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00:00:32.000Yeah, I went back home for Christmas in the UK, and it's so strange to go back to a place that you know so well, you're super familiar with, But you're kind of different and everything's changed, but everything's the same.
00:03:17.000Drinking and driving here is viewed by some as downright undemocratic.
00:03:21.000It's kind of getting common, it's when a fella can't put in a hard day's work, put in 11, 12 hours a day, and then get in your truck and at least run one or two beers.
00:05:00.000We should, like, teach people that you should never fucking do that.
00:05:04.000I went to high school with a kid, and he was a good guy.
00:05:08.000I knew him from the time I was, like, 14. And then when, I guess, a senior in high school, he was drunk and he crashed his car and killed his friend.
00:05:18.000And I remember running into him on the street.
00:06:24.000When they're doing things, they don't even know what's real.
00:06:28.000I mean, and it's all completely dependent upon how they were raised.
00:06:32.000Like you could get really lucky and have solid parents and really have like a good understanding of how to behave in the world.
00:06:40.000Or you could get fucked and you got some dad who beats the shit out of you and he's always on meth and your mother's a fucking liar and she steals money and she sells people stuff.
00:06:54.000You know, that could be your reality, too.
00:06:56.000And to expect a person like that to behave exactly the way you do with your nice life is crazy.
00:07:24.000It's like to know logically that you just have to take a few extra steps and you say, well, what's the root of this problem and how do we address that?
00:07:38.000That seems like one of the most fundamental problems any country would face is the amount of people that grow up that become violent criminals because they were fucked from the time they were young.
00:07:51.000Their whole childhood was just violence and chaos.
00:07:57.000And that's not an insignificant number of people in this country and yet any foreign conflict has to be addressed with the utmost urgency when the things that are paramount to our daily existence right here What our tax dollars pay for right here are just completely ignored.
00:08:56.000I walked past a house in Austin, not far from where I live, that has a defund the police Flag in the garden out front and a private security sticker in the front window.
00:09:58.000During the 1960s and 70s, if you were an upper-class lady and the guys that you were dating were from households that had two parents that had taught them how you're supposed to treat people and they weren't mistreated and all the rest of it.
00:10:10.000They grew up like a well-balanced person.
00:10:11.000To them, it might seem a little bit patronizing for the guy to hold the door for you, right?
00:10:16.000Or to pull the chair out or to make sure that you get home okay.
00:10:19.000Because you live an existence in which the danger of that not happening, not going appropriately, Isn't that great?
00:10:46.000And she thinks it's a direct line, a single spectrum from you should hold the door open for women to you shouldn't beat your wife.
00:10:54.000Women should be seen as something that requires additional protection, that are precious and should be respected.
00:11:02.000If you derogate the stuff up here, sure, maybe it means that you liberate some of the upper class women to be able to go and do whatever they want.
00:11:09.000But what does this cause downstream when you don't have those guardrails in place for the men that the lower class women are dating?
00:11:46.000It's always negative, like almost entirely negative, like the entire fan base will recognize that terrible behavior.
00:11:55.000So if you're a man and you have someone who is your wife and she's smaller than you and female, you have the craziest advantage physically.
00:12:08.000It's the most awful tyranny physically if violence is involved.
00:12:12.000If you decide that you're going to start swinging and teaching people lessons and And then lying to police about how someone got hurt and, oh, she fell down the stairs.
00:12:24.000And if you grow up seeing that, that's even maybe more fucked up.
00:12:30.000Because that's your model, and that's probably what their model was when they were growing up.
00:12:36.000But it's, as men, we have to look at that as the weakest of most disgusting behaviors.
00:12:45.000Including beating up on people that are weak.
00:12:48.000Well that's the reason for the male monkey dance as it's called.
00:12:51.000The reason for that is that it's Rivalry between two potentially matched males and we don't know who's going to win.
00:13:33.000If that happened in the male martial arts world, people would be furious.
00:13:39.000It's just It's just fucking it's horrible and it's just it's it's weird that it's always been a part of like cinema There's always been scenes like James Cagney smacks a girl in the face and there was one God, I wish I could remember the movie.
00:13:54.000It was so crazy But the the it was like a 1950s movie and the dad was spanking the the wife spanking her like had her over his knee and the young girl Was saying that that's how he shows mommy that he loves her.
00:15:48.000I had this idea about we always hear the problems of child stars.
00:15:52.000Macaulay Culkin, Britney Spears, too much fame, too young.
00:15:55.000And I don't disagree that thinking about, oh my God, this person's basically never known the world without adoration and attention and focus and scrutiny and all that stuff.
00:16:06.000But there's a really interesting question about what happens if you're a...
00:16:10.000You know, let's say, for example, Canadian psychologist who's been working away in the dusty annals of some university for a while.
00:16:19.000And out of nowhere, you get thrust into the limelight, and then this bald MMA commentator plucks you out of obscurity, and now you're one of the most talked about We're good to go.
00:20:34.000Mark can't, like, he gets panicky if we're talking about something weird.
00:20:39.000Like, he goes, I think they're gonna think it's boring!
00:20:43.000His attention span is like, it's so short.
00:20:47.000Like, I don't think he ever watches documentaries.
00:20:50.000I think I texted him a stat about 77% of 18 to 24 year olds in the US are ineligible to join the military because of being overweight or mental or drug problems.
00:21:03.000And he just replied with meal team six.
00:21:57.000And I just always stuck in my mind that there's a difference between having prepared and well-constructed stuff in advance and then being able to, no matter what it is, whether it's insights, whether it's debate, whether it's argumentation, whether it's analysis, all of those things,
00:22:13.000the ability for someone to just turn it on like that.
00:22:19.000And then there's some comics that aren't really good at that.
00:22:22.000They're not good at dealing with audience members or anything like that.
00:22:25.000They're not good at answering questions.
00:22:26.000But they're good at long takes on things where they sit alone in contemplation and go over some ironic aspect of a topic and then they write out really good material about it.
00:25:09.000If you're some heartfelt singer talking about your make-ups and break-ups of relationships, and now you're dealing with the fear of me too, that doesn't exactly give beautiful romance around what you're talking about.
00:25:22.000The same thing goes for comedians, the same thing goes for anything.
00:25:24.000The whole point of what you're trying to do is be representation, be representative for the normal person.
00:25:30.000And the more that your life becomes strange and rarified and on the road, the less of that you get to experience, which is less inspiration for the art.
