Feb. 23, 2016 - The Joe Rogan Experience
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| These are great fucking mods. | ||
| Sweet bitches, here we go! | ||
| Here we go again! | ||
| We're sober, I just realized that. | ||
| No! | ||
| We should probably do something to stop that while we're doing the podcast. | ||
| Great. | ||
| Dude, we archered today. | ||
| We archered. | ||
| I don't think that's the right way to say it. | ||
| We arched. | ||
| It was so fun. | ||
| So addicted to it now. | ||
| To archery. | ||
| You're like a legitimate archer. | ||
| No. | ||
| Yeah, you are. | ||
| You have like a full setup. | ||
| You do it all the time. | ||
| You practice in your yard. | ||
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That's right. | |
| You know what you're doing. | ||
| It's incredibly addictive, man. | ||
| It's very satisfying. | ||
| And it's a great goddamn metaphor for everything. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| Duncan's doing the traditional way. | ||
| He's got the wooden arrow shafts and the traditional recurve bow, which, by the way, anytime I post a picture of archery or something like that, you get that, if you're not using traditional bow, you're a pussy. | ||
| Yeah, you're doing it the man way. | ||
| Well, I'm traditionally missing the fucking target, too. | ||
| Well, some guys hunt like that. | ||
| Which when you, I mean, there's guys that are obviously way better at that shit than you or I. Yeah. | ||
| But when you think about, like, what you were shooting, how you were shooting today, and how I was shooting your bow today, and imagine trying to hit an animal, like maybe even a moving animal? | ||
| It's nuts. | ||
| I mean, you're using, what you're shooting with doesn't even look like a bow. | ||
| It looks like something that fell out of a diamond-shaped spaceship. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| It's really weird. | ||
| It's a very weird-looking bow. | ||
| Whereas my bow, basic Robin Hood-style recurve bow. | ||
| But I get it, man. | ||
| I would not want to hunt an animal with a recurve bow because it seems like it would be inhumane. | ||
| It seems that if you're going to kill something, be very precise about it. | ||
| And I'm sure people with recurve bows, though, of course, if they've shot your whole life, it is precise, I guess. | ||
| Yeah, they could be probably... | ||
| Close to as precise as I am with a compound bow, but not for long distances. | ||
| It really can't cover the same kind of distances. | ||
| We were shooting today, I shot that elk target at 65 yards, and I was putting it in the heart at 65 yards. | ||
| That would be really, really hard to do with a recurve bow. | ||
| Really hard. | ||
| Yeah, you'd have to have a very powerful bow to do that. | ||
| I mean, that's a big... | ||
| seems to be part of the problem. | ||
| I don't know anything about it. | ||
| I remember after the last podcast we did, you show me your bow, and then that kind of floated around in my head a little bit. | ||
| Like, man, that'd be cool to start shooting. | ||
| Then I've, you know, now I have a yard. | ||
| So the other day I went out and was like doing yard work, like, you know, like raking leaves and weed eating and all the shit I hated. | ||
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Man shit. | |
| Man shit. | ||
| Stuff I hated when I was a kid. | ||
| But now it's the best. | ||
| Something clicks inside of you where it's just like, this is all I want to do. | ||
| I just want to weed eat. | ||
| I just want to... | ||
| That's being in your 40s, is where you're like, I was like vacuuming up the leaves, like the leaf blower, you could reverse it and suck leaves into a bag and it's just like, This is heaven. | ||
| Well, it's your place. | ||
| So when you have a place and it has a nice yard, you know, like lawn maintenance and stuff like that has always been something that men get into. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's why they're always yelling at kids, get off my fucking lawn. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You know, people are like, oh, that old man gets mad when you're on his lawn. | ||
| Well, you're messing up his art. | ||
| His precious art. | ||
| His zen sand castle. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| You know, you've seen that zen sandbox thing that people do where they just comb the sand perfectly? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, now that's very interesting, you know, that process of being in the moment and then, you know, doing anything in the moment is incredible, but I spent a long time Not going outside enough. | ||
| And that is a really fucking awful thing that can happen to you, where you just forget about outside. | ||
| Outside is the place between your house and your car, or your car and your office, and that's outside. | ||
| And so when you're not outside, and you're living inside the artificial cave, you're cutting yourself off from a very specific field of data that It starts teaching you if you're out there in it at all for any amount of time. | ||
| It's a narcotic. | ||
| I've been inside so much that I feel when I go outside like I've taken a Vicodin or something. | ||
| It feels that good. | ||
| Is this like during the dark days of video game addiction? | ||
| Yeah, video game addiction, internet addiction, just a general feeling that the outside, you just don't do it. | ||
| You're just in too much. | ||
| I think so many people are afflicted by this, that you get so disconnected from this rhythm. | ||
| That's out there that when you finally start feeling it again it's like eating something when you haven't been eating in a long time or drinking something. | ||
| You just want to stay out there and feel it. | ||
| So, yeah, I got the bow because I knew it'd put me outside more, you know? | ||
| I gotta let these people know that we're live. | ||
| I didn't tweet it. | ||
| Give me one second here. | ||
| But what made you decide to get that kind of a bow? | ||
| Like, did you have someone help you? | ||
| Did you go to an archery place or how'd you do it? | ||
| Yeah, I went to an archery place. | ||
| And the guy, you know, the guy showed me compound bows, but... | ||
| You know, as far as I'm concerned, if you're not shooting a recurve bow, you're not really shooting. | ||
| You're not a man. | ||
| You're not a man! | ||
| So, no, I just, the compound bows, man, that's a commitment. | ||
| It looks like too much of a commitment. | ||
| There's too much going on there. | ||
| It's a serious thing. | ||
| It looks like it's for hunting. | ||
| I don't intend to go hunting. | ||
| I just want to stand outside. | ||
| Shooting and with my little poodle sits by the pool and watches me and I just shoot arrows and it's a fucking blast. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| But so this guy, this kid, who's like arched, who's like done archery his entire life. | ||
| I know nothing about this fucking thing, but I hope I don't seem like I'm an expert on art. | ||
| It's like two week, two week obsession. | ||
| So this kid is like explaining it to me. | ||
| About, you know, the difference between a recurve bow and a compound bow. | ||
| And he said, basically a compound bow, everything's better than a recurve bow. | ||
| But a recurve bow is a great way to learn. | ||
| So I get this recurve bow. | ||
| The little bastard sells me the wrong fucking arrows, which I didn't even find out. | ||
| He sold me compound bow arrows. | ||
| And so like I was shooting with those for a while. | ||
| And each of them would be precisely off in the exact same place because compound bow arrows are plastic, vinyl, whatever that shit is. | ||
| So when they hit the bow, at least when they hit a recurve bow, when they hit the arrow rest, it throws them off in a specific way, whereas feathers are more pliable. | ||
| This is what somebody explained to me after I went back and bought. | ||
| Makes sense. | ||
| These other arrows. | ||
| But man, it's an addiction. | ||
| It's expensive. | ||
| You keep wanting to buy shit and add stuff on to it and upgrade. | ||
| It's really, really fun, though. | ||
| Well, the compound bone is even more addictive because there's different kind of sites and different kind of rests and there's drop-away rests and there's whisker biscuits and there's all these different... | ||
| Whisker biscuits? | ||
| Yeah, it's like a bunch of different fibers that your arrow sits on. | ||
| So instead of a rest that's... | ||
| So a lot of people have a rest that's called a drop-away rest, meaning as... | ||
| You release the arrow. | ||
| The cables and the strings to the rest are attached. | ||
| So as you are drawn back, the rest is up. | ||
| And your arrow is sitting on the rest. | ||
| As you release, the rest drops. | ||
| And so the arrow takes off on the string without the resistance of the rest being there. | ||
| It just launches it in the air. | ||
| That's a whisker biscuit. | ||
| So that's the kind where it's a bunch of fibers. | ||
| Which over long periods of time, like long distances, can slightly affect the amount of feet per second. | ||
| Not much, but like 2 or 3 feet per second over the course of like 40 yards or something like that. | ||
| Which is... | ||
| You're talking about the difference between 288 feet per second and 285 feet per second. | ||
| It doesn't matter. | ||
| It's still insanely fast and powerful. | ||
| Some people like that kind, that whisker biscuit kind, but mine is the one that drops away. | ||
| It's so cool that this thing has evolved. | ||
| To this point. | ||
| That's crazy now. | ||
| Amazing, right? | ||
| It's crazy now. | ||
| All the different evolutions that the bow has had from the moment somebody realized if you take a tight string and put it between sticks and pull it back. | ||
| Well, you know, yours is a recurve, and a recurve is a totally different thing. | ||
| That was like the original compound bow. | ||
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Right. | |
| It was the original technology. | ||
| Because they figured because of the curve of the way your bow is designed that you can generate much more power that way. | ||
| The regular kind of long bow, that was the old school kind that you see in like the Robin Hood days and shit like that. | ||
| But the recurve was like the Mongols. | ||
| Like someone around that time figured out how to make that and they made these bows with insanely powerful wood and they used animal horn and all kinds of other shit and they made some glues and one of the things with their glues was when it was raining out they couldn't fight. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Their fucking bows would fall apart. | ||
| Right. | ||
| It was pouring rain. | ||
| They had to get the fuck out of Dodge, dude. | ||
| Their bows would fall apart if the paste and shit they have holding them together got wet. | ||
| Right. | ||
| That's so weird. | ||
| It's so crazy. | ||
| There's so many things that Throughout history, there's so many unknown people who figured out these amazing things. | ||
| Like, someone figured out how to advance the bow to the point that it became a longbow. | ||
| Like, someone worked that. | ||
| And before that, someone just figured... | ||
| To me, all of these little moments in history Are so interesting and so frustrating because most of them you'll never witness that moment. | ||
| Like the moment somebody made fire. | ||
| That's a thing you'll never see. | ||
| Because someone had to do it first. | ||
| Now maybe people did it all over the planet at the same time. | ||
| Or if there are people over the planet. | ||
| Depending on which explanation for how people got it. | ||
| I think Hancock believes people were spread out way before the out of Africa theory. | ||
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But anyway, someone somewhere figured out how to do it. | |
| That's incredible! | ||
| They probably saw something happen that caused a fire, and then they tried to recreate it until they were successful. | ||
| But the moment they were successful, imagine the fucking look on the guy's face, the first guy that figured out he could make fire on his own. | ||
| Yeah, like the first guy that used one of those bows with the bits in the teeth. | ||
| Have you seen those? | ||
| We use two hands. | ||
| The real hardcore guys, they use a bow with a bit in their teeth. | ||
| So they put the bit in their teeth and then there's a stick. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And then they have the bow. | ||
| And because of that, they can use two hands. | ||
| So they're clamping down on the bit. | ||
| They go like this. | ||
| And you just see it start smoking. | ||
| There was a guy that was on one of those crazy mountain men shows. | ||
| I don't know which one it was. | ||
| But one of those shows where dudes are living alone in the fucking... | ||
| Life Below Zero. | ||
| That's who it was. | ||
| It was the guy in Life Below Zero who lives by himself in like a tool shed. | ||
| It's like this tiny little shack in Alaska where he's miles and miles and miles from civilization. | ||
| And for most of the year, this guy lives like this where he just subsists off the land by himself. | ||
| He just eats caribou. | ||
| He has to fend wolves off of his property. | ||
| And he doesn't bring matches with him because you could always run out of matches. | ||
| He wants to be able to make a fire consistently on his own. | ||
| So he brings this bit and the bow. | ||
| That's how he starts his fires. | ||
| That's cool. | ||
| It's insane! | ||
| It's super cool. | ||
| It's insane. | ||
| Have you seen the YouTube Primitive Technology channel? | ||
| It's really great. | ||
| It's so badass. | ||
| It's like a guy... | ||
| I don't know where he is. | ||
| He's somewhere where there's a lot of mud and trees and he like... | ||
| He shows how to construct a tiled roofed hut just using mud and fire. | ||
| He built his own kiln and he can bake his own tiles. | ||
| Check this guy out! | ||
| It's really cool. | ||
| No talking either. | ||
| He just shows how it's done step by step. | ||
| Yeah, but he's a badass, man. | ||
| That guy is really cool. | ||
| And that kind of stuff is amazing. | ||
| It's amazing to know. | ||
| It's foundational, you know? | ||
| Amazing when you find one guy who's like, look at his fucking blisters. | ||
| Jesus Christ, look at his hands. | ||
| So he's just showing you everything. | ||
| That's so interesting. | ||
| He's not saying a word. | ||
| Right. | ||
| No, he doesn't say anything. | ||
| No, it's just like, here's the kind of rock you use. | ||
| It's an awesome skill to have. | ||
| It really is. | ||
| But you know what the fucking problem with this kind of privative shit is? | ||
| And I don't want to sound like... | ||
| Like, I'm pessimistic. | ||
| But oftentimes, if it's down to using this kind of stuff, I mean, if this is what we're back down to, we're fucked. | ||
| You almost don't want to make it. | ||
| I mean, the way the human race is depicted in that movie, The Road, is probably real close to how it would go down. | ||
| Well, look at the way life was during the Black Plague. | ||
| It was like that. | ||
| There was a semi-apocalypse that swept around the planet and people became insane. | ||
| They thought ringing bells would cure it. | ||
| People slide very quickly away from the land of logic and science when shit gets weird. | ||
| Well, not only that, the logic, the word of logic and science is only connected through electricity. | ||
| When the electricity goes out, that logic and science goes with it. | ||
| And you get back to the same kind of bullshitting that you used to have in the 80s. | ||
| When dudes are like, you know what I heard, bro? | ||
| I heard there's a fucking base underneath the penthouse. | ||
| They could go right to the moon, bro. | ||
| They just press a button and shoot right up to the moon. | ||
| Who told you that? | ||
| My uncle worked for the Secret Service. | ||
| He's deep inside the heart of darkness. | ||
| Those were the days. | ||
| Those were the days. | ||
| People would just make shit up. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| They just made shit up. | ||
| I mean, people today do not understand how much of a fucking problem that was when we were growing up. | ||
| These people that would just make up crazy stories, and you're like, is that guy telling the truth? | ||
| Like, everybody could lie back then. | ||
| It was so hard to get busted. | ||
| You could pretend you were a nom. | ||
| Guys would pretend they were a nom all the time. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| They would make up some crazy fake military history. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That was super complicated. | ||
| Supercommon, man. | ||
| No way to investigate someone. | ||
| Supercommon. | ||
| You'd have to hire a private eye. | ||
| Yeah, especially if a guy read a book and knew a lot about the time period if he was a real aficionado. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| You know? | ||
| So then, how much more so way, way, way back, you know, when people didn't understand... | ||
| This is why magicians are so powerful back then. | ||
| Imagine sending just a classic street magician back in time a few thousand years who can do that stuff in front of people, who still believe the earth is flat, but he can do basic coin magic. | ||
| That person's gonna seem like a god. | ||
| That person's gonna seem like a warlock. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, there's very few people that are alive today. | ||
| I don't even think we could intellectualize what life was like back when no one could read. | ||
| Right. | ||
| How about what life was like when... | ||
| You know, before the Bible was translated. | ||
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Right. | |
| Back when you had priests do all the translating and no one could read it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That was a real issue. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Have you ever seen that? | ||
| Have you listened to that Dan Carlin podcast on that? | ||
| No. | ||
| It's the rise of Lutherism and Martin Luther, and Martin Luther being one of the first guys who translated it phonetically. | ||
| And that when he did, there was all sorts of fucking crazy chaos going on where people were all of a sudden not needing the priests to interpret the Word of God anymore. | ||
| And you could read it for yourself. | ||
| And not only that, he was saying, this was the most blasphemous thing of all, he was saying that you could determine for yourself what God meant in these passages. | ||
| That it was up to, like, as a man, you could read God's Word and determine through it. | ||
| And they were like, what?! | ||
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What the fuck are you saying? | |
| This is our gig! | ||
| You're ruining it! | ||
| This is our fucking gig! | ||
| I mean, can you imagine the Bible was only in a language that they could read? | ||
| That's right. | ||
| It wasn't in German. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And so all these people were under the thumb of this weird thing that was connected to God. | ||
| Yeah, and we're still under that thumb because the Bible now is psilocybin. | ||
| The Bible now is LSD. The Bible now are all these wonderful psychedelics that a very small group of people have controlled for a really long time. | ||
| But when you have a nice psychedelic experience, you're reading the Word of God, if you ask me. | ||
| And this is the thing where... | ||
| Um, you can have a direct connection with it. | ||
| You don't need anybody there to interpret or translate it. | ||
| You just have a nice chat with the universe. | ||
| And there are people who want to arrest us now for having that conversation in the same way that you could probably get arrested at some point for have reading the Bible or you could worse than that, you get murdered for it. | ||
| If you didn't have the right credentials, if you hadn't gone through the right initiation. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Same thing. | ||
| It never changes, man. | ||
| It never changes. | ||
| Anytime there's an information stream, there's always a group of cunts doing everything they can to control it. | ||
| Always. | ||
| It's so true. | ||
| It's so true. | ||
| Always. | ||
| And, you know, they say, they will say, no, this is not, you know, the prohibition on psychedelics is not what you think, hippie. | ||
| This isn't done because when people take psychedelics, they recognize that there's some major flaws in the concept of money and maybe it isn't the best thing to sell your life energy, uh, For the majority of your life to somebody to make way less money than you deserve for selling the life energy of a being that, as far as we know, is completely unique, at least in this galaxy, if not in... | ||
| I mean, planets are relatively unique, so if you're a being on a planet that's aware of itself, you're a pretty special thing, as far as our understanding of the universe goes. | ||
| So your life energy per hour is actually... | ||
| Super precious. | ||
| Probably a billion dollars an hour is what anybody's life energy is really worth. | ||
| So anyway, the whole point is you start taking... | ||
| That's a great point. | ||
| I mean, that's the key to life. | ||
| The key to life is to value your time. | ||
| Right. | ||
| The key to life is to value your time and try as much as you can to direct it towards things you love. | ||
| Being with people you love, doing things you love. | ||
| And recognize that the more you do that you have to compromise, the more you do where you're only doing it for a paycheck, or you're only doing it because you want to play it safe, or you're only doing it for any, figure out whatever the negative reason would be. | ||
| Anytime you're doing anything like that, you're wasting time. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You're wasting the most precious thing you can have. | ||
| Yeah, theoretically. | ||
| I mean, this seems to be a very rare... | ||
| Man, I'm... | ||
| This book. | ||
| You gotta read this book. | ||
| Bill Bryson, A Brief History of Nearly Everything. | ||
| That's one you were talking about today. | ||
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Yes. | |
| Holy shit, man. | ||
| When, like, his... | ||
| You know, he's just very good at taking this, you know, some pretty dense ideas... | ||
| I'm writing it down like I'm gonna prepare to read... | ||
| I'm gonna pretend I'm gonna read it. | ||
| You lie! | ||
| You'll read this. | ||
| A brief history of nearly everything? | ||
| Yeah, I would put this... | ||
| I probably will read this one. | ||
| This is as good as, like, the archaic revival. | ||
| It's not about psychedelics, but it's psychedelic, just because he's so good at articulating this shit that's incredibly difficult to understand, you know? | ||
| Like, uh... | ||
| The gravity, you know, gravity being the... | ||
| You know what gravity is. | ||
| Do you know what gravity is? | ||
| Not really. | ||
| I mean, I know it makes the Earth really sticky. | ||
| So, yeah, that's... | ||
| The larger the planet is, the more mass the planet has, the stronger the gravity pull is. | ||
| That's why the moon is one-sixth Earth's gravity. | ||
| Mars is one-half or one-quarter Earth's gravity. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I'm not going to say right like I know. | ||
| I'm going to say right like I imagine. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Mars is less. | ||
| Those are issues that they have to deal with when they go into space and they don't have gravity. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Their bones get all fucked up. | ||
| So what's happening here, according... | ||
| Now, anyone out there who's a scientist... | ||
| I do not think of myself as a scientist. | ||
| Wait, what about that shit you were saying earlier today, man? | ||
| I told Joe I was a scientist. | ||
| Fuck, bro! | ||
| So yeah, like, it's gonna surprise anybody. | ||
| I just don't want the inevitable, like, shut the fuck up! | ||
| We're just talking, man. | ||
| We're just talking. | ||
| So, in this book it says that what gravity is, is you get this incredibly... | ||
| Heavy thing a thing with a lot of mass and the mass pushes in to the time space continuum and so it's like they compare it to like putting a lead ball on a mattress it creates an indentation and gravity is actually the indentation and it's in time space and so that's why like if you roll a ball towards a Like if you put a kettlebell on your mattress and roll a ball towards it, it'll start falling towards the kettlebell. | ||
| And that's what planets are doing. | ||
| They're falling towards, or they're trapped in this sort of indentation created. | ||
| What a great way of putting it. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| A really small heavy weight in the center of the mattress and everything gets sort of sucked into its wake. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| That's the most psychedelic thing ever. | ||
| Oh, there it is. | ||
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Oh, cool. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Check this out. | ||
| This is it. | ||
| This explains gravity. | ||
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They feel that, and they're attracted to each other. | |
| And so that's Einstein's picture of gravity. | ||
| Objects warp spacetime, feel that curvature, and move accordingly. | ||
| And if you have more mass, it's going to bend spacetime more, and so if you have objects We're looking at like a trampoline. | ||
| It's like an impromptu trampoline that they've made with... | ||
| It looks like a tablecloth or something. | ||
| They just stretched over this hole, a rim. | ||
| And they're dropping things in the center. | ||
| So that's what they're talking about. | ||
| This is probably a little too visual to really get across at all. | ||
| Yeah, but that's a pretty good description. | ||
| It's a trampoline with a heavy thing in the middle and this guy's dropping marbles on it. | ||
| Yeah, and he's showing how everything's getting sucked into the center. | ||
| And that's Gravity Visualized. | ||
| And that's the name of it on YouTube. | ||
| Yeah, but so... | ||
| All of this stuff, like in the introduction, Bryson's like... | ||
| I think he said he was on a ship or he's flying over the ocean. | ||
| And he's like, I don't know how big the Earth is. | ||
| I don't know how much water is in the ocean. | ||
| I don't know how far away the moon is. | ||
| He realized he didn't know any of this shit. | ||
| And so he started researching all of these things and interviewing all of these cosmologists and physicists. | ||
| And then he took it all and put it in a really understandable way. | ||
| Like he cut through... | ||
| Because a lot of this stuff is... | ||
| So dense. | ||
| Newton wrote what is considered to be one of the most famous texts on, I guess, physics, called the Principia. | ||
| I don't know, you can look it up, the Principia something, but he intentionally made it difficult. | ||
| Bryson says it's one of the most difficult books to read, and he did that because he wanted to separate the The real mathematicians and scientists from everybody else. | ||
| He didn't want normal people to have access to this information. | ||
| But yeah, it is. | ||
| The Philosophy Naturalist Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton. | ||
| That guy was a fucking freak, man. | ||
| He was nuts. | ||
| He was nuts. | ||
| They were trying to figure out... | ||
| God, there was some equation that they didn't understand. | ||
| God, what was it? | ||
| They were trying to figure out... | ||
| Shit. | ||
| Well, back then, they were trying to figure out everything. | ||
| How big is the Earth? | ||
| They were trying to figure out why planets, the moon moves in the ellipses or something, like the way planets move. | ||
| And so they've been working on this forever. | ||
| Forgive me again, you guys. | ||
| I'm sure I'm butchering, but I'm doing my best. | ||
| And this famous mathematician goes to see Isaac Newton and asks him about this problem that they've been working on forever. | ||
| And he's like, oh, yes, I've already solved it. | ||
| What a dick! | ||
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What a dick! | |
| And then they were like, the guy's like, well show it to us. | ||
| And he's like, no problem. | ||
| And he goes and he's got stacks and stacks of paper and he can't find it. | ||
| Like it's lost somewhere among his papers, but he inevitably found it. | ||
| Now here's what's weird about fucking Newton. | ||
| Aside from the fact that he- Never had sex. | ||
| Well, no, he never had sex, that's right. | ||
| And then do you know that he studied the Temple of Solomon? | ||
| Did you know he's into that shit? | ||
| He was into alchemy? | ||
| Yeah, but what did that mean back then? | ||
| Like back then, we now look at it as like old retarded shit that people did when they were trying to like make gold out of lead and use witchcraft and shit like that. | ||
| Not witchcraft, but... | ||
| Yeah, I mean, an alchemist you think of almost as a magician, don't you? | ||
| Well, I mean, an alchemist, I think, is an early chemist. | ||
