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00:03:28.000They've proven that there's no way you could get the kind of camera that you would need to record that, which film in that small capsule that he was floating around in space in.
00:03:38.000And then there's light coming from two...
00:03:39.000So they have lights on him, these dumb fucks.
00:04:22.000One of the things they did, they took medals away from a couple of people, but the people that take medals away, they say, you can't compete in this sport.
00:04:29.000And now they've pulled them out of a couple sports that nobody gives a fuck about.
00:05:32.000Brian Fogel pointed out that China did the exact same thing in Beijing.
00:05:35.000They won all these fucking gold medals.
00:05:37.000Like crazy they were winning gold medals.
00:05:39.000And when there's a disproportionate amount of gold medals that are being won in your home country, yeah, you're like, okay, skeptical hippo face.
00:05:45.000Why am I a little concerned here that the financial gains of making that many Olympic gold medals are so fucking irresistible.
00:06:35.000The guy who was the head of Balco, who made that clear shit that was undetectable for a little while until they figured out how to detect it, which is what they always do.
00:06:47.000So if you get some dudes coming out of Jamaica or France or Spain or whatever and they just burst onto the scene and they start fucking running faster than anybody else, they're doing some shit that no one knows about yet.
00:06:56.000I know a woman who's gonna compete for a country.
00:09:49.000If you're sprinting full out all the time like that, trying to get to third base, there's so many times where you're doing damage to your body and you're not going to have a chance to recover.
00:09:58.000But if you're on the Jews, you can run faster.
00:10:45.000And also, the biggest disaster in terms of the big mistakes that he's made.
00:10:50.000We've never had a fighter that did a hit-and-run on a pregnant woman and broke her arm and then took off, and then tests positive for drugs because he's on dick pills, and then tests positive again after his comeback, after a spectacular win over Daniel Cormier.
00:11:32.000People don't like to discuss this, but one of the things that easily could be is that John has impulse control because he's been sparring and fighting and at the highest level of the sport for many, many years now, and he's gotten hit in the head a gang of times.
00:11:49.000There was just an article I posted on Twitter that came up a couple of days ago that these neuroscientists were examining Brain injury and violent behavior and how they're connected and how damage to certain areas of the brain has irreparable consequences on the decision-making ability of the person who gets hit.
00:12:07.000I think that's part of it, but also he's been wild since high school, since college.
00:15:15.000There's a lot of guys who are phenomenal athletes that never wind up going to big colleges because they don't have the athletic or financial.
00:18:52.000Well, Vinny Magalese, I know, is working with him in terms of his jiu-jitsu, but his original trainer that found him in Paris is with him here.
00:19:15.000You know, it's not an issue because Stipe is in Cleveland and he has his same coaches that he's always had and a real tight-knit team that's worked great for him.
00:21:26.000I mean, she was stunning, like astonishing looking.
00:21:29.000And I didn't know who she was at the time.
00:21:31.000And, I mean, so she, yeah, she's, if she walked into a bar back then like that, even now, but I mean, back then, you would have been like, I mean, she turns every head.
00:23:10.000They literally were what me and Eddie Bravo used to pray for.
00:23:14.000When we were watching the fights back when nobody gave a shit about the UFC... The thing we always said was, wouldn't it be amazing if some billionaires just threw a shitload of money at it and made it famous?
00:23:25.000Like, we know it's an incredible sport to watch.
00:25:18.000It's incredibly important to realize that a real specialist like Floyd Mayweather will run circles around someone who does not have the same amount of time and knowledge.
00:25:41.000And please caveat that with the fact that Floyd Mayweather didn't even fight him the way he fights other guys.
00:25:46.000If he had wanted not to be touched, he could have done that too.
00:25:48.000Walked towards him, made him work hard, wore him out and started beating him up.
00:25:54.000That's great, and those are great points, but I think if you look at the lay of the land now, Lorenzo wouldn't have done it because now you have two divisions held up.
00:28:44.000The only way you get a superstar, the only way you get a Sugar Ray Leonard, a Muhammad Ali, the cult of personality that comes around those people, they do have all the power.
00:30:37.000That Tony Ferguson fight, when I look at it more and more, I watch footage, I think it's not that bad of a matchup for Conor.
00:30:43.000I used to be like, God, it's a tough fight.
00:30:44.000But I think early, especially early rounds, one through three, with Conor's accuracy and the way Tony gets hit, it's a good fight for Conor.
00:30:52.000Except when it goes past the third round, it could get nasty.
00:35:30.000What's ridiculous is him versus Barboza, if it's like a video game, you look at their attributes, Barboza's striking's like this, but his wrestling's like this.
00:35:37.000Khabib, his wrestling's like this, but his striking's like this.
00:37:09.000So here's a guy who sees what the problems are and he says, okay, we're going to make sure you don't weigh 15 pounds more when you get into the octagon.
00:37:30.000That's why Khabib's just going to get the title and dip out to 70. How about Gleason Tebow?
00:37:33.000Gleason Tebow would fight at 55, and he literally looked like he was 200 pounds.
00:37:36.000He's going to fight at 55. I heard that Darren Till, and I'm sure you'll hear this, but I heard when he stepped into the octagon against Cowboy Snowden, he was 201 pounds.
00:38:17.000Yeah, in the cage after the fight, he said his thumbs are pretty fucked up because he was talking about it in between rounds with his corner.
00:38:22.000And I said, what were you saying about your hands?
00:38:24.000He goes, yeah, man, I did something to my thumbs.
00:38:26.000Like I hit, you know, he's throwing these crazy fucking punches on a guy like Jorge Masvidal, who's no joke, right?
00:39:34.000And he was showing me, it was really yesterday, he was just showing me how, like, he was able to measure his jab.
00:39:42.000So Chris would throw a jab, and he goes, watch, and I'd throw a jab, and he goes, and he would move back just, like, his ability to move back just, just enough.
00:39:50.000So some guys will move back just a little bit too much, and they'll move back a little bit, and then they throw.
00:39:54.000So their measurement of distance is just a little off, and you have time to compensate.
00:39:57.000His ability to move back the precise amount so that you don't have time to react because he comes back, boom, and hits you again.
00:40:04.000So every time you throw, he would make it so his ability to sort of be just out of reach was better than anybody he had fought before.
00:40:11.000Well, no one's better that shit than Lomachenko.
00:46:59.000Because, look, Bisping, it fucking paid off, and it paid off in spades, right?
00:47:04.000He KOs Rockhold, he becomes a middleweight champion of the world, fulfills a lifetime dream, all in 11 days notice.
00:47:10.000The fucking man has cast-iron bowling balls hanging from his dick.
00:47:14.000You can't deny that about Michael Bisping.