00:28:02.000I'd love to see a study looking at what's happening to their telomeres, what's happening to their DNA, you know, of pilots and stewardesses and stuff.
00:32:31.000Lieutenant General Sir Adrian Paul Gislaine Carton-du-Art was a British Army soldier, officer, born of Belgian and Irish parents.
00:32:38.000He was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration awarded for valour in the face of the enemy in various Commonwealth countries.
00:32:44.000He served in the Boer War, First World War and Second World War.
00:32:47.000He was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip and ear, was blinded in his left eye, survived two plane crashes, tunnelled out of a prisoner of war camp...
00:32:56.000And tore off his own fingers when a doctor declined to amputate them.
00:32:59.000Describing his experiences in the First World War, he wrote, frankly, I had enjoyed the war.
00:33:24.000His father wants him to go and study law.
00:33:27.000And you think, right, that's the end of the story there.
00:33:29.000At 19, he decides that he wants to go and see war, sneaks away without telling his father, and literally offers himself to either the Boers or the British.
00:34:09.000So he gets shot in the ear and then in the eye and then a bullet ricochets and hits him in the same eye again while he's leading these guys into battle.
00:34:37.000In the taxi, leaving the hospital, takes it out, throws it out of a window and starts wearing an eye patch.
00:34:43.000The first battle that he's in, when he rejoins the army in World War I... A piece of shrapnel explodes his hand and all that's left are two fingers hanging on by the skin of the palm of his hand and his watch actually embeds itself in his arm too.
00:34:59.000So this is the first thing that he's encountered again.
00:35:20.000Battle of the Somme, his next battle that he goes into.
00:35:24.000There's reports from other soldiers seeing Carton Duarte running into battle, pulling the pins out of grenades with his teeth, throwing them at the enemy and reloading a revolver with one hand.
00:36:36.00060 years old, in 1940, he gets conscripted and drawn back up to help run secret missions.
00:36:44.000So his first mission, one of his first missions, he gets shot down in a fjord going toward Romania.
00:36:49.000There's a German plane that shot his plane down, circling overhead.
00:36:54.000Rather than get into the dinghy, because it would be an easy target, this one-armed, one-eyed guy and all the rest of the crew just bob under the water until this German fighter plane runs out of ammunition.
00:37:25.000He's then part of five escape attempts and digs a 60-meter tunnel with one arm and a bunch of other dudes.
00:37:32.000Then he spends a full week hiding out in northern Italy, despite the fact that he's 62 years old, one-armed, one-eyed, can't speak Italian, and has covered in scars.
00:37:43.000Then he finally, finally gets picked up and released.
00:37:46.000They said the only thing that the Italians had left to do was to use him to enable an armistice.
00:37:51.000They wanted to no longer be a part of the war.
00:37:54.000They use Carton Duarte to be an envoy between the two nations.
00:38:00.000And they said, well, you've been a prisoner of war for nine months.
00:38:02.000You don't look or smell the way that you should do.
00:38:05.000Why don't we give you a nice Italian tailor?
00:38:08.000And he rejected their offer to give him an Italian suit and said he would only wear one if they got it from Savile Row because, quote, he didn't want to look like a gigolo.
00:40:30.000They need to transport all of these prisoners.
00:40:33.000So they put them on what they called a hell ship.
00:40:35.000And these hell ships were just huge tin boxes with no Swiss cross on the side, which is what you should have to say that you're transporting prisoners of war so that it's not a military vehicle.
00:40:44.000And they would just toss tiny morsels of food down to 100 men.
00:43:13.000Because when you think of Japanese, when I think of Japanese, I think polite culture, warrior society, a long history of martial arts, amazing engineering, incredible automobiles.
00:44:14.000Any reason, whether those people vote Republican or those people don't believe in masks or those people, you know, they have a different belief.
00:44:25.000Those people don't believe in our one God.
00:44:27.000Those people, they're of the unclean faith.
00:44:31.000There's so many different ways people can look at someone as an other.
00:44:38.000It's insane what we're capable of when we do that.
00:44:40.000People openly justify horrible things to people online.
00:45:24.000I think there's this really great psychological study that was done where they bring a big group of people into a lab and they toss a coin.
00:46:13.000There's a lot of strength in being a part of an aggressive group that believes one thing.
00:46:17.000You know, that's why I see like a lot of people that have been sort of bullied their whole lives become the biggest bully.
00:46:23.000If they're on like something, some side of something that they think is like moving progress, moving social progress in a certain direction.
00:49:39.000We've talked about him a few times because of the Gray Man, but they recently just said, Sly said that Ryan Gosling could be the only guy who would, like, vouch for Rambo.
00:52:46.000So what they realized was that collateral damage is a big deal in war zones because if you kill people that aren't just the target, you galvanize that group against your...
00:52:59.000America's secret ninja bomb packed with blades that shred militants alive.
00:53:07.000So there's no explosive in the front of it.
00:53:09.000It gets deployed using an existing platform.
00:53:12.000But rather than having an explosive payload, these razor-sharp, six razor-sharp swords come out the side of it and just turn human flesh into smoothies.
00:53:48.000Because if it was a long enough vehicle, front right seat and back left seat, back left seat will be scared, but it'll be fine.
00:53:54.000So there was this dude, supposedly one of the masterminds behind 9-11, they'd done surveillance on this guy and every morning he'd come out and drink his coffee on his balcony.
00:54:03.000Same balcony, he'd come out and he'd drink his coffee and...
00:54:45.000Do you know what a rage hypodermic is?
00:54:47.000Rage hypodermic is a wild mechanical broadhead that they invented for bow hunting.
00:54:54.000So instead of a bow hunting broadhead being a fixed blade, like a solid piece of metal that's screwed into the end of your arrow, instead it's a mechanical broadhead.
00:55:05.000That upon impacting tissue opens up into this huge opening.
00:55:15.000And it's kind of controversial in that if your blade hits a branch on the way in or like a stalk of hay or something like that, it could trigger it and then it would fuck up the trajectory of the arrow and it might lead to a bad shot.
00:55:34.000So there's that, and then it could get deployed accidentally in your quiver, and you might not know it when you're drawing and shooting.
00:55:42.000It could be open, and it could open up in flight.
00:55:45.000But if it stays close and it does impact, it makes a giant hole.
00:56:12.000But he made me do the trail, but he taught me to shoot, and I was looking at, with gruesome glee, looking at all of the different types of arrows in the bow rack, looking at all of these different heads and all of the different attachments.
