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00:03:58.000Shroom tech is based on this mushroom that the Chinese Olympic team started using.
00:04:02.000They were winning all these medals and the the idea behind the Cordyceps mushroom is they found a long time ago these ancient cattle herders where they would go to high elevation they found that these cows would be noticeably more lively when they would be eating these certain mushrooms and these mushrooms are Cordyceps mushrooms in 1993 The Beijing Summer Games,
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00:08:17.000What if the Earth stops spinning are fascinating?
00:08:19.000And it makes you think about the world and sort of appreciate the things you don't even think about way more.
00:08:23.000Yeah, the physics of the spinning Earth, it's very bizarre when you stop to think that the idea, all planets are constantly spinning in this weird way around a giant sun and these outer planets and They're all spinning.
00:08:39.000That's something that you don't think about on a day-to-day basis.
00:08:42.000You just walk around and go to the mall and drive in your car.
00:09:44.000The other thing is, there's maybe more than one universe.
00:09:48.000Yeah, that could explain some of the, you know, things we still don't know yet.
00:09:54.000There could be parallel universes where every other version of things happen, and that would explain things like why we happen to see the universe that we see now.
00:10:38.000That every galaxy has a supermassive black hole that's one half of one percent of the mass of the entire galaxy and that inside that black hole it's very possible That there's a whole other universe with hundreds of billions of galaxies, each with black holes inside of them, each with new universes inside of them,
00:10:55.000and that this fractal thing goes on and on and on and on and there's literally no end.
00:11:01.000Yeah, and I don't know about black holes, but the universe itself, we give it a dimension, we give it like a circumference or a diameter, but that's just the observable universe.
00:11:10.000We don't really know what's beyond what we can see.
00:11:16.000It could also wrap back on itself and be sort of infinite in one sense, but actually, you know, if you go far enough out, you curve around like an ant on a globe.
00:11:25.000That ant can just keep walking forward forever.
00:11:28.000He'll eventually return to where he came from, but he's never going to, like, reach a wall, an edge.
00:11:32.000We think that's how our universe works.
00:14:15.000For instance, in a cloud chamber, we can see individual particles because they interact with gas in the chamber and cause trails, and we can follow the trail and photograph it and study it and say, wow, look how it moved.
00:14:28.000Because of its spin or because of its, you know, the mass that we were able to detect, it was probably an electron or whatever, right?
00:14:35.000But we can't look at it and say, oh, dude, that was the same electron that I saw yesterday, you know?
00:14:41.000But if that's the case, how do they understand?
00:14:43.000When they're measuring things like particles in superposition, which means a particle that is moving and still at the same time, like how are they doing that?
00:14:53.000Look, this is beyond my purview, clearly.
00:14:55.000It's something that I'd love to learn more about, but I think that it's not so much that we see both.
00:14:59.000We're just like, the only way to explain the way it behaves is that it was doing both before we made the measurement.
00:15:04.000Do you think that they'll one day have more accurate measuring, and they're like, oh my god, we're so wrong.
00:15:23.000That does create a problem, doesn't it, with educators?
00:15:26.000Because if someone's been basing their entire life and their career writing books, teaching a certain principle that turns out to be completely and totally incorrect at one point in time...
00:15:36.000When new understanding come about, that runs into human areas, ego and weirdness when it comes to what people are willing to accept and not willing to accept.
00:15:49.000Well, sure, but the point is not the facts.
00:15:54.000Procedure, the scientific method, you know, thinking scientifically and always basing these, you know, theories on things that we can experimentally test, right?
00:16:23.000But it's got to be a real pain in the ass if you've spent your entire career teaching something, writing books on something, and it turns out to be incorrect.
00:16:32.000But that sort of comes with the territory, right?
00:17:16.000Yeah, it's really bizarre when you think about the fact that people had, not only did they have just a rudimentary understanding of the Earth and its position in the stars and the universe, but with that rudimentary information,
00:17:31.000they were able to circumnavigate the globe.
00:17:35.000They were able to use those sextants and look at the stars and measure distances and figure out where they were based on constellations and go on the ocean in a fucking wooden floaty thing and just use the wind to take them around a different...
00:18:07.000They have an amazing piece on the Galapagos Island recently.
00:18:10.000And it's where Darwin sort of landed and partially...
00:18:16.000Where he formed his theories about evolution and because it's such a just incredibly rich with diversity and different kinds of life.
00:18:24.000But what they were talking about that's really amazing in this is how little we understand about life and life's changes and they're seeing life changes right now.
00:18:36.000They're seeing like the evolution of this new finch.
00:18:40.000There's some new bird is forming because there's a larger finch that's dying off and We're good to go.
00:19:00.000In the greater spectrum of life on Earth, it's nothing.
00:21:54.000But a dead language that's in hieroglyphic form, so images that mean sounds, you know?
00:22:02.000So, like, McKenna described it best, like, you would have, like, an eyeball, a saw, like, that cuts wood, you'd have an ant, like the bug, and a flower, like the rose, and that's how you would say, I saw ant rose.