00:47:17.000But then, the same thing, the same mentality bites him in the ass, and he goes and fights Kelvin Gastelum just a few days after fighting a fucking crazy fight with George St. Pierre, and he doesn't look good.
00:53:17.000People are writing books on how to deal with a second smart machine agent.
00:53:20.000In four hours, a robot taught itself chess, then beat a grandmaster with moves never devised in the game's 1,500-year history, and the implications are terrifying.
00:53:53.000Hey, what are your thoughts on net neutrality?
00:53:56.000Because I was talking to people online today about net neutrality.
00:54:00.000I posted something about it that it seems to me to be one of those ideological camp issues where if you are leaning right, you think that net neutrality is a bad thing that the market should decide.
00:54:10.000If you're leaning left, you think that there's some regulation that the government should step in and be important because you want to keep people from information.
00:54:18.000You don't want a big Any corporation be able to step in and say someone can or can't have their program on AT&T or Verizon?
00:54:27.000I think that from what I've read there are six major service providers, maybe a couple more.
00:54:34.000That already smells a little bit like a monopoly, but what I think is this.
00:54:40.000First of all, nobody really knows yet, but I think that the bigger issue becomes if these companies provide you service in your area.
00:55:13.000One of the guys on my Instagram, or my Twitter rather, had a really good point.
00:55:16.000He said the real issue that people aren't talking about is the monopolies that these companies have in small areas.
00:55:22.000Like if you're in a certain town, you can only get this kind of company, or Verizon, or AT&T. That's what I'm saying.
00:55:27.000Yeah, and that when you have a company that owns a certain town and then, you know, in certain areas is the only way you can get coverage is you have to do with this one company.
00:55:36.000And not only does it become an issue, but the other issue is that the real question is if you are a service provider and you provide people in this area that service.
00:55:48.000If you use platforms that the other service provides and they compete directly with this, would this service block that?
00:55:56.000Would this service have an incentive to block your access to it or whatever?
00:56:02.000But my feeling is that we'll find out very quickly.
00:56:06.000And as long as consumers have the ability to go over to another provider, as long as consumers have the ability to go, I don't like the way you do business, I want these guys.
00:56:19.000They don't have access to any other options.
00:56:20.000Time will tell you they have a license.
00:56:21.000They have a license in a certain district.
00:56:24.000Consumer backlash is how you fight that.
00:56:26.000If there's enough consumer backlash and people go, this is bullshit.
00:56:29.000Or you just keep net neutrality in place and prevent it, you know?
00:56:33.000I'm going to have some experts on to talk about it soon in the future.
00:56:37.000I'm going over all the data and information, but I just wanted to get people's temperature.
00:56:41.000And it's so funny how people get so aggressive and shitty with you when you just talk about this issue.
00:56:47.000A few people that I had a mute, I was like, good luck, dude.
00:56:51.000Your opinion means shit to me because you just have to be insulting when someone's just asking a question.
00:56:55.000You know, this whole thing is interesting, because there's smart people on both sides of it, and they have compelling arguments on both sides of it.
00:57:13.000I lean towards the idea that you have to have some oversight.
00:57:18.000That you have to have someone who's looking out who makes sure that these companies can't fuck you over and can't prevent you from having access to certain information in certain sites.
00:58:52.000There's another dark side of the marketplace, though.
00:58:55.000I think the news nowadays makes a lot of money on clickbait.
00:59:00.000And so you now have companies, whether it's the Huffington Post or CNN or whatever, who are less interested, it seems, in objective reporting of the news and way more interested in generating Did you see the fucking Newsweek title that they put out about Trump and the Nazis, like, stealing Christmas?
01:00:14.000I'm not nearly as cynical as a lot of people, but as I get older and I see how irresponsible a lot of the news is, how much money there is to be made by just hinting or associating somebody's name with something Kind of volatile.
01:01:45.000This idea is, he's trying to sell people on the idea that your Christian values have been suppressed by this mediocre left-wing government, and he's stepping in here to make America great again.
01:02:30.000There's people with red hat tattoos that say Make America Great Again on.
01:02:34.000There's dummies in every fucking quadrant of this earth.
01:02:36.000But, you know, I have to say that the mainstream media, and I know I've never been a fan of Trump, but the way they treat him with this kind of stuff that I constantly hear, this petty shit, the way he drinks water and stuff, It's made me more sympathetic.
01:04:14.000Yeah, well, it's just very, it's very crazy.
01:04:18.000Yeah, and how about he started to, he started to like ISIS posts on Facebook, and then he reached out to ISIS and went, hey, looking to complete this mission, how do I get a hold of the guns and bullets?
01:04:30.000And ISIS was like, homeboy, if you have to ask for the gear, it might not be for you.
01:04:34.000Like, what the fuck are you talking about?
01:05:10.000They literally protected American lives and he's not mentioning it.
01:05:14.000So this petty bullshit that they do when they're saying things like how Trump stole Christmas with white nationalists and Nazis, that kind of petty shit enforces his petty shit.
01:06:23.000I remember writing something about this, but like the idea that you in social media, if you...
01:06:29.000We all have moments where we do some crazy shit, where we say stuff out loud that's politically incorrect, or we just behave in a way that could make you crazy, right?
01:07:19.000That's a comedic example, but it's true.
01:07:21.000But I'm saying that nowadays, and I was thinking about this, nowadays, anything that you do, if you're having a moment, if you're having a moment, or you make a mistake...
01:07:29.000Describe a moment, though, B. I think you've got to be careful with this.
01:09:14.000Because with those men, let's just take those men, they could have been discredited and cut out at the knees depending on when that activity was exposed.
01:09:23.000Okay, but you're talking about technology.
01:09:24.000It could have undermined everything they were working for.
01:09:54.000Isn't it an American because it hasn't been exposed and we don't have a new realization of what human beings are?
01:09:59.000And so isn't all of this excruciating, detailed information that comes out about anybody that's seeking power, isn't it ultimately like a good thing to see like, oh, he's like me.
01:10:13.000So instead of thinking there's some person, some Dalai Lama guy who's going to come save us, the one guy on the planet doesn't have any vices.
01:11:16.000Don't you think people are being held accountable more, though, B? Like, there's actual, like, bad dudes who are like, ah, fuck, it's There's good and bad.
01:11:26.000I just hope that we come back around with the fact that human beings are complicated, that we're all fucking up, that just because I fuck up in this act doesn't mean I'm a bad person all the way through.
01:11:36.000Trevor Noah said something that was interesting.
01:11:38.000He said, what I don't understand about Americans is how you can't be both things.
01:11:42.000Why do you have to be one thing or another?
01:11:43.000You gotta have a black hat or a white hat.