00:58:16.000So there's a single bevel broadhead which is a broadhead which is a fixed blade broadhead that has only had the edge sharpened on one side.
00:58:25.000And that rotation has to align with the helical of your veins.
00:58:28.000You don't want them to be fighting with each other.
00:58:30.000So if you have a left helical on your veins of your arrow, you also want a left helical on this broadhead.
00:58:37.000And so these are tuned in tightly together.
00:58:41.000And so it's a very painstaking process.
00:58:44.000You have to make sure you're doing it right.
00:58:45.000You're going to move your rest a little bit.
00:58:47.000But once you get it dialed in and you can shoot accurate out to like 60, 70 yards with it, you know that it's called broadhead tuned.
00:58:54.000So with field points, you don't really have to do that because the fletchings, they steer it enough, and you just have to be kind of on target.
00:59:28.000And these dudes will go out to buttfucknowhere Scotland in November, and it's pissing down with rain, and they're in ponchos, and they do it to see...
00:59:40.000And then they turn to each other and go...
01:00:40.000One of the things that's interesting about archery...
01:00:43.000Is that even if you're just interested in target archery, any kind of archery that you're interested in, unless you are shooting a traditional bow where there's no sights on it and you're just kind of like doing it by feel, then you learn how to aim depending upon how much your arrow weighs.
01:00:59.000You can get pretty accurate with those things, but not nearly as accurate as you can with a compound bow.
01:01:03.000And with a compound bow, it has to be fitted to your frame.
01:01:06.000You have to go to a place like the Borac.
01:01:08.000And if you're lucky and you have a place like that, that's great because they're really good at it.
01:01:14.000But you might not be lucky, so you might have to travel hours to go to some place.
01:01:41.000It becomes, if you practice it enough, it never really becomes an extension of your body, but you do get so comfortable in that activity that it becomes a normal thing to you.
01:01:53.000So then that activity is all just about the fine details of breathing and thinking and shot execution in your head.
01:02:04.000And the goal is always, at least the way I do it, is always to make a surprise shot.
01:02:12.000I want to be in full draw, I want to have my pin on the target, and I want to just be concentrated on that arrow hitting the mark, and then I just go through this shot execution thing and it goes off.
01:02:23.000And when it goes off, the ultimate goal is just watch that arrow go exactly where you wanted it to go.
01:02:29.000And when I do that at like 74 yards, It is the most satisfying feeling in the world.
01:02:48.000That's the key to anything that I really enjoy doing that's very difficult.
01:02:52.000I think you need little vacations from the world.
01:02:56.000And if you have an hour and a half to shoot a bow, It can provide you with a vacation from the world.
01:03:06.000It's so difficult to do and it's so involving and it's so rewarding when you get it right that you're completely locked into this one activity and the world goes away.
01:03:18.000I love the solitude and the peace that you get doing something that you know well and that you can get better at.
01:03:26.000And I often think about three types of Chris.
01:03:30.000Dopamine Chris, serotonin Chris, and cortisol Chris.
01:03:33.000And my goal is to spend as much time in serotonin Chris as possible.
01:03:37.000But, you know, dopamine, Chris, plays on modern wisdom and growing the channel and money and new stuff and traveling to new places and novelty.
01:03:47.000And cortisol, Chris, is dealing with the operations and its executive function.
01:03:50.000It's answering emails and it's dealing with challenges.
01:03:53.000And cortisol is kind of exciting, too.
01:03:56.000But serotonin, Chris, is walking with your friends in nature and calling your mom and catching up and having dinner, going to a comedy show, watching live music.
01:04:08.000When I'm not feeling balanced in myself is when I'm spending too much time.
01:05:33.000I think it was Tim Kennedy talking about...
01:05:35.000If you're a guy who is cared about preparedness and you don't know how to drive a manual car, that's not preparedness.
01:05:42.000Imagine that you're halfway up a mountain and only one car works or you need to get somebody down or there's been a car wreck or something and it's a manual car.
01:05:50.000Are you going to work it out on the fly?
01:06:54.000Yeah, it's a good thing to know how to do.
01:06:58.000The real problem is, if there's some sort of an electronic blast, if something happens, like a solar flare that takes out the grid, and the only...
01:07:09.000Because if electronics get fried, and this is a real possibility, I know you're like, what are you saying?
01:07:14.000First of all, you have to understand, entire planets get fried by supernovas.
01:07:51.000I mean, if we're running into some sort of situation, some horrible event, where all the computers get fried, that means your fucking car doesn't work.
01:08:00.000Now, if you have an old car that works on carburetors, you know, those are cars, like, if you have an actual real 1969 Camaro, not like the ones that...
01:08:09.000I have ones that have new stuff in them.
01:08:37.000I was hearing that my neighbor has a Tesla, and I think he gets his insurance through Tesla, but they can see the diagnostics of how he drives the car.
01:08:46.000So his insurance is way more expensive because it knows how late he brakes, how fast he accelerates, how close to other cars he is.
01:08:53.000You want to talk about encroachments on freedom?
01:09:00.000Algorithm that's used in China that when someone is applying for medical insurance, it uses the website to track the number of typos and the movement of the mouse.
01:09:10.000And they've mapped that with an algorithm to predict pre-Parkinsonian, pre-Alzheimer, dementia, all of these things.
01:09:17.000So basically, if you're filling in your medical insurance in China and you fuck up a little bit, your premium goes up.
01:09:57.000I wonder if they really believe that or if they say that because they know it's not happening and they just want to say that they're a good person.
01:10:51.000TikTok has written into its user agreement that it can use the front-facing camera to detect micro-expressions and use that to inform the algorithm.
01:11:14.000I bet if they have that app, they have that ability and you have it open, I bet they use it no matter what you're doing.
01:11:21.000I bet if you're flipping over and now all of a sudden you're on Instagram or now all of a sudden you're on Facebook or Twitter, I bet they still can see all your time.
01:11:29.000I bet they see exactly what you're seeing.
01:11:31.000Well, think about with the Apple Vision Pro that Jamie's going to have to debate about whether or not he takes it back over the next 12 hours.
01:12:44.000There was not a lot of studies available.
01:12:46.000One study I found was from 1992. And it just said that, like, pilots die sooner after they retire, and it wasn't showing, you know, not radiation.
01:12:54.000Yeah, but isn't that applicable to most men that quit their jobs?
01:14:05.000You're only going to be awake till 10 if you have to work, if you're doing a 9 to 5. If you're a crazy person, you're up at 11, 11.30, and you don't mind being a little tired in the office.
