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00:01:17.000I don't think it's diagnosed, but I'm glad certainly when I was a kid that ADHD didn't have a prescription associated or a label with it because I would have been thrown straight into a small cage.
00:01:39.000Or someone who can't sit and do boring shit.
00:01:41.000They resist the machine, so we tell them they're sick.
00:01:45.000Because if you'll sit in some boring, monotonous class about some fucking subject you don't really give a shit about, your instinct as a five-year-old kid or a six-year-old kid is to run out of the room.
00:02:30.000Neither does one of my friends, I remember in, I think it was third grade, he was one of the smarter kids in the class and he got bored out of his mind so he took a fork.
00:03:31.000You go through all that boring shit, too.
00:03:32.000But it is the worst way to inform the mind ever.
00:03:37.000Just make it so it sucks and it's boring and you have to get up early when you're tired and be around some uninspired fucks that are getting paid pennies to teach you this nonsense.
00:03:47.000I honestly can say I slept through at least 80-90% of all of my high school years.
00:03:54.000My dad gave me this Camel cigarette hat that back in the day you were allowed to wear cigarette hats to school.
00:04:18.000It folded perfectly, where if I sat the right way, it looks like I was looking at my book.
00:04:24.000And so I mastered all through high school.
00:04:26.000But the problem is, now I'm trying to learn things that I should have learned already, like the Holocaust and the Civil War and stuff like that.
00:04:39.000This gentleman who decided he wanted to teach his kids, I think it was, remotely about calculus or something like that, to help them with their schooling.
00:04:46.000And then he ended up blowing it out for the entire world.
00:04:49.000And what some of these charter schools, the most successful charter schools are doing, is they're actually taking the lecture piece of school, which puts kids to sleep.
00:05:05.000That seems like a lot better approach than just sitting there with a monotone voice pointing at chalkboards and going through huge books and looking at stupid pictures.
00:05:14.000Nowadays, I think I would be pretty good at school because it would be interactive with iPads and stuff like that.
00:05:18.000I think that's probably a lot better than it was when we went to high school.
00:05:22.000Do you think they use iPads in classrooms?
00:05:23.000Yeah, a lot of schools you're given iPads.
00:06:38.000And it was like, wait, did Disney raise me back then, too?
00:06:41.000If you raise kids with fascinating documentaries, they would learn so much more.
00:06:47.000I've learned so much more from documentaries.
00:06:49.000As long as it's verifiable, if it's a legit documentary, you can get a little crazy and find some documentaries on worms, those flying worms in the air.
00:08:32.000There is some weird stuff out there, though.
00:08:35.000Meaning, one of the reasons I ended up going to Princeton undergrad, but one of the reasons I wanted to go, which I didn't tell people because I thought they'd make fun of me, was because of a lab called the Scientific Anomalies Laboratory.
00:08:55.000So they looked at remote viewing really closely.
00:08:57.000And Professor John, who ran this entire research lab, gave his wrap-up speech before they closed the year I landed at school.
00:09:06.000And he was talking about, for example, with the remote viewing, for people who don't know what it is, you have a transmitter who goes out with the field team, then you have a receiver in a room with a pad of paper and a recorder.
00:09:18.000The job of the transmitter, they choose one of five envelopes, they get GPS coordinates, they go to that location, and then they take the imagery and they transmit it to the person who's supposed to be the receiver.
00:09:29.000And what they found with one location is an example.
00:09:32.000The drawings came back very consistent with the best receivers, but they were at a gas station.
00:09:39.000It wasn't a gas station in the picture, and they couldn't identify what it was, and it ended up being barracks that had been destroyed like 120 years ago, something like that.
00:10:47.000And so they ran thousands and thousands and thousands of trials looking at what does in effect telekinesis.
00:10:52.000And they were able to show that with a p-value, a significance value that was very compelling, there's almost no way you can attribute this to chance if you crunch all the data.
00:11:03.000Pretty wild stuff, but it doesn't mean I can move stuff around with my eyes.
00:11:06.000Well, we actually talked about this very recently, that the idea of being able to watch something and that the observer actually changes the particles, changes subatomic particles, and changes the way they interact with their environment.
00:11:22.000Happening on some level, somewhere, on a very small level, it must be an ethic that permeates through the whole thing.
00:11:29.000We probably just are slowly evolving and developing this ability to ultimately alter everything around us.
00:11:37.000Right now, we're in this fishy, arm-leg, crawling out of the water stage.
00:11:43.000We're just like those freaky things that made their way out of the ocean and became land animals.
00:11:48.000Yeah, I think that there's a lot of evolution left.
00:11:51.000I think the physical side obviously gets sort of cut off once you have all the creature comforts and Maslow's hierarchy handled, then you don't have to breed for physical fitness necessarily.
00:12:02.000But I think certainly with toxins and whatnot, that's going to force people to evolve.
00:12:06.000Environmental toxins and estrogen or endocrine disruptors and all that.
00:12:10.000They're going to figure out a way to do everything that you and I do in the gym in a fucking shot.
00:13:17.000Of course, he's also taking things like GH, IGF-1, etc.
00:13:23.000Vitamin D. Vitamin D. But what's fascinating about the gene therapy, and you can also use vector-based viruses to increase muscle synthesis in specific areas of the body.
00:13:35.000So the hope is, of course, that that doesn't then malfunction and lead your heart or intestines to hypertrophy, because then you end up looking like some of these pro-bodybuilders who are six months pregnant.
00:14:58.000Especially if you're doing a black market and you don't have proper post-cycle therapy and you don't know how to use, let's say, Clomid or one of these.
00:15:12.000And you see a lot of incidences also where it appears that the molecule of testosterone binds with, let's say, in some cases, dopamine receptors.
00:15:23.000So when people take antidepressants, Also, serotonin is involved.
00:15:27.000Antidepressants plus testosterone can be a really nasty combo.
00:16:06.000The genetic manipulation that we're doing, though, with adding testosterone or adding estrogen or adding anything is nothing compared to what it's going to be like when they figure that shit out at a genetic level, when they know how to engineer the body.
00:16:18.000And they figure out how to make your cells literally become 20-year-old cells.
00:16:24.000They bring your whole body to a state of where it was when you were at your peak of youth.
00:17:01.000If you, like, there was an old lady and she lived on your block and she was all hunched over and shit, and then over the course of, like, a couple of months, all of a sudden her posture came back, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, her ass started sticking out, and she started turning into a young woman again.
00:17:15.000She's a 50-year-old kind of semi-hot lady.
00:17:18.000And then all of a sudden, the next couple of weeks, she's a 40-year-old hot lady.
00:17:21.000And you're like, what the fuck is going on?
00:17:23.000It would be fine if it fixed everything.
00:17:25.000Next thing you know, she's this 80-year-old mind, but with this hot 20-year-old body.
00:18:47.000Every day it's just, get the fuck off my lawn, you know?
00:18:51.000But if you all of a sudden gave them gene therapy and their body became 20, I wonder if their behavior would revert to a 20-year-old behavior again.
00:19:21.000A lot of that is just extra energy that you have.
00:19:24.000A lot of dumb shit that young people do is just they're all charged up with life.
00:19:28.000They're charged up with life and all day long they're either stuck behind a desk or some unnatural thing for their body and then when they get out at night they want to fuck woo!
00:20:05.000There's also this bursting inferno of shit inside you because you're 20 years old and your body's alive.
00:20:11.000I think with the reversal of some of the symptoms of aging, looking at telomeres and all that stuff, I think a lot of it will be combined with regenerative medicine.
00:20:19.000I've seen them print heart cells and lung cells and so forth.
