
there now. They're going to put
41:49
you on now. Yeah. They're too
41:51
little too small. No one cares.
41:53
No one gets too. Yeah, it's
41:55
hilarious. It's very funny. What do
41:57
you think of the? If you
41:59
got a proposed reason for why
42:02
this, is it just a judgment
42:04
criteria that the judging shows that
42:06
aren't right wing as right wing? Or
42:08
is it genuinely that for some
42:10
reason the left is struggling to
42:12
make progress in independent media? Well,
42:14
they're struggling to make progress in
42:17
independent media for sure, and they're
42:19
trying to figure out why these,
42:21
what they are calling right wing. I
42:23
think if you looked at all my
42:25
positions. I think way more of them
42:27
are left wing than right wing. What
42:30
are the left wing positions that you
42:32
still hold? Well, the big one is
42:34
having some sort of a social safety
42:36
net. I was on welfare when I
42:39
was a kid. My family was on
42:41
food stamps. We were fucking poor as
42:43
shit. And I remember that helping
42:45
us a lot. We had food. Where I
42:47
don't know what we would be doing. If
42:49
we did, I mean, we were in
42:52
a bad place. there's social safety nets
42:54
for people my my family got out
42:56
of that and my stepfather and my
42:58
mother wind up doing well they did
43:00
they did really great and they they got
43:02
out of dead and bought a house and great
43:04
job and the whole deal but when I was
43:07
a little boy we were fucked
43:09
and I think social safety nets
43:11
are very important for people it's
43:13
very important for society if you
43:16
care about the whole society you
43:18
don't want people starving when there's
43:20
ways to develop government programs
43:23
to make sure people have
43:25
food and i think that's this
43:27
idea of pulling up by
43:29
their bootstraps is horseshit some
43:31
people don't have boots they
43:33
don't have straps they don't
43:36
have nothing they're they're fucked
43:38
they're fucked from the moment
43:40
they were born they're born
43:42
to a bad family environment
43:44
in a bad neighborhood and crime
43:46
and gangs and drugs and it's
43:48
not even playing field 100%
43:50
should be socially funded. I
43:53
think that Medicare and
43:55
Medicaid, having programs where people
43:57
who are hurt can. an
44:00
operation and it's not going to bankrupt
44:02
them for the rest of their life
44:04
is another thing that I think society
44:06
should be a part of our agreement
44:09
to take care of each other as
44:11
a community that we chip in money
44:13
for what people would think of as
44:15
socialist positions. And I always bring up
44:17
the fire department because the fire department
44:20
is one of the best examples that
44:22
everybody sort of agrees. It's a socialist
44:24
sort of thing. give your tax dollars
44:26
the tax dollars supports the fire department
44:29
the fire department fairly puts out fires
44:31
for everybody they don't not put out
44:33
your fire if you don't have any
44:35
money yeah it's not like they don't
44:37
the fires don't such a good example
44:40
but when you compare that to the
44:42
way that medical access is done at
44:44
least in this country but I also
44:46
Believe in competition. I've said this before
44:49
I'll say it again. I want my
44:51
doctor to be a bad motherfucker who
44:53
drives a Mercedes I want my doctor
44:55
to like be really good I want
44:57
to be an artist You know, I
45:00
want to go to the guy who
45:02
fixes the Lakers knees You know, that's
45:04
the guy you want you want that
45:06
guy who has a nice watch and
45:09
he lives in a nice house and
45:11
he kicks ass and he knows how
45:13
to fucking fix people really well He's
45:15
the best at it and you go
45:18
to him and you get an operation
45:20
competition because competition inspires excellence. You know,
45:22
being rewarded for your hard work is
45:24
a giant incentive for people to get
45:26
amazing at things. And you need that,
45:29
you need that too. But there's also
45:31
a lot of very good doctors who
45:33
would be very happy to do something
45:35
that helps the overall greater good of
45:38
the community, just like you have really
45:40
good you know, a sign to you
45:42
if you're, uh, you know, if you're
45:44
getting unjustly tried and you want a
45:46
really good one that can help you.
45:49
You know, there's, there's state appointed attorneys
45:51
that are just good people that want
45:53
to help people. You know, Bill Murray
45:55
was talking about his daughter, his daughter
45:58
does that. You know, there's room for
46:00
that with the amount of money that
46:02
we spend on so many things that
46:04
we all agree are fucked and maybe
46:06
some of that could be freed up
46:09
with some of this USAID money that
46:11
they're pulling. I mean... There's nothing wrong
46:13
with giving people health care like if
46:15
you know anybody that's been injured and
46:18
was bankrupt Because they didn't have insurance
46:20
and then they had to get some
46:22
crazy operation and now they have this
46:24
enormous debt and they wind up going
46:26
bankrupt or they're getting chased down for
46:29
the money for the rest of their
46:31
life It's horrible. It's the number one
46:33
cause of bankruptcy in America. Yeah medical
46:35
debt I mean coming from the UK
46:38
where we've got the NHS it feels
46:40
fucking barbaric it really does feel barbaric
46:42
barbaric I remember I went to New
46:44
Orleans and I was getting This great
46:46
ghost tour on an evening time, it's
46:49
like fun tourist shit to do in
46:51
New Orleans. I do those. Anna, the
46:53
guy, the guide was so good, my
46:55
mother was a wicken, and I don't
46:58
know if that was true, but the
47:00
tail was lovely. Anyway, Anna, he was
47:02
telling me I've got a chipped wisdom
47:04
tooth, and my girlfriend got into a
47:06
car wreck the other day, and he
47:09
basically said, he was explaining to me
47:11
about how you can get bankrupt by
47:13
the stuff, he was like, That could
47:15
be the end of essentially the beginning
47:18
of the end of your life. And
47:20
that really, I mean, that was six,
47:22
seven years ago now, and it's still
47:24
like, that was the most haunting thing
47:27
about the fucking ghost tour, because him
47:29
telling me about the medical debt, and
47:31
then I think the reaction to the
47:33
United Health CEO killing as well, for
47:35
me, somebody who didn't fully understand how
47:38
many of the claims are denied, I
47:40
think that there was an increase by
47:42
about 30% in denial of claims over
47:44
only the most recent period, and I
47:47
just thought Guy shoots person. Typically the
47:49
guy that shoots them is in the
47:51
wrong and the reaction on the internet
47:53
just I wasn't ready for it and
47:55
it really sort of Taught me this
47:58
undercurrent of dissatisfaction that almost everybody in
48:00
America has with the healthcare system. Yeah,
48:02
I think it's a quiet epidemic. I
48:04
think there's been a lot of people
48:07
massively affected by it and they're just
48:09
steaming just sitting there seething just angry
48:11
waiting for some righteous person to come
48:13
in and do But then you see
48:15
the fucking revolving door between the FDA
48:18
and the pharmaceutical drug corporations where these
48:20
people leave and then all of a
48:22
sudden they have these amazing jobs at
48:24
pharmaceutical drug companies and they're making millions
48:27
of dollars like how is that legal?
48:29
How is this whole thing legal? Like
48:31
when you realize that doctors are incentivized
48:33
to medicate people, they're financially incentivized to
48:35
give people certain medications, whether it's vaccines,
48:38
they get bonuses if they're vaccinate more.
48:40
than 60% of their clients and they
48:42
lose those bonuses if people don't get
48:44
vaccinated. There's like a lot of creepy
48:47
shit that's involved in medicine. The FDA
48:49
ban on compounded Ozemphic started yesterday. Oh,
48:51
it's a ban. So you have to
48:53
get it from the big, big companies.
48:55
Correct. Bringham taught me about this. I
48:58
didn't understand how it works. If there's
49:00
a shortage of a drug, compounding pharmacies
49:02
are... kind of allowed to just bypass
49:04
patents in some way. It's like you
49:07
can produce it and you can make
49:09
it cheaper and more widely available because
49:11
the supply chain's fucked or something like
49:13
that. And yesterday... That would be a
49:15
good thing for society. Well to make
49:18
more drugs more widely available for cheaper?
49:20
If it's good, if it's a very
49:22
important pharmaceutical drug that can save people's
49:24
lives. Imagine not letting compound pharmacies make
49:27
it. for people that can't get it.
49:29
Yeah, I can't afford it or don't
49:31
have the insurance for it. So yeah,
49:33
I mean that that came into effect.
49:35
I think tzepotide got popped yesterday and
49:38
then partway through April semi-glutide is going
49:40
to go as well. Yeah, that's all
49:42
just eliminating competition, right? Well, we need
49:44
to think, you know, all of the
49:47
people that are using these drugs that
49:49
are losing weight with them, whatever. We
49:51
need to think about who the real
49:53
sort of... people suffering from this situation
49:56
are who were the stock owners of
49:58
telehealth companies. If you own hymns or
50:00
whatever the stocks declined by a lot.
50:02
Dude, I've been thinking so much about
50:04
Ozemphic recently, and I think the introduction
50:07
of Ozemphic proves how much of a
50:09
scam the body positivity movement was all
50:11
along. You look at the Golden Globes
50:13
and all of the women that were
50:16
supporting their bigger sisters, as soon as
50:18
there was an easy route to being
50:20
able to become a skeleton, they look
50:22
like this. Look like this guy here.
50:24
They all get those sucked in cheeks
50:27
and the eye socket suck in. It
50:29
was it just shows how flimsy
50:31
your principles are that it
50:33
was easier for you to
50:36
say I can't win this
50:38
particular game therefore the game is
50:40
rigged. Like if you can't get what
50:42
you want, you have to teach yourself
50:45
to want what you can get and
50:47
then proclaim to everybody else that they
50:49
should get it too. And yeah, the
50:52
Golden Globes, you just got these fucking...
50:54
skeleton motherfuckers walking around. And yeah, I
50:56
mean, women of Hollywood are now facing
50:59
the same dilemma that dudes who go
51:01
to the gym have had for decades
51:03
because it's pointless losing weight
51:05
naturally. Why would you lose weight naturally because
51:07
everybody's going to accuse you of having used
51:09
those empic in any case? Same thing as
51:11
a dude. If you gain weight as a
51:13
guy and you get jacked, really jacked, if
51:15
you really discipline yourself in multiple years, progressive
51:17
overload, time and attention, hitting your protein
51:20
girls, getting enough sleep, what your friends
51:22
and the people of the internet will
51:24
say is, yeah dude, easy if you
51:26
take trend below. And it's the exact
51:28
same. What is the incentive for anybody
51:30
to lose weight, naturally, now, and apart
51:32
from, I have some concerns about the
51:34
drugs and the side effects and so on
51:37
and so forth, socially there is no
51:39
incentive for you to lose weight naturally.
51:41
You remember when Adele lost all that
51:43
weight? Uh-huh. In the before time, she
51:45
did it in the before times, dude.
51:48
She did it hard. Yeah, exactly. Extreme
51:50
difficulty. Yeah. But yeah, now... Now she's hot.
51:52
Do you remember when she did that Jamaica thing
51:54
she came out and she had all of her
51:56
hair like done like this? Yeah, but uh yeah,
51:58
there's this odd like Pascal wager that you
52:01
have to make where you think I
52:03
can either lose weight normally or without
52:05
assistance it's going to be more difficult
52:07
and people are going to accuse me
52:10
of using Ozempic in any case or
52:12
I can just take it and it'll
52:14
be easier and they'll accuse me of
52:17
it if nothing changes. Yeah I'm in
52:19
favour of Ozempic for people that are
52:21
morbidly obese. I think anything that can
52:23
get you on the path, and I
52:26
think if you can combine that, if
52:28
you can say, okay, this is what
52:30
I'm doing, so I'm going to do
52:33
this, and then I'm going to start
52:35
an exercise program, and then you wind
52:37
up losing 30, 40 pounds, you feel
52:40
better, you look better, if you can
52:42
continue this exercise program, you've at least
52:44
put a healthy thing in your life
52:46
along with Osempik. I think that's critical.
52:49
Because also that can mitigate some of
52:51
the negative effects of one of the
52:53
things that we're seeing is that people
52:56
are losing a lot of muscle mass
52:58
and a lot of bone mass, as
53:00
much as 30% of the weight that
53:02
people are losing is muscle and bone.
53:05
and that I think could probably be
53:07
mitigated with regular strength training. You know
53:09
you're only hearing about this from people
53:12
that aren't strength training. Do not have
53:14
a fitness regime. Which is the majority
53:16
of these people that need this. That's
53:19
how they got fat in the first
53:21
place. Right, right. So Johan Hari did
53:23
a really great book on this. You
53:25
had Johan on a bunch of times.
53:28
He wrote this book called Magic Pill
53:30
and he's got just a really nice
53:32
takeaway. He says if you're under BMI
53:35
of 30 and you're trying to lose
53:37
weight. go fuck yourself if you're between
53:39
30 and 35 there's probably a value
53:42
judgment you need to make and if
53:44
you're over 35 b m i the
53:46
cost benefit analysis seems to sort of
53:48
work in your favor yeah yeah people
53:51
are losing more muscle and bone mass
53:53
from using Ozempic than you would typically
53:55
if you were not using that. But
53:58
I think that that's just largely a
54:00
selection criteria for the sort of people
54:02
that are using Ozempic to help them
54:04
lose weight, that they're not having to,
54:07
they're so heavily calorie restricted that they
54:09
don't need to have a fitness program.
54:11
They don't have to really change their
54:14
diet. I learned this, Johan taught me
54:16
this thing, it's super interesting, gastric band
54:18
surgery. after people have that, the suicide
54:21
risk is pretty high. And sometimes it's
54:23
because of these surgeons that leave the
54:25
gauze in or leave a scalpel or
54:27
like a fucking cigar end in these
54:30
complications that can happen physically. But the
54:32
other thing that happens is these people
54:34
used food as their coping mechanism for
54:37
how they would feel better. And their
54:39
ability to eat and their appetite has
54:41
gone away, but their psychological issues have
54:44
not. and they don't have a coping
54:46
mechanism. They've no longer got this outlet.
54:48
Right. And then there's the issue also,
54:50
you're not going to feel as good
54:53
because your body's not absorbing nutrients correctly.
54:55
You're missing some of your stomach. You
54:57
know, it's like your stomach fills up
55:00
quicker because they removed part of it.
55:02
Like that can't be good just for
55:04
overall metabolic health. Like you're you've diminished
55:06
your body's ability to break down food.
55:09
That just can't be good. And there's
55:11
other ways to do it. There's other
55:13
ways to do it. It's like there's
55:16
a gambling term that you got to
55:18
get better the same way you got
55:20
sick. So like say if you and
55:23
I were playing pool and we're playing
55:25
for a hundred dollars a game and
55:27
you're up five games you're up five
55:29
hundred bucks and I say next game
55:32
for five hundred bucks and you go
55:34
no you got to get better the
55:36
same way you got sick. Oh that's
55:39
interesting. You can't just win one game.
55:41
and now you're even. And they're like,
55:43
come on, what are you, pussy? You're
55:45
scared? Like, nah. That's not how this
55:48
works. You lost one at the time,
55:50
you're not gaining it all back. You
55:52
went down a dark road and you
55:55
missed a lot of shots and now
55:57
you're fucked. And I'm not gonna let
55:59
you off the hook with one easy
56:02
thing. I might do that if it's
56:04
like, okay, you put up a thousand
56:06
and I'll put up 300. We'll see
56:08
that. If you reflect in the odds,
56:11
where we're at financially at the moment.
56:13
Yeah, you got a jacket in my
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56:18
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another thing with osmic, I have this
57:49
theory that I think thin people are
57:52
more prejudice against people that use osmic
57:54
than fat people are. So typically you
57:56
would say, stay with me. I think
57:59
you're right. So you would have imagined.
58:01
did happen, some areas of the body
58:03
positivity movement said that it was denying
58:06
their right to exist, that it was
58:08
like erasure, you know, that you're losing
58:10
your bigger brothers and sisters, I
58:12
don't know, but they're not
58:14
actually threatened in the same way as
58:17
in weight people are. So I'm aware
58:19
that losing weight through ozempic is not
58:21
the same as getting... in shape, especially
58:23
if you don't do the health and
58:25
fitness regime, if you don't do the
58:27
resistance exercise, you end up gone skinny
58:30
fat, you know, jowls, big cheeks, all
58:32
that stuff. But the signal of being in
58:34
shape, let's just take that as being in
58:36
shape, right, like a normal BMI, the signal
58:38
of being in shape is usually a
58:40
reliable indicator of what you've done
58:42
to have to get that. Uh,
58:44
disciplined, reliable. able to do hard
58:46
things, self-motivated, consistent, consistent, seek to
58:49
a routine, conscientious, industrious, all of
58:51
these things. So you look at
58:53
somebody who's in shape and you think,
58:55
I can infer from your body a lot
58:57
of things about who you are beyond just
59:00
your body. I actually think that this is
59:02
one of the huge benefits that most people
59:04
don't realize about getting in shape if they
59:06
want to attract a partner or whatever. Sure,
59:09
the body looks great when you take the
59:11
clothes off, but what does it signal about
59:13
your underlying values and... Right. Now the problem
59:16
with the introduction of easier
59:18
routes to being in shape is that
59:20
it's completely derogated the signal.
59:22
The signal is now no longer reliable.
59:24
Right. Because previously the signal said I've
59:26
had to jump through all of these
59:28
different hoops. Well now, how do you
59:31
know if they've jumped through all of
59:33
those hoops or if they're just shooting
59:35
us empic once a week? Right. And
59:37
I think that this explains why a lot
59:39
of people who are in shape have a
59:41
real visceral reaction. Lots of people
59:43
concerned about the drugs. Fen-pen was
59:45
this thing in the 90s that
59:47
fucked people up. It was speed. Yeah, I
59:49
mean, it's a good way to lose weight. I
59:52
knew a girl who was on it. She was
59:54
a very pretty girl that was a little heavy
59:56
and then got on the Fen-pen and just
59:58
wanted to talk to her. everybody
1:00:00
couldn't stop talking and got real thin.
1:00:02
I was like this is crazy and
1:00:04
then she developed a heart problem. Yeah,
1:00:07
she kept for the rest of her life
1:00:09
I believe. I don't know her anymore but
1:00:11
I ran into her a couple years later
1:00:13
and she was telling me she has a
1:00:15
heart problem. There's been no free lunch in
1:00:17
weight loss ever yet. No. And I think
1:00:19
that people are looking at... at the GLP ones
1:00:21
and thinking, where's the side effect? When's
1:00:23
it coming? What's it going to do?
1:00:25
Well, there's tons of side effects. It
1:00:27
depends upon the person, because obviously people
1:00:29
are very different biologically. Everyone has a
1:00:31
different tolerance to alcohol, people have different
1:00:33
tolerances to foods, and you're going to
1:00:36
have different tolerances to medications. And I
1:00:38
have good friends that have had horrible
1:00:40
side effects from Oz Empec. They tried
1:00:42
it, they got on it, terrible, pancreatitis.
1:00:45
Yeah. I got a buddy mine, he was
1:00:47
in bed for two weeks. He was
1:00:49
really sick. And I know several other
1:00:51
people that just feel terrible when they
1:00:53
take it. And they had to get
1:00:55
off of it. It was really fucking
1:00:58
with them. And then I know other
1:01:00
people that have taken it. And then
1:01:02
I know other people that have taken
1:01:04
it. Like a buddy mine that works
1:01:06
with the UFC. We ran into him
1:01:09
the other day. I'm like, dude, you
1:01:11
look fucking great. And he, you know,
1:01:13
but he looked great. He looked great. You've
1:01:15
seen Alex Jones? Yeah, but Alex is not on
1:01:17
anything. I know. So this is... He's not
1:01:19
on I was epic at all. He's just... He
1:01:22
works with my friend Sean. I've been watching him
1:01:24
train. I've been watching him train on a Tuesday.