00:22:44.000I don't know what's going to happen to English someday, but I, you know, me and my friends were sitting around the other day and we were talking about the idea of everything being on hard drives.
00:22:53.000And how bizarre that is that if anything happened and for whatever reason, you know, a good percentage of the population died and everybody that was left was computer illiterate, how long would it take before we lost everything that anybody ever figured out?
00:23:12.000Unless, somehow or another, genetically, that information is stored, or the revelations are somehow or another, if there's a large enough segment of the population, but if not, that shit's gone.
00:23:25.000We have to leave instructions, like, here's how to play this Blu-ray.
00:23:29.000It contains information and history of Earth.
00:23:32.000Well, that's a thought that people like Graham Hancock have when they stumble across these, you know, gigantic monoliths that nobody can explain, like Baalbek and Lebanon and...
00:23:42.000Of course, the pyramids in Egypt and all these just bizarre, massive stone constructions that we're not exactly sure how they put together.
00:23:51.000I mean, still to this day, they look at the Great Pyramid and they just go, well, maybe we think that they kind of, maybe they, I don't know.
00:24:07.000I did a video on putting history in perspective, and I mentioned that the ancient Egyptian pyramids were as old to the ancient Romans as the ancient Romans are to us.
00:24:20.000There were woolly mammoths still alive when the pyramids were built in Egypt.
00:24:59.000You know what's even more trippy is these new discoveries like this Gobekli Tepe thing that they're finding 12,000 plus years ago that they thought people back then were just hunter and gatherers and they're finding these gigantic carved stone columns with 3D images of animals that are carved into it.
00:25:17.000Meaning like you have a large stone and you cut the stone down but leave enough of a piece of stone that you could carve in a lizard.
00:25:26.000And that a lot of these lizards and animals aren't even native to the continent in which Turkey is, you know, we don't really think that these animals existed in the spot where this was going on, at least the current knowledges, that we don't think they existed there.
00:27:19.000But if you could see a thousand years in a time lapse, if you could see it run through a time lapse and then see like seven of those in a row and then see like Gobekli Tepe, which is seven twice, you know, and just like just run through how much change must have taken place on this planet.
00:27:37.000And just with this one bizarre life form that alters its environment.
00:29:31.000You know, we sort of imitate whatever the hell's going on around us.
00:29:35.000If we have this idea that babies aren't alive yet.
00:29:38.000Well, look at the horrible things that people are able to justify doing to others just because those others are, you know, thought to be an enemy or a subhuman because they're the enemy.
00:30:37.000If you took a baby from Nigeria, brought him into, you know, whatever, Atlanta, and raised him there, talk to him 20 years later, he's going to have an Atlanta accent.
00:30:48.000He's probably going to be into, you know, all the things that young kids are into and video games that young kids are into.
00:30:56.000I mean, he will look essentially entirely like an American kid.
00:32:31.000Well, you know, that's the argument that the ancient alien guys used to point to the fact that human beings are genetically engineered because dogs were essentially genetically engineered.
00:32:41.000So their idea is that this is the proof that humans have been engineered and that there's many versions of us and that, you know, there's been a bunch of different models that were created.
00:32:52.000And that's why we vary so wildly as opposed to every other animal that can breed because...
00:32:59.000Hybrids in other species are usually sterile.
00:33:03.000But hybrids with human beings, like if you took Shaquille O'Neal and a white dwarf, you would assume that's a hybrid.
00:34:01.000Like, if your body was so efficient that you no longer needed to urinate, like, we kind of assumed that your body would need to urinate, but why?
00:34:09.000If your body needs water to stay alive, like, why are we assuming that it has to process this water?
00:34:14.000Well, it has to get rid of some waste that it doesn't want anymore.
00:34:34.000Yeah, we eat to get to a certain size.
00:34:37.000And once we get to a certain size, we just, you know, whatever you evaporate off by walking around like that, you have to take back in, I guess.
00:34:46.000You know, yeah, because they have robots that just dissipate heat.
00:35:01.000They've been able to make machines that can poop.
00:35:05.000You put food in, and then it's got bacteria and different pumps and reservoirs inside, and it creates something that resembles completely and smells just like a human dump.
00:35:17.000The first one I saw was done as a piece of art, as artwork.
00:35:21.000Like an artist created this machine that could poop just like a human.
00:35:26.000Now they do it, they call it a robo-gut.
00:35:28.000It's actually a medical thing because when people have GI problems, a poop transplant is commonly used to reintroduce the healthy bacteria.
00:35:36.000And taking poop from someone else and giving it to the sick person and shoving it up there is kind of like, you know, there's a lot of possibilities for rejection, infection, stuff like that, I guess.
00:35:45.000But the robo-gut can make just perfectly clean poop, just with the kind that you want.
00:40:10.000Yeah, can you imagine being someone who lives in some sort of a tribal environment in the middle of the Amazon and all of a sudden a plane lands, you know, on the water and people come out and you're like, what the fuck is this?
00:40:22.000No one's ever seen another person, especially a white person.
00:40:25.000That has got to be akin to an alien invasion.