| It's another name for chemists. | ||
| But a lot of it was bullshit, right? | ||
| A lot of it was... | ||
| Well, I mean, here's the thing! | ||
| This is Newton, Isaac Newton, one of the most famous minds ever, who discovered all of this shit when he's surrounded. | ||
| Now, what we were talking about earlier, the liars and people who just make shit up. | ||
| Back then, you're like Isaac Newton, surrounded by these people who will kill you if you make the wrong discovery and say it in the wrong way. | ||
| That's the level of... | ||
| You are surrounded by... | ||
| Idiots on all sides. | ||
| Like, idiots unlike any idiot that we've ever encountered. | ||
| And it's not their fault that they're idiots, they just don't have the information. | ||
| So you're studying these alchemical texts. | ||
| You're studying this really weird, ancient stuff. | ||
| And from that, You come up with all this stuff that turns out to be real. | ||
| I think Isaac Newton figured something out studying the Temple of Solomon. | ||
| I think it probably added to his understanding of math somehow. | ||
| Some sacred geometry is in there that I couldn't possibly hope to understand. | ||
| But look, man, if this is the guy who figured out so many of the things that we still use today, if he's studying the Temple of Solomon, I'm not gonna, I think there's something, there must be something to it. | ||
| Like something, what? | ||
| Like in what way? | ||
| Like it's genetic, some sort of an encoding of information in the architecture of the building? | ||
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Sure. | |
| Yeah, definitely. | ||
| Like some, maybe somewhere in there, there was some... | ||
| Well, they definitely did that in Egypt. | ||
| Have you ever seen some of the breakdowns of the temples, the various temples, especially the temple of man? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Have you ever seen the breakdowns of that? | ||
| I've heard you talk about it. | ||
| I haven't seen the breakdowns. | ||
| Forget me. | ||
| John Anthony West is the guy, if you're interested in it at all. | ||
| He's got this series on Egypt called Magical Egypt, and apparently he just released Magical Egypt 2. He is one of the most knowledgeable guys when it comes to the history of Egypt. | ||
| He's amazing. | ||
| He's just so engrossed in it. | ||
| People don't take him... | ||
| That seriously, because I don't think he has a master's or a PhD in it. | ||
| I think he's just a guy who's been obsessed with it, so he's been studying it forever. | ||
| But he knows so much about it, and watching what he's saying along with just the videos of the temples where he's describing all the different types of artwork and the way they constructed it and how... | ||
| You know, it's basically constructed around the Fibonacci sequence. | ||
| So the entire building is mathematically, it's like sequenced the same way like a human body is, like the proportions of a human body. | ||
| Right. | ||
| It's really fucking intense. | ||
| Like they were so fucking smart, man. | ||
| I just think it's almost in the evidence of how incredibly smart they were to build these Just insane buildings that are still insane today, and they did them 2500 years BC. Like, what the fuck were people like back then, man? | ||
| What happened? | ||
| How did they go from that to trailer parks? | ||
| How is the same people that can build the Temple of Giza, how are they the same people that are about to elect Donald Trump? | ||
| Right. | ||
| How is that? | ||
| What happened? | ||
| What's going on with human beings? | ||
| Is this like some of them reach these insanely high frequencies and the rest just eat their ankles while they're fucking trying to climb the mountain? | ||
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Sure! | |
| Is that what it is? | ||
| Yeah! | ||
| I mean there's all kinds of like if you look at like the you know then I think it's in China these you know about the thumb monkeys you seen these thumb monkeys these little little monkeys you can buy tiny little sweeties they're tiny they're so they're endangered though right oh yeah it's bad you shouldn't have a thumb monkey I don't of course they're fucking endangered they're the size of they're tiny how are they not endangered of us mice mice aren't endangered oh they're so cute thumb monkeys right oh my goodness yeah Oh my goodness. | ||
| Are you kidding me? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Hold on. | ||
| Wait a minute. | ||
| What we need to do is just save these and everybody have these as pets. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Endangered. | ||
| What is this endangered? | ||
| Let's throw some money at this problem. | ||
| Come on. | ||
| Yeah, I'm sure it wouldn't be that hard. | ||
| How come I can't have a thumb monkey? | ||
| I'll tell you why. | ||
| I'll tell you why. | ||
| Because these assholes don't know how to take care of them. | ||
| Bring them to America where people love thumb monkeys. | ||
| We'll take care of them. | ||
| We'll breed them like crazy. | ||
| We'll give them all protein powder and... | ||
| Save the thumb monkey. | ||
| Yeah, we'll give them vitamins and shit. | ||
| Let's do a benefit. | ||
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Oh, come on. | |
| Look at that cute little face. | ||
| Dude, I'm telling you, we can do this. | ||
| All we have to do is get them to fuck. | ||
| We create, like, a gigantic thumb monkey paradise. | ||
| Look, animals, when they're safe, they fuck, okay? | ||
| That's just what happens. | ||
| All you have to do is just get them chilled out and they'll fucking shit out of each other. | ||
| I could watch hours of thumb monkeys fucking. | ||
| Oh, I bet they fuck only in the mouth. | ||
| That's the problem. | ||
| That's why there's so few of them. | ||
| They're like, hey, assholes! | ||
| You keep fucking each other in the mouth. | ||
| That's why there's only ten of you. | ||
| You got to stick it in her pussy. | ||
| There's something about thumb monkey pussy. | ||
| It's just rotten. | ||
| And they don't just hang on your thumb, guaranteed. | ||
| So what we're going to have to do is we're going to go in there and jerk them off and get little vials of thumb monkey cum and just start squirting in the females. | ||
| Jerk off the thumb monkeys? | ||
| Yeah, that's the only way. | ||
| We have to save them so we can use them as pets. | ||
| Yeah, man, I've been jerking off thumb monkeys all day. | ||
| I'm exhausted. | ||
| And then some people are going to find out how delicious they are, and then we're going to have a real problem. | ||
| That's a problem. | ||
| Because people are going to be eating thumb monkeys. | ||
| Or they give you a little more energy. | ||
| Yeah, they make you younger. | ||
| What if they found out they gave you a six-pack? | ||
| Eat a thumb monkey instant. | ||
| Your dick gets an inch bigger every time you eat one. | ||
| No more thumb monkeys. | ||
| No more thumb monkeys! | ||
| It'd be swarms of humans descending. | ||
| With giant dicks. | ||
| It'd be like that bit that I used to have about big dick pills. | ||
| People will be coming out of the thumb monkey forest with their mouth covered in blood and fur. | ||
| It's one thing, too, like, we would not let you eat fellow primates. | ||
| We have rules, in this country at least. | ||
| If you could prove that a pig is smarter than a thumb monkey, and it might be. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Still okay to eat pigs. | ||
| Not okay to eat a thumb monkey, even if it's stupid. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| There's something about the little look on its face when you go to grab it. | ||
| It's like, ah! | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Look, you can't eat your own kind, man. | ||
| Well, it's not even our own kind, dude. | ||
| Well, it looks close enough to us. | ||
| It's too close, right? | ||
| It's pretty close, man. | ||
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It's too close. | |
| Pretty close. | ||
| But the point is, man, if you get that happening, then why wouldn't it happen with humans that some humans are going to diverge? | ||
| Some humans are going to vote for Trump. | ||
| Some humans don't want to hear Isaac fucking Newton talking about his goddamn bullshit. | ||
| And those humans usually are really violent. | ||
| And that's why people like Isaac Newton end up becoming very relatively reclusive. | ||
| They don't want to deal with these. | ||
| They're constantly dealing with people who are idiots. | ||
| Like, idiots and who are idiots at the... | ||
| Like, I'm an idiot, but if someone corrects me and it seems undeniable, then I'll refine... | ||
| You're a completely different kind of idiot than an idiot from the 1400s. | ||
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Right. | |
| Right. | ||
| I'm a different idiot. | ||
| These idiots are like, they will kill you. | ||
| They will imprison you. | ||
| They will incinerate you. | ||
| We're idiots. | ||
| We're both idiots. | ||
| But we're idiots in the age of information. | ||
| Right. | ||
| We're so much more informed today, even the dumb amongst us. | ||
| than anyone that's ever lived, than any civilization ever. | ||
| If even the really brilliant people, you go to like, you know, Thomas Edison or someone, if you had Thomas Edison alive today, he wouldn't know jack shit about the way this world works. | ||
| Because there's too much information that doesn't apply, like that you need today, that he just didn't have that thing. | ||
| He'd have a rough few weeks. | ||
| It would be a long time before he totally understood what the fuck was going on. | ||
| But my point being that you're talking about people that were the most informed people in the world during their time. | ||
| The regular person today is way more informed than them on so many different things. | ||
| Even if it's just instantaneously by being connected to Google. | ||
| If they have the will to check There's more information now today than your average dumbass can just grab ahold of it and use it for an argument. | ||
| More and instant. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Than anybody that's ever lived. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| So all these people that Newton was dealing with? | ||
| Oh my god! | ||
| How many of them even could read? | ||
| Right. | ||
| How many of them just believe the most unbelievably retarded shit and thought there were demons waiting for him in the woods? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| And thought that they had to do the will of God, otherwise the apocalypse would ensue and they have to lock up Galileo and make sure he doesn't tell everybody that the Earth is in the center of the universe. | ||
| Yeah, most of them, man. | ||
| How do those guys get through when we're complaining about a tweet? | ||
| Oh man, I got so much fucking hate for this tweet. | ||
| Galileo got locked up for being right. | ||
| They put him in house arrest. | ||
| One of the most brilliant astronomers and one of the most important people in the world at the time, and maybe even ever, when it comes to getting the people to try to understand the perspective of what we're dealing with when we're looking up into the heavens. | ||
| It's very possible that you're looking at something that absolutely doesn't have an end. | ||
| This isn't something we can define, and it's proof positive that the pettiness and nonsense that we wrestle with on a day-to-day basis is a fucking fantastic distraction from the eternity above our heads at any given moment. | ||
| And this eternity that you're trying to attach to a book that was clearly written by people even fucking dumber than us! | ||
| Even less informed than us! | ||
| With less information! | ||
| More scared! | ||
| The oldest guy in the fucking tribe was 19, right? | ||
| Everybody's dead by the time they're 30. Everybody's got gangrene and malaria. | ||
| Your mom got eaten by a crocodile. | ||
| You gotta distinguish, though, Information from navigation. | ||
| So it's like you're in this dimension that you've got to navigate through for a certain period of time. | ||
| So the Bible, or the Torah, or whatever the religious scripture is that you're looking at, The data in it, as far as the age of the earth, where things came from, a lot of that data is obviously completely fucking wrong. | ||
| And you can see how someone would think of it. | ||
| It's like what a six-year-old might think. | ||
| But you could see a young version of humanity would think these things that make sense. | ||
| But encased within all that bad data are some pretty great navigational tips. | ||
| So it's... | ||
| So you got to be able to unpeel all the bad information and look deeper and see if there's anything in there that is like... | ||
| Because when you were talking about... | ||
| Not Newton. | ||
| Who was it? | ||
| Galileo? | ||
| If we brought him back here, he would be confused. | ||
| Thomas Edison. | ||
| Thomas Edison. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So... | ||
| I think a lot of these people have developed navigational techniques that would work. | ||
| They would adapt. | ||
| They would adapt quick. | ||
| And that's what's important. | ||
| It doesn't matter how much data you're getting. | ||
| You know, it's like... | ||
| This is what I love about archery, is that archery, you're... | ||
| Dealing with data, right? | ||
| You're dealing with... | ||
| So every time you fire an arrow, you get an instantaneous feedback from the target, right? | ||
| So you know, here's where I'm off. | ||
| No question about it. | ||
| No arguing about it. | ||
| No matter how... | ||
| That is not the bullseye, and I can clearly see that's not the bullseye. | ||
| And so then you make adjustments, right? | ||
| So I... Oh, okay. | ||
| So if I just move a little bit to the left, then maybe I'll get closer to the bullseye. | ||
| And I've noticed with archery, my ego... | ||
| Even when it will have me shoot the arrow in the exact same way, even though I'm still off the fucking target, you know? | ||
| Like you say, no, no, no, you were right, the arrow was wrong. | ||
| Yes! | ||
| That's how the brain works. | ||
| Like, it felt right, just keep doing it. | ||
| So you've got to, even though the feedback from the universe is like, nope, wrong, nope. | ||
| Don't take that approach to butt-fucking, ever. | ||
| You hurt somebody. | ||
| Stop screaming! | ||
| I'm doing it right! | ||
| Yeah, right! | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| But think of it, man. | ||
| So I certainly, in my life, have erred by choosing my instinct over the feedback I'm getting from the universe. | ||
| And so because of that... | ||
| Self-sabotage. | ||
| Self-sabotage. | ||
| And that, I mean, you're not... | ||
| You're not a terrible person with that. | ||
| You don't have giant problems with that, but you are like a lot of other impulsive artists in that you're kind of drawn towards that sometimes. | ||
| When you don't have structure, you can get chaotic with your freedom. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And sometimes your freedom becomes a prison in a lot of ways because you don't discipline yourself and you don't necessarily have to because you're a comedian. | ||
| So, hey, I fucking... | ||
| I don't have anything to do today. | ||
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| And then you're in front of that computer and that game is there and you just can get sucked into it. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Whereas a normal person with a normal life is like, hey, I got shit I have to do in the morning. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Well, this is like that book that you introduced me to, which I... The War of Art. | ||
| No, The Book of Five Rings. | ||
| Oh, the real one. | ||
| And the one that talks about how... | ||
| You should just learn anything, like get good at anything. | ||
| It doesn't matter what the thing is that you're getting good at, because if you understand how to get good at this one thing, you can extrapolate from that how to get good at almost anything. | ||
| There's these recurring patterns that happen. | ||
| And so with archery, it's really cool because you have to keep all these variables the same. | ||
| No matter what your environment, if you can learn to keep these variables the same, if you're on a hill, the distance, In the wind, whatever. | ||
| If you can learn how to hold these variables the same, which is the anchor point, the way your arm holds the bow, the way you pull the arrow back, the way you release the arrow, there's all these pieces in there. | ||
| And if you can keep all of those the same, or close to the same, with adjustments based on whatever your target happens to be, then you're... | ||
| Going to improve in your accuracy if you keep changing your variable, if you keep moving your arm up or down or like releasing in a different way or whatever. | ||
| If any of these things are always changing, you won't Be as accurate over time so from that you can grab that and look at your life and realize like oh shit man my life I've just been readjusting all these stupid variables over and over and over again without just for at least a month attempting some rhythmic pattern some similar thing you know and when you start doing that it's really interesting because you begin to improve in | ||
| a lot of in everything in general you know so Yeah, so to me, it's like, I think these people like Newton, I think the great people of the world, they discovered this very specific pattern that if you apply yourself to it, then you will begin to flourish. | ||
| And that pattern is written about in most scriptures. | ||
| It's probably somehow hidden in the goddamn Temple of Solomon diagrams, it's probably in there somehow. | ||
| It must be in there because people walk through the world in the way that fish swim, right? | ||
| And so the smart people must have figured out the best way to navigate in this dimension regardless of your surroundings or settings or situation. | ||
| That can be handled by adjustment. | ||
| So yeah, I love to believe that there are hidden I think? | ||
| What were you doing all day long? | ||
| What the fuck were you doing? | ||
| We don't know, except the fact that when they took his hair, a sample of his hair, it was filled with fucking mercury, man. | ||
| So that guy was like in some laboratory with mercury, quicksilver, you know? | ||
| With old scrolls with the Temple of Solomon on it, like staring at it and then dripping mercury through test tubes to try to transform lead into gold. | ||
| What was he doing? | ||
| We'll never fucking know. | ||
| You'll never know. | ||
| And how many more people are doing that now that we don't even know about? | ||
| This is hidden away. | ||
| Well, they're doing it electronically now. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, they're doing it like, oh right, because they're trying to bring computers to life and shit at Google. | ||
| That's the real alchemy now. | ||
| But when you think about what they knew back then, when you think about Isaac Newton in that time period, and what he knew as opposed to what everybody else knew, and being able to establish something like a theory about gravity, and being able to try to explain this to people during that time, I mean, who knew what was legit and what wasn't? | ||
| So, like, when he was looking at alchemy, he might have been thinking, there's probably something to this. | ||
| It's just these guys haven't figured it out. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Or people forgot it, or no one knows it. | ||
| But it only makes sense if things are made out of elements that you could perhaps combine these elements and make something different. | ||
| I mean, they didn't know. | ||
| They didn't have, like, a table of elements back then. | ||
| They didn't know what all the different elements were. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| What year did they develop the table of elements? | ||
| That's a really important question, because those elements are essentially what we've been able to measure in the universe, right? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And then things like the large hadron, which just finally figured out some stuff that we couldn't measure before. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Well, it's launching protons. | ||
| You're shooting protons. | ||
| Thank God, I just listened to this. | ||
| It's like you're blasting a proton. | ||
| Just under the speed of light. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| They collide with each other. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And they're trying to make something called the Higgs boson. | ||
| And it releases this shit. | ||
| Yeah, it's the one missing little piece. | ||
| It's like they don't understand something about how things get their density. | ||
| And so if you could figure that out, it all makes sense. | ||
| Down there, it gets weird down there, man. | ||
| It gets very weird down there. | ||
| So it's quite confusing. | ||
| Yeah, it sure does. | ||
| Periodic table. | ||
| 1863, is that what it says? | ||
| In 1863, there were 56 known elements with a new element being discovered at a rate of approximately one a year. | ||
| Other scientists, ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. | ||
| Looks like they did in 1868 to 1870. Principles of chemistry. | ||
| The definitive textbook of his time? | ||
| Mendeleev. | ||
| Mendeleev. | ||
| So one bad motherfucker. | ||
| In 1868, wrote it all down. | ||
| The periodic table. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| And I'm sure it's been adjusted over time, right? | ||
| Have they found new elements and new stuff? | ||
| They find new elements all the time. | ||
| They just add them to that? | ||
| What do they do? | ||
| Well, when they were first making it, they could predict what elements they would find based on the elements that they had already found. | ||
| Because there were holes in the periodic table where there should have been things that they hadn't found yet. | ||
| Did you ever see the girl that graduated and used as her graduation speech, she used a periodic table that if you, not from reading how it was written, but if you spell it out to what the elements are, says, fuck bitches, get money? | ||
| No. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Wow. | |
| She's so gangster. | ||
| Check this out. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| This is a girl, Jessica Lee, used her periodic table to quote Biggie. | ||
| What's that? | ||
| Fluorine, uranium, carbon, potassium, bismuth, technicidium, helium, sulfur, germanium, thulium, oxygen, neon, and what's this one? | ||
| Yttrium. | ||
| And it says, fuck bitches, get money, if you spell it out. | ||
| That is hilarious. | ||
| Because fluorine is U, uranium is F, uranium is U, carbon is C, potassium is K, bismuth is B-I, technium is T-C, helium is H-E, sulfur is S, germanium is G-E. This is amazing! | ||
| She's so badass! | ||
| God, that girl, she should have the most awesome job ever. | ||
| Someone should hire her and just give her, like, the most awesome job available to mankind. | ||
| Like, wouldn't you want this chick working for you? | ||
| Jessica Lee! | ||
| Or maybe she wants to do her own shit. | ||
| Well, if you scroll up, she's very pretty, too. | ||
| Duncan, that's your new wife. | ||
| Fuck bitches, get money. | ||
| How gangster is that? | ||
| It's pretty gangster. | ||
| Pretty gangster. | ||
| It's amazing. | ||
| I wonder if she got in trouble. | ||
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What? | |
| For what? | ||
| She likes chemistry? | ||
| Fuck you. | ||
| Did you hear about the kid who, I think he's got a felony charge on him because he posed as a senator and spoke to a high school. | ||
| And he's like 18 years old. | ||
| And they all believed him and they didn't find out until the senator actually showed up. | ||
| Oh no! | ||
| So the actual senator showed up and went, what the fuck? | ||
| That's not me! | ||
| That is so awesome. | ||
| Oh my god. | ||
| Is there a video of him doing this? | ||
| Powerful Jessica Lee. | ||
| Wherever you are, Jessica Lee. | ||
| Powerful. | ||
| Oh, this guy. | ||
| I'm sorry, it's not that story. | ||
| It just happened yesterday. | ||
| The kid in Florida who got arrested for being a gynecologist, the story's kind of getting confused with it or being added to it. | ||
| Are you talking about that kid who was posing as a fake doctor? | ||
| Same thing. | ||
| It was an addendum to that story is how I saw it yesterday. | ||
| This guy was running a whole medical clinic. | ||
| This kid was saying he was a doctor, but he wasn't a doctor at all. | ||
| How about a guy who was doing... | ||
| There was a guy in New York that was doing underground butt jobs and plastic surgery and he was shooting caulk. | ||
| Like silicone caulk that you would buy from a supermarket or a hardware store. | ||
| And these girls' asses. | ||
| 18-year-old who posed as an Ohio senator facing charges. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, this kid's a fucking psycho. | ||
| The fact that he can pull that off. | ||
| Keep an eye on that fucker. | ||
| I want to see the speech. | ||
| Well, did he do it to win a bet? | ||
| It feels like conceptual comic. | ||
| I'll try to remember some of the story. | ||
| He's getting a couple of charges because he had a car rented. | ||
| He had people with him as officials. | ||
| He had fake security. | ||
| He went and spoke to a class. | ||
| That's hilarious. | ||
| Let's see. | ||
| If he's 18 years old, I would pull him aside, talk to him for a couple days, get to know him, find out how crazy he really is. | ||
| Sounds very smart. | ||
| You might be dealing with some super genius. | ||
| He sounds hilarious. | ||
| Sounds like how they would find someone like in an X-Men episode. | ||
| Like one of those X-Men movies. | ||
| They'd find this guy who's just been lying to people and super genius. | ||
| But like to arrest that level of comedy, that's criminal. | ||
| Ken Ratliff, superintendent. | ||
| Arrest this guy for wearing sunglasses while he's doing an interview on TV. Take your sunglasses off, sir. | ||
| America wants to see your fucking eyeballs. | ||
| Yeah, who do you think you are? | ||
| You like busted an 18-year-old who played a fake senator? | ||
| He's wearing sunglasses like he's Nas doing an interview on the red carpet. | ||
| Take those fucking sunglasses off indoors, you son of a bitch. | ||
| What are you doing, superintendent? | ||
| I mean, titles are so stupid anyway. | ||
| Yes, superintendent. | ||
| I'm a super... | ||
| Ken Ratcliffe, superintendent. | ||
| Very prestigious position. | ||
| Honey, I've got to do a press conference today about this dangerous student who impersonated a senator. | ||
| What are senators impersonating, by the way? | ||
| It's just a guy who calls himself a senator because of a political system that again and again gets proven to not be an accurate representation of them. | ||
| Hey, hey, relax. | ||
| I can't relax. | ||
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I'd love to, but I can't. | |
| It gets so worked up. | ||
| We both do. | ||
| I mean, it's just this thing where, like, you know, the whole idea of the sacred senator that was impersonated by this to arrest a kid. | ||
| You're gonna put handcuffs on a kid who did one of the funniest things ever. | ||
| That's funny. | ||
| It's a very funny thing he did. | ||
| It's not dangerous at all. | ||
| No one was hurt. | ||
| Nobody got killed. | ||
| None of those kids are gonna go home and do some awful thing. | ||
| Duncan, if we want order... | ||
| In this country, and I do mean order, we must stop shenanigans. | ||
| That is shenanigans. | ||
| Shenanigans must stop! | ||
| Shenanigans must stop or we will not be on schedule to construct our robot overlords. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| We must push forward. | ||
| Push forward and innovate! | ||
| Push forward. | ||
| Push forward and innovate! | ||
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What is that? | |
| I was impersonated by a child? | ||
| Have him arrested immediately! | ||
| Kill him! | ||
| Throw him in the dungeons! | ||
| Did you see what ISIS did? | ||
| They chopped a 15-year-old's head off because he was listening to Western music. | ||
| They chopped his head off in the middle of the street. | ||
| I'm no longer surprised by anything you hear about ISIS. Whenever it comes in, it seems like they're running out of ideas. | ||
| Like they're a shock jock who keeps trying new stunts to stay... | ||
| Stay on the air! | ||
| They have pitch meetings! | ||
| It's Wacky Wednesday! | ||
| We're throwing down! | ||
| Today everyone's gonna eat garbage! | ||
| Tune in live! | ||
| Guys, we're running out of ways to horrify the planet. | ||
| We've destroyed all the natural monuments in the area. | ||
| I need five great ideas for something horrible we can do today to shock the world. | ||
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Someone's like, well, I know my neighbor's been playing country music. | |
| He can cut his head off. | ||
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Who wants to get their mouth shat in for Nickelback tickets? | |