00:20:24.000My theory is that if you can keep your neurological functioning, And at a high level and mitigate stuff like Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, etc., that you'll ultimately be able to get a replacement for just about anything else.
00:20:39.000So the simplest approach, and this has been looked at for a decade or more, is creatine monohydrate, actually, five grams a day for staving off Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
00:20:59.000You can get creatine to prevent the water retention.
00:21:02.000So I had read something, creatine, you know, like people would always say that it makes you gain water and people would say that it's not good for your liver.
00:21:09.000But then I read online, there's no evidence that it's not good for your liver.
00:21:12.000There's no evidence that it's bad for you.
00:21:13.000I'm like, well, where'd that come from?
00:21:28.000Yeah, but then here's what happens is then people substitute, let's say at one point in a form or a thread, liver, and so you hear about the liver a lot, but it's actually not affected.
00:21:38.000With the creatine, as long as you don't have renal insufficiency or some really major kidney issue, it's one of the most innocuous supplements you could take from my perspective.
00:21:48.000I really don't think it will cause much problem.
00:21:50.000I used to take that shit before Google.
00:22:48.000I don't know what the prices are now, but it's an approach that is supposed to be, at least in rodents, they've demonstrated it, able to extend the functional lifespan of your telomeres.
00:22:57.000That's a good way, if you look at telomeres and how they slowly shorten over time, you could almost think of it like rings on a tree, just in the opposite direction.
00:23:07.000The shorter your telomeres are, the closer you are to your end point.
00:23:10.000TA-65, my feeling is there hasn't been enough wide-scale testing that I would feel comfortable using it myself.
00:23:19.000I'm exceptionally comfortable, let's say, using moderate, you know, responsible use of anabolics of different types depending on your thyroid, potentially thyroid.
00:23:29.000And then combining that with creatine and a few other things.
00:23:33.000But personally, I would not use TA65 at this point.
00:23:53.000He said he didn't feel like it was doing anything for him.
00:23:55.000But his dad, apparently, who's, you know, an older guy, it's like, it's helping him see better.
00:24:00.000I have a buddy who's using it, and he's a CEO in Silicon Valley, and he said that he's noticed gray hair turning black again and things like that.
00:24:26.000I'll let those beta testers throw fucking horns or whatever, and then I'll be like, yeah, yeah, they didn't tell you about the horns, didn't they?
00:25:00.000I remember being high as fuck once at Morton's, you know, at Morton's Steakhouse.
00:25:03.000They walk by with the cart, and they show you, this is the prime, you know, USDA sirloin cut, and, you know, you can have it with this and that.
00:25:10.000And then he holds up the lobster, and the lobster's moving.
00:27:09.000The sort of singularity-focused or just life extension-focused tech CEOs, guys who've made hundreds of millions of dollars, they're pouring it into these startups they think will be able to make them live forever because that's what they see as their rate-limiting step for learning all this stuff.
00:28:13.000For sure, one day, thousands of years from now, the way we study Sumer, we study Mesopotamia, and we see the pictures of the carriages, and how they rode into battle with fucking sticks with big pieces of metal on the end of the sticks, and how we go, look at these fucking retards.
00:28:30.000They're going to look at us like that too, for sure.
00:30:06.000The reason why acid would be a good one is because it's so small.
00:30:11.000You need such a small amount of it to affect you.
00:30:15.000I think that you do need a very small amount.
00:30:18.000If you were using, let's say, 5-MeO-DMT, I'd say you could get away with as little as two milligrams.
00:30:25.000And particularly if it's self-replicate, so let's say the virus is tiny itself, but then it builds up to an active dose by replication in your body, then you just need the cedar to start.
00:30:35.0005-MeO DMT is a crazy thing to get people sick with, though, because in acid, when you have acid, You know, as far as I understand, you're still sort of there.
00:30:45.000The big thing about the 5-MeO DMT experience is you don't exist anymore.
00:31:12.000I guess it depends on what your objectives are for seeding a state with LSD. Enlightenment.
00:31:18.000It sounds ridiculous because most people use it for recreational purposes, but I think any sort of a mass ego-erasing experience like that could only help people.
00:31:29.000Look, September 11th was a terrible thing that happened.
00:31:41.000But what it did do, and it was really strange, was made everybody really nice for a while.
00:31:48.000Everybody was really friendly and neighborly, and there was a real sense in New York of everybody being together in a way that I never felt there before.
00:31:59.000New York was always like, don't look at me, fuck you, out of my way.
00:32:02.000There was always this thing that happens when you have this diffusion of responsibility because the population numbers are so high.
00:32:09.000You get this non-feeling and friendly environment.
00:32:13.000It's impossible to interact with everyone, so you just fucking put your blinders on, you press ahead.
00:32:18.000But that terrible experience was ego-dissolving in a lot of ways.
00:32:56.000Because for a while, firefighters were fucking rock stars in New York.
00:32:59.000And then eventually, he just fucking died off, and he got a few fucking older firefighters with young guy haircuts who talk about the glory days of September 11th.
00:33:08.000You know, they're like 50 now, but bro, I was 40, I was just divorced, okay?
00:33:13.000I'm just walking around everywhere I go with my fire hat on.
00:34:08.000But that reset really, I think, strips away the superficial layers of manufactured need and so forth and allows you to look at problems that are very easy to overcomplicate when you intellectualize things or rationalize.
00:34:23.000So you accept whether it is a bad relationship or whatever it might be.
00:34:26.000And the afterglow effect that I felt after each of these resets, and each one has been transformative in solving one or two major problems in my life, is there's this afterglow effect of supreme clarity in terms of your priorities and values for a few months for me.
00:35:59.000And I wanted to do it extremely clear in terms of sobriety, and then I wanted to try something with visual hallucinations in the isolation tank to see.
00:36:11.000Yeah, get comfortable with the tank experience first.
00:36:47.000Dudes will be on top of you and their armpit sweat will drip in your face.
00:36:51.000And you just deal with that because that's a part of Jiu Jitsu.
00:36:53.000And it's one of those things where once you've been doing Jiu Jitsu for 10 years, when you get on the mat and you just, you know, you tap hands with people and you start sparring, it's a normal thing because you're so used to this weird, fucked up experience.
00:37:04.000You put yourself in this sort of Zen state, even though this is a bizarre experience for most people.
00:37:09.000Well, the tank is so alien that this time where your body doesn't move at all is so bizarre to you.
00:37:19.000We're constantly shifting our weight even when we sleep.
00:38:04.000When I get in there, because I just feel like marijuana, especially high doses, make you very, very sensitive.
00:38:10.000Very sensitive, and it makes you very, you contemplate things you might not have contemplated.
00:38:16.000My mind is always racing in a million different directions thinking about things, and there's nothing like the isolation tank to enhance that.
00:38:23.000Because when you have nothing coming into your mind from the body, the body is sending no signals.
00:38:29.000Like all of a sudden you have radio silence and the mind is on its own.
00:38:33.000The mind without any sensory input is fucking super powered, man, in a way that it's very difficult to describe because nobody ever experiences it.
00:38:40.000It's the only environment like that in the world where there's nothing coming in.
00:38:45.000And it is beyond bizarre to me that more people aren't aware of this fucking thing.
00:38:50.000I mean, I've been talking about it for years.
00:38:52.000We put videos up about it, and people come to me about it, and they ask me, like, dude, tell me about the isolation deck.
00:38:57.000I'm like, how could I possibly be an expert in this fucking thing?
00:39:01.000All I am is just some dude who has one who uses it.