01:14:13.000But if you're, like, trying to be on the ball, you're going to go to bed as early as you can.
01:14:23.000I've been thinking about this idea of hidden and observable metrics for life.
01:14:28.000So an observable metric would be something like the amount of money that you earn per year.
01:14:33.000It would be the value of the car that you drive, or the engine size of the car that you drive, or the value of your house.
01:14:39.000A hidden metric would be something like the quality of your relationship with your partner, the amount of time that you get to spend without tasks to do, the I think?
01:15:08.000We're going to need you in the office earlier.
01:15:09.000And you're going to be in charge of this floor of 10 people.
01:15:13.000Okay, how much more money have you got?
01:15:15.000Well, I've got $15,000 added onto the observable metric.
01:15:19.000But what's the hidden metric cost that you're paying for that?
01:15:44.000It can be exchanged between different currencies.
01:15:46.000I know your game can be compared to my game, can be compared to anybody else's.
01:15:51.000But I don't get to see the dashboard that tracks the quality of your sleep or the peace of your mind or the relationship that you have with your kids or your wife or the amount of time that you just get to yourself.
01:16:03.000And I think people should be very cautious of trading observable metrics for hidden metrics.
01:16:09.000And one of the ways that you can try and fix this is to bring the hidden into the observable.
01:16:13.000So using a tracker of some kind maybe to track your sleep.
01:16:32.000Yeah, no, I think just overall general happiness gets thrown out the window in terms of the metrics of the numbers.
01:16:40.000The numbers and the observable things that make you superior.
01:16:44.000The car, the watch, the stuff, you know.
01:16:48.000But yeah, I always tell people, one of the things about a house, I've said this many times unfortunately, but when I first got my first really nice apartment, when I first moved to California, I realized pretty early on, after a while, I was like,
01:17:46.000I was talking to Dan Bilzerian about this.
01:17:49.000He's kind of on an interesting arc because he's sort of stepped back a little bit from public life, from doing the stuff that he was doing before.
01:17:55.000And I was asking him basically whether he thought he'd overshot Dopamine Dan.
01:18:01.000And he said he was considering shaving his head, shaving his beard and going working in an Amazon warehouse for six months to try and do like a hedonic reset.
01:18:19.000And the fact that you know at any moment you've just got the eject a seat button or that it's going to be over in six months or that it's going to be whatever.
01:18:27.000But yet he basically said, you know, this rapid use and abuse of all of the things that you can, the partying, the cars, the girls, the jets, the holidays, travel, the drugs...
01:19:30.000When I'd drive it around, I'd be like, oh my god, I can't believe this is mine.
01:19:33.000I'd park it, I couldn't believe it was mine.
01:19:35.000But after a while, you get another car, and then you get another car, and then getting a car is just like, this is a great car.
01:19:43.000But you can just do it when you want to.
01:19:46.000So you get to a point where I call it guerilla Buddhism.
01:19:50.000So when people say that material things possess you, they possess you if you're really connected to them and they are your only measure of worth.
01:20:04.000But the only way to know that material goods aren't really – you're not a slave to them is get them.
01:20:11.000Get them, have them and then go, okay.
01:20:38.000My friend James says all wins feel the same.
01:20:41.000And as you start to go up and up and up, the first time that you hit a thousand subscribers on your YouTube channel or the first time that you buy a Toyota Supra is the same or maybe even kind of less than when you get a Rolls-Royce Cullinan or you get a gold plaque from YouTube or you get whatever.
01:21:52.000The problem is, I think that on average, high performers are more miserable than the average person.
01:21:58.000I think that more people are driven by fear and anxiety and a lack – a desire for validation and to prove themselves to the world and a desire for acceptance than some perfectly balanced – Optimal,
01:22:14.000loving, I just want to make life the best that I can.
01:22:17.000That's not to say that there aren't people like that, but I think on balance, most people are driven by that fear of insufficiency and they're hoping that the next thing is going to be the answer.
01:22:27.000But another friend, Alex, says, you've already achieved goals you said would make you happy.
01:22:36.000You've already achieved goals you said would make you happy.
01:22:43.000How can you presume that your happiness sits on the next side of the next set of goals, given that right now you are on the other side of your last set of goals?
01:22:53.000So is the key to learn happiness while you're succeeding?
01:23:20.000And if you can actually appreciate where you are and what you're doing, even if you're not doing what you want to be doing, you're going to look back on these days, if you're successful in life, and you're going to look back on the days when you're kind of struggling, like, wow, I was...
01:25:05.000It's so enjoyable, you'll go out of your way to do it for free.
01:25:09.000Yeah, Robert Sapolsky, who you've had on the show, he says, dopamine is not about the pursuit of happiness, it's about the happiness of pursuit.
01:26:39.000So what you need to look at is what are the pains that you can deal with better than everybody else?
01:26:45.000Like if you, there is pain associated, I'm sure, it's not just pure joy as you stare at a Google Doc or a note in your phone and you're like, how am I going to get this bit out?
01:26:55.000Like, how do I actually, I can't, I need to make this joke about cigarettes or something, and I just can't get it to work.
01:27:22.000And how much do you discipline yourself?
01:27:26.000How much do you really put a rigid schedule towards achieving goals and an understanding that there's going to be these uncomfortable things?
01:27:52.000Because there's so many creative types that don't understand that there's this fucking weird thing that's going on in your head called resistance.
01:27:58.000And it keeps you from doing the work that you want to do that's almost always satisfying when it's done.
01:28:03.000And when you're done, you're like, God, I did it.
01:28:05.000But part of you is going to go, let's not do that.
01:28:53.000So he was a writer, and he paid his servant to come in every night during the middle of the night while he was asleep and pull the bedsheets off of him, off his bed, Leave six pieces of paper in his bedroom and a pen or a quill and lock him in.
01:29:12.000And until Victor had slid all six pieces of paper written on underneath the door, his servant wouldn't let him out.
01:29:23.000But think about when you're really struggling with the creative process, the ridiculousness of the things that will look attractive to you.
01:29:31.000It's like, I haven't sorted these cigar cupboard things.
01:30:34.000I think, like, basically the way you can strengthen your muscles and you can strengthen your cardiovascular system, I think your mind works the exact same way.
01:31:46.000All day long you're lifting weights you're you're involved in Recovery and all sorts if you've got the time to do that It's most as if you have a job too.
01:32:20.000You're bowing to people and shit, saying namaste.
01:32:24.000You've got to be careful with that, though.