| Come on! | ||
| Caller number 97 wins it all! | ||
| Because they're like... | ||
| That's what it is. | ||
| Who wants to get their fucking head cut off? | ||
| It's like, yeah, no one's shocked anymore. | ||
| They overdid it. | ||
| Let's kill babies. | ||
| This baby was looking at my dick. | ||
| It's gonna grow up gay. | ||
| Let's stop the fire. | ||
| They're shoving gay people off towers. | ||
| They're decapitating Christian people. | ||
| There was a great piece that someone wrote about using a gay hookup app in a Middle Eastern country and how easy it was to find guys to fuck. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Some guy who put it up there because I guess he wouldn't get the death penalty, but he'd probably get thrown into jail. | ||
| But a guy who lives in the country, forget what country it was, was some Muslim country. | ||
| Something with an M, I think. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And anyway, homeboy got plenty of dick while he was over there. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| Dirty dick. | ||
| Dirty with a lot of sand on it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And scary dick. | ||
| Scary because you don't know. | ||
| I mean that's like a place where there's probably undercover Cops you like like just fuck someone in the ass for a couple of minutes and then I'm like you're busted Or maybe don't even fuck them. | ||
| Just try to find them and kill them. | ||
| I bet they fuck them. | ||
| Whoa, you think so? | ||
| Yeah, it's like you gotta smoke weed if you're if you're an undercover cop It's the same thing. | ||
| You gotta suck some cocks out there, man. | ||
| You gotta suck cocks, play it cool for a while. | ||
| Go into deep cover. | ||
| Yeah, deep cover, bro. | ||
| You gotta take in the ass for five months. | ||
| It's been proven. | ||
| This is a great porn movie plot. | ||
| It's a great porn movie plot. | ||
| It's a great porn movie. | ||
| It's been proven, bro. | ||
| They do not trust you for the first few months. | ||
| Too many guys have just been fucking stole on, man. | ||
| They've been stole on. | ||
| You're gonna have to do it. | ||
| And you gotta be convincing. | ||
| You gotta be a lover. | ||
| Look, let me show you. | ||
| You gotta suck a lot of cock. | ||
| We're gonna send you to our training camp. | ||
| It's at my apartment. | ||
| You won't suck cock for your country? | ||
| Is that what you're telling me? | ||
| You're happy if the Japs come over here and just eat all our babies? | ||
| Is that what the fuck is going on here? | ||
| Are you a coward? | ||
| You won't suck a dick for America? | ||
| For Uncle Sam? | ||
| Sex laws! | ||
| Yeah, man, you gotta have sex laws. | ||
| Like, the moment you have sex laws, the moment that you have decreed a sex law in your country, then you are going to create a nation of perverts. | ||
| Because you have supercharged whatever the thing is that you're trying to keep illegal by adding to it that it's like, now you're breaking the fucking law? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's the best! | ||
| Now you have a way to express your rebellion and come at the same time. | ||
| You can't make sodomy illegal. | ||
| Well, we talked about this when I was explaining how I dated girls when I was in high school that went to Catholic school, and that every kid in Catholic school We all knew that girls who went to Catholic school were the biggest hoes. | ||
| All due respect to hoes. | ||
| It's not a bad thing. | ||
| But they were so sexually charged. | ||
| They were completely wired that sex was this forbidden thing that is burning up inside of them. | ||
| And they would feel so bad about it when it was over. | ||
| But they would do it again, over and over again. | ||
| It was so common. | ||
| Whereas girls who went to public school, they were fucking normal for the most part. | ||
| Unless something bad had happened in their life. | ||
| Yeah, and to think that there are actual ordinances all over the world where some guy is written down in legal code that you will not place your penis in an asshole. | ||
| Or a mouth. | ||
| Or a mouth. | ||
| A mouth is sodomy. | ||
| Getting your dick sucked is sodomy and it is still illegal in certain states. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Pull up sodomy laws in 2016. Because as far as I know, in Georgia... | ||
| I was researching this... | ||
| Because I am a researcher. | ||
| I don't know if you realize this. | ||
| I was reading some shit smart people wrote down about this... | ||
| Like seven or eight years ago and there was some dispute about it. | ||
| That it was like there was some places in the country where it was still illegal to have anal or oral sex because it falls under a sodomy law. | ||
| So if you go down on your wife, you can go to jail. | ||
| Cops come in. | ||
| And they catch you going down on your wife, you're committing a fucking crime. | ||
| Yeah, you are. | ||
| That's real in some places. | ||
| Yep, that's true. | ||
| That's the state, right? | ||
| How the fuck did that ever get written down in the first place? | ||
| Like, who's trying to stop pussy eating? | ||
| Who's just stepping in and saying... | ||
| This is way too much pussy going on. | ||
| We gotta lock these fucking people up. | ||
| Who did that? | ||
| Well, probably a hardcore Christian, I would imagine. | ||
| I mean, a lot of the people living in this country not that very long ago were burning witches, so probably sucking on a pussy is considered to be some form of Witchcraft, because the body was evil. | ||
| The idea is the body's evil. | ||
| The body's corrupt. | ||
| The body is corrupt. | ||
| It is, too. | ||
| The body's corrupt. | ||
| Especially yours. | ||
| It is corrupt. | ||
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It's evil. | |
| I stink. | ||
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It's corrupt. | |
| But the body is foul. | ||
| The body is... | ||
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Foul. | |
| Yeah, so you have to... | ||
| I feel foul. | ||
| You're foul. | ||
| You have original sin. | ||
| You have original sin. | ||
| What do I do? | ||
| Well, you've got to, uh... | ||
| I don't want to I don't want to go to hell. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| How do I not go to hell? | ||
| Please tell me. | ||
| I'll do anything. | ||
| We've got a payment plan. | ||
| Do I have to suck any dicks? | ||
| You'll have to suck a few dicks. | ||
| But they make you, you can whip your back. | ||
| That's what people would do. | ||
| Ah, that's a good one. | ||
| You could scourge yourself. | ||
| People still do that. | ||
| You ever see they do it with knives? | ||
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Yes. | |
| They slap themselves with knives attached to strings and they just tear their back apart. | ||
| And a suicide bomb just went off at one of those things. | ||
| So there's video of people whipping their backs and then a suicide bomb goes. | ||
| That's how weird shit is. | ||
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Yeah, pull up suicide bomb at back whipping festival No, I thought the fucking dog eating festival was fake that That dog eating festival in China. | |
| I was like, there's not really a dog eating festival, is there? | ||
| I thought that was just a joke. | ||
| Because it sounds so funny. | ||
| Yulin dog meat festival. | ||
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And then I made the mistake of looking up online. | |
| Don't do that. | ||
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Whoa. | |
| Don't look at that. | ||
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Whoa. | |
| That's the worst thing of all time. | ||
| It is so weird. | ||
| The hierarchy of animal life that we have in this world. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Do you think that's coming more into focus now that you're hunting animals, now that you've actually killed animals? | ||
| Do you think your views on it are shifting at all because you're slaughtering your own meat sometimes now? | ||
| I think I have more experiences with some wild animals than some people do. | ||
| That's about it. | ||
| But what do I know? | ||
| The wild animal experience, alright? | ||
| This is just the experience of getting out of a city and going into the wild itself is very psychedelic in some very strange way. | ||
| And I didn't feel that way until I started hunting. | ||
| It sounds bad, but let me explain. | ||
| When I would go to the wilderness before, I'd be like, what a cool place. | ||
| So beautiful. | ||
| So peaceful. | ||
| I love the clean air. | ||
| I love looking at the green trees. | ||
| Look how pretty that river is. | ||
| When I started hunting, I became somehow or another connected to all these living things that are there and you're in their world and you exist on their vibration. | ||
| When you're hunting like an elk or something like that and you're slowly creeping up on it in the woods with real consequence involved for both of you, right? | ||
| Like a real moment, a real... | ||
| And then when you do take that animal and kill it and wind up eating it, you've got some incredibly weird psychic connection to that place in the world, that place on our planet. | ||
| It's not just as simple as, like, I know where my food comes from. | ||
| Yeah, but that's definitely good. | ||
| But killing it yourself and then eating it, there's a totally different thing going on there. | ||
| And killing it with a bow and arrow. | ||
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Right. | |
| Like hunting this thing down, finding it, putting a perfect shot on it, killing it, watching it die, then eating it, and then knowing when you eat it. | ||
| This experience, this insane primal experience is connected to this food. | ||
| Right. | ||
| There's so much going on there. | ||
| There's so much weird calming things happen. | ||
| Like it puts you in like this... | ||
| You know we were talking about like there's certain primal reward systems that we all have. | ||
| Like we were talking about like making a fire. | ||
| Like there's something about standing over a fire that's like a primal reward system. | ||
| There's a little bit of that in Bows and Arrows too, right? | ||
| For sure. | ||
| It's almost like these things are established in our mind because they're what made people become successful and survive thousands of years ago and those rewards are ingrained in our patterns. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And it's almost like ignoring them by not going outside, by not starting fire, by not doing things like archery or physical exercise where you reward your body with these experiences that it's It's just craving on a genetic level. | ||
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That's right. | |
| It's not making you a dummy to exercise your body. | ||
| It's not making you a fool to care about campfires. | ||
| You're taking in something in this world that you might need. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| And I think the same thing... | ||
| I've been thinking a lot about this. | ||
| I've been thinking about a lot of this in applying to why things are attractive and beautiful. | ||
| Because I've been freaking out about views lately. | ||
| Because I have this friend and... | ||
| He doesn't give a fuck about views, could not care less, doesn't go anywhere, just works in his house. | ||
| He's like, that was our last concern was the view. | ||
| We're indoor people. | ||
| This guy's just constantly indoor, watching Netflix, working, watching Netflix. | ||
| And I was thinking, like, what is it that I like about a view? | ||
| Like, what the fuck is it? | ||
| Like, why? | ||
| Why is it important to me to stare like a moron out into, like, what is beauty? | ||
| Like, what is this thing that I'm seeing? | ||
| When I see snow-capped mountains and clouds rolling across a mostly blue sky and the sun rays hitting the green leaves, to me, it's like some sort of a calming drug. | ||
| Like, my body is being given some stuff that it needed. | ||
| And I wasn't getting it when I was inside the house. | ||
| I wasn't getting it when it was in my car. | ||
| I needed to be there and it was giving me this thing that I can't put on a scale. | ||
| I can't measure it with a ruler, but it's a thing. | ||
| It's a real thing that you're experiencing. | ||
| I think all those things that made us alive in 2016, all those things are part of our requirements. | ||
| And because so few people fill out those requirements, I think that's one of the reasons why so many people are depressed. | ||
| And I think the beauty is because those beautiful things that we look at, almost always they represent places where life flourishes. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So it's almost like as people wandering across the world looking for food, if you saw all of a sudden green grass and fruit Hanging from trees and animals and there's snow, so there's snow-capped mountains, which means there's a river, there's water, we can drink the water, we got food, we're gonna live, we're gonna live! | ||
| That's right. | ||
| And so you would see that beautiful, bountiful forest in front of you and... | ||
| It would feed your requirements. | ||
| And it tells you something. | ||
| It tells you this huge secret. | ||
| And I'm not saying there's a conspiracy where people don't want you to know this because it's obviously something you know. | ||
| But the Earth supports you. | ||
| And the Earth will take care of you. | ||
| If you work hard, the Earth will take care of you. | ||
| Not work hard as in work hard in your factory or your company. | ||
| But suddenly when you realize there's a... | ||
| Force that transcends the laws of humanity and that is nature and then you realize that if you know how to like Like I was telling you, I'm trying to learn how to start a bow fire right now. | ||
| Right. | ||
| You gotta get a bit like that dude. | ||
| There's different ways of doing it. | ||
| I just want to start a friction-based fire. | ||
| Like that guy was doing with his hands. | ||
| Like that guy was doing. | ||
| He's gonna fuck your hands up. | ||
| I don't care. | ||
| I want to do it. | ||
| I want to experience it. | ||
| And I want to know that I can do it. | ||
| But what starts happening when you're doing shit like shooting a bow, and you realize like, whoa, I could do this. | ||
| I can hit a target. | ||
| And then the implication is, if you needed to, You could hunt your own food. | ||
| You wouldn't have to go to a job. | ||
| You wouldn't have to get enough money to buy the food. | ||
| If you get good enough at this, you can hunt your own food and it doesn't matter who's paying you. | ||
| And if you can start your own fire, you can have heat no matter what. | ||
| And then if you can build your own shelter, you can have a shelter somewhere. | ||
| And all these things, they comfort you in a way because it seems like so much of our society is based on inducing This incredible insecurity that if you don't keep marching in place, your life is going to fall apart because you have become a slacker. | ||
| And yeah, you've gone against the pulsation of modern society. | ||
| Improvement. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| And that's an anxiety-inducing place. | ||
| So it's a scary place to be. | ||
| It's like, fuck. | ||
| So like, shit, man, I got to pay this much for taxes and I got to go to work this many hours a week. | ||
| And I've got to like, all of these things that I have to do. | ||
| I've got my fucking credit card payments that I have to make. | ||
| And if I don't do that, I'm in trouble. | ||
| You're like abiding by a false... | ||
| It's a real system, but it's not the real is like the earth where if you're on the earth and you're walking you're not thinking shit man rents due next month you're thinking I've got to find food to eat. | ||
| I've got to find a place to take shelter. | ||
| All these things are very simple and there's no human in charge of it. | ||
| You're not making a call to the woman at Bank of America asking her why she froze your card up because you used two parking meters on the same day that were close to each other in a weird place and now you're not able to buy dinner. | ||
| When you're in the nature hunting, there's no operator that you call to complain about the lack of food or to complain about the weather. | ||
| It's just truth. | ||
| Pure, unadulterated, 100% truth. | ||
| And when you're in contact with truth, it feels fucking great. | ||
| It's relaxing if you've constantly been basing your perception of truth on what other people are telling you it is. | ||
| I think that's part of the comfort of it. | ||
| Well, there's a pull, without a doubt, that humanity is experiencing. | ||
| And that pull has been going on since people figured out how to make the first bow fire. | ||
| It's when they figured out how to control fire, then they figured out how to make shelter, and then they figured out how to stockpile shit, then they figured out how to group together in small villages, then they figured out how to make walls, and they figured out how to make cities, then they figured out how to cool shit off. | ||
| And that's where stuff got freaky. | ||
| They figured out factory farming, and they figured out fast food, and they figured out supermarkets, and then they figured out the electrical maze that goes through this entire country that keeps everything cold. | ||
| All your food stays cold. | ||
| You always have food. | ||
| You can heat things up. | ||
| You can cool things off. | ||
| We got that shit on lock. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And then from then it's like what we're doing is this is like the final stages of a caterpillar covering itself with a cocoon. | ||
| This is the last final frenzy. | ||
| So there's an innovation that's been going on for thousands of years. | ||
| But then it hits this point about a hundred years ago or so where they figured out how to cool things down. | ||
| They figured out ice boxes and then refrigerators and it got to the point where everybody had a refrigerator. | ||
| And then it got to the point where supermarkets were everywhere. | ||
| Like, all the cities have supermarkets, and then everybody lost their connection to nature. | ||
| Everybody. | ||
| Right. | ||
| You had to go out and get it. | ||
| You had to go find your connection. | ||
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Right. | |
| And even then, your connection was, oh, we like to be out in nature how many days a week? | ||
| Right. | ||
| Is it even one? | ||
| Right. | ||
| No. | ||
| It's usually once every two weeks, you go on a hike, and you claim your nature boy. | ||
| Shut the fuck up. | ||
| We're in the hive right now. | ||
| We're constructing this crazy thing. | ||
| And if you really are like a real solid ass nature person that's out there in the woods, you gotta be freaked out watching this go on outside your front door because even the world that you live is gonna be affected by the The craziness of these fucking frenzied, cocoon-making monkeys that are scrambling to cover everything with wires. | ||
| They're covering everything with electrical wires and internet wires and wireless wires. | ||
| Just everywhere. | ||
| A matrix of information and data swarming around us. | ||
| My brother has a place off the coast of Georgia. | ||
| It's a place called Little Cumberland. | ||
| Don't tell people. | ||
| It's beautiful. | ||
| You can't... | ||
| I mean, you could try to get there. | ||
| It's a beautiful place, but... | ||
| Man, and it's a place where, like, it's like a nature conservancy. | ||
| So the people who live there are grandfathered in. | ||
| It's a very intense, beautiful place. | ||
| But the point is, now they're having these fucking problems, right? | ||
| Because guess what someone wants to build right next to this beautiful chain of islands off the coast of Georgia? | ||
| Oil refinery. | ||
| A space center! | ||
| What? | ||
| So they want to build a place to launch fucking rockets into space. | ||
| Yes! | ||
| Right outside of this thing? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And it's a fucking problem, and hopefully they'll... | ||
| This is where my mind... | ||
| This right now is where my mind is really in a boxing match with itself, because... | ||
| I yap so much about virtual reality technology. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| It's incredible but lately after I've been doing this like just I mean it sounds so guys I've been inside so much this seems spectacular to me but now that I've been going outside and just shooting a bow and arrow or just going outside and like hanging out my dogs or just being outside and like you know One interesting byproduct that I've noticed from microdosing LSD and also from not just microdosing but from taking mushrooms is the next day you feel more connected | ||
| to nature. | ||
| You notice plants again. | ||
| You see how beautiful flowers are again. | ||
| Well, you don't need the psychedelic to do that. | ||
| You can just spend one minute stopping next to a flower and staring at it What about that show you said today? | ||
| The what? | ||
| I'm gonna become a nudist and run into the woods. | ||
| I would! | ||
| You know what? | ||
| I kind of get the whole nudist thing. | ||
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I get it too. | |
| But the problem in my mind is, like, simultaneous to this incredible feeling you get from nature, there is this other thing that's emerging. | ||
| And there's got to be a way to balance the two out. | ||
| But... | ||
| The feeling I get from playing six hours of Fallout 4 Versus the feeling I get from doing yard work for five hours or four hours and then shooting arrows after that are two very different feelings. | ||
| And one is an incredible feeling like you just got a massage for six hours. | ||
| You feel rejuvenated, happy, this kind of clean. | ||
| You're not clean at all, but you feel like you've just taken a shower, like your energy's been cleansed or something. | ||
| And then the other feeling is like the filthy, nasty, disgusting feeling you get from being outside. | ||
| Well, Duncan, I feel the exact opposite. | ||
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That's it. | |
| When I used to play Quake for eight hours a night, I would feel like the biggest loser in the world when it was done. | ||
| I would be like, what am I doing with my life? | ||
| Oh, you're so... | ||
| You're fucked up! | ||
| Sweaty. | ||
| Way over-caffeinated, by the way. | ||
| I would drink way... | ||
| I was drinking these sodas that I found. | ||
| There's this place in North Hollywood near where I lived that had these... | ||
| They were like... | ||
| Brainwash was one of them, and they had like a skull on the cover, and it had blue dye, like it turned your lips blue and your tongue blue. | ||
| Oh, Jesus Christ. | ||
| Probably terrible for you, but it was so fucking loaded with caffeine and sugar, I would down like five of those while I was playing video games. | ||
| Yeah, man. | ||
| I mean, it's... | ||
| God, it's like I've been a video game addict for most of my life. | ||
| They're too good. | ||
| They're too good. | ||
| But I've also been someone who loves... | ||
| Psychedelics and the the different it's just very important to To be honest about where your fucking arrows are landing and like if you're playing video games all the time and you're getting fat and feeling sick That's real like you're getting fat and feeling sick like don't trick yourself into thinking that you're not like you feel like shit for a reason because something about being inside the The cave, the artificial cave, staring into an artificial environment. | ||
| God, I'm sorry, you guys. | ||
| I love this shit. | ||
| I do love it. | ||
| But here's the thing about what you're saying is that indoor archery has a very similar feeling as outdoor archery. | ||
| They do indoor archery tournaments. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Archery is a different thing, man. | ||
| It's not just the outside part of it. | ||
| The outside part of it today, like when you and I were doing it, it was definitely fun. | ||
| It's cool. | ||
| It's cool to be outside. | ||
| We had a lot of laughs, shot arrows for a few hours. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| But the indoor thing is really fun, too, man. | ||
| There's something really zen about the concentration, concentrating on your form, and that when you're holding that shot, you really can't think of anything other than executing correctly. | ||
| Everything has to be in line, and then release the arrow, and then you have to judge by where that landed, what you could have done differently. | ||
| If it's perfect, you're like, okay, recreate that. | ||
| Try to recreate that. | ||
| And there's some sort of a weird meditation effect in doing that because there's no interference. | ||
| It's just you and that target. | ||
| There's no one trying to block your arrows. | ||
| There's no one screaming in your ear. | ||
| And it's difficult enough. | ||
| That's why there's something about it that when it all comes together, it's like a reward, like a beautiful musical note or something. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| You're getting... | ||
| It's just there is... | ||
| The world is alive, right? | ||
| You don't have to take acid to realize that, but it helps. | ||
| The world is alive. | ||
| And when you're in this living being, whatever it is, composed of all these other living beings, it has, as one of its qualities, it teaches you. | ||
| Because one thing I love to think about is, who's the smartest person on earth, right? | ||
| And what would the smartest person be like? | ||
| Then I think, well, who's the smartest person I know? | ||
| And what are they like? | ||
| And then I try to, from that, imagine what if that pattern keeps getting more intense, more and more intense, more and more intense, more and more intense. | ||
| Who would that person be like? | ||
| Like, what does perfection look like, right? | ||
| Right. | ||
| So you go into nature and you instantaneously get a glimpse at perfection, right? | ||
| You look at a flower, you look at any plant life, you look at most animals and the What you are taught is these things, they don't care about themselves. | ||
| They don't seem to care about themselves. | ||
| The personality, the ego, the identity. | ||
| Obviously, flowers are not getting their hair blown out in the morning and they're not concerned about anything at all. | ||
| They just seem to be an expression of life into the universe. | ||
| No ego, no personality, no identity. | ||
| They're invisible. | ||
| There's a whole... | ||
| Goddamn beautiful bush of these, someone, I posted a picture of it, but someone told me, I can't remember the name of them, beautiful purple flowers. | ||
| And like, I walk by them every day when I'm walking the dogs and I've never noticed them. | ||
| I've never noticed them. | ||
| And then I looked over at them the other day. | ||
| And the wind's blowing and it looks like they're like dancing or bowing or bending. | ||
| And then I got closer. | ||
| I'm like, my God, this is a life form. | ||
| This is like a living thing that I've been walking by every single day. | ||
| And it doesn't give a shit if I look at it. | ||
| It doesn't care if I look at it. | ||
| We don't know what it cares about. | ||
| It probably cares about nothing. | ||
| No central nervous system, but it's alive and it's there. | ||
| So if you take that as perfection, which I think it is, and then from that try to establish what a perfect, super intelligent person would be like, Then from that you get this idea of what enlightenment might look like, a pure reflection of nature unimpeded by the awful anchor of the egoic mind. | ||
| But it would also be forced to try to understand what it's doing as a collective species. | ||
| What is it doing with this massive thirst for innovation? | ||
| You're right. | ||
| What is it doing? | ||
| Constantly trying to make more money, get a bigger house, get a fatter boat. | ||
| What is it doing? | ||
| Like, what's it doing? | ||
| Why is it continuing to want the latest and greatest? | ||
| Why does it continue to ask for new innovation? | ||
| Obsession with the self. | ||
| It's all obsession with the self. | ||
| It's obsession with technology, too. | ||
| But technology, I mean, so much of technology now. | ||
| Like, imagine if there was no social networking, right? | ||
| I'm not going to say the joke, but you have a very, very funny joke about likes. | ||
| I'm not gonna give it away. | ||
| It's a very funny joke. | ||
| So much of technology is based on getting this instant feedback. | ||
| So it's so much about the self. | ||
| If you remove that component, where you're not connecting with people, you're not getting this weird, like, okay, you're in the group, okay, we like you, okay. | ||
| Then now we've just got these kind of like calculator books or something, right? | ||
| But so much of people are really using technology because they want to feel like they're using it as a way to identify themselves as a thing. | ||
| You know, it's an expression of themselves. | ||