01:11:45.000Can you be, is it possible to sympathize with the Black Lives Matter and also be pro-cop?
01:14:44.000If you don't want something and I'm humiliating you or embarrassing you, and if I did that because I'm an idiot, then I've got to make amends and figure out what I did wrong.
01:14:54.000You're 100% right, but we have to understand what you're saying when you're saying the line.
01:14:57.000The line includes free speech, and free speech for 320 million people is going to leave an exorbitant amount of human beings that feel like they should gang up on everybody any time something goes sideways.
01:15:07.000And that's what you see and that's what you feel.
01:17:18.000She doesn't know what it's like to be a man.
01:17:20.000Sometimes you want to compliment somebody.
01:17:23.000There's also the reality, and this is something I've been talking about in my act a lot.
01:17:27.000There's a reality of the way women are allowed to dress both on television and in real life in office situations where they expose enormous swaths of skin.
01:17:39.000If men in the office were wearing skirts, and you could see their toes, and they had sleeveless shirts, and this is common.
01:17:46.000This is commonplace, and there's nothing wrong with it, and there's nothing inappropriate about it, and I'm not commenting on it, like, criticizing it, but the reality of the way women are allowed to dress, like, if you watch Megyn Kelly on television, she's, especially during the Fox News days, when she's the ice princess, she wore these very small dresses that looked like she was going out for a hot night on the town.
01:18:22.000Girls that dress like that should be allowed to dress any fucking way they want.
01:18:26.000But there is a reality of the way they're dressing that is way more sexually suggestive than anything that a man is allowed to wear.
01:18:34.000There's not a sexual equality when it comes to wardrobe.
01:18:37.000When it comes to wardrobe in an office, if every woman dressed like Barbara Walters in the 1980s and wore a fucking pantsuit and had one of those big collars on and shit, dress like Ellen.
01:18:48.000Every woman was like Ellen when she hosted her show.
01:18:50.000But this is why all women should be in burkas.
01:18:52.000But that outfit, that Ellen outfit, is basically like a female version of what men wear.
01:18:58.000When men are on television, they wear a suit, jacket, they wear a nice shirt, they wear pants with a belt.
01:19:03.000Isn't there also a truth to how men naturally are drawn to women in certain outfits?
01:19:08.000I mean, like men are more visual overall than women.
01:20:51.000I know a lot of people, especially in the TV business, that the writer would hook up with one of the girls who was in production, and then they wound up being married and having kids.
01:21:02.000And I also know a lot where the writer would hook up with one of the girls in production and then they would break up and it would be a fucking disaster on the set and one of them would wind up leaving.
01:21:11.000Let individuals take that responsibility.
01:21:13.000Okay, you know what we're all asking for?
01:21:14.000We want a higher authority, a corporate, nameless, faceless bureaucracy.
01:21:23.000To lay down these laws on high in stone.
01:21:27.000And there are certain things you can't do.
01:21:38.000Instead of giving individuals the responsibility for managing their own relationships, their own romance, and now in colleges, and now in fucking Fucking colleges.
01:21:49.000My nephew's got to sit there and every step of the way sexually he's got to go, is this okay?
01:25:54.000It was one of those weird moments where someone is being sexually aggressive, and they think it's funny, and then they try to take it to the next level to show you how crazy they are, or something like that.
01:26:39.000You look at people so differently because children are so vulnerable.
01:26:42.000And when you have a little kid and you see that little kid trying to make their way through the world, you think about them being victimized by some sort of an evil predator.
01:27:19.000One kid was all fucked up and bruised and the parents put this fucking camera and they caught the lady picking the kid up by his arms and literally throwing him across the room and you watch it and you're just like, oh my god.
01:27:30.000It'd be tough for me not to go to prison if I came home and saw that.
01:27:43.000One of the things they talk about, like how students are so entitled and they became sort of like this idea that they can say anything they want.
01:27:50.000That's sort of the whole movement of my personal sovereignty is everything.
01:27:54.000One of the theories would be that in the 80s, when kids started disappearing and you started reading about it, all of us as parents, as human beings, there's nothing worse, right?
01:29:05.000And then another time when I was 13, some guy like literally tried to get closer and closer to me and my friends.
01:29:11.000He would jog around this lake that we would fish at, sit down and talk to us, seemed like a super nice guy.
01:29:16.000And then it got creepier and weirder until one day he showed up drunk and he told me he loved me and that no love could be, you can't have love without sex.
01:30:17.000My buddy got, from the age of 9 to 12, this guy was just this master manipulator and he ended up like getting essentially raped from 9 to 12 and he was their neighbor.
01:30:29.000He was like, he lived, he was like probably 25, whatever, and he lived and he did work around the place and he, what he was really good at was he got my friend Like, he created a sympathetic character.
01:30:45.000So my friend felt like he was like, I was having sex with him because I felt like I was taking care of him.
01:31:51.000Well, you know, I think humans need to pay attention to the worst aspects of our behavior.
01:31:57.000And one of the things that Jordan Peterson has said that I think is incredibly important is what scares us the most about Nazis and murderers and psychopaths and rapists is we are all human and given the right set of circumstances with the right set of input and the right set of genetics and the right set of environments and the right set of life experiences and the right set of abuse in the household growing up, you could be that person too.
01:32:20.000Yeah, and when you talk to neuroscientists and people that are actually studying how the human brain develops, and one of the things that Robert Sapolsky said when I had him on the podcast was a really fascinating thing.
01:32:31.000He said that I think in the future we are going to look back at the idea of punishing someone for their actions.
01:32:38.000As being so incredibly short-sighted and foolhardy, because what this person is, when you think about the concept of determinism, right?
01:32:45.000The concept of everything in your life has led you to be who you are right now, and your idea of free will is essentially an illusion.
01:32:52.000Your free will is based on so many different factors that you have no control over, and they influence you to such a great deal.
01:32:59.000The idea that this person is in this terrible situation that does this terrible crime is just acting out of evil intentions.
01:33:06.000It's a foolish way of understanding how the human brain develops.
01:33:16.000Back in the day when somebody had an epileptic seizure, you were thought to have been possessed by a demon.
01:33:22.000If you hit somebody, you would be held accountable to that.
01:33:26.000But what I thought was fascinating is World War I. Dan Carlin talks about this as well.
01:33:30.000In World War I, when they didn't know what...
01:33:34.000What kind of concussion, the bombs and their concussion would do to a soldier over and over and sleep deprivation living in those trenches.
01:33:41.000And what happened was some people would just begin to go in shock.
01:34:04.000Well, here's the thing, too, of the problem with drafting an army or requiring people to sign up or making it some sort of a cultural mandate is there's some people that are just not designed for war.
