#2260 - Lex Fridman

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Hardcore science question. Yeah.
Based on physics. Okay.
In theory, if you were in space and you maybe ejaculated, is it possible that the ejaculate would propel you backwards? Like send you, you know, like is it propulsion? Is there enough power in there to propel you? There's only one way to find out. It depends on how long you hold it in for, right? Like if you didn't jerk off for like four months and then you had like the mother load.
You need something to go one way so you go the other way. Yeah.
And Lex had an answer, but I don't know. What's the answer? He had a thought, I guess.
What if you blow out at the same time? Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
I think in space the biodynamics of the liquids is different. Oh, yeah.
I think it's actually difficult to have sex in space and to get people pregnant in space. Has anybody ever gotten pregnant on the space station? Are they allowed even to have sex? No.
Nobody has officially had sex in space. Officially.
Officially. But unofficially, of course, people have tried.
I wonder if they have.

I mean, how monitored are they?

There is a Wikipedia page about

sex in space, and it's actually pretty detailed.

But it's Wikipedia, so you know

it's half bullshit.

There's citations. I encourage people

to look into it,

read in detail. I mean, it's a serious

problem. If you want to

colonize space, you probably want to have a lot

of sex and get pregnant

and have kids. Well, don's a serious problem.
If you want to, you know, colonize space, you probably want to have a lot of sex and get pregnant and have kids.

Well, don't you think they'll develop some sort of gravity generating machines?

Yeah, absolutely. You have to.
Like Jeff Bezos talks about this a lot.

Yeah.

Like how you create artificial gravity in space. Because for Jeff Bezos, the likely way to colonize space is to have space stations.

Elon is more focused on colonizing planets, Mars.

Yeah.

So both are obviously going to be necessary.

And you need to have gravity in order to get laid.

Bro, the first people that make that trip.

Yeah, Jamie was saying he wants to go.

I mean, on that trip, but a trip. You go eventually? No, why not? Oh, dude, why? What if you die out there? Okay, you're going to die.
Everybody dies. Yeah, but you don't want to die that way, dude.
If you get to decide one way to die, that's not one of the worst ways. Oh, it's the worst way.
You're going to die in space, running out of air. You don't know how it's going to happen.
It could be on re-entry.

Yeah, you could just cook instantly.

Could be on the way up.

You get hit by a micrometeorite.

Could be while you're asleep up there.

Could be.

Imagine standing on Mars looking back at Earth.

Going, what the fuck did I do?

Why did I do this?

Yeah, and then having kids on Mars.

Oh, those poor kids. We came from there.
You think homeschooling's bad. How about space schooling? Just imagine the crazy shit that happens on Mars.
I mean, it's going to be, what, 100,000 people? Yeah, and so you're going to get one psycho who's going to run everything, and they're going to take over. Yeah.
Probably some cult leader convinces everybody to do it his way. It's going to be a sex cult cult 100% 100% and we're back to sex in space Right, they're gonna say like listen if Elon is their man Elon wants to procreate every chance he can

How many kids do you have now?

Allegedly double digits. No, we don't even know how many

Well, cuz they think he's got secret kids

They think who's they they the fucking people that run the world is there a wikipedia page on this there probably is he's probably got secret kids secret kids yeah when you have like what does he have like 300 plus billion dollars it's gone you can you can have a few ladies here there all over the place having kids there's a lot of ladies that just want to have kids. They don't want a guy around.

Yeah. Especially when they get a little

older. There's a castle in the south of

France with like a harem.

Waiting for them. Yeah.

Yeah. Just waiting for daddy to

land his rocket ship. Online it officially

says at least 12.

At least 12 kids. See, nobody

even knows. Imagine no one knows how many

kids you have. That's kind of crazy.

Yeah.

Yeah. Well, it's the situation Genghis Khan was in, you know.
Well, he was doing it a little differently. He was a little bit more forceful.
Actually, I mean, there's a lot of different perspectives on that. Like, what's the book on Genghis Khan? So first of all, there's obviously the Dan Carlin wrath of the cons and in that series of podcasts he criticizes the book Jack Weatherford Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world on the Mongols and the making the modern world Yeah Yeah.
So that's the, and now, there it is.

Nice.

That is one of the things that Dan Carlin talks about that when enough time has passed that they sort of look at these marauders and murderers in a different light and saying, oh, he opened up trade to the East. Sure.
also killed 10% of the population of Earth,

lit people on fire and launched them and on catapults to onto thatched roofs well I think I think actually Dan Conn makes a really good point how long do you wait until you know that you could tell these kinds of stories about Hitler I think that. Yes, that's what he uses.
But you want to be historically accurate here. And Genghis Khan, there's a lot of different perspectives, including opening up trade and including what was the protocol based on which he was doing the murdering.
So it was very clear before the invasion, he always said you can surrender and then we would not murder anybody. You just have to follow the law.
And the law was very, very sort of clear. And it's basically enforcing a law of the land, so free trade, free practice of religion, and you have to pay taxes instead of to your king.
You have to pay taxes to the Mongol Empire. But did they really say we won't kill anyone? Yes, 100%.
They followed that, and this is very well documented. Really? Yes.
So everybody could have just laid down and 10% of the world's population wouldn't be dead? Yes. Really? So the nuance there is that sometimes they killed the upper classes.
Well, you know, didn't they kill the royals by like crushing them to death? They'd have lunch over them? They were, listen, this is a different time, but they were brutal if they if they because they want to uh they use fear as part of the the military tactics right so they want people to be terrified and they want people to talk about how terrifying the mongol empire is so that they forfeit more easily yeah you know that know, there's a lot of aspects of it.

Not to say that Jenghis Khan is a feminist,

but there's a lot of progressive aspects.

Like he put a lot of women in positions of power.

He gave a lot of rights to women.

This is a very strange perspective. Yeah, but he did a lot of raping.

Nope.

There's not his kids.

What do you mean, nope? When he would conquer these places, he would take women. In a herald.
And they would become his new wives. Yeah, but it wasn't their call.
So that's kind of rapey. That's very rapey, yeah.
But there's a... If you just fucking take them and make them have your kids.
There's the kind of mass rape that the Soviet soldiers did at the end of World War II when they're marching towards Berlin, which is extremely violent, vicious, and sort of that kind of rape, which is part of the terror of war. And then there's like creating a harem of women.
So it's a different... I think the main point is that this is something you talk about, that a large percent of the population, as that one study from like 20 years ago, found are descendants of Genghis Khan.
Huge. I think the way to do that is to make everybody who is your descendant popular within the culture.
You can't have that many... Have your DNA propagate throughout civilization by raping.
You have to have everybody who, like, to have a high status for people that are associated with Genghis Khan. You can't have that kind of thing with fear.
You can only do it with respect and high status. And he, for several generations, created an empire that was flourishing.
Well, okay, you're kind of whitewashing that.

I mean, they killed a million people in Jin China

and turned their bones into a stack,

a pile that they recognized as snow-covered mountains

from the distance.

That's what they thought it was until they got up on it.