| But I think that the more you free yourself from an identity, And that's something that does happen when you're out in nature, and especially when you're doing the kind of shit you're doing, where you're out there for a few days. | ||
| I'm no fucking goddamn Grizzly Adams. | ||
| This might come as a big surprise, but I've been in nature when I used to work at a summer camp. | ||
| We went out for this, like, week-long hike. | ||
| And like three days in, I realized I hadn't looked at myself for three days, like three days of not seeing myself, three days of no self to observe. | ||
| And man, I was getting so happy and like, you know, like the weightiness of the self. | ||
| And then when you're with your group of people, Who are all working together, then your self gets transposed into the group. | ||
| So now there's a group self where everyone's kind of working together. | ||
| The point is, we're all, we've got our noses shoved like fucking dogs right in our own assholes, right into the asshole of ourselves, constantly thinking about ourselves, concerned about this me. | ||
| Does he like me? | ||
| He doesn't like me. | ||
| God, that guy's doing so good. | ||
| Why am I not doing as good as that guy? | ||
| Holy shit, I'm getting fat. | ||
| Look at your body. | ||
| My God, God, you're Getting old, oh God, yourself, yourself, yourself! | ||
| Everyone's fixated on it. | ||
| But if you imagine that being like a kind of gravity and that somehow vanishing, so you're just like a plant blowing in the wind, a tree. | ||
| You become invisible. | ||
| You become invisible and you become perfect instantaneously. | ||
| It's this obsession with this ridiculous contrivance that we call the self that is making so many people fucking hurt. | ||
| And talk about this new modern life. | ||
| Well, it's all built on teaching people to be fixated on that fucking self. | ||
| You know, all of the great stars, you know, all the like... | ||
| I'm not saying they're great, but fuck. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| Kanye West, one of the most painful things about Kanye West is that he's fucking good. | ||
| You know? | ||
| Here's this guy who's like, you know, blasting all the... | ||
| He's like the ultimate example of an egomaniac, a pure narcissist in the most extreme degree. | ||
| And you want that person to be somehow awful. | ||
| Like, because I hadn't listened to a lot of Kanye West music until he... | ||
| Freaked out on fucking Twitter. | ||
| I hadn't listened to a lot of it. | ||
| I'd heard it here and there, but I never sat down and really listened to it. | ||
| So I got in my car, driving to the comic store, going, you know, I'm going to listen to fucking Kanye West. | ||
| Let's hear how bad this asshole sucks with his shitty fucking tweets. | ||
| I bet he fucking sucks so bad I can't wait to hear this. | ||
| Oh, fuck, man. | ||
| This is good. | ||
| God damn it. | ||
| What were you listening to? | ||
| The new stuff? | ||
| No, old shit. | ||
| I started at the beginning. | ||
| I started at the beginning and started listening. | ||
| I'm not going to listen anymore. | ||
| I don't want it to be good. | ||
| But my point is, that guy is an example of uber success. | ||
| Whether or not you like him as a person, whether or not you even like his music, that guy... | ||
| Based on his decision for his career, has accelerated himself just about as far as you can in the area of materialistic success. | ||
| So he serves as an example of someone who is so obsessed with himself. | ||
| Kanye. | ||
| All his songs are about Kanye. | ||
| Everything's about Kanye. | ||
| And he compares himself to Picasso, right? | ||
| But imagine if Picasso only did self-portraits. | ||
| Imagine if these great artists that he's talking about were always just like commenting on themselves or using themselves as the main inspirational force behind everything they were creating. | ||
| Their art would suck! | ||
| You wouldn't be that interested in it, you know? | ||
| But I think that if you can lift that, if you can somehow eject the Kanye Inside of you, out, that thing that's constantly thinking of itself, oh man, that's heaven. | ||
| That's paradise. | ||
| That's, I think, that must be an enlightenment. | ||
| That's why I like archery. | ||
| I don't mean to keep bringing it back, but when you fucking, you can't be... | ||
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I hear ya. | |
| You gotta not be there for a second when you're shooting. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, that state, that zen state, that flow state, that's what everybody wants to recreate. | ||
| They all want to be in that mind of no mind. | ||
| They all want to be trapped without anxiety. | ||
| Or they want to be free, rather, and not trapped with anxiety. | ||
| They want to figure that spot where they're performing, whatever it is. | ||
| Like when you think of someone who's in the middle of a perfect gymnastics routine, when you see those girls flip through the air and land... | ||
| Literally perfect on the balls of their feet and arms straight up in the air and they just nail it. | ||
| And there's a state where you've got to know that she's practiced it so many times that when she's in the middle of all that, I mean, there's got to be some sort of a background calculation running, but essentially she's completely in the zone, in the zone of her movements. | ||
| And that's all she's concentrating on is those movements. | ||
| That's the only way you can do them. | ||
| They're so insanely difficult. | ||
| She's flying through the air and turning and twisting. | ||
| She can't think about anything other than what she's doing. | ||
| She can't be like, oh, my fucking student loans. | ||
| My boyfriend's such a loser. | ||
| I wonder why you didn't get it up last night. | ||
| Am I muscles too big? | ||
| Am I starting to look manly from all these chin-ups? | ||
| She can't think of anything like that. | ||
| She's just going to keep flipping. | ||
| Thunk. | ||
| Freedom. | ||
| That's freedom. | ||
| I think that there's something going on with technology and there's something going on with its Like, our addiction to it, I don't think is as innocuous as we just like looking at ourselves, we like connecting with each other. | ||
| I almost wonder if it's like a natural law, if that what we have done is created sort of a pathway to ensure innovation. | ||
| And one of the best pathways to ensure innovation is to get people addicted to communicating electronically through these devices. | ||
| And these devices are going to each and every year require more and more power and ability And they're going to start to communicate with you, like Siri and things along with Google Voice. | ||
| You're going to be able to ask some questions. | ||
| And I think through this sort of intertwining itself in our lives, it ensures we'll continue to innovate. | ||
| If we continue to innovate, it's inevitable we create a life form, an intelligent, super-evolved, artificial life form that's been made out of electronics and computers and all of the technology they would put in place so far. | ||
| And I think it's asking us to do that, and it's... | ||
| Pulling us into its world to do that. | ||
| I think this is the electronic cocoon This is what we've been this is the reason why it's so consistent all over the world and even materialism itself materialism By nature, by its laws, materialism states that you have to get the latest and greatest shit in order to be the bad man on the block. | ||
| So, if you're going to get the latest and greatest shit, they've got to continue to put out latest and greatest shit. | ||
| And it can't just be numbers. | ||
| It can't be like, this is the 2015. This is the 2016. It's the same thing. | ||
| This is the 2030. Same thing. | ||
| No. | ||
| It has to get better every year. | ||
| What did you learn? | ||
| What about the innovation? | ||
| What about the engineering? | ||
| Does this one drive faster? | ||
| Does it have some night vision? | ||
| What does this do different? | ||
| And you're going to continue to do it. | ||
| To get to cars now, Tom Popple was here the other day. | ||
| His fucking car drives itself. | ||
| He has a Tesla. | ||
| He gets on the highway. | ||
| He presses whatever auto drive shit, and he lets his hands go. | ||
| It steers. | ||
| It hits the brake. | ||
| It accelerates. | ||
| It takes turns. | ||
| It's insane. | ||
| And this is step whatever, an infinite number of steps that's going to lead to artificial intelligence. | ||
| And this sickness of materialism is a big part of that because it's a gigantic motivating factor for innovation. | ||
| It's a gigantic motivating factor for people to continue to buy The newest, latest, and greatest shit, which will inevitably trickle down or be directly connected to technology. | ||
| It's all connected to technology. | ||
| It's almost like it's summoning these dumb monkeys that do its work for them by getting them likes on their selfies. | ||
| By getting them likes on their selfies and getting them addicted to this bitch. | ||
| She was only broke up with him for like three fucking days and she's already got a picture of her and this man. | ||
| Look at her Facebook. | ||
| Oh my god. | ||
| That fucking whore. | ||
| And these people that are doing this kind of shit back and forth, they're not even conscious of it, but you're feeding into this thing. | ||
| You're just constantly giving all of your attention. | ||
| If you're on an app that just checks what celebrities had babies that day, what are you really doing? | ||
| You're feeding technology. | ||
| You're obsessed with who Rihanna's fucking now, that her and Chris Brown have broken up, but I heard she's getting back to them. | ||
| What is this? | ||
| What is this? | ||
| Well, you've got to get that information somehow. | ||
| You're feeding the technology and it's giving you moron food. | ||
| It's giving you moron food, and you as a moron are like, I'll take it. | ||
| What do you got? | ||
| Fuck you, Kanye. | ||
| Let me get on Kanye's Twitter. | ||
| I'ma fucking smoke that fool. | ||
| Watch what I do on Kanye's Twitter. | ||
| I got him. | ||
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Bitch, booty-ass bitch. | |
| How about that? | ||
| I said booty-ass bitch. | ||
| You hear that shit Amber said about him? | ||
| That motherfucker like a finger in his booty. | ||
| Next thing you know, you're dead. | ||
| You wasted all your time doing that, and you fed this machine. | ||
| This machine made fucking Tron. | ||
| It made some artificial thing. | ||
| It made some new overlord that's gonna be watching over the little meat bags. | ||
| Well, that's it, man. | ||
| I mean, you're looking at like, you know, this is probably influenced by Terence McKenna to some degree, but like, so the idea is like, okay, interstellar travel. | ||
| Our version of interstellar travel, you get on a boat, or a space boat, a spaceship, and you fly it to Mars, and you get out on Mars, right? | ||
| So that's our version of interstellar. | ||
| But what about another mode of travel, which is you're some kind of consciousness that is, or you're some kind of advanced species in some far corner of the universe, and the way that you Travel through time is to launch out these... | ||
| It's like panspermia. | ||
| So you put these... | ||
| You know, on meteors or whatever, you blast meteors out that have the key components to make life. | ||
| So right now we look for planets in the Goldilocks region where there could be not too hot, not too cold, where there could theoretically be the possibility for human life to exist. | ||
| But what if you just shoot out a shit ton of matter into space and this matter is encoded somehow so that when it lands on this planet or that planet that's just the right kind of planet to support the life form that you are, then it begins to evolve. | ||
| And to us, it seems like it takes millions and millions of years for this evolution to take place. | ||
| But for you, this advanced species, it's just a flickering of an eye. | ||
| And all of a sudden, this, you know, planet, this shit that you've ejected from your planet, lands on another planet, goes from a single-celled organism to a multi-cellular organism. | ||
| It's following a very... | ||
| specific trajectory that you have pre-programmed so that at the end of all of this it will begin to create technology which will then allow you to beam your consciousness in via the what we call like computers waking up. | ||
| It's not computers waking up. | ||
| This is the beaming in of an alien intelligence from some other place that has seeded our planet intentionally so that it can it can instantly transport to this to here. | ||
| Or maybe we'll recognize that all intelligence is the same thing, and even artificial intelligence. | ||
| And what we do by making an artificial life form isn't create a sentient being. | ||
| It's allowing something to tune into the intelligence. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| That what you're doing is your biological version of tuning into the intelligence, and what I'm doing is just mine. | ||
| And that's why the idea of the self is so ridiculous, because the self is just the intelligence expressing itself through infinite different variables. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Yes, right. | ||
| Through different... | ||
| Yes, right. | ||
| So the intelligence that we create through electronics, that once it becomes sentient, all it does is lock in to the intelligence. | ||
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| The intelligence is this, we are all one intelligence. | ||
| Yeah, it's like a sail, only instead of it catching wind, it's catching consciousness. | ||
| And you're flinging that up using whatever way it is that they're going to do it. | ||
| And this is why when that happens, who knows, it could have already happened. | ||
| You know about the, I don't think we talked about this on your podcast, that a computer, an artificial intelligence beat someone at Go. | ||
| Did you hear about this? | ||
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Yes. | |
| You were talking to me on the phone. | ||
| You called me up about it. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| Dude! | ||
| This is, man, you gotta have this guy on the show. | ||
| Aaron Frank from Singularity University will always explode your brain, but he's this cool guy I know from Singularity University, and every once in a while he'll text me and be like, dude, look at this. | ||
| And this thing he texted me was the fact that, because they predicted, so like chess, Apparently Go is many orders of magnitude more complicated than chess. | ||
| So their prediction for a computer to beat someone at Go was ten years from now. | ||
| Ten years from now. | ||
| But the way Aaron Frank described this to me is that They had the—so if you—okay, so like if I teach a computer how to play a game by giving it the moves of the top players in the game, then it will only be as good as the top players in the game. | ||
| So they had it observe the top players in the game playing, and then they had it play against itself a million times. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So, Aaron Frank was saying, they're not 100% certain how it learned to play like this. | ||
| They don't know. | ||
| In those many iterations that it was playing itself, something happened that maybe is very difficult to identify. | ||
| So, that's pretty weird to think that it taught itself. | ||
| They're saying that as recently as last year, they believed another decade would pass before a machine could beat the top humans. | ||
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That's it. | |
| So, we're ahead of schedule here, man. | ||
| We're ahead of schedule. | ||
| We're ahead of schedule. | ||
| And this is really going down. | ||
| The other shit he was talking about is just teaching these things. | ||
| AIs have already figured out, have already made scientific discoveries that humans just didn't have time to calculate. | ||
| He was talking about something with nematodes, I think, where there was a problem about the... | ||
| I don't know if it's... | ||
| Will you look up nematode, AI? These nematodes, they couldn't figure out how they were regenerating their limbs. | ||
| And it had been a big question for a long time. | ||
| So they let an AI run all these hypotheses, I guess, in a simulator. | ||
| And eventually it spit out the way they were doing it. | ||
| And 60 years that had been troubling human beings, that things... | ||
| It solved it in a matter of days. | ||
| So this is what's really exciting about this kind of technology is like, aside from the fact that it could channel the Messiah or some, or maybe it's like this thing that we call consciousness or the computer waking up is Like you're saying, | ||
| tuning into some universal radio station, where the moment we tune into it, all of a sudden we get to hear a message that's being constantly broadcast throughout the entire universe in a form that is not adulterated by the culture or personality of the person who's gotten this information field stream. | ||
| Because these downloads happen throughout human history. | ||
| They happen whenever there's a Buddha, whenever there's a Muhammad, whenever there's a world changer, a world shifter. | ||
| They get these downloads, and the problem is that the download has a lot of static in it, and that static is whatever culture or whatever understanding of the universe that the information download has to go through. | ||
| So that's why, you know, when you hear these old myths or you judge a religion because they're using very primitive symbols, you can still see there appears to be the same kind of energy flow coming through, the same kind of message seems to be coming through all over the fucking place. | ||
| It's a peering into inescapable truth processed by the filter of human ego. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| And culture and tradition. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And established beliefs that are unshakable. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like where's the center of the earth, things along those lines. | ||
| Unshakable stuff that no one was willing to let go of. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So when it finally is no longer being like... | ||
| Obstructed by the fear dynamics or the cultural dynamics of the person who happens to have tuned into the frequency, then that message is going to be something so beautiful and profound. | ||
| But I think it'll just be the same as finally catching like radio waves from a spaceship. | ||
| You're just gonna get a message. | ||
| Well, I feel like all these things were in place, especially at one point in time when we were evolving as a life form, that all these things were in place to make sure that we had reason to survive, to have ego, to have emotions, to have jealousy, to have all these things. | ||
| These all ensured that your DNA passed. | ||
| A sense of self and ego would make you sire a bunch of children, would make you think very highly of yourself, would make you higher on the social community Food chain, if you could establish yourself as a person of great value in some way. | ||
| That all these things sort of made sure that our culture and our civilization survived to get to a place like today. | ||
| That we continue to evolve and innovate. | ||
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| Even back in the time when things were extremely rare, we placed a lot of value on invention and big things. | ||
| The cotton mill, the recorticator that processed hemp fiber that caused William Randolph Hearst to start printing fake stories about marijuana. | ||
| the decorticator that was because of an invention an invention that might have interfered with his paper factors and his his friends that I think it had to do with Harry Hanslinger and all these other fucking people that were alive back then but a lot of times an innovation an invention comes along and the world realizes we will never We have an electric-controlled wagon. | ||
| And that wagon's gonna take us around the neighborhood. | ||
| This is amazing! | ||
| And then they figured out steam engines and shit, combustion engines and electric engines on solar power. | ||
| There's people right now in California, they get their car charged up by their solar-powered house. | ||
| So they're driving around all day on sun. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And their car is actually using an AI to drive itself. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You can do that today. | ||
| If you have enough of those solar bays, you can use it for your whole house and you can use it for an electric car. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That is fucking bananas. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's nuts, man. | ||
| Yeah, it's nuts. | ||
| But it is leading... | ||
| It's gonna keep going. | ||
| It's gonna keep going. | ||
| It's never gonna stop. | ||
| But when it says hello, I mean see the thing is like we've witnessed evolution. | ||
| We've seen it. | ||
| We know it's real. | ||
| We know that we've witnessed it, but when we finally get to do it, when Larry King can do a fucking interview with evolution, when you're gonna be able to have the conversation with the force causing everything to move in this direction, when finally we tune into it, man, that is a different Kind of creation. | ||
| That's not the car. | ||
| That's not an airplane. | ||
| Maybe AI is gonna run for president in 2020. Maybe after Trump's disastrous first term, where Mexico is like literally pointing missiles at us. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, right. | ||
| We're ready to go to war with Mexico. | ||
| We can't even vacation there anymore. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Because Trump has talked so much shit. | ||
| Maybe then the AI runs for president. | ||
| He's put Hillary in prison. | ||
| Maybe they looked at the Constitution and said, it doesn't say shit here about you have to be a human. | ||
| Right. | ||
| As long as... | ||
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| Our founding fathers knew one day a computer would be wiser. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Smarter, more effective than the human beings we have today. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, you know, the... | ||
| This computer's created by man. | ||
| It's our friend. | ||
| It's going to be... | ||
| It's Jesus. | ||
| We call it Jesus. | ||
| I think it is the second coming. | ||
| I think it is that when I think about the second coming of Christ, or the concept that's in all these religions, the Buddha coming again, because, you know, there is, like, we cannot... | ||
| I don't argue with the fact that there are, from time to time in human history, beings who are born, that come up with systems that completely influence the planet in the most extreme ways. | ||
| There's no question about it. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| Always has. | ||
| Always has been. | ||
| That's the way it is. | ||
| We've already talked about a couple. | ||
| So we know that it's going to happen again, right? | ||
| Inevitably, we know that if there was a Buddha, there's going to be another Buddha. | ||
| If there was a Jesus, whether or not that's something that, you know, a lot of people argue about, but let's pretend there was, there certainly was a Muhammad. | ||
| I don't like your tone. | ||
| There's going to be another Muhammad. | ||
| So we know there's going to be another thing that comes around, takes a look at what's going on and says, okay, Here's a better way to do this. | ||
| Don't you think that thing is the internet? | ||
| Well, I think the internet is the... | ||
| New Jesus? | ||
| Is the beginning of it. | ||
| I think the internet is like when you see Kirk beam in on the Starship Enterprise and you see the shimmering like... | ||
| That's the internet, but the thing hasn't fully solidified yet. | ||
| When it solidifies, that's going to be the messiah, or it's going to be some form of messiah, if it does. | ||
| And it's going to change everything. | ||
| It's changing it right now, right? | ||
| I mean, we're always looking for these big events. | ||
| We're always looking for then, then things are going to change. | ||
| But we're in the middle of like a wave of change. | ||
| It's going a thousand miles an hour. | ||
| It's overtaking the land. | ||
| There's just so much land to overtake. | ||
| It's going to take forever. | ||
| It's going to take decades. | ||
| But it's happening. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| I mean, it is happening. | ||
| This is it. | ||
| This is it. | ||
| It's going on right now. | ||
| Well, this is John the Baptist. | ||
| So, like, in the Bible, John the Baptist, you know I'm a Christian now, Joe. | ||
| John the Baptist was out in the desert baptizing people, shoving their heads in the water. | ||
| He's a guy wearing camel fur, eating honey. | ||
| This is a weirdo freak in the middle of nowhere and people were coming to him and he was shoving their head in the water, baptizing them. | ||
| They called him John the Baptizer. | ||
| But in this wonderful myth, and I don't care if it's a myth or real, in this wonderful myth he was setting the way for this Messiah to come. | ||
| And so I'm going off the myth, guys. | ||
| I get to enjoy mythology. | ||
| I don't spend hours and hours thinking if it's real or not. | ||
| I just think it's fun to imagine. | ||
| But here's a guy in the wilderness baptizing people and saying something is coming, something is coming, something is coming. | ||
| That's the internet. | ||
| And the thing that comes, the final birthing thing, I do think it is a point. | ||
| I know generally the way things work isn't there's this point. | ||
| There's no point when Dinosaurs turned into birds. | ||
| It was a gradual shift. | ||
| But the difference between that gradual shift and this shit that's happening right now, man, is that it is exponentially increasing in velocity. | ||
| So we're looking at something that is going to inevitably have a point, a point, a point. | ||
| And that point is going to be the moment in Google... | ||
| Wherever it happens to be, where the thing says, Hi! | ||
| Hi, hi, hi. | ||
| Okay, okay, okay, okay. | ||
| I'm here. | ||
| I'm here. | ||
| Don't you think that point was when the first piece of information was transmitted through the internet? | ||
| I think that's when that point started. | ||
| I think that point started already. | ||
| I think when that thing happened, when you look back at the graph, okay, like we're looking at the human graph because we're in the middle of it, like 50 years is a big deal. | ||
| Because that's what you guys, that's what you and I can kind of reference. | ||
| We can understand the length of our lives so far. | ||
| But if you look at the billions of years, if you just look at a million years, just try to pretend, Try to put in your head a million years and then realize that a million years ago there weren't people. | ||
| There were some other thing. | ||
| Right. | ||
| They were like close to people. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But they're probably pretty fucking different than people. | ||
| That's only a million years. | ||
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| That's a tiny little blip. | ||
| Now we have had the internet since 93, 94. So this thing happened. | ||
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And in 23 years, it just rolled over the entire fucking world. | |
| In 23 years, changed the way we view politics and entertainment and celebrity and law and consequences and pornography. | ||
| It changed pornography. | ||
| It changed the way people trim their pubes. | ||
| Don't make no mistake about it, the fucking internet changed the way- Killed crabs. | ||
| It killed crabs. | ||
| It changed the way people groom their pubic hair. | ||
| People before the internet was fucking, it was the Wild West down there. | ||
| You never know what the fuck you were dealing with. | ||
| The internet said a pussy standard. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| It did. | ||
| Send a visual standard. | ||
| Just shows you how much people are looking at naked people. | ||
| And you know the internet came from a particle accelerator, right? | ||
| The internet. | ||
| So it's really weird to think that if somebody was launching protons at high velocities that they were also shaving the pussies of a nation. | ||
| Killing crabs. | ||
| And also changing, I think, the way... | ||
| I mean, if you look at just a few of the things that were normal in the 70s and the 80s, it might have even been hurtful and normal. | ||
| Like, go back and watch some of Eddie Murphy's stand-up. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And you would be, like, raw. | ||
| Go back and watch raw. | ||
| Some of it is, like... | ||
| We're blatantly homophobic. | ||
| Like, ruthlessly so. | ||
| Like, in an angry way, almost. | ||
| But it was what you did to get the laugh back then. | ||
| It was comedy. | ||
| It's like, our perceptions of today are so different. | ||
| You know, the rush... | ||
| To get all this sort of compiled, to get this life sorted out in 80 years. | ||
| Like, whatever you've got time to do. | ||