01:34:42.000There's a lot that happens to people, and obviously the psychological trauma of it all, and knowing that at any step, you can step on a landmine, any step you can catch a bullet in the head, any step.
01:34:52.000Well, Jordan said something else that was interesting.
01:34:55.000He's helped people with PTSD when they come back from a war and they were from Iowa and they had a very sort of linear notion of, first of all, the military.
01:35:18.000And some of these guys end up doing things that are...
01:35:21.000To them or because of the circumstance maybe inexplicably cruel or just they did something that they can't live down and He would always kind of help them see that Human beings being the bipolar ape that we are are capable of incredible kindness and in beautiful construction and of course on the other side of that you have in you the ability to do unspeakable violence and terrible destruction for its own sake And oh,
01:35:59.000The only way you get from the wild ape swinging through the fucking trees in the jungle to 2017 with your Tesla driving you down the street without you even touching the steering wheel, the only way you get to that is through aggression.
01:36:11.000I mean, it sounds crazy, but you get to that through aggression and competition because if you don't have that ability to survive, you're not going to get past the Jaguars, you're not going to get past the invading tribes.
01:36:24.000I'm not saying you need it today, but the only reason why...
01:36:28.000We got out of those terrible situations is because we had the ability to become that monster that defends itself or that monster that attacks for its own interests.
01:36:37.000That's literally what facilitated us developing.
01:36:40.000Yeah, and also the fact that development requires a certain amount of destruction in in terms of like I did this podcast with them I'm gonna drop soon on mixed mental arts and we He said something, because somebody wrote this article, this woman, a professor, wrote this article about how certain speech is violent because when you say something that I disagree with or that hurts my sensibilities, it puts me in a state of stress, and that would be violence.
01:37:03.000And so Jordan said, fine, let's extrapolate for a second.
01:37:07.000Yes, it's true that words can pierce your heart.
01:37:10.000I mean, he said, I'd rather get punched in the face.
01:38:33.000There's a lot of that out there, man, because they're not good at it, because they don't want to face that ultimate objective view of who they really are and their actual capabilities.
01:38:41.000They'd rather get a bunch of fucking weird social justice brownie points for a bunch of weird things.
01:38:50.000And you can see those patterns and the way those people talk.
01:38:52.000They have very specific ways of talking.
01:38:54.000You can point out very specific things that they say, things that they talk about.
01:38:58.000They're going to be the first to talk about white privilege.
01:39:01.000They're going to be the first to talk about trans rights and all these different...
01:39:04.000And there's a way of talking, an actual pattern that the way they communicate, your words are violence.
01:39:11.000There's literally a pattern that they've adopted, a predetermined pattern of behavior of thinking, the ideology, and the way they communicate so they all know that they're on the same team.
01:39:21.000Yeah, it's called owning your impact, your verbal impact.
01:39:24.000Yeah, and there's a pattern to the way the noises come out of their mouth.
01:39:29.000It's fascinating because they're so uniform.
01:39:33.000It's so common to hear these people talk the same way.
01:39:36.000When Jordan Peterson got in this debate on television with this It looks like a man, and I say it in the same way that they and them are, you know, pronouns.
01:39:46.000I don't know if this is a man or a woman, because he's clearly uber-feminine, but has a beard, and says there is no biological difference in gender.
01:40:38.000You know, with the communists, communism was a true religion in the Soviet Union, and they had essentially clergymen, people who were sort of, you know, the purest form of a priest, the idea that somebody would go around and check with the soldiers to make sure that their piety, that their allegiance to the communist cause was intact, and they'd ask you questions and stuff.
01:40:59.000Are other cultures having these problems, where these surnames are coming up and all that stuff?
01:41:28.000At least with on high religions, they're rather fixed.
01:41:31.000It seems that man-made religions tend to be more ideologies.
01:41:35.000And the difference between those, by the way, is philosophy is something that's trying to get to the truth with logic and reason and debate.
01:41:42.000Ideologies, there's no room for debate.
01:43:16.000I can unpack that for you at great length if you want, but in the interest of time, I won't.
01:43:22.000So that's a very popular misconception.
01:43:24.000So essentially, in my transgender studies classes, what we're doing is looking at actual research and identifying ways...
01:43:30.000That current social issues related to trans people or things that are associated with trans, such as free speech arguments and claims, how that connects to the way that people are thinking, the way that research has been framed, the histories of systemic...
01:43:46.000I don't focus on pronouns because pronouns are actually part of a cisnormative culture.
01:46:17.000And more importantly, I think I would have gone out of my way to make no big deal about it and they would have been included.
01:46:23.000Yeah, but we're not talking about you.
01:46:24.000What we're talking about is that sort of conversation is a nonsense conversation and this is going on over and over and over again because those people are in a cult.
01:47:11.000Mental illness for a long time, even to suggest that that may be a subset of the population.
01:47:18.000Maybe it's worth it when you have a child.
01:47:21.000Well, if you have a child who's thinking of themselves, there are people, Hollywood actors, that are having their children, from what I have heard, haven't seen this, what I've heard from people that I know.
01:47:38.000Owen Benjamin got in a shitload of trouble for talking about a guy who has a three-year-old that he's putting through hormonal blockers and he was talking about how fucking insane that is.
01:48:09.000Frontal cortex does not even fully develop until you're 25. That was one of the things that Sapolsky talked about as well.
01:48:14.000Just wait until you're 25. Yeah, but there's some kids that at a very young age are very adamant about the fact they were born in the wrong body.
01:48:23.000And some of them, you look at them and you go, well, it makes sense.
01:48:25.000So it's like who's right and who's wrong and when do you decide?
01:48:33.000There's something wrong with our culture where we think that that's a good idea to interfere with the hormonal system of a very complex thing, like a human being.
01:48:57.000They didn't want to have a story on about transgender children because they showed that 85% of the kids that wanted to be trans after a couple years changed their mind.
01:49:08.000There was a giant percentage of these kids that went through a phase.
01:49:11.000You know, Ruby Rose, that famous actress, I think she's a lesbian.
01:49:18.000She said that when she was young, that she had thought about being trans, and she's really happy that she didn't actually go through it with the hormones and everything.
01:50:28.000Is it possible that we could be more accepting as a society and as a culture, and then these people could just be whoever the fuck they want to be?
01:50:48.000That guy should not be educating young minds.
01:50:51.000And people are coming out of those schools.
01:50:52.000Thousands of people every year are coming out adopting these ideas.
01:50:56.000Let me know what college he's in, because my son's not going there.
01:50:58.000And they rebel against their parents, and their parents might be some fucking right-wing, square-jawed knucklehead, you know, that has some stupid ideas about what a man is and what a woman is, and it is, and God says a man should not live with a man.