When the Shah of Chorizma came there to check it out, he was like's like where is everybody they had abandoned the roads because there were so many dead bodies that the roads had deteriorated into muck yeah let me actually sort of backtrack a little bit here because I'm uncomfortable because I'm deeply involved in the the military affairs of modern day and so there's a kind of I was just kind of having fun. Yes, there was mass murder that was happening.
It was vicious. And I'm not a scholar of Genghis Khan.
I was simply saying that it's interesting how history looks at these different empires. For example, we venerate the Roman Empire.
Not we, but ancient Greece, and they were equally if not more brutal in their conquests and their destruction. There's never really been a time where there was a leading superpower that wasn't brutal.
It's, I think, become less and less brutal over time, and people document this. So war, the number of people, a percent of the population killed is less and less but what about laws ukraine and russia like how many people have died all told between the two it's got to be close to a million it's over a million casualties which includes death and uh injuries and the estimates vary but i think a good estimate is over 400,000 total, maybe over 500,000 on both sides.
And the dead on the Ukraine side is probably one-third or one-fourth of the total dead. Really? So three-quarters of them on the Russian side? On the Russian side, yeah.
What do you attribute that to? I think there's military scholars that understand this really well. I think in general, the invading force loses more people than the defending force.
That's one aspect. Of course, the Ukrainian military will say it's about the effectiveness of the Ukrainian military.
And also one of the other things they say is that the medical capabilities, so the medics are really strong on the Ukrainian side, which is also tragic because you're able to save lives, but you have the injuries, the pain of war, you know, that the veterans have to go through. Right.
So they're able to save lives more effectively also. Right.
But there is a big characteristic of the invading force usually loses more people. What was it like going over there and interviewing Zelensky? So I should say I went to Ukraine twice after February 24, 2022, invasion.
And maybe it's good for me to also say where I come from because it's surreal to be there for me. Sure.
Both my parents are from Ukraine, from Kiev and Kharkiv. These are towns in Ukraine, cities in Ukraine.
I've been there many times. I myself was born in Tajikistan speaking of Genghis Khan and I lived there in Tajikistan and by the way I'm regretting defending Genghis Khan in this conversation for fun you didn't really defend I want to be sort of say that over and over again war is hell And I'm almost at tension between how much Roman Empire, Caesar, and these folks are venerated, and Genghis Khan is seen as this barbarian that was just destroying and raping and so on.
They were all horrible, vicious warmongers. All of them.
Yeah.

Anyway, Tajikistan and I lived for a time in Kiev

and I lived for a time in Moscow.

I have family in Ukraine. I have family in Russia.

And so,

and I should say in World War II

a lot of my family

was slaughtered in

Babi Yar, which is

a ravine in

Kiev where they gather people around

And A lot of my family was slaughtered in Babi Yar, which is a ravine in Kiev, where they gather people around, the Nazis, and they just put them in this ravine and just shot them and put another layer of humans, told them to get naked and face down, lay face down and slaughter and slaughter like this. It's mass graves, mass slaughter.
And my grandfather fought the Nazis. He's a machine gunner, which he's one of the few that survives, which is the reason I'm here, that they basically tried to hold off the Nazi armada.
And that, the surreal aspect of all this is the same land. You know, I just still remember the song 22nd of June.
At 4 a.m. the bombing of Kyiv began.
So this is in 1941, June 22nd. Just imagine, speaking of Genghis Khan,

complete surprise, just the Nazi armada, just coming, Operation Barbarossa, this massive military force invading your land. It's Kiev, and the greatest, the biggest battles of all time were in this land the battle of kiev the battle of stalingrad the battle of moscow we're talking about hundreds of thousands millions of people just slaughtering each other and and the way hitler of course approached the battle and so does stalin is nobody surrenders it's there's no uh it's all in slaughter it doesn't matter if it's winter it doesn't matter if there's no guns it doesn't matter it's just every victory or death on both sides and so it's just brutal war and so this is the land right this is and i have you know for a lot of people in this land this history is part of them them.
It's part of their blood. They remember these struggles.
They remember this political, this geopolitical, this military, this social. This is real.
This is like, imagine the United States living maybe a few decades after the Civil War. You remember.
You remember the, you know you have relatives that died you have you remember the real the real hatred the real tensions the real the real battle so yeah it was uh it was surreal to be back there and to try to do what i was doing which is uh to push for peace since there's probably a lot to say about this war I should say that I interviewed Vladimir Zelensky and I will be traveling to Russia to interview Vladimir Putin and I'm aware of the risks I accept the risks and the goal the mission is to just push for peace to do my small part in pushing for peace and that's what I was trying to do in this conversation and it required it just a huge amount of preparation for people who't know, maybe I'll lay out where there was opportunities for peace. So since the beginning of the war, February 24, 2022, I think there was three moments to make peace.
From the perspective of Ukraine, you want to make peace from strength. So when you're in a position of strength, the first time to make peace was March and April of 2022, when the Ukrainian forces were able to successfully defend the north, defend Kiev.
There's this huge optimism, this belief that we're pushed back this gigantic Russian military. That's a place for leverage and the confidence both of the U.S.
funding, the European militaries, and the Ukrainian military that we can win this. This is when you make peace, when there is a perception and a reality of strength.
The second time was in the fall of 2022, when there was a successful counteroffensive by the Ukrainian forces that recaptured Kharkiv and Kherson. This is the south and the east of Ukraine.
And there was this real sense that the Ukrainian forces can defeat the Russian forces.

Huge optimism.

A lot of pressure from the U.S. to make peace then.

This is the strength and perhaps the weakness of Volodymyr Zelensky, who I do think is a historic figure and a great leader,

is that he, one, deeply emotionally feels the suffering of the people and the loss that war creates. And he single-handedly has to unite the nation and carry the will of a people and the morale of a people, has to lift the morale of a people.
And that kind of man struggles to make peace because he understands

he he wants justice not peace and so from a position of strength there he wants to go further

recapture all of the land that he sees belongs to ukraine but that's exactly when you make peace

and so his very strength a man that stayed in kiev that said you know fuck you we're not going to