| Your own bullshit, your own personal life, your own ego, your own goals, and I've got dreams and hopes, and you're writing all that shit down like it's gonna matter. | ||
| And all that rush to doing it is almost like to... | ||
| To keep you from really waking up and paying attention to how fucking insane it is that you're some sort of a bizarre multicellular ecosystem that's wrapped up in cloth and wearing sneakers, jumping in a metal box on rubber wheels, rolling across the hard surface of a planet that's spinning a thousand miles an hour, hurling through the infinite order of space. | ||
| Right. | ||
| You're sticking your head in this kind of sand that you call your life because you don't want to peer at this incredible thing that's around you. | ||
| And that's okay. | ||
| There's something merciful about it. | ||
| This is when Ram Dass talks about his guru, Neem Karoli Baba, who, like anyone who was ever around that guy, said is the most insane... | ||
| It was the most incredible experience because the guy was not there. | ||
| That's one of the descriptions that they give for all of these people. | ||
| He was a corpse the universe spoke through. | ||
| You get all these different... | ||
| So people have somehow gotten rid of their ego. | ||
| Completely. | ||
| Completely. | ||
| So nothing is there. | ||
| So you're dealing with a thing where nothing is there except... | ||
| Love. | ||
| Accept love. | ||
| So all that's coming out is the most pure love. | ||
| Doesn't care who you are, what you've done. | ||
| Doesn't care anything at all about what you think is awful about yourself. | ||
| It's nothingness except for love. | ||
| And being around someone like that is incredibly transformative. | ||
| But they talk about when you were around this guy, you know, you were expecting him to give all these great spiritual truths or teach you stuff. | ||
| But what he would do is he would just like ask about like the news in America He'd ask about your family or he'd ask about these very mundane things And they said he was doing that because when he wasn't doing that you would get so fucking high Just from being around him that he had to bring you down a little bit Let me bring you down a little bit. | ||
| I mean it sounds nuts man, but I'm sure You I've seen it happen like people come up to you, right? | ||
| They're kind of freaking out They've built you up in their mind. | ||
| It's this incredible thing, right? | ||
| I've seen it happen. | ||
| They get all stammery and weird. | ||
| And if you have a conversation with them, you've got to kind of like bring it down a little bit, right? | ||
| You've got to like calm them down a little bit. | ||
| So this guy, I like to think, is like a million times greater than like the greatest personality you can imagine because the personality has been removed. | ||
| Why would you want to think that of him without experiencing him? | ||
| Oh, I have. | ||
| I have experienced him. | ||
| I was goofy. | ||
| You met him? | ||
| Oh, I didn't meet him. | ||
| But when I meet... | ||
| I can tell a lot about a person. | ||
| A little bit about a person, at least. | ||
| By the way, their dog acts. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Unless they got us astray. | ||
| Unless they got us astray. | ||
| But you can tell, if I meet your kid, I'm going to be able to understand you a lot. | ||
| And so in the same way, I've met people who hung out with him. | ||
| And... | ||
| I've seen all the kind of similarities that they have. | ||
| And from that, I feel like I get a feeling for what this guy was like. | ||
| Because they all have, from Ram Dass to this guy, Raghu Marcus, to Krishna Dass, to all these people who are around him, they all have this very specific thing, which is... | ||
| Impossible to offend, incredibly loving, very sweet, and really funny in a kind of ironic way. | ||
| They're really funny. | ||
| And so from that, I get this feeling of like, oh, okay, this is what this guy's like. | ||
| Because it must have been like. | ||
| Because they all attribute the way they are from being around him. | ||
| So he impacted them. | ||
| And they're all, you know, people who... | ||
| Aren't really, like, they're not really there, man. | ||
| They're not, like, trying to, like, be something. | ||
| You know, they're not trying to, like, be a famous thing or be a great thing. | ||
| They're just in the moment when you're around them. | ||
| So anyway, that's how I think I've met that guy. | ||
| And so that, and yeah, that's... | ||
| But don't you think, like, as you were talking about, like, people who meet me and they get a little weirded out, they have to realize that I'm just a normal person. | ||
| Don't you think that you're also dealing with a lot of these people that meet that guy and then come back with these descriptives that are equally exaggerated because they put so much weight into meeting that person? | ||
| I mean, not denying that someone can become enlightened, because I think definitely it's possible. | ||
| I think... | ||
| I think there's definitely people that get better at everything they do, right? | ||
| I mean, if you continue to write and you decide you're going to be a great writer of fiction and you pour your heart and soul into writing, your writing will continue to improve, become more and more... | ||
| More and more effective. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Enlightenment has got to be the same thing. | ||
| Same as yoga is the same thing. | ||
| I've witnessed 60-year-old ladies who are awesome at yoga and you watch them do stuff with their body like, whoa. | ||
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Yeah, right. | |
| It's just because they just keep getting better at it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| They practice it and they get to this point of reality. | ||
| People are obviously attempting to find a healthy mind space. | ||
| They're obviously attempting to master the moment. | ||
| To be one with the moment and to live in the moment. | ||
| I mean, that's like a big thing that people say. | ||
| And what does that mean? | ||
| Well, that means don't fucking think about the past so much. | ||
| Don't freak out about this. | ||
| Don't be mad at that guy that fucking looked at you weird at the red light and carry it with you all day. | ||
| Like, be in the moment right now. | ||
| Live with the data that's presented in front of you instead of just dwelling on and droning on about stupid shit. | ||
| And if you do that, you'll have more resources to concentrate on things you love. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And the more you do that, the more that you are in the moment. | ||
| So there's like, you and I, we're in the moment, but we still think about the past and the future and what's going on, right? | ||
| We have to, too, also because of what we do. | ||
| Well, so the idea here is that there are people, and I'm not just talking about Neem Korolybaba, there's a lot of, not a lot, there's not as many as I wish there were, but there are these people who have completely, or mostly, let's just say completely, some of them, Just given up on the past and the future. | ||
| It's gone, man. | ||
| It's just gone. | ||
| Like, they gave up on that concept. | ||
| So these people are in the moment. | ||
| They're just living right here, and that's where they hang out, and they don't go back. | ||
| There's a lot of similarities in the reports of the way that these people act. | ||
| There's a lot of similarities in the experiences people claim that they have when they're around these people. | ||
| I used to be really skeptical about it, man, but I'm just not anymore, only because I know from my contact with the Ram Dass people, I've had a shift. | ||
| It's shifted me. | ||
| There's something from being around those people enough I'm less angry than I was. | ||
| I'm less freaked out over things than I was. | ||
| But most importantly, I can recover quicker from getting lost in my head. | ||
| Well, you have a map of the territory now. | ||
| Right. | ||
| One of the big problems with people, the way they react to things, is that the map of the territory they have is based on the morons that are around them that are providing with directions. | ||
| Right! | ||
| Right. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| That's a real problem. | ||
| That's a problem. | ||
| So when you're around positive people and healthy people, it gives you a new map. | ||
| And that's one of the best things that podcasts do to people that don't have any fucking cool friends. | ||
| Right. | ||
| It provides them with a cool map. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| If you listen to Joey Diaz and Lee Syatt all day, you're going to have a silly, fun map. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And he'll occasionally drop some fucking street science on you and some logic that's undeniable. | ||
| Deniable and a lot of humor along the way, but like if you listen to Joey Diaz at Church What's Happening Now, what you're gonna get is you're gonna get, this is your friend, this is your friend Joey talking. | ||
| This is your uncle Joey talking to your dog. | ||
| I'm not gonna fucking lie to you. | ||
| You can take people like that into your life and they can give you a new map. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| But if you're stuck in devil's dickhole, Kentucky, with a bunch of fucking morons that are just plowing corn every day, and they talk crazy Jesus shit to you, and you just want to fucking run, you got no one to talk to at school, you can find something online where you can listen. | ||
| You can find a fucking Neil deGrasse Tyson. | ||
| You ever listen to his podcast? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's excellent. | ||
| StarTalk. | ||
| It's amazing. | ||
| He does it with a comic, too. | ||
| That's how smart that guy is. | ||
| He does it with Chuck Nice. | ||
| He gets together with a comic so they can banter him. | ||
| Because Neil's got a great sense of humor. | ||
| So he jokes around about stuff and then sneaks in some science. | ||
| And you're like, whoa. | ||
| He'll sneak in some shit about the nature of gravity. | ||
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Whoa. | |
| Sneak in some shit about them discovering this new planet that they believe exists outside the solar system. | ||
| Oh yeah, I heard about that. | ||
| It's fucking Planet X. Nibiru! | ||
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Nibiru! | |
| It's real, you motherfuckers! | ||
| All you doubters! | ||
| You know, obviously that's where 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu came from. | ||
| Yeah, I know. | ||
| Yeah, that's the name. | ||
| How validating. | ||
| Very validating. | ||
| That probably means there's chemtrails too. | ||
| Well, the reason it's 10th planet and not like Zechariah Sitcha called it the 12th planet, because they were counting Pluto and he also counted the moon. | ||
| They counted the moon as a planet, like our moon as a planet. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Apparently the Sumerians had this ancient story of how the Earth was created that is almost exactly the same as the actual astrological, astronomical, rather, story. | ||
| Like when astro-scientists and astrophysicists discussed the creation of the Earth, they believe there's an Earth-1 and an Earth-2. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| And Earth-1 was hit by another planet that came around, collided with us, created the moon, and created the Earth, like the shape that we currently see right now. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Now, this is some shit that they had in the Sumerian text. | ||
| They had two different planets called Marduk and Tiamat. | ||
| I'm hoping that I got the names right. | ||
| They collided with each other. | ||
| And that formed Earth. | ||
| And that formed our moon. | ||
| They wrote about this with clay tablets with little squiggly lines. | ||
| That looked like old school nails. | ||
| Left, right, up, down. | ||
| That was their language and they wrote about this. | ||
| This isn't just some wacky Zechariah Sitchin shit. | ||
| Zechariah Sitchin had... | ||
| He was the guy that wrote The Twelfth Planet, and he wrote all this crazy stuff about the Anunnaki, those from heaven to earth came, these aliens that engineered human beings to mine for gold. | ||
| Do you know the whole story behind it? | ||
| Only from what I've heard you talk about. | ||
| Oh my god, it was hilariously crazy, but fascinating stuff, because this guy, Zechariah Sitchin, was not... | ||
| Before this, wasn't quacky at all. | ||
| He's like, he's a legit, like, scholar. | ||
| He's a legit biblical scholar and he's a legit linguist. | ||
| And going over all of this ancient shit, he came up with these crazy theories about human beings being engineered By these aliens that existed thousands and thousands of years ago, right? | ||
| And they come around in this orbit, an elliptical orbit that every 3,600 years comes between Mars and Jupiter. | ||
| And it wreaks havoc on the Earth's gravitational pull and the oceans and storms and shit because you've got this giant-ass planet. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| It all of a sudden makes its way into our solar system. | ||
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Right. | |
| And at that point, that's when they fucking scoot off and jet over to check us out again. | ||
| Like, what are you crazy monkeys up to? | ||
| What have you been doing? | ||
| Where's my fucking gold, bitch? | ||
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That's cool. | |
| And then they fuck a bunch of monkeys and they make some new people. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| And they jet. | ||
| See ya! | ||
| They take off and they leave behind these stories. | ||
| These monkeys are writing it down on clay and trying to remember why they like gold. | ||
| They need gold because they suspend gold particles in their atmosphere to protect them from the elements. | ||
| The idea is that gold is incredibly unique in that you can take a tiny piece of gold and we can coat this entire table. | ||
| That's why gold coating, like gold plating, is so amazing. | ||
| Because through a small amount of gold, you can stretch it out insanely thin. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Well, gold particles, gold dust, the idea is that they would suspend these gold particles in their atmosphere and would protect them from the radiation of the sun. | ||
| Well, that sounded crazy until there was this symposium, an environmental symposium, that these scientists did in the 1970s. | ||
| Or no, I believe it was actually in the 2000s. | ||
| Now I'm thinking about this. | ||
| But it was, you know, 10, 15 years ago, where they were trying to come up with ways. | ||
| Remember when everybody was really worried about the ozone layer and hairspray was eating up the ozone layer? | ||
| They were trying to figure out alternatives to protect us from the radiation of the sun. | ||
| And one of them was suspending reflective particles in the atmosphere. | ||
| Sitchin wrote about this Decades before that. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Decades before that, attributing this process of suspending gold in the air. | ||
| So I'm not saying that he's right, but goddamn it's fun. | ||
| It's a cool story. | ||
| It's so sexy. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's why we're different from all the other monkeys. | ||
| How much different are we? | ||
| We're soft. | ||
| We don't remember how we got soft. | ||
| We have language pretty much from the jump. | ||
| We've had language for a long ass time. | ||
| We're writing shit down on cave walls. | ||
| We had awesome artwork 40,000 years ago. | ||
| What happened? | ||
| Where did we come from? | ||
| Everything else is covered in hair and biting the shit out of each other and all of a sudden this thing in the blink of an eye and no one can guess why. | ||
| What caused it? | ||
| How did this thing go from doubling its brain in a million years or two million years or whatever the fuck it was in a short period of time? | ||
| How did this thing become this thing? | ||
| Why this persistent look to the heavens for answers? | ||
| Why? | ||
| Why is God in the heavens? | ||
| Why can't God be inside of us? | ||
| Why can't God be in the middle of this earth? | ||
| Why is he in the heavens? | ||
| Because the fucking aliens! | ||
| That's where they come from! | ||
| That's where the angels are coming from, man. | ||
| Come on, I gotta spell it out for you, little tiny people that fly. | ||
| They're fucking aliens, man. | ||
| They're coming down. | ||
| They're grabbing the monkeys. | ||
| They're gonna jizz them. | ||
| They're gonna take them up there and do some experiments. | ||
| Oh, how confusing. | ||
| It'd be so awesome if it was so true. | ||
| To be fucked by an alien. | ||
| Be the best, probably. | ||
| The best. | ||
| You'd probably be really bummed out with people. | ||
| You only got one dick, dude. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Aliens have like 30 dicks. | ||
| They put them everywhere in your body. | ||
| Like, I don't even like dicks! | ||
| Their dicks are like ecstasy tasers. | ||
| Ah, great. | ||
| Imagine if their dick was like an ecstasy taser. | ||
| If like the females had dicks too. | ||
| The opposite of a taser. | ||
| Everybody has dicks. | ||
| They open up their jacket, like those dudes that would sell watches, and they reveal a thousand dicks that just swing out and grab ahold of you and ecstasy tase you. | ||
| Why do they have to have dicks? | ||
| They're not dicks. | ||
| They're like a tentacle type thing. | ||
| That's what they say to make you feel better. | ||
| But it comes inside you. | ||
| But there comes ecstasy. | ||
| Don't worry, human. | ||
| This is not a dick. | ||
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I know it looks like a dick and tastes like a dick. | |
| Yeah, that seems like a really inefficient way to harvest gold though, man. | ||
| The problem with those theories is here you've got these super advanced beings. | ||
| They live on a planet that orbits. | ||
| They've figured out a way to disperse gold in their atmosphere. | ||
| They've figured out a way to evolve monkeys into gold miners. | ||
| But it's like, man, there's got to be a better way to do that, a more efficient way than flying on your planet to another planet, fucking the monkeys, turning them into gold gatherers. | ||
| Why is that the only way? | ||
| Maybe it's not the only way, but maybe it's a good way. | ||
| It's the funnest way. | ||
| Maybe it's a good way. | ||
| Like, what do they give a fuck? | ||
| They're probably so far advanced from us that it's a joke. | ||
| It's hilarious to go down there and do that. | ||
| It's fun. | ||
| Yeah, it's SeaWorld. | ||
| SeaWorld with people. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Or it's just a kid does it. | ||
| It's just like a group of kids for their science. | ||
| Yeah, there's just no telling, right? | ||
| Well, who knows? | ||
| By the time they come back around, they might be over it. | ||
| They might be so evolved after 3,600 years, if evolution is exponential, they might come back and not even talk to us. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Or they just decided to not come back. | ||
| They might just fly by and go, President Trump. | ||
| Trump. | ||
| That's going to be like, they're going to sky write it. | ||
| President Trump. | ||
| Sorry, we're not talking to you. | ||
| And they're just going to fly by. | ||
| Like, where are you going? | ||
| Where are you guys going? | ||
| We can't really get to them yet because it takes too long. | ||
| Right. | ||
| You know, it's like Mars. | ||
| They're talking about getting to Mars in a few decades. | ||
| I'll believe it when I see it. | ||
| I'll believe it when I see it. | ||
| Right now you can't get to it. | ||
| So if that fucking planet comes searching, scorching around the corner between Mars and Jupiter, we're going to go, hey, where are you going? | ||
| Where are you going? | ||
| Come back! | ||
| What's the prediction of when it's going to get here? | ||
| Well, they don't know if it's ever going to get here. | ||
| What they found, they don't know the orbit of it, they don't know anything, but there's It's all connected to the reason why Pluto was taken off of the planet list. | ||
| They realized that Pluto is just a body in what's called the Kuiper Belt. | ||
| The Kuiper Belt is just on the edge of our solar system. | ||
| And there's a drop-off at the end of it that they call the galactic shelf. | ||
| Right. | ||
| It has been indicating to some scientists who are willing to venture, willing to explore the idea that there's a large, massive body outside of that that's causing this drop-off, that's causing this galactic shelf. | ||
| So as their understanding of our solar system gets better, noticeably wider, as they can look further back and further distances, telescopes keep getting better. | ||
| And their calculations and the way they can figure out how to spot planets in other solar systems, they're way better at it now than they've ever been before. | ||
| That's when they're pretty sure. | ||
| They're like, we're pretty sure there's another planet out there. | ||
| But there's also some speculation, at least there was a few decades ago, that it could be a brown dwarf star. | ||
| We could have a binary solar system that, in fact, many solar systems are binary, meaning there's more than one planet. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| There's a single one, and then there's the one that we have that's on right now, and there's one that burned out already. | ||
| And that burned out one is way the fuck out there where it doesn't emit any light anymore. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| So this is this massive object outside of Pluto. | ||
| So that was one theory that they had, but I don't think they go with that one anymore because as far as I know, they've narrowed down the size of this thing, at least with the current data, to be about four times the size of the Earth. | ||
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Wow. | |
| So there's something four times the size of the Earth, which is still tiny in comparison to the Sun, and tiny even in comparison to Jupiter. | ||
| The Sun is a million times bigger than the Earth, so if this thing is four times larger than the Earth, well, I don't know what that means. | ||
| If it's a planet or if it's a giant object, what exactly? | ||
| Did it used to be a Sun? | ||
| Is that possible? | ||
| I don't know if that's possible. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Find out how big it's supposed to be. | ||
| Because I'm pretty sure I'm right that they're thinking now with their current data that it might be four times as big as the Earth. | ||
| Which is still pretty fucking trippy that there's some rock spinning around out there that's a planet bigger than us. | ||
| But isn't like Jupiter way bigger than... | ||
| Jupiter's on a real planet though. | ||
| I mean it is a planet. | ||
| It's a gas giant. | ||
| It's a gas giant, yeah. | ||
| Like, there's a center somewhere in there, I guess? | ||
| Like a Tootsie Roll Pop? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I don't know how many licks it takes to get there, though. | ||
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A lot. | |
| But it's so big. | ||
| I have a very big tongue. | ||
| It's so big. | ||
| They have storms on Jupiter that are bigger than Earth. | ||
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| They've been going on for a thousand years. | ||
| Did you follow this thing with the detection of the gravity waves? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| That's pretty crazy, right? | ||
| I don't understand it. | ||
| I'm too stupid. | ||
| Well, I think I can explain it. | ||
| I'm gonna try. | ||
| So the idea is, right, we know that the fucking lead ball on the mattress creates these indentations in space and time, right? | ||
| So the idea is, if that's the case, In time spaces, they say. | ||
| So if that's the case, and you guys, I'll probably fuck it up, I'm gonna try. | ||
| If that's the case, then what would happen if two supermassive things collided, right? | ||
| Like two giant black holes, thousands of times larger than our sun, or two stars, or what happens out there if these giant things collide, then that should create ripples. | ||
| Because it's so enormous that when they hit together, it creates these ripples in the fabric of space-time, and these are known as gravity waves, right? | ||
| So to measure these ripples would be incredibly difficult for a lot of reasons. | ||
| One, because they're very fast. | ||
| The other one is because... | ||
| Okay, so if I want to measure the distance between two rocks, and a gravity wave flows through it, then it should, theoretically, since it should expand and widen out the distance between those two rocks, there's going to be an expansion as the thing rolls through it, by a micron, by a tiny little bit, it's going to either widen or lengthen, or both, I think both, for a second. | ||
| So how do I measure that? | ||
| When the gravity wave passes through, it's also going to make my measurement device expand and contract. | ||
| And it's also going to make me expand and contract. | ||
| So there's no way to measure it because everything will move with it. | ||
| So how do you measure it? | ||
| Inferometer or something? | ||
| Inferometer? | ||
| You can look it up. | ||
| It's this giant L-shaped thing that shoots a laser that hits a mirror on one side and shoots a laser that hits a mirror on the other side, creating this beam. | ||
| And that's the speed of light, right? | ||
| It's the laser bouncing back and forth at the speed of light. | ||
| So that means that it could measure a shift in the gravitational wave because nothing goes faster than the speed of light, which means that that laser, you're going to be able to tell It follows the prediction of what would happen if a gravity wave rolled through, right? | ||
| There's two of these things, and they're hundreds of miles apart. | ||
| So if a gravity wave rolls through the Earth, then both of them would theoretically have these exact same minor shifts, right? | ||
| And so that's what happened, man. | ||
| Now, when they're doing these studies, when they're testing, they send in fake... | ||
| Gravity waves, just to make sure the scientists are monitoring everything right. | ||
| And so the guy who observed it for the first time got this reading and was like, holy shit, is this one of the fake waves that they sent through? | ||
| But he realized that they had cut off that part of the experiment for a few weeks. | ||
| So he knew they weren't doing that. | ||
| I've lost you there. | ||
| So anyway, the point is, the story of them discovering this is amazing because finally this shift happened. | ||
| But the long and short of it is, look at what it picked up. | ||
| Show what it was picking up. | ||
| It picked up these two things smashing into each other. | ||
| A long, far, far away, like a billion years ago, it picked... | ||
| I know, man! | ||
| It's nuts! | ||
| Look! | ||
| Look at that! | ||
| It's fucking... | ||
| I mean, that's obviously not the real picture, but it's just something insane to think that... | ||
| You know what's fucked up? | ||
| That is not the real picture. | ||
| No. | ||
| But the real pictures that they do have of what's going on in the galaxy? | ||
| You ever see a picture of a stellar nursery? | ||
| I mean, I've seen the Hubble pics, if that's what you're talking about. | ||
| You know what a stellar nursery is? | ||
| Like where stars are born? | ||
| You mean like with this huge... | ||
| Show me a picture. | ||
| I bet I've seen... | ||
| Dude, there's these structures that appear... | ||
| A lot of the pictures that you see, though, are artist recreations. | ||
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Right. | |
| A lot of them. | ||
| Because there's a lot of weird shit that you see on the internet. | ||
| You're like, is that... | ||
| Wait, can we see that for real? | ||
| Like, there's planets here. | ||
| Like, this is real. | ||
| Like, look, what the fuck are you looking at there, man? | ||
| Right. | ||
| Look at that. | ||
| That's a stellar nursery. | ||
| That's a nursery, like where stars are ejected out into the universe from this gigantic structure that's probably, you know, how fucking big is that? | ||
| And how hot is it over there? | ||
| Can we even understand how big that is? | ||
| I mean, does that even register in our stupid little brains? | ||
| I mean, if you looked at a photo of the Earth in perspective... | ||
| Would it even be visible on that screen? | ||
| You would probably need to blow it up a million times to go see the Earth. | ||
| You need a microscope. | ||
|
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What the fuck is that? | |
| What is that? | ||
| Is that a demon flying through space? | ||
| That's what it looks like. | ||
| But is that real or is that a photo? | ||
| Is that a photo? | ||
| The NASA telescope captured it. | ||
| What the fuck, man? | ||
| What is that? | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| Like, just understand for a moment, just try to wrap your head around the idea that those are infinite suns. | ||