01:51:10.000Dude, studios and directors get massive heat for not having transgender actors Characters and stars and all that and there's this index.
01:51:20.000How many lines did women say versus how many lines did men?
01:51:24.000How many female strong characters are?
01:51:26.000It's just like, can we just let people...
01:53:09.000At the top of the sort of power structure now, the inverted power structure, is people that are the most oppressed.
01:53:17.000They're the voices that have to be heard the most.
01:53:19.000The problem with breaking this down into all these sections is you get ultimately to...
01:53:25.000Because when they had this huge—Christine Summers talks about this—they had this huge intersectionist, feminist sort of congregation where all these women got together.
01:53:34.000But in the group, when they were meeting in the convention center, they started breaking up.
01:53:39.000They were like, well, we have allergies, so— We're not over there.
01:53:43.000And by the way, you're black, but you're white, you're a feminist, but you date, you're a black feminist, but you also, you date a white woman.
01:53:49.000Sorry, you're a little more privileged.
01:55:14.000My favorite story is there was an all-girls college, and this woman is running for president of student council, and she decides that she's a male.
01:56:59.000They were just way too sensitive and they didn't have life experience.
01:57:03.000The problem is I like talking to people that have bills and jobs and people that have relationships that didn't work out so good and now they have a fucking kid but some lady who hates them.
01:57:32.000It's just not a smart thing to do because those people in those colleges are very, very young.
01:57:37.000You're dealing with 19-year-olds, 20-year-olds, and they're in this weird ideological bubble.
01:57:41.000There's all these fucking people that are just jammed in together in this group, and everybody's trying to stand out in weird and unique ways, and there's people that are doing it by claiming they're Masculine ascender, genderqueer, and changing their name.
01:58:27.000You can relate to that person, not relate, but the fact that you can stop them from talking, or that you think you can stop them from talking just because you've suffered yourself as well.
01:58:42.000If you want to be a performer, well, you need to fucking get an act, you need to get booked at the club, you need to become a professional, have people come and pay to see you, and then you can express yourself.
01:58:51.000You're violating the audience versus performer rules.
01:58:55.000I also think that people who are that sensitive, they haven't really figured out what they believe in.
01:59:01.000They don't really believe in what they're saying.
01:59:03.000They just belong to a group and they like being a good foot soldier.
01:59:06.000They haven't really thought out why they're on that team.
01:59:10.000They might have thought it out, but they've been thought it out with a bunch of other people that are thinking the same things that they think.
02:00:11.000We have suffered more than you, Brandon!
02:00:13.000But if you go back to, you know, what we're talking about, about determinism, I mean, is your life, are you right now in the middle of conscious decision-making that's shaping your destiny, or are you a product of all your life experiences, all of the input that you've received, your genetics?
02:00:29.000See, it's a very dangerous, scary area because I don't like taking personal responsibility away from people.
02:00:36.000I don't like it either, but the reality about human bodies, and Rhonda Patrick was talking about this the other day, morbidly obese people have differences in their sperm that is transferred onto their children that does not exist when that person loses the weight.
02:00:50.000When a person loses the weight, all those genetic problems go away.
02:01:00.000If you do have a genetic propensity for whatever it might be – gambling, alcoholism, obesity – it doesn't mean as a human being you can't figure out a way to – Game the system so that you don't fall victim to it.
02:01:21.000And we have to keep that open as a possibility so that my free will counts for a lot.
02:01:35.000She was saying that the genes that are problematic amongst obese people, those genes, they change when the person loses the weight.
02:01:44.000So even if a person has gastric bypass surgery and they lose the weight and they get down to a normal weight where they're not obese anymore, their genes that they express and the way they transfer them to their children, they will be different.
02:01:57.000Meaning that those kids could be skinny.
02:02:46.000It's one of those things where, you know, if you make choices and then your children see those choices and make those same choices...
02:02:54.000You know, you're responsible for passing that pattern on in some sort of a way.
02:02:59.000And sometimes people don't realize that until someone like Rhonda Patrick says it.
02:03:02.000And one of the things that Rhonda sent me was an email that she had gotten where someone sent to her this guy that was literally listening to that, eating some shitty food and put it down and decided there and then to make a change in his life.
02:03:14.000He's like, I didn't think that this was gonna literally change my genes that I pass on to my children.
02:03:20.000See, the more you learn about stuff, you get a lot of education, man.
02:03:24.000Not of your destiny, but maybe your children's destiny.
02:03:26.000Yeah, some people just don't know, man.
02:03:28.000Well, you're not just, you're literally hamstringing them from birth.
02:03:31.000If you're a fat fuck and you have these kids, sorry, fat shaming, you let it out of the gate, you know, and your children from the jump are dealing with all your poor choices and you have to see that, that's going to punish you.
02:03:45.000A lot of people just didn't know that, you know, it used to be like high-fiber, low-fat diets, how you lose weight, and people couldn't lose weight.
02:03:51.000Then they were like, try not eating sugar and bread and things that spike your insulin.
02:03:55.000Yeah, but then some people who are obese, are they saying it's a mental weakness, or is it a mental illness?
02:04:05.000Everyone has the ability to do things different.
02:04:08.000Nothing's stopping you from just cutting all the bad carbs out, cutting all the refined sugar, cutting all the refined carbohydrates, eating a very healthy diet, and then working out all the time and slowly but surely losing the weight and becoming healthy.
02:04:23.000Nothing is physically stopping you from doing that, right?
02:04:45.000But I don't think helping them, I don't think you can help them by saying you're fat-shaming them by talking about the fact that being fat is gross.
02:06:26.000Give them the opportunity to see how you see them, and if not, you've got to find other people that are more motivated to improve their life.
02:06:34.000And in community and information, I also include things like this podcast.
02:06:39.000Anytime people are talking about these things, uninhibited, uninterrupted, and uncensored, where you get to see the real thoughts that they have, and then Backed up by information from people like Rhonda Patrick, from scientists, from peer-reviewed studies, things that you read, you get a sense of like, oh, I'm not alone in this, okay?
02:06:58.000There's a bunch of other people that are thinking about these issues as well.
02:07:00.000Like, what can we do, what can I do on a personal level to get past whatever weird shit I'm tripping up on my life?
02:07:25.000Because I don't have a drinking problem, but knowing that I can't drink.
02:07:31.000It's like inhibiting myself from that, no smoking, and then also having these 15 fucking yoga classes that we had to do, 90-minute yoga classes in a month.
02:10:05.000Yeah, it's a weird conversation, right?
02:10:08.000It's like, where do you draw the line?
02:10:12.000What is more important, performance or happiness, right?
02:10:16.000That's another thing, because sometimes your performance, in order to reach the real peak levels of performance, especially to maintain it as a champion, you're not necessarily going to be happy.
