Tyler, Blake, Jack, and Tyler discuss a viral video of a guy who wakes up at 3:53am and does nothing for 4 hours. They also talk about a man who does nothing at 4:00am and wakes up with tape on his mouth.
00:00:39.320And it's a great, it is such an outrageous viral video.
00:00:43.660There should be entire PhD classes taught on this.
00:00:46.420What I love is how just the X version, where it did not originate, has more, like, ten times more views than, like, the most viral Donald Trump post during the election.
00:13:20.220So it actually is it's somewhat problematic because I'll often literally be best like after midnight.
00:13:26.580And so what I'll get is sometimes I'll just get into a hum and I'm like, OK, I'm writing this until I can't go anymore because I'm going really well.
00:15:37.800If you read a Napoleon biography, he's awake at 2 a.m.
00:15:40.840in the morning and it didn't matter because he could get by on three and a half hours of sleep with no lost effectiveness.
00:15:46.980And then so the number of people who brag that they can get by on three hours of sleep is a lot higher than the number of people who truly can.
00:15:55.120It's very rare to actually be able to go three and a half, four hours of sleep for years on end.
00:16:00.440And that's the amount you actually need.
00:16:03.060There's a lot of people where they do that.
00:16:05.020And the truth is, is if you do that for years on end, you just you fry your brain and you do fry your brain.
00:16:09.680And also, I think there's actually an overrated quality of like fake tough guy.
00:16:15.360I get three hours of sleep and they don't do anything with the other 21 hours.
00:16:19.340They're kind of doing this with this moron, this guy's doing on this video, kind of, you know, putting banana peels on his face.
00:16:48.320There's a lot of things like you'll have an office activity and it's just you go to a bar and everyone has to get extremely performatively drunk.
00:16:55.240And they're all completely miserable and don't want to be there.
00:16:57.500But you cannot leave because it will shame family if you leave.
00:17:18.660And then typically, and I would see this with my Chinese colleagues, that they would, I was like one of two white guys, you know, European, whatever, Americans who worked in the office.
00:17:29.340And so we'd get in and then I'd go for lunch.
00:17:32.420I'd like to walk around the park or go to like practice Mandarin, whatever.
00:17:35.620And then I'd come back and I was like, it was like a scene.
00:17:39.020I wanted some horror movie or something because everyone's, everyone's in the office with their heads down on their desks.
00:18:34.340You know, he wrote very important philosophy texts.
00:18:36.800And his, every single day, he's clearly, you know, probably some type of autist where, you know, wakes up, does the same thing every day, goes on his like two hour constitutional walk.
00:18:45.120But the actual time he spends writing.
00:19:34.380And yet at the same time, again, if you're able to write four to five pages a day, on average, that comes out to over, you know, several thousand pages a year.
00:19:44.740And ta-da, you're a guy who can write several novels, short stories, essays, all of that.
00:19:49.720Just workmanlike, several pages a day.
00:19:53.660I was a big four-hour-a-night person for a long time.
00:23:51.040So contextually, it's that this news story is, I think it's, they're Italian.
00:23:56.000It's like academics in Italy, I believe.
00:23:58.340And they claim, I really cannot put enough quotation marks around the word claim, that they've found using ground penetrating radar, that there is some sort of tunnel or shaft extending beneath the pyramids thousands of feet.
00:24:16.980They believe a mile or more, I think it's like 150 stories, like they're atop these pillars and they just go down and then they wildly speculate that they may lead to a lost ancient city.
00:24:29.740So that's what Charlie's talking about.
00:24:31.120And there might be a city underneath the power grid, obviously.
00:24:39.000What was, what was the Egyptians morning routine?
00:24:41.180So do you think the construction of the pyramids, do you think there was any like alien phenomenology behind the construction of any of these ancient structures?
00:25:18.340And they had a program on the pyramids and in passing, as evidence of the pyramids mystical nature, they ponderously said, the pyramids of Giza lie at the exact intersection point where America, where the world's longest lines of longitude and latitude intersect.