Thank you. We're not going to, we're going to win this.
That kind of man that lifted a whole nation, that united a whole nation, that man also struggled to make peace. And so the third time to make peace, after all of that, the Russian military regrouped and has been capturing land gradually.
And so the third time to make peace is now. The Trump administration, there's a momentum.
They want to make peace. He's a great dealmaker.
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The offer is for new customers only. Made the deal in Gaza, and that's a super complicated situation too because they made a ceasefire deal with the hostages.
But isn't it amazing that the biden administration biden administration had two years couldn't get anything done and trump kids had done it a day he was saying that he was going to be able to do that and everybody dismissed it yeah and i think there's a political battle now taking credit for who made the ceasefire which i think is silly it's of course you're going to have Yeah. Biden is the president.
He's still the president for another few days. The point is, with Donald Trump, there's a real will and a momentum to make peace.
There's a respect. There's a fear.
There's, you know, whatever you think about Donald Trump, he is this person that world leaders in in the full meaning of the word respect not like admire but fear I think both Zelensky and Putin fear Donald Trump and that's a great person to then make peace because he has the lever all of them believe Putin and Zelensky that Trump could do some crazy shit and he probably would but he doesn't want to right there's a difference and that's a very unique position that he's in where they're afraid of him but yet he wants peace exactly yeah and so this is the time and if you don't make peace now what's going to happen is the funding from U.S. and the support from U.S.
is going to dwindle gradually. And Putin is willing and able to just wait and to let the war continue for months and for years.
And meanwhile, people are dying every single day. Thousands of people.
What's so horrible about this war, too, is there's GoPro footage. There's a lot of cell phone footage.
There's a lot of GoPro footage. I've watched too much of it, unfortunately.
But it's rough, man. It's a horrible war.
And it's a war that's so confusing over here, especially to the uninitiated, for the people that are just like kind of reading the newspaper and getting a sort of a cursory understanding of what happened. Russia invaded.
Why? You know, what did they do? And then you got to get into the whole U.S.-backed coup in 2014. And then you have to think about NATO and the agreement that was made the fall of, you know, when the wall came down in Berlin, the agreement that NATO would not push forth and move closer to Russia, which they violated over and over and over again.
The whole thing is so complicated that it takes forever just to sort of get an understanding of the pieces that are involved. Forget about who's responsible for what, but just how many different things are happening simultaneously that are forcing Putin's hand, now Zelensky's hand.
And just to be on this side of the world watching it take place, it's almost unbelievable. It so hard to believe that Russia and Ukraine Which were both a part of the Soviet Union just not that long ago while during my lifetime now they're at war And I should say that I believe So how do you handle situations like this? I believe us actually gave not enough money ukraine they should have given more money hit really hard and then make peace this is the point a month or two after the start of the war you can learn the same kind of lesson with iraq and afghanistan there's no reason those uh those invasions those military there's no other way there's no other way than just give money give money and hit hard there's no other way what about what avoid it yeah what about have nato back out uh well a lot of this is about diplomatic rhetoric and yes nato was consistently talking shit to budin and and that's not like a lot of this is about diplomacy, right? And you can't just You can't just pressure with with words I mean for some people it's like it seems almost silly that you need to show respect To world leaders, but there needs to be shown real respect Putin has laid out the interest of the the Russian Federation.
He said he's been very clear about what the interests are. They want their security to be respected.
They want their nation to be respected. He's very clear.
And simply at the negotiation table, he just needs to be respected. Like his perspective needs to be understood and heard.
You't just say Putin is evil bad guy authoritarian hates freedom we need to destroy him this kind of this whole vibe and energy you come this idealistic sense that you bring to the table you have to respect leaders you have to respect Xi Jinping you have to respect Putin when you're at the negotiation table not when you're on Twitter and X or talking shit or historians or activists fine you can criticize as much as you want as vicious as you want you can mock artists can mock as much as they want comedians doesn't matter when you're a world leader and you come to the table you have to show respect you have to treat other world leaders as funny as is to say the way you want to be treated, with respect. That's not funny at all.
Yeah, makes sense. If you want to get things done.
If you want to get things done, and more importantly, if you want in this war for the death to end. One of the things I kept pushing in an almost childlike way with Zelensky is getting him to open himself up for peace because he kept shutting it down.
He kept mocking Putin. He kept criticizing Putin, which is okay.
It's okay to sort of criticize and say that there's war crimes, that there's real vicious violence and destruction happening. But along that, there has to be a door open of respect, of I'm willing to come to the table to negotiate and respect the other nation's interests, as opposed to saying I'm only going to talk to the United States.
You have to be open to negotiate. Because unfortunately, this is the motherfucker of peace.
You have to compromise. You have to sit across the table as a world leader with a person you might fucking hate.
Because unlike Putin, I should say, Zelensky goes to the front. He talks to the soldiers.
He sees the dead bodies. He talks to the the civilians the mothers that lost their children the wives the that lost their husband right this person who's an empath who's an emotional being he's wearing all that in his mind like there's a real pain there like he's tortured tormented by this if you're a leader you have to put all that aside and you have to sit and save your

nation by compromising that's it and that that's the hard thing of it especially now there's an opportunity where the trump figure rolls in who wants to make peace you have to use this opportunity Yeah.

And it's tough.

It's very, very tough.

Yeah.

You're putting it mildly.

Very tough. It's very, very tough.

Yeah. You're putting it mildly.
Very tough. What do you think Trump can do now? What could possibly, if Zelensky wants victory, they want revenge, what can Trump do to sort of bring peace to the table? I think some of these notions sound naive, but literally meet, which they haven't been meeting.
So meet with Putin, meet with Zelensky. They haven't been meeting at all? No.
So Zelensky comes down, they've been meeting with Zelensky, but there is no meeting with putin i think the right thing to do is to go to uh whether it's switzerland or or turk istanbul or minsk and like the biggest thing for me would be literally the three of them sit together i think i i trust in uh trump's negotiation ability and uh the carrot and the stick of the United States military and the United States economy for being able to control oil prices, being able to control trade with tariffs, being able to threaten military force and funding and so on, plus sanctions, all of this. You can roll in with that carrot and stick implied or made implicit or explicit and just sit at the table and talk like human beings and show each other respect.
That, you know, is one of the things that actually COVID did. There's something that happens where remote communication just is not it.
Like the silly thing about this podcast being in person, right? There's a real power there. Everything else is, you know, like fucking with a condom.
Yeah. You have to show up.
It's part of the reason. It's more like jerking off with a condom on.
Jerking off with a thing. It's not even fucking with a condom on.
For the metaphor, yeah. As part of the reason, I wanted to talk to President Zelensky in Russian, which I speak fluently.
And he speaks fluently. It's his primary language.
For people who seem to misunderstand this on the internet, he spoke Russian his whole life. That's his main language.
He speaks with his wife, with his his whole staff with all of this this this is his language uh it's just that now the ukrainian language has become a symbol of independence so they're fighting for their independence for their sovereignty i understand it but you know um so he spoke with you in ukrainian he kept going back and forth yeah, most of the powerful things were said in Ukrainian.

So I'm listening to an interpreter through a shitty headset.

The interpreter's not, forgive me to the interpreter, but he's not very good.

He's delayed.

There's noise.

God, but wouldn't it make more sense if he spoke to you in a language that you understand?

Yeah, we really tried.

But this is a man, once again.

Yeah.

He's the leader of a nation in a time of war, and he's not stylistically who he is. Like, he's all in.
This is like a Braveheart-type character. Playoffs.
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Right. Right.
I mean, you never know who the leaders are that step up. I think a lot of people sort of say that it's trivial that he stayed in Kiev when the Russian military invaded.
To me, it's not trivial at all. I think that's a truly heroic act to stay when you know, when nobody knows what's going to happen and all the experts are saying Kiev is going to be taken taken to stay as a leader in that same place where you were the night before like working and not flee when everybody the cia everybody's telling you to flee to stay there like a bad motherfucker and actually go outside and film yourself speaking to the nation that we're going to win this we're going to hold strong that's a that's an insane thing to do and maybe it does require like it's a trump level insanity right it's similar to me to the trump standing up when there's still bullets flying and saying fight fight fight right that's a where does that come from i don't know but most people don't have that right it's nice It was know.
But most people don't have that. Right.
And it's nice when,

it was refreshing.

It was refreshing when you see that.