00:40:55.000They've recreated using materials that they find around where they live, a runway, and all the things that they associate with.
00:41:02.000They built a little airplane out of wood, trying to get it to come back.
00:41:06.000Yeah, von Daniken used that as an argument in Chariots of the Gods to explain that this is one of the reasons why these depictions of what could be interpreted as flying saucers and all these different things in modern art,
00:41:35.000That's one of those subjects where as soon as you open up the possibility of that, you say, like, well, maybe we were visited, but you're like, oh, fucking Christ, he's one of those guys.
00:43:13.000Because he believed that the Sumerian text, if you deciphered it correctly, proves that we were engineered by something called the Anunnaki.
00:43:23.000And that the Anunnaki, the literal translation of Anunnaki is those from heaven to earth came.
00:43:29.000Meaning that it was the same as the Elohim from the Bible.
00:43:33.000That, you know, these beings came from another planet, genetically altered human beings.
00:43:38.000And he points to these various images that were in the Sumerian text and Sumerian cuneiforms and all these different stone carvings that show what looks like the double helix of DNA. Sure, sure.
00:43:53.000The caduceus, you know, the two snakes that are wrapped around the pole that we associate with medicine.
00:44:44.000And there's also a website called Sitchin is Wrong, where other scholars who have studied the cuneiform and studied the Sumerian text completely disagree with his interpretations.
00:44:54.000But if we could travel to another planet...
00:44:58.000And we could do it successfully and we've done it, you know, for thousands and thousands of years and this other planet is, you know, way the fuck on the other side of the galaxy and we find some primates.
00:45:10.000I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility that we would manipulate their DNA. There are actually protocols already in place, not officially adopted by any government, but protocols about what do we do if we discover life?
00:45:22.000Because we most likely would contaminate it by trying to observe it.
00:45:28.000I think that there are even people arguing right now that Mars has been contaminated.
00:47:05.000I mean, when the pilgrims landed and you had a...
00:47:08.000I was watching this show last night that was all about the wagons that they used to traverse the land to get from the East Coast to the West Coast.
00:47:34.000These adjustable, you know, so they would move a little bit as they went over rocks and stuff.
00:47:39.000And they had done all this stuff out of leather.
00:47:42.000And it's just so strange to think that there were people that had put their life and their faith and they had, you know, some goods in the back.
00:47:51.000They had some food and they were hoping to find things to eat along the way.
00:47:55.000But it's going to take you fucking forever.
00:48:33.000Yeah, Louis C.K. has a great joke about that.
00:48:35.000It used to be, to go across the United States, it took so many years that people died, people were born, it was a whole different group of people by the time you finally got to your destination.
00:48:45.000This is the Louis C.K. joke, and now it's just like you get in a plane, and yeah, you're done.
00:48:50.000And, you know, when Elon Musk finishes these crazy high-speed rails, then it's going to be like an hour.
00:50:46.000I mean, a huge part of life in various cultures is people showing up and bringing with them money, and you welcome them.
00:50:56.000They're part of the economy of the area.
00:50:59.000It's very strange how just that ability to traverse distances has changed the way human beings interact with each other.
00:51:07.000And it's also made the idea of countries, nationalities, and your loyalty to those countries and nationalities a little bit more ridiculous every year.
00:51:17.000A little bit more ridiculous the closer we get to this ability to instantaneously travel from one place to another.
00:51:48.000These poor people are starving to death, and we won't let them come across this little imaginary line where everything is wonderful and everybody's fat.
00:52:20.000Parts of it are just, I think, fenced off, militarized, lit up.
00:52:27.000I've covered a few other borders that you can see from space in the past.
00:52:31.000I'm not remembering them at the moment.
00:52:33.000You can look down from Earth and tell that we don't all get along.
00:52:38.000My friend Ari that you see behind you right there, or above you, that photo, Ari just got back from doing a tour of China, and took some photos of himself on the Great Wall, and I read that you could see the Great Wall from space.
00:56:12.000Obviously they've got some control over what they do.
00:56:15.000Yeah, they certainly have some control.
00:56:19.000We're so funny when we isolate threats.
00:56:23.000I was thinking this the other day while I was traveling.
00:56:25.000We're going through the airport, and they're going through all your shit, and they're scanning you, and you're putting your hands over your head, and the radio thing checks your body for weapons, and you go through, and you get the clear, and you go.
00:57:57.000I'm not a criminal, and I'm not a threat, and I'm not a terrorist, and I don't have any plans on ever being one.
00:58:03.000So when I'm doing this, I'm like, this is just so crazy that this tiny, minute, one one-hundredth of one percent of the population, if it's even that, that you ever have to worry about.
00:58:13.000It's probably not even that, statistically.
00:58:16.000Look, one percent of the population means out of a hundred million, you have a million people, right?
00:58:27.000It's very, very, very, very, very small what the actual threat is.
00:58:30.000But because of these fuckheads, these actual threats, everyone has to be massively inconvenienced.
00:58:36.000So I find it to be incredibly inefficient, ridiculous, and almost...
00:58:43.000It almost sort of enforces this idea of instability, because although 99.9999999% of people are nothing to worry about, because there is this minute, tiny threat.