00:25:38.260One, every single line of longitude is the exact same length because they all go from the North Pole to the South Pole.
00:25:44.040Two, the longest line of latitude is the equator.
00:25:47.660And they just threw this in, like someone had to edit together this documentary, which was then aired on cable television, just saying this extremely dumb thing.
00:25:59.700And, and the truth is, is like people want to believe weird stuff.
00:26:03.900There's always people looking to tell you weird stuff.
00:26:07.440It's very funny if you read old, like old sci-fi stuff because there are alternative versions of this.
00:26:13.880I was just reading an essay in a, uh, online magazine in the forties.
00:26:18.260The big fad was that like lost Lemuria.
00:26:21.740It was like Atlantis and Lemuria and the people from there would like abduct humans and take them to their underground lair.
00:26:28.260And once they published this, which was just some rant by like a mentally ill guy who had lived in an asylum, they started getting all these letters from people saying like, yeah, I, I have memories of getting abducted by the ancient Lemurians too.
00:26:41.920And it, there was amazing tales was this big sci-fi magazine and it just got taken over by the, the hunt for the Lemurians for about five years.
00:26:50.480And it made their sales go through the roof, which is why they did it.
00:27:00.700They, you know, it's pretty baffling to have this extremely huge, extremely old structure.
00:27:04.900So people have always been coming up with strange theories about them, but to say the least, no, there is not a gigantic underground city beneath the pyramids.
00:27:14.020I'm willing to bet money that five years from now, we will not have found a vast underground city beneath the pyramids.
00:27:21.040You might find an underground chamber or something like they have found stuff buried alongside the pyramids.
00:27:26.120I think my favorite that people don't know about is they built a giant boat for the Pharaoh to use in the afterlife and they dug it up and they reassembled the whole boat.
00:27:34.500And it's like, it's like a big old boat.
00:27:36.880So you think all the alignment is either just happy accident because they have like Orion's belt alignment, the solar equinox alignment.
00:27:50.260So is it just, they would just happen to put the pyramids there?
00:27:53.300Well, they have astronomy in ancient times, so they could conceivably be like, oh, we'll have the point of this pyramid lineup with this start.
00:28:00.140I don't know them off the top of my head, but no, there's nothing that would,
00:28:04.500indicate they had, you know, ancient telescopes or aliens telling them to point.
00:28:08.440I'm not saying there is, there's something phenomenal after, you know, 5,000 years, the pyramid, like the stars actually move.
00:28:16.200They shift where they are over 5,000 years.
00:28:19.020There's something, and I'm drawing from memory here, but if you take, if you, if you add up the coordinates of the pyramids,
00:28:26.700it has some sort of a, it's some sort of a alignment with the actual circumference of the earth.
00:29:17.440What do you have to say about, for example, some of the Mayan temples and Aztec temples that we didn't have the technology to even cut the rock the way that it was?
00:29:26.260I mean, we're talking about perfect cuts of a hundred foot stone.
00:29:34.620I don't know how to quarry rock, but quarrying rock is a pretty ancient technology.
00:29:38.260This is why Blake's position is so problematic is because if there's a thousand feet of tubes underneath the pyramid, he can't actually just, just, you know, write it off.
00:29:52.320I will, I will say if there are, if there are 2000, if there's a 2000 foot shaft with pillars and a power grid underneath the pyramids, I will be extremely excited because it will mean our knowledge of the world is totally thrown out.
00:30:09.600But I think that's the appeal of it for a lot of people.
00:30:12.840And I'll just say, like, a lot of people who fixate on this have fixated on every other thing that ever came up and went absolutely nowhere.
00:30:21.080So if anyone wants to bet even odds that we won't have found.
00:30:49.600And so it's way older than we thought.
00:30:51.920Like, this is well into Neolithic period.
00:30:54.460And so you're thinking, okay, was this an actual city?
00:30:58.360Was this a site that, like, hunter-gatherers would use?
00:31:01.040Is agriculture a bit older than we thought?