Yeah. Like,

holy fuck,

yes,

we want that guy.

Yeah.

And he really united a nation.

The nation was fracturing.

He was actually not popular at all

up to that war

because the policies he was trying

were not working.

What policies specifically?

So his,

so the stuff that was working,

I don't know the internals of the Ukrainian politics that well but so he won in 2019 based on his desire to fight corruption and to modernize Ukrainian digital system which he did very successfully. It's actually super interesting.
You can, they have an app called Dia, where it's your passport. All your identifications, all appified, which I don't understand why the United States doesn't have that.
You can, like, update your license. You can get your license, like, instantly.
So it's like the 21st century version of what government should work like the reason they did that is it's a way to fight corruption it's a way like

whenever you have paperwork there's a place for corruption to seep in so he was very serious about

fighting corruption and that's the other thing is there is corruption in ukraine

there's not as much as people perceive it's but it's a serious problem especially

Thank you. And that's the other thing is there is corruption in Ukraine.
There's not as much as people perceive, but it's a serious problem. Is it less now than before? Well, see, I want to be careful here because it's very difficult to know.
The perception, there's a serious concern about corruption. In a time of war, there's always going to be more corruption the United States spent nine trillion dollars on the war in Afghanistan Iraq and the Middle East after 9-11 on that part of the world they spent nine trillion dollars and is growing using all that money you've had a lot of guests on this program talking about how that money was used there's a lot of shady shit that happened oh yeah war breeds corruption this is one of the reasons you should be concerned about the military industrial complex is because that money is just not used well right uh but that that's all that's a discussion the reality of corruption in ukraine is it should be dealt with after you make peace.
All the problems, the elections were suspended to, the ideas of democracy. There is censorship in Ukraine now.
All of those ideas cannot be, all of those things cannot be fixed until the war has ended. The reason there is censorship now in Ukraine is because it's a war.
The ideas of democracy in part have to be suspended during a war to effectively fight that war. This is a whole idea of martial law.
The United States has this. You don't fuck around.
You have to win when your land is invaded you have to every everybody has to be focused on this the problem is it's a slippery slope when uh all the media channels are being controlled and the the president and everybody is so invested in quote-unquote winning the war then where are the critical voices that say we need peace? They're coming from the outside, but you need that. The thing is, it's a really complicated tension.
During the war with martial law, you do want to suspend elections, potentially. It's a really difficult tradeoff.
The United States has the same thing. If we were to be invaded, I don't know by who, this is not, you know, if Canada invaded, I don't want to make a joke out of this.
But there's going to be a martial law. Yeah.
A quick fight. Yeah, exactly.
Like there would be a martial law where elections would be delayed or suspended and so on. So all those criticisms, all those concerns can only be dealt with once you make peace.
Yeah. And in terms of corruption, there's a lot of people that know Zelensky well.
And this has been my impression, having met him, I don't think he, and I've not heard anybody that knows him well say that he's personally corrupt. This is really important.
He himself is not personally corrupt, and he legitimately is fighting corruption. Now, he's in a system that has corruption Russia has

corruption it's really difficult to weed out corruption but he legitimately at least to me that's really important that he as a single human being and the people really close around him like really close that circle corruption starts to seep in of course when you go further out but in in that direct human being, he is not personally corrupt. Financially speaking, he singularly believes in the idea of Ukraine as a sovereign nation, and he's willing to die for that idea.
That is his strength, and that is also his weakness when it's time to make peace. When you are preparing to do something like this and you are, you know, you're doing your research, you're getting ready to go do it, what are your concerns, other than your own physical safety, of course? But, like, what is your, like your like ultimately what's your concerns what are your

goals when you're setting out to do this because this is very different than any other kind of podcast interview it's um it's there's no other format really where a world leader in the middle of a huge international conflict

is going to sit down for three hours

and... leader in the middle of a huge international conflict is going to sit down for three hours and talk to an American scientist, which is weird too, right? It's like, why are you doing it? You know what I mean? Like why this guy who works in AI just decides he's going to start a podcast.
The podcast becomes very successful. And all of a sudden he's like, I'd like to talk to everybody.
I'd like to go over and talk to Zelensky and talk to Putin. And everybody's like, why you? What the fuck are you doing? So you get a lot of that.
And then unfortunately for you, you read the comments. So you get sucked into all that negativity.
Yeah, I mean, there's a lot to say there. First of all, on the comments side, I always have a little Joe Rogan on my shoulder saying, don't read the comments.
Don't read the comments. And in this situation, it's especially intense.
Yeah. I should say, like, privately, after I did a conversation with Zelensky, every single person that knows the situation well and me personally has written to me and it's all been really positive like really positive almost like in the desert wanting water positive because there's a lot of voices that are afraid to speak that want peace sure but online this is something we talked about a little bit there there's just like these like swarms of people that are like.
Not even necessarily people. I don't want to sort of go too far in that territory assuming that anybody who criticized me is a bot.
No, no. But there is a.
I'm not saying that. But there's an enormous element of that that's real.
Whether it's bots or whether it's hired people, paid propagandists, the conversation is not a pure conversation between people expressing their ideas. There's a lot of propaganda online and it's very confusing to try to discern what the percentage is.
We've talked about this a bunch of times on the podcast, but there was a former FBI analyst who estimated that it's on Twitter alone.

This is before the purchase. He believed it was around 80 percent.
So 80 percent fake accounts, 80 percent, not just propaganda, like government propaganda. But most certainly corporations are hiring people to do similar things.
I'm sure there's companies that will do that for public figures, actors, you know, people that are involved in conflict. This is part of the Blake Lively dispute is that she's accusing that Justin Baldoni actor of an organized attack on her, which is probably what it feels like anyway, when you're in something on social media, like, oh my God, this is organized, or they're attacking you.
But it's a very confusing landscape. Ideally, what we would want with social media is different people, informed and uninformed, but at least expressing their ideas on things and exchanging

information back and forth and talking. It's not the whole story, though.
There's a lot of other

players involved that are not real. There's AI, for sure.
There's definitely large language