1:01:26
Not watching him train. He trains when I train.
1:01:28
I'm not following Alex Jones around. And he's
1:01:30
likely story. Getting after... I know that's exactly
1:01:33
what someone from the Deep State would say.
1:01:35
Do you know him? Did you just see
1:01:37
him there? I've spied him over the far
1:01:39
side. You never had a conversation with him?
1:01:41
I once saw him when I did Tim
1:01:43
Poole show in the RV outside of the
1:01:45
info wars car park. Oh yeah, I did that.
1:01:48
Yeah, it was the same week. That was
1:01:50
the first week I was ever in
1:01:52
Austin. It was three and a bit
1:01:54
years ago. I remember that live stream.
1:01:56
That was fun. Alex is a lovely
1:01:58
person. He's working really hard. in the
1:02:00
gym. But look... If he just
1:02:02
had that one thing that he
1:02:04
didn't talk about, that's it. Is
1:02:06
that one thing? Everything else has
1:02:08
been mostly right about. You know
1:02:10
what I should have said? Alex
1:02:12
Jones is like the fucking patient
1:02:14
zero for if you lose weight
1:02:16
by going to the gym and
1:02:19
working out and changing your diet?
1:02:21
People are just going to say
1:02:23
it was a zempick. No, people
1:02:25
think he's a totally different person.
1:02:27
They think they've replaced Alex Jones
1:02:29
with someone else. Is this what...
1:02:31
Did David, David Ike have a...
1:02:33
Alex Jones recently did he who
1:02:35
did David Ike get in trouble
1:02:37
with Jamie was that I? I
1:02:39
feel like there was some it
1:02:41
was somebody else in that sort
1:02:43
of a world but yeah I
1:02:45
mean if the reptile people like
1:02:47
it does it gets a bit
1:02:49
reptile when you get down to
1:02:51
the little body fat percentage David
1:02:53
Ike I saw something he got
1:02:56
upset that I've never had him
1:02:58
on the show and it's just
1:03:00
the reptile stuff it's just the
1:03:02
the shape shifter stuff I would
1:03:04
still have them on I would
1:03:06
still have them on I think
1:03:08
fascinating to just to try to
1:03:10
try to try to try to
1:03:12
pick some of those ideas believe
1:03:14
in the ideas. What's interesting is
1:03:16
how does somebody arrive at them?
1:03:18
That's what's fascinating to me. When
1:03:20
I do my show, I speak
1:03:22
to someone. I'm like, I want
1:03:24
to understand the psychology of how
1:03:26
you have arrived at this particular
1:03:28
position. Well, imagine if it's real.
1:03:31
I mean, if shapeshifters were real,
1:03:33
if there really are evil reptilian
1:03:35
aliens and they've infiltrated our society
1:03:37
and they've been pulling the strings
1:03:39
forever, and only a couple of
1:03:41
people know. How ridiculous would that
1:03:43
idea be? How ridiculous? It would
1:03:45
be so ridiculous. But is an
1:03:47
alien, shape-shifter reptile person? Is that
1:03:49
any weirder than the most recent
1:03:51
theory that our entire universe is
1:03:53
taking place inside of a black
1:03:55
hole that's in another universe? Yeah,
1:03:57
there's recent calculations that are leading
1:03:59
these... I guess it would be
1:04:01
astrophysicists, like who would be studying
1:04:03
this? To believe, see if you
1:04:05
can find it Jamie, it's the
1:04:08
most bizarre headline. Because you're like,
1:04:10
what the fuck are you? saying
1:04:12
like the whole universe is inside
1:04:14
of a black hole new NASA
1:04:16
data hints we could be living
1:04:18
inside a black hole great now
1:04:20
is that isn't that weirder than
1:04:22
reptile people because reptile people is
1:04:24
the two choices reptile people's not
1:04:26
that weird right like octopi have
1:04:28
the ability to completely transform their
1:04:30
appearance and instantaneously adapt to an
1:04:32
environment Why wouldn't we assume to
1:04:34
some super advanced species from another
1:04:36
planet that would be we would
1:04:38
be horrified if we saw their
1:04:40
real face? They just transform and
1:04:43
look like the Queen of England.
1:04:45
Yeah, and go sideways like that.
1:04:47
Do you know what a Boltzmann
1:04:49
brain is? Have you ever heard
1:04:51
of this? No. Okay, so in
1:04:53
an infinite universe, infinite, there is
1:04:55
only, let's say the size of
1:04:57
your brain. It's like, whatever. 20
1:04:59
centimeters cubed or something, maybe 30
1:05:01
centimeters cubed, inside that space there's
1:05:03
only so many ways that you
1:05:05
can put matter together so that
1:05:07
it creates anything. There's a limited
1:05:09
number of ways that matter can
1:05:11
come together with different elements, different
1:05:13
structures, different everything like that. So
1:05:15
Boltzmann brain suggests that across an
1:05:18
infinite universe there will be a
1:05:20
brain the exact same as yours,
1:05:22
the exact structure is yours that
1:05:24
comes into existence for a moment
1:05:26
and then goes away. that you
1:05:28
could be experiencing the world that
1:05:30
you are now all of your
1:05:32
memories your past your history the
1:05:34
person you think you are is
1:05:36
that you were a boltsman brain
1:05:38
that just comes into existence and
1:05:40
then goes oh why do you
1:05:42
come into existence and then go
1:05:44
away why don't you just exist
1:05:46
somewhere else you could exist somewhere
1:05:48
else but this brain appears just
1:05:50
spontaneously because in an infinite universe
1:05:52
there is only so many different
1:05:55
ways that you can piece matter
1:05:57
together right and it means that
1:05:59
if you it's the monkeys typewriter
1:06:01
thing to the exact same as
1:06:03
that but for the way that
1:06:05
matter is constructed it's basically like
1:06:07
a brain in a VAT idea
1:06:09
but using infinite physics to kind
1:06:11
of explain it the way was
1:06:13
explained to me is that if
1:06:15
the universe is truly infinite Not
1:06:17
only is there another version of
1:06:19
you somewhere. But there is another
1:06:21
version of you that did the
1:06:23
exact same thing you have done
1:06:25
every step of the way every
1:06:27
time you sneezed Every hesitation before
1:06:30
you spoke your mind every time
1:06:32
you almost went into traffic when
1:06:34
you didn't realize their light was
1:06:36
still red all of those things
1:06:38
have happened in the exact same
1:06:40
order an infinite number of times
1:06:42
and every possible conceivable variation. That
1:06:44
you want red instead of blue?
1:06:46
Yep. That you turned left instead
1:06:48
of right? Yep. Went trans instead
1:06:50
of straight? All of it. All
1:06:52
of it. That you live in
1:06:54
a totalitarian environment, that you live
1:06:56
in a utopia, that you know,
1:06:58
the Germans won the war, that
1:07:00
yeah, all that, everything. everything that
1:07:02
could possibly be different would be
1:07:04
different in every possible scenario. That's
1:07:07
what infinite means. It means it's
1:07:09
so vast. Like the craziest one
1:07:11
to me was the concept that
1:07:13
inside every galaxy, in the center
1:07:15
of our galaxy, is a supermassive
1:07:17
black hole, and that supermassive black
1:07:19
hole is approximately one half of
1:07:21
one percent of the mass, the
1:07:23
entire galaxy. If you go into
1:07:25
that supermassive black hole, so there's
1:07:27
hundreds of billions of galaxies, right?
1:07:29
inside that supermassive black hole is
1:07:31
in entirely another universe filled with
1:07:33
unit with with all sorts of
1:07:35
different galaxies that have supermassive black
1:07:37
holes in them you go into
1:07:39
one of those another universe filled
1:07:42
supermassive black holes another universe filled
1:07:44
all supermassive black holes each one
1:07:46
another universe It's just a winsip
1:07:48
file all the way down. Well
1:07:50
why is that weirder than the
1:07:52
universe is infinite? Why is that
1:07:54
weirder? I mean, just the weirdness
1:07:56
of what it is is so
1:07:58
fucking insane. The idea that it's
1:08:00
infinite or that there's an infinite
1:08:02
multiverses, an infinite versions of these
1:08:04
things inside black holes. and in
1:08:06
all sorts of ways that we
1:08:08
haven't even really figured out yet.
1:08:10
That's not that much weirder than
1:08:12
what's real. What's real is insane.
1:08:14
What's real is that the whole
1:08:16
thing was smaller than the head
1:08:19
of a pen, and for no
1:08:21
understandable reason, it expanded instantaneously and
1:08:23
became the universe that you see
1:08:25
in the sky today. Okay. What
1:08:27
the fuck are you saying? Like,
1:08:29
Montana had a great line about
1:08:31
that, that science requires of you
1:08:33
but one miracle. The big bag.
1:08:35
It's a miracle. It's a, what
1:08:37
is it if it's not that?
1:08:39
I mean, it's a thing of
1:08:41
science, yes. Okay, so if you
1:08:43
can study all of the matter
1:08:45
and you study all of the
1:08:47
forces and all the energy and
1:08:49
all the reasons why matter coalesces
1:08:51
or matter expands, yes, you could
1:08:54
probably, given enough time and enough
1:08:56
quantum computing power, figure out what's
1:08:58
causing everything to compress down small
1:09:00
than the head of a pin
1:09:02
and then explode. But... It's still
1:09:04
crazy. It's, it's, even if you
1:09:06
can, you had some scientific explanation
1:09:08
for it. It's fucking insane. I
1:09:10
got into super voids. So there's,
1:09:12
the buetto's super void. So areas
1:09:14
of the universe that have big
1:09:16
absences of matter, way more than
1:09:18
there should be. And the, yeah.
1:09:20
the bewetto super void is the
1:09:22
biggest one. I think a ton
1:09:24
six one one eight or something
1:09:26
is one of the biggest stars
1:09:29
or one of the biggest black
1:09:31
holes and then this bewetto super
1:09:33
void is because you would expect
1:09:35
homogeneity yeah across the universe things
1:09:37
would be distributed pretty evenly. So
1:09:39
what's this big hole here? Jamie
1:09:41
can you try and find a
1:09:43
boob? Boot is beweta's super void
1:09:45
thing videos that show you the
1:09:47
size of earth and the size
1:09:49
of our sun and the size
1:09:51
of other sons You realize just
1:09:53
how fucking insignificant you get to
1:09:55
sons that are as big as
1:09:57
our galaxy Yeah. What the fuck?
1:09:59
Yeah. Yeah, I don't know if
1:10:01
there's sun's that big, but there's definitely
1:10:04
sun's as big as our solar system.
1:10:06
Well, looking at the night sky gives
1:10:08
you a really wonderful piece of perspective.
1:10:10
Right. It reminds you just how puny
1:10:13
and insignificant you are. I think that's
1:10:15
a giant problem with our societies that
1:10:17
light pollution keeps us from seeing that
1:10:19
all the time. The mysterious hole in
1:10:22
the universe that's billions of times larger
1:10:24
than the Milky way. So
1:10:27
go one left list of voids.
1:10:29
Yeah, that one just big holes.
1:10:31
Yeah, so you should not have
1:10:33
it should be more evenly
1:10:35
distributed. Yeah, and yeah, the
1:10:38
buetto is void, you know,
1:10:40
this huge lack Yeah, in the
1:10:42
middle of it's so cool. Imagine
1:10:44
you take a left turn a spaceship
1:10:46
and fuck not here not the
1:10:49
buetto super void not again. And
1:10:51
then god damn it You can't
1:10:53
land for a hundred million years.
1:10:55
Yeah, dude I had a I
1:10:57
had Matthew McConaughey on the show
1:10:59
toward the back end of last
1:11:02
year and we talked about interstellar's
1:11:04
10th year anniversary That show is
1:11:06
still that that movie is still
1:11:08
my favorite movie of all time.
1:11:10
It's an amazing movie I just
1:11:12
saw it again like a couple weeks
1:11:15
ago. Me too. It was incredible. It's
1:11:17
so good. It's so weird such a
1:11:19
weird movie. Nolan's a fucking king. He's
1:11:22
a wizard He's a What is the Odyssey?
1:11:24
Like the Homer? Like the... Oh God,
1:11:26
really? I don't know. I don't know
1:11:29
that story either, so I'm kind of...
1:11:31
Yeah, I don't either. Part of me
1:11:33
knows that I should have read it,
1:11:35
and part of me is glad that
1:11:38
I didn't, so I get to... I
1:11:40
don't know how it finishes. I don't
1:11:42
know how it finishes. I don't know
1:11:44
how it ends. Yeah. Yeah. I think
1:11:46
I probably read it in high
1:11:49
school. Why because of Matt Damon? No, because
1:11:51
that's not what the armor would have looked like
1:11:53
apparently. He wouldn't have been able to see his
1:11:55
face apparently. Oh really? Yeah, but not if
1:11:57
you make a movie movie. Yeah, exactly. So
1:11:59
like, that's there. Combining already. Oh, so
1:12:01
light, I think you. Yeah, you
1:12:04
can't always be historically accurate, I
1:12:06
guess. Yeah, but that's all I
1:12:08
got so far. Cast and Tom
1:12:10
Holland, Robert Patinson. Nice. Absolutely stacked.
1:12:12
Did you see Matt Damon do
1:12:14
Schultz's trailer? Yes, I did. Yeah.
1:12:16
So fucking good. Yeah. I have
1:12:18
to say, man, that, uh, Schultz's
1:12:20
most recent special is one of
1:12:22
the best things. I got a
1:12:24
shout out Andrew Shaw, like that
1:12:26
was one of the best things
1:12:28
that I've seen in so long.
1:12:30
I thought it was fucking phenomenal.
1:12:32
It made me cry when I
1:12:34
saw it live here in Austin
1:12:36
twice. I cried twice. Wow. And
1:12:38
then I saw it again before
1:12:40
I had him on the show
1:12:42
the other week. I was like
1:12:44
in the back of an Uber
1:12:46
and like trying to not let
1:12:48
the taxi driver see that I'm
1:12:50
welling up. He's talking about, it's
1:12:53
just so lovely. And... him talking
1:12:55
about his experience trying to get
1:12:57
pregnant and all of that stuff
1:12:59
caused me to go and get
1:13:01
a get sperm count done. I'm
1:13:03
not trying to get anybody pregnant
1:13:05
at the moment. But how old
1:13:07
are you? 37. Do you have
1:13:09
a number where you'd like to
1:13:11
start breeding? Breeding. Within the next
1:13:13
few years, I want to start
1:13:15
a family soon. But the gal?
1:13:17
Yeah, the moment. Yeah, I do.
1:13:19
How long you've been with this
1:13:21
gal? Six months? Do you ever
1:13:23
go on a trip with him?
1:13:25
Well, I think the six months
1:13:27
might be a little bit early
1:13:29
just yet. No, if you want
1:13:31
to find out what's up, you
1:13:33
got to go on a trip.
1:13:35
Oh, you mean to work out
1:13:37
compatibility? Yeah, you got to see
1:13:39
how they deal with travel, how
1:13:41
they deal with stress, how they
1:13:44
deal with restaurant. What is it?
1:13:46
Can they keep up their act
1:13:48
when you're with them 24 hours
1:13:50
a day for weeks at a
1:13:52
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1:13:54
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1:13:56
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1:16:02
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1:16:08
a show, you're a handsome guy,
1:16:10
you're successful, they want to impress
1:16:13
you, they want to pretend they're
1:16:15
something that you would love. And
1:16:17
then maybe they have ideas of
1:16:19
morphing you and changing you over
1:16:21
time, you know, like you get
1:16:23
a car. I think it's pretty
1:16:25
good, but I like to update
1:16:27
the engine. I do some shit
1:16:29
that the tires, maybe change the
1:16:31
way the interior looks. You start
1:16:33
changing it. And then all of
1:16:35
a sudden Chris is wearing different
1:16:37
clothes. What's going on Chris? Gotta
1:16:39
be careful. I put these glasses
1:16:41
on, that's why I happen. But
1:16:43
yeah, I decided to go and
1:16:45
get a sperm count thing done.
1:16:47
You know what a varicus seal
1:16:49
is? No. from your balls. They
1:16:51
can form in a way where
1:16:53
they just don't get rid of
1:16:55
the heat that efficiently. Not enough.
1:16:57
And it's in 15% of men,
1:16:59
so it's super super common, but
1:17:02
50% of men that go to
1:17:04
urologists have got this. And I
1:17:06
go in and I've had these
1:17:08
balls my entire life. I've had
1:17:10
these balls, my entire life. I've
1:17:12
had these balls, since puberty and
1:17:14
I found out at the age
1:17:16
of 36. Oh, you've got a
1:17:18
medium varicus seal. So the mad
1:17:20
thing about this is, you'll know
1:17:22
this, if you take testosterone it
1:17:24
plummets your sperm count. So typically
1:17:26
testosterone and sperm kind of work
1:17:28
against each other in that kind
1:17:30
of a direction. This is the
1:17:32
one thing where if you get
1:17:34
it fixed, both go up. So
1:17:36
the mean change in testosterone is
1:17:38
180 points. How do they fix
1:17:40
it? They just, it's surgery, it's
1:17:42
a small surgery where they do
1:17:44
an incision in your groin and
1:17:46
they just fix the vasculature. Balls
1:17:48
and surgery are two things that
1:17:50
I don't like together. I like
1:17:53
both of them. I don't think
1:17:55
they should be... the twain she'll
1:17:57
meet? Yeah. Ball surgery is scary.
1:17:59
Do you know that if you
1:18:01
get your, you can get a
1:18:03
dick transplant, if like you lose
1:18:05
your dick, but you cannot get
1:18:07
ball transplants? You know why? No.
1:18:09
Because you will carry the DNA
1:18:11
of the original person. So say
1:18:13
if I die and you get
1:18:15
my balls, you will have my
1:18:17
DNA, you will have my kids.
1:18:19
So why can't I have your
1:18:21
balls? Well, you could if I
1:18:23
gave you permission, maybe, but it's
1:18:25
unethical. Why don't we swap one
1:18:27
ball each? It sounds like tossing
1:18:29
a point. See who's kids make
1:18:31
it? And then we do a
1:18:33
DNA test. Lesty, leftie was the
1:18:35
one that came out that day.
1:18:37
What the fuck? Come out speaking
1:18:39
British. Like I love you so
1:18:42
much I want to swap a
1:18:44
ball with you. Yep. And we
1:18:46
both don't know which one is
1:18:48
going to be today. You never
1:18:50
know. It's like because I had
1:18:52
a gay couple that were friends
1:18:54
that lived down the street for
1:18:56
me and they had a kid
1:18:58
with a surrogate and they shot
1:19:00
their jiz and do a cup
1:19:02
and mixed it up. So they
1:19:04
didn't know who's going to be
1:19:06
the one who has the kid.
1:19:08
Yeah. Two men one cup. They
1:19:10
had to do it twice too
1:19:12
because the first time the lady
1:19:14
kept the lady kept the kid.
1:19:16
They paid her they did the
1:19:18
whole thing at the end of
1:19:20
it. She decided she wanted to
1:19:22
keep the baby. The ethics of
1:19:24
surrogacy are really interesting It's weird.