01:01:53.000There's a distinction between that job and working at a complaint department where the complaint department, maybe you're helping people with the problem they're experiencing.
01:02:01.000But if all you do is stop people from bringing in the bottle of wine that they want to have, You don't work with them to make it work.
01:07:57.000Something about the moon doesn't mean that they're going to believe me.
01:08:00.000And that's one of the things people don't think about when they imagine being the king if they could travel back in time is that, sure, you could explain to people that where you're from, everyone has a cell phone.
01:09:55.000Someone invented a society that's civil enough that you could think and pontificate on these things and not have to worry about the barbarians coming over the hills with fucking spears.
01:10:04.000All this only takes place because the only reason why you can build a rocket is because someone built alloys, because someone figured out propellants, because someone figured out contained explosion, because someone figured out velocity and speed and How much energy you actually have to have to escape the energy of gravity pulling you down.
01:10:25.000The pull of the earth and then the resistance of air and all these different variables.
01:10:32.000There had to be untold number of people I don't know how helpful I'd be about just like...
01:11:34.000About the various times throughout history where locusts had filled the sky like clouds of locusts.
01:11:42.000And it was about the Old West and the army being brought in to deliver food to these poor people that had lived in the 1800s or 1700s or whatever the fuck it was.
01:11:53.000But they had these black and white photos of the army and they're bringing in these...
01:11:57.000These wagons filled with food and these poor people.
01:12:01.000Their crops have just been completely devastated by these things that just showed up and filled the sky.
01:12:32.000Like, if I went back to before there was pizza, I could probably still make a pizza because as long as bread had still been, like, invented and there was cheese and meat, I could combine them in the right way to make a pizza.
01:12:46.000I don't know how to exactly make pizza dough from the ingredients they'd have back in the past.
01:13:59.000You know, if you could get a random group of 100 people, just completely random, and they would be the only people that survive, we would be cavemen.
01:18:06.000But now it's become bizarre, and it's not really one.
01:18:09.000It's one that's a figurehead, which is controlled by other giant groups of individuals, which we call corporations and military-industrial complex and all these different various points of influence.
01:19:15.000I mean, that's what's led to this point, having these conversations, sitting over a laptop and talking on the internet.
01:19:23.000Some really fascinating people had to figure this out, and there had to be a certain amount of Compensation for their efforts.
01:19:32.000Microsoft achieved this global dominance as this gigantic promoter of computers because there's a massive amount of reward involved in that.
01:21:34.000Like, all someone would have to do is grab Bill Gates and lock him in a room and say, listen, I'll let you out, man, but I need a million dollars.
01:21:45.000I mean, obviously, he doesn't have, like, a bank account with that much that he could withdraw.
01:21:49.000A lot of it is in other assets, and it's not all liquid.
01:21:52.000But I wonder, yeah, if we asked him to just produce, by the end of this week, a pile of cash...
01:21:59.000How big of a pile of cash could he produce in a week?
01:22:02.000And how much would that change someone's life or a group of people's lives or a community's life if Bill Gates decided, okay, I'm going to create Utopia.
01:22:11.000I'm going to go to Tijuana and I'm going to buy it.
01:23:09.000I've always wanted to do an episode about that and actually work with a bank and go to their vault and say, could I show people a million dollars in hundreds?
01:23:18.000I think that's just five reams of paper tall.
01:25:11.000Well, I feel like, you know, running something like a strip club is pretty good because the clients are unlikely to really ever want to tell a lot about how much they spent and what they spent it on.
01:25:22.000So you could easily say, yeah, I made a million dollars last year at my strip club.
01:25:27.000Like, I dare you to find the clients and account for all of this.
01:26:03.000Yeah, you've got to make that money look clean.
01:26:06.000Just keeping stacks of it in your house means that maybe you could totally go for nice dinners all the time, but you can't buy a house very easily if everyone just goes, well, how are you paying for this?
01:26:17.000I have a room full of cash that I don't want a bank to know that I have.
01:26:21.000Could you please do a business with me?
01:26:25.000Well, you know, they were running into this issue in Colorado with medical marijuana, then becoming, or recreational marijuana, rather, becoming legal, and then banks were not accepting the money from these people.
01:26:42.000Yeah, and so they couldn't use credit cards.
01:26:45.000They had to do everything in cash, and then they would have to take that cash, and they would have to take it when it reached a certain amount.
01:26:57.000So essentially you have these workers, you know, I don't know how much they're paying them per hour, but they're driving around with insane amounts of money.
01:27:11.000Well, because of the federal government.
01:27:13.000The federal government is not allowing marijuana.
01:27:17.000Not only that, here's where it gets really tricky, and this is important for anybody who's listening to this, that lives in Washington State or lives in Colorado, where as a state, marijuana is legal.
01:29:41.000And also all because of the fact that it was illegal.
01:29:44.000I mean, the same thing that's going on in Mexico right now.
01:29:47.000I mean, they kind of put the kibosh on it in America, or at least slowed it down considerably.