models that are involved in this back and forth with automation. They look out for certain code words and these accounts attack certain ideas.
So it's hard to know what the actual will of the people is. Yeah, I mean, it's definitely true.
And I've seen a lot of evidence of this, that there's Ukrainian bot farms and Russian bot farms. Have you spoke to Elon about this? About bot farms? Yeah, because like he knows a lot more now, of course, right? Because there was the big concern when he was buying Twitter, they were trying to say there was 5%.
It was only 5% bots. And they were doing that on extremely low sample size.
They were doing it off of 100 people. So they got 100 people.
And out of those 100 people, five of them they determined were bots. And so they went with 5%, which is just ridiculous.
You know, you're dealing with how many people are on Twitter every day. Like what's the total Twitter audience? It's not as big as Facebook, right? Facebook is 3.2 billion worldwide, which is unbelievable.
I think X has a smaller number, but very influential. Very active.
Yeah. Very active.
Very influential. Two hundred forty five daily active.
What is the total amount of accounts on it, though? Because, you know, there's daily active and then there's just people that just read them there's a lot of people that just read five hundred and forty one point five six million monthly active users so again that's active users so total users what's the total users see it's all active. I want to know it counts.
That's the only, I don't, they delete counts all the time. Right.
Yeah, they definitely do. So they must have some sort of a system where they weed out bots.
And, you know, there's a lot of concern right now on Twitter about censorship. You know, this is I'm I try to stay out of Twitter as much as I can, honestly, because I think it's bad for your mental health.
I really do. I think people just barking at each other all day is not good to absorb.
I want to absorb real people that I interact with. I want to I mean, I try to pay attention.
I try to, uh, pay attention to whatever controversial ideas are out there and try to see what I think, but I don't think it's good to dive in to social media all day. I think it's uniquely bad.
And I think so many people are involved in it and they don't realize that they're, they're poisoning their like they poison their body if they're eating junk food all day. I think it's genuinely bad for you.
Yeah, I mean, and you and I, and also in a particular, you know, doing a podcast, and we're also very different human beings. I would say your psychological fortitude is pretty strong.
I wear my heart on my sleeve maybe a little bit more, and what if I, like, shit gets to me. And, you know, when you try to put compassion out there in the world in the way I did, especially with this conversation with Zelensky, the attacks, like...
You just have to recognize who the kind of people that are doing that are.

Yeah.

You know, those are just really weak people.

Really weak, psychologically damaged, mentally ill people

that are probably medicated.

I, sort of to push back, I think some of them are actually

good, sophisticated people that are just acting not their best selves. Like, I this there's people that are like i know them personally and online they just like the worst shit comes out of them yeah well because they're mentally ill and they're but then all of us are a bit mentally ill yeah well we're all a little mentally ill like no one is enlightened that i've met i've never met one person who's perfect right I don't think it's possible with this journey that we're on as these meat vehicles, these soul carrying meat vehicles navigating a very confusing world.
I don't think it's possible to be perfect, but you can have a desire to be a good person. And some people don't have that.
And the excuse that they always use is, I mean, this is the Donald Trump excuse. You do anything you can to stop Hitler, you know, right? And this is why they want to conflate and they always want to pretend that everyone's Hitler.
The problem with that is that just after a while, it's crying wolf and people like, oh, this is a bullshit game you're playing. And you're just using it as an excuse.

Elon's talked about this a lot about and he's absolutely correct, is that people use woke ideology as an excuse to be an asshole. And it's really just people that are assholes that are attaching themselves to things that make them feel righteous.
and so they wrap themselves in this idea to give them virtue and to allow them to say the most awful things about other people that have different perspectives. And then just by nature, if you're doing that, you're doing the wrong thing.
You're a bad person. You can justify it all you want.
You can find people that agree with you all you want. But those people are also on the right track of the wrong track.
Rather, the people that are listening to you and agreeing with you, they're on the wrong track. They're the wrong track if we want to be collectively a kind, compassionate, cohesive society, a community of human beings that all live together.
That's totally possible. If you can do it in small groups of people, you can do it in enormous groups of people.
It just has to be an ethic that gets promoted. It has to be something that you see people that you admire adhere to and you do it as well.
Whenever someone goes outside of that and whenever someone starts making horrific, unfounded personal attacks because someone has a different political ideology or, you know, just going after them every day, all day long, like you're just broken. You're just you're on the wrong path, period.
And intelligent, aware people that have control of their emotions recognize that and they're not going take your perspective seriously. So you're gonna be less and less effective

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And in general, the failure mode is to paint the world, to draw a line between good and evil. Yeah.
Whether it's a line in geography, Russians, Putin is evil, or if it's Trump, Trump is evil. Right.
The version of that is Hitler. So I'm a big proponent of Solzhenitsyn's famous, the author of Gulag Archipelago, that the line between good and evil runs to the heart of every man, that all of us have that in us.
And to be, it is good to be humbled by that reality and if you are humbled by that reality then you're not going to see any other people as purely evil or purely good all of that that kind of thing is used to just to just um to hate others yeah. And even when it's unfounded.

You know, even like I'm watching the Pete Hegseth, the confirmation hearings.

And these ignorant people are going after his tattoo, not even knowing what the tattoo is.

And trying to pretend that it's some sort of radical, hateful tattoo when it's just an ancient Christian tattoo. It's so strange.
I mean, that tattoo's in churches. That symbol's in churches.
That symbol's been around for a long fucking time. It's just a Christian tattoo.
And I was watching the Pierce Morgan show and Pierce Morgan had Michael Knowles and these two super whack and Dave Rubin and two super wacky leftist people that didn't know what the tattoo was and they were criticizing and Pierce Morgan Kevin what is the tattoo what is it tell me what it and the guy would go

like go on you're not answering the question go back to it what is it well let's look it up he's like no no no don't look it up i want you to tell me if you're saying it's offensive and so then the woman chimes in and michael knolls just clowns her just absolutely knows the history of the tattoo including like you know she's talking about it before it existed before Islam you know and she's criticizing what it is and he's like do you understand that Islam didn't exist when this tattoo then this symbol existed like it's not an anti-muslim symbol because there was no Muslims when the symbol was created like this is bonkers and they're all in digging their heels in pretending just trying to win this conversation just trying to win and Pierce Morgan's doing that he's like the Jerry Springer of political ideology now he just has people get on the show and yell at each other it's very entertaining and he gets great sound bites out of it it's kind of genius in terms of like an engagement perspective. If you looked at your show as just like how do I get more engagement? Well that's how you do it.
You get some wacky leftists that's going to say nutty things. You get some right wing person that's going to say nutty things and you get them all together yelling at each other.
I wish he did less of that. I should say that Pierce Morgan I think is a great interviewer.
He's legit a great interviewer but he also has he can put on his jerry springer hat on too he's making money listen i mean he does i mean he does both he does do long form great interviews so that's he's found his lane all right his lane is jerry springer but he's doing a good job exposing these people it's very valuable like that conversation was very valuable for me because like this is adorable watching this guy like flounder around trying to come up with a reason why this tattoo is so offensive yeah but see what i don't like about that is that guy's floundering but there could be actually facets to that person outside of this ridiculousness that's interesting right so you gotta cleanse that from, son. They do.
If you want to be the guy who's on television talking about important issues and you've got this stupid thing in your head where you're arguing about a tattoo that you don't even understand, you've got to cleanse that stupidity out of your fucking mind. Sometimes the best way to do that is to get clowned on television.
Sure. So he got exposed.
She got exposed. They both look like morons.

And then Michael Nolas, who

did a fantastic job of

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explaining it. Have you seen it?

No, I haven't. That's hilarious.
See if you can find it, Jamie.

It's pretty wonderful. Michael Nolas

is a pro. He's a pro.

The way he handled it was remarkable.