1:19:26
It's a weird thing you're hiring
1:19:28
someone to take to have your
1:19:30
baby for you and then wealthy
1:19:33
people are doing it so they
1:19:35
don't get their cooch stretched out
1:19:37
That was the Kardashian approach allegedly,
1:19:39
that's why she did it. Well,
1:19:41
maybe she's didn't want to carry
1:19:43
babies anymore. She had a couple
1:19:45
of them the normal way and
1:19:47
then but it's like so much
1:19:49
of what the child experiences in
1:19:51
the womb it like leads to
1:19:53
this i would imagine this bonding
1:19:55
thing with the woman the babies
1:19:57
inside of you you remember feeling
1:19:59
the baby inside of you grows
1:20:01
inside of you then it comes
1:20:03
out of you and you raise
1:20:05
it and it breastfeeding it's like
1:20:07
this bond is I understand surrogacy
1:20:09
if someone can't get pregnant, if
1:20:11
this is the only way you
1:20:13
can have kids. I'm not saying
1:20:15
don't do it, but I'm saying
1:20:17
it's fucking strange. because this other
1:20:19
person is whatever anxiety they have
1:20:22
fear their cortisol levels if they
1:20:24
have domestic abuse in their house
1:20:26
like all that information is being
1:20:28
transferred to the child pregnancy doesn't
1:20:30
just make a kid it also
1:20:32
makes a mother yeah and uh...
1:20:34
it's dangerous i'm so conflict i
1:20:36
mean test you babies what happens
1:20:38
if we can just create artificial
1:20:40
wounds you know it's something that's
1:20:42
weird i know that people don't
1:20:44
get they don't choose to be
1:20:46
born But somebody chooses whether or
1:20:48
not these two sets of DNA
1:20:50
are going to come together If
1:20:52
you've just got sperm donor after
1:20:54
sperm donor and egg donor after
1:20:56
egg donor and artificial wounds gets
1:20:58
to the stage where people kind
1:21:00
of aren't choosing Who's coming into
1:21:02
reality that much anymore? Well, that
1:21:04
is definitely the future I mean,
1:21:06
look at plummeting sperm counts, look
1:21:08
at rising miscarriage rates, look at
1:21:11
the problems that people are having
1:21:13
with microplastics and the disruption of
1:21:15
the endocrine system and pesticides and
1:21:17
herbicides and all these different ubiquitous
1:21:19
chemicals that are affecting people's sperm
1:21:21
counts and fertility. It's a real
1:21:23
factor and it's plummeting. If you
1:21:25
look at the... human beings from
1:21:27
the last 60-70 years and you
1:21:29
look at males in America where
1:21:31
the sperm count used to be
1:21:33
where it is now. It's rapidly
1:21:35
decreasing. There's a lot of factors,
1:21:37
sedentary lifestyle, processed foods, but there's
1:21:39
also environmental factors that seem to
1:21:41
be altering the actual way a
1:21:43
child develops in the womb. And
1:21:45
this is Dr. Shana Swan's work.
1:21:47
Countdown. Yeah, which is an incredible
1:21:49
book, but it's just an incredible...
1:21:51
fact that the plastics that we
1:21:53
use from microwave foods and water
1:21:55
bottles and all that stuff is
1:21:57
literally Changing the development of children.
1:21:59
It's changing the size of their
1:22:02
testicles the size of their penises
1:22:04
the A, no genital distance. Yeah,
1:22:06
yeah, the tank shrinks. It's really
1:22:08
crazy stuff and it replicates what
1:22:10
happens in mammals when they do
1:22:12
these studies with rats and hamsters
1:22:14
and same things happen. A third
1:22:16
of all children globally are going
1:22:18
to be obese by 2050. Jesus.
1:22:20
That's the current trajectory and one
1:22:22
billion people worldwide are obese. So
1:22:24
the number one. Form of malnutrition
1:22:26
globally is obesity not starvation. There's
1:22:28
twice as many people that are
1:22:31
obese than a starving That's crazy
1:22:33
if that's not a comment on
1:22:35
problems of abundance as opposed to
1:22:38
problems of scarcity Yeah, it's not
1:22:40
even abundance though. It's the food
1:22:42
is so calorie-rich and filled with
1:22:44
shit you know that you just you just
1:22:46
you get so fat so quick like if
1:22:48
you're eating nothing but junk food and drinking
1:22:51
nothing but soda as I sit here with
1:22:53
a large diet Coke which I usually don't
1:22:55
drink but I do occasionally that is like
1:22:57
a diet Coke at least doesn't have the
1:23:00
calories but if you're having a large Coke
1:23:02
like that like if you have a Coke
1:23:04
like this what is this a leader this is
1:23:06
probably a leader 750 maybe or a leader
1:23:09
yeah it's a leader so how much sugar is
1:23:11
in one leader of coke cola cola cola
1:23:13
Let's find that out. But there's
1:23:15
nothing in that one, right? Which
1:23:17
is why it's a diet. Yeah.
1:23:20
It's just brain cancer. Donald
1:23:22
Rumsfeld approved brain cancer. Yeah.
1:23:24
94.7 grams of sugar. 94.7
1:23:26
grams. And people polished these
1:23:29
things off every day. Someone's
1:23:31
polishing off a two-liter amount
1:23:33
and do listen to this
1:23:35
as we speak. So that's
1:23:38
probably double that. So that's
1:23:40
hundreds. hundreds of grams of
1:23:42
sugar. The big gulps. The
1:23:45
average American is fatter than
1:23:47
the average American pig now.
1:23:49
It's true, it's true. Average
1:23:52
American man, 28% body fat,
1:23:54
average American woman, 40% body
1:23:56
fat, average American pig, 15
1:23:58
to 20. 25% body fat. Oh
1:24:00
my God. Yep. I would have thought it would
1:24:02
be higher than 28% I think we're doing pretty
1:24:04
good. For guys? Yeah. Yeah. Well I guess it's it's
1:24:07
offset by like Brian Johnson and all
1:24:09
of the osmic people that are just
1:24:11
shredded and super shredded. Yeah exactly. And
1:24:13
then there was that that other thing
1:24:16
about you're talking about kids. It's some
1:24:18
huge percentage of 18 to 24 year
1:24:20
olds couldn't join the military. Like 70%
1:24:22
because of mental health or obesity or
1:24:25
drug use or something and half of
1:24:27
them had two or more of these
1:24:29
excuses for why you couldn't do it.
1:24:31
And I think if you track over
1:24:34
time the amount of military service that
1:24:36
people have had so much less, it's
1:24:38
so much less and I wonder how
1:24:40
many of the issues that we're seeing,
1:24:43
even women being attracted to guys, I
1:24:45
think that what you want to do
1:24:47
as a guy is trying to signal...
1:24:49
Again, the same is going to the gym.
1:24:51
Reliable, orderly, conscientious, can be on time, I
1:24:54
can do hard things. This is one of
1:24:56
the proposed explanations for the baby boom was
1:24:58
that a lot of men that did come
1:25:00
back from war were signaling their eligibility, signaling
1:25:03
how reliable they could be, and it made
1:25:05
it easier for women to be attracted in
1:25:07
that way. That makes sense. I mean, imagine
1:25:09
a woman, you're going to get pregnant, and
1:25:12
so you're going to be, you could work
1:25:14
for a little while, but towards the end
1:25:16
you're not going to be able to work,
1:25:18
and then after the child's going to be
1:25:21
very difficult to work. So you're reliant
1:25:23
on this other person. That like how well
1:25:25
do you know this person? Did you do
1:25:27
that 10 day vacation? Jamaica with that guy?
1:25:29
Did you go? Did you drive from Montego
1:25:31
Bay to Kingston twice in bad traffic? Do
1:25:33
you know what happens when he makes mistakes?
1:25:35
Does he blame other people or does it
1:25:37
does he apologize? Like what who is he? You
1:25:39
know, because all that shit's going to come
1:25:41
up when you get four hours sleep because
1:25:44
the baby's crying and then, you know, maybe
1:25:46
he doesn't like his job anymore and he
1:25:48
wants to quit and you're like, you can't
1:25:50
quit motherfucker. You have to feed us. You
1:25:52
have to take care of a family now.
1:25:55
You're not going to just quit. What are
1:25:57
you talking about? You don't like your job?
1:25:59
Show up! And I can't imagine
1:26:01
relying on another person like that.
1:26:03
I mean, this is why women are
1:26:05
so picky. Like, when you see that
1:26:07
80% of the women are attracted to
1:26:09
20% of the men. And that's
1:26:11
what that is. What did you expect?
1:26:14
What did you expect? It's hard
1:26:16
to have your shit together. It's
1:26:18
hard to be kicking ass in
1:26:20
this fucking complicated bizarre world
1:26:22
that we live in. It's
1:26:24
hard. So for a woman...
1:26:26
Of course, they're gonna grab...
1:26:28
What about personality? Yeah, you're
1:26:30
a fucking lazy bitch. That's
1:26:32
part of your personality. Part
1:26:34
of the reason why you're
1:26:36
not successful at 40 years
1:26:38
of age has to be you. Has to
1:26:40
be. Some of it has to be.
1:26:43
I mean, it could be a fucking
1:26:45
avalanche of bad luck. One thing after
1:26:47
the other, but... I would like to
1:26:49
see that you're making progress towards a
1:26:51
better direction, but if you're stuck in
1:26:54
this mode of, if you're stuck in
1:26:56
this mindset of, you know, the world
1:26:58
fucks me over, it's like never gonna...
1:27:00
No one's gonna want to be with
1:27:02
you. No one's gonna want to have
1:27:04
children with you. No one's gonna want
1:27:07
to have children with you. No
1:27:09
one's gonna be willing to rely in
1:27:11
you to support a family. Like you
1:27:13
have to get your shit together. Ooh, you
1:27:15
know, you got a good body.
1:27:18
A lot of that's genetics too. You
1:27:20
know, like what they like
1:27:22
and what they don't like
1:27:24
is mostly about breeding. It's
1:27:26
mostly about, is this person
1:27:28
reliable to breed with? It's
1:27:31
interesting to think about the, you
1:27:33
mentioned all your own about. Going
1:27:35
to the gym is right wing and liking
1:27:37
fast cars is right wing and all the
1:27:39
rest of it the number of liberal women
1:27:41
that are struggling I think to find an
1:27:43
eligible partner is going up Because they just
1:27:45
can't find a guy that will hold the
1:27:47
door open for them that will treat them
1:27:49
like a lady that will try and be
1:27:51
the protector provider pro-creator thing you
1:27:54
go You're talking about a conservative
1:27:56
you're talking about somebody who's more
1:27:58
traditional in that way and I get worried I sort
1:28:00
of talk a lot about this stuff on the
1:28:02
show and I get worried about not helping men
1:28:04
to improve in this sort of zero-sum
1:28:06
view of empathy, that if you give some
1:28:09
attention to men and the way that they're
1:28:11
struggling, that it takes it away from some
1:28:13
other more deserving group. So a lot of
1:28:15
the time, if someone's falling behind
1:28:18
50 years ago, Title IX gets
1:28:20
introduced for women, it's not if
1:28:22
women in higher education, there's not
1:28:25
if women expediting them through socioeconomic
1:28:27
status. 50 years later, they've blown
1:28:29
the fucking roof off the glass
1:28:32
ceiling. It doesn't exist. Two women
1:28:34
for every one man completing a
1:28:36
four-year US college degree by 2030.
1:28:39
Women earn way more than men do
1:28:41
in their 20s. Way more. And now, how
1:28:43
are you, it's going to be difficult
1:28:45
for you to find an eligible
1:28:47
partner as you begin to climb
1:28:49
up your own socio-economic ladder as
1:28:51
you get higher and higher up.
1:28:53
You look across and there are
1:28:55
fewer and fewer men over there. If
1:28:57
a group is falling behind in society,
1:29:00
we don't tell them to pick themselves
1:29:02
up by their bootstraps. We spend billions
1:29:04
of money in taxpayer-funded charities and
1:29:07
think tanks to try and work
1:29:09
out what's going on and to
1:29:11
try and bring them along for the
1:29:13
ride. That's not happening with men
1:29:15
because vestigially for so long men
1:29:18
had it so good. And now it's, I don't
1:29:20
know, it feels like twisting the knife in
1:29:22
some sort of karmic retribution in a
1:29:24
way. Like this is penance. that you're
1:29:26
paying but a lot of guys you
1:29:28
can look at the number of CEOs
1:29:30
and sure guys that outperform on the
1:29:32
top end yep But that's not necessarily
1:29:34
due to privilege, it's because putting yourself
1:29:36
in that position to do what you
1:29:39
need to do to get yourself to
1:29:41
the position of being a founder, being
1:29:43
a CEO, having running a successful company,
1:29:45
is so fucking insane that most women
1:29:47
would just choose to not go and
1:29:49
do that. You're talking about outliers. Evolutionary
1:29:51
psychology says that men and natures play
1:29:53
things, that there's more variability. There's more
1:29:56
male geniuses, but there's also more male
1:29:58
retards. And it's all male retards. and
1:30:00
Jeff Basos and Elon Musk and all
1:30:02
the rest of it, that doesn't help
1:30:04
the guy who is really struggling and
1:30:06
has had that run of bad luck
1:30:09
and has been really struggling trying to
1:30:11
work on himself. And yeah, if women
1:30:13
have a problem a lot of the
1:30:15
time, we say what can we do
1:30:18
to fix society? Any other group? But
1:30:20
if men are struggling, we say what
1:30:22
is it that men are doing where
1:30:24
they can't fix themselves? And in some
1:30:27
ways that's inspiring. Like guys want that
1:30:29
sense of like I can do this.
1:30:31
But it denies that the structural problems,
1:30:33
I think the education system for young
1:30:35
boys is really, really tough getting them
1:30:38
to sit in a classroom still for
1:30:40
six hours a day. It seems like
1:30:42
females are just better at doing that.
1:30:44
Young girls are more effective at a
1:30:47
sort of brain-based economy, highlighting and planning
1:30:49
ahead of the homework that they've got
1:30:51
to do and the assignments and stuff
1:30:53
like that. And you just roll that
1:30:55
forward. Two women for every one man,
1:30:58
completing a four-year college degree. I'm not
1:31:00
saying, let's rip women out of the
1:31:02
classroom and out of the boardroom and
1:31:04
put them back into the kitchen, like,
1:31:07
obviously not. Obviously that's not what either
1:31:09
of us are saying. What do you
1:31:11
think is the cause of it? Like,
1:31:13
what do you think is the reason
1:31:15
why more men aren't succeeding in getting
1:31:18
college degrees and more men aren't going
1:31:20
out and making as much money in
1:31:22
their 20s? I think that the current
1:31:24
environment does not necessarily lend itself to
1:31:27
the disposition that men have got. they're
1:31:29
less conscientious than women from a personality
1:31:31
standpoint on average. That means that it's
1:31:33
really difficult comparatively on average for you
1:31:35
to be able to remind yourself that
1:31:38
you need to do the sort of
1:31:40
homework. Men have more predisposed to addiction,
1:31:42
they're more predisposed to using recreational drugs,
1:31:44
they're more predisposed to being in jail,
1:31:47
all of the sort of gang stuff
1:31:49
that people get drawn into. It's just
1:31:51
more likely for guys. There are more
1:31:53
roots that men can be pulled away
1:31:55
in that sort of a manner and
1:31:58
on top of it. I don't think
1:32:00
that there is a particularly inspiring vision
1:32:02
for what men is, but you said
1:32:04
earlier on about fitness right wing, fast
1:32:07
cars right wing. There was this thread
1:32:09
on Reddit, I think, in a left-leaning
1:32:11
forum that said, people of the left,
1:32:13
can you give me a good example
1:32:15
of who you think a positive male
1:32:18
role model would be? The top-voted one
1:32:20
was Aragon from Lord of the Rings.
1:32:22
What about Fabio? You've had to go
1:32:24
to a fantasy land in order to
1:32:27
be able to find somebody who's sufficiently
1:32:29
pure. And I think that this is
1:32:31
one of the issues that we see
1:32:33
on the left, which is... There is
1:32:36
no level of purity or the level
1:32:38
of purity you need to be able
1:32:40
to get to is so high doesn't
1:32:42
exist How many people have gone from
1:32:44
left to right? I left the left
1:32:47
type thing like that quite a few
1:32:49
how many people have gone from right
1:32:51
to left very few Why because if
1:32:53
you have got a slightly fetid past
1:32:56
if you maybe said things in the
1:32:58
past that didn't agree with where we
1:33:00
are now the right will welcome with
1:33:02
open arms, but the left one. Why
1:33:04
do you think that is? I think
1:33:07
that there is a level of Puritanism
1:33:09
on the left where they are unprepared
1:33:11
to accept people who have had positions
1:33:13
that they don't agree with. There seems
1:33:16
to be this odd purity spiral where
1:33:18
they're constantly trying to point out people
1:33:20
who are no longer agreeing with the
1:33:22
ideology du jour of the modern world.
1:33:24
What do you think? Why do you
1:33:27
think it is? I think that's probably
1:33:29
a factor. I also think that corporate...
1:33:31
America, the whole structure of it with
1:33:33
human resources and people working together. It's
1:33:36
just like, it's not necessarily what men
1:33:38
want. What men want, if you want
1:33:40
men to work in the best environment
1:33:42
possible for men, they would work with
1:33:44
mostly men. And they would probably be
1:33:47
able to speak and communicate in a
1:33:49
way that they did on mad men.
1:33:51
You know, they'd act like men. Most
1:33:53
men that are involved in corporate life
1:33:56
act like some strange character that is
1:33:58
what a man is supposed to be
1:34:00
especially if you're supposed to espouse all
1:34:02
the latest social justice you know whatever
1:34:04
the mantra is you have to repeat
1:34:07
if you have to rigidly adhere to
1:34:09
an ideology in order to fit in
1:34:11
with your corporate environment you're going to
1:34:13
do that and you're going to be
1:34:16
trapped in that and you're going to
1:34:18
just desperately wants him escape. That's why
1:34:20
CEOs wind up going to dominatrix and
1:34:22
getting fucking ball gag, kicking the balls
1:34:24
and shit. Like what do you think
1:34:27
that is? It's like they need something,
1:34:29
something wild to escape from the mundane
1:34:31
existence that they have in the corporate
1:34:33
world. That's a person that's in control
1:34:36
all the time, so privately I need
1:34:38
to be out of control. It's just
1:34:40
not compatible for most men, like that
1:34:42
type of environment. a work office environment
1:34:44
is not compatible. Nobody wants to do
1:34:47
that. What you want is the rewards
1:34:49
of that. You want the money, you
1:34:51
know, you want success, you want status,
1:34:53
you want all those things, you want
1:34:56
the corner office, but what you don't
1:34:58
want is to work in that environment.
1:35:00
If you could choose to make the
1:35:02
same kind of money doing things that
1:35:05
you love to do, having fun, like
1:35:07
if all these corporate CEOs could make
1:35:09
as much money playing golf, I bet
1:35:11
they would play golf. I don't think
1:35:13
they really want to be doing that.
1:35:16
They're doing that because it's the way
1:35:18
to succeed and the way to make
1:35:20
money. And it feels like hell. Feels
1:35:22
like hell, you're stuck in traffic every
1:35:25
day, you're stuck in the office, you're
1:35:27
not working eight hours a day if
1:35:29
you want to really make it. And
1:35:31
this is like the why the wage
1:35:33
gap between men and women with such
1:35:36
an insidious lie, because they were always
1:35:38
saying women make 75 cents to every
1:35:40
dollar a man makes. And people repeat
1:35:42
that without understanding what it actually means.