00:31:03.040Because the thinking is this basically predates agriculture, which our normal theory is you start getting cities when you have organized agriculture.
00:31:35.840One crazy thing is I know from how far away the stone was that they cut it.
00:31:40.420The quarries were hundreds of miles away.
00:31:42.620Yeah, there's a lot of debate over how they were able to drag it.
00:31:45.080I know one of the crazier theories, I don't know that many people believe this, but I think it is in theory possible.
00:31:50.520One guy thinks that they can actually basically, like, cast rock.
00:31:54.380Like, they could basically do, like, a limestone cast for a lot of the stones that they used.
00:31:59.720And so you could basically build it in place.
00:32:02.560And I think he did technically prove it was possible.
00:32:04.660And they mostly say that is unlikely because we have no evidence that the Egyptians knew how to do this or ever thought it was possible.
00:32:11.300But that would be a very funny way that they could have done it.
00:32:13.920But I think the most common thesis is, yeah, they, in fact, when you, in ancient Egypt, you basically had a slave state where everyone was owned by the pharaoh.
00:32:22.520And you did nothing but grow food, which was easy because the Nile floods every single year.
00:32:27.300And so you, for a third of the year, you plant.
00:32:56.260So, just to be clear, these, like, podunk backward island people built, like, 50-foot, beautifully sculpted, with what technology?
00:33:07.980I mean, they don't look that pretty, they're huge, but then they, yeah, they did deforest their island until they, like, collapsed their civilization.
00:33:15.460Do not, do not impugn, do not impugn, like, the complexity of the Polynesians, though, because they're, they're crazy impressive when you read about what they can do.
00:33:25.140It's Polynesia, it's, it's in South America.
00:33:27.400No, Polynesian is, so you have Melanesians, you have Micronesians, and then you have Polynesians.
00:33:33.220And Polynesians are Tonga, Hawaii, Easter Island.
00:33:36.880Easter Island is, like, the far edge of where they land.
00:35:39.660I could make an argument, though, that making the pyramids without electricity is, like, way more impressive than building the Empire State Building.
00:35:51.900Like, no, it is, whatever it is, any theory of, like, how they built the pyramids is going to be insanely impressive.
00:36:00.700Because if you just take the number of stones, like, they've calculated that are in the Great Pyramid, they have to slot one of those rocks, every one of which is, like, 100 tons or whatever, in place, basically every 11 minutes, non-stop, for, like, 20 years to get it finished.
00:36:16.720So the one that you mentioned really quick is the Goeki Tepe, right?
00:37:32.540When we went to Israel in 2022, we were driving around the Holy Land.
00:37:36.020We did a whole, like, special podcast on all of this and how there's various theories about the Nephilim and pre-flood cultures.
00:37:43.740One of the ones that I really like is that various kings and tribes throughout the Old Testament were actually, like, remnants of the Nephilim and that God actually sent the flood to wipe out the, like, main portion of the Nephilim.
00:38:02.540And that's so Goliath, you know, the one that everybody knows, it was actually one of these sort of, like, descendants of the Nephilim or had, you know, I don't know what you'd say, Nephilim's blood.
00:38:12.500And that's what made him so gigantic so that, obviously, they had a demonic aspect to them.
00:38:18.100And so that when David slays Goliath, he's actually fighting this demonic influence that was not supposed to be in the world to begin with.
00:38:33.380You just think it all is as we're told.
00:38:35.020I, you know, I think if the more we study it, the more shocking it would be if we were to discover something way out of line.
00:38:44.180What I like to say, I've been to Egypt.
00:38:46.140One thing I think a lot of people don't realize is, for the pyramids, for example, they can seem really weird if you think it's there's, like, three pyramids and then nothing else like that was ever built anywhere else before.
00:38:57.020But if you go there, there's actually, first of all, we have, like, the proto-pyramids that they started building before the Great Ones.
00:39:04.720So, if you go to Saqqara, which is another necropolis they have, they have the step pyramid.
00:39:25.560And then they build other proto-pyramids.