01:29:52.000But the reason why all this illegal violence was going on in the first place, or violence was going on in the first place, was because it was illegal.
01:30:00.000Because only criminals could sell it, and then they had to compete for dominance with no rules.
01:30:04.000Right, and you had to keep the cash all around in houses and stuff.
01:30:09.000Yeah, this guy who was a pilot used to have these holes that he dug in his backyard and would put garbage bags filled with like a million dollars.
01:33:37.000We had a guy on recently who was a poker pro and he was talking about poker players who come back from other countries and they win these poker tournaments.
01:33:46.000They have thousands of dollars and a lot of times it gets taken from them at the border.
01:33:52.000Because they don't believe that they won this plan.
01:33:54.000You have to prove that you've got $50,000 on you.
01:33:57.000Oh yeah, you're a fucking drug dealer.
01:36:38.000Like, there's certain guys, when they enter into the UFC for the first time, a lot of people don't know how they did in other organizations.
01:36:46.000That's when you can get sort of the best odds.
01:38:37.000But when you would think about it, if people can understand the stock market, which they sort of can, and there's so much money involved in the stock market, they would be able to figure out the variables involved in any sort of athletic gambling, too.
01:38:49.000If there's money involved, someone's going to try to do really well at it.
01:38:57.000There's a bunch of people that are way smarter than you who are cranking away at machines going, what should we charge to make sure that we come out of this well?
01:39:06.000Yeah, and how do we fuck these people over when they do win or they do have a legitimate claim?
01:40:16.000And then the next day, they mailed me a brand new phone.
01:40:19.000Well, what's really crazy is people that have jewelry, and they have insurance on their jewelry.
01:40:24.000I know a woman who lost a very expensive diamond ring, and she filed an insurance claim, got paid, and then found it in a jacket pocket years later.
01:44:01.000It used to be that GPS was on your phone, essentially.
01:44:06.000It was calculating it from cell phone towers.
01:44:11.000Now it's straight GPS. I'm sure there's different ways that it works, but I know that when I was in the radio quiet zone in West Virginia, there's no...
01:44:28.000I'm probably behind the times on the information, because I know the old cell phones didn't work, the GPS didn't work, the navigation didn't work when you had no service.
01:44:40.000I think it can pull up where you are and how fast you're moving, but it You need the data plan to get the images of the ground and the roads and where's the nearest thing.
01:46:38.000Submarines freak me the fuck out because there's no windows in those goddamn things.
01:46:43.000It's just a metal tube that's relying on radar.
01:46:45.000And you're in the ocean and you're fucking moving around all this water pressure and there's rocks around and you have to rely on this radar.
01:46:55.000And if the radar goes out, you're piloting this huge tube through the ocean with no idea of what's around you.
01:51:41.000And I'm assuming based on my memory that this is the life that I've chosen and that this is the path that I'm on and this is the events that are going to take place based on my iPhone calendar or whatever.
01:51:52.000But the reality is it's mostly just memory of a life that I've assumed that I've lived.
01:52:08.000And it really made me feel lonely and trapped.
01:52:15.000But isn't that, of all the people I could have been seeing out of all the minds I could have been on this one, That's a weird thing to freak out about.
01:52:24.000That's a very specific way to look at it.
01:52:26.000That you're trapped in your own mind and you felt lonely because you were trapped in your own mind.
01:53:07.000There's gonna come a point in time where there's a much more sophisticated way of doing that and I think it's going to be based on like some sort of a virtual reality Oculus Rift type situation where we're going to have whether it'll be a Google Lens, a contact lens or whether it'll be some sort of a neural implant That's able to accurately record what you see and what you experience.
01:53:27.000And then they're going to take it to the next level.
01:53:29.000And the really advanced versions of it, we're going to be able to record emotions and touch and feeling and the battles that you have in your mind of perception.
01:53:41.000The battles of is this person being mean or are they just doing their job or how do I go with this?
01:53:48.000Is this traffic annoying or is it fascinating?
01:54:28.000Like, you automatically, you've developed a pattern where you automatically assume the world's out to get you.
01:54:33.000Like, I know a dude, and he's, I wouldn't say he's smart, because he's socially very dumb, but he collects a lot of information, and he believes that he's smart.
01:54:46.000Because he collects a lot of information.
01:56:57.000It's one of the ones that conspiracy theorists love to point to because it's pretty fascinating.
01:57:01.000In 1962, this was signed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Operation Northwoods was a plan to get the support of the American public for a war against Cuba.
01:57:14.000And what they were going to do is they were going to blow up a drone airliner.
01:57:21.000I think I read about false flag operations, all these things, and that one came up.
01:57:25.000This is one of the big ones, because it was right around the time where we were considering going to war with Cuba, because Cuba was allied with the Soviet Union, the whole deal.
01:57:36.000And they were going to arm Cuban friendlies and attack Guantanamo Bay and kill American soldiers.
01:57:42.000I mean, there was a whole series of events that they were planning.
01:57:53.000And if you look at that, you realize, well, that's how they think.
01:57:57.000Like, the people that were running the government at that point in time, at least, in 1962, there was a certain faction of them that thinks this way.