1:35:45
It's job choices an hours worked. Those
1:35:47
are the primary factors that lead to
1:35:49
men earning a woman are doing the
1:35:51
same job. and someone rips off the
1:35:53
woman by only giving her 75 cents
1:35:56
to what the man works if that
1:35:58
was the case and the woman does
1:36:00
just yeah you would only employ women
1:36:02
because women you'd pay them less they
1:36:05
do a better job anyway right ladies
1:36:07
so there you go it's it's nonsense
1:36:09
and but that thing that Obama repeated
1:36:11
on television I remember watching him say
1:36:13
that going he knows better than this
1:36:16
this is a bullshit statistic but it
1:36:18
says it's a heartstring statistic but it's
1:36:20
a heartstring statistic it's a heartstring statistic
1:36:22
it's a headline yeah plays on your
1:36:25
what you want to believe rather than
1:36:27
what's true. And women have to take
1:36:29
time off from attorney leave. They have
1:36:31
to, you know, if they get pregnant,
1:36:33
it's going to significantly impact the amount
1:36:36
of hours they're willing to work. They
1:36:38
might not want to do the job
1:36:40
anymore. And once they're raising their children,
1:36:42
if their husband's making enough money, they
1:36:45
probably want to quit. They want to
1:36:47
be at home with their kids. It's
1:36:49
a normal thing. And then a lot
1:36:51
of women who are career corporate women
1:36:53
are ashamed for wanting to stay home
1:36:56
with their children. Yeah, oh, you've been
1:36:58
conned by the patriarchy into being a
1:37:00
domestic prostitute. Oh. So I was talking
1:37:02
to, was it Schultz that said this?
1:37:05
I think it was. He's telling me
1:37:07
on the show. He said that... His
1:37:09
wife used to work at Google, I
1:37:11
think. She was like super high-powered, real
1:37:14
smart lady. And she used to bump
1:37:16
into her old colleagues in the supermarket
1:37:18
when they were together. And the classic
1:37:20
question that somebody that's in the career
1:37:22
trenches asks somebody else is, oh, so
1:37:25
what are you doing now? You left
1:37:27
work? What are you doing now? And
1:37:29
Schultz said this sentence that his wife
1:37:31
replied with would fucking kill him. She
1:37:34
says, oh, I'm just a mum. Well,
1:37:36
that's how you feel like you're supposed
1:37:38
to admit that you're just a mom.
1:37:40
That fucking hurts, dude, to derogate the
1:37:42
people that are literally raising the next
1:37:45
generation. That's another point, actually, about sort
1:37:47
of men falling behind. I think it
1:37:49
seems like young boys are more negatively
1:37:51
impacted by fatherless homes than young girls
1:37:54
are. So any boy... that grows up
1:37:56
in an in intact, a non-intact household
1:37:58
is more likely to end up in
1:38:00
jail or prison than they are to
1:38:02
complete college in the US. Any non-intact
1:38:05
that's adopted, step-parent, single-parent, any non-intact home,
1:38:07
they're more likely to end up in
1:38:09
jail or in prison than they are
1:38:11
to complete college. And the same statistic
1:38:14
is not true for girls. And this
1:38:16
again... Zero sumness of the, so what
1:38:18
do you say? You're saying that we
1:38:20
need to, we need to hold girls,
1:38:22
but it's like, no, you do not
1:38:25
need to hold one group back in
1:38:27
order to be able to raise another
1:38:29
one up. We spent 50 years really
1:38:31
pedestalizing and helping take the reins off
1:38:34
of young girls so that socioeconomically they
1:38:36
can look after themselves, they're no longer
1:38:38
financial prisoners of their partner, which is
1:38:40
a big deal. You look at the
1:38:42
divorce statistics from the past and proclaim
1:38:45
it as some, you know. fucking couldn't
1:38:47
afford to leave right they had no
1:38:49
other option to do that that's scary
1:38:51
that's scary that's scary that's why women
1:38:54
are so picky and they should be
1:38:56
yeah it's it's also crazy that we
1:38:58
put value in our lives on money
1:39:00
above everything including above doing a good
1:39:02
job raising your children you put the
1:39:05
money that you earn above that and
1:39:07
you just get daycare during the day
1:39:09
i'll be home at six that's fine
1:39:11
That's plenty of time to be with
1:39:14
my kid. And there's a lot of
1:39:16
people that live their life by that
1:39:18
and their ledger when they look at
1:39:20
the amount of money that they've earned.
1:39:22
That's what that's the reward. It's the
1:39:25
greatest metric in the world though. It's
1:39:27
the most easy to optimize thing. Like
1:39:29
I can tell you the size of
1:39:31
the house that I live in. I
1:39:34
can tell you how much money I
1:39:36
own. I can tell you what the
1:39:38
car is like that I drive. But
1:39:40
I can't tell you how much peace
1:39:43
I have when my head hits the
1:39:45
pillow at night. I can't tell you
1:39:47
what the quality of the relationship between
1:39:49
me and my wife or me and
1:39:51
my kids is. I can't tell you
1:39:54
how much time I got to spend
1:39:56
in a hammock last week. You know,
1:39:58
these are the things. I think that
1:40:00
if you were able to metric it,
1:40:02
if you were able to make
1:40:04
it a game, people would be
1:40:06
able to pay an awful lot
1:40:08
more attention to it. But the
1:40:10
money's the best game in the
1:40:12
world. It's literally transferred currency. Exchange,
1:40:14
you can exchange it. I know
1:40:16
what your wealth is compared with
1:40:19
that guy in Japan, compared with
1:40:21
that dude in Russia, compared with
1:40:23
this person that's Australian. I mean,
1:40:25
it's not just the richness of
1:40:27
your life, the happiness that you
1:40:29
have, the fulfilled feeling that you
1:40:31
have when you do whatever it is
1:40:33
that you do. We feel like you
1:40:36
have a sense of purpose. No, that's
1:40:38
not, can't quantify that, can't
1:40:40
measure it, can't put it
1:40:42
on a scale. It's useless.
1:40:44
Meanwhile, it's the most important
1:40:47
thing, is satisfaction. Satisfaction in
1:40:49
your life, community, a sense of
1:40:51
purpose like you enjoy what you do
1:40:53
that's so important for life if you
1:40:56
are just doing something you don't want
1:40:58
to do just for money you live
1:41:00
in hell and that's most people
1:41:02
most people live in this like dull
1:41:04
hell and they try to have fun
1:41:06
while they're at work they try to
1:41:08
you know have people that they talk
1:41:11
to at work hopefully make some good
1:41:13
friends at work and you can enjoy
1:41:15
your chitter chatter at the water cooler
1:41:17
but the reality of that life is
1:41:19
just mostly suck There's a lot
1:41:21
of problems I think that people that
1:41:23
are driven face that don't get that
1:41:25
much sympathy. So I had this idea
1:41:27
that type A people have type B
1:41:29
problems and type B people have type
1:41:32
A problems. So insecure overachievers need to
1:41:34
learn how to chill out and lazy
1:41:36
people need to learn how to work
1:41:38
hard and be more disciplined. And most
1:41:40
people that listen to shows like yours
1:41:42
or mine are probably some version of
1:41:45
type A, like a kind of... walking
1:41:47
anxiety disorder harness for productivity.
1:41:49
That's a great definition. It
1:41:52
is. It's really accurate. I
1:41:54
think the thing that type
1:41:56
A people realize is that
1:41:59
if you Taipei, you get
1:42:01
very little sympathy because a outwardly
1:42:03
successful but miserable person is way
1:42:05
less, always appears to be in
1:42:07
a much more preferential position than
1:42:09
a content being lazy but on
1:42:12
the verge of bankruptcy one. You
1:42:14
know what I mean? So problems
1:42:16
of opportunity will always get less
1:42:18
sympathy than ones of scarcity. One
1:42:20
feels like a choice and the
1:42:22
other feels like a limitation. One
1:42:25
is like a bourgeois luxury and
1:42:27
the other is like a systemic
1:42:29
imposition. You know, I need someone
1:42:31
to teach me how to switch
1:42:33
off and relax, feels dopaminergic and
1:42:35
opulent and addicted and privileged. I
1:42:38
need someone how to teach me
1:42:40
how to work harder, feels noble
1:42:42
and upward aiming and like you're
1:42:44
supporting the downtrodden. in history has
1:42:46
a training montage of some guy
1:42:48
down on his luck that gets
1:42:51
saved by the right woman or
1:42:53
a Japanese dude that teaches him
1:42:55
to wash cars or whatever it
1:42:57
is and through grit and spit
1:42:59
and sawdust he sorts himself out
1:43:02
and he fixes his life. No
1:43:04
movie explains how to log out
1:43:06
of slack at 6 p.m. or
1:43:08
spend a day at the beach
1:43:10
without feeling guilty. And so yeah
1:43:12
I think in that sense type
1:43:15
A people may objectively have better
1:43:17
lives, but subjectively they're ravaged by
1:43:19
the sense that they've never done
1:43:21
enough. Right. They wake up every
1:43:23
single morning feeling as if they're
1:43:25
already trying to repay some productivity
1:43:28
debt, and only if they dance
1:43:30
through the day completely perfectly nail
1:43:32
every single task can they go
1:43:34
to bed not feeling like a
1:43:36
waste man. Yeah. That's where they're
1:43:38
at. You might be very successful.
1:43:41
You also might be very miserable.
1:43:43
You're most likely going to be
1:43:45
miserable. That's the cold, hard reality
1:43:47
of most CEOs. really wealthy people
1:43:49
when you see them pull up
1:43:51
in the yacht, they're fucking living
1:43:54
hell. I think when you look
1:43:56
at people that are super outlier
1:43:58
performers, you should probably, your first
1:44:00
emotion should not be envy, it
1:44:02
should be pity, should think, what's
1:44:05
that person, what's it like inside
1:44:07
of that person to drive them
1:44:09
to do what they did to
1:44:11
themselves, to put them in that
1:44:13
position? What's... What's their background like?
1:44:15
What happened in their childhood? What
1:44:18
do they think about their own
1:44:20
sense of self-worth? Or how much
1:44:22
Adderall are they on? The old
1:44:24
performance enhancement, yeah, the testosterone for
1:44:26
the businessmen. It's not just performance
1:44:28
enhancer, I think it changes the
1:44:31
way you approach things. Have you
1:44:33
ever taken it? No. No, I'm
1:44:35
scared of, I'm scared of speed.
1:44:37
I'm scared of anything that I
1:44:39
think I would really like. Yeah,
1:44:41
you haven't done cocaine for the
1:44:44
same reason, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
1:44:46
yeah. Well, I was very lucky
1:44:48
when I was in high school,
1:44:50
I knew some people that had
1:44:52
problems with it. Big warning sign.
1:44:55
Yeah, well, and back then, I
1:44:57
was very driven. Like, I didn't
1:44:59
even party, really. I only wanted
1:45:01
to get good at martial arts.
1:45:03
I was so driven that I
1:45:05
didn't want to do anything that
1:45:08
would interfere with anything else. What
1:45:10
was it that drove you? Why?
1:45:12
Why did this drive you drive
1:45:14
for so long? It's probably
1:45:16
a lot of factors. I mean, I
1:45:19
got into it because I didn't want
1:45:21
to get picked on because I didn't
1:45:23
know how to fight and I would
1:45:26
be nervous around bullies. I didn't know
1:45:28
what to do. And I'm like, this,
1:45:30
I don't like this feeling at all.
1:45:33
So I will become what everyone's afraid
1:45:35
of. So I'll do that. And then
1:45:37
when I got into it, I realize
1:45:40
that first of all, I realize that
1:45:42
I could get really good at things.
1:45:44
I realize that whatever. drive that I
1:45:47
had and whatever thing about fighting which
1:45:49
was so scary to me, why was
1:45:51
so appealing to me at the same
1:45:53
time, and I realized that it was
1:45:56
like a vision quest. I was on
1:45:58
this quest to try to figure out
1:46:00
how to harness my potential and what
1:46:03
better way than to do something that's
1:46:05
very difficult and very scary. And then
1:46:07
if you could get really good at
1:46:10
something very difficult and very scary, you
1:46:12
could probably master life. So you had
1:46:14
this gateway drug through martial arts that
1:46:17
was a proof to you that you
1:46:19
could self-author? Yes. Yeah, proof that I
1:46:21
wasn't a loser. For me, it was
1:46:24
like that I could be successful. Why
1:46:26
did that? I've heard you said that
1:46:28
before about the... the loser thing? Where
1:46:31
did that fear come from? Did you
1:46:33
feel powerless as a kid at some
1:46:35
point? Yeah, I'm sure it comes from
1:46:38
broken home, moving around a lot, a
1:46:40
lot of factors. There's a lot of
1:46:42
various factors. But it's also just the
1:46:45
existential angst of being a young man.
1:46:47
Like you're looking for purpose, like who
1:46:49
am I? What do I do? Am
1:46:51
I good at anything? Like what gives
1:46:54
me value? And for me, when I
1:46:56
started doing martial arts, it was the
1:46:58
first time that I was respected. And
1:47:01
not just respected, like, I remember the
1:47:03
first time I realized that people would
1:47:05
gather around when I fought. And I
1:47:08
was like, whoa, this is kind of
1:47:10
crazy. Like, they specifically want to watch
1:47:12
me fight. And that was a big
1:47:15
deal to me, is like that I
1:47:17
was so good that people were gathering
1:47:19
around. Really, they wanted to see something
1:47:22
horrible. They wanted to see someone get
1:47:24
head kicked, you know, and they knew
1:47:26
I did that. Reliably, you could have
1:47:29
kicked one in the head. I was
1:47:31
pretty good at it. And so that
1:47:33
that changed me, it changed my self-reflection.
1:47:36
It changed who I was. I wasn't
1:47:38
a loser. Now I was an extreme
1:47:40
winner. and really good at it and
1:47:42
super disciplined and driven beyond anything that
1:47:45
I thought was possible before I'd done
1:47:47
that. I never had like that kind
1:47:49
of focus before I got into martial
1:47:52
arts but martial arts demanded that kind
1:47:54
of focus because you can't pretend there's
1:47:56
no pretending you're fast you have to
1:47:59
be fast. There's no pretending you're fast
1:48:01
you have to be fast. There's no
1:48:03
pretending to be technical. perfect. Yeah, your
1:48:06
technique has to be perfect because you're
1:48:08
fighting against other trained killers like you're
1:48:10
not finding your weaknesses will be revealed.
1:48:13
You're gonna get hurt and I saw
1:48:15
so many people get hurt. It doesn't
1:48:17
matter about what you tweeted. It doesn't
1:48:20
matter about your beliefs stepping onto the
1:48:22
mat. Your fucking rainbow flag that you
1:48:24
have in your t-shirt. It only gives
1:48:27
a shit. So on that I think
1:48:29
that's a very common pattern especially for
1:48:31
young people who feel a little bit
1:48:33
helpless in their life. a vector that
1:48:36
makes me feel worthy. You know, the
1:48:38
most common story of high performers, I
1:48:40
think, is that I needed to do
1:48:43
something to get the world to recognize
1:48:45
me. One of the problems, I think,
1:48:47
is people grow up is that they
1:48:50
internalize this belief that the only way
1:48:52
that the world will value me is
1:48:54
if I can continue to perform at
1:48:57
this high level. And I think that
1:48:59
there comes, some people can imbibe a
1:49:01
type of insecurity in that if I
1:49:04
stop doing... these things, if I stop
1:49:06
being as impressive to the world, it's
1:49:08
going to deny me its love that
1:49:11
it is, I'm going to be unwanted,
1:49:13
unworthy, and I think that this, talking
1:49:15
about the high performer thing, talking about
1:49:18
the pity of the CEO, go, how
1:49:20
much are you running towards something that
1:49:22
you want, and how much you're running
1:49:24
away from something that you fear? that
1:49:27
there's not enoughness. Right, right, right. And
1:49:29
the way I looked at it and
1:49:31
the way I was taught was that
1:49:34
martial arts are a vehicle for developing
1:49:36
your human potential. And that through the
1:49:38
incredible struggle of training and competing, you
1:49:41
will learn more about your ability to
1:49:43
excel at anything. You know, this is
1:49:45
the Miyamoto Musashi path. And I think
1:49:48
that the problem with anything... Anything extreme
1:49:50
but also fleeting. And athletic performance is
1:49:52
fleeting. If you're at the very best,
1:49:55
you have a couple of decades. At
1:49:57
the very best. If you're really lucky,
1:49:59
you have a couple of decades. to
1:50:02
define you as a competitor. But then
1:50:04
your body will give out. Your age
1:50:06
will win. The beating that your body
1:50:09
takes. from all the training and all
1:50:11
the competing, eventually you're not going to
1:50:13
be able to perform at that level
1:50:15
anymore. And you're going to fall off.
1:50:18
And you see it with fighters. It's
1:50:20
really hard with professional fighters, where their
1:50:22
whole identity is wrapped up in being
1:50:25
a champion, a champion, where their whole
1:50:27
identity is wrapped up in being a
1:50:29
champion. Their whole identity is being the
1:50:32
king of the hill. And then they're
1:50:34
no longer the king of the hill.
1:50:36
And sometimes it happens to win the
1:50:39
title again. Like that. So six months
1:50:41
later, you're in a totally different reality.
1:50:43
You're in a depressed reality. And then
1:50:46
maybe you are physically depressed because maybe
1:50:48
you got really hurt in your last
1:50:50
fight, so you're probably suffering from some
1:50:53
brain damage. So you've got endocrine disruption,
1:50:55
your pituitary glands probably fucked, your cortisol
1:50:57
levels are through the roof, your hormone
1:51:00
levels are all fucked up, you might
1:51:02
have a hard time losing weight. you
1:51:04
know, you're tired and depressed because your
1:51:06
levels are all fucked up in your
1:51:09
hormones because you basically got your brains
1:51:11
beat in six months ago. Your capacity
1:51:13
to fix the very problem has been
1:51:16
taken away from you. Yeah, and you
1:51:18
see it sometimes with one fight, you
1:51:20
know, with a fighter you see... Like
1:51:23
Tony Ferguson is like my favorite example
1:51:25
who was the boogie man the light
1:51:27
heavy with the lightweight division of the
1:51:30
UFC for years for years he was
1:51:32
the guy who's like this unstoppable force
1:51:34
that had Bottomless cardio never stopped coming
1:51:37
after you and was just hell bent
1:51:39
on destruction and Beat the fuck out
1:51:41
of everybody for years until he fought
1:51:44
Justin Gaichi and Justin Gaichi beat him
1:51:46
so bad he was never the same
1:51:48
again. It was never the same guy
1:51:51
again. He went from being a favorite
1:51:53
in the Justin Gagee fight. I think
1:51:55
he was a slight favorite going into
1:51:57
that fight. to after the fight was
1:52:00
over he got stopped in the later
1:52:02
rounds and never never recovered went on
1:52:04
I think that was a physical thing
1:52:07
or a mental thing both more physical
1:52:09
than mental because I think Tony's mental
1:52:11
his mental his mental his fortitude is
1:52:14
unstoppable he's just got this mindset but
1:52:16
I don't think his body responded the
1:52:18
way I saw a machine with David
1:52:21
Goggins is screaming at him to keep
1:52:23
going he gets off throws up in
1:52:25
a bag and gets back on the
1:52:28
stem machine he's an animal His mind
1:52:30
is unstoppable, but at a certain point
1:52:32
in time, particularly when you're being tested,
1:52:35
right? So you're doing the USADA protocol
1:52:37
at the time and now it's drug-free
1:52:39
sport, so there's no peptides, there's nothing
1:52:42
that can aid you in recovery. There's,
1:52:44
you know, you can't supplement your hormones,
1:52:46
you can't recharge your hormone development, you
1:52:48
can't, there's so many things that you
1:52:51
can't do because they are in fact
1:52:53
performance enhancers that would help you recover.
1:52:55
You know, if a guy like Tony
1:52:58
Ferguson after that fight got on hormone
1:53:00
replacement, got on testosterone, got his levels
1:53:02
up pretty high, got to a point
1:53:05
where we could train as hard, he
1:53:07
probably wouldn't have had the slide that
1:53:09
he had. I think part of the
1:53:12
slide is that everybody has to be
1:53:14
natural. You're natural and you get beat
1:53:16
up a few times. You're not the
1:53:19
same person anymore. And I've seen it
1:53:21
many, many times. One bad beating and
1:53:23
the guy's done. It's a big thing
1:53:26
in boxing. In boxing, everybody points to
1:53:28
Melder Taylor's one of the best examples.