I know people criticize that guy, but fucking people criticize everybody. I'm just saying, in this moment.
Don't read the comments, Joe. Don't read the comments.
Yeah. Yeah, even about other people, right? Well, that's the thing.
I think you said that you sometimes read comments from friends of yours. Yeah, I don't even like doing that.
I try not to do that, too. This is thing that bothers me about comments is I don't read them, but like, I don't know, my mom will read them and she'll text me something like, don't listen to what people say.
It's okay. My mom will send me things.
Is this true? I'm like, mom, come on. This is the clip.
Yeah, this is it. This is wonderful.
Watch this. The two people on the far right of the screen, the lady in the pink jacket and the dude with the beard, they're fucked.
They got cooked. You could accuse Pete of as being too alert and energetic.
I found it overwhelming, actually, while I was there, tired, trying to dust the sand out of my eyes. But you suggest that the graduate of Princeton and Harvard, who for decades has been in the U.S.
military, served his country honorably, that he's somehow unqualified to work at the Pentagon. The most egregious accusation you make against him, though, is that he's an extremist because he has a tattoo.
Could you tell us what the tattoo is? The tattoos specifically, I did not make the allegation that he's an extremist.

It was actually his fellow colleague who called him as an insider threat.

Yeah, right. So what's the tattoo? It was not me.
It was his fellow colleague.

It was his fellow colleague. It's his fellow colleague.

You raised it. Hang on.
But Jarrett has a great question. What is this tattoo that you're so upset about?

Hang on. Simple question.
What is this tattoo that you're so upset about? It was his colleague. Wait, wait, wait.
Two things. Would you all hang on? Simple question.
What is this tattoo that you're so upset about? I wasn't the one upset about it. I was talking about his fellow colleague.
This is exactly what I said. His fellow colleague.
Do you know what it was? In the US Army, called him out as a potential insider threat. What is the tattoo? Looking at the tattoos on his chest.
What is the tattoo? And also, I called him an extremist based upon his own book. Read the book.
What is the tattoo? If you don't know what the tattoo is, just admit it. Oh, my Lord.
Listen. What is it? Wait, wait, wait.
You're genuinely intrigued. Let the lady talk.
When the lady talks, it's even more brutal. It's genuinely painful.
A woman hasn't spoken yet. A woman hasn't spoken yet.
Let her speak. A woman hasn't spoken yet.
I did hear him answer it, but they were all talking over each other. Did I say the words? Yeah, they weren't talking about the cross.
They're talking about a different tattoo. Yeah, well, she is talking about that as well, but it'll go on to that.
Actually know what that tattoo is or not? Listen, what I do know is I read his book. And in his book, if you read it called American Crusade, in his book.
Wait a second. Be honest.
Be honest. I am.
Look. This is Jerry Springer.
It's great. And literally bending the knee for Donald Trump.
But do you know the answer? Putting our national security at risk for Pete Hexen. I am telling you everything.
and you guys are finding ways to spend it. Why are you guys okay with a man who has an NDA with a woman that he allegedly sexually assaulted? Do you know what the tattoo is you've got so upset about? No, it goes further.
See if you can find where the woman's speaking, because it gets even more brutal, because she's incorrect, and Michael Knowles corrects her, and when he corrects her, it's fucking great. It's a good way to expose.
See if you can find the other one, Jamie. Very narrow.
I'm a change agent. That's going to be in here.
I missed the whole show. It's an hour-long show.
We're all talking the entire time. Click right there.
I'll know where it is. What is the answer? This falls along a threat as an insider.
No, no, I'm going back to Michael. In 2021, pegged Pete Hexler as a potential insider.
You had 98 chances to answer and he failed the test. Sorry, I'm going to Michael.
I'm going to Michael. Don't talk over each other.
Michael. The tattoo in question is called a Jerusalem cross.
This is a medieval Christian symbol, goes back a long time. In fact, at Jimmy Carter's funeral, there was a Jerusalem cross on the floor of the cathedral and on the program for the funeral.
There's one other tattoo that some have suggested could be extremist. It's the phrase Deus Volt, which is a medieval Christian slogan, a long traditional slogan that refers to God's will, and it goes back a long way.
These are very traditional, very mainstream Christian symbols that not only are not extreme in any way, but which even the people who want to accuse him of extremism couldn't possibly name. That is pathetic.
All right. His insider guardsman did it, which is what I said.
And also I said that he called himself too extreme for the U.S. military in his book.
That's pathetic. Okay.
Is Pete Hexler lying that he's too extreme in his book? Let me go to Julie. He's too extreme for radical leftists.
Let me go to Julie. Is he lying? Be gentlemanly, please.
We have a lady who's not spoken. Julie, be waiting very patiently.
Your view of this? I'll tell you what, before you answer, I know you said in your sub stack about this, under normal circumstances, he, Pete Hegsteth, would be precluded from serving in any leadership role. So explain why you said that.
Well, let me, I will explain in one second. Let me go back to something that was said in the very beginning, that he spent more than 10 years at Fox News, and that's what qualifies him to be in, in this position that he wants to be in.
I spent more than 10 years at Fox News. I don't think I'm qualified to run the DOD whatsoever based on my time at Fox News.
I didn't see that's what makes him. I said that was one of the things.
If you, if you, well, I don't think that's even a remote qualification. That's one.
Being able to communicate ideas as the secretary of defense and explain policy is actually a very big part of the job. There are plenty of qualified Republicans out there who can run the DOD who also are good on television.
It does not need to be Pete Hexeth. Secondly, again, you talked about NDAs.
I am bound by an NDA at Fox News. If I were not bound by an NDA and if Fox News wanted to release me from that NDA, I could tell you about my time with Pete Hexeth.
Unfortunately, that's not possible. But I will say that the reason that there are so many people who anonymously came forward at Fox News is that because they're also bound by confidentiality provisions, which one third of all American workers need to sign on their first day of work.
If they were to go public, they could get sued. The reason this accuser is not heard from is because, according to The New Yorker, she tried desperately to meet with Joni Ernst on the committee, and Joni Ernst turned her down.
So the reason that she has not been able to come out publicly is because she has an NDA, and even privately, she could not meet with a senator on this committee who is also a rape survivor to share her story, because that rape survivor did not want to hear from a woman who was going to put her potentially in a position to vote against Pete Hexeth. Pete Hexeth has written himself while at Princeton saying that women who are passed out, if you have sex with them while they're unconscious, that's not really rape.
Right? Now, the American military has a tremendous sexual... I don't know.
It doesn't sound true, but yeah. Yeah, it's hard to say, but scoot ahead to where they start discussing the tattoo.
I don't know where it's going. It's in the same flow.
It's not that far away. This is definitely not a good format, though.
No. Well, at least they're letting her talk.
You can just go have your way with them. Not really.
So I don't know which soldiers you've been talking to who think Pete Hexeth is a great thing for the military. There's not one woman out there who cares about being assaulted on deployment, who thinks that this is the person that needs to be UNITED STATES MILITARY.
AND ASK FOR THE CROSS THAT YOU TALKED ABOUT, YES, DEUS VOLT, WHICH IS THE CROSS THAT HE HAS AND THE SLOGAN THAT HE HAS, IS AN OLD CHRISTIAN CROSS. THE PART, THE PHRASE, EXCUSE ME, THE PHRASE.
THE PHRASE, HOWEVER, WAS UTTERED BY CRUSADERS AS THEY WERE SLAUGHTERING JEWS AND MUSLIMS DURING THE SECOND CRUSADE SPECIFICALLY. SO IT'S NOT JUST A RANDOM CROSS.
IT'S NOT JUST A RANDOM. That isn't true.
It's not just a random phrase. That isn't true.
The phrase was uttered after the Council of Claremont when Pope Urban II declared the crusade. It was actually probably Dieu le vould, but it's been rendered in Latin as Deus Volta.
It has nothing to do with slaughtering Muslims because the Muslims had invaded Europe, not the other way around. Oh my God.
Are you really saying that the reason the crusade, which was sent to the Holy Land to liberate the Holy Land, from whom? From Jews and Muslims. And that is a phrase.
I'll tell you why the crusade began. The crusade began because the Eastern Emperor asked for help from the Western Pope because the Seljuk Turks were slaughtering Christians in the Holy Land.
Because those lands were Christian before the Muslims invaded in the 7th century. So that's why.
No, no, no. Those crusades...
Good to know Michael's pro-crusade. I'm sorry.
Those lands... No, no.
Keep going. Those lands became Christian after the First Crusade, okay? So let's be very clear.
The lands were Christian in the first and second centuries. And then the Muslims...
Islam didn't exist before the seventh century. What are you talking about? Okay, I could...
Listen, listen. I can go all day if you want to talk about the Crusades, but the point is...
I can't say it. I'm not saying it.
It was fascinating. For people...
For people... Maybe we should switch the debate.
But what that has to do with... What that has to do with Pete Hexeth is it's not that he has a random cross that talks about his faith in Jesus Christ.
He used a very specific terminology. But putting all of that aside.
A phrase that was first uttered to defend persecuted Christians in the Middle East just like they're being persecuted today. Okay.
And that's who you want as a secretary of defense. Wonderful.
Listen, if you want to talk about the Crusades— Judy, finish your point, and I'll go to Michael— My point is that I cannot even believe that something the Vatican apologized for is something that you're defending, which is the slaughter of Jews and Muslims during the Crusades. What did the Vatican apologize for? Excuse me, the Vatican said the Crusades— What are you talking about? Oh, my Jesus.
You know what? Why don't you give me a call after this, and I will walk you through exactly... All right, let's try and bring things back.
All right, let me... The treatment of Muslims in the Crusades.
But if you want to talk about... We'll do a separate Crusades debate another time.
Let me bring Dave Rubin in. The worst way to have conversations.
I'm getting a headache from this. Fuck these people.
Fuck that whole panel. I'm sorry.
But, like. You can't talk like this.
Each of those individual people, I'm not sure about the second guy, even the woman, would be a fascinating four or five hour conversation. Yes.
Chill. You should probably have her on.
Yeah. Well, her and Michael Knowles and Piers Morgan.
Yes. Yeah.
This is not the right. I'm so exhausted.
This fucking bullshit. I know.
I can't. right now yeah I know I want to play more for you this own published a column saying sex with unconscious women isn't rape Jesus imagine not just thinking that but publishing it yeah I mean what did he actually say well rate been want to read it, we can read it.
Well, rape in quotes. Intercourse.
Bemusing yet mandatory orientation program revolved entirely around whether in an instance of sexual intercourse constituted rape. The actual instance portrayed in the skit was in fact, it was a skit? In fact, not a clear case of rape, at least not in my home state.
So this is Hexas saying this. In short, though intercourse was not consented to, there was no duress because the girl drank herself into unconsciousness.
Both criteria must be satisfied for rape. Unfortunately, the panelists never cited any legal definition of rape.
Yet the panel, all females in the session I attended, claimed that it was huh what year was this so they talking about this is what's confusing are they talk it says a skit and then it says they're talking about a legal definition of rape has the legal definition changed over the years like when when was this is he talking about a legal definition or is he talking about his own opinion? Right, there's a giant difference between the two of them, right? Especially if you take it something out of context, you don't know if he elaborated Article first college newspaper saying that having sex with unconscious women isn't rape because the criteria for rape isn't met So this is in his college newspaper. So how old is he?