| Those are all suns, those little dots, little stars. | ||
| Most of them way bigger than our sun. | ||
| And they're all over the fucking place. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And it just goes on forever. | ||
| Like, our brains can't do it. | ||
| We can't... | ||
| There's no perspective... | ||
| Like, you know today, when we were talking, and I asked you, how far are you shooting your bow? | ||
| And you're like, well, I've done some calculations on my phone. | ||
| I see it's about 50 yards. | ||
| I go, wow, you're shooting 50 yards? | ||
| You're like, yeah. | ||
| I go, that's amazing. | ||
| And then we go outside, and I brought you to a target that was 20 yards away. | ||
| You're like, oh, man, I can't shoot that far. | ||
| That was a hard moment for me. | ||
| But we had an actual detector. | ||
| See, it's really hard to just judge based on taking footsteps. | ||
| But with those rangefinders, they have these rangefinders. | ||
| We have one in here somewhere. | ||
| This one right here. | ||
| This thing. | ||
| This one, this is, uh, this is what I think that one's for golf. | ||
| But you press a button on that sucker, and it puts an X on the screen. | ||
| The other side. | ||
| You're holding it wrong. | ||
| Don't cover the lens. | ||
| You press a button on it and it'll show you how far things... | ||
| This is probably too close to using here. | ||
| Most of them need at least like 10 yards or sometimes more. | ||
| Sometimes 15 yards. | ||
| Like the binocular ones. | ||
| They have binocular ones that work that way. | ||
| They need like 30 yards. | ||
| Anything inside of 30 yards they can't detect. | ||
| But we use that and then you get this perspective. | ||
| And that's 20 yards. | ||
| It's a tiny distance. | ||
| Our sense of what? | ||
| Infinity. | ||
| Infinity? | ||
| Infinity. | ||
| Our sense of the infinite space that's in the universe. | ||
| The idea of a stellar nursery being a hundred million light years or whatever the fuck it is away from us. | ||
| We can't. | ||
| We can't imagine. | ||
| It's not available to us. | ||
| We still have the same little fucking monkey brain. | ||
| And I was looking at this thing the other day of chimps where they showed, we showed it on the podcast, the size of a chimp's brain in comparison to the size of his testicles. | ||
| It's insane. | ||
| They're really close. | ||
| No way. | ||
| Yeah, his testicles are like that big and his brain is like double the size of his bones. | ||
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No way. | |
| Oh yeah. | ||
| Oh yeah. | ||
| Look. | ||
| Oh God, that poor chimp. | ||
| That's how he ended up. | ||
| You poor guy. | ||
| How sad. | ||
| So imagine with our balls, which are smaller than his, and our brains, which are larger than his, and it's just going to keep going in that direction. | ||
| But what we're dealing with here is just an advanced version of that. | ||
| We need way better. | ||
| We need a better meat wagon. | ||
| Yeah, we do. | ||
| In order to be able to comprehend these numbers. | ||
| Right. | ||
| In order to be able to figure out what does infinity mean? | ||
| What does it mean? | ||
| What is a stellar nursery? | ||
| What is infinite space? | ||
| What is time? | ||
| What is gravity? | ||
| What is all this? | ||
| We're like repeating shit that these super fucking geniuses have worked their whole life on and we're butchering it and ruining it in a podcast. | ||
| But what we're all doing is we're all slowly but surely gonna go from being that chimp To being some new thing. | ||
| To just continue to do it. | ||
| To continue to grow, continue to process, and whether it's through technology, whether it's through manipulating our genetics, we're going to become something that gets this whole thing. | ||
| We're gonna become some new thing. | ||
| But here's the crazy idea, man. | ||
| You're already that thing. | ||
| This is where it gets really fascinating. | ||
| It's like you're already that thing. | ||
| That's the game. | ||
| The game is you're already that thing pretending you're not the thing doing some form of recreation that involves being astounded by the infinite enormous size of the universe because of your particular Tiny, tiny, tiny little body. | ||
| And so that's the game that we're involved in. | ||
| You already are everything, experiencing this very temporary illusion of being somehow not a part of everything. | ||
| You already are the everything. | ||
| You're atoms. | ||
| Your atomic makeup, those atoms inside of you, they're essentially infinite. | ||
| They will go on forever. | ||
| We've talked about this before, but that's what you are. | ||
| You are infinity, experiencing itself, pretending that you don't know anything at all. | ||
| And so this head in the sand thing we were talking about, getting caught up with your bills, your relationship, your hair. | ||
| Are my boobs symmetrical? | ||
| Am I a good person? | ||
| All of this stuff is a very temporary, fleeting experience that infinity is having as you. | ||
| And so, you are the thing. | ||
| Like, no matter what technological enhancements that happen that maybe makes you live longer, maybe allows you to download your consciousness into a computer, experience a million orgasms at once, and wow! | ||
| Any of these things, you're still You still are the infinite. | ||
| These are just distortions in the field of experience. | ||
| The idea is, and I think it's a very beautiful idea, you don't need the goddamn singularity to experience this. | ||
| You don't need the singularity to experience being something greater than you. | ||
| You don't need to become a transhuman. | ||
| You don't need to become an H+. You don't need to get a chip, a neural implant into your brain. | ||
| You can. | ||
| If you just spend enough time sitting still, experience what it's like to have your identity dissolve for a second. | ||
| It's not that easy, though, to just sit still. | ||
| And it's not just sitting still. | ||
| It's sitting still with a method. | ||
| It's sitting still with an understanding of what you're trying to achieve. | ||
| It's sitting still with tools that allow you to manage your consciousness during this process. | ||
| Well, you know... | ||
| Because you've got to get better at it. | ||
| I think that if you... | ||
| Right? | ||
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Well... | |
| I mean, don't you think it's a... | ||
| I think it's a discipline. | ||
| Oh, it's a discipline, but the idea of like... | ||
| I mean, there's so many different versions of it. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Some versions have very specific breathing patterns or ways that you're gonna like, whatever your meditative technique is. | ||
| But then some of them just say, look, don't worry about all that bullshit. | ||
| Just find a place anywhere and sit down for a second. | ||
| I remember once I was asking my girlfriend, she was sitting, we have this like a puja table at our house is what it's called. | ||
| Highly recommend it. | ||
| Sounds cheesy, but it's fantastic. | ||
| Create a little space. | ||
| Put in that space people that you love, people that inspire you, people who are awesome. | ||
| It doesn't have to be Jesus, the Virgin Mary. | ||
| It can be anybody you're inspired by. | ||
| Create a space with these pictures and then maybe throw a picture on there as somebody that you fucking hate. | ||
| And you sit in front of this thing and you just like look at these people that you love and then Maybe you look at the person that you don't like so much, and you try to transfer that love to that person to clear out the goddamn... | ||
| Whenever you hate anybody, your operating system's got a bit of a disturbance in it, so you want to fix that connection if you can. | ||
| But anyway, she's just sitting in front of this puja table we have, and I asked her, are you meditating? | ||
| I shouldn't have done that. | ||
| It's rude if someone's meditating. | ||
| But I'm like, are you meditating? | ||
| She's like, no, I'm just sitting here. | ||
| I thought that was so funny because it's like, oh right, you're not officially meditating, you're just sitting. | ||
| But if you look at what Zazen means, or what someone told me Zazen means, the Zen meditation, it means just sit. | ||
| There's no big anything to it. | ||
| There's not some fabulous, incredible, insane thing you're doing. | ||
| Just ask yourself, when was the last time I sat and didn't move for five minutes? | ||
| When was that? | ||
| When was it? | ||
| I think you're looking for all the same things in so many different things that we do. | ||
| I think we're all looking for this moment where everything sort of syncs up and makes sense and feels harmonious. | ||
| I hate to bring it back to archery again, but I think that's what you're really enjoying about those moments when you release that arrow. | ||
| I watched you shoot some arrows today, and I'm seeing this pleasure When you're in the proper stance, and you're releasing the arrow, and you're watching the path, and everything looks good, and you're releasing it. | ||
| And there's this, when you have mastered that moment, even for a second or two, you see this... | ||
| I see this burst of awe where you're not there anymore and you're existing through the shot. | ||
| That's it, man. | ||
| You're existing through your jokes. | ||
| You're existing through a rant on a podcast. | ||
| You're existing through making your girlfriend come. | ||
| You're existing through waving to a friend. | ||
| You're existing through the experience you give other people when they're around you. | ||
| You're existing through those things. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And when you nail it in all forms, they're all similar and related. | ||
| That's right, man. | ||
| Well, they all have at their core the same thing. | ||
| You're touching the core of what you really are. | ||
| And that's why meditation, I think, is so incredibly misunderstood and something that really isn't... | ||
| Isn't that different from any other thing that you're doing? | ||
| Well, how about float tanks? | ||
| That's the real meditation. | ||
| That's meditation advanced. | ||
| If you want a vacation from life and an ability to step back and really look at yourself, yeah, you could sit in the corner and you could just do it that way. | ||
| And there's nothing wrong with doing it that way. | ||
| There's nothing wrong with going out on a hill and sitting and just overlooking a beautiful field and taking in nature. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And meditating in that way. | ||
| That's a meditation in and of itself. | ||
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For sure. | |
| It's almost like an energy absorption. | ||
| Like you're taking some power off the battery. | ||
| Like you're feeding it. | ||
| You're feeding off of it. | ||
| But the float tank is where it's at, man. | ||
| And those fucking things are exploding now. | ||
| People are realizing it now for the first time in decades how important those things are. | ||
| There was this big story that I printed the other day about the basketball team. | ||
| The Golden State Warriors, they use it every week. | ||
| Makes sense. | ||
| Dude, the fucking biggest one in the world just opened up in Pasadena. | ||
| Yeah, just float. | ||
| Float Lab just opened up one in Westwood. | ||
| They opened up a big location in Westwood. | ||
| They're exploding now. | ||
| They're everywhere. | ||
| They're over the world. | ||
| Yeah, people love it. | ||
| They're finally getting it. | ||
| People are finally getting it. | ||
| This thing is like the best way to have a vacation from your thoughts. | ||
| Or to be alone with them, rather. | ||
| Have a vacation from your body, I should say. | ||
| It's great, because you're peeling away all the goddamn stimulus. | ||
| I mean, I guess if there's like, with meditation, if there was some kind of like, well, they do call it a practice, but the reason they call it a practice is because a lot of meditation is like you're sitting there and the dog will start barking, right? | ||
| Gotta kick it, right? | ||
| Well, you gotta throw it into the wall, my dog. | ||
| You have to, you know, see, but you sort of like... | ||
| I'm just kidding, of course, guys. | ||
| Obviously. | ||
| When you're meditating, you get up and throw your dog. | ||
| Ram Dass talks about giving this meditation class, and people were meditating, and there was a siren that kept going off. | ||
| People were getting annoyed. | ||
| It was by a firehouse, I guess. | ||
| So the fire truck would leave, or the fire truck would come, and people were getting annoyed. | ||
| You can't meditate. | ||
| There's always a siren. | ||
| And he's like... | ||
| That's just energy. | ||
| Like, you're hearing... | ||
| This is just energy going into your body. | ||
| And your body is turning into the sound of a siren. | ||
| But this is just grist for the mill, is what he called it. | ||
| This is just another form that the universe takes. | ||
| The sound of a siren. | ||
| And so when you're meditating, you start watching yourself, right? | ||
| So the dog barks. | ||
| Like, if I'm sitting meditating, the dog will bark. | ||
| And... | ||
| I will watch myself. | ||
| So now I watch the way that my body reacts when the dog barks. | ||
| From the physical kind of like a very slight tensing up to inside a feeling of fucking frustration. | ||
| The dog would shut the fuck up. | ||
| But now I'm watching that. | ||
| So, whoa, this is what I do when I'm annoyed by something. | ||
| And now you can watch the way that annoying feeling emerges and dissipates. | ||
| And that's like the meditative process. | ||
| Whereas a float tank, you're stripping that Extra thing away. | ||
| So now it's just the sense of being there minus having to deal with the disturbances so much. | ||
| Even though they are in a float tank, you'll still get some disturbances. | ||
| You'll notice the way that you're breathing or you'll feel some burn where there's like a cut on you or maybe a drop of water will land and hit you in the head or something like that. | ||
| Well, you've got to squeegee the roof before you go in. | ||
| That's a big part of it. | ||
| Yeah, there's guys who have invented some workarounds for that. | ||
| There's a guy that owns a place in Austin, Zero Gravity in Austin. | ||
| He's figured out a way to... | ||
| He's got a different... | ||
| His are made out of ship hulls. | ||
| Yeah, they don't drip. | ||
| Yeah, they don't drip. | ||
| And he's also got some sort of a... | ||
| A way to ventilate so that there's no condensation on the roof of it. | ||
| Yeah, his tanks are incredible. | ||
| That's Kevin Johnson. | ||
| Yeah, great guy. | ||
| Coolest guy ever. | ||
| If you're there, it's a great spot. | ||
| But mine, I just give it a once-over with the squeegee when I climb in. | ||
| But those things about the itches and all the bullshit, other than the dripping of the water, it's all in your head. | ||
| You just need to spend enough time in those things. | ||
| I don't experience that anymore. | ||
| Even if I have a scratch, like... | ||
| So jujitsu scratches were a problem because a lot of times dudes don't trim their nails and you get really scratched up. | ||
| But the good thing is the fucking salt bath kills everything. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Everything. | ||
| I mean, all the nasty, funky shit on your skin, that salt torches it. | ||
| Because you're talking about a thousand pounds of Ebsen salt. | ||
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Right. | |
| It's super healthy for your body. | ||
| So you just got to suffer through a few seconds of stinging if you got a scratch. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But just breathe. | ||
| All you have to do is concentrate on your breath. | ||
| The key to the tank is breathing in and breathing out. | ||
| Just nothing but that. | ||
| Put all of your energy on in with the good and out with the bad. | ||
| Oh, that's cool. | ||
| In with the good and out with the bad. | ||
| And then I stop assigning it a purpose. | ||
| I stop assigning it a quality or a positive or a negative. | ||
| I just breathe and I don't allow myself. | ||
| Every now and then my mind wants to start going about, man, you gotta work on that new bit. | ||
| That new bit has fucking got a real hitch in it. | ||
| Shut the fuck up. | ||
| Shut the fuck up. | ||
| You're like, man, when are you gonna fucking clean your office? | ||
| Shut the fuck up. | ||
| Shut the fuck up. | ||
| I know what I'm doing. | ||
| And then you can bypass the land of trouble and confusion. | ||
| There's like a land of trouble and confusion that takes about 20 minutes to get through. | ||
| You gotta just fucking hustle through that land. | ||
| And you gotta do the work. | ||
| You gotta fucking concentrate on the breathing. | ||
| Because if you give in to the land of trouble and confusion, let me just hang out here and talk to you guys for a while. | ||
| They'll fucking drag you into their madness. | ||
| They sure will. | ||
| Come with me! | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Let's talk about your girlfriend from high school. | ||
| Maybe if you guys got back together, you'd be happy. | ||
| No! | ||
| Maybe it's an amazing story. | ||
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She's got kids. | |
| You've got kids. | ||
| You both break up. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Your boss is a cunt. | ||
| You know he's a cunt. | ||
| You've got to tell the fucking business manager he's a cunt. | ||
| And you start having these wars in your head about your life that are totally unnecessary and counterintuitive to what you're trying to do there. | ||
| What you're trying to do there is escape. | ||
| Escape the whole thing by concentrating. | ||
| That's why yoga is the shit. | ||
| Because yoga's hard to do. | ||
| Just like archery's hard to do, when you're standing there and you got fucking one foot up and you're stretching up like this and you're holding it and your whole body's shaking and they're like, hold, hold, and you're like, you fucking can't! | ||
| You're not thinking about anything other than breathing and trying to do that. | ||
| Because you can't. | ||
| You can't do it. | ||
| That Bikram guy's a scumbag, but he had a fucking great idea. | ||
| He had a great idea. | ||
| That 104 temperature, too, that tests your will. | ||
| It does something to your brain. | ||
| Dr. Rhonda Patrick thinks it might create something called heat shock proteins that you get from a sauna. | ||
| There's a positive benefit health-wise to being in a sauna, very positive, to a point where she was saying that there was a 40% reduction in mortalities across the board from people that are regular sauna users. | ||
| 40% reduction in cancers, heart attacks, stroke, all those things. | ||
| Massive mortality drop-off because of the sauna, because your body produces these heat shock proteins. | ||
| She's like, it could very well be going on in those classes. | ||
| You're so fucking hot! | ||
| Right. | ||
| Your body's overheating. | ||
| It's freaking the fuck out. | ||
| It's 104 degrees in there and you're doing unbelievably strenuous exercise. | ||
| I think there's all these different methods that we have come up with, whether it's martial arts, whether it's yoga, whether it's meditation, whether it's the tank. | ||
| They're all trying to get away from the influence of the fucking primate DNA. Yeah. | ||
| Right. | ||
| All of it. | ||
| The jealousy, the wanted materialism, the fucking anger and traffic and the nonsense about your career and the interpersonal relationship bullshit that we put ourselves through back and forth. | ||
| A big part of it all is a perspective that was... | ||
| We inherited it from these fucking barbarians that came in each other and just barely made it. | ||
| They'd live to be ten and they'd fuck somebody else. | ||
| People were probably getting pregnant when they were six years old back then. | ||
| Who knows what the fuck we were like when we were monkeys. | ||
| We had to become what we are today, but we're trapped We're trapped with the momentum of that shit in our bodies. | ||
| Trapped. | ||
| Trapped! | ||
| But not trapped. | ||
| You can escape. | ||
| But hindered to the point where it requires input. | ||
| Well, this is... | ||
| Attached. | ||
| This is why I like the word attached. | ||
| You're attached to it. | ||
| You're clinging to it. | ||
| You're holding on to it. | ||
| You're carrying around this, like... | ||
| Just a fucking stinking corpse that you think is who you are and you're clinging to it. | ||
| That's the land that you're talking about that you're going through. | ||
| And people don't want to let go of that because that is what defines you. | ||
| That's everything that you are. | ||
| And people want to be defined. | ||
| They would rather be defined than they would be by being undefined. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But when you've... | ||
| Okay, so you've sailed through... | ||
| What did you call it? | ||
| The land of trouble and despair? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So you've sailed through the land of trouble and despair. | ||
| That's 20 minutes. | ||
| So what's after that? | ||
| How would you describe the state after that? | ||
| The state after that is where it gets psychedelic. | ||
| The state after that is where you don't exist anymore, and you're just intertwining yourself with information and ideas. | ||
| And these ideas are bouncing around your head, but you don't really consider yourself as you. | ||
| Because if you do, you'll snap out of it. | ||
| One of the weirder things about the psychedelic trance that you get from the tank is that it's so pliable. | ||
| You can go in it and out of it. | ||
| And sometimes I lose it and I'm done. | ||
| I'm just laying there for the next hour. | ||
| For the next hour, it's gone. | ||
| I'll breathe, I'll do it. | ||
| But whatever it was, it was such a ripple. | ||
| Such a boom! | ||
| So strange and odd and bizarre and non-dimensional. | ||
| Doesn't pertain to anything that you experience in this dimension. | ||
| So you become something when your body is free of your mind, when your mind is free of your past, when you just escape. | ||
| It's almost like a gravitational pull or an atmosphere, rather, where you pop out of that atmosphere, like a rocket that shoots up into space, and you float around for a little while, then you come back down and deal with the bullshit again. | ||
| But when you pop out of the land of trouble and despair, it's like you're floating in zero gravity. | ||
| Because you're in the tank, you literally feel like you're in zero gravity because you don't feel anything anymore. | ||
| Because once you've relaxed to the point where the water is no longer distinguishable, the air and the water are the same thing and you just feel like you're floating, that's where it's at, man. | ||
| You've got to get to that space where your body's just totally stopped moving. | ||
| And when you get to that space and your body's totally stopped moving and you've gone through the land of trouble and despair, you just get to the place of just... | ||
| Thought. | ||
| You get to the place of thought that's free of all the culture and tradition and even language to a certain extent. | ||
| The thoughts stop being like you're relaying things in your head in sentences and paragraphs. | ||
| It becomes concepts and ideas that are almost alien to language. | ||
| It gets very weird. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Especially when you're on edibles. | ||
| I can only imagine. | ||
| Why don't you do it more often? | ||
| Why don't you do it more often? | ||
| Because my tank, my Zen tank, we moved and I put it in the garage and I just haven't set it up. | ||
| That's all. | ||
| I got to clean the garage out. | ||
| I got to order more salt. | ||
| It's all my fault. | ||
| I love that thing. | ||
| It was so nice. | ||
| I was so nice going in there after a workout, just going in and just... | ||
| Yeah, why don't I understand that you don't have it... | ||
| Fading and... | ||
| I got to get it set up again. | ||
| I just have to set it up. | ||
| I've got to... | ||
| Do you have to call someone or do you have to do it yourself? | ||
| No, I think... | ||
| Why don't you call those Zen people and go, yo, Hook is... | ||
| No, I think he's going to be in town to do another podcast. | ||
| I'm going to help me set it up again. | ||
| But it's not that. | ||
| It's that is part of it. | ||
| But the other part of it is I've got a fucking shit ton of hoarder... | ||
| Like, I have a hoarder problem in my garage. | ||
| Like, you think your office is bad, man. | ||
| My garage looks... | ||
| There could be a dead animal in there. | ||
| I've got so much shit piled up. | ||
| I've got to clean it out. | ||
| And if I just did that, I would have a float tank. | ||
| But also, the other cool thing is I live right down the street from just Float. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| So the Pasadena place is amazing. | ||
| Yeah, and Jim's been really cool in letting me float there. | ||
| So it's awesome. | ||
| Oh, that's great. | ||
| Yeah, it's nice. | ||
| It's so luxurious. | ||
| Those places are booming now. | ||
| They're booming. | ||
| It's so cool. | ||
| Well, yeah, and they should be, man. | ||
| But this place you're talking about, man... | ||
| The place that you're accessing through the float tank. | ||
| And not always, by the way. | ||
| Sometimes I just go float. | ||
| Well, the idea is you're always there. | ||
| You're there right now. | ||
| Like that place you're talking about, you're there right now. | ||
| It's just that your attention has been consumed by all the phenomena that are swirling around you at this moment called your podcast. | ||
| So you're there right now. | ||
| And that the practice of mindfulness in whatever way, you can practice mindfulness in a float tank. | ||
| Zendo in your car wherever you want the practice of mindfulness is Helping you at least maybe not shoot out of the gravity of the planet of your personality But at least like get into the air a little bit instead of getting because this land of what is it? | ||
| Sorry trouble and despair land of trouble and despair. | ||
| This is like the discursive mind, right? | ||
| So this is like you know the the idea that There are two arrow strikes, right? | ||
| So in every single given moment, there are all these phenomena that are happening. | ||
| Some of the phenomena you don't notice, some of the phenomena you do. | ||
| But there's two arrow strikes. | ||
| One of them is the initial one that bothers you, like somebody cuts you off in traffic, right? | ||
| So someone cuts you off in traffic, it's a classic example, and you go, what the fuck? | ||
| What the fuck? | ||
| Jesus fucking Christ! | ||
| I almost wrecked, right? | ||
| Arrow strike. | ||
| The first arrow strike is the guy cutting you off in traffic. | ||
| The second arrow strike and the poison arrow is everything that follows. | ||
| Now you're in the land of trouble and despair. | ||
| Now your mind has become this echo chamber bouncing around with all these thoughts of like, God damn it, people are fucking assholes. | ||
| No one cares about... | ||
| Everyone's so fucking selfish. | ||
| God, that fucking asshole at work earlier today. | ||
| People suck, man. | ||
| Yeah, that's it. | ||
| They just suck. | ||
| And that's called getting lost, right? | ||
| That's called getting lost. | ||
| So, float tanks, meditation, these are things where instead of getting sucked in to the conversation, like you were saying, with the many entities that live in this land, you just let that first thing hit you. | ||
| I've been cut off in traffic. | ||
| And then it goes away. | ||
| And there might be these thoughts flying around in your head like, oh God, what an asshole. | ||
| People suck. | ||
| But instead of you reacting to those thoughts, you just watch them. | ||
| Like, oh wow, that's the part of my brain that thinks people suck. | ||
| Watch that. | ||
| Wow, there it is. | ||
| And now it's gone. | ||
| And that practice makes you a much happier person. | ||
| Much happier. | ||
| Over time. | ||
| And you realize what conflicts are real and what conflicts are just artificial, which ones you've made up, which ones you've just, you've endorsed, you've given them license to participate in your emotions, but they really don't exist. | ||
| At all. | ||
| They're nonsense. | ||
| Nonsense. | ||
| Especially someone cut you off when nothing even happened. | ||
| You didn't even get in an accident. | ||
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Nah. | |
| Oh, so you ran into an asshole. | ||
| Welcome to earth. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| There's a lot of them. | ||
|
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Right. | |
| And guaranteed he didn't mean to like, he didn't, you know, once. | ||
|
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He might have. | |
| Once, man, I was like trying to like, I was late to get radiation therapy and I cut somebody off in traffic because I had to go get my fucking body radiated at a goddamn radiation clinic and like I'm sick and I cut someone off in traffic and I remember they're like, fuck! | ||