00:39:04.000How are there not scientists that are studying the benefits of this shit and pushing it to everyone as stress relief, as a clarity device, as a device for objective reasoning and thinking and creativity?
00:39:22.000Anybody where you need deep, intense thought without distraction, you don't even fucking know what that is until you get in that isolation tank.
00:40:28.000So it's the lowest amount of light physically possible for these things.
00:40:32.000So literally the image is just floating in space in front of you.
00:40:36.000With no other distractions, and apparently you can learn like a motherfucker this way.
00:40:41.000You retain an incredible amount of information.
00:40:43.000You have all these, the access to all these resources of your mind that are usually thinking about like, man, my ass is fucking uncomfortable, and should I take my wallet out of my back pocket?
00:40:54.000These shoes suck and I got a hole in my sock.
00:40:56.000All this information that keeps constantly coming into the mind about just social things and noises.
00:41:24.000I want to explore possible directions of consciousness, whether or not you can control that shit, how much of your thought and how much of creativity you can control.
00:41:42.000Have you played around with lucid dreaming at all?
00:41:45.000This is a very interesting subject because we just started selling this stuff called Alpha Brain.
00:41:51.000And what alpha brain is, it's a nootropic.
00:41:53.000It's basically a bunch of different naturally occurring chemicals, things from plants and what have you, and synthesized things that are supposed to enhance cognitive function.
00:42:02.000So we put it out and it makes me feel clearer how much of that is a placebo effect.
00:42:08.000I'm more than willing to admit that I don't know.
00:42:11.000Because the placebo effect is a phenomenal thing.
00:42:14.000And on top of it, it's been proven that the placebo effect actually can work even on people who know it's a placebo.
00:42:22.000So it's a very bizarre and misunderstood thing.
00:42:26.000But the dreams lead me in my objective analysis of it to say there's something very clear that's happening.
00:42:34.000The dreams are much more vivid and they're lucid.
00:42:57.000I freak out that I'm dreaming and I just blow the illusion away.
00:43:02.000But with this stuff, for whatever reason, when I take these alpha brain pills, especially at night, I wake up while I'm having these lucid dreams and I'm able to stay in the dream.
00:45:04.000I got started with the smart drug stuff in college.
00:45:07.000college, I decided to use the FDA personal importation policy to bring in paracetam, hydrogen, vasopressin, all of these drugs from Europe to test on myself for learning purposes.
00:45:21.000And one of them, vasopressin, is used as an antidiuretic hormone in kids.
00:45:26.000If they're older and they wet the bed, they start using this nasal spray, which is vasopressin.
00:45:30.000What's fascinating about it is part of the reason if some people feel that they experience, say, memory loss with alcohol, if they drink too much, is it depletes you of vasopressin, which is necessary for Some types of pot also.
00:45:43.000But if you squirt vasopressin into each nostril, what I was able to do is before Chinese character tests, we would have these character quizzes.
00:45:53.000And I could literally take two shots, one in each nostril, flip through the characters, because it has a very short effect, and then 10 minutes later, score 98 plus on these recall tests.
00:46:17.000Yeah, something like that, I would guess.
00:46:19.000Well, actually, it probably lasts longer, but the learning effect that I experienced was very short, like 30 minutes.
00:46:24.000But since it's anti-diuretic, I mean, as a parent, it wouldn't do you very much good to have your kid not piss for 30 minutes and then just wet the bed, so I'm imagining it lasts longer.
00:46:37.000Why does it allow you to memorize things?
00:46:39.000My understanding, and somebody who's listening can probably do a better job on Google of getting the details off Wikipedia or wherever, but vasopressin, my understanding is that it is a hormone that is necessary for short-term memory, so the actual formation of the short-term memory, which is all biologically limited.
00:46:56.000And I think we are very optimistic about how much we know about the brand.
00:47:01.000I think that it's, I mean, we'll have to rewrite it all in five years probably.
00:47:05.000But most people think of short-term, you have working memory, short-term memory, long-term memory.
00:47:09.000For that transfer to short-term to long-term, once it makes that jump, you're good to go.
00:47:13.000So it's not like when I stopped using Vasopress and I lost those memories.
00:47:17.000As long as I repeated it, used intelligent spaced repetition to repeat it at some point before I lost it.
00:47:24.000With the Ebbinghaus curve and all of that.
00:47:26.000If people are interested, Pimsleur is the guy who looked very closely at this.
00:48:06.000I've tried that on its own, and I didn't really feel anything with it.
00:48:10.000You'll feel a lot if you, and I don't recommend this, but what it does is it sensitizes you to other things, which is part of the reason why it makes sense to have in small doses in a product like this, which is why I'm happy to pop one of these, but I'm going to wait about 30 minutes because I know that the blood caffeine concentration I have right now, if I combine it with Vimpositine, I'll be fucking ricocheting off the walls.
00:50:50.000A 24-year-old is really that person when you first start dating them.
00:50:54.000And especially guys, we're completely full of shit when we first start dating a chick.
00:50:58.000We want them to like us, we want our best behavior, and then we slowly let our real personality come out.
00:51:06.000You know, your advice was something that a lot of people wouldn't say because it makes you seem like you're a player or it makes you seem like you're trying to be a sleazy guy.
00:51:16.000You know, look guys, I'm going to show you how to get laid.
00:51:25.000But you're saying exactly what that guy's saying, but you're saying in a sense, in an intelligent way, you've analyzed a situation.
00:51:32.000He said, well, there's a clear way to eliminate a lot of the problems that people run into, and this is one of them.
00:51:38.000Yeah, and for me, I think that's part of the reason I get so much shit online, too, is that if I have a strong opinion based on I'll share it and then there's a lot that is then misconstrued from that or maybe I just come across like a dick.
00:52:04.000You come across like a confident guy who's smarter than me.
00:52:08.000And when I hear a guy talk like that, I'm like, oh, here's a guy that is well-read, knows a bunch of different fucking languages, thinks of things, and then goes after them, enjoys learning and information, travels the world.
00:52:29.000I mean, I'm not blowing smoke up your ass, but you're a young, smart guy with a lot of interests, and that makes people upset.
00:52:36.000And if you try to put logic and attach logic to anything that involves men and women in relationships, people will call you a piece of shit, or a chauvinist, or a player.
00:53:15.000There's something about someone who's out there just doing a bunch of shit while you're sitting at home with a beer in your lap and you're like, this is fucking queer.
00:54:05.000But, you know, we obviously imitate our environment.
00:54:07.000And your environment over a big period of your life has been around thinkers, and your environment has been around people that are like-minded, and in these subjects that you're pursuing, that's why you sound like a gay.
00:54:52.000Yeah, that was after cutting 150 pages, too, if you can believe it.
00:54:57.000I promised myself after college, because my senior thesis almost killed me, I actually took a year off of school, in large part because this project became such a monster for me, and I promised myself that I would never write anything longer than an email when I graduated,
00:55:13.000and obviously that didn't work out very well, but I knew I wanted to be a teacher because of a few people in my life who had A huge impact on me, like my wrestling coach, Mr. Buxton, Reverend Greenleaf, a number of others, and I just wanted to have that impact on other people.
00:55:35.000But I felt like, alright, I'm going to have to go out in the real world, actually do something, and then I'll go back and teach.
00:55:39.000Probably in ninth grade, I think that was a really sensitive, malleable time.
00:55:45.000When I stumbled across the writing stuff, it was because I was teaching a class twice a year, and one of the students in feedback form said something along the lines of, I don't know why you're teaching 50 students in a class, you just write a book and be done with it.