01:58:22.000I mean, if that's the case, if Operation Northwoods was really signed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Freedom of Information Act, the documents that have been released show that it was, if that's the case, and no one went to jail for that, because no one did, those are fucking criminals.
01:58:36.000I mean, those guys were planning on killing the children of Americans who went over and We're working as soldiers, believing that they were defending freedom and all this jazz, but they were going to be killed by other American soldiers or other American military people who are working in cahoots with the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
01:59:02.000So if that is true, you look at things like that and you've got to go, okay, well, of course people believe in conspiracies.
01:59:09.000If you don't believe in conspiracies, I believe you're infantile.
01:59:13.000I believe it's a silly thing to think that the government doesn't conspire.
01:59:17.000When you hear that Dick Cheney and George Bush were considering a false flag attack that they were going to say that Iran had attacked America, this was something they had considered before they left office.
01:59:31.000So, the problem is that there are conspiracies.
01:59:35.000But then there's another problem is that people see them in everything.
01:59:38.000They see them in things that aren't conspiracies.
01:59:41.000They believe that contrails that are created when jet engines pass through certain levels of condensation in the atmosphere is actually the government spraying artificial clouds over us.
02:00:12.000And in the interview, he was talking about chemtrails, and he was talking about growing up, and that, you know, when he was a kid, he would see these trails in the sky, and then all of a sudden, everyone would be fighting.
02:00:44.000First of all, obviously, he has formulated this incredibly complex theory that these people are being quiet, that thousands of pilots, hundreds of pilots, whatever, engineers, people that have armed the planes, all these people have formulated these Methods of distributing some sort of unheard of chemical that can cause people to be aggressive and fight and only target the hood.
02:02:45.000But nobody wants to look into it deep enough to...
02:02:49.000You know, to sort of debunk the whole thing, but yet Prince will go on television and have this really detailed idea that he has in his head.
02:05:09.000Program that has been devised to understand the ingredients, the very components of human life, but yet you haven't looked at all into this whole plain spring fake clouds thing.
02:07:44.000So he started riffing about the chemtrails.
02:07:52.000And he started to say things that hit home so hard and I would recommend that everybody try to get what he said online or wherever and try to get a copy of it and just listen to it because I was so moved that I had to write this song.
02:08:38.000He's got some great songs, but he's a complex dude who's filled with emotions and not a lot of critical thinking when it comes to things like this.
02:08:45.000You know, the idea that somebody told him some nonsense.
02:08:49.000And now, you know, in his defense, pre-internet, that was a lot of the ways that information was shared.
02:08:56.000I mean, how many conversations were having?
02:08:58.000Dude, did you hear that the government's doing this thing?
02:09:12.000Yeah, the government actively tried to figure out a way to make a bomb where they could ignite it in the air, blow it up in the air, detonate it, rather, and it would cause everyone on the ground to fall in love with each other and be gay, and they would lose the will to fight.
02:11:50.000I don't know if it's true, but what I had heard was that this was when Richard Gere had left Scientology, and that one of the ways they got back at him was this horrible rumor.
02:11:57.000How do you release that story, though?
02:12:02.000It might not even be true, but my friend Eddie grew up in L.A., and I grew up in Boston, and we met when we were both in our, like, 30s, and we had both heard the same rumor growing up.
02:12:15.000So, somehow or another, that rumor got across the continent.
02:13:05.000Which is really strange when you stop and think about the length of time between religious stories being told over campfires and through oral traditions and them actually being written down somewhere.
02:13:21.000Because if that story about the woman at the chicken restaurant, which I didn't even tell very well, but it's not even very funny, but it's just that story was accepted as fact.
02:13:30.000A very specific fact that occurred at a specific restaurant, and then I realized that it's just everyone has a friend who's had this experience.
02:13:38.000Well, Hawaii is incredibly fascinating to me.
02:13:41.000One, because it's just so beautiful, and two, because it's a volcano that just sort of popped out of the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
02:13:48.000The most remote spot on Earth, in fact.
02:13:54.000But when I was there, I was talking to this guy.
02:13:56.000I went on this fishing trip, and the guy who was the...
02:14:00.000The captain of the boat, a really cool guy, was telling me about...
02:14:04.000He actually grew up in California and then made his way out to Hawaii and decided to stay there.
02:14:11.000And we were talking about the local traditions and the folklore involving how the islands were formed, how the stars were formed, and all their stuff was in songs.
02:14:24.000Their whole history was just oral tradition.
02:14:27.000I mean, it's a people, you know, the Polynesian people settled in Hawaii first, a people whose entire history was these very, very important stories that they told to each other, but they never really wrote them down.
02:15:35.000The whole thing's circular, it's spinning, it's spinning around another ball, and that ball's a part of a giant cluster that's spinning around a circle.
02:15:55.000It's just a matter of convention that makes maps easier to read.
02:15:58.000If you try to read an upside down map, which exists, where all the letters can be read, but the land masses are upside down, it's very confusing.