1:53:30
Fought Julio Cesar Chavez. Chavez broke him
1:53:33
down in the fight and then stopped
1:53:35
him with like a couple seconds to
1:53:37
go in the last round. Dropped him
1:53:39
in the referee called the fight with
1:53:42
a couple seconds to go in the
1:53:44
last round. And Melder Taylor was never
1:53:46
the same again. And he did interviews
1:53:49
after the interviews, like a couple years
1:53:51
later, pronounced slurring in his words. a
1:53:53
very clear deterioration of his reflexes and
1:53:56
his speed. very clear deterioration in his
1:53:58
ability to take a punch and even
1:54:00
avoid punches. His reflexes were off. Have
1:54:03
you ever felt any TBI stuff from
1:54:05
your heritage you've doing striking? No, not
1:54:07
really. I'm sure it made me impulsive.
1:54:10
I'm sure I probably got the right
1:54:12
amount of brain damage to succeed in
1:54:14
life. I think so. Because it made
1:54:17
me not, I'm not very risk-averse. I
1:54:19
like risks. I enjoy them. I get
1:54:21
a thrill out of taking chances. I'm
1:54:24
not afraid to fail to fail. I
1:54:26
don't mind because I know that failure
1:54:28
produces some of the best results. Every
1:54:30
time I've ever failed at anything, the
1:54:33
humiliation and the pain of it has
1:54:35
always forced me to work so much
1:54:37
harder. Failure in comedy is a gigantic
1:54:40
blessing. If you have one good bombing,
1:54:42
it sucks like sucking a thousand dicks
1:54:44
in front of your mother, but when
1:54:47
it's over... You realize that that can
1:54:49
happen, you fucking tighten up your battleship.
1:54:51
Some of the biggest growth leaps that
1:54:54
I've seen in comics and even in
1:54:56
fighters is a humiliating loss. Yeah, there's
1:54:58
a... A special category of lesson that
1:55:01
I've been thinking about, it's one that
1:55:03
you can only learn by sort of
1:55:05
having gone through it. And I think
1:55:08
that bombing on stage or having a
1:55:10
poor performance, I think that that's one
1:55:12
of them. So... I think most of
1:55:15
them you only learn by going through
1:55:17
them. You learn something from watching other
1:55:19
people's mistakes, which is why I've never
1:55:21
done cocaine. But maybe if I did
1:55:24
do cocaine, I would have been sober
1:55:26
a long time ago and I would
1:55:28
have had a much better understanding of
1:55:31
the abyss. cocaine is a performance enhancer.
1:55:33
Yeah, it's strange, you know, no matter
1:55:35
sort of how arduous or costly or
1:55:38
effortful it's going to be for us
1:55:40
to find out these things for ourselves.
1:55:42
For some reason, we insist. on disregarding
1:55:45
the mountains of warnings that we have
1:55:47
from elders historical catastrophes and public scandals
1:55:49
and film and TV and we think
1:55:52
some version of yeah that might be
1:55:54
true for them but not for me
1:55:56
but it's the like watch me do
1:55:59
this mum mentality And yeah, we decide
1:56:01
to learn the hard lessons, the hard
1:56:03
way, over and over again. And unfortunately,
1:56:06
it always seems to be the big
1:56:08
things. It's never about how to charmingly
1:56:10
introduce yourself at a cocktail party or
1:56:12
put up a level set of shelves.
1:56:15
It's never that. It's always, we spend
1:56:17
most of our lives learning
1:56:19
firsthand. the warnings that previous generations
1:56:21
gave us over and over again. And
1:56:23
then one day you're like, I'm going
1:56:25
to throw all my money in crypto.
1:56:27
And then you will know about that.
1:56:29
But that's one of them. One of
1:56:31
them is money what makes you happy.
1:56:33
Yeah. Fame isn't going to fix yourself
1:56:35
worth. You don't love that pretty goal.
1:56:37
She's just hot and difficult to get.
1:56:39
Yeah. You will regret working too much.
1:56:41
Worrying isn't aiding your performance. Nothing
1:56:44
is as important as you think
1:56:46
it is when you're thinking about
1:56:48
it. Like over and over again,
1:56:50
you should see your parents more.
1:56:52
All your worries are a waste
1:56:54
of time. Like these, it's perfectly
1:56:56
okay to cut toxic people out
1:56:58
of your life. Like these are
1:57:00
so trite. There's such basic
1:57:03
bitch insights. Because everybody
1:57:05
has heard them before. But if
1:57:07
they're so basic, why does everyone
1:57:09
who ends up arriving at them
1:57:11
talk about them as if they've
1:57:14
just had religious revelation? You know
1:57:16
what I mean? Like they have
1:57:18
this further to them about why it is
1:57:20
so important for you to listen
1:57:22
that we couldn't have seen this
1:57:24
coming. How could we have seen
1:57:26
this coming? It's like it is
1:57:28
in every single fable and story
1:57:31
from the rest of time. And
1:57:33
I think that one of the reasons
1:57:35
this happens is... If you don't have a
1:57:37
thing, looking at somebody who has
1:57:39
that thing, they have the solution
1:57:41
to your problem. If you don't have
1:57:43
money, you believe that by having money,
1:57:46
all of your problems would be fixed. If
1:57:48
you don't have fame, you believe that
1:57:50
fame is the thing that's going to
1:57:52
get. If you don't have the goal,
1:57:54
you think that getting the goal is
1:57:56
going to do those things. And it is
1:57:58
only by getting that. I thought would
1:58:00
be fixed by getting the thing wasn't
1:58:02
fixed. No. I need to look deeper.
1:58:05
So not only do we refuse to
1:58:07
sort of learn the lessons, if you
1:58:09
talk about this on the internet, if
1:58:11
you have a rich person on, who
1:58:13
says, you know what man, I earned
1:58:15
a couple of billion dollars and I'm
1:58:17
still, I'm still pretty miserable. You bring
1:58:20
some actress on. She says, you know,
1:58:22
all of the fame and stuff like
1:58:24
that, it really didn't fix myself worth.
1:58:26
The internet hates that. It's a very
1:58:28
contentious. Point to bring up
1:58:30
and I think that we believe our
1:58:32
particular mental makeup Would allow us to
1:58:35
dance through this minefield. Yeah, right? No,
1:58:37
no, no my unique inner landscape would
1:58:39
be solved. Yes, by this problem especially
1:58:41
men watch me dance through this minefield
1:58:43
avoid all of the tripwise do a
1:58:46
couple of pirouettes and I won't kick
1:58:48
any of them Yeah, and then you
1:58:50
kick one and you realize oh fuck
1:58:52
this this worry of mine was so
1:58:54
much more deeply rooted than the thing
1:58:57
that's from outside but I genuinely believe
1:58:59
that you kind of need to learn
1:59:01
it yourself I don't think you can
1:59:03
I've got naval on the show on
1:59:05
Sunday he's great he's fucking phenomenal I
1:59:08
think that by the way the fucking
1:59:10
phenomenal I think that by the way
1:59:12
the one that you did with him
1:59:14
in 2019 is the best podcast episode
1:59:16
of all time really that two hours
1:59:18
yeah it's just one I've gone back
1:59:21
maybe it's just like personally meaningful to
1:59:23
me that if he could invest more
1:59:25
money in clubhouse he would have and
1:59:27
i was i was we were talking
1:59:29
on the phone i was like dude
1:59:32
i think this is just bad podcasting
1:59:34
i don't think I don't think there's,
1:59:36
but Clubhouse took off during the pandemic
1:59:38
because people found themselves at home and
1:59:40
you know it's kind of cool to
1:59:43
be able to hop on to a
1:59:45
call with a bunch of other people
1:59:47
and you're basically sharing ideas of people
1:59:49
you've never met before and intellectually sparring
1:59:51
and people loved it. But I was
1:59:54
like bro. When the world reopens. I
1:59:56
did it with Tim Dillon, we did
1:59:58
an episode once and and he was.
2:00:00
like, yeah, it goes out there and
2:00:02
then, you know, no one ever has
2:00:05
it. I go, bullshit, people are recording
2:00:07
this right now. I go, it's going
2:00:09
to be online. And he was online
2:00:11
immediately, immediately. I go, this is not
2:00:13
sense. Yeah, it's like the mother ship,
2:00:15
making people put the phones in the
2:00:18
bag, but you can reopen the bag.
2:00:20
Like, if you could reopen the bag.
2:00:22
Yeah, but you're allowed to do this
2:00:24
and just take it. It's like, everything's,
2:00:26
yeah. Yeah. It's a real interesting, it's
2:00:29
a real interesting. It's a real interesting.
2:00:31
It's much easier for you to drive
2:00:33
a beat-up Chevy truck if your last
2:00:35
car was a Ferrari. Sure. Because you've
2:00:37
closed that loop. I wonder if it
2:00:40
is the money. I wonder if it
2:00:42
is the fame. I wonder if it
2:00:44
is the... But it depends on the
2:00:46
circles you're keeping too, because if you're
2:00:48
keeping circles that are valuing those items
2:00:51
that show like you've achieved milestones, you
2:00:53
know, there's a bunch of people that
2:00:55
they, you know, you don't have a
2:00:57
Mayboc? You know, you have a this,
2:00:59
huh? Keeping up with the Joneses. Where's
2:01:01
your house? Oh, your house is not
2:01:04
the best near hood, huh? I was
2:01:06
thinking about, um, why I'm attracted to
2:01:08
some of my friends, like why I
2:01:10
like to spend time with some over
2:01:12
others. And, uh, I sort of realized
2:01:15
this, this interesting dynamic that I hadn't
2:01:17
really heard get talked about much, which
2:01:19
is we think that we want to
2:01:21
be charismatic, like we want to step
2:01:23
into a room. Our stories are electric,
2:01:26
energy, the aura, everyone's super impressed by
2:01:28
us. I didn't actually notice that that
2:01:30
was the sort of people that I
2:01:32
was choosing to hang around with. There's
2:01:34
this story about Jenny Jerome, who was
2:01:37
Winston Churchill's mother, and she gets to
2:01:39
dine with William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli,
2:01:41
the Prime Minister and the opponent, one
2:01:43
night after the other. And she says,
2:01:45
after I left the dinner with Gladstone,
2:01:47
I left feeling like he was the
2:01:50
smartest person in England. and after I
2:01:52
left the dinner with Disraeli I felt
2:01:54
like I was the smartest woman in
2:01:56
England. And I think this really helps
2:01:58
to... explain why we gravitate towards certain
2:02:01
people. Some people feel interesting and around
2:02:03
some people we feel interesting. Yeah. And
2:02:05
that's my favorite sort of person. I
2:02:07
think charisma, being charismatic, being energizing. It's
2:02:09
the sort of thing lots of people
2:02:12
are seduced by. They love the sound
2:02:14
of it, but it's kind of like
2:02:16
developing real charisma. Like Matthew McConnell has
2:02:18
said opposite this guy and he's fucking
2:02:20
oozing charisma. But it's way easier to
2:02:23
be interested than it is to be
2:02:25
interesting. And it gets you probably 80%,
2:02:27
90% of the way there, just by
2:02:29
caring. Yeah. Ask me questions. Yeah. I
2:02:31
want to know what you think about
2:02:33
this. Right. That's cool, Joe. Tell me
2:02:36
more about that. And why do you
2:02:38
think about this? Tell me more about
2:02:40
that. And why do you think that
2:02:42
you're built that way? Right. And I
2:02:44
mean, this is why our job is
2:02:47
largely the most selfish one that we
2:02:49
could do. We've, hey. Smart person, come
2:02:51
on here and tell me about your
2:02:53
entire life's work. Tell the least educated
2:02:55
person in the room about what it
2:02:58
is that you've spent your time doing.
2:03:00
Yeah. And it's also, it's very beneficial
2:03:02
for the people that are listening, which
2:03:04
is another service that it provides. Like
2:03:06
you get to be you, like the
2:03:09
person listening to your podcast gets to
2:03:11
be you as you interview these spectacular
2:03:13
people. So they get to like, oh,
2:03:15
why did you? Why did you do
2:03:17
that? And then you say, why did
2:03:19
you do that? Like, yeah, good question.
2:03:22
You know what it feels like? It
2:03:24
feels like watching a sports game sometimes.
2:03:26
I think the best conversations, whether they're
2:03:28
around a table or a podcast or
2:03:30
whatever, it feels like watching a sports
2:03:33
match and the two teams are kind
2:03:35
of working together to get the ball
2:03:37
in the goal. And you go all
2:03:39
excited and you're like, oh, he's going
2:03:41
to do this. Yeah, if you're ever
2:03:44
listening to something, I'm sure that this
2:03:46
maybe happened to people listening to this
2:03:48
episode. They go, fuck, I hope he
2:03:50
asks him about the thing. He asked
2:03:52
him about the thing. Yeah. And yeah,
2:03:55
there's this sense that there's a third
2:03:57
participant, not just Jamie, in the room.
2:03:59
Where's Carl? I just realized
2:04:01
there should be a full of participants.
2:04:03
Carl snore a lot. Okay, he's a
2:04:06
sound risk. Sometimes he gets a little
2:04:08
loud. And while the podcast is going
2:04:10
on, you hear, you're like, nudge him.
2:04:13
Roll him over. Make him shut up.
2:04:15
Yeah, I am. It depends on who
2:04:17
I'm talking to. Like, if I'm talking
2:04:20
to, like, a theoretical physicist. And there's,
2:04:22
like, some very difficult thing to grasp.
2:04:24
And you hear Carl snoring. It becomes
2:04:27
a little bit of an issue. If
2:04:29
it's coming through the headphones. He's loud.
2:04:31
Sleep train, sleep train, that dog. No,
2:04:34
you can't. He's got an older, he
2:04:36
can handle these. He needs a CPAP.
2:04:38
Have you seen what their faces look
2:04:41
like when the skulls? French bulldog skulls?
2:04:43
No. It's horrible what they've done to
2:04:45
them. Through selective breeding. Yeah. Just slowly,
2:04:48
they just shove their fucking skull. It's
2:04:50
all twisted where their sinuses are like
2:04:52
non-existent. Their whole face is just smushed
2:04:55
in. So we can't really complain about
2:04:57
the snoring? Well, I mean, we did
2:04:59
it to them. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah,
2:05:02
yeah. They used to be a wolf.
2:05:04
Yeah. I told you about that man
2:05:06
crush that I had last time, that
2:05:09
uncillable soldier guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And
2:05:11
it sent me down a rabbit hole.
2:05:13
I fell in love with stories of
2:05:16
crazy bastards from history. So I found
2:05:18
this other dude called Amo Kuyvenen. Oh,
2:05:20
I've heard of that guy. The Finnish
2:05:22
soldier. Yeah. Yeah. So he is out
2:05:25
on patrol with a bunch of Finnish
2:05:27
soldiers, small group, and they come upon
2:05:29
a Soviet force, way bigger than they
2:05:32
are. They can't fight them, so they
2:05:34
have to flee. As they're fleeing, they're
2:05:36
skiing away through the snow, and the
2:05:39
force is way bigger. Amos at the
2:05:41
front, he's trailblazing, trying to break free
2:05:43
from this group, but he can't go
2:05:46
fast enough. If they get caught, they're
2:05:48
going to be captured or killed or
2:05:50
worse. So he needs to speed up.
2:05:53
He doesn't know how he's carrying the
2:05:55
entire patrol's supply of pervertin. It's otherwise
2:05:57
known, yep, as methamphetamine. And he decided,
2:06:00
I mean, you might think, this wasn't
2:06:02
just any normal meth, right? This was
2:06:04
pharmaceutical grade wartime human horsepower, right? It
2:06:07
was the most intense. So you might
2:06:09
think tolerating the dose could be a
2:06:11
good idea. There's a rumor that apparently
2:06:14
it had melted in his pocket, but
2:06:16
whatever he did, he took 30 people's
2:06:18
worth. He took 30 soldiers worth of
2:06:21
meth, the entire packet, just ate the
2:06:23
entire packet. Whoa. Unsurprisingly, he manages to
2:06:25
break away from the pursuing Soviets, and
2:06:28
he leads his group away. So they
2:06:30
chill out on the far side, once
2:06:32
they're finally free, and they notice that
2:06:35
Amos behaving a little bit, oddly, and
2:06:37
he seems to be a danger to
2:06:39
himself and to them, so they take
2:06:42
his ammo out of his rifle, and
2:06:44
they take his knife off him, and
2:06:46
they sort of putting stuff away in
2:06:49
the pack. They turn around, and he's
2:06:51
gone. He's gone. He's gone. Like, fuck,
2:06:53
where's Amo gone? He skis for 63
2:06:56
miles on his own. Just skis away,
2:06:58
he doesn't really know what he's doing,
2:07:00
he's in this sort of fever dream
2:07:03
thing, lays down, goes to sleep, wakes
2:07:05
up the next day, no idea where
2:07:07
he is. Doesn't know where his group
2:07:10
is, doesn't know where the squadron, doesn't
2:07:12
know where he is. Immediately sees a
2:07:14
Soviet soldier, and he explodes in a
2:07:17
cloud of white dust. Turns out... that
2:07:19
it wasn't a Soviet soldier, it was
2:07:21
a tree branch with snow on it,
2:07:23
and that he's actually hallucinating. So he's
2:07:26
in a full-on fever dream. Now, whoa.
2:07:28
Imagine this Soviet soldier throws the gun
2:07:30
at him, he explodes, he's like, fuck,
2:07:33
okay, I need to, I need to
2:07:35
find my squadron, how am we going
2:07:37
to get back to them? So he
2:07:40
decides to just try and navigate around
2:07:42
for a couple of hours, and he
2:07:44
sees him over the far side, he
2:07:47
sees his group, he's way far away,
2:07:49
Turns out that it wasn't his squadron,
2:07:51
it was more Soviet soldiers, so he
2:07:54
just skis straight through the middle of
2:07:56
the camp. All of these guys immediately
2:07:58
chase after him, but there's no chat.
2:08:01
he's the fucking LeBron James of meth,
2:08:03
right? You're not... You're not catching this
2:08:05
guy. So he goes straight through again,
2:08:08
second night, finds a hut, finds a
2:08:10
wooden cabin in the middle of the
2:08:12
snow, decides to set a fire fire,
2:08:15
but he doesn't set it in the
2:08:17
fireplace, sets it in the middle of
2:08:19
the wooden hut. And throughout the night
2:08:22
he sort of... Shuffles himself further and
2:08:24
further. If for some reason his back's
2:08:26
getting a little bit warm and he
2:08:29
keeps on sort of shuffling himself further
2:08:31
and further away He wakes up the
2:08:33
next morning on the outside of the
2:08:36
hut and it's completely burned down So
2:08:38
he's burned the only The only bit
2:08:40
the only structure that was going to
2:08:43
give him any safety. He's managed to
2:08:45
burn it to the ground and as
2:08:47
he wakes Fangs, yellow eyes, attacks him.
2:08:50
So Amo uses his knife, kills this
2:08:52
wolverine, fight to the death, kills it.
2:08:54
But then he realizes, I don't have
2:08:57
a knife, because my soldiers took it
2:08:59
from me. It was his compass, which
2:09:01
was the only thing he could use
2:09:04
to navigate himself. He'd smashed his compass
2:09:06
to bits. And then he looks down,
2:09:08
and it wasn't a wolverine. It was
2:09:11
a tree log, thinking it was a
2:09:13
65 pound wolverine. He's still just deep
2:09:15
in the hole. continues to ski around,
2:09:18
he's trying to find someone, trying to
2:09:20
find any way market that he can.