00:55:58.000And I started gathering these notes because I had terrible insomnia at the time, and I would wake up and I would just write down whenever I was thinking to go back to sleep.
00:56:06.000And these notes started piling up with sort of hypothetical chapters and this, that, and the other thing.
00:56:11.000And finally, I just asked a friend of mine who's a writer, I was like, is this full of shit or should I actually go for this?
00:56:16.000And he says, yeah, no, you should go for it.
00:56:17.000And he introduced me to four agents, three of them turned me down flat.
00:56:21.000One was brand new, but had a lot of experience in publishing, so he signed with me.
00:56:25.000He was very early stage, and then 26 publishers turned it down, and the 27th one took it, and then I was like, oh shit, now I have to write a book.
00:56:41.000The premise behind that I'd say is two-fold.
00:56:44.000The first is that The deferred life plan, i.e.
00:56:47.000a retirement-based career planning model, is fundamentally flawed in a number of ways, fatally flawed, both financially, numerically, and then also it's assuming you will live a long time, which is, I think, a really foolish way to spec out the next 20, 30 years of your prime physical lifetime.
00:57:07.000Second is that if you use a few approaches to analyzing your ideal lifestyle that you're reserving for retirement, you actually arrive at a number, like a target monthly income to finance that, whether it's the Aston Martin, the frickin' Chateau, whatever the hell it might be, that there are ways to analyze your work so you can get 5 to 10x per hour more done.
00:57:28.000Whether you choose to then reduce your hours or just work the same number of hours and just get 10x the output, There are things like Parkinson's Law 80-20 analysis that you can apply to your life just like you would apply it to a company if you were a CEO, and you can jack up your productivity.
00:58:24.000Yesterday, I was writing a book about cooking and food right now, and I'm trying not to chop my fingers off.
00:58:29.000So I actually bought a knife and a cutting board, and I'm traveling with it.
00:58:31.000I have it in my bag right now, actually.
00:58:33.000And I was chopping, and I separated celery out into equal lengths to test a Chinese method of chopping and then a French method of chopping.
00:58:42.000I just wanted to see which one was fastest.
00:58:56.000You never get to the mindset to write a book like the four-hour work week, unless you have some sort of, you know, you can call it OCD, but it's really just an exceptional interest in things.
00:59:07.000But what my parents did, they never, you know, I came from a very moderate background.
00:59:12.000Both my parents were a dual-income family, and they didn't have a lot of money for all sorts of trips and things like that, but they would expose me to all sorts of different types of things like the aquarium or take me to the beach to, let's say, pick up magnetic sand, like the black sand with magnets and so forth.
00:59:28.000And then when I have a younger brother, and when one of us would become fixated on something that we really were drawn to, then my parents would just put everything behind it.
00:59:37.000And so they didn't have a budget for BB guns out.
00:59:42.000But they said, we always have a budget for books.
00:59:44.000So I remember I got really into fish and sharks more specifically.
00:59:47.000So my mom bought me this really expensive book.
00:59:49.000It's like $40 hardcover Audubon Society.
00:59:53.000I think it was Audubon Society, but it was fish.
00:59:55.000And I took it to school and the teacher said to my mom at some point, she's like, you know, you really shouldn't allow him to bring the book to school.
01:00:08.000The training, the conditioning that I've had through my parents to just go after whatever I'm interested in and feel supported in doing that is what's led me to all this stuff.
01:00:20.000Has it ever backfired when it comes to chicks?
01:00:22.000Have you ever become an unwanted stalker and didn't realize you were doing it?
01:00:26.000You were just trying to be so persistent and that it became a sickness?
01:00:33.000The one habit I have which gets me into a lot of trouble with guys as much as chicks This might be also related to the gay thing, is that I'm really...
01:00:55.000This is my ringtone, Tim Ferriss ringtone.
01:01:00.000I'm fascinated by people, and so I'll look at them, and so if I'm looking at, let's say, an attractive girl across the bar, and she's smiling, and okay, cool, I go from flirty eye contact to creepy eye contact really quickly, and it doesn't register with me because I'm just fascinated by looking at people.
01:01:16.000So you're a scientist, and they think you're a killer.
01:02:14.000But I recognize, for me at least, that how I set up my morning ritual, the first 60 minutes, will determine my productivity for the rest of the day.
01:02:23.000Now, are you so organized that you have every day lined up?
01:02:26.000You have objectives for each day, and you have a schedule for each day?
01:04:43.000And the slow carb diet, cyclical ketogenic diet, is where you combine it with exercise so that you're in ketosis for five or six days, then you carbohydrate load for 24 hours for the insulin and anabolic effects, and then you go back into ketosis.
01:05:00.000But if you do roughly sort of a paleo-type diet with legumes and then you eat whatever the fuck you want for one day, it's like an approximated version of that that works really, really well.
01:05:10.000I don't think of it in terms of having a paleo diet, but I try to cut back way back on my bread and pastas.
01:05:17.000I try to eat very little of that stuff.
01:05:19.000And I try to eat only shit that grows.
01:05:31.000When you start eating a lot of pastas and breads and sodas and just nonsense, I absolutely feel a difference in how my body processes it and what kind of energy my body has.
01:05:42.000I always feel way healthiest when I'm just eating a lot of vegetables and just meat and stuff along those lines, which I guess is the paleo diet, right?
01:05:57.000So you have, I think, on both extremes.
01:05:59.000And not everyone who would self-identify with paleo is extreme, but you find that the paleos and the vegans have this extreme war going on.
01:06:16.000But I think that where a lot of folks miss the boat, and I think your approach is right, in the sense that when you become really militant about one side or the other, if your goal is to help other people, you have to look at the compliance as much as how effective it is.
01:06:32.000So it's like, you might be able to get, let's say, someone on Biggest Loser in shape by duct-taping bowling balls to their hands and having to run through the fucking desert with a weighted sled behind them, but once they're off of national television and they're not shamed into crying with product placement, how long are they going to actually do that?
01:07:26.000You know, when you lose a lot of weight really fast, it fucks your metabolism up too, doesn't it?
01:07:31.000Especially when you do it at a really low calorie level.
01:07:35.000If you cut your calories, like if you're supposed to have a thousand a day, there's people that will go 500 a day just to lose weight quicker.
01:07:41.000But when they do, it jacks their whole system.
01:07:43.000Yeah, it'll kill your thyroid, among other things.
01:07:46.000That's why you see women who've lost, you know, they lose 50, 60 pounds, but they do it by starving themselves, and then they really fuck their thyroid, and they not only plateau, but they start to have all sorts of hormonal issues.
01:08:00.000When they're plump and their tits are big and full, and then they get crazy and go anorexic and lose a ton of weight, and their tits become like empty little bags.
01:09:02.000I've heard Charles Poliquin, who's an Olympic-level, professional-level strength coach, recommends that his athletes or women who are losing a lot of weight, or men, I suppose, for that reason, use, I think it's GoToCola as a cream, which helps with the stretch marks.
01:09:23.000So to answer my question, you never get creepy with chicks because you're obsessed with getting them.
01:09:28.000I've been dating a great girl for about five months, so I'm not on the market.
01:09:33.000But before that, I'm not accusing you of anything.
01:09:37.000I'm just saying that you have this incredibly inquisitive mind and this I'm going to accomplish my goals mentality.
01:09:45.000And there are certain people who have that mentality and it works all great until it comes to people liking them, communicating with people.
01:09:53.000To be super successful at a lot of things, there's a certain amount of bulldog aggression or the ability to push forward and keep your eye on the prize and focus and focus.
01:10:06.000And if you're a socially retarded person and you have that and you are into a chick, it could get ugly, right?