01:32:26.000I tried to come up with a name for a trend I saw in myself, which was productivity purgatory, which is even the things that I was supposed to be doing for leisure I was justifying because they somehow contributed to my output for work or,
01:32:43.000you know, I wasn't taking a walk in nature because I wanted to enjoy it.
01:32:46.000It's because I once watched an Andrew Huberman episode that said 15 minutes of sunlight in the eyes improves your productivity throughout the day by whatever, whatever.
01:32:52.000I was like, if you're not careful, you're...
01:32:57.000Everything that you do is infused with this desire, this need, this compulsion to be productive.
01:33:17.000You're going to have to do more or be better, be smarter, figure something out that they're not figuring out.
01:33:23.000It's really a game of who's prepared to sacrifice most.
01:33:26.000It's also who's prepared to learn the most, right?
01:33:28.000Who's good at recognizing what actually happened?
01:33:32.000Versus what you've been comforting yourself with what you mean if there's a bad result Whether it's a bad result of business or a bad result of your personal life like there's always this Desire that people have to find a reason why it wasn't their fault because it's uncomfortable,
01:33:49.000but if you can recognize oh this product tanked because of me and This is a stupid idea and I need to course correct and I need to realize what I did wrong.
01:34:01.000Instead of blaming the suppliers or blaming the manufacturers or blaming the other people on the design team or blaming this but whatever the fuck you're making or whether it's an album you just put out that just everybody hates it.
01:36:05.000Because people look at Elon as this dude, he's sending rockets to Mars, and he's making the coolest cars on the planet, and he's on stage in Japan or China or whatever doing weird robot dances and shit, and he's super rich.
01:36:16.000And you go, you don't know the price that he's had to pay for that.
01:36:21.000You don't know the internal texture of someone's mind.
01:39:27.000Spars constantly, and if you agree to get in there with him, you're essentially agreeing to let him beat the fuck out of you because you don't really have a chance.
01:39:37.000But, in Sean's defense, When he lost to Alex Pajeda, one of the first things he did was go to Connecticut to Glover Teixeira's gym where Alex trains and train with him.
01:39:48.000When we was training with Alex Pajeda, he was light sparring.
01:44:21.000You can learn how to control force in a way that, like, when I used to do Taekwondo demonstrations, like when we'd open up a new school, one of the things you'd have to do is, like, Throw kicks at people's faces like stop it at their face just to show them like the kind of control that's possible and you would have your foot like literally fly up like right in front of someone's face and you would have someone stand there who's another student you would demonstrate on them and You just gotta stand there,
01:47:05.000It'll shorten your durability towards the end of your career substantially.
01:47:09.000You see it in every fighter that comes from that sort of environment, and the traumatic brain injuries that they get when they spar like that all the time, especially when they're not slick.
01:47:21.000The thing about, like, Anderson Silva above all those guys is that Anderson was slick.
01:47:49.000But that was at the end of his career.
01:47:51.000That was at the end of his career when he came to the UFC. Post-TRT. Yeah, he'd gotten off of all the stuff that he was on when he was in Brazil.
01:47:59.000You want fully roided Vanderlei in Brazil when he was a young man.
01:51:28.000And if Luke stuck and moved and maybe had a different strategy, maybe he would have had a better time, but you let Mike Perry start mauling you, he's so dangerous, man.
01:51:40.000Or if he does, he doesn't let you know.
01:51:43.000He's just uniquely built for that sport.
01:51:47.000I wanted to teach you about something that I'd learned on the show.
01:51:50.000So you've had a number of conversations about trans athletes in sport and about the dangers potentially of biological males moving over into women's leagues.
01:52:02.000It comes back to the same, well, if we can get the hormones down to this particular kind of level, basically, can we reverse some of the structural changes?
01:52:10.000And it kind of gets into this realm of hormonal fuckery, which is fine, but I think that's kind of been talked to death.
01:52:17.000There's something that I learned about on the show that I thought was even more important.
01:52:20.000So the male and female brain difference can be detected in utero I think?
01:52:42.00093% accuracy of an MRI between a boy and a girl.
01:52:47.000That's exactly or that's around about the same as your accuracy of detecting whether it's a man or a woman based on looking at their face.
01:53:10.000That doesn't seem to be true, because this is universal, it's across the board, it's present before anybody's even been born, and it's present before androgens.
01:53:20.000But the reason that this is, I think, important towards sport is that one of the key differences is in what's called visuospatial abilities, and males have a huge advantage in visuospatial abilities.
01:53:33.000This is preschoolers, Age three and four, their throwing accuracy and their throwing distance already begins to diverge from girls.
01:53:41.000By the age of 19, there's essentially no crossover at all.
01:53:45.000You could understand why this might be the case because, well, if you're an ancestral hunter, you need to, as a man, be able to see this is an animal running this way.
01:53:54.000I have this particular spear in my hand.
01:53:56.000I'm going to throw it to intersect this.
01:53:58.000So you go, okay, well, one of the problems of using that is you can't bifurcate a male's performance, especially with something like throwing, visual-spatial, from the physical structure that they have, which is impacted by androgens.
01:54:14.000Their shoulders articulate in a different way.
01:54:16.000They might have more trunk rotation, perhaps.
01:54:19.000So they did a study to try and work this out.
01:54:22.000Instead of having them throw things, The lecturers at this university brought their undergrads in and used a tennis ball firing machine like you use for practicing returns in tennis as dodgeball.
01:54:36.000And the guys in the class topped out the ceiling.
01:54:39.000They were very, very difficult to hit.
01:54:43.000The reason is that the male proclivity to be able to see things in space, understand how they fit together, understand the proprioception of where my body is and how I can interact with this...
01:55:25.000Predispositions mentally that men and women have.
01:55:29.000And this is something, this is not, and this is the important thing, this is not impacted by testosterone level.
01:55:34.000So you as a biological male can't take a ton of estrogen or hormone blockers and have your visual spatial ability be down-regulated to that of a woman.
01:55:44.000So this to me explains an awful lot about why the WNBA is struggling because you are talking about a very different set of capacities.
01:55:55.000And unfortunately, I guess, the way that sports are done is it needs to be visually compelling, right?
01:56:00.000You want to see cool things happening.
01:56:05.000A lying detection test or someone turning over cards and matching them doesn't lend itself to being a spectator sport as much, which means that males have this predisposition which is more entertaining given the current rule sets of sport.
01:56:17.000And this to me is a much more compelling unfairness When you're talking about male and female capabilities within sport, this doesn't have anything to do with what time would they put on hormone blockers.