Is he like 50? How old is

Pete Hegseth?

Yeah, he's up there, right?

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Which is really weird to think that 44. College would have been around 2000.
well, I remember in

2000 ish I remember when we were doing the podcast there was a brief moment of time where people were talking about

If a man had sex with a woman and they had both been drinking

That it was rape that the woman could not consent because she was drunk

But the man's drunk too

Right, so it gets weird it gets like we understand like traditionally men are pursuing women and that plying someone with alcohol is uh a famous thing that people do it's kind of a weird legal thing come on one more drink have another drink have another drink and we all know that when people get drunk they do stupid shit but we don't know what happened if you're both drunk you know so this is what i'm getting at is that 2000 these conversations are already being had the question is like is he saying this from his personal perspective or is he saying it from a legal perspective i don't know what else was in the text you know i'm trying to be as charitable as possible because if like more was in the like that's a reprehensible act that's like did he say anything like that or was it just specifically talking about the legal definition because he said in his state right also uh says to be clear he did not write it himself he published it oh that's what this is in short except that not publish a pop up on screen he did not or did publish such a column while he held the role he did not write it himself did not write it was written by someone else okay so he just published someone's opinions okay that's very different that's very different. That's very very very different.
She said he said that

That's not what he said at all that would see that right there. I'm just so exhausted That's exhausting both like over the thing that's wrong with both sides that right there is crazy because I my opinion of him

Shifted briefly when I was like, you know, I was watching Daniel Nereanu, you know, the great poker player was on Tim Pool's show.

And they were talking about his shift in political ideologies. And then a lot of it came from when they were accusing Trump of saying that thing that Obama repeated falsely during the campaign was that he was talking about white nationalists and neo-nazis and saying there's very fine people on both sides and Negrano had heard that he had heard the clip where Trump said it where it was edited he had never seen the full thing and then once he saw the full thing he was like what the fuck and it immediately made him realize like oh my're lying.
They're lying. And then he talked about how Obama repeated.
This is years after Daniel had known it was false. Obama repeating it at the campaign speeches.
And then Obama's sitting right next to Trump, and they're joking around with each other. Hey, pal, I know you're a neo-Nazi lover.
You fucking rascal. I had you win.
Like, it's...

But just what that lady did on that show,

and then when we find out that Hegseth didn't actually write that,

he just published it.

You know, and he published it in college as a 20-year-old,

or whatever he was.

I think there should be also room for that lady

to then change her mind and apologize. Yes.
Because a lot of us parrot, including probably you and I. Never.
Yeah. How dare you? Parrot bullshit we see online.
Yeah. Of course.
And then we should give each other room to say, I fucked up. But people don't want to say that.
This is what they have to understand. Even people I don't like, listen to me.
There's strength in that. It's better than digging your heels in.
There's strength in saying, I was uninformed or I was misinformed. I fucked up.
I've said it before. It's important to do.
You got to do it. Because you can't have an erroneous idea in your head and repeat it over and over again.
You can't have an incorrect, false opinion that you have a defended and now you can't ever accept even with new information that shows that it's not true i should also say because it's fucking sitting in my head uh on this topic i'm probably gonna do like a five plus hour interview with jack weatherford on genghis khan and i read his book and I and i don't i'm not proud of the way i formulated my for the fuck in the beginning of the beginning i'm still bothered by the looseness with which i talked about rape there is and i don't think i have in me the eloquence or the skill to improve on that i think in general it's trying to find the right words well here's describe the historic the historically accurate thing the data that we have and then the narratives uh i think the point jack weatherford makes is that we keep oscillating back and forth on Genghis Khan.