00:39:28.220And it all builds up to, okay, now let's actually build this huge Mondo pyramid.
00:39:32.600And if you go around Egypt, you can also find the pyramids that they screwed up.
00:39:36.340So there's one called the Bent Pyramid where they were building it and then apparently realized this isn't going to look right.
00:39:42.820So they just kiboshed it and it ends up looking like this weird mutant pyramid.
00:39:47.580And there's also some where they just totally screwed it up and the pyramid collapsed or got all goofed up.
00:39:54.080And once you find these things, it's much more understandable to think of this fits into a civilization that gradually developed this and had these false starts.
00:40:04.140But 4,000 years pass and people think, oh, there's just this crazy huge building in the middle of the desert that came out of nowhere.
00:40:11.500And very seriously, I think a lot of modern conspiracy theories develop this way, too, where people forget all of the context that happens around things that help explain it.
00:40:24.560And so things seem less explicable to them.
00:40:28.040So, you know, you're going to get a lot more conspiracy theories over time about the moon landing because people are going to forget, oh, wait, these are all the other space missions we did that built up to the moon landing.
00:40:39.580And here's all this other stuff that's proof it happens.
00:40:42.300And they just think, oh, wow, we just went and landed on the moon.
00:40:46.920And I think that genuinely is where a lot of oddball takes, very conspiratorial takes come from is lack of wider context around things that allows you to misinterpret the stuff you do know.
00:42:35.820And then the girl one, this is why I called it Mormon names because this is super Mormon.
00:42:40.580So most red state girls names are Hattie, Oakland, Oakley, Gracelyn, Renly, Blakely, Collins, Oakley, again with a different spelling, Sailor, and Oakley again.
00:42:55.900We have four different versions of Oakley or Oakland.
00:42:59.440Oakley is like the number one name in Utah by a lot right now.
00:43:04.060If you look it up, I sent one in the chat.
00:43:05.960I think it was like it had it in there.
00:43:07.800You can always tell the Mormons do a couple of things really well.
00:46:46.700It's just totally mainstream at this point, where Snow White, everyone knows the original
00:46:51.580story, obviously the original movie from the 1930s, but even the much earlier Brothers
00:46:57.880Grimm, you know, fairy tale from the 1800s, 200 years old.
00:47:01.860Well, a couple of years ago, this film was made at the height of Wokeness, and here's what's actually kind of funny about the new Snow White.
00:47:09.920So we all remember the traditional Snow White, the beautiful, you know, the skin as white as snow.
00:47:16.280Well, at the height of Wokeness, Disney's Snow Woke came out.
00:47:21.460And as it turns out, this was delayed due to COVID and due to the writer's strikes and various other strikes that were going on in Hollywood.
00:47:29.080So this film that was made at the peak woke era is actually now coming out at the Trump era, and everybody is just hating on it.
00:47:39.300And it's completely an act of cultural vandalism.
00:47:53.000In fact, the son of the producer has actually taken to Instagram and is just just blasting her.
00:47:59.720Not only has she made horrific comments about all sorts of people, but she's deliberately targeted Trump supporters, targeted President Trump saying terrible things about him and his family.
00:48:10.240And on the day of the election, when President Trump won, she said, I'm not going to curse, but she said, F Trump supporters, F Donald Trump, F Trump supporters.
00:48:23.400And this is who Disney chose to be the beloved Snow White traditional character.
00:48:28.660Plus, in addition, and Charlie, I'm sure you'll appreciate this.
00:48:31.660They completely changed the story where now Snow White is is, as you can see, she's a, quote unquote, person of color who's leading an uprising against the white fascist queen played by Gal Gadot.
00:48:47.700And there's there's also this sort of meta narrative going around the whole thing because Gal Gadot served in the IDF and has obviously been very pro-Israel, not not, you know, extremely vocally.
00:49:00.320She's more talked about hostages and victims and things like that of October 7th.
00:49:03.540But then the actress here, Rachel Zegler, has been very vocally pro-Palestine.