2:09:22
Now with no way to navigate, he's
2:09:24
got no compass, he's got no weapon,
2:09:27
I mean, the rifle that's got no
2:09:29
ammunition in it, he finds a Soviet
2:09:31
forward operating base. But you'll know this,
2:09:34
a lot of the time when armies
2:09:36
left these behind, they booby-trapped the fuck
2:09:38
out of them. They booby-trapped everything. So
2:09:41
he walks onto the middle of the
2:09:43
forward operating base, immediately gets exploded by
2:09:45
landmine, foot gets blown. So he's laid
2:09:48
there in the snow, kind of waiting
2:09:50
to die, and one day later, he's
2:09:52
not dead. So he's like, well, fuck
2:09:55
it. I might as well try and
2:09:57
get into the forward operating base. Gets
2:09:59
up, continues to go forward, opens the
2:10:02
door. to the floor. He has no
2:10:04
foot? It's damaged, it's severely damaged. Gets
2:10:06
toward the front of the operating base,
2:10:09
opens the door. There's another booby trap
2:10:11
there that explodes him and the door
2:10:13
like 20 yards backward. He just lays
2:10:16
there in the snow waiting to die.
2:10:18
He lays there for about five or
2:10:20
six days waiting to die. These melting
2:10:23
snow in a little tin can. thing
2:10:25
like melting it so that he can
2:10:27
drink a little bit of water. He's
2:10:30
got this door on him. He thinks
2:10:32
well someone's gonna find me, it's gonna
2:10:34
be the Soviets, they're gonna kill me
2:10:37
or I'm just gonna die, so he
2:10:39
waits. Death doesn't come. Three Finnish soldiers
2:10:41
come upon him of all of the
2:10:44
different nationalities of all of the different
2:10:46
nationalities of all of the different people,
2:10:48
three Finnish soldiers come upon him and
2:10:51
he thinks finally. blows himself up. And
2:10:53
the other two are like, hey man,
2:10:55
there's kind of a priority list here
2:10:58
and you're at the bottom and he's
2:11:00
at the top. So we're going to
2:11:02
take him back, but just hold on
2:11:05
for another couple of days, we'll come
2:11:07
back and we'll save you. They go
2:11:09
away and he just thinks, they're not
2:11:12
going to find me again, they're going
2:11:14
to forget, they're not going to find
2:11:16
me again, they're going to forget, they're
2:11:18
not going to be able to come
2:11:21
back, they're going to the medical bay.
2:11:23
14 days. 14 days. 14 days was
2:11:25
how long he'd been traveling around. He'd
2:11:28
moved 250 miles in this time. His
2:11:30
resting heart rate was 200 beats per
2:11:32
minute. And he weighed 98 pounds. He'd
2:11:35
survived this entire time on meth, water
2:11:37
that he'd melted down into a 10
2:11:39
cup, a couple of pine nut things
2:11:42
that he'd melted to, and a single
2:11:44
Siberian J that he beat to death
2:11:46
with his ski pole and just ate
2:11:49
raw. and he lived until he was
2:11:51
in his 70s died in like 1989
2:11:53
and just lived a great life. This
2:11:56
meth-fueled Finnish maniac just like skiing through
2:11:58
everything setting shit on fire hallucinating getting
2:12:00
blown up twice, survived it, met the
2:12:02
hell of a drug. Maybe you should have
2:12:05
done it. Maybe I should try now.
2:12:07
It's amazing what was accomplished
2:12:09
on amphetamines. I mean Norman Oler's
2:12:12
book Blitz. I love those
2:12:14
episodes that you did with.
2:12:16
Yeah, incredible. It's just an
2:12:18
incredible story that they literally
2:12:20
went through Poland in three
2:12:22
days. just meth out of their fucking
2:12:24
minds. And the most, the most meth
2:12:26
was given to the people at the
2:12:29
very front, the people that driving the
2:12:31
tanks, they were the most cranked up.
2:12:33
Because they'll drive the rest of the
2:12:35
group forward. Yeah. And also they have
2:12:37
to be the most psychotic, because you're
2:12:39
going to be the first people to
2:12:41
encounter resistance. So you need to be
2:12:43
the most risk of us. The least
2:12:45
risk of us, the most maniacical and
2:12:47
murderous. I wonder, you know, it's kind
2:12:49
of a debate around how much
2:12:51
of Hitler's behavior was because of
2:12:54
Hitler and how much was amplified,
2:12:56
worsened by the drugs that he
2:12:58
was on, that Theodore Morrell, that
2:13:00
crazy kooky doctor that he had,
2:13:02
he's injecting him with bullseaman, he's
2:13:04
getting fucking cocaine. Everything, yeah. A
2:13:06
lot of it had to do
2:13:08
with that. It had to. I mean, it
2:13:11
had to. It's a factor. It's a giant
2:13:13
factor. Just how much of it, what
2:13:15
would have been like, what would the
2:13:17
wars have been like, were there no meth?
2:13:19
I mean, that's probably
2:13:22
the first amphetamine-fueled war,
2:13:24
right? Was World War I
2:13:26
fueled by amphetamines? Did they have
2:13:28
amphetamines back then? I mean,
2:13:30
I don't know what you do to get
2:13:32
people to go over the top to certain
2:13:34
death. Like, how do you, I
2:13:37
mean, you motivate people by everybody
2:13:39
else doing it? I guess, sort
2:13:41
of crowd behavior in that way.
2:13:43
Which makes sense. I mean, what? It's a
2:13:45
great way to just gonna fly that
2:13:47
plane right into that boat. You're
2:13:49
like, what? I mean, great time.
2:13:51
Sure. Yeah. No, I'm gonna fly
2:13:53
to a fucking island and hide.
2:13:55
During World War I, militaries used
2:13:57
cocaine and other drugs for medicinal
2:13:59
purposes. and to enhance performance. So
2:14:01
cocaine. British Army sold cocaine containing
2:14:03
pills under the brand name Forrest
2:14:05
March. That is the best branding
2:14:07
in the world. Increased endurance oppressed
2:14:09
appetite, 1960 British Army Council banned
2:14:11
the unauthorized sale of psychoactive drudge.
2:14:13
Does one wonder where they did
2:14:15
that? They didn't want to win?
2:14:18
You don't have fun? Yeah. Were
2:14:20
the fucking fun police? Wow. That's
2:14:22
pretty crazy. Yeah, what did it
2:14:24
go pills? Is that what they
2:14:26
give to fight a pilot? Yeah,
2:14:28
they give it something British Army's
2:14:30
pill number nine. What's that? Pill
2:14:32
number nine was just a strong
2:14:34
laxative. This is AI lies What
2:14:36
was in there? Specific medication used
2:14:38
by British Army during World War
2:14:40
one primary ingredient pill number nine
2:14:42
was columel Mercurious chloride mercury base
2:14:44
compound You used to treat intestinal
2:14:46
infections and other ailments. Oh, okay.
2:14:48
Just massive diarrhea pills. I don't
2:14:50
know how that's a performance enhancement.
2:14:52
Yeah, I don't think it is.
2:14:54
If your stomach, maybe just clear
2:14:56
it out, feel like on your
2:14:58
feet, I don't know. It seems
2:15:01
like the cocaine be more effective
2:15:03
to... I mean, cocaine will make
2:15:05
you go to the bathroom as
2:15:07
well. For accomplisher goals. Yeah, you
2:15:09
know, you said before about sort
2:15:11
of that self-authoring thing, like taking
2:15:13
control of my own life. A
2:15:15
great question where he says you're
2:15:17
stuck in a third world prison
2:15:19
and you get one phone call
2:15:21
to ring somebody to get you
2:15:23
out. Who do you ring? And
2:15:25
that idea I love because it
2:15:27
helps you to identify who the
2:15:29
highest agency person is in your
2:15:31
life. Who is it that can
2:15:33
think on their feet that doesn't
2:15:35
need permission to go and do
2:15:37
anything that will overcome obstacles that
2:15:39
is this sort of permissionless reality
2:15:41
bender? Who would you call? That's
2:15:44
a good question. That's a really
2:15:46
good question. I'd have to really
2:15:48
think about also, I don't know
2:15:50
anybody's... number. That's true. Yeah, I
2:15:52
guess. Can I Instagram DM them?
2:15:54
Is that all right? Can I
2:15:56
log in? Actually, can you give
2:15:58
me my phone because I got
2:16:00
two-factor authentication on this is going
2:16:02
to be really awkward. Is that
2:16:04
all right? Can I need to
2:16:06
do that? Yeah, I mean, I
2:16:08
would be tempted to ring Tim
2:16:10
Kennedy. I think he would probably
2:16:12
be quite high up on my
2:16:14
list. Yeah, he would help you
2:16:16
a lot if I had access
2:16:18
to my phone. Yeah, dirty deeds,
2:16:20
done dirt cheap, dirt cheap. Correct.
2:16:22
Yeah, I mean it might be
2:16:24
a bit gratuitous again I get
2:16:26
the sense that he would take
2:16:29
more pleasure in getting me out
2:16:31
than would be necessary You know
2:16:33
what I mean? Yeah, probably yeah,
2:16:35
I don't know man That's got
2:16:37
to be the worst place to
2:16:39
be in the world foreign prison
2:16:41
with no way to call somebody
2:16:43
You know this is the criticism
2:16:45
about these illegal aliens that have
2:16:47
been shipped off to what is
2:16:49
it El Salvador? Is it El
2:16:51
Salvador that they have the super
2:16:53
prisons? Yeah, I think that's we
2:16:55
spoke about this last time It
2:16:57
was just as they'd been created
2:16:59
these football stadiums sized monstrosities They
2:17:01
essentially got all the gang members
2:17:03
off the streets and locked them
2:17:05
up and dropped crime radically Drop
2:17:07
violence radically. They essentially said enough
2:17:09
of this. We're just going to
2:17:12
go after all these gang members
2:17:14
and locked them all up and
2:17:16
the criticism about these deportees that
2:17:18
we're sending people over there. We're
2:17:20
sending plane loads of people over
2:17:22
there. Like, what if you're in
2:17:24
that group and you're not guilty
2:17:26
of anything? What if you're just
2:17:28
a guy who came over here
2:17:30
from Mexico and you're a tattoo
2:17:32
artist? U.S. deports 250 alleged gang
2:17:34
members to El Salvador despite court
2:17:36
ruling to halt flights. Yeah, there's
2:17:38
a court ruling to halt the
2:17:40
flights, but here's a thing. If
2:17:43
they are gang members, if they
2:17:45
are trendo, trenderagua, or you know,
2:17:47
those gang members, it's totally, yeah,
2:17:49
if that's real, then this all
2:17:51
makes sense. But the fear is
2:17:53
that there's going to be certain
2:17:55
people that are rounded up in
2:17:57
this, that are off. Not collateral
2:17:59
damage right and then these poor
2:18:01
people are going to be trapped
2:18:03
nice El Salvador prison and no
2:18:05
one's going to believe them that
2:18:07
they're innocent It says it all
2:18:09
that El Salvador has got a
2:18:11
reputation for being so good at
2:18:13
prison and law enforcement That they're
2:18:15
fucking importing people over there It's
2:18:17
like, oh, we need to, you
2:18:19
said before, if I've got a
2:18:21
bad knee, I want to go
2:18:23
to the guy that looks after
2:18:25
the Lakers. It's like, you're the
2:18:27
Lakers PT doc of the rehabilitation
2:18:29
world. It's not even rehabilitation, I
2:18:31
suppose, just incarceration world. Yeah, it's
2:18:33
just incarceration and there's probably a
2:18:35
financial incentive. We probably pay them
2:18:37
to house these prisoners. But the
2:18:39
question is, are we sure. Like,
2:18:41
how many of these people are
2:18:43
being accused of being gang members
2:18:45
because maybe they tattoo gang members?
2:18:47
You know, maybe they were caught
2:18:49
up in a raid and maybe
2:18:51
they are... Friends of gang members.
2:18:53
Maybe there's an artist who happens
2:18:55
to be an illegal or maybe
2:18:57
they're someone who's working on a
2:18:59
construction site and they get rounded
2:19:01
up and they get shipped over
2:19:03
there. That's a legitimate question. When
2:19:05
you're arresting people and prosecuting people
2:19:07
and your goals to arrest people
2:19:09
and prosecute people you do your
2:19:11
best at that and The question
2:19:13
is how many people get arrested
2:19:15
and prosecuted that are innocent? Well
2:19:17
in the real world what we
2:19:19
know is quite a few quite
2:19:21
a few I mean I do
2:19:23
a lot of podcasts with my
2:19:25
good friend Josh Dubin who's spent
2:19:27
a considerable amount of his life
2:19:29
helping innocent people get out of
2:19:31
jail. That's his you know his
2:19:33
main thing that he does is
2:19:35
work with unjustly prosecuted people and
2:19:37
you find the levels of corruption
2:19:39
to be horrific. The prosecutors, DA's,
2:19:41
the amount of corrupt judges, it's
2:19:44
shocking. It's shocking when you lay
2:19:46
the facts of these cases out
2:19:48
like the Ohio Four. These people
2:19:50
that were in jail proven that
2:19:52
one of them could not have
2:19:54
possibly been there when the crime
2:19:56
was committed and still was in
2:19:58
there for 30 years. Actually. guy
2:20:00
who's the informant came out and
2:20:02
said that he was told to
2:20:04
say all these things, it's all
2:20:06
lies, then was told when they
2:20:08
were going to bring it to
2:20:10
trial again, you will be arrested
2:20:12
for telling lies now. You will either
2:20:14
be arrested, you will either be
2:20:16
arrested because you're lying now, or
2:20:18
you'll be arrested for telling lies
2:20:20
previously. So then he won't... This
2:20:22
is like that thing, you know.
2:20:24
if she sinks she's not a
2:20:27
witch and if she floats she
2:20:29
is. Right, right, right, right, yeah. Yeah,
2:20:31
it's crazy. It's crazy. And then
2:20:33
there's the game aspect of it.
2:20:35
The game aspect of it is
2:20:38
victory, right? If you're a prosecutor,
2:20:40
your job is to arrest people
2:20:43
and prosecute them and convict them.
2:20:45
That's your job. That's what your
2:20:47
self-worth, who you are as a
2:20:50
prosecutor, your reputation, is based on
2:20:52
success. Yeah, your record, your perfect
2:20:55
record of this many convictions. Yeah.
2:20:57
It's the same with cops, unfortunately.
2:20:59
Unfortunately. thing is making arrest. Making
2:21:02
arrests. It's a shame isn't it? You
2:21:04
talked about the fire service earlier on,
2:21:06
three emergency services, fire police and
2:21:08
ambulance. When the fire service
2:21:11
turns up anywhere, I don't
2:21:13
think that there's any issues. People,
2:21:15
I don't know whether, how often
2:21:17
firefighters find themselves up against a
2:21:19
crowd that's unhappy. Maybe I guess
2:21:21
if it was a riot of
2:21:23
some kind, perhaps. But for the
2:21:25
most part it's... a hero that's coming
2:21:27
to save the cat stuck in a
2:21:30
tree, the house that's on fire, the
2:21:32
baby that's upstairs, like, hooray, well done
2:21:34
for you. Yeah. Medical service turns
2:21:36
up. Somebody's really badly hurt or
2:21:38
somebody's broke as some kid at
2:21:40
a sports match is broken. They're
2:21:42
like, thank you so much, please,
2:21:44
if you look after them, look after
2:21:47
them. And then the police turn it.
2:21:49
And the reaction could not be more
2:21:51
different. Yeah. And I don't know. I
2:21:53
understand that there's a particular
2:21:55
type of. control
2:21:58
that cops have. that's
2:22:00
sort of firefighters and EMTs. Five fighters and
2:22:02
EMTs are doing stuff exclusively sort of in
2:22:04
service of others, whereas cops are doing something
2:22:06
that sort of subtracts away. But it must
2:22:08
be tough. Like if you're a good cop,
2:22:10
especially now, especially after the last few years,
2:22:12
they must be hard because you want to
2:22:15
feel proud about your job. It's unbelievably hard.
2:22:17
It's also very hard to get people that
2:22:19
are good people to sign up for it
2:22:21
now, because they don't want that abuse. I
2:22:23
wonder if that's been reversed. of the last
2:22:25
few years. I mean, I bet
2:22:27
it has in certain jurisdictions and
2:22:30
certain areas where they've valued
2:22:32
cops. And, you know, this whole defund
2:22:34
the police thing was just so wild.
2:22:36
It was so crazy to see that
2:22:38
people would think that that would
2:22:41
be a good idea. And even
2:22:43
to spouse it publicly, to erode
2:22:45
public confidence in law enforcement,
2:22:47
just writ large. You notice that
2:22:49
that's largely dropped off now. Yeah.
2:22:52
No one's really talking about defense
2:22:54
work. It had the opposite effect.
2:22:56
Crime escalated and the people that
2:22:59
lived in the communities wanted
2:23:01
the cops back. In the areas
2:23:03
that were the worst affected as
2:23:05
well. It's a luxury belief. Yeah.
2:23:07
It's something that's held by the
2:23:09
upper classes. Yeah. And it's also
2:23:11
a thing that the political establishment
2:23:13
will use as a tool to
2:23:15
align you with them. You know, people
2:23:17
will say it, like, Kamal Harris in
2:23:20
2019 was saying, I mean, defund the
2:23:22
police, we should defund the police, which
2:23:24
is just crazy to say, you need
2:23:26
to fund them more, train them better.
2:23:29
You know, they need training the way
2:23:31
military groups need training,
2:23:33
constantly, consistently. And, you
2:23:35
know, they're encountering horrific things. I
2:23:38
mean, my friends who have been
2:23:40
cops and, you know, and have served
2:23:42
overseas, they'll tell you. Most of them
2:23:44
will tell you that they suffered more
2:23:47
PTSD as cops than they had even
2:23:49
in the military. Yeah, depending upon your
2:23:51
service, depending on what you had to
2:23:53
do. But a lot of them, it's
2:23:55
just like every day you're seeing some
2:23:58
night marriage situation. Horific violence, domestic violence.
2:24:00
violence, child abuse, murdered kids, you're seeing
2:24:02
so much horror and then your
2:24:04
version of reality is based on your
2:24:07
experiences. Your experiences are horrific every day.
2:24:09
Do you think you'd be able to
2:24:11
switch off if you had a job
2:24:14
like that? You'd be able to
2:24:16
partition compartmentalize? I wouldn't even ever guess
2:24:18
that I could pull it off. I
2:24:20
wouldn't even guess. I don't think anybody...
2:24:23
Even understands what that even means
2:24:25
unless you've shown up and seen some
2:24:27
guys brains blowing out all over the
2:24:29
curb for front for nothing for some
2:24:32
stupid argument about nothing You know when
2:24:34
you you've seen some woman get
2:24:36
shot in front of her kid by
2:24:38
the husband You know you you you
2:24:41
have no idea No one has any
2:24:43
idea You don't know unless you
2:24:45
experience it and then you have to
2:24:47
go home to your own children go
2:24:50
home to your own wife, and you're
2:24:52
just your brain is on fire you
2:24:54
know, your soul is just in
2:24:56
agony. We were watching a video the
2:24:59
other day of this guy who had
2:25:01
to shoot this guy, this cop. This
2:25:03
guy was, something was wrong, it
2:25:05
was clearly mentally unstable, was yelling, was,
2:25:08
you know, telling everybody what he was
2:25:10
gonna do, they tased him, that didn't
2:25:12
work, then he's charging at this cop,
2:25:15
and the cop shoots him, and
2:25:17
then the cop's sobbing and shaking, and
2:25:19
his partner's telling him to breathe, and
2:25:21
he's just... probably the first person he
2:25:24
ever had to kill. It's horrible.