02:12:05.000They all wanted to be on Home Improvement.
02:12:07.000They wanted to have their own show like Roseanne.
02:12:09.000Didn't work out for everybody, and he was one of the guys that didn't work out for, but what he did have that he wasn't getting recognition for was some of the best fucking stand-up ever.
02:12:48.000If you went to see a guy on the road, they usually took some guy with them that sucked, and that guy would do 15-20 minutes of shitty stand-up, and then this person would go out there and look like a god.
02:12:58.000And that was the standard move that everybody did.
02:13:01.000George Carlin, for the longest time, took this guy on the road with him that didn't work any other places.
02:13:26.000But I think one of the factors that happened was that there was more opportunity available, so there wasn't this feeling of scarcity.
02:13:32.000Because before, when it was just everybody trying to get a network show, everybody was like, hey man, you might be trying for the same part I'm trying for.
02:13:39.000I want to be the host of The Tonight Show.
02:13:40.000You want to be the host of The Tonight Show.
02:13:46.000Then in the 2000s it opened up and the internet sort of opened up all these different possibilities and then guys like us realized, hey, I don't really get represented correctly in anything that I do that other people write.
02:14:00.000What I need to do is figure out how to just be myself.
02:14:03.000Like, people have this distorted idea of who you are because you hosted Fear Factor, or you were on Mad TV as Pool Boy, or whatever the fuck it is.
02:14:46.000He studied highly successful groups, SEAL Team 6. Oh, this is all you're talking about.
02:14:50.000about yeah seal team six uh uh fucking uh even jewelry thieves so they were like these amazing jewel thieves they studied them and they were these guys and they would come in they stole from a in the middle of the day in tokyo 105 million dollars worth of diamonds i think they went to monaco same thing stole like 50 million dollars worth and got away in speedboats right i mean
02:15:14.000I mean, these guys would come in, 45 seconds, come in, bash, and they were like, holy fuck, they couldn't figure it out.
02:15:40.000Serbian Crow out special forces guys right they just they were just too organized they were like like literally they moved They would dress up as women.
02:15:51.000They'd come in like these beautiful women.
02:15:53.000Turns out they were men, but they look like women.
02:15:55.000Well, there's no biological difference.
02:18:59.000And when you study these highly effective groups, and they look like great basketball teams, Popovich, you love this, Popovich, I didn't know that the- That the Spurs are the most winning in the past 20 years.
02:19:10.000The most winningest team in the past 20 years.
02:19:12.000Winningest American team in the past 20 years.
02:19:48.000Is a great team just having killer individual players, or is it having really good individual players in a killer environment and they all grow and get better together?
02:19:57.000You've got to think that a guy who's in the NFL, say, for his first year, as long as he doesn't get injured, if he keeps playing and he keeps hustling and keeps learning, he's going to be better in two years, right?
02:20:10.000But you've got to think that these players are going to get better at basketball, better at competing under pressure, and get better at playing together.
02:20:36.000Instead of like a Cleveland or a Miami, you know, we just put all these superstars together, Houston or OKC, the Golden State Warriors were draft and they came up as a team.
02:20:47.000But even like teams, I don't know a whole lot about teams, but teams that grow up, that get put together, they depend upon some sense of community.
02:20:55.000And when that community falls apart, like remember when Shaq and Kobe were beefing?
02:21:07.000And that kills things because the minute somebody has dominion just on who they are over the group, that becomes a problem because everybody has to share ideas.
02:21:16.000This structural engineer, you heard me talking about this structural engineer and this architect, he did this amazing study where he took CEOs, lawyers, Business students and kindergartners.
02:22:55.000Is it your identity that holds you back?
02:22:57.000I think it's the amount of time and energy that you put towards something.
02:23:01.000And whether or not you're willing to be obsessed by it, Yes and no, though, Joe.
02:23:04.000And I think that some parents and some people that are adults just do not have the same kind of time that a nine-year-old has to think about things all day.
02:23:13.000They don't have the same amount of things in their head.
02:23:15.000They have too many bills and stresses and distractions and things pulling them away in different angles.
02:23:21.000And they don't have this sense of who they are the way an adult does.
02:23:25.000That sense of who you are could be very limiting.
02:23:28.000You can have this decision that you have in your head.
02:25:11.000They come with all kinds of weird feelings.
02:25:13.000Let's stay in this, stay in this, learn how to stay uncomfortable in this, and let's figure out a way to get the fuck out of this.
02:25:20.000Right, because the real killers and the real winners, they're going to be killers and winners in any sort of scenario, but you can develop more winners if you have a better structure.
02:29:53.000We were just having a conversation on text the other day where I was telling him how proud I was of him and about how he hustles and then he's got discipline and I think that's one of the things that holds a lot of comedians back.
02:30:02.000They don't have the kind of discipline.
02:30:03.000This guy's out there doing things a couple years into comedy that guys who've been doing comedy for 10-15 years can't do.
02:30:10.000Well, let's just keep this humorous for a sec.
02:34:18.000But don't you think this is a part of what we were talking about earlier is that the more information that gets out, the more you understand, like, the Harvey Weinsteins or the Bill Cosbys or the evil people of the world that have gotten away with it for so long because of power.
02:34:31.000But the more this stuff comes out, the more we'll have...
02:34:34.000We have a more nuanced understanding of what a human being is.
02:34:38.000You know, like, Neil Brennan was talking on...
02:34:54.000I think there's something about wanting to crush on stage and figuring out, like, how to do it and having those thoughts inside you that people find so humorous.
02:35:07.000And those deeply disturbing thoughts sometimes where you're just scratching the base layers of your psychology and looking to see what makes it bleed.
02:35:17.000It's hard to find that place when you're a regular person with regular sensibilities and you fit into this normal pattern.
02:35:25.000I mean, you might every now and then get a really funny guy who comes out of that, but most of them, when you get to know them, you find some dark shit.
02:36:55.000He's got a place that Bob, who works in accounting, his wife is fucking her personal trainer and his kids call him a piece of shit and he takes a Xanax every night.
02:37:05.000Rob doesn't have that place in his brain.
02:37:55.000This has been something that's been going on for a while.
02:37:58.000When is it okay and when is it not okay to hit the back of the head where it counts as a KO? If you do it on the ground, you can get severely disqualified.
02:38:08.000DQ'd or points taken away, depending on how much damage you do to a person.
02:38:12.000But if you do it, stand it up, whether it's with a head kick, which a lot of times hits the back of the neck, If it's in movement, right?
02:38:19.000If it's in the transition and you hit the elbow, you're good.