00:49:11.880Variety had a huge article talking about all the things that Disney tried to do.
00:49:18.200They even they even sent a social media manager to Rachel Zegler to try to approve her posts before they came out.
00:49:24.720They sent multiple producers to try to talk to her and she just completely would not listen, completely disregarded everything they said.
00:49:32.980And so now in the face of all of this, something like a two hundred seventy million dollar budget just for production, another hundred plus or so.
00:49:43.100On top of that, in marketing, this film only did forty three million dollars in its opening.
00:49:48.700It's one of the weakest openings of any Disney live action show is one of the worst cinema scores and reviews on Rotten Tomatoes for any Disney film.
00:49:57.780It is a seven percent of a great example of look, the worm has just turned.
00:50:02.480The worm is just absolutely turned in the country.
00:50:49.740Greta Gerwig, who made the hyper-feminist anti-male film Barbie and was also at one point a co-writer on the new Snow White.
00:51:00.340And it's so sad, too, culturally, because this is one of Walt Disney's most beloved characters that he had obsessed over during his lifetime was Snow White.
00:51:14.020And they really have dishonored themselves.
00:51:19.200It's self-deprecating, self-demolition type work that we've seen from Disney, obviously, that's not new.
00:51:27.800But it's like the amount of drama that you can read online about all of this.
00:51:32.720And think about, again, there's really good people.
00:51:35.680And this is why, you know, you're seeing more union guys, I think, turn more conservative.
00:51:40.640It's like this type of narcissism that exists is literally going to cost probably dozens of jobs, if not hundreds of jobs that were committed to this and future projects that are now gone, basically vanquished because of the narcissism that came out of Rachel Ziegler.
00:52:49.940It's the first real Disney movie that, what built Disneyland, what built the empire.
00:52:57.260It's like really a spitting in Walt Disney's face, which I really have a bigger problem culturally with, and the historic nature of this whole thing.
00:53:05.920I mean, you can be a woke organization and company like they are today, but what they've done is like they've outrightly said with this,
00:53:12.880and nobody's really saying this, you know, clearly enough, is Disney hates itself.
00:53:19.060You have to, you have to hate yourself to do this.
00:53:22.140Which, speaking of, a thing that intersects with this that annoys me a lot is part of the justification is they'll say like Snow White's the oldest movie that it's like dated or offensive.
00:53:32.300This comes up a lot, and it really bothers me.
00:53:35.620It is very common for people online or in the media to do casual smears and character assassination of Walt Disney, the person.
00:53:44.220Like, it's very common to see people claim he was anti-Semitic.
00:53:47.400There's no evidence this was the case.
00:53:57.800Which, by the way, there were tons, some of, some of the, the top animators had Jewish, yeah, backgrounds, tons.
00:54:05.880So it's like, no basis for this, no basis for like claiming he's this unhinged racist.
00:54:11.580And like, what he was, in fact, was like a actual great American patriot.
00:54:15.940So, for example, World War II happens, and he's instantly says, Disney is going to, in our odd way, go all in to help with the war effort.
00:54:24.480So you can find all these Disney movies, like, not just, you know, propaganda films where, you know, Donald Duck has to live in Nazi Germany.
00:54:31.360What is it, Down with the Fuhrer or something?
00:54:33.740Yeah, like, they made, they also even made like training movies, I believe.
00:54:36.760Like, you can find animated training films, like how to aim your anti-aircraft gun.
00:54:42.060I want to play, let's just wrap this up by playing 337.
00:54:45.340And men, let me just give you a piece of advice.
00:54:47.420Do not date people like Rachel Zegler.
00:55:10.180She's not going to be saved by the prince.
00:55:11.820She's not going to be saved by the prince, and she's not going to be dreaming about true love.
00:55:15.420She's dreaming about becoming the leader she knows she can be, and the leader that her late father told her that she could be if she was fearless, fair, brave, and true.
00:55:23.280The original cartoon came out in 1937, and very evidently so.
00:55:28.300There's a big focus on her love story with a guy who literally stalks her.