02:16:36.000And so, yeah, there's a famous puzzle about this, and I think it goes something like, a hunter walks, you know, 10 feet south and then 10 feet east and 10 feet north, and he's back where he began,
02:21:47.000So if you hold your hand up, I guess, and that is the L, like it forms it, that's the one that is the L. So if you hold your hand up and you see an L in front of you, that's the left.
02:22:25.000I find that stuff fascinating, how kids have to develop some of these ideas about the world, like the old constancy of volume, or what is it really called?
02:24:53.000There's a difference between dumb and a lack of data.
02:24:56.000When you have a person and they're 50 years old and they still think that the world is flat and they still think the Earth is 6,000 years old and they still think, well, that's a dumb person.
02:25:06.000That's like the data they've processed.
02:25:40.000Also, the idea that this is all changing and growing, and then your children will have the benefit of the information that you've accumulated over your life, like through epigenetics, and it's going to somehow or another pass to your children.
02:26:07.000Yeah, I haven't seen a lot of evidence for that kind of stuff, but there was a famous experiment where a guy taught worms to move through a maze and then he like ground them up and fed them to some other worms.
02:26:18.000And those worms knew how to solve the maze without having to be taught.
02:27:06.000So that's different than just natural selection, where you say, well, the mice that just naturally didn't like that smell were the ones that lived longer, procreated more, and so that's why...
02:27:16.000Well, I think that's probably true as well.
02:28:14.000And my kids, when I watch them roll around, when I watch them play, especially my youngest, she has instinctive moves that I don't think are natural moves.
02:28:25.000Like, when they're rolling around, there's a thing called the over-under, and it's what you do when you take someone's back.
02:28:33.000Taking someone's back is you gain an advantageous position by being behind them and controlling their body in a way that they can't attack you, but you can attack them.
02:28:40.000You're forced into a very defensive position, and they're in a very dominant spot.
02:28:43.000And the over-under is one arm over a shoulder, one arm under the armpit, and you clasp your hands together, and it's a very dominant mode of control.
02:28:52.000But I don't think it's instinctual, but my daughter goes to it immediately.
02:28:57.000When my daughter, who was three at the time, when she was rolling around playing on the bed with my five-year-old, she would go over-under all the time, and then she would throw her legs around and get her hooks in.
02:31:42.000These kind of conversations are always really cool though.
02:31:45.000Whenever you're involved in a conversation where you're sitting with someone who you've never talked to before and you start going over weird shit like genetics and what causes a person to be this and that and what are the steps that you take to become a human being and It's also a rudimentary knowledge of how...
02:32:11.000We were talking about learned things and how much of it is natural selection.
02:32:17.000And then you find out things like the mouse test, where they know that mice associate that sense of smell, that smelling that thing, with an electrical shock, even though these mice have never experienced that electrical shock.
02:32:39.000Someday we'll be like, oh, well that's, yeah, they definitely, like we've found, we've isolated the genes that cause people to transmit certain bits of information to their children that are useful.
02:32:50.000Like right now, we're not much different than the people that we mock from a long time ago that thought that the Earth was the center of the universe, you know?
02:33:00.000Like, the amount of information that we have, I was just saying that As you're back from your potty break.
02:33:10.000The amount of information that we have today is kind of akin to, like, we mock people that lived in Galileo's time for not knowing that he was correct, that the Earth was not the center of the universe.
02:33:22.000You know, we're like, God, I have to torture the poor guy.
02:33:26.000Or Bruno for saying that the universe is infinite.
02:33:46.000And you think, oh, wow, I'm so glad I'm here and not in the past.
02:33:50.000Well, not giving and taking collapses of civilizations, which is another story entirely.
02:33:54.000Well, yeah, it's a little more complicated, but yeah.
02:33:57.000But yeah, it's not linear entirely, but it's kind of like an up and down, and it's progressive.
02:34:02.000So at this point in time, we're talking about information being transferred from parents to children, and we're like, I wonder, I wonder, maybe natural selection?
02:35:11.000Lava lamps are used to generate random numbers, and they can generate them very, very well.
02:35:16.000They're very difficult to find patterns in.
02:35:21.000I don't know how they do it, but they'll look at the shapes and movement of a lava lamp, and that'll generate numbers, and they don't have patterns in them.
02:35:43.000Lava lamps, there used to be a website that had a lava lamp and you would type in, give me a random number, and it would, based on the state of the lava lamp, give you a random number.
02:35:53.000So if you watched a lava lamp, so if we had that lava lamp on and we maintained the same amount of heat coming off of the light bulb and the same water temperature and the wax.
02:36:05.000The initial conditions are so difficult to know precisely enough to predict which way it's going to float.
02:36:12.000We only know the temperature to a few degrees or a tenth of a degree, but that millionth of a degree difference is what's going to make it move now rather than in the next second.
02:36:24.000Would it be possible to make an ultimate lava lamp that was incredibly precise?
02:36:28.000So the amount of heat that comes off of the bulb was really precise.
02:36:34.000The temperature of the water was incredibly stable.
02:36:37.000The consistency of the wax was uniform throughout and that you set this like perfectly measured lava lamp with the glass being the exact same diameter or the exact same thickness rather over the entire circumference of the bottle that holds the water and the wax in.