02:38:24.000If someone's squirming on the ground and you throw an elbow and you hit him in the back of the head, a lot of times they can take points away.
02:38:30.000But isn't there a big difference between doing something on purpose and doing something in the heat of the chaos?
02:39:24.000And the idea that somehow or another you should be able to control it on the ground when you're actually in physical contact with someone, right?
02:39:31.000You actually physically have their body that you're trying to manipulate and control while they're bucking around.
02:39:36.000Versus they don't have any control of your body.
02:39:38.000You're standing up, you're away from them, and any shot that you land that's on the back of the head somehow or another is okay.
02:39:43.000It just shows you we have a little more ways to go with the evolution of fighting.
02:42:01.000I was like, that easily could have been me.
02:42:03.000I easily could have got head kicked and my head bounces off the fucking concrete.
02:42:08.000Well, that was like When you go to practice and you're going to spar, somebody was going to get kicked in the head if they weren't careful and somebody would do the chicken.
02:42:15.000Like I said, there would always be a guy once a month who would get hit.
02:44:08.000Brendan, do you think that if fighting was as profitable, say, as baseball, basketball, football, we'd obviously have very different athletes in the game.
02:44:27.000If athleticism plays as big a part in fighting, in the umbrella of fighting, as it does in, say, basketball or football, so if you're either making the NFL or the NBA, you know, there's a lot to the game, of course, but I feel like athleticism plays a bigger factor.
02:44:44.000Like, some guys can be not as athletic in a lot of ways, like George St. Pierre.
02:45:11.000It was before the Rafael Dos Anjos fight.
02:45:15.000He lost to Dos Anjos after that, and then after that, he beat Michael Johnson, and then after that, he beat Conor.
02:45:21.000There's the X factor with fighting, where guys who are not as fast, not as strong, they can't jump aside, not as all that other stuff, somehow are able to Close that distance.
02:47:40.000Luke can fight at 205 if he wanted to.
02:47:43.000But I think the day and age, you're always going to have those guys, and this isn't a knock, but those Leonard Garcias, those Matt Browns, you're going to have those guys, but the evolution of the UFC and mixed martial arts, those guys are going to slowly phase away.
02:47:58.000And just being tough isn't going to get you in the top 10 anymore.
02:48:01.000I think you're gonna get guys who, they have the fighter's mentality, but they're the super athletes, and that's the evolution of the sport.
02:48:40.000Because Misha beat Cyborg, or Misha beat Holly, never fought Cyborg, but the way she beat Holly was so fucking spectacular.
02:48:47.000How do you not always rank Misha above Holly?
02:48:51.000I know Misha retired, and Holly is still super active, and likely should have been a 145-pound champion, especially if you take away the deductions that...
02:48:59.000She should have gotten for two late shots.
02:49:03.000And then even on top of that, you still see Holly dropped her with a head kick and then dropped her with a left hand as well.
02:49:09.000Holly was also beating Misha in that fight before Misha came back.
02:49:13.000She was, but there was two rounds where she got dominated.
02:49:15.000She got taken down one round and mounted and couldn't do shit about it.
02:49:18.000And then the last 15 seconds of the fight, Misha pulls out the ultimate, takes her down, takes her back, and then chokes her to sleep.
02:52:48.000She head-kicks Betch Cohea, knocks her out.
02:52:51.000She head-kicked Jermaine Durandamy, who's a multiple-time world Muay Thai champion, head-kicks her, drops her, and a lot of people thought she should have got that decision.
02:53:00.000At the very least, it was super fucking close, and Jermaine's one of the best strikers in the world.
02:54:52.000But Cyborg got dropped a bunch of times, kept getting up, you know, came after her, and was there for the fucking final bell, still swinging, trying to take her out.
02:55:01.000That Muay Thai girl had her hands full.
02:55:29.000And she's got to be careful because Cyborg has big fucking power.
02:55:33.000So she's treating this like this is a dangerous fight for her.
02:55:36.000Look, she's landing these shots, but she's realizing the stuff that's coming her way, she can't take one of those on the point of the chin.
02:58:21.000It's important to figure out what style you need to beat Cyborg.
02:58:24.000Like, Tonya Evinger just fought a wild, sort of brawling style, and had very limited success, but it was one of those things where Cyborg just keeps advancing, and in every exchange, you realize...
03:03:40.000Boy, when I see somebody super pale and drawn out, and they just look sunken in, I'll look in their cart, and it's like, they've got oats and some seaweed, and it's just all vegan stuff.
03:03:52.000I'm always like, you could use a little protein.
03:03:54.000Well, really, it's just some people are just doing it wrong.
03:04:46.000He's been on it forever, but Rhonda Patrick was on the other day, and she was pointing out how with some people, it's not the right diet for your body.
03:04:54.000I read that book, The Plant Paradox, and I've told this before, but I stopped eating bread and those whole wheat things and all the things he talks about.
03:05:03.000He's more of a plant-based guy, but...
03:05:05.000It did cure my plaque psoriasis up until yesterday because I started eating bread again.
03:05:51.000I mean, I have tested myself a few times, but it's annoying to stick that fucking thing in your hand and extract the blood and put it on the tab.
03:05:58.000But you can feel when you're in that state of ketosis.
03:06:00.000Like, I'll monitor my diet real steady for five, six days, and sometimes there'll be like a little dip, because I've done it so many times it's not as noticeable, there'll be a little dip in your energy during your workouts.
03:06:11.000But then when I come on the other side of it, then as soon as I feel like no hunger pangs, Like, I'm good.
03:06:37.000But it's like, how much are you taking in?
03:06:39.000How much actual sugar does your body have to process?
03:06:42.000If it's just a small portion of it, I'm sure it's fine if your overall meals are filled with really healthy food, avocados, healthy fats, good solid protein with no bullshit in it, and no wheat.
03:07:07.000If you ate too many mashed potatoes or sweet potatoes and got out of ketosis, as long as you're not eating any bullshit, I don't even think that's bad.
03:07:16.000I mean, maybe your body will have more of an insulin response, but I mean, you're having all that fiber with your sugar.
03:07:22.000You know, if you're eating a yam or a mashed potato or a sweet potato, it's not like eating candy.
03:07:28.000A lot of it depends on your activity level, your age, all that shit, too.
03:07:36.000Like, how many people work out like you did when you were fighting?
03:07:40.000How many fucking human beings know what it's like to put in those hard two-a-days and just be fried four weeks into camp, realize you got two to go?
03:09:11.000I'm like, God, I don't think that's the right answer.
03:09:13.000When I played at University of Colorado and I would ask the nutritionist, I'm like, man, I feel like this yogurt you're giving us in Gatorade has so much fucking sugar.
03:09:36.000Well, your body will burn a certain amount of sugar and a certain amount, especially when it comes to fruits or anything complex.