01:10:14.000I think that I've definitely creeped girls out, but it's usually because I'm doing some fucking experiment.
01:10:20.000Like I remember one time I went on this first date, I was set up with a gorgeous girl and showed up and then I was like, "Don't let this weird you out." And I pulled this electric scale out of my bag and started weighing all the pieces of food on the table.
01:10:35.000And that was the beginning of the end.
01:10:49.000So what I was doing is eating 7, I think it was 6.8 times my resting metabolic rate, like what you're supposed to need to maintain weight on a daily basis.
01:11:01.000And to show that I could prevent myself from getting fat even if I ate that way.
01:11:05.000So to clock in later with lower body fat, like two days later.
01:11:10.000And so I was weighing all my food so that I could do an accurate calorie count later.
01:11:13.000So if I had whatever amount of cheese, I wanted to know how many grams that was so later I could do the multiplication and do all the adding.
01:11:18.000So your contention is that it's based on a weight to energy?
01:12:05.000It triggers a hormone that I think people are going to be hearing a lot more about in the next few years, probably the next one or two years, adiponectin.
01:12:21.000It also triggers luteinizing hormone, which you of course see in your blood panel when you do testing, looking at testosterone, which I think is the primary driver behind sex drive.
01:12:31.000So if you're able to jack up your LH, you want to go hump a corner.
01:12:42.000So it's the opposite of what they always told us.
01:12:44.000Well, it'll definitely make you look like less of Ron Jeremy with an ice bath, but the intermediate and longer term effects, yeah, higher sex drive, absolutely.
01:12:55.000That's incredible, because that's what they always say, right?
01:12:56.000Take a cold shower and it cools you off your horn.
01:12:59.000But in fact, it just makes you harder.
01:13:02.000It'll make you, yeah, you'll need some recovery time for taking an ice bath.
01:13:04.000I like an ice bath up to like mid-chest.
01:13:19.000I would actually take a hot shower beforehand.
01:13:22.000So there's something called contrast therapy that the East Germans used to use, where you take, for example, a very hot shower so that the blood vessels dilate in an area.
01:14:02.000It was a big one too because this was the third year that I was defending the state championship in Taekwondo and I couldn't do any sparring.
01:17:30.000I have a lot of issues with most of homeopathy, but the Traumiel is a product that you can get at Whole Foods, and it's T-R-A-U-M-E-E-L, and it is astonishingly effective.
01:17:44.000I don't know exactly the mechanism of action, but it really works.
01:17:56.000So how do you spell this stuff for people out there?
01:17:58.000Yeah, T-R-A-U-M-E-E-L. And you can get both ingestible and topical.
01:18:05.000If I have an acute injury, I had one recently a few months ago on the hamstring.
01:18:10.000I went immediately to Whole Foods, got a bunch of bags of ice for an ice bath, and bought a bunch of Tromil and a high dose of vitamin C and a few other things to immediately try to address the short-term inflammation because I was at a certification for CrossFit endurance.
01:18:24.000I had to do the second session the next day, and I wanted to do the session the next day.
01:18:29.000How did you do it with a blown hamstring?
01:18:31.000It was like a partial strain, I would say.
01:18:34.000It certainly wasn't any type of severe tear, but it was enough that I was hobbling around after a few hours.
01:18:40.000And you know, if you feel it that day, you know what I mean?
01:18:42.000Like you're really going to feel it the next day.
01:18:45.000But I worked with the ice, tromiel, contrast therapy, and I was able to go the next day.
01:18:50.000I wasn't 100%, but I was able to actually do a running cert.
01:18:54.000Well, it must not have been that big of an injury, because I've got to assume that that would fuck you up for quite a while if it really was.
01:18:59.000I mean, there's nothing that's going to make you heal overnight, right?
01:19:54.000Oh no, I was just going to say that for people who really want to take the regenerative stuff seriously, what I would encourage people to start researching is looking at banking stem cells.
01:20:05.000So getting stem cells at a younger age to bank so that you can use them later if you want to get like a, what is the term I'm looking for?
01:20:20.000So you bank these stem cells that are like your younger stem cells.
01:20:23.000And then later on, if you need a liver or you need a this, you need a that, to ensure that you don't get rejection, you can actually take that stem cell, differentiate it into what you need, and then grow it.
01:20:37.000I don't think it needs to be expensive because there are some doctors who are trying to get different, I believe so, cells that you can differentiate from skin as opposed to having to take it out of, let's say, bone marrow.
01:20:59.000But I was going to do that, and then one of my buddies who actually designed a device for that was like, well, maybe you want to consider looking at skin or blood, something like that.
01:21:15.000I do think that the life extension folks who take 200, 300 pills a day, I think they're setting themselves up for a fasting bargain because your liver, talking about the liver, does not handle 200 pills a day very well.
01:21:32.000So vitamins you think are bad for breaking down for your liver?
01:21:38.000I would say, I mean, I try to get everything that I can through Whole Foods, which is a very new thing for me, because a few years ago I was like, blood test, identify problem, sniper shot with a pill, fixed, or injection, fixed.
01:21:50.000And what I've realized when you start looking at the history of, let's say, beta-carotene, so it was thought to be very good for eyesight, among other things, so people started taking isolated beta-carotene, which then caused a lot of problems.
01:22:07.000So I'm trying to get whatever I might be deficient in.
01:22:10.000Let's say I found out that I was deficient in selenium.
01:22:15.000And I found out I was deficient in selenium, fixed that, doubled my sperm count, and tripled my testosterone by addressing a selenium deficiency.
01:23:44.000And he called me at like 4 in the morning at one point.
01:23:48.000Traumatized because this girl he was really into had sex for the first time and she was riding him cowgirl and then she's about to come, jumps up, like posts on his chest and jumps up to her feet and then like squirts all over his chest.
01:26:02.000And even though they're having a great time, and even though they're hot, and maybe they love sex, and maybe it is fun for them, and maybe they do enjoy it...
01:26:26.000Yeah, I don't have, like, a strong moral stance against porn, but it's hard not to think of the backstory, particularly if you actually see any type of documentary or any type of coverage of this...
01:26:37.000You know, adult film or pornography, you do see the patterns really clearly.
01:26:42.000But, Jesus, I mean, just as a healthy male, it's tough to just block.
01:27:32.000So it's kind of like Tor in the sense that if you're trying to route, you know, like in Iran or other places where people are trying to route out or route in.
01:27:40.000Can they lock you in jail forever if they catch you with this?
01:27:44.000I mean, as a visitor, for example, when I was in Turkey, and I wanted to watch stuff on, I think it was YouTube, or it was Pandora, one of the two, and I got really irritated that I couldn't access one or the other, and I just used hot sweat shield, and it was problem solved.
01:27:56.000Would this work with people who, if they work in an office, and the office blocks certain things, could they put this on their computer?
01:28:03.000If the IT is set up so that they can install and download, yeah, they should be able to.
01:28:25.000Somebody hacked MSNBC and was just like, oh my god, there's terrorist shit going on at Ground Zero in New York City and did all this shit and it's fucked up.
01:28:33.000Yeah, and then somebody announced yesterday that Steve Jobs died that's connected to some kind of news publication, but then they deleted it immediately, and they said, sorry, we got our facts wrong or something, but a lot of people were thinking that.
01:29:17.000They're defending his boss like King B. A guy like that, there's clear evidence that no matter how much money you have, There's only a certain amount you can do for your health.
01:29:30.000Do you attribute when you see a guy that's sick like that?
01:29:34.000I've talked before about a girlfriend that I had who had a great boss who was a really nice guy who had massive cancer at 50 and was dead like that.