02:36:57.000Would it be possible to make an ultimate precise lava lamp?
02:37:04.000I still don't think that it would be precise like symmetric all the time unless you put in special controls that like didn't release the wax until it was ready or whatever.
02:37:12.000Is it the wax moving up and down through the water which changes the temperature of the wax because it's not in contact with the heat at the bottom?
02:37:24.000Are you asking what makes it so unpredictable?
02:37:27.000Yeah, it's just like every little movement of those blobs is affecting all the other molecules inside that system, and those are affecting how something moves later.
02:37:35.000It's like a butterfly flapping its wings causing a tornado in Brazil, you know.
02:37:39.000Yeah, but that doesn't really work that way.
02:40:02.000Neil deGrasse Tyson did a great calculation in his book...
02:40:07.000Death by Black Hole, I think, where he says, yeah, just what it took to send up that satellite that never comes back down means that Earth is going to be a few degrees in some different direction in a million years.
02:40:22.000And we don't know which direction that's going to be unless we have an incredible amount of information about that satellite and how it affected Earth when it left.
02:41:11.000They just watch and see where the sun was when it was at its highest point, make a little mark somehow, and then they realize, hey, it's going in this like loop thing.
02:41:20.000Well, not only that, the loop isn't in, like, thousands of years.
02:41:24.000Like, the wobble, the full wobble of the Earth.
02:41:55.000To see a change year to year that was just one 26,000th.
02:41:59.000That's one of the ways that a lot of these revisionists of ancient Egyptian history point to the possibility, besides the erosion of the Sphinx, point to the possibility that the Sphinx is far older than we think it is,
02:42:15.000is that at 10,500 BC, it was pointing towards the constellation Leo.
02:42:21.000This lion was representative of this constellation that has sort of been universally described as being associated with a lion because of its shape.
02:42:32.000This is the reason why they believe that 10,000, besides the fact that there's all this water erosion around the Sphinx, that can only be attributed to thousands of years of rainfall.
02:42:42.000And the last time there was rainfall in the Nile Valley was 9,000 B.C., Which they think, you know, they think that they want to attribute the Sphinx to the same people that they believe built the pyramids, which is about 2500 BC. But they think that actually there might have been many,
02:44:34.000And that's one of the things that they point to.
02:44:37.000This constellation, Leo, at 10,500 BC, aligning itself with the Sphinx.
02:44:43.000Also, coincidentally, the 10,500 BC lines up pretty close to what they believe 12,000 years ago was a massive asteroidal impact all over the Earth, like this nuclear glass.
02:45:09.000Meteor impacts, meteor showers that could have led to the extinction of saber-toothed tigers, woolly mammoths, all these different animals that died off at a very similar time period.
02:45:20.00060%, I think, of all land mammals died off during that one time.
02:45:33.000The theory is that just this huge interruption of life, this massive meteor shower that they found all throughout Europe and Asia, this nuclear glass that's very similar to the The type of glass that they find after nuclear detonation tests.
02:45:49.000That this nuclear glass, which exists all over the place, is indicative of massive impacts.
02:45:58.000It's in multiple spots all over the place at the same time.
02:46:01.000Much more likely to be a meteor shower than anything else.
02:46:05.000And that probably was also the cause of the end of the Ice Age.
02:46:10.00012,000 years ago, more than half of North America was covered in a mile-high sheet of ice.
02:46:18.000And so they think that what caused that stuff to rapidly change was most likely the same thing that caused this nuclear glass to be all over the place.
02:47:04.000Well, the idea that it's been a linear progression, complete linear progression, straight line from caveman to us, seems a little silly when you see all the impacts that we know for sure happened.
02:47:15.000When you look at the Clovis Comet, when you look at all the different...
02:47:19.000The Holocene crater, all these different impacts that they know happened.
02:47:23.000They know that this, you know, look at the moon.
02:47:28.000And when things do happen, all these stories, like the Noah's Ark story, Epic of Gilgamesh, all the different cataclysmic events that have been documented through folklore, most likely some shit went down.
02:47:41.000And that's the idea that, that's what freaks me out about hard drives.
02:47:44.000That's what freaks me out about the idea of everything being stored on computers.
02:48:57.000The star supernova to create carbon, which created carbon-based life, which created us, which created everything that came before us, which is going to create everything that comes from us.
02:49:08.000That would be, if I could see something, I don't think, if I had a choice between going a million years in the future or a million years in the past, just for a visual glimpse.
02:49:18.000A million years in the past is pretty fascinating, but a million years in the future, to see what a human being looks like a million years from now, that's what I would want.
02:49:29.000We can change our own bodies a lot more now.
02:49:37.000And we've made changes unnecessary in a way because we have climate-controlled buildings and we have vehicles and we have medical care that can keep things the way they are.
02:49:54.000Better than we'd had 3 million years ago.
02:50:44.000And the symbiotic relationship that we have with this technology, which now you leave your phone behind, you feel naked, eventually it's going to be something much more integrated.