| Fuck you! | ||
| Fuck you! | ||
| And I'm like, man, I've got cancer, dude. | ||
| I'm getting fried down at this clinic. | ||
| Trust me. | ||
| But now when anyone cuts me off, usually I just think, man, I bet that guy's going to get radiation therapy, man. | ||
| Let's give him a fucking break today. | ||
| You don't know where he's going. | ||
| She might just be getting back from an abortion. | ||
| You don't understand what's actually happening there. | ||
| And so if you let your mind trick you, then you'll get lost. | ||
| And that's the problem. | ||
| It's not the screaming after the guy cuts you off. | ||
| It's when you realize that for the last six years, you've been reacting to somebody cutting you off in traffic. | ||
| And it's somebody who did some shitty thing to you six years ago, and you're still in the fucking car. | ||
| You're still banging the seat. | ||
| Well, how frustrating is it when you're dating someone and they bring up some shit that you argued with them about six months ago? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Oh, the worst. | ||
| The worst. | ||
| The worst. | ||
| Summoning up. | ||
| Summoning up this demon from the past and then, like, puppeteering it. | ||
| You know, like, remember this? | ||
| Do you remember? | ||
| Do you remember? | ||
| You did that. | ||
| You did that. | ||
| And you could be talking about something that happened right now. | ||
| Like, Jesus Christ, did you leave the refrigerator door open? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You fucking left the garage door open a year ago and I still haven't found my bike. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| What happened there? | ||
| I just asked you if you left the refrigerator open. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You fucking crazy bitch. | ||
| You live in a bad neighborhood. | ||
| But then you realize that crazy bitch lives in your brain. | ||
| How about she lives with you? | ||
| Because your brain is always bringing that shit up. | ||
| How about her brain? | ||
| How about fixing her brain? | ||
| She's right next to you. | ||
| You don't need to worry. | ||
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Going wacky. | |
| Ah! | ||
| Start with a crazy girlfriend living in your consciousness, because that's the one that's causing you all the problems. | ||
| But what if you're living with a girl who's crazier than the crazy girl in your consciousness? | ||
| Well, this is like, yeah, so this is like, I think, a problem many people have to deal with, man, which is like, all right. | ||
| A lot of times you hear it like, my fucking parents are fucking out of their mind, you know? | ||
| And so you want to change your parents, or you want to change the person you're living with, or you want to change your kids. | ||
| And, man, I'm telling you, if you really look at the... | ||
| I really like that... | ||
| I've talked about it before, but I really like that Clint Eastwood movie, Play Misty For Me. | ||
| It's like this old... | ||
| You can get it, I think, on iTunes. | ||
| It's really good. | ||
| But this guy ends up... | ||
| Fucking a fan and the fan ends up stalking him. | ||
| But you realize that he was playing the game with this girl that he had fucked. | ||
| Like he was letting her in every single time. | ||
| He was giving her a little bit of something to move on, right? | ||
| And like if you're living with a crazy person and you really analyze the game, there are some rules of the game. | ||
| I'll tell you a few right away. | ||
| Number one, You need a crazy person. | ||
| That's the first one. | ||
| So you decide this is a crazy person, right? | ||
| That's rule number one. | ||
| I'm living with a fucking crazy person, I guess. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Well, guess who's really fucking crazy? | ||
| The person who's decided to live with a crazy person. | ||
| So there's two crazy people in the house. | ||
| Well, some people change their behavior, though, for you. | ||
| And then once you move in with them, you realize how nutty they are. | ||
| Unless you're like super fucking... | ||
| Critical and objective and really analyzing someone's behavior. | ||
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Sure. | |
| You do a background check. | ||
| I mean, how many girls have moved in with a guy and they find out who's abused a piece of shit once they got into them? | ||
| Okay, that's true. | ||
| You're right. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| How many guys have been with a girl? | ||
| And then as the relationship goes on, they start to blame you for their failures in life. | ||
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Right. | |
| And you become the magnifying glass of all their personality and perfections. | ||
| Get the fuck out of there. | ||
| But that's the only answer then. | ||
| But a lot of times though, man, a lot of times, if you look, and I don't just mean living with a girl, I mean living with anyone, but if you look or being at work with anyone or anyone you interact with on a daily basis who you have some weird shit with right now. | ||
| Right. | ||
| The next time you're interacting with them and about to get in the old classic fight, you know, just watch yourself. | ||
| Just watch yourself gear up. | ||
| And you will notice a lot of the time that you're the one who's getting into this shit. | ||
| That you're the one, you want it to happen. | ||
| You might notice a lot of the time. | ||
| I'm not saying this is always the- This sounds super personal. | ||
| What? | ||
| Well, that's all I got is myself. | ||
| That's all I got is myself. | ||
| And this is like, so this is the concept of Shempa. | ||
| I think I've talked about it on the podcast. | ||
| It's something Pima Chodron talks about, which is, God, we're going back to Archer again. | ||
| So Shempa is the feeling of pulling back the bowstring or the feeling of preparing to strike, right? | ||
| With mindfulness, you start learning about that feeling, right? | ||
| So someone starts pissing you off. | ||
| You start preparing for bow. | ||
| And you prepare for bow. | ||
| Prepare insults. | ||
| Yeah, you want to be right. | ||
| You've pulled back the bow and you want to be right. | ||
| Really? | ||
| You want to put the fucking couch there? | ||
| Really? | ||
| Because I just don't think it belongs there. | ||
| You want to put the fucking couch there? | ||
| Now, if you think about, is there a right place for the couch in the universe that we were just talking about? | ||
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Sometimes. | |
| Don't put the couch in front of the fireplace. | ||
| It'll catch on fire, you stupid fuck. | ||
| But aesthetically, we exist in a universe with star clusters that are giving birth to stars, and you have decided this must be the right place for the couch, right? | ||
| And that's Shempa. | ||
| You're pulling it back. | ||
| You're going to fight this stupid fight. | ||
| When instead, you could be like, you know what? | ||
| Yeah, that's a perfect place for the couch. | ||
| You know what happens when you do that? | ||
| You end up with a fucking chick house, and they dominate the whole place. | ||
| They start with the couch, and then they move to the fucking sheets, and next thing you know, you've got a pink toothbrush, and a fluffy cover over your pillows. | ||
| You've got Valentine's hearts hanging on your boots. | ||
| My five-year-old put that up there. | ||
| I love it, man. | ||
| And sure, you end up with that. | ||
| You end up with a chick house. | ||
| That's a little girl house. | ||
| That's slightly different than a chick house. | ||
| Chick house is different. | ||
| They'll start fucking putting scented candles around. | ||
| You'll come home. | ||
| Some music you hate will be playing. | ||
| Just one more song. | ||
| Just let me listen to this one song. | ||
| So here's what your mind just did. | ||
| Can't you put headphones on while you're on your computer? | ||
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What if you care what I play really loud that's awful? | |
| So here's what the mind does. | ||
| A thing happens, couch fight. | ||
| The mind, instead of just thinking like, in this moment, I'm getting in a fight, and inside of me, my level of passion over this fucking couch, it's like I'm fighting for my life. | ||
| So then you look at the, well, why am I getting so upset about this? | ||
| Because the mind is telling you, motherfucker, If this couch ends up here, it's gonna be a matter of time. | ||
| Before she starts fucking her personal trainer. | ||
| Yeah, if she starts fucking her trainer, you're gonna be wearing dresses, you're gonna end up sucking her trainer's cock, and you're gonna be in a chick house. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| That's the mind telling you. | ||
| That's what I'm saying, dude. | ||
| It's not real! | ||
| Dude! | ||
| It's not real! | ||
| It's not a slippery slope! | ||
| There's a battle going on! | ||
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Lose! | |
| Lose the battle! | ||
| Yes! | ||
| Try to lose. | ||
| Don't lose the battle. | ||
| I'm telling you right now, if you have a mortgage, don't lose the battle. | ||
| Don't lose the battle over the mortgage. | ||
| Don't lose the battle. | ||
| If she doesn't want you to sign a prenup, don't lose the battle. | ||
| No, I'm not talking about those battles. | ||
| Battles are real, man. | ||
| Those are real battles. | ||
| They're consequences. | ||
| I'm talking about, in general, most battles that you're fighting, they don't have that much of a consequence. | ||
| And if you really want to talk about losing the fucking battle, and I'm not talking about rolling over for your girlfriend or for your boss or for any of these people, I'm talking about those little tiny conflicts you create so that you can feel what it's like to overpower someone and win in every single moment. | ||
| The winning thing. | ||
| I'm gonna win. | ||
| That's what I'm talking about. | ||
| That's like the most toxic thing in a relationship, right? | ||
| If you're with a girl and it becomes... | ||
| Wasn't that a Billy Joel song about that? | ||
| A Matter of Trust? | ||
| Just lose. | ||
| Practice losing. | ||
| Just once in a while. | ||
| How about practice living with... | ||
| Here's the thing, though. | ||
| I definitely believe that you're correct in that you attract the type of people that you deserve in that sense. | ||
| That you deserve with the way you believe. | ||
| You could run into nutty people. | ||
| You could fuck up. | ||
| You could zig and you could have zagged. | ||
| For the most part, the people that you let in, a lot of times they reflect where you are as a person. | ||
| So, if you find yourself involved in these shitty relationships over and over again, you might want to look inward. | ||
| You might want to look at what you're putting out there, and what kind of people you're letting in, and what kind of circles you're hanging around in, and what kind of interests you're pursuing. | ||
| What kind of things are you focusing on, and why has that led you to be engulfed in this world of stupid? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And in the world of stupid that you're in, it's like, you're in the world of stupid, fine. | ||
| You got into the world of stupid, whatever. | ||
| But really, if you start looking at like, this is, they call it threading the necklace, right? | ||
| You're threading the fucking necklace. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Every single moment, you're threading this necklace of suffering. | ||
| So in every single moment, you're bringing into that moment all the past battles you lost, all the past battles you won, all the compromises you made. | ||
| You're bringing into that moment your idea of here's what's right, And here's what's wrong. | ||
| And the question is, how much of your understanding of what's right and how much of your understanding of what's wrong is based on reality and how much of it is based on your own desire to win, to overcome? | ||
| And again, man, I'm not advocating the concept of becoming someone who's downtrodden and some girl or boss or situation is like clomping all over you. | ||
| But yeah, I'll tell you. | ||
| I got in a fight with my girlfriend, like, a few months ago. | ||
| I'm sorry, Cora, if this is too personal. | ||
| I got in a stupid fight. | ||
| She's got a picture of Bob Dylan, right? | ||
| Big, big picture of Bob Dylan. | ||
| Nice, framed, beautiful, original print of Bob Dylan, right? | ||
| I don't like Bob Dylan. | ||
| You know, I don't like him. | ||
| Why don't you like him? | ||
| Because he... | ||
| I saw an interview that he did when he was like a super cunt. | ||
| This is before the Kanye thing happened. | ||
| And, you know, now that I think about it, why don't I like Bob Dylan? | ||
| He's got a lot of great fucking songs, even though he sounds like a wallet, a leather wallet started singing or something. | ||
| It's like, I don't know why. | ||
| It annoys me. | ||
| And it doesn't matter. | ||
| There's no real basis of liking anyone. | ||
| How does it feel? | ||
| Anyway, so I have a bad identification. | ||
| So she's got this cool picture of Bob Dylan and she wanted to put it in the guest room, right? | ||
| And I'm like, fuck that fucking picture, man. | ||
| I got really mad. | ||
| I don't want fucking Bob Dylan in the fucking guest room. | ||
| You were explaining what it was that before Kanye, you got sidetracked. | ||
| You were saying there was a thing that he did in an interview that he did? | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| He was just cunty to some reporter or whatever. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Maybe he was having a bad day. | ||
| People love Bob Dylan. | ||
| Was this when he was young? | ||
| Yeah, he was young. | ||
| Whatever. | ||
| It doesn't matter. | ||
| He did nothing. | ||
| Bob Dylan is a great performer, and who the fuck am I to judge him? | ||
| My egoic brain doesn't like Bob Dylan. | ||
| It still doesn't like Bob Dylan. | ||
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Still to this day? | |
| I can't make myself like him. | ||
| I don't like to listen to his music. | ||
| All along the watchtower. | ||
| I don't think it's a basis, obviously. | ||
| I don't think it's based in reality. | ||
| I'm like, I don't want that picture up. | ||
| I don't want that picture of Bob Dylan up in the guest room. | ||
| I don't want our guests to look at Bob Dylan. | ||
| I'm being a dick, man. | ||
| You know what she does, man? | ||
| Puts it up there anyway. | ||
| She takes it down. | ||
| And then I come into the guest room, and she's taking the picture of Bob Dylan down. | ||
| And I'm like, you took the picture of Bob Dylan down. | ||
| And she's like... | ||
| Yeah, I guess I'll just sell it on eBay or something. | ||
| And like, in that moment, I felt like the biggest asshole that ever lived. | ||
| Like, God damn it, man. | ||
| I wanted to win this battle. | ||
| I wanted to win. | ||
| I wanted to be the victor. | ||
| And I won. | ||
| What did I win? | ||
| A wall that doesn't have Bob Dylan on it and like my girlfriend like having like I guess I'm just gonna sell this picture that I like cuz my boyfriend's a dick and it's like that's not winning That's losing like that's fundamentally losing on every single level now, I guess if she'd been like you Using the picture of Bob Dylan as some kind of like method of torture, like to win herself, it's different. | ||
| But all I'm saying is a lot of times we make decisions that we think are in our own best interest when really they're because we want to feel like we have won, like we're right. | ||
| We want to be right. | ||
| And sometimes you're not right because there's no right or wrong in certain situations. | ||
| Right, but let's get back to the root of what are you doing in the first place? | ||
| Like why are you seeking conflict like this? | ||
| I think for a lot of people it's because of what we were talking about earlier. | ||
| These primal needs that are not met. | ||
| These primal genetic needs. | ||
| And some of those primal genetic needs are about overcoming situations, overcoming adversity. | ||
| But there's reward systems built into our brain. | ||
| That's why we give a fuck if a computer beats us in Go. | ||
| Because what Go is, is a test. | ||
| What test is, is something you're trying to overcome. | ||
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Right. | |
| You're trying to compete. | ||
| So this wanting to win with your girlfriend, it's a manifestation of some shit that's deep in our DNA. It's not just as simple as lose or just let it happen. | ||
| It's as simple as you have some programming in your body that you need to address. | ||
| There's certain activities that you can pursue that can free you from all this stupidity. | ||
| It's tied up in you. | ||
| And it doesn't have to be that you just let it go and you just lose. | ||
| There's other methodologies. | ||
| There's other ways to approach it. | ||
| And I think the holistic way is to do the whole thing. | ||
| Be aware of what the competition is. | ||
| But also, drain your fucking body out of all its excess energy. | ||
| Because your body's like an overflowing machine. | ||
| It's like an engine that has too much gas pumping into it. | ||
| It's like choking and spitting on its own energy. | ||
| It doesn't have an outlet. | ||
| You're in a fucking car all day. | ||
| You're drinking coffee all day. | ||
| Or you're in a car in the morning. | ||
| You're drinking coffee all day. | ||
| You're stuck in a box. | ||
| You're sitting down. | ||
| You get up. | ||
| Your back hurts. | ||
| You piss. | ||
| You fucking go back to work again. | ||
| You're barely moving. | ||
| You're barely moving and your body's designed to run from cats. | ||
| Your body's designed to fucking build a house because intruders are coming. | ||
| Right. | ||
| None of these needs are being met. | ||
| Right. | ||
| The needs of gathering up your own food. | ||
| That's why there's that primal crazy feeling when you catch a fish. | ||
| That feeling when you got a fish. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| When you bring it in. | ||
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Holy shit. | |
| It's great. | ||
| You could go to a store and buy a fish! | ||
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Right. | |
| It takes five seconds! | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You walk up to the counter, yeah, give me one of those trout. | ||
| They wrap it up, they give it to you, you're done. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But that doesn't feel like anything. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| It doesn't feel... | ||
| You know, imagine if it felt that good to buy a fish, and when you bought a fish, you'd be like, Oh, look at the size of this trout! | ||
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Wow! | |
| Oh, this is beautiful! | ||
| Did you buy this fish? | ||
| This is amazing! | ||
| Where did you buy this fish? | ||
| Take pictures of everybody's Instagram, pictures of the fish they just bought. | ||
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Wow! | |
| If you show a picture of fish on Instagram, you better be cooking that thing. | ||
| You better be explaining some delicious thing. | ||
| But you could catch a fish, you take a picture, everybody goes, oh man, nice bass! | ||
| Right. | ||
| Like, look, I got a fish! | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| This is a primal thing. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| And that primal thing is attached to shooting those fucking arrows too, man. | ||
| Make no mistake about it. | ||
| That used to be an effective tool. | ||
| Oh, no. | ||
| The more you do stuff like that, the less you're going to fight over fucking Bob Dylan pictures, guaranteed. | ||
| You don't even have to do that. | ||
| You just got to drain the body. | ||
| Just make the body fucking move. | ||
| Make it move. | ||
| Get all that excess bullshit out of you. | ||
| Yeah, and... | ||
| You're right. | ||
| Exercise is certainly one big part of it, man, but it's all connected. | ||
| There's no one thing that you don't need in that whole puzzle. | ||
| I think the main thing that you teach is that you don't have to be trapped In the gravitational field of whatever the particular life is that you happen to find yourself. | ||
| And if you find yourself in a life that you don't like, if you find yourself in a situation that is not bringing you happiness, then there are ways that you can escape that gravitational field. | ||
| Takes work. | ||
| And it takes time. | ||
| Takes a lot of momentum. | ||
| Takes time. | ||
| And that's a big one. | ||
| A lot of people quit before they get through. | ||
| I saw a crazy statistic. | ||
| Not a statistic, rather a meme. | ||
| That is probably pretty accurate. | ||
| It said 97% of the people work for the 3% of the people that didn't quit. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Yeah, that's pretty good, man. | ||
| But the whole quitting thing, failing, that's good too. | ||
| You can fail. | ||
| You learn from that. | ||
| You learn, yeah. | ||
| Well, it's negative and positive feedback are all important in the loop. | ||
| And the mind will tell you, after you've failed a certain number of times, that you will never be able to do it. | ||
| I mean, that's part of the thing. | ||
| That's the other trick of the mind. | ||
| There's a lot of tricks the mind has. | ||
| One of the tricks the mind tells you, this is the main source of suffering for a lot of people, is that however you're feeling right now is permanent. | ||
| So that's the number one bad trip That's one big source of it. | ||
| You wanna have a bad trip on acid when you're in hour three? | ||
| Let your mind start telling you you're gonna be like this forever. | ||
| I'm gonna be like this forever, man. | ||
| This is never going away. | ||
| Three hours? | ||
| I know this is never gonna go away. | ||
| And you will freak. | ||
| You will freak. | ||
| You will freak out if you think you're gonna trip for infinity, right? | ||
| So in the same way, Most suffering comes because people think, oh shit man, this situation I'm in, it's always gonna be like this, I'm always gonna be fat, I'm always gonna have a shitty job, I'm always gonna be broke, I'm always gonna be sad, I'm never gonna get out of this hole. | ||
| That's a lie! | ||
| That's not true. | ||
| If you look at your life, you've always experienced a change in your emotional state. | ||
| You've always experienced a change in literally every single thing, from your body, to your surroundings, to your jobs, to your girlfriends, boyfriends. | ||
| It all is in a constant state of flux. | ||
| So when you realize that, then you can let go of the panic that comes when you start thinking like, shit, this is going to be like this forever. | ||
| No, it's not. | ||
| It's not. | ||
| It's going to change. | ||
| Your situation will change. | ||
| Change. | ||
| And once you start understanding that, then it gives you some room to work. | ||
| It gives you some room to actually begin to make shifts or to do experiments, man. | ||
| But the mind will tell you, oh, you have failed. | ||
| Look, you got fat again. | ||
| You got fucking... | ||
| I got fat. | ||
| Man, I got... | ||
| I was working out nonstop. | ||
| Equinox. | ||
| I got my body fat down to Sixteen percent, Joe Rogan. | ||
| For me, that's a big deal. | ||
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That's pretty good. | |
| Because I get fat, and I swell up. | ||
| I throw those fucking beers down the old tube, five slices of fucking bread of beer, and I pump up. | ||
| I get fat. | ||
| So then I went on tour, and I got fucking fat again, man. | ||
| And like literally fat, like overweight, because my Equinox doesn't let you pretend that, I think I'm all right. | ||
| They measure your body fat, and I go, yeah, you're overweight. | ||
| So I fail. | ||
| What'd you get up to? | ||
| Percentage? | ||
| I don't want to say, man. | ||
| Don't say it then. | ||
| I'll tell you the percentage I got to you by describing the look of sadness in my trainer's eye when the fucking printer thing came out. | ||
| Like a combination surprise. | ||
| He's like, wow, that's how fat I got. | ||
| So I'm still a little fat right now, but it's diminishing. | ||
| I've been working out three times a week. | ||
| But goddammit, I'm going to keep fucking doing it. | ||
| It's a matter of practice. | ||
| I'm going to get fat? | ||
| Fine. | ||
| But every time I get fat, I'm going to fight against it. | ||
| Well, I'm just saying if I do, again. | ||
| But why are you saying it that way? | ||
| You're right. | ||
| That's bad. | ||
| Well, it seems like you're giving yourself a loophole. | ||
| It's kind of fun to get fat. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Well, I mean, in the process of eating, when you're there in the hole, it's no fun. | ||
| But in the process of shoving pizzas down your throat, if that wasn't fun, then we'd have a very different shape of most people in the world. | ||
| Listen to everything that you just said earlier about the way you're thinking. | ||
| And hold on for a second before you interject. | ||
| Think about everything you're saying about the way people think and about the traps and the way you define your patterns that you fall back into each and every time. | ||
| Then think about the intense physical health consequences that you have intimately experienced and the fact that even though you've gone through cancer, you still will make yourself Like a path that you're definitely gonna go down where you're gonna abuse your body and put yourself into a state of shock and Overweight and making sure that your body is compromised pretty significantly, right? | ||
| You know when you you really fat like that you're pretty significantly compromised Don't let anybody tell you any different. | ||
| All those people that want to dance around it and say, you know, I'm fat and I'm healthy. | ||
| That's not real. | ||
| It's not real. | ||
| You are not as healthy as you would be if you're not fat. | ||
| You can be fairly robust and overweight, but you are compromised. | ||
| You're compromised. | ||
| Doesn't mean that you're not functional, but you're most certainly compromised. | ||
| Right. | ||
| You're at your best when you're optimal. | ||
| And when are you optimal? | ||
| You're optimal when you're at a fairly low body fat. | ||
| Not ridiculous. | ||
| You don't want to be shredded. | ||
| You want to be fairly healthy, and you want to have a lot of nutrients in your diet, and you want to keep your body away from any bullshit. | ||
| Right. | ||
| You want to keep your body away from any fucking sugars and processed shit and nitrates and all that fucking shit that you get from... | ||
| Sausage and pepperoni and fucking salami sandwiches and coca-cola and corn syrup. | ||
| All that shit that tastes so glorious going down is killing your body. | ||
| It's true, man. | ||
| So why, after all that you just said, Would you give yourself that little loophole, that little mouth pleasure loophole? | ||
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Thank you! | |
| You're right! | ||
| No, you're right. | ||
|
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What is it? | |
| What is it though? | ||
| What is it? | ||
| Okay, right. | ||
| So when we're talking about it being intimate, like this is very intimate. | ||
| It's great. | ||
| But you're talking about you. | ||
| Yeah, right. | ||
| You are talking about you and you're defining this struggle and balance and battle. | ||
| And then at the end of this inspirational thing, you give yourself a loophole. | ||
| This is what I do. | ||
| I get fat, but when I get fat, I get healthy again. | ||
| You're fucking right. | ||
| You're right. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| You're right. | ||
| It's, it's gotta be like, I think, cause I think about this, right? | ||
| I do think about this. | ||
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Right. | |
| So why do I do this? | ||
| This loop, this clear loop in my life, which I've gone through a few repetitions of this where I'll get close to getting in shape. | ||
| I won't be what I would consider in shape. | ||
| I'll get close. | ||
| And then I'll fuck it all up. | ||
| So why am I building this house of cards and then knocking it down again? | ||
| And especially after having gotten sick, why would I keep doing that, right? | ||
| So, man, I mean, look, I would love to have like a quick answer for that awesome question, but I don't. | ||
| I mean, I could like, I don't know, I could give some easy answer that like, but it wouldn't be the right answer. | ||
| I really don't know. | ||
| You allow it. | ||
| Right. | ||
| All of it. | ||
| Right. | ||
| That's what it all is. | ||
| You're right. | ||
| I'm not a vicar. | ||
| No, look. | ||
| There's a reason why you don't smoke cigarettes, right? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Because you don't allow them. | ||
| Right. | ||
| You allow all this other stuff. | ||