01:29:42.000It was a guy who worked for a studio and he had an incredibly stressful job.
01:29:47.000Just constant every day, six, seven days a week, all day long.
01:29:51.000He made a good living because of it, but the guy just lived in a hurricane.
01:29:56.000Do you think that that has a direct result on physical health?
01:30:00.000I think it has to, because elevated cortisol, you have interrupted sleep.
01:30:06.000I think it has to have a direct impact on just about everything.
01:30:12.000Part of the problem with looking at studies that try to I think that if you remove It's very
01:30:42.000very hard for certain types of cancers to grow. - Really? - Yeah, and I remember at one point, one of my close friends, a young woman, had been diagnosed with, I think it was cervical cancer, and spoke with this doctor who presented at TED, William Lee, L-I, and he actually and spoke with this doctor who presented at TED, William Lee, L-I, and he actually has a white and green tea blend that selectively inhibits blood How cool is that?
01:31:09.000Obviously, if the cancer can't get nutrients, can't get blood, then it dies.
01:31:15.000I consume that tea as a preventative measure, and I also obviously cut out the refined carbohydrates six days a week.
01:32:27.000And you get past that point pretty quickly.
01:32:29.000But for people who are very phobic of diets of any type, it's really helpful in the beginning stages.
01:32:36.000to allow them that psychological release valve.
01:32:39.000What it also does, we were talking about thyroid, is when you selectively overfeed like that, You can actually improve conversion of T4 to T3 active thyroid.
01:32:48.000So you actually find that people lose more weight over time when they have that overfeeding once a week, which is pretty cool.
01:33:08.000What it doesn't do, I think partially, is it doesn't...
01:33:12.000We downshift because it believes that it's in a starvation mode or that some type of food category is in famine, essentially.
01:33:23.000So I think that when you overfeed, the mechanism isn't entirely clear.
01:33:26.000But there have been a lot of studies looking at this where if you calorie load that one day, it has an effect on everything from leptin to thyroid to just about everything else.
01:33:40.000Yeah, if you're an athlete, you would end up doing it with other types of foods you'd use, like a quinoa or yams, root vegetables, things like that, to jack up your calories if you don't want to do the donuts and all that shit.
01:34:01.000So if you're actually training, like you're GSP and you want a fucking carb load, Whatever, after weigh-in, then you don't want to be getting, like table sugar is a terrible choice.
01:34:49.000And what is the benefit of this starch?
01:34:53.000You avoid some of the side effects of, let's say, consuming something that's too rapidly digested, like glucose, where you're just basically injecting yourself.
01:35:04.000Gatorade would have, I'd have to look at it, it's going to have probably some glucose, but also it probably has sucrose in it.
01:35:10.000But what I used to do when I was getting really crazy about the CKD, the cyclical ketogenic diet, when I was doing that, when I started my carb update, I would start with glucose tablets, which are disgusting.
01:35:24.000I would start with the fastest and then move out to the slowest, the more slowly digested.
01:35:29.000So I didn't use waxy maize, but I would start with Then I would move to some type of more rapidly digested, let's say white rice, and then I would go into other grains and slowly move out to the longer digested carbohydrates, and then also start infusing protein, because the carb-up can be helped with protein, it depends on the ratio.
01:35:50.000Dude, MMA teams need a dude like you on hand to tell them how to fucking carve up and how to eat before a fight.
01:36:33.000I think it screwed up some of my feedback loops in the body, absolutely.
01:36:39.000Because, I mean, I had a resting pulse when I had to go to sleep, and I would assume that I would lose, let's say, half a pound to a pound and a half just over the evening, over the sleep.
01:36:58.000And that year, I remember that year, there were a couple of wrestlers who had organ failures because of dehydration, and at that point, they then changed the rules.
01:37:07.000I don't know what they are now, where you weighed in as you went onto the mat.
01:37:11.000So you actually weighed in right before you wrestled, so you were disincentivized from cutting too much water because you'll obviously...
01:37:16.000Yeah, they do that at the Mundials, the Jiu-Jitsu Championships, and a lot of people believe in that.
01:37:21.000They think that the way MMA fighters do it is ridiculous and dangerous, that they weigh in, you know, the day before, 20 hours, 24 hours, and they gain oftentimes 10, 15, 20 pounds, depending on the guy, you know, six, seven, eight bags of IV drips, constantly drinking Pedialyte and electrolyte replenishers, and It's intense.
01:37:44.000It's fucking scary, the load that puts on the body, though.
01:37:47.000To think that you're going to throw that same body into combat 24 hours later.
01:38:16.000Because these guys, I mean, they're doing the same thing.
01:38:18.000They're doing saline bag drips with electrolytes and so forth.
01:38:21.000You see a lot of people do it the wrong way, and they end up losing because they'll try to rehydrate, and they won't take into account the electrolytes, or they won't take into account that your gastrointestinal tract is not designed to handle six gallons of Pedialyte.
01:38:43.000So yeah, if you're going to lose weight like that, you have to use, if you're going to use any diuretics, potassium sparing diuretics, you also see guys cramp up really badly because they don't have enough potassium.
01:38:55.000Anyway, I could go on and on about this, but yeah, the cutting weight is really bad for you.
01:38:59.000One of the most dangerous things, at least in wrestling, there's not head trauma.
01:39:03.000And one of the things they've shown in boxers, the deaths, in-ring deaths, almost all of them have been men cutting weight.
01:39:11.000Yeah, the lower weight classes is where it's an issue.
01:39:13.000And the heavyweight classes, of course, there's still instances of brain damage and pugilistica dementia.
01:39:19.000Or whatever they call it, you know, when you see guys like Joe Lewis or Joe Frazier, rather, who could, you know, his speech is clearly affected by being punched in the head.
01:40:05.000I mean, I'm just thinking that there has to be a cumulative effect of the cerebral edema and swelling that perhaps you just don't get if you're a heavyweight and you get hit once and you're out like a light.
01:40:28.000They have issues with their all sorts of, I mean, they basically have the same issues that boxers have.
01:40:33.000Because a good head, you know, when you hit a ball that's coming at you really hard and you catch it with your head, it's like getting slapped with a jab.
01:40:43.000They're not pussies, so they just run it off after they got hit in the head by that soccer ball.
01:40:46.000But the reality is, every time you get a pop, every little pop is bad.
01:40:51.000And you're practicing on the field, and you're kicking the ball and heading it at each other back and forth.
01:40:57.000And you don't realize it, but you're getting jabbed in the face.
01:41:00.000We're just now coming to terms with how dangerous head trauma is, you know?
01:41:06.000That's something that would be fascinating, but that's exactly how the Planet of the Apes got started.
01:41:12.000They wanted to fix people's brains, and then they fucking used it on monkeys, and the monkeys got smarter than people, so that could be an issue.
01:41:35.000Because right now, man, you've been aware of those NFL players that they've done autopsies on them and found they're 40-year-old men and they have the brain of an 80-year-old Alzheimer's patient.
01:42:19.000I was just saying, even watching some of the recreational MMA guys, if they do it for long enough in their training with guys who are hitting them a lot, thank you, you can see it over the span of years.
01:42:58.000But when you add in strength training and kickboxing and wrestling to all that, I don't think there's an athlete on the planet that works as hard as mixed martial arts fighters.
01:47:38.000You know, I've rolled with John-Jacques Machado, who's a multiple-time world champion, and he gave me my brown belt, and he's a great guy and a good friend, but rolling with him is like, he's a master.
01:47:50.000He's a master, and you just feel like it's still fucking clod.