01:56:29.000This doesn't have anything to do with what is their testosterone level at.
01:56:33.000This is innate, inbuilt predispositions.
01:56:36.000But doesn't it have to be agreed upon by the people that are making these sort of decisions?
01:56:53.000Right, but you could see how people would have an issue with that, right?
01:57:00.000Even though it's statistically significant, people would go like, who did the study?
01:57:05.000You know, if you're trying to, like, say that trans women are women, there's a lot of things that you could say that they have an advantage with physically.
01:57:16.000Proving it mentally just based on that, I agree.
01:59:19.000In the pool world, the reason why I was bringing this up, recently a woman made it to the finals of a tournament with a transgender woman and just quit.
02:00:28.000It's the same thing as if you tell someone, hey, I don't do steroids now, but I've done steroids straight every day for 20 years, and I'm so fucking strong, I've run through a wall, but I'm going to stop doing steroids and I want to compete with natural people.
02:00:44.000Well, that's exactly what you would say for a woman.
02:00:48.000If you had a woman athlete, and that woman athlete developed a male voice and giant muscles, but was still a woman, was beating up all these women, you'd be like, oh, that woman was on the sauce.
02:01:05.000If you really say you're a woman and you're going through all that, and then you're after puberty, you're an adult, and then you're going into your 30s, you have your whole life of producing testosterone.
02:01:23.000It's so dumb that we're having this conversation.
02:01:25.000And the people that suffer are the biological women.
02:01:28.000And that was the thing that we were always supposed to be protecting with Title IX. That's the whole idea of developing regulations so that women have sports that they can play that are just with women.
02:01:48.000You have someone play within the parameters of a fair playing environment and you're always going to get outliers.
02:01:54.000You're always gonna get people that are like exceptionally strong and fast for their weight and their age, and then you're gonna be at people that are struggling physically, they just have no experience whatsoever in athletics, and you gotta find the comfortable medium, but it's within a fair parameter of the biological gender.
02:02:09.000This fucking thing that's on your birth certificate.
02:02:36.000You're just caught in some cult-like mindset.
02:02:39.000And the people that are suffering are the women.
02:02:42.000The women that would be competing in just sports.
02:02:44.000You see that thing in Canada where the volleyball players, it's five biological males on a volleyball team and the biological women were sitting there on the bench waiting while the biological males were dominating this fucking woman's volleyball game?
02:04:11.000It's insanity and it's this thing where you're supposed to pretend that they're not lunatics.
02:04:17.000Like, there's a man in Canada that was a 50-year-old man that decided he identified as a 15-year-old girl, so he's competing in girl swimming events, and he was changing in the same locker room as the girls.
02:04:28.000Hey, what are the odds that guy's a creep?
02:04:32.000Might be one to put on the watch list for the police, I think.
02:05:29.000And then you have to think, like, what kind of an influence does that have on young people?
02:05:33.000Like, one of the things about steroids being shunned and illegal, even if it was irrational in some sense, like that if you have an adult male and this guy is 35 years old and he just decides, you know what?
02:06:38.000I feel like it wouldn't be surprising to me if the cascade was, this ruins fairness in sports, and then we retroactively change the gym rat Normal population rule set to ensure that the sporting rule set isn't wrecked.
02:06:53.000I feel like it was probably the trickle down that way from sports and elite sports and tested sports into the public.
02:07:01.000But Derek from More Plates, More Data has talked about this, how if it hadn't been for the fact that there were controlled substances, we would have way safer, better researched compounds.
02:07:10.000You know, we're still using like Trenbolone.
02:07:13.000It's from like the 60s or the 70s or something.
02:07:42.000So the reason for this, and it's really interesting, Seth used a ton of different AI programs to analyze all of this data, and he said he was able to do what would have taken him three years in 30 days.
02:08:48.000One of the other things that no one really ever thinks about is handspan.
02:08:52.000Handspan, one of the biggest determinants for success in the sport.
02:08:55.000So Shaq has a 14-inch handspan from finger to hand because palming the ball, you know, if you're up there and you're able to palm the ball, that's a huge advantage.
02:10:00.000So the hand now weighs a pound and a half more than usual.
02:10:05.000You hit someone and that's like a fucking hammer.
02:10:08.000So if that's the case, that rule is mass of hand equals damage.
02:10:14.000So someone that has denser bones or more muscular hands or bigger hands, that's basically just more weight on the end of your arms that you're swinging at someone's face.
02:10:36.000So, Moneyball was an assessment of the MLB done by a guy that was picked up by the Oakland A's, and he was using very advanced mathematics to look at...
02:11:53.000I'm not going to play the whole thing, but just what's going on here is he's explaining to them the idea of what he was just talking about, the Moneyball, but there's a bunch of old scouts.
02:11:59.000These guys have been around forever, and they're just like, what are you talking about?
02:12:53.000So these Afghanistan documents, these top secret Afghanistan documents that were supposedly held in his garage, as you'd say, there's photos of how it was.
02:13:03.000It was just an open box in the middle of the garage.
02:13:06.000Wasn't it in his Corvette or something?
02:14:17.000Mr. Hur suggested that Mr. Biden's memory was failing and questioned some of his actions, even though the special counsel had found no basis to prosecute the president.
02:14:24.000The issue that he says, basically, in the report is, if you try to prosecute this guy...
02:14:31.000Mr. Biden would likely present himself to the jury as he did during our interview with him, which is as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.
02:14:41.000That's literally what it says in the report.
02:14:45.000Well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.
02:14:47.000So basically, you can't prosecute this guy because he's not compass mentis, but you can let him run for the President of the United States in November.
02:14:57.000So that's the world that we've managed to get into.
02:15:00.000But don't you think that that's a ruse?
02:15:24.000I think more and more comes out about this stuff and more and more comes out about the Burisma thing and the Penn State thing, you know, where the Chinese donated money to Penn State and then he got a million dollar a year gig where he didn't even have to show up.
02:16:29.000And there was like, if you had made a union negotiation back in the day, like we're talking back in the day-day, they would throw in a bunch of no-work jobs.
02:16:38.000So no-work jobs were a part of the thing.
02:17:29.000That he has fucking IV testosterone and cocaine right into his system.
02:17:33.000So you think, you know, this guy who's holding on as best he can, like trying to get through the presidency and there's all of this scrutiny and people are making jokes about him and his team are like, oh, let's put a fucking meme out of him with red eyes after the Super Bowl and then he's got to deal with all the rest of that stuff.