2:25:26
And that's, that's, he succeeded. He's, he
2:25:28
stopped a threat and he, you know,
2:25:30
it was justified. This person was trying
2:25:33
to kill him. What about pulling people
2:25:35
over and the windows were all
2:25:37
tinted? and they won't roll down the
2:25:39
windows. You're standing there vulnerable. There could
2:25:42
be a shotgun inches away from your
2:25:44
face and you have no idea.
2:25:46
And they've all seen all these videos
2:25:48
where people get gunned down. You pull
2:25:51
people over all of the back window
2:25:53
explodes with machine gun fire. I mean,
2:25:55
they live. with that every day.
2:25:57
They live with that fear every day
2:26:00
and then they have to hear this
2:26:02
rhetoric everywhere of defund the police and
2:26:04
calling cops pigs and it's crazy.
2:26:06
It's crazy and it ultimately destroys the
2:26:09
fabric of our society and you know
2:26:11
there's plenty of evidence that cops have
2:26:13
done bad things. It's not excusing
2:26:15
the bad cops. There's bad plumbers, there's
2:26:18
bad car mechanics, there's bad everything. and
2:26:20
there's people that shouldn't be cops. And
2:26:23
when you see a video of someone
2:26:25
who shouldn't be a cop, shouldn't
2:26:27
be a cop and is on their
2:26:29
last nerve and snaps at someone or
2:26:32
overreacts at someone or brutalizes someone totally
2:26:34
unnecessarily, it gives you a very
2:26:36
distorted perception of the average encounter that
2:26:38
a person has with police officers. Because
2:26:41
most of the interactions that people have
2:26:43
with police officers are fine. Most of
2:26:45
them, the vast majority. No one
2:26:47
gets hurt. No one goes to jail.
2:26:50
Most of them. You know, but you
2:26:52
see the ones that go sideways and
2:26:54
then you think these are what
2:26:56
cops are doing. They're out there trying
2:26:59
to kill people. That's one of the
2:27:01
disadvantages I suppose of the way the
2:27:03
algorithms work that edge cases that are
2:27:06
unbelievable and shocking are the ones
2:27:08
that catch the most fire. Right. And
2:27:10
what it creates is it moves the
2:27:12
fringe to the middle because most of
2:27:15
what you see by design is
2:27:17
the stuff that's the most outlandish. And
2:27:19
then it gets used as a political
2:27:21
tool. Correct. You mentioned about Biden and
2:27:24
Kamala. What do you think you do
2:27:26
if you're either of them now?
2:27:28
Like Trump's just running ragged, flying high,
2:27:30
having all of this fun. Like what
2:27:33
are they doing? Like what do you
2:27:35
do when you've lost two people
2:27:37
have lost a campaign in the space
2:27:39
of six months? I don't know. Tim
2:27:42
Walsh is out there talking again. You
2:27:44
say you could fight any Trump supporter?
2:27:46
Yeah. He says he kicked their
2:27:48
ass and they're scared of him because
2:27:51
you could fix a truck. Like it
2:27:53
was, they're threatened by his masculinity. I
2:27:55
know how to fix a truck.
2:27:57
So he said, like, do you? I
2:28:00
bet you don't. The lady doth protest
2:28:02
too much. I bet you don't. I
2:28:04
fear. I bet if I bring a
2:28:07
broken truck to you and a
2:28:09
bag of tools, you're fucked. That was
2:28:11
the, that was kind of the redress,
2:28:13
right? That was the attempt. It was
2:28:16
like, we're gonna, the symbol of
2:28:18
masculinity on the left is going to
2:28:20
be Tim Waltz. It was Aragon, Aragon,
2:28:22
from Lord of the Rings and Tim
2:28:25
Waltz. Yeah, it's so crazy. I just,
2:28:27
I think they're lost. I mean,
2:28:29
they're also lost in that they can't
2:28:31
control the narrative anymore. I think when
2:28:34
they had control of Twitter and they
2:28:36
had control of all, essentially all
2:28:38
of social media and pre- trump, they
2:28:40
had the reins like firmly held. They
2:28:43
were in control of the public narrative.
2:28:45
If you strayed from that, you will
2:28:47
be kicked off social media. You'll
2:28:50
be banned from YouTube. You were, I
2:28:52
mean, and for things that were factually
2:28:54
correct. Like the lab leak theory is
2:28:57
now finally being embraced by the
2:28:59
New York Times. The New York Times,
2:29:01
I don't know if you saw that
2:29:03
article the other day, they said, we
2:29:06
were misled. Like, bro, you misled us.
2:29:08
We were misled by ourselves. There
2:29:10
was a big op-ed in the New
2:29:12
York Times that has people up in
2:29:15
arms, because they're like, fucking, duh, you're
2:29:17
finally... Do you know where it
2:29:19
is? I could send it to you.
2:29:21
I saved it, because it's so ridiculous.
2:29:24
It's so ridiculous. I was like, what
2:29:26
are you saying? How are you saying
2:29:28
that? It was you guys. It
2:29:30
wasn't just some random people that did
2:29:33
that. Do you find it anywhere, Jamie?
2:29:35
I know I saved it. Which was
2:29:37
it called? It was the New
2:29:39
York Times saying that we were misled.
2:29:42
There was a big op-ed in the
2:29:44
New York Times. Yeah, I read it.
2:29:46
I read it for like the first
2:29:49
couple chapters, but it's all duh.
2:29:51
The whole thing is just fucking duh.
2:29:53
God, where did I save it? I
2:29:55
save too many things. I'm a hoarder.
2:29:58
Digital hoarder? I'm a digital hoarder.
2:30:00
Do you know why people hold stuff?
2:30:02
The interesting way that their brains work,
2:30:04
so... No. Looking around this table, you're
2:30:07
able to discern between stuff that is
2:30:09
useful and stuff that isn't useful.
2:30:11
There it is. We are badly misled
2:30:13
about the event that changed our lives.
2:30:16
Who are you badly misled by? Do
2:30:18
you think you guys had a
2:30:20
factor in that? Since scientists began playing
2:30:22
around with dangerous pathogens and laboratories, the
2:30:25
world has experienced four or five pandemics,
2:30:27
depending on how you count. One of
2:30:29
them, the 1977 Russian flu, almost
2:30:31
certainly sparked by a research mishap. Some
2:30:34
Western scientists quickly suspected the odd virus
2:30:36
had resided in a lab freezer for
2:30:38
a couple of decades, but they
2:30:40
kept mostly quiet for fear of ruffling
2:30:43
feathers. Yet in 2020, when people... started
2:30:45
speculating that a lab accident might have
2:30:47
been the spark that started the COVID-19
2:30:50
pandemic. They were treated like cooks
2:30:52
and cranks in this newspaper. Many public
2:30:54
health officials, and by the way, not
2:30:56
by this person, I'm not blaming this
2:30:59
person, many public health officials and
2:31:01
prominent scientists dismissed the ideas, conspiracy theory.
2:31:03
I wonder why they did that. I
2:31:05
wonder if there's an email paper trail
2:31:08
that's already been established. There is. insisting
2:31:10
that a virus had emerged from
2:31:12
animals in a seafood market in Wuhan,
2:31:15
China. And when a non-profit called Ecohealth
2:31:17
Alliance lost a great grant, well lost
2:31:19
a grant because it was planning
2:31:21
to conduct risky research into bat viruses
2:31:24
with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, research
2:31:26
that if conducted with lax safety standards,
2:31:28
could have resulted in a dangerous pathogen
2:31:31
leaking out into the world, no
2:31:33
fewer than 77 Nobel laureates and 31
2:31:35
scientific societies lined up to defend the
2:31:37
organization. Yeah, they defend themselves. I mean,
2:31:40
it's appeal to authority and they
2:31:42
fucked us. And you guys were a
2:31:44
part of it, by the way. That
2:31:46
newspaper was a big part of it.
2:31:49
Big part of calling the lab
2:31:51
leak theory racist, which was really kooky.
2:31:53
It's strange that everything is concreteized on
2:31:55
the internet for the rest of time.
2:31:58
You know, I mean, people can go
2:32:00
back and try and... like retrograde
2:32:02
remove stuff that happened but there's always
2:32:04
internet archive is fantastic for this yeah
2:32:07
for the most part you could find
2:32:09
it inspired so how how is
2:32:11
it that so many U-turns regardless
2:32:13
of what it is regardless
2:32:15
of which side it is the sort
2:32:17
of permanent state of amnesia
2:32:19
that everybody's in there was
2:32:22
this this WhatsApp message. You ever
2:32:24
have one of those WhatsApp messages where it
2:32:26
says forwarded many times at the top? And
2:32:28
you're like, oh, this is going to be
2:32:30
good. And yeah, it's just an advert. It's
2:32:32
just a banner. Forwarded many times. And it
2:32:34
was a single squady, a guy in fatigues,
2:32:37
walking down a street in London and
2:32:39
a screenshot, I think, of a text saying
2:32:41
that someone had said that the army was
2:32:43
going to be deployed on the streets of
2:32:45
London to keep everybody in the house through
2:32:48
martial law. that this was how intense that
2:32:50
the lockdowns were going to get. And it
2:32:52
was going to happen on this particular day.
2:32:54
It goes crazy on Facebook, crazy on WhatsApp.
2:32:56
Never happened. And like all of
2:32:58
the people that shared that, that were adamant,
2:33:01
that created all of these stories and theories
2:33:03
around it. Like no one ever actually went
2:33:05
to go and call those people out about
2:33:07
what it was that they'd pushed. All
2:33:09
of the people that were adamant global
2:33:11
health passports, the vaccine passport, that's going
2:33:13
to come, that's going to happen. I mean
2:33:16
the unfalsifiable version of it is because we
2:33:18
knew that it was going to happen they
2:33:20
weren't able to do it so actually we
2:33:22
were the righteous resistance in doing the thing
2:33:24
and the same with whether it's lab league
2:33:26
theory whether it's Joe Biden's mental decline no
2:33:29
matter what it is you can put this
2:33:31
position out there it's fucking fortified
2:33:33
on the internet for the rest of time
2:33:35
and after a long enough you're like I
2:33:37
don't remember that you're like fucking the
2:33:39
most gas lighty partner that you've ever
2:33:41
been with like I'm not Are you sure?
2:33:43
Yeah, I don't think I didn't think
2:33:45
I didn't say that. I did I
2:33:47
do this like fucking Fugasey like Swituru.
2:33:49
Yeah. So I don't have to I
2:33:52
don't have to atone for my previous
2:33:54
sins anymore. Well, I think in this
2:33:56
case, you have an individual journalist who
2:33:58
wrote this story. I do not know
2:34:00
the history of this individual journalist, but
2:34:02
what they said is accurate and important.
2:34:04
So it's good that the New York
2:34:07
Times has this come to Jesus moment
2:34:09
where they lay out, hey, the conspiracy
2:34:11
theories were all true. That's what the
2:34:13
title should be. The conspiracy theories were
2:34:16
all true. Yeah, the shot wasn't effective.
2:34:18
Yeah, there were therapeutics that were available
2:34:20
that were dismissed and that bad studies
2:34:23
were created in order to make sure
2:34:25
that people weren't taking these drugs because
2:34:27
we needed the emergency use authorization and
2:34:29
the only way you can get that
2:34:32
is if you have no treatment. So
2:34:34
you had to rely on one thing
2:34:36
and that one thing was the vaccine
2:34:39
and they all participated in it. How
2:34:41
much do you think New York Times
2:34:43
with articles like that, Bayesos, coming out
2:34:45
recently and saying that there's this sort
2:34:48
of balance thing that he's got going
2:34:50
on at the Washington Post, Zuckerberg's recent
2:34:52
sort of pivot with regards to fact-checking
2:34:54
on meta platforms? How many of those
2:34:57
do you think would have happened if
2:34:59
there hadn't been a Trump victory in
2:35:01
November? How much of this is blowing
2:35:04
with the wind, do you think? Most
2:35:06
of it's blowing with the wind. It's
2:35:08
the society's decided we're done. You know,
2:35:10
this was Trump getting elected, this was
2:35:13
Elon buying Twitter, this was, you know,
2:35:15
and this is the blowback that you're
2:35:17
seeing, these organized protests and vandalism on
2:35:20
Tesla dealerships and... keen people they're encouraging
2:35:22
people people there's like there's so many
2:35:24
videos of people just smashing Tesla's carving
2:35:26
swastikas into the side of Tesla's because
2:35:29
century mode these cars all have century
2:35:31
mode so you could leave your Tesla
2:35:33
parked in his HD video of everything
2:35:35
that's happening all around and it uploads
2:35:38
it so you can just see who
2:35:40
did what yeah yeah you can watch
2:35:42
it that's why all these videos are
2:35:45
out people extracted from their cars the
2:35:47
video isn't published by the rioters the
2:35:49
videos published by the victims exactly Yeah,
2:35:51
there's tons of people that have been
2:35:54
arrested for this now. Tons of people.
2:35:56
I don't know what, I mean, I
2:35:58
guess it's a way of trying to...
2:36:01
protest against some person that you don't
2:36:03
like. Yeah, but it's funded. That's what's
2:36:05
crazy. And it's all because what Elon
2:36:07
is doing with USAID and what he's
2:36:10
doing with Doge, the Department of Government
2:36:12
efficiency is finding a lot of inefficiency
2:36:14
waste and fraud. Most of it he
2:36:16
believes is waste. Some of it is
2:36:19
fraud. And it's a lot of money.
2:36:21
that's going in directions it shouldn't be
2:36:23
going and then there's stuff that's legal
2:36:26
that probably shouldn't be legal like non-government
2:36:28
organizations doing the bidding of the government
2:36:30
because they're funded by the government. There's
2:36:32
certain things the government is not allowed
2:36:35
to do but a non-government organization NGO
2:36:37
can do. What's an example of that?
2:36:39
Well, regime change. Like, a lot of
2:36:41
what this money is going to, it
2:36:44
goes to foreign countries where we have
2:36:46
an interest in having the people that
2:36:48
are running that country on our side.
2:36:51
Or we don't like them and we
2:36:53
want to fund the rebels. And so
2:36:55
you can fund the people, you can
2:36:57
fund them through all sorts of organizations
2:37:00
where you hide and mask the money
2:37:02
and you move it around and you
2:37:04
have essentially blank checks and you can
2:37:07
just funnel billions of dollars all over
2:37:09
the world with no accounting. Mike Bends
2:37:11
is like the most prophetic person of
2:37:13
all time. Oh my God. I mean,
2:37:16
he talked about it on this podcast
2:37:18
before Doge and before USAID and everybody
2:37:20
is like, oh, conspiracy theorists and this
2:37:22
and that, this guy, so we used
2:37:25
to work for the State Department. What
2:37:27
the fuck does he know? Apparently he
2:37:29
knows everything. He knows all of it
2:37:32
and he can spit it out. His
2:37:34
recall is incredible. And you know, that
2:37:36
guy's got to be fucking terrified because
2:37:38
he's out there exposing. He's essentially the
2:37:41
guy who led Elon to the coffin
2:37:43
where the vampire sleeps. Like this is
2:37:45
where it is. It must be an
2:37:48
odd situation to be in, because most
2:37:50
of the time the level of scrutiny
2:37:52
that you're under and the level of
2:37:54
security threat that's likely is kind of,
2:37:57
it goes in line with status. of
2:37:59
fame and that also goes in line
2:38:01
with maybe some resources too. So as
2:38:03
people get more likely to be a
2:38:06
target, they're also more able to perhaps
2:38:08
be able to protect themselves with living
2:38:10
in a nicer house, gated community, like
2:38:13
Elon. Yeah, having security and stuff like
2:38:15
that. But this is one of those
2:38:17
weird situations where your knowledge, your particular
2:38:19
insight makes you so uniquely. vulnerable or
2:38:22
such a heavy target, but it hasn't
2:38:24
come with a concordant increase in status
2:38:26
and resources that would allow you to
2:38:28
be able to actually protect yourself. And
2:38:31
this is, I guess, the crisis of
2:38:33
a whistleblower. Yes. Whistleblower and investigative journalists.
2:38:35
Yeah. I mean, this is why Julian
2:38:38
Assange spent so much time in jail.
2:38:40
I was just about to bring up
2:38:42
Ross Albrick. Yes. Have you, you guys
2:38:44
must have tried to reach out? Yeah,
2:38:47
we reached out, but he doesn't really
2:38:49
want to talk to talk to anybody
2:38:51
right now, He's got an open invitation.
2:38:54
If he ever just says, okay, I'd
2:38:56
like to talk, whenever. Yeah, I'd love
2:38:58
to sit down and talk to him.
2:39:00
You know, I'd love to find the
2:39:03
real story because the narrative and the,
2:39:05
you know, the documentary, the docu-drama that
2:39:07
was made about the Silk Road and
2:39:09
what he did, you know, I'd like
2:39:12
to know how much of that is
2:39:14
bullshit. Because I think a lot of
2:39:16
it probably was. You know, I think
2:39:19
they were trying to set him up
2:39:21
for sure. probably some things that he
2:39:23
was accused of that aren't accurate. You
2:39:25
know, I'd like to know. Isn't it
2:39:28
funny that we always think about conspiracy,
2:39:30
conspiracy theories, all of this stuff is
2:39:32
always being in the past and that
2:39:35
when something is unfolding right now, I
2:39:37
wonder how much stuff is being ignored
2:39:39
by the media but will be studied
2:39:41
by historians? I wonder, wonder what would
2:39:44
be. That's one of my friend's favorite
2:39:46
questions to ask. What is being ignored
2:39:48
by the media but will be studied
2:39:50
by historians? I certainly think that smartphone
2:39:53
use will be one of those. You
2:39:55
know those, that five deathbed regs. of
2:39:57
the dying. I wish I'd kept in
2:40:00
touch with my friends, I wish I
2:40:02
hadn't worked so much, I wish I'd
2:40:04
allowed myself to be happy, I wish
2:40:06
I'd lived the life I wanted and
2:40:09
not the life that other people had
2:40:11
for me, blah blah. I would bet everything that
2:40:13
I'm worth that within the next couple
2:40:15
of decades I wish I'd spent less
2:40:17
time on my phone. Would be one
2:40:19
of those. No doubt. Well your time
2:40:21
is so valuable and how do you
2:40:23
have five extra hours a day? Well look at
2:40:26
your screen time. It'll save five hours. We
2:40:28
were talking about this before we got started
2:40:30
that you have The same number of hours
2:40:32
that somebody did a hundred years ago Mm-hmm,
2:40:34
but the average amount of time that Americans
2:40:36
spend on screens is eight hours at the
2:40:39
moment the average time that they eat eight
2:40:41
on screen to all screens The average time
2:40:43
they spend to sleep is six point five
2:40:45
So people are sleeping for one and
2:40:47
a half hours less than they
2:40:49
spend their time on their phone
2:40:51
And what are you getting out
2:40:53
of it? Well, nothing tangible. It's
2:40:55
so hard. It's so hard. It's
2:40:58
so hard. It's so addicting. It's
2:41:00
designed to be addicting. I
2:41:02
mean, you've had Tristan Harris
2:41:04
on here. You know, the
2:41:06
way the variable schedule reward
2:41:09
that tempts you that keeps you
2:41:11
there, you don't know what's going
2:41:13
to happen. This is so interesting
2:41:15
thing about how the algorithms work.
2:41:18
So we know. The job of
2:41:20
the algorithm is to predict what
2:41:22
you want to click on. So what
2:41:24
it wants to do is get better
2:41:27
at working out what Joe likes on
2:41:29
his YouTube feed or on his Instagram
2:41:31
feed or whatever. There's actually two ways
2:41:33
that it can become more accurate at
2:41:35
being able to predict what you're going
2:41:37
to click on. The first one is to
2:41:39
be better at providing you with things
2:41:41
that you'll select. The second one is
2:41:43
nudging your preferences so that you are
2:41:46
more easy to predict. Because you are
2:41:48
more easy to predict. stick about
2:41:50
what like click through and watch time.