01:48:33.000And part of the reason was that I remember this guy saying to me at one point, he's like, would you ever play poker against a professional poker player?
01:48:41.000He's like, would you put a million of your own money down and play that guy?
01:48:49.000He's like, okay, well, why would anyone do that with their money and then think they can compete against a guy who runs $20 billion in a hedge fund?
01:51:54.000When they're rattling off those numbers, and I'm trying to piece together the grid, and I had no information in front of me, so I was like, okay, how many pieces are there on a fucking chess?
01:52:02.000It's like playing Battleship without a board.
01:52:15.000So don't go for a position before submission.
01:52:21.000There are different styles of chess, but definitely thinking strategically so that you dominate certain positions, certain directions, and so forth.
01:52:31.000I think it's very analogous to jiu-jitsu.
01:52:52.000Yeah, well, that's why, you know, people, I don't watch much TV, and they're like, oh, you're one of these guys who's like, oh, I don't watch TV. I'm like, no, no, no, you don't understand.
01:52:59.000People are like, oh, you should watch Lost.
01:53:04.000I'm like, look, the reason I won't watch it is because I think it'll be the best thing I've ever seen.
01:53:07.000And then I have to sit in a fucking cave and watch, like, 20 weeks of this, and then that's going to lead me to whatever, you know, six feet under.
01:53:14.000And it's like, I can't afford to have that happen.
01:53:16.000I used to play D&D. I know I can go off the rails.
01:53:39.000We're also going to do a podcast from the Ice House that we're going to call An Evening at the Ice House.
01:53:43.000And what it's going to be is we're going to set up microphones and a table and we're just going to have the comics shoot the shit before they go on stage and then come off stage and shoot the shit again.
01:53:53.000Like, oh, this fucking crowd's awesome or this drunk bitch in the front won't shut the fuck up and we're going to sit down and do this.
01:55:13.000But I remember at one point, this friend of mine, because I built up this pretty fucking badass character, and this buddy of mine was playing with me, and then we had the dungeon master, right, who's kind of like the referee.
01:55:23.000And my buddy took it really seriously, but he was just being a dick.
01:57:56.000Yeah, I guess, but you don't have to be like that.
01:57:59.000For every stereotype that you have in a given industry, for example, a lot of people think that in order to be a good chef, you have to be a fucking asshole.
01:58:10.000You have to be willing to fucking curse at people and make them cry in the kitchen.
01:58:15.000And that's, I think, a dominant trait, but you can always find exceptions.
01:58:18.000You can always find people who are like, alright, I came from a freaking abused family in the last restaurant that I was brought up in, and I'm not going to have that in my restaurant.
01:58:28.000There's a funny episode of one of those kitchen shows where Gordon Ramsay was yelling at this guy, calling him an idiot, and the guy just goes, I ain't no bitch.
02:01:01.000And this is, you know, they're giving this type of...
02:01:04.000And they're like, so just to get that out of the way.
02:01:06.000And now we can move on to actually what to do.
02:01:07.000But when you get the disaster recovery or assistance certification, you get...
02:01:12.000Hard hat, one of those yellow emergency vests, you get a special badge.
02:01:18.000So hypothetically, if you were to want to evacuate during this type of emergency, if you have all of that gear, and let's say a motorcycle, so you can get through traffic, you're actually very well prepared.
02:01:28.000I'm friends with Neil Strauss, who's down here, who wrote the game Emergency.
02:01:31.000Emergency was about a lot of this, but the more I look at the realities of how people behave in emergency, In situations where there are scarce resources, especially water, the more I think that stuff is not entirely crazy to have six months of canned food.
02:02:07.000Electromagnetic pulse EMP. Electromagnetic pulse proof boxes to hold the backup chips.
02:02:13.000Because there are quite a few people who think one of the more likely attacks, if someone wanted to really wipe out a lot of functioning in the US, is to attack computer systems.
02:02:24.000So they would drop, let's say, an electromagnetic pulse bomb.
02:02:27.000In one of the Great Lakes and take out Chicago or whatever.
02:03:29.000The reason I know a lot about this stuff is you meet these eccentric, not in a bad way, but eccentric, very brilliant people.
02:03:37.000Very wealthy people, and they have a contingency for the contingency for the contingency, and this is something that's come up again and again and again.
02:03:45.000I can't take it that far for a host of reasons, including financial, but I'm like, alright, maybe having some basic defense and food and water in place, maybe not a bad idea if I'm going to live in San Francisco on the ring of fire.
02:04:02.000The field of modern warfare has never ceased to amaze me and amongst more interesting weapons that I've read about had to be the EMP bomb which disables all forms of electronics within the vicinity.
02:04:12.000South Korea has just developed an advanced electromagnetic pulse device which is capable of being deployed on the battlefield in order to make short work of enemy computers according to the defense official.
02:04:31.000And I've gone from thinking that all of that was just conspiracy theory, people with too much time on their hands, to realizing that, you know, for a couple hundred bucks, you can actually buy yourself a lot of insurance against worst case scenario.
02:05:14.000So if you have to get to, let's say, a private airport or an airstrip or something to get out of, let's say, California, you have to plan ahead for that type of thing.
02:05:24.000But for me, I mean, San Francisco, I've lived all over the place and I've been to so many countries, 35 or so countries.
02:05:33.000Never thought I would land somewhere and say, this is where I'm going to live.
02:05:36.000I always thought it was six months, six to twelve months, I get bored, then I move on.
02:07:36.000If I were to, like, when I get married and have kids, or have kids, I'm not sure about the married part, then I can see Marin very clearly being an awesome choice.
02:09:55.000Yeah, flat front and then it's just like cathode ray tube.
02:09:58.000The thing is, it's like a refrigerator.
02:10:00.000I kept a hold of mine probably like three years longer than I wanted to just because every time I tried to move it, I'm like, yeah, I'm not going to.
02:11:48.000And found out later that the shark spotters at that beach, they have guys with binoculars, they had spotted eight great whites at that beach.
02:12:33.000uh meat canning and i meet canning what was it yeah canneries right at this one delta where it opens up into the ocean and so these bull sharks these like entire communities of bull sharks have developed there and they're very aggressive sharks and the signs on the beach if you see them in the u.s usually it's like warning sharks sharks have been spotted at this area use caution and talk to your lifeguard whatever and the signs in brazil were like don't go in the water you'll get fucking attacked basically
02:12:59.000and and people still surf there and it's like guy with one arm still surfing he's like well we're in their backyard i'm like maybe you should pick a different sport in their backyard croquet it's a it's Sharks to me have always been one of those things where if they didn't exist and you had them in a movie everybody would be fucking horrified of these things.
02:13:17.000But because of the fact that they're real, just like Komodo dragons or crocodiles or killer whales, we just sleep on these things.
02:13:25.000We don't realize how incredibly fascinating and horrifying they really are.
02:13:29.000Well, that's why I was telling you that fucking lion attack video creeped the shit out of me because I just, I think to myself, somebody was asking me at one point, they're like, you think you could kill this animal or that animal?
02:15:19.000If they weren't real, and there were stories of this thing that can hold its breath for hours and it eats water buffalo, you'd be like, get the fuck out of here, that thing's not real.
02:15:30.000Can you imagine how 21 feet, how big that is?
02:15:44.000Yeah, and they all wrapped this fucking thing up.
02:15:47.000All these little Lilliputians took this Gullivore Travel fucking animal down and tied it up in ropes and they were parading it around the town.
02:16:10.000Well, it's a cross between a wild boar and a feral hog.