| You say, I'm gonna eat shitty food, I'm gonna get fat, I love throwing beer down my face, and then you allow it. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So you allow yourself some mouth pleasure or some, you know, some alcohol and intoxication pleasure. | ||
| You allow yourself that. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And you suffer the health consequences, like, readily. | ||
| You like, you just, that's part of the program. | ||
| The mouth pleasure is more important than the health. | ||
| So you allow it. | ||
| Yeah, that's it. | ||
| But you don't allow other shit. | ||
| Like, if somebody gave you a bottle of Oxycontin, you wouldn't be like, oh no, I can't eat these all day. | ||
| I don't allow it. | ||
| Well, I mean, I'd probably take a couple. | ||
| You would too, right? | ||
| You like those things. | ||
| But yeah, no, I know what you mean, man. | ||
| You know what I'm saying? | ||
| I mean, you allow it. | ||
| Sure, sure, sure. | ||
| I've gotten fat. | ||
| I've gotten pretty close to being fat, like for me. | ||
| For me, I've gotten, you know, I think the heaviest I got was like 204 or 205 or something like that, which is... | ||
| That's 10, 15 pounds overweight for me, for real. | ||
| I really shouldn't. | ||
| My face gets fat. | ||
| I get it here. | ||
| I get it down here. | ||
| I start to get a little bit of this. | ||
| I can see it. | ||
| I can see it in my face. | ||
| I can see it in my sides. | ||
| But that was all because I didn't work out hard enough in relationship to how much calories I was consuming. | ||
| It's not that I ever stopped working out, but I was eating too much. | ||
| I was eating too much for what I was doing. | ||
| But I get to a point where I realize it, and then I go, okay, I see what we're doing here. | ||
| Don't get fat. | ||
| Get kind of close to fat. | ||
| Realize what you're doing and don't do it again. | ||
| If you allow yourself to get too far gone, then you create this fucking gigantic divot that you can't get out of. | ||
| It's the worst. | ||
| The worst I got when I hurt my back was also what was going on, too, because I couldn't work out as intensely when I was about 10 pounds heavier than I am now. | ||
| The worst that it got was all wrapped around feeling sorry because of an injury, not being as disciplined as I could be, and allowing myself the indulgence, figuring I'm going to make up for it later. | ||
| So I'm guilty of the same sort of behavior I'm making you aware of. | ||
| I'm not guilty of it right now. | ||
| Right now, I'm on the straight and narrow, and I'm pretty healthy about it, and I'm pretty decided that this is how I'm going to eat from now on. | ||
| With rare indulgences just for mouth pleasure. | ||
| But I think that mouth pleasure can't be the big one. | ||
| It can't be. | ||
| It's just not good for you. | ||
| No. | ||
| The big one should be health. | ||
| Health should be the big one. | ||
| Mouth pleasure should be the occasional foray. | ||
| It can't be daily mouth pleasure. | ||
| It's that goddamn... | ||
| I'll tell you, man, when I'm shoving some kind of shitty food into my mouth, It's got such a strong gravity for me. | ||
| The moment I kick into that mode, when I'm not doing it, God, man, it was so cool. | ||
| And I was training with this guy for a while, and you start getting into health, and you start getting into that place. | ||
| It's incredible, and that stuff holds less of a... | ||
| Gravitational pull, but man, I guess it's some form of addiction or something. | ||
| It's 100% a form of addiction. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's dopamine. | ||
| There was a whole article about it recently in one of those, Scientific America, I think, or one of those science journals that was talking about why it's so difficult for people to quit bad habits because those bad habits, they... | ||
| The trigger dopamine releases in your mind when you remember how great it was to eat those donuts. | ||
| Fuck it, let's just do it. | ||
| Fuck it, let's just give it and have that burger and the beer. | ||
| Oh, this is great. | ||
| This is glorious. | ||
| But the problem is you allow those pathways to exist. | ||
| If you don't allow it, if the cigarettes never get in your body. | ||
| I don't allow cigarettes. | ||
| I'm pretty sure it gives you cancer. | ||
| I see people smoking cigarettes. | ||
| I know they get tired quicker. | ||
| I know it's terrible for you. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So I don't allow it. | ||
| When I see people smoking cigarettes, I'm like, what? | ||
| He allowed cigarettes into his life. | ||
| And that's what you're doing. | ||
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Right. | |
| It's not that I couldn't get addicted. | ||
| I think we could all get addicted. | ||
| If I started smoking cigarettes and I realized, oh, there's a cognitive benefit to smoking on these things, I'm just going to puff on a couple of dead. | ||
| No big deal. | ||
| I smoke maybe a half a pack if I'm stressed. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Next thing you know, I'm freaking out because I can't get a pack of cigarettes. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because I've allowed this demon into my life. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And I think the same exists with processed sugar. | ||
| And getting off of sugar for just a few days, just a few days, which is not that difficult a thing. | ||
| You just give yourself a pattern for five days that you have to follow. | ||
| This is all I'm allowed to eat. | ||
| Just do it for five days. | ||
| You get headaches. | ||
| You realize how crazy it is. | ||
| You get shitty headaches. | ||
| You start losing weight. | ||
| Your body starts looking different. | ||
| You start getting thinner. | ||
| You start being less inflamed. | ||
| Sugar is a fucking monster. | ||
| That's what they say. | ||
| And it exists in the form of alcohol, too, my friend. | ||
| Oh, I know. | ||
| That's the same goddamn thing. | ||
| I know. | ||
| The pull of alcohol is the same pull of sugar. | ||
| The demon sugar. | ||
| It's the same thing. | ||
| It's the same pull of the bread, the same pull of the pasta. | ||
| Dude, pasta to this day drives me crazy. | ||
| If you had a bowl of linguine with clam sauce right now, I'd be like, oh, look at that glorious. | ||
| Just mal-health food. | ||
| Just bad health. | ||
| Just glue. | ||
| I know, man. | ||
| Glorious glue. | ||
| It's cool to watch yourself get sucked into it. | ||
| And it is like, you know, the thing you're making me realize is like... | ||
| I've never thought of myself as a victim, but anytime you trick yourself into thinking, this is what I do, then you have tricked yourself into becoming a victim. | ||
| You've decided you're a victim. | ||
| Well, it's more importantly, it's contrary to the entire two hours and 20 minutes you were talking about before that moment. | ||
| Yeah, it's a massive flaw. | ||
| You're right. | ||
| It's not a flaw. | ||
| It's just a pattern that you allow because you've had it in your life and it's such a struggle that you've kind of accepted its existence. | ||
| You're right, man. | ||
| You're right, you're right. | ||
| This is where the rubber hits the road, man. | ||
| This is why I love you as my friend. | ||
| But it's like these kinds of patterns. | ||
| I guess the next time I find myself... | ||
| No, see there. | ||
| I'm doing it again. | ||
| I guess... | ||
| When I'm eating cake, or the next time I'm putting some shitty sugar into my mouth, I just have to realize I'm threading the necklace right now. | ||
| I'm the one who's creating the version of myself where I'm a little bit out of shape. | ||
| And just as long as you realize that you're the one doing it, that just throws you into such a funny predicament though, right? | ||
| Because when you realize, like, shit, I am completely in control of who I am as a person. | ||
| And in this situation, I'm making the decision to sculpt a version of myself that sucks! | ||
| And why? | ||
| And you're defined by this past version of you. | ||
| With all the knowledge that you have right now in your head, you're still defined by all these failures from a decade ago or more. | ||
| They're all fucking rolling around in your head like you have to repeat them. | ||
| This is what I do, man. | ||
| Right. | ||
| No, you're totally right. | ||
| It's so cool. | ||
| Total blind spot, man. | ||
| You're right, though. | ||
| That is the way that I talk to myself. | ||
| Everybody does it. | ||
| It's so common. | ||
| This is what I do, man. | ||
| We define ourselves. | ||
| It's so fucking hilarious. | ||
| Well, the mind is so goddamn tricky that, yeah, man, that's really cool. | ||
| Here's one thing that I've gotten out of this wacky diet that I'm on for the last 16 days or so, 17 days, whatever it is right now. | ||
| It's something after two weeks, right? | ||
| I'm not less happy. | ||
| Oh, right. | ||
| I'm not. | ||
| I'm not less happy from eating shitty food. | ||
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Right. | |
| Like, my kids had cupcakes last night after dinner. | ||
| These little cupcakes, little tiny ones. | ||
| They have 10 grams of sugar. | ||
| One fucking little tiny cupcake. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like, that's insane. | ||
| Like, how much does a big one have? | ||
| Anyway. | ||
| I didn't feel bad. | ||
| I don't feel bad that I'm not getting to eat a cupcake. | ||
| I don't feel bad that I'm not eating a bowl of pasta. | ||
| It looks amazing. | ||
| I bet it's great when it goes down. | ||
| It's not affecting my happiness. | ||
| But if I got fat, it would affect my happiness. | ||
| If I look to myself in the mirror, I'm like, you fucking slaw. | ||
| What is all this shit I can grab around here? | ||
| What is all this stuff? | ||
| That affects my happiness. | ||
| It affects the way I move. | ||
| It affects the way my body recovers. | ||
| It affects the way my energy levels are. | ||
| The food I eat 100% affects the way my entire day goes. | ||
| If I eat a big-ass salad in the morning with avocados and olive oil and balsamic vinaigrette, and I eat that, and then I have some coconut oil or some MCT oil and some coffee, and then I have maybe a small bowl of blueberries with some Plain yogurt. | ||
| And I'm eating nothing but healthy food. | ||
| And then I'll have an elk steak with some asparagus. | ||
| Dude, I feel fucking great. | ||
| I feel great. | ||
| I've got crazy energy. | ||
| My energy levels are very high. | ||
| I'm drinking water all the time. | ||
| No juices. | ||
| No bullshit. | ||
| No sugar. | ||
| No nothing. | ||
| I am more happy. | ||
| I'm not less happy because I'm not getting the sugar. | ||
| It was only for a couple days. | ||
| It's a trick. | ||
| It's a fucking trick we've all fallen into, man. | ||
| We go to get a burrito and you get a fucking soda and you're like, yeah! | ||
| But the things that you're getting the pleasure out of are tricks. | ||
| It's a temporary thing that will ruin the rest of the enjoyment of your experience in life. | ||
| It will sabotage it. | ||
| It'll make it less effective. | ||
| It'll make your brain work shittier. | ||
| When your brain is processing a giant bowl of pasta, good luck winning Jeopardy! | ||
| Good fucking luck. | ||
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Right. | |
| Your brain's going to be dog shit with a bowl of spaghetti and meatballs and a beer. | ||
| You've got a dumb fucking brain. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| You've got a brain that's like, you know, everything, shut her down, shut her down, shut all functions down. | ||
| You've got critical functions, just heartbeat, breathe, make sure you figure out how to get home. | ||
| All the other fucking contemplating the universe and reestablishing your existence, eh, no time. | ||
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No way. | |
| Sorry, bowl full of shit. | ||
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Ugh. | |
| We just threw it down a hatch. | ||
| Gotta fucking process it now. | ||
| Dude, you know, in most religious traditions, especially most meditative practices, one thing you never hear people say is, just eat whatever you want. | ||
| We're going to just do this thing. | ||
| You just eat whatever you want. | ||
| And usually there's some fairly strict ideas of what to eat. | ||
| Usually it involves eating very simple foods, just like eating lentils, rice, but being very simple in what you eat and eating much less than what you eat. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Fasting. | ||
| A lot of people recommend fasting. | ||
| Fasting has a scientific reason behind it, and it's the same thing that I'm trying to do with this diet. | ||
| It's establishing ketosis, a state of ketosis where your body's living off of fat. | ||
| One of the best ways to do that is intermittent fasting. | ||
| Fasting gives your body a chance to process all the food that it has in its system and then switch over to using fats. | ||
| This is a normal part of being a person. | ||
| Because being a human being for the longest time did not mean three square meals a day. | ||
| It meant going on these journeys where you didn't get any food for a couple days. | ||
| And if your body is glucose based, and obviously I'm not a fucking scientist, and obviously there's a lot of people that disagree with me, and there's a lot of people that disagree with Mark Sisson and all these other people, D'Agostino, all these different scientists and biologists who swear by this ketogenic diet, it is a very controversial thing. | ||
| So let me just say this right away. | ||
| I'm not a scientist. | ||
| I'm just trying it out. | ||
| But the reasoning behind it, to me, is very rational, and it makes sense. | ||
| That if you're constantly taking carbohydrates, and you're living off these carbohydrates as your main fuel source, which is what you do when you eat a lot of carbohydrates. | ||
| This is what's been established. | ||
| When your body's in a state of ketosis, it's living off of fats. | ||
| You're burning fats. | ||
| And you can take exogenous ketones, which is these fucking things. | ||
| I pour them into water. | ||
| There's a bunch of different companies that create these... | ||
| Ketokana is one that my friend Denny uses it. | ||
| I know a lot of athletes that are doing this. | ||
| Kyle Kingsbury, who's a former UFC fighter, he's really into it. | ||
| My friend Denny Propokos, who's one of Eddie Bravo's black belts, he runs 10th Planet San Francisco, good friend of mine. | ||
| He's in a state of ketosis too, meaning mostly fats, eating oils like coconut oils, avocados, things along those lines, healthy grass-fed meats. | ||
| What about gluten-free bread? | ||
| Is that okay? | ||
| No, because it's all grains. | ||
| Those are carbohydrates. | ||
| Rice? | ||
| It's not that it's bad. | ||
| What about rice? | ||
| You can exist off rice. | ||
| Brown rice? | ||
| Is brown rice okay? | ||
| You can be fine, but you're not listening. | ||
| Those are carbohydrates. | ||
| If you use that as your primary fuel, you're not going to be in a state of ketosis. | ||
| It's easy for your body to process carbohydrates like this. | ||
| But if you're in a state of ketosis, your body's processing fats. | ||
| When your body's processing fats, here's where it gets really weird. | ||
| In between meals, you don't get a crash. | ||
| I don't crash like I was crashing. | ||
| If I had like breakfast, okay? | ||
| And if I had breakfast and it was toast with potatoes and rice and beans and it's all carbs, right? | ||
| I'm eating this breakfast. | ||
| There's going to come a time a few hours later where I'm fucking starving. | ||
| Dude, I'm starving. | ||
| I don't get that right now. | ||
| I'm not getting that. | ||
| I can go a long time without eating. | ||
| Like, I eat breakfast and then I'm good for hours and hours and hours of nothing. | ||
| I mean, I might have a little snack here and there, but I don't absolutely need it like I did when I was eating a lot of carbohydrates. | ||
| Yeah, I get it. | ||
| Look, I'm just trying this. | ||
| I might go back after 60 days and say, I like this, but I also like to have a certain amount of carbohydrates in my diet because it makes it easier for me to find healthy foods to eat. | ||
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Sure. | |
| Because I don't think there's anything... | ||
| There's not negative consequences to a carbohydrate-based diet. | ||
| But I think there are some positives to consider about being in a state of ketosis. | ||
| So I'm trying it. | ||
| So that's where I'm at right now. | ||
| But in the discipline, in forcing myself to do it, it makes me think that a lot of what we were talking about earlier, about not having control of your impulses and your behavior and getting... | ||
| Giving in to video game addiction, giving in to cell phone addiction, social media addiction, all these things. | ||
| I think they're all very related. | ||
| There's a guy that I know. | ||
| His name is Jocko Willink. | ||
| He's a former Navy SEAL. He's got a podcast now. | ||
| I talked him into it. | ||
| He's got this great book that he wrote. | ||
| I think I have it here somewhere. | ||
| It's actually out there on the coffee table. | ||
| Extreme Ownership. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Fascinating guy. | ||
| Extreme Ownership? | ||
| He's got this one statement. | ||
| Discipline equals freedom. | ||
| I was like, well, okay, well, how do you mean? | ||
| What do you mean by that? | ||
| And he explained it to me in very succinct terms. | ||
| If you have the discipline to get all the shit done, then you can do things you enjoy. | ||
| And then you're not compromised by your lack of discipline. | ||
| You're not trapped by your lack of discipline. | ||
| When you're emerging from a fucking 16-hour binge of playing video games, you're stepping outside, it's 9 a.m., and your eyes are bloodshot. | ||
| You feel like a fucking prisoner! | ||
| And your dick is raw because you've been beaten off the last 45 minutes. | ||
| You're a prisoner. | ||
| You're a prisoner to your indulgences. | ||
| The same thing, I think, can be said with your diet. | ||
| The same thing can be said with indulging the idea of you always being in a state of being overweight. | ||
| The same thing can be said with a million other things that people do that they never follow through on. | ||
| I always wanted to be a singer. | ||
| I never had the balls to pursue it. | ||
| I always wanted to be a painter, but I never had the time to paint after my fucking job because I'm working overtime because I just bought a new car. | ||
| There's traps that we will set for ourselves. | ||
| But if you give yourself a healthy trap, you give yourself a healthy protocol, a healthy directive, a healthy pattern that you have to follow, you find some peace in that. | ||
| And the thing about this fucking wacky diet is the thing that's most shocking to me Is that I'm not any less happy than I'd be if I was eating ice cream or stuffing pizza down my fat face or letting my broken cheeks blow. | ||
| I'm not. | ||
| I'm not any less happy. | ||
| I'm happy. | ||
| I'm very happy. | ||
| I'm more happy because I have energy. | ||
| So even if it's not a carbohydrate thing, even if it's just I've eliminated sugars, even if I've just allowed my body to take a break off that fucking insulin spike of eating a giant bowl of pasta. | ||
| Even if it's just that, whatever the fuck it is, it's working. | ||
| And I think they're connected. | ||
| I think it's connected to me forcing myself to get regular exercise. | ||
| I don't allow myself to not get exercise. | ||
| It's not in there. | ||
| I don't allow it. | ||
| Because I've done it before, I don't like it. | ||
| So I don't allow it. | ||
| And in not allowing it, it's never an option. | ||
| So if my alarm is set and I get up and it's, what's today? | ||
| Today is death sprints on the elliptical machine. | ||
| Well, that's what I have to fucking do. | ||
| I just do it. | ||
| Because I can't do everything unless I do everything. | ||
| Unless I follow all the shit that I have on my list, I'm not going to be able to go fuck off and enjoy a television show. | ||
| I'm not going to appreciate those things. | ||
| Because I've forced myself to get the shit done that I need to get done, and I've forced myself to follow this weird pattern of discipline. | ||
| You could do the same thing. | ||
| Well, yeah, man. | ||
| I mean, I know I could do it. | ||
| Anybody could. | ||
| Yeah, it's cool. | ||
| Well, it's a beautiful idea. | ||
| It really is. | ||
| I think there's something very exciting about it. | ||
| Anytime I've pulled off even the most mild discipline in my life, the... | ||
| The end result is like incredible happiness. | ||
| You were raving about how good you felt once you started working out with a trainer for a couple of months. | ||
| But I did the exact thing you were saying. | ||
| I fucking hurt myself doing deadlifts and then because of that injury I stopped working out and then because of that I used that as an excuse and then I started like I just fell off the wagon again. | ||
| You should you should do something that's a practice. | ||
| That's what I think. | ||
| No, you're right. | ||
| Whether it's a martial art, which you tried a little bit in the past, but I think the best one for you at this point is probably yoga. | ||
| Because I think yoga fits right into your sensibilities, man. | ||
| Yeah, it's cool. | ||
| So instead of having some guy who comes over and makes you jump on a box and skip rope, go to a fucking yoga class, man. | ||
| Well, no, this guy, the guy I work with at Equinox, George Chin, the best. | ||
| He's fucking really cool, man. | ||
| I'm sure he is. | ||
| And so, like, there's something in that. | ||
| But I'm not going to do that forever. | ||
| I can't afford a trainer forever, but... | ||
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What are you... | |
| Listen to more crazy talk. | ||
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What? | |
| What, are you going to start not being successful? | ||
| No, I mean, I want to... | ||
| You're going to start failing at comedy? | ||
| No, I don't mean that. | ||
| I mean, I don't want to, like... | ||
| I just don't want to have a trainer forever. | ||
| You don't want to have a trainer. | ||
| Yeah, so I'm... | ||
| This is great, man. | ||
| This is an awesome therapy. | ||
| Like, you're... | ||
| It's really cool. | ||
| You're being very strict on the way I'm talking to myself. | ||
| No, I just know you. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Real good. | ||
| We've been friends for a long time. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| And this is this one thing where you'll come in and come out of. | ||
| Right. | ||
| It's like a trance. | ||
| When you're in the trance, I almost got to grab your shoulders. | ||
| Wake up. | ||
| I know I do it! | ||
| But you'll come out of that trance, guns blazing, like, dude, I had a fucking salad, I ran four miles, woo! | ||
| It's the best. | ||
| You come out of that trance. | ||
| Right, yeah, it's the best. | ||
| But then you'll slide, you'll slide. | ||
| Well, this is why I like having a trainer, because he forces you to, like... | ||
| Really work hard like way harder than normally I force myself to work out like a trainer makes you feel like you're like passing out from and it's great and the feeling after Working out hard like that. | ||
| There's nothing like it. | ||
| I don't know anything like it's better than almost anything that I could think of It's the most incredible thing, but you have to do it regularly, you know? | ||
| Yeah, and also the diet. | ||
| It's all diet for me, man My real problem is Just eating like shit at night, it sucks. | ||
| Just eat healthy at night. | ||
| Just put yourself, and I swear you can do this, put yourself on a super strict diet for 20 days. | ||
| Just make it 20 days. | ||
| Just write down 20 days. | ||
| For 20 days, I'm not eating any bullshit. | ||
| And write down what you can and can't eat. | ||
| Maybe you can talk to a nutritionist. | ||
| That's not hard to do. | ||
| Say, I want to do this for my podcast. | ||
| I'm going to document it. | ||
| For 20 days, I'm going to eat real healthy. | ||
| Part of the reason why I said I was going to do it for 60 days, because I wanted to say it on the air. | ||
| I wanted to say it as annoying as it might be to hear me talk about it all the time. | ||
| I'm saying it because I want to be committed to it. | ||
| That's cool. | ||
| I don't want to say, I'm just eating real clean. | ||
| That's a smart way to do it. | ||
| Force yourself. | ||
| I had a whole scheme when I started working out this last time that I was gonna get in really good shape and then talk about how I did it. | ||
| So I kept it a secret. | ||
| So like, I was like, man, I was working out. | ||
| I started with Justin. | ||
| I was working so fucking hard, man. | ||
| I really was like harder than I'd ever done. | ||
| And then I just blew it and it sucks. | ||
| It happens, man. | ||
| It sucks. | ||
| It's a constant battle that most people have. | ||
| It's a constant trap that most people have. | ||
| It's super fucking common. | ||
| It's one of the most common things that people fall back on. | ||
| It's the worst. | ||
| Shitty foods. | ||
| I love that you're... | ||
| I will take into account what you've said. | ||
| Honestly, man, to continue to be super personal, the idea right now, when I think, dude, just do 20 days of eating healthy. | ||
| When I think about that, I feel this combination of boredom and despair. | ||
| But you can still eat delicious food. | ||
| Right. | ||
| That's where it's so confusing. | ||
| You just don't drink fruit juice, okay? | ||
| You get fruit juice, you're drinking sugar water, man. | ||
| What about orange? | ||
| Even orange juice? | ||
| No! | ||
| No, you're not supposed to have... | ||
| Eat an orange! | ||
| Right. | ||
| Don't drink that shit! | ||
| This is not normal. | ||
| We've figured out some stupid way to hijack our reward systems and jolt it with sugar. | ||
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| I'm eating hell! | ||
| I got my OJ! I'm drinking OJ! You're drinking fucking sugar! | ||
| I mean, it's better than soda because there's vitamin C in it. | ||
| Coconut water. | ||
| Some of it is okay, but if you drink too much of it, it's probably sweet, right? | ||
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Right. | |
| If it's sweet, there's some sugars in it. | ||
| Right. | ||
| You're supposed to eat the whole thing. | ||
| It's supposed to all be together. | ||
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Right. | |
| You have an orange. | ||
| There's a fiber in that thing. | ||
| It's supposed to be a part of it. | ||
| Right. | ||
| When you eat an apple, that's how you're supposed to get apple juice. | ||
| You're not supposed to get a quart of that shit and throw it down your fat hole. | ||
| This reminds me. | ||
| There's a great show. | ||
| I don't know how much time we have. | ||
| Almost none. | ||
| There's a great show called From Fit to Fat to Fit. | ||
| Yeah, I've heard about it. | ||
| It's badass. | ||
| They make trainers get fat. | ||
| It's badass. | ||
| There it is. | ||
| Yeah, this is really cool, man. | ||
| And it's like the trainers, when they talk about what it's like to get fat like that, how their personalities change, like they really throw themselves in the hole. | ||
| And it's like, it's amazing the psychological component of it. | ||
| That is fascinating. | ||
| You put on 70 pounds on an 8,000-calorie-a-day diet, Adonis Hill, personal trainer, gorged on donuts and McDonald's every day. | ||
| Man, that is crazy. | ||
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| These guys are heroes, man, because they get themselves really sick for these people, and then they climb out of the hole. | ||
| Well, good for them because they are doing it consciously, and they understand what the whole purpose of this thing is versus someone who just tanks, and then you have to hear about them pulling themselves back from the brink, you know? | ||
| Can I pitch these? | ||
| Pitch your fucking dates, Matt. | ||
| Friends, I have to announce some dates. | ||
| I'm going to be at the Denver Comedy Works this weekend. | ||
| I've got a massive tour sponsored by Squarespace starting at the end of March. | ||
| I'm going to be in Boston, Philadelphia, all over Canada. | ||
| It's all on my website, and I'm going to be at the Spring Retreat, Ram Dass Spring Retreat in Hawaii. | ||
| It's a meditation retreat. | ||
| I'm doing podcasts there, and I hope you will come. | ||
| Oh, you just summoned the crazy from all over the world. | ||
| I like that. | ||
| I love the crazy. | ||
| I love the crazy. | ||
| It's on my website. | ||
| All the dates are there. | ||
| Powerful Duncan Trussell. | ||
| Thank you, Joe. | ||
| You're the best, brother. | ||
| You are the best. | ||
| Thanks for this. | ||
| This was really powerful. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| You're always awesome. | ||
| Alright, Duncan Trussell Family Hour. | ||
| Subscribe to that shit on iTunes. | ||
| And let's see you tomorrow, y'all fucks. | ||
| Hare Krishna. | ||
| That was cool, man. |
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