02:17:49.000And then it just makes me feel like, fuck, like that must be really rough.
02:17:54.000To be that guy, to actually be the human that is Joe Biden, that must be really fucking like, I don't know, you're going to be aware, you're going to be self-aware of the fact that you're failing, that your mental faculties aren't there, and you're like being pushed and just this RPM is being pushed higher and higher, 8,000, 9,000,
02:19:46.000But there was a cue card that he had that they were reading while he was on stage, where he was giving some sort of a presidential address.
02:19:52.000You enter the Roosevelt Room and say hello to participants.
02:22:19.000You'll find some of El Salvador's most dangerous gang members packed into massive cells, towers of bunk beds, in what looks like bird cages.
02:22:29.000It's a source of pride for President Nayib Bukele that almost two years ago declared a war on crime.
02:22:36.000A detention center the size of seven football stadiums with capacity to hold 40,000 prisoners, the largest of its kind in Latin America.
02:23:35.000That was, you know, with Duncan Trusholm, when we were in L.A., when the George Floyd riots hit, one of the first things he says, dude, we're going to have a right-wing authoritarian president now.
02:24:47.000The insight around during a time of upheaval and uncertainty, looking for a more dominant leader and a more authoritarian leader, that has roots in evolution as well.
02:24:57.000So this is something that Will Storr talks about, which is there's multiple roots to status.
02:25:04.000So there tends to be two, one being dominance and the other being prestige.
02:25:09.000So dominance is the more authoritarian you will do this because there are negative outcomes if you don't do this and it's more overbearing.
02:25:16.000Prestige is earning reputation through being positive some.
02:25:21.000During times of war and strife, tribes would look for a more dominant leader because you have threat from the outside, so you're going to have someone that's going to be aggressive, they're going to lean in, they're going to try and fix this problem.
02:25:36.000Of course that's going to be who you choose.
02:25:38.000Problem is, if you have someone who is a dominant leader, For times of war, when it becomes a time of peace, that dominant leader isn't just going to step aside.
02:25:58.000But this absolutely has its roots evolutionarily.
02:26:01.000Also, what a bizarre way to run anything.
02:26:06.000To have the guy who runs it be very vulnerable and only have a four-year term.
02:26:13.000And then you can only do two of those four-year terms, and then people are constantly trying to figure out a way to manipulate the reality of the world to get their guy past you, including high-level gaslighting.
02:26:26.000I mean, we've seen some wild gaslighting just the past couple of weeks talking about the economy.
02:26:35.000Well, one of them was Gavin Newsom talking about how great Biden was and how the Democrats record that this has been one of the greatest presidencies ever, full stop.
02:29:33.000Solo polyamorous means someone who has multiple intimate relationships with people but has an independent or single lifestyle.
02:29:41.000They may not live with partners, share finances, or have a desire to reach traditional relationship milestones in which partners' lives become more intertwined.
02:29:50.000Well, I think that seems to make sense with all the dating apps today and all the Instagram DMs and all the people just...
02:29:57.000There's so many more options people have today.
02:29:59.000It makes sense that more people would agree to polyamorous interactions.
02:31:53.000I thought it was interesting that a lot of people whose common talking point was, don't judge someone just based on one misdeed that they do, based on one misspoken thing about some new social campaign or whatever it might be.
02:32:10.000It didn't seem to extend the same kind of leeway to Bud Light.
02:32:30.000But if it wasn't infused into the company, what you're doing is taking a very isolated incident and using that as the canary in the coal mine to say, See?
02:32:47.000It was two things that combined together.
02:32:49.000So the one thing was the Dylan Mulvaney picture on the beer can that drove people nuts.
02:32:55.000But then there was the video of the woman who was in charge who was explaining that they had to rework the image of the brand and that it was a fratty, sort of like bro-heavy, I forget the words she used, but it was a juvenile.
02:33:12.000She was trying to literally- To be a brand.
02:33:14.000But it's literally, you're talking about your entire customer base.
02:33:18.000So she's deciding that the customer base should now be trans.
02:33:33.000Under her guidance, she was like, I'm going to fix this.
02:33:36.000We're going to make it just like I believe the world is, coming from universities that are hyper-liberal into a community where you're in a corporation that's also...
02:33:47.000Subject to all those DEI restrictions and you think this is like the way of the world today and then you do that one thing and then they catch you on video saying all those things about the customers and then the coup de gras.
02:35:07.000I learned from Schultz this interesting thing that I called Schultz's Razor, which is it's not coordination, it's cowardice.
02:35:15.000From the outside, things look like a coordinated attack.
02:35:19.000From the inside, it looks like people not trying to lose their jobs.
02:35:22.000So I think a lot of the presumption is that there is some grand plan.
02:35:29.000Maybe it's a conspiracy or maybe it's just coordination.
02:35:33.000What it is from the inside is this guy has just bought a new house that his wife wanted and his kids go to private school and he needs to keep this job, man.
02:35:41.000And the thing that is currently being pushed at the moment is, okay, we need to go along with this new campaign.
02:36:52.000That does shift the narrative in a certain direction.
02:36:55.000But there's a lot of people that are terrified that they're going to get fired and there's a lot of people that are terrified they're going to get labeled or ostracized or kicked out of the social community so much so they're willing to go along with really ridiculous stuff because they think like that's where the tide of progress is now.
02:37:17.000It's kind of naive to think that if you were a world power that is doing everything you can to sort of like balance things in your favor, including...
02:37:28.000Launching spy satellites, establishing a space force, ramping up your nuclear capabilities, developing these weapons that fucking shred people with precise impact.
02:37:38.000For sure you're going to do whatever you can to change the way a society views things and to influence things in a particular direction.
02:38:04.000Part of the gig is if you want to lie to people about the economy, you want to gaslight him about the record of the president and gaslight him about the immigration crisis and gaslight him about how much money we're spending on these overseas wars, you would gaslight him online too.
02:38:20.000You wouldn't just have the fucking White House press secretary lie and make shit up.
02:38:24.000You would have a bunch of people doing it all over the internet.
02:38:27.000You'd have a bunch of articles written that are just ridiculous, and then people would retweet him.
02:42:36.000It's like part of this little social dance you're doing.
02:42:39.000You remember that we were talking about how you work out whether someone is telling the truth or not?
02:42:45.000This interesting sort of set of questions that I think people can ask themselves, which is, when was the last time that this person I am friends with or whose content I consume on the internet, when was the last time that their opinion surprised me?