2:41:52
If you get it to do that,
2:41:54
it'll just find any root. It's not
2:41:56
bounded by and you must make sure
2:41:58
that it's his existing preference. you can't
2:42:00
change his preferences, but this is one
2:42:02
of the reasons I think why polarization
2:42:05
has increased. Not just that edge cases
2:42:07
get used, it pushes people further apart,
2:42:09
they get put off into their silos,
2:42:11
echo chambers, recursive stuff, blah, blah, blah.
2:42:13
I think a big part of it
2:42:16
is just the algorithms find it easier
2:42:18
to be able to predict you, which
2:42:20
gives them an incentive. Now it's not
2:42:22
like a conscious incentive, but it gives
2:42:25
you this incentive to be pushed out
2:42:27
to the sides. And there's this worry
2:42:29
about, I learned about this idea called
2:42:31
knowingness. So, polarisation, everyone thinks it's a
2:42:33
big deal, and I think it is,
2:42:36
it's a big problem, but knowingness is
2:42:38
like an uncurious intellectual insulation. So people
2:42:40
believe that they know the answer to
2:42:42
the question before the question has even
2:42:45
been asked. I know what the outcome
2:42:47
is, I know what the answer is,
2:42:49
before you've even asked me the question.
2:42:51
And what's interesting about this... epidemic of
2:42:53
knowingness we have at the moment is
2:42:56
if the problem is poor information you
2:42:58
can fix it typically with better information.
2:43:00
I will give you a better quality
2:43:02
of information but if the problem is
2:43:05
knowingness you are insulated from ever updating
2:43:07
your beliefs because no amount of existing
2:43:09
new information is going to actually help
2:43:11
you. There's this really cool quote that
2:43:13
said most people think that they are
2:43:16
thinking when all they are doing is
2:43:18
rearranging their prejudices. Culture is largely super
2:43:20
boring because both sides act as if
2:43:22
the fact are already settled whilst not
2:43:25
agreeing on the facts. You know what
2:43:27
I mean? Yeah. Yeah. So how is
2:43:29
it that we've got to the stage
2:43:31
where people's, their prejudices just get moved
2:43:33
around until they can come up with
2:43:36
the outcome that they already wanted before
2:43:38
you even ask the question about the
2:43:40
thing that you're talking about. That's the
2:43:42
situation we end up with and I
2:43:45
think it explains why the... culture was
2:43:47
feel so samey and nothing really ever
2:43:49
seems to move like it's not moved
2:43:51
forward it goes it's such a snail's
2:43:53
pace The news is operating at light
2:43:56
speed and the way that we move
2:43:58
forward with our conceptual understanding of the
2:44:00
world is moving forward at snail space.
2:44:02
Well, how are these two things happening
2:44:04
together? Well, it's technological advance. Technological advance
2:44:07
is so much greater and faster than
2:44:09
biological advance. This is the scariest thing
2:44:11
that leads us down the road to
2:44:13
AI. We are so limited in our
2:44:16
biological ability to evolve Biological evolution takes
2:44:18
so long cultural evolution takes so long
2:44:20
whereas technological evolution is almost instantaneous And
2:44:22
we are being overrun by this thing
2:44:24
that's captivated our attention I was talking
2:44:27
about this the other day. I was
2:44:29
like imagine there was a drug that
2:44:31
made you stare at your hand for
2:44:33
six hours a day He'd be like
2:44:36
keep me the fuck away from that
2:44:38
drug, but that's what your phone's doing
2:44:40
Mostly you're getting nothing occasionally you get
2:44:42
a funny meme You know if I
2:44:44
looked at the amount of time that
2:44:47
I spend online On a given day
2:44:49
and how much if it is really
2:44:51
fascinating to me? Well every now and
2:44:53
then you get a story like that
2:44:56
story about the whole universe might be
2:44:58
inside of a black hole And then
2:45:00
I'm on a pyramid. So this is
2:45:02
interesting inside about that. There's a few
2:45:04
things you'll get but I kind of
2:45:07
feel like you will get those if
2:45:09
you're offline just by other people being
2:45:11
online. They'll send it to you Like
2:45:13
you almost better off. You don't need
2:45:16
to be the one doing the first
2:45:18
pass scouring. Exactly. Your resources are better
2:45:20
utilized by not doing that. Did you
2:45:22
see that it was a guy who
2:45:24
removed people's phones from their hands, the
2:45:27
photographer who went around, I think it
2:45:29
was maybe New York City, and he
2:45:31
took photos of people and then... uh...
2:45:33
cg-i the phones out you know you're
2:45:36
talking about it imagine if there was
2:45:38
a thing in it made you stare
2:45:40
at the hand he actually did it
2:45:42
so it shows just how absurd it
2:45:44
is you know you've got uh... an
2:45:47
entire train carriage on the subway on
2:45:49
the underground and everyone's staring at the
2:45:51
hand just people staring down at the
2:45:53
hands like this and it's it's It
2:45:56
needs that to sort of throw the
2:45:58
absurdity into it. But then on the
2:46:00
flip side, if you don't live with
2:46:02
your parents, you're in a different city,
2:46:04
you work a job that you're not
2:46:07
that enamored by, maybe your health's good,
2:46:09
maybe it's not so good, you're a
2:46:11
little bit worried about stuff, you're kind
2:46:13
of bored a lot of the time.
2:46:16
You need to be sedated. Yeah. Oh,
2:46:18
there we go. Wow. This is 2015
2:46:20
and 2012. I started trying to take
2:46:22
pictures of people in public looking at
2:46:24
their phones and it wasn't that common
2:46:27
then. So wasn't that... Well, that's like
2:46:29
when social media kicked off. In the
2:46:31
beginning no one was on it. You'd
2:46:33
see it. It's like most people weren't
2:46:36
even on Twitter. They're like, why would
2:46:38
I be on that? And you know
2:46:40
people were using it to promote things
2:46:42
and then they started using it to
2:46:44
elevate their profile and then people became
2:46:47
influencers and once people like a regular
2:46:49
person get a couple of million followers
2:46:51
Then all sudden you get sponsors and
2:46:53
that's your job now No variety respect.
2:46:55
Yeah, and fame I remember when I
2:46:58
was living in LA. It was right
2:47:00
around the time that a lot of
2:47:02
these God. What was it back then?
2:47:04
What was the thing that was like...
2:47:07
It wasn't TikTok. Vine? Yes. Yeah, it
2:47:09
was Vine. Vine influencers were the first.
2:47:11
And they were famous. So they'd go
2:47:13
to restaurants and be like, that's blah
2:47:15
blah blah. Like, who's that? Like, oh,
2:47:18
he's got 35 million vine subscribers. Like,
2:47:20
what? It was bizarre because you seen
2:47:22
just regular people that would do antics
2:47:24
or cause scenes or do something to
2:47:27
get attention and they developed large followings.
2:47:29
Isn't it the number one job that
2:47:31
primary school kids one is to be
2:47:33
YouTube or an influencer? Yeah. Well they
2:47:35
all watched them. They all watched people
2:47:38
eat food and open up toys and
2:47:40
it's like very weird. It's very weird
2:47:42
stuff because no one would have ever
2:47:44
predicted that that would be something would
2:47:47
captivate people's attention on a television. Right
2:47:49
there was no on boxing shows on
2:47:51
television, but yet on boxing shows on
2:47:53
the internet are huge Like people get
2:47:55
sucked into the most mundane thing someone
2:47:58
opening a package. Oh look at this.
2:48:00
Here's the new phone. Yeah, I'm boxing
2:48:02
in some ways I actually think is
2:48:04
quite satisfying I quite like watching the
2:48:07
people that have got the his the
2:48:09
new Mac book M4 thing and it's
2:48:11
shot all nice and MK PhD. Yeah,
2:48:13
you know like watching watching him do
2:48:15
his stuff is really great But he
2:48:18
also does a comprehensive analysis of the
2:48:20
tech it's not just He's me playing
2:48:22
with a new Mac now. It's in
2:48:24
it's in he's doing a review of
2:48:27
state-of-the-art You know like where where is
2:48:29
technology currently and what's what's the best
2:48:31
version? I think when it comes to
2:48:33
desiring a life looking at, okay, what
2:48:35
is it that I want? You need
2:48:38
to be very very careful about what
2:48:40
the process is in order to get
2:48:42
the outcome that you want, because if
2:48:44
you want the outcome, but you're not
2:48:47
prepared to live the life needed to
2:48:49
get it, you're just asking for disappointment.
2:48:51
Yeah, well said. My friend talks about
2:48:53
call of duty versus war. And he
2:48:55
talks, you know, you think about this
2:48:58
is what going on holiday to a
2:49:00
places, and this is what having to
2:49:02
live there is like. And you can
2:49:04
go to somewhere and you go, it
2:49:07
was lovely for a week. We were
2:49:09
in the Congo. Yeah, it was so
2:49:11
nice. But you go, what's it like
2:49:13
if you can't leave? It's literally the
2:49:15
difference between being camping, going camping or
2:49:18
being homeless, right? One is an imposition
2:49:20
and the other one is a choice.
2:49:22
And I think that more young kids
2:49:24
need to realize what the reality of
2:49:26
being an influencer is like. It's not
2:49:29
just going to the say shells and
2:49:31
uploading a selfie or getting... I don't
2:49:33
know what they do, like play-dough, fucking
2:49:35
jelly, new video games. That's not what
2:49:38
it's like. Look at the Twitch streamers.
2:49:40
Look at most of the Twitch streamers.
2:49:42
They have got, they are like the
2:49:44
fucking grunts of the content creation. They
2:49:46
are factories of content, eight hours a
2:49:49
day, five days a week, just fucking
2:49:51
stream of consciousness. Someone put something in
2:49:53
the chat and you go, oh, well,
2:49:55
let's watch this thing, that's watch that
2:49:58
thing. It's like, like, it is... It's
2:50:00
not if you do not want the life that you
2:50:02
need to get in order to get the
2:50:04
outcome that you're looking for You need to
2:50:06
be very very careful about because the reality
2:50:09
is war. It's not call of duty. It's
2:50:11
the same thing with being in a band
2:50:13
It's like I love the idea of traveling
2:50:15
the world and playing to these big crowds
2:50:17
and doing all the rest of it's like
2:50:19
okay, you're gonna have to live in a
2:50:22
van with four of the sweaty dudes for
2:50:24
like half a decade first if you're lucky
2:50:26
And that's if you've managed to break through.
2:50:28
You're going to have to spend so long
2:50:30
a decade learning to play guitar. You're
2:50:32
going to have to write songs that
2:50:35
never see the day of light. You're going
2:50:37
to have to do all of this stuff. And
2:50:39
you have no idea if it's going to
2:50:41
work. There's this, I think about the
2:50:44
gap from where people are in a place
2:50:46
that they don't want to be until
2:50:48
they get to a place that they do. And
2:50:50
I think of it like a lonely chapter.
2:50:52
So everybody. that has got from a
2:50:55
place where they don't want to be to
2:50:57
one where they are. There's a point where they're
2:50:59
so different that they can't resonate
2:51:01
with their old set of friends. Right. But
2:51:04
they're not yet sufficiently developed
2:51:06
that they've created their new
2:51:08
set of friends. Hmm. And there's this
2:51:10
temptation to go back to the old
2:51:12
patterns, the old ways of thinking. And
2:51:14
this, I did this live show. in
2:51:16
London last year. My first big headline
2:51:18
show at the Eventim Apollo in London,
2:51:20
it was pretty cool. And this idea
2:51:23
I think was one that really resonated
2:51:25
with a lot of people because
2:51:27
everybody's trying to grow and
2:51:29
there is an incentive for you to stay
2:51:31
in the same place because not that many
2:51:33
people grow. Most people don't change.
2:51:35
They make little changes. You know, they'll
2:51:38
cut their hair or they'll lose five
2:51:40
pounds or you know, they'll switch from
2:51:42
one company to another. But how
2:51:44
many people do you know that have lost
2:51:46
50 pounds or moved to a different country
2:51:49
or have genuinely changed the
2:51:51
way that they see the world? It's pretty
2:51:53
rare. It's not that common and we are such
2:51:55
mimetic creatures were so shaped by the
2:51:58
people around us that we can't have... but
2:52:00
be tempted. You're going to have to
2:52:02
do something. If you want to go
2:52:04
from where you are to where you
2:52:06
want to be, you're going to have
2:52:08
to do something that makes you more
2:52:10
different, more weird, more easy to be
2:52:12
mocked, especially if you come from a
2:52:14
country like the UK, where I'm from,
2:52:16
being different, not particularly if you come
2:52:19
from a country like the UK where
2:52:21
I'm from, being different, not particularly celebrated
2:52:23
in that way, it's not particularly celebrated
2:52:25
you. to tell you that the thing
2:52:27
that you're trying to do, that taking
2:52:29
up the marshal, why are you training
2:52:31
this Taekwondo bullshit, like, you know, fucking
2:52:33
six nights a week? Why are you
2:52:35
coaching all of these moms and all
2:52:37
of these like old guys and how
2:52:39
to do Tai Chi or whatever? Why
2:52:42
are you doing that? Well, because maybe
2:52:44
I'm sort of pulled to it and
2:52:46
there is this temptation to go back
2:52:48
to your old ways of thinking. Go
2:52:50
back to the road that you already
2:52:52
know how it's going to end. get
2:52:54
the sense that this is not a
2:52:56
bug. It is a feature. It's a
2:52:58
part of moving from a place that
2:53:00
you do not want to be to
2:53:02
one that you do. And for the
2:53:04
most part, you actually need to live
2:53:07
through this lonely chapter. And you look
2:53:09
at it and you go, well, the
2:53:11
fucking Rocky montage was 3.5 minutes. For
2:53:13
me, it's been five years. Where's the
2:53:15
championship ring? You know what I mean?
2:53:17
I haven't won the fight. Where's Apollo
2:53:19
Creed? Where's Apollo Creed? None. If you
2:53:21
watch it in the movies, yeah sure,
2:53:23
there's ups and downs in the journey
2:53:25
of the athlete that's going to change
2:53:27
his life around and get the girl,
2:53:30
but his self-believe never wavers, right? He
2:53:32
makes the decision, and it's one straight
2:53:34
shot, typically, and there'll be some challenges,
2:53:36
but he'll get there. His self-believe never
2:53:38
wavers. I don't think that's what the
2:53:40
experience of doing personal growth is like,
2:53:42
at all. In my experience, it's... you're
2:53:44
just swimming in... uncertainty and fear and
2:53:46
fear. a lack of belief that it's
2:53:48
even going to happen. You don't even
2:53:50
have the promise of glory on the
2:53:52
other side of it. I don't even
2:53:55
know if this is going to be
2:53:57
worth it. And I'm fucking doing Sam
2:53:59
Harris's waking up, meditation app, and I'm
2:54:01
journaling on a morning, I'm going to
2:54:03
the gym. Why I'm eating meat and
2:54:05
fruit? Does this even work? Like, you
2:54:07
know, you're doing all of this stuff,
2:54:09
trying scrabbling, like a guy in a
2:54:11
fucking well, trying to find a handhold.
2:54:13
And if you don't have a good
2:54:15
community of people that, people that, people
2:54:18
that are also, people that are also
2:54:20
doing that are also doing that, you're
2:54:22
also doing that, you're also doing that,
2:54:24
you're also doing that, you're also doing
2:54:26
that, you're on, you're on, you're on,
2:54:28
you're on, you're on, you're on, you're
2:54:30
on your own, you're on, you're on,
2:54:32
you're on, you're on your own, you're
2:54:34
on And this is most people, I
2:54:36
think, most people's experience because if most
2:54:38
people don't change, you are going to
2:54:40
be an outlier if you're somebody who
2:54:43
does change. I think about personal growth
2:54:45
kind of like a rocket ship taking
2:54:47
off. And as you take off, you've
2:54:49
got a particular velocity that you're moving
2:54:51
at. And what you want is to
2:54:53
find other people moving at the same
2:54:55
velocity as you. But the quicker that
2:54:57
you move, the fewer people are going
2:54:59
to be like you. Right. So some
2:55:01
people will be ahead of you. and
2:55:03
you're in this lonely chapter and then
2:55:06
you catch up to them and then
2:55:08
oh no and this isn't you know
2:55:10
some comment on people that work on
2:55:12
themselves are like morally better or worse
2:55:14
than anybody else but it's just a
2:55:16
stark sort of fact about you you
2:55:18
talk to people and you resonate with
2:55:20
people that are at the same level
2:55:22
of life as you are and that
2:55:24
kind of makes sense you have things
2:55:26
to discuss you're encountering the same sorts
2:55:28
of challenges whether it's in terms of
2:55:31
your self-worth or your relationship status or
2:55:33
all of these things. birds of a
2:55:35
feather, right? And you know, one of
2:55:37
the, I guess, difficult realizations of people
2:55:39
who want to change their life is
2:55:41
that if you do it well, you
2:55:43
might have to go through a period
2:55:45
where you let go of all of
2:55:47
your friends. But the really bad realization
2:55:49
is if you do it really well,
2:55:51
you might have to do that multiple
2:55:54
times throughout your life. You find a
2:55:56
group of people, finally, I've landed, oh,
2:55:58
that period, I was on my own,
2:56:00
and I didn't really understand. Oh, I'm
2:56:02
still going. I'm still going. I've opened
2:56:04
and I now need you mean I
2:56:06
got to do it again? I've got
2:56:08
to do it again. I just thought
2:56:10
that I'd found my group and I've
2:56:12
got to do it again. This lonely
2:56:14
chapter thing is a it's a big
2:56:16
deal and I think that it explains
2:56:19
why so few people make big changes
2:56:21
because the temptation is always going to
2:56:23
be to just go back to what's
2:56:25
normal go back to what I know
2:56:27
and it's why you know America for
2:56:29
all that it's a horrible cis heteropatriarchal
2:56:31
superstructure that's misogynistically keeping everybody down it's
2:56:33
an enthusiastic and sort of excitable country
2:56:35
and You guys have kind of got
2:56:37
permanent first line cocaine energy about everything.
2:56:39
And for me, it seems to be
2:56:42
a real infusing environment. Encourages me to
2:56:44
do things. Helps me to take risks.
2:56:46
Either that or get kicked in the
2:56:48
head a lot. And I just love
2:56:50
it. I love the fact that it
2:56:52
makes me feel confident in doing difficult
2:56:54
things. And yeah, I wish that... More
2:56:56
people had that community around them. I
2:56:58
think largely read it is just a
2:57:00
Website filled with people who couldn't find
2:57:02
other people to talk about their niche
2:57:04
in their hometown like this particular Warhammer
2:57:07
40k version or whatever But yeah, it's
2:57:09
it's difficult and when you get to
2:57:11
the stage where You're faced with some
2:57:13
personal growth decision You're always gonna have
2:57:15
to make this value exchange of do
2:57:17
I want to move forward on my
2:57:19
own? Oh, do you want to go
2:57:21
back with my friends? It's a good
2:57:23
point, man. Chris, always great to talk
2:57:25
to you, brother. Really appreciate your insight.
2:57:27
You're a very brilliant guy, and you're
2:57:30
always... You're fun. Fun to talk to.
2:57:32
I appreciate you, too, man. Thanks for
2:57:34
having, um, the courage to put all
2:57:36
your thoughts out there, and I love
2:57:38
what you do. I love your show,
2:57:40
and, uh... You're awesome man. You're awesome
2:57:42
too. Every time that you bring me
2:57:44
on, every time that we get to
2:57:46
speak, I really appreciate it. So thank
2:57:48
you. My pleasure. All right. Bye everybody.
2:58:00
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