02:16:15.000And pigs, a lot of people don't realize this, but pigs are one of the strangest animals known to be in captivity because when they get out, they have a physiological change when they go into the wild...
02:16:28.000As soon as you're not feeding them anymore, they change their appearance.
02:16:32.000Their tusks grow, their snout elongates, and their hair gets shaggy and thick.
02:16:37.000And it starts happening three weeks after they come free.
02:16:42.000When you have that pig that's in your sty and he's got white hair and he's all cute and pink and he comes over and nuzzles against you and you can pat him on the head and a nice piggy piggy.
02:16:52.000When that pig goes out into the woods, his nose stretches out, his hair gets furry, and his fangs grow.
02:17:28.000It's a really good book, but it talks about the evolution of mankind.
02:17:32.000There are a lot of theories, but they...
02:17:34.000One of the theories is that part of the reason we evolved and were able to kill animals that provided more protein, which led to a larger brain, etc.
02:17:44.000There's one with a guy standing with a rifle.
02:17:46.000Is that we could run on two legs while keeping our heads steady.
02:17:51.000And it's because of this, I think it's a nuchal ligament at the base of the skull, which is unique to humans.
02:17:56.000And if you look at a pig, for example, when it runs, its head bobs all over the place like a bobblehead.
02:18:02.000And that hominids or homo sapiens developed that nuchal ligament that allowed them to endurance run after animals and kill and secure more protein.
02:18:46.000I love when they don't know, and then all of a sudden some new thing comes up, and they go, oh, whoa, I guess they were using tools a million years ago.
02:19:56.000It's almost like they made a little time capsule and they covered it.
02:20:00.000They're pretty positive that it was a man-made act of covering it and that someone covered it thousands and thousands of years ago and they just luckily stumbled upon it.
02:20:13.000The stuff that blows my mind too is thinking of the actual mechanics, like the mechanical engineering that someone would have to use to put up these pillars or like Stonehenge or things like that.
02:20:25.000It's like, how the fuck Well, even how about Stonehenge?
02:20:28.000We don't understand who made Stonehenge, but we know who made Egypt.
02:20:32.000We know these are the people, this is their writing.
02:20:35.000How did they get that obelisk up there?
02:21:42.000Do you subscribe to the idea, and this is a reoccurring subject on this podcast, that humanity is going through cycles of really high levels of understanding and knowledge and then cataclysmic disaster or human-based disaster?
02:21:56.000I mean, I think if you look at the Roman Empire and you look at the growth and decline of the U.S. Empire, it's parallel after parallel after parallel.
02:22:04.000Distributing military is one of the first symptoms of preceding the decline.
02:22:11.000I think point for point you can look at these meteoric rises and then catastrophic falls.
02:22:29.000Obviously, right now in the stage we're at, we talk about military, we talk about depletion of the resources, polluting the planet.
02:22:35.000This is almost all active things that we can control.
02:22:38.000But what about giant things that happen, shifting of the polar ice caps, asteroid impact, things along those lines that very likely have had, we believe, at least, I think they think five mass extinctions in the history of the planet.
02:22:54.000And who knows how many little baby ones along the way, like that one that you drive to Nevada and you see that mile-wide crater.
02:23:05.000But meanwhile, everything from miles around near that thing was dead instantly.
02:23:09.000I mean, how many of those hit all over the place that we're just not aware of because it was 10,000 years ago and now it's covered in jungle wherever the impact was?
02:24:05.000If you had to extrapolate, what we know now is that we had a bunch of disenfranchised Europeans and various people from all over the world.
02:24:13.000They found this spot that just 10,000 years ago had been covered with a mile-high sheet of ice.
02:24:26.000Sort of a civilization, what we believe is the most advanced or percolating at the highest levels when it comes to military and money and economy and creativity, this one pile called the United States.
02:24:43.000If you had to extrapolate and look at the trends and look at what's next, what do you think could be next?
02:24:49.000Because, I mean, this is a place that was created just a few lifetimes ago, really.
02:24:54.000In the 1700s, in the course of human history, it's a very small amount of time.
02:24:59.000In the course of the history of the world, it's merely a blink of an eye.
02:26:19.000But I think that what is not obvious to most people is that at the highest levels of government private enterprise, you have this military industrial complex that spans across these countries.
02:26:34.000And that's the stuff that really scares me.
02:26:36.000And having centralized food production, that scares me.
02:26:40.000What doesn't scare me about China is China's not trying to conquer the world.
02:27:19.000They'll be very well positioned if they do want to conquer the world.
02:27:23.000Because what they've been doing, I mean, I lived in Argentina for a bit, and then I was in Africa, in Kenya for the first time, and they're buying, they're very smart about acquiring resources and pipelines for petroleum, and also buying mines for production of things like copper.
02:27:43.000I mean, you go to a place like Argentina, which is, I think it's the eighth largest country in the world, and because of the range from tropics, like Iguazu Falls in Brazil, which borders Argentina, All the way down to Antarctica, they're very rich natural resources.
02:27:56.000And you go there, and in all the major cities, you have the Chinese Trade Bureau.
02:30:18.000And he introduced me to The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb, which is really about rare events and how poor humans are at predicting or even planning for rare events.
02:30:32.000But the analogy that he uses in that book is just because the Thanksgiving turkey hasn't been killed for 200 days doesn't mean it's not going to get killed, whereas we always do this.
02:30:42.000Financial markets, relationships, whatever it might be, it'll be like, well, it hasn't happened so far, so it can't happen.
02:30:50.000I say, when you see an ant hill sitting out in the field, that ant hill might have been there for a year.
02:30:54.000Those ants might have been patiently constructing this giant mound, and there's a million ants in there going to work every single day, and every day that they've been alive, that ant hill's been there.
02:31:04.000But one day there's a little fat kid in the field, and he sees that ant hill, and he stomps the fucking shit out of it, and not a single ant ever sees him coming.
02:31:12.000And he's just sitting there hitting it with sticks.
02:31:49.000They did not know that Yellowstone was a giant volcano, a super volcano.
02:31:54.000One of the ones that they, they call it an extinction event because it'll kill almost everything on the continent every six to eight hundred thousand years.
02:32:12.000And what Yellowstone is is a gigantic supervolcano.
02:32:16.000What a caldera volcano is, it's a volcano that builds up and when it explodes, it's so violent that it literally blows the top off and just becomes a flat crater.
02:32:34.000And they realize that this happens, like I said, every supposedly six to eight hundred thousand years is a major eruption that just fucking blows up and This is about banking on retirement in 40 years.
02:32:45.000You just never know when Caldera is going to hit you.
02:32:48.000In closing, what advice would you give people?
02:32:51.000What is the best advice that you can give someone to live a fun and productive life?
02:32:59.000I'll actually do another recommendation.
02:33:01.000I would say you need to train yourself to recognize what's in your control, out of your control, and then not emotionally over-respond to things outside of your control.
02:33:10.000The best guide to that that I've ever found is Letters from a Stoic written by Seneca.
02:33:16.000It's a series of letters, short letters, from Seneca, who's the most successful playwright, investment banker, advisor to the emperor, as well as philosopher of his day.
02:33:25.000And it could just as easily apply today.
02:33:28.000So I would say that would be, it's a short book, that would be my recommendation.
02:33:32.000Well, my favorite things are reading inspirational books and blog entries and listening to books on tapes by people who have done what you've done, spend a lot of time breaking things down, and there's so much insight that people can get from your books, from 4-Hour Work Week and 4-Hour Body and the videos that you put online.
02:33:52.000I think you're doing an awesome thing, man, and anybody who does things along these lines, you're putting out Yeah, my pleasure.
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