02:42:59.000When was the last time that they gave a take?
02:43:01.000And I was like, huh, I might not agree with it, but that's not what I would have predicted had I have known them.
02:43:07.000Something occurs and their response is different.
02:43:10.000When was the last time that they publicly admitted that they were wrong?
02:43:15.000Also really good, difficult to fake signal of authenticity.
02:43:22.000When was the last time that they brought someone on or had a conversation with something that they don't agree with or someone that they don't agree with for a reason other than just mocking them?
02:43:54.000But if you know one of someone's opinions and from it you can accurately predict everything else that they believe, they're not a serious thinker.
02:44:22.000It's always coming from a position of confidence that these other people are pieces of shit and we're going to lay out some out of context examples with no context into why they think they think this and what could steel man that and how can we look at it from their perspective and what's wrong about Everything is always highlighting what's wrong,
02:44:42.000highlighting the cruelty, gaslighting.
02:44:45.000And they're doing it because they're a part of an ideology.
02:44:58.000And there's a lot of that during the...
02:45:01.000The Black Lives Matter riots in, was it Portland or wherever it was?
02:45:08.000It was like literally like crazy violent people.
02:45:11.000They're just wild Antifa dudes that got lumped into these serious conversations about what's ethical and what's not ethical in terms of like what should be done about police brutality and just psychos got involved in it with guns.
02:45:26.000You know, there's this one guy who wound up getting killed.
02:45:28.000He killed some guy, but he just killed someone who was on the other side.
02:45:31.000Just decided, I'm going to go kill somebody.
02:46:07.000But all these things just highlight how uncertain people genuinely feel today because we know those things took place just in really recent time.
02:46:17.000And that was just the tip of the iceberg.
02:46:19.000It was just a minor thing in terms of...
02:46:22.000I mean, it was a major thing in terms of the world, the impact of coronavirus.
02:46:28.000Airborne Ebola, you know, it wasn't like something's gonna kill everybody like what what would break down that we broke down for a disease that killed a very small fraction of people and Those people almost all of them had four plus comorbidities almost all of them.
02:47:57.000And some high number of people, like 80% or something like that, people who got put on ventilators died, as opposed to most of the people that get it.
02:48:43.000Definitely sympathetic to anybody who lost someone.
02:48:48.000That was, in terms of what could happen to the world, a fairly small event in terms of what could happen, like a war, like a nuclear war with Russia.
02:49:00.000Even the severity of a different pathogen.
02:49:03.000Yes, severity of a different pathogen.
02:55:40.000If you're going to tell people things that they don't want to hear, you're going to come across like a bit of a dick for quite a lot of the things that you talk about.
02:55:50.000But yeah, this uncertainty, this like...
02:55:53.000Do people love you for who you are or for what you do?
02:55:56.000I think is a really interesting question to ask ourselves because it's that success and happiness thing again.
02:56:03.000Are you trying to achieve happiness through success?
02:56:06.000Are you trying to make the world love you, to force it by promising your value, by promising your validation, by saying, look, I must do this.
02:56:14.000But the interesting thing, and this was like the second half of his mushroom trip, was he asked himself, Do I love me for who I am or for what I do?
02:56:25.000So I'm asking the world to love me for who I am.
02:56:29.000Because if the world loves me contingent on what I do, then it feels more fragile.
02:56:34.000It feels like it can be taken away from me.
02:56:36.000If I stopped doing what I do, my love would also cease.
02:56:40.000Well, that's a real problem with guys that are in the closet.
02:56:45.000Especially guys in the closet in show business.
02:58:26.000It's interesting because it's that—so I would imagine that if you're one of those people that—and I know a couple of guys that are in the closet, and I've encouraged one of them is a friend of mine to try to come out.
02:59:12.000Or are you just like a psycho that only wants to be the only one that's funny and you hate everybody else who's funny?
02:59:17.000There's just a few of those guys out there, too.
02:59:18.000Yeah, well, that's one of the interesting challenges, I think, that no one really ever gets to see about the gamesmanship that goes on behind the scenes.
02:59:25.000Like, no one knows about how easy Alan Richson from the new Reacher movie or Guy Ritchie or someone else, like, no one knows about how easy they are to work with.
02:59:36.000But, you know, there'll be guys that have been on your show or been on my show or whatever, and you're like, I actually quite enjoyed the episode, but I find them very difficult to deal with.
02:59:45.000Like, they're really difficult to deal with outside of that, and...
02:59:48.000They're at a disadvantage if they're not very personable.
03:00:41.000I think that that's because deep down, a lot of the people doing the performative empathy, toxic compassion thing know that they're projecting a lie.
03:00:50.000They know that they aren't being truthful, that if someone did open the cupboard and have a look inside, that it's full of disgusting, scary lies and fakery and persona and all this stuff.
03:01:02.000So they assume that theory of mind for everybody else as well.
03:01:06.000They can't imagine a world in which this slight slip-up by somebody...
03:01:11.000Couldn't be indicative of their entire personality because they themselves know that this super cutesy, sweetsy, toxic compassion, performative empathy front is just that.
03:01:22.000That if you poked it hard enough, there would be a hole and you'd find out that it was hollow inside.
03:01:30.000I think obviously all of that is accentuated by social media.
03:01:33.000And unfortunately, when I really extrapolate, when I really look forward, I think the way out of this is mind reading.
03:01:40.000This is what I'm really concerned with.
03:01:43.000I'm really concerned with the way out of this being some sort of new level of integration that we're all going to enjoy because of technology.
03:01:53.000Yeah, and that that would be really a solution to all that ails us in terms of so it would it would be like snap map times a billion It would be crazy everyone would know everything about everybody's thoughts But then it would be that thing like hey, what do you got to hide?
03:02:06.000You know there's gonna be a lot of dummies that are gonna go along with that But you're gonna find out how fucking insane a lot of people are too if you can actually look into their mind and see the wiring well, I bet I That the people who are out front the most empathetic, kind, loving, caring people, they are going to be...
03:02:46.000Have you been observing or have you been seeing this skew of young boys to the right and young girls to the left in terms of their political perspective?
03:02:54.000Dude, I think that will be the story of 2024. I think that's the story of this year.
03:03:02.000This huge breaking of young Gen Z males, teenage boys mostly, to the right and of girls really sharply to the left.
03:03:12.000Yeah, you know what's going to change that?
03:03:19.000Yeah, when the ladies need, they need men to take care of them and that the men that have joined their side are all cowards and they're going to cry.