03:09:41.000100%, but I think even though you're burning those calories, you can put good fuel in and still get calories.
03:09:48.000You don't have to get it from cheeseburgers and candy.
03:09:51.000You can get it through high-quality foods, even still.
03:09:54.000But what I'm saying, getting that in terms of overall performance, if you want to do it perfectly, I don't know if keto is the way to go for a fighter.
03:10:01.000I think the strains and requirements on your body, in terms of the amount of fuel your body needs to burn, there's an argument that, especially for a lot of people, not for everybody, but for a lot of people, having more carbohydrates in your diet than is required to stay in a state of ketosis is probably the same.
03:11:21.000But out of all the things to be allergic to, the wackest nut of them all, the shittiest tasting stupid nut, like when you get one of those things of mixed nuts, you get those Brazil nuts, you're like, all right, all right, giant nuts.
03:18:28.000You know, and who knows what causes someone who's so well-loved and so liked, you know, that's a great argument for like chemical issues versus like, I mean, you can tell some people just don't have good lives.
03:18:56.000And we all have this real problem when it comes to people doing things that we would think would, you know, you'd consider to be something that someone who doesn't have control of themselves does.
03:20:34.000You have a set point for your serotonin usually.
03:20:37.000Certain people like me, I probably have a serotonin level from 1 to 10 at usually 7 to 8. No matter what's going on, I'm always, I'm just lucky.
03:20:50.000And if I do, it's a mild sort of haze.
03:20:54.000Some people, they could invent the cure for every disease in the world and win the lottery and all this stuff.
03:21:00.000They just go back to their serotonin levels being at 4 or I think it's a little bit more complicated than that, but I think there's some people that are just never happy for whatever reason.
03:21:11.000Whatever reason, chemically, or whether it could be aided by excuses.
03:21:22.000He's always been sort of in that blue region and I've always been so brilliant You know, so when you hear him talk about it like he was like yeah with the Chappelle stuff and he's like I'm always just here man, especially if medication.
03:23:52.000This guy's trying to get into this lane, and this lady speeds up to try to keep the guy from getting in the lane, and the guy sees it, so he just kind of eases over anyway, and she just lays on her horn.
03:24:04.000And then the guy pulls up, like he's in this lane now, and he pulls up and she gets in the next lane, shoots in front of him, turns her car in front of him and slams on the brakes.
03:24:15.000And so he gets to the left of her and just starts going towards her.
03:24:19.000And she freaks out and turns into traffic and has to slam on the brakes like, you just had...
03:24:23.000A crazy hissy fit over nothing because you did that cunty thing that all of us have been guilty of doing where you don't let somebody in your lane.
03:24:31.000And this guy was like, fuck you, I'm getting in.
03:25:19.000I remember getting in a road rage situation with this dude when I first moved to LA. We're looking at each other on the highway and he takes his shirt off to show me his tattoos.
03:25:28.000He's screaming at me and I'm not reacting.
03:26:59.000But it's so stupid to harbor those thoughts 20 years later.
03:27:03.000That's how dumb those instances where you want to go in a lane and someone doesn't want to let you and they speed up and they're like fucking honk honk, fuck you!
03:27:10.000It's so dumb you'll hold on to some of those dumb thoughts for decades.
03:27:14.000Dude, I had a guy the other day, I was driving off Abbot Kenney, I looked at my phone at directions, and I was at a stop sign, and you know, it was my turn to go, but I was looking down at my phone for directions, and this guy behind me, he's like a regular worker, like in a car, just goes nuts, nuts, honking and whoring, and I waved that, I'm like, hi Batman, and then I'm driving, he goes around me, slams on the brakes, And starts flipping me off talking shit.
03:27:56.000But he's playing a game that he thinks he's safe playing, you know, because we're not in Serbia.
03:28:00.000Nobody's pulling guns out and gunning people down the street.
03:28:03.000These people, they'll do that kind of shit.
03:28:05.000I watched these two guys race each other and they were cutting in front of each other and slamming on the brakes and doing that thing and slamming on the brakes and yelling shit out each other at the window.
03:28:14.000And just watch him, and you go, like, this could be nothing, or it could be your life.
03:30:20.000We're talking about like road rage incidences.
03:30:23.000You know, they've figured out why people have road rage too.
03:30:26.000And one of the reasons why it occurs so often is not just a separation by barriers between you and the other person so you don't have social cues.
03:30:32.000It's also that your senses are jacked up because you're in a situation where you know that you have to react potentially at a very fast rate.
03:30:42.000You have to be able to react instantaneously to someone changing your lane.
03:32:29.000And the dudes from the south versus the guys from the north, the dudes from the south, their serratol levels, whatever, all those levels, their serratol levels, their testosterone levels, everything was jacked to the fucking roof.
03:32:47.000They were like, huh, whatever, what a dick.
03:32:49.000And it had to do, according to Gladwell, not really, also this guy Nisbet as well, it had to do with where you were from, and more importantly, where your ancestry heralded from.
03:33:01.000If you came from a culture, an honor culture, As opposed to what they call the dignity culture.
03:33:08.000So if you came from a culture where honor was everything, and those cultures are hurting cultures, that's where you get the Chichanis, that's where you get the Afghanis, that's where you get the North Scots-Irish.
03:33:49.000When you go to Ireland, you go to parts of the UK, you know, in the north where Tony's from, good luck.
03:33:56.000Go see what happens in a bar when you want to get scrappy.
03:33:59.000You'll find plenty of man to meet you halfway.
03:34:02.000Whereas if you go to certain other parts of the world where they didn't come from herding cultures, where they came from a culture that relied mostly on agriculture, where it relied on cooperation.
03:34:15.000See, because when you're a herder, And somebody steals your sheep, you will not survive the winter.
03:34:22.000So you've got to let everybody know that if you do steal my sheep, I'm going to kill you and every man in your fucking family because I'm a crazy motherfucker.
03:34:33.000It's literally survival of your family.
03:34:35.000Nisbet and Gladwell wrote a book about it, but some of these guys who actually did the primary research on that proved that culture, even though you don't know those people, even though your generation's removed from that in this country, that shit has deep, deep roots in your cultural psyche.
03:36:55.000If you hang out with a bunch of gun guys, they're super formal and respectful.
03:37:01.000Yeah, because they're used to seeing bullets flying around.
03:37:03.000Everybody's got to mind their P's and Q's when everybody's actually equal.
03:37:06.000If you're a bunch of gun handlers, and all of you, you go into gun competitions and shit, and you're shooting, plink, plink, plink, plink, and you're rolling like fucking Keanu Reeves and shit, those guys, they're equal to everybody in the world.