#2293 - Chris Williamson

#2293 - Chris Williamson

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Joe Rogan podcast, check it out! The Joe

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Rogan experience! Train by day! Joe Rogan

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podcast by night! All day! And what? I took

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the glasses off. I was hoping you're going to

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keep them on. You want me to keep them

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off? You can pull them off? Some dudes

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can't pull off Duchy glasses. You think

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this is Duchy? A little bit if

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I didn't know you, but I'll know

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you. Not Duchy at all. All right.

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All right. All right. All right. All

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right. All right. All right. All right.

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All right. All right. All right. All

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right. All right. All right. All right.

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All right. All right. All right. You've

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been wearing them a lot, I like

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them. Yeah, yeah, I do. They kind

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of, it's like having an Instagram filter

0:39

for the entire world. Right. So everything

0:41

feels. Just a little rosy. I had

0:43

a pair of rose-colored glasses before

0:45

and I got it. I was like, oh,

0:48

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

0:54

you this. So, what is this? and

0:56

he flew a comedy mothership lighter out

0:58

to Antarctica. I've been reliably told

1:00

that that light was used to

1:03

smoke weed in Antarctica. Yeah, and

1:05

it's touched, it was dropped a

1:07

number of times, so it's touched

1:09

ancient permafrost. What kind of laws

1:11

do they have in Antarctica? I

1:13

don't know, apparently they're liberal. I

1:15

don't know, I don't know if

1:17

they're there, have they established laws?

1:19

There were 400 miles in. Whoa. So

1:22

this was part of the final

1:24

experiment. which was this attempt

1:26

to try and disprove flat

1:28

earth. Oh. He went as a part of that.

1:30

Did he bring flat earthers? Is

1:32

that the deal? So, four flat

1:34

earthers, four globe earthers, globe earthers,

1:37

get flown to Antarctica. It's $35,000

1:39

per person. Oh my God. This

1:41

guy called Will Duffy put the

1:43

project together, flew everybody down there.

1:45

Did he pay for each person?

1:47

Wow. Wow. I think maybe a

1:50

couple of people chose to go

1:52

self-funded. but they were trying to

1:54

get the open offer to all

1:56

of the biggest flat earth influences

1:59

common I don't know what

2:01

to call. How many went?

2:03

Four of each. Four roundies,

2:05

four flatties. Don't you want

2:07

to see their search histories?

2:09

Maybe the FBI do. I

2:11

don't know. The flat people,

2:13

I want to see. So

2:16

they do this in the

2:18

middle of our winter. There's

2:20

summer. They observed the sun above

2:22

the horizon for 24 hours.

2:24

So there's no explanation apparently

2:26

with most of the models

2:28

of flat earth about how

2:30

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

2:39

24 hour 360 cameras, they had

2:41

live stream of iPhones, all of

2:43

this stuff, and then they had the

2:45

people that were on the ground.

2:47

And the guys that were there

2:49

observed the sun. This is just a

2:51

drone footage. Oh, this is a

2:54

drone footage? Yeah, so the final

2:56

experiment. So those are apparently mountain

2:58

tops. But they're submerged? It's just

3:00

all ice. That is so fucking

3:02

hardcore. Because you know, there's a

3:05

bunch of things up there that

3:07

look like pyramids. And what it

3:09

really is is just an unusual

3:11

peak of an enormous mountain. Have

3:13

you seen the Antarctic Pyramids? Yeah,

3:15

you gotta go all in on

3:18

that. Okay. We have hard launched,

3:20

hard launched this episode. People that

3:22

believe wild shit about Antarctica. So

3:24

you know about the direct energy weapon

3:27

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

3:33

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

3:44

I've done that before with Eric, with

3:46

one guy who was a fraudster. I

3:48

sent him a video and I said,

3:50

tell me if this is gobbledygook. Or

3:53

if this is like real physics. Eric

3:55

to stress test some guy's ideas. Core,

3:57

he loves it. He loves any sort

3:59

of intellect. sexual stimulation and especially

4:01

if it's like mathematics or physics or

4:03

something where it's his wheelhouse and you

4:05

know he's great because you can someone

4:08

can sound really good to me You

4:10

know, they could start quoting thermal dynamics

4:12

and... Finassing you through whatever that problem

4:14

is. Like chiropractors do. You know, chiropractors

4:16

use all these crazy weird terms for

4:18

musculature and different insertion points is to

4:20

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

4:27

same thing like a lot of fraudsters

4:29

do. They'll use enormous language and very

4:31

verbose... you know, phrases, and it's like

4:33

they're just trying to get you to

4:36

think that they're smarter than they are.

4:38

Yeah, I think people use sort of

4:40

complex language and fluency as a proxy

4:42

for truthfulness and insight. Yes, yes, and

4:44

especially when if you're dealing with a

4:46

truly brilliant person, that's what a pyramid.

4:49

Oh, this is just on Google Maps.

4:51

Yeah, you've just gone to Google Maps.

4:53

Yeah, I didn't want to go to

4:55

any, I went to the source. Any

4:57

cookie websites. Yeah, that's crazy. But the

4:59

reality is that's probably under a couple

5:01

miles of ice. Yeah, so this final

5:04

experiment thing sent the world into a

5:06

spiral. There was this dude, Jarin Campanella,

5:08

who was one of the biggest influences

5:10

and he's said... I saw the sun

5:12

above the horizon, I think the earth's

5:14

round. He's immediately been, the flat earth

5:17

society's just gone into a head spin.

5:19

They're saying they didn't really go to

5:21

Antarctica. They went to the sphere in

5:23

Vegas, was one of the accusations. They

5:25

did it at the sphere in Vegas,

5:27

and they were tracking it around. This

5:30

fear is not that big kids. It's

5:32

not that big. I've been there. There's

5:34

seats everywhere. You would know you're there.

5:36

I don't know. I don't know. They

5:38

had a bad time. But yeah, it's

5:40

it's that's been pretty wild. Talking of

5:43

pyramids. Dude, this new pyramid shit that's

5:45

just come out. Oh, this is insane.

5:47

Yeah, I was gonna send this to

5:49

you as well, Jamie. I'll send you

5:51

one of the most comprehensive breakdowns of

5:53

it on X, because it's quite stunning.

5:55

So apparently, through the use of Lydar,

5:58

they have discovered that there are enormous

6:00

structures underneath the great pyramid that go

6:02

kilometers deep into the earth with coils.

6:04

So enormous pillars, and then these coils.

6:06

They don't understand what it is, because

6:08

they're all looking, they're just looking at

6:11

LIDAR images, but whatever this is, is

6:13

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.

6:26

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

6:47

thing about having Graham Hancock yesterday. I

6:49

was like, yeah, what's going on with

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this is. Dun

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dun dun, I love

8:56

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

10:03

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

18:09

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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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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

time? It was when I actually

1:13:54

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1:15:54

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1:15:56

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1:16:00

just need to see what people

1:16:02

are like when they're with you

1:16:04

all the time. Because people put

1:16:06

on a show, they put on

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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