He's one, like, this epic great conqueror.

Like, currently, Alexander the Great has that good vibes all around him.

Nobody talks about him as a horrible human.

Horrible human.

Yeah.

But currently, Genghis Khan has this kind of barbarian, evil, just rapist. Well, they're just so good at it.
They were so good at murder. They were so good at war.
I mean, they're so uniquely good at military strategy. So it's about, he always kept the army to about 100,000.
It's small. So it's 100,000 horses.
Each soldier had five horses, so four spare horses with him. So imagine it's 500,000 horses.
Which they used their blood to fuel them. Yeah, they would consume the blood.
They used that for food. So it's very portable.
They're not bringing logistically. The whole, I mean, just imagine this armada moving at like, they can move like 50 miles a day.
This entire army, and they don't have to follow the roads, which all the military would follow the roads. So you can go around, you can surround, and they did the, as you know, they can retreat, feign retreat, and then attack from the sides.
It's the blitzkrieg that's the... Genius stuff.
And a lot of people, including Dan Carlin, say it's the greatest military in history it would defeat every single military including Napoleon with the muskets and everything yeah they would destroy Napoleon and then of course in the 20th century you know they didn't defeat samurais right but they never really fought they did they twice they fought but it's not a real battle. These guys are fucking crazy.
They thought they were crazy. These guys were, like, practicing their whole lives for one-on-one combat with swords.
As far as I know, they never really had a full-on battle. I wish they did.
There were some battles. There was battles on an island, one of the islands outside of Japan.
But the Japanese successfully held off the Mongols. And they were, like, one of the only civilizations to ever pull that off i think one of the issues with mongols except kublai khan is they were not good with water they didn't know how to the ship thing was not oh what a big mistake well they imagine they're as good with water as they were with horses that would have been a real problem well a lot of things they had advantage on like for example they can, they can ride on ice.
And so... How'd they do that? They...
In Mongolia, they... These people, like...
Did they have different horseshoes? Did they even shoe their horses back then? No, I don't think so. Really? No, no, no.
It's all... Like, they don't have...
When do they start shoeing horses? That's a good question. But that doesn't feel like a Mongol thing.
I mean, the can ride the mountain archery. I'm sure you know about this.
The mountain archery is so insane. They had the ability to hang off the side of the horse so they would shoot from under the horse's neck.
So they were completely defended by the horse, and they were shooting arrows. And their bows were 160 pounds.
you had to be in sick. They said that a lot of the skeletons they find from that era their bones are deformed Because your whole body has just been pulling a hundred and sixty pounds with your right arm or your left arm like your whole life so your right side is like insanely muscled and your bones are all twisted and thicker and denser tendons and everything because they've been doing that since they were children they were two years old yeah insanely formidable army insanely formidable but here's something to take into consideration we're saying about like how Genghis Khan's gene were genes were spread But just right off the bat it's all awful all horrible I wish no one ever got killed by anybody ever.
It's all off all war is hell all of it all's hell There was so much of it going on throughout human history that women would there was a survival mechanism in accepting this conqueror as your new husband when he slaughtered your husband. It's the only way your genes passed on.
So these women were able I mean, even if they said they fell in love with him, you know, even if they did marry him, even if they were happy to marry him, there was almost an evolutionary requirement because we slaughtered each other so much that if you wanted your genes to pass on, you had to accept the slaughter of your former mate. And then in modern day society, we would call that rape.
Right. But it's – you have to use different words for that time because there is rape where it's like violent

Rape as part of war as part of a mechanism of terror

I think even as just part of society up until like a few thousand years ago or even a few hundred years ago

I think human beings, you know like

I've had a bunch of friends who've served overseas and the stories they tell from afghanistan especially with the child raping is fucking bone curdling like you you blood curdling just like you just want to leave the room when they're talking you don't even want to hear this you don't think that this is happening and it's happening right now because it's an old culture it's an old culture and it's separate from the rest of the world it's very remote very difficult to access you have warlords and herders who are living in these nomadic tribes to this day not much different than when alexander the great conquered it so i should i should say that jen Jenkins come from everything I understand was was not progressive but he was very pragmatic this is why he allowed all religions all religions which is Thomas Jefferson I should say deeply admired Genghis Khan for this the freedom of religion and he didn't just say freedom of religion it's freedom of an individual to practice any religion they want which is a it's like individualism it's a really revolutionary badass idea for that time for that place well he was he recognized strength and the value of accepting strength and taking and there's strength in unity the strength in community if people can worship whatever they want, but all be united under one banner, it's better than dividing everybody. And the feminist thing that I mentioned, he would put women in power.
Why? Is he a feminist? No. He understood that women are able to—men conquer better, in his perspective, and women rule better because they keep a stable society so he would do he would uh marry a woman to the king of the place and then send the king off to fight the ruler to fight knowing for sure he's going to die but the woman is not ruling and then there's a lot of like progressive things about like there were a lot to show their face, especially in the Persian lands where they conquered.

Like they're allowed to wear these fancy headdresses, which is, you know. They could floss a little.
Yeah, exactly. She's kind of excited about that.
Yeah, exactly. New rules.
And the other thing, you know, on the – this is the tricky thing is the Mongolian tribes where Genghis Khan came up by the way came up from nothing father slaughtered I mean this is a yeah from nothing though they all that was a common practice to steal wives to steal women yeah and that we had one of his wives stolen and she came back pregnant that was like the origin story the origin story Genghis Khan right is like his the love of his life who was married to him for his whole life that he proposed or he said you're gonna we're gonna marry at nine years old at she was kidnapped and he had to raise an army in order to rescue her back. That was the split in the road.
He would have been a normal Mongol, but here he has to raise an army to rescue her back. Wow.
And then he realized he's really fucking good at this whole rescue thing. But it started with, you know, it's a real love story.
What? what I could find is that the horses were unshoed unshoot but they did do something that this says here they use some sort of skin to cover it interesting allowed a dry place order to acquire the shape of a hoof perfect the technique to cover the hoof which offered greater abilities their armies to move faster more efficiently than their opponents Interesting horseshoes were around for at least two or three hundred years Interesting so they probably knew about them skins. That's interesting what you're saying about him Developing the ability and like really I'm really good at this.
Do you know that's exactly what happened with the Somali pirates? Do you know the Somali pirates origin story? No, the Somali pirates called themselves the people's Coast Guard of Somalia They were they were defending their waters against Europeans dumping toxic waste in the ocean. They were fishermen So they had found that these ships were dumping water and killing all their fish and say that these motherfuckers We're gonna hold them responsible.
So they boarded these ships kidnapped them and said hey you have to pay us we've lost all this money from all our fish we don't have any fish give us money or we'll kill these motherfuckers and they gave them money and they said hey let's start kidnapping people like this is this is way better and then you know there's obviously there's a narcotic aspect to it because of cat because the widespread use of this uh narcotic cat which is like an amphetamine that they is it a leaf k-h-a-t that's like you know the guy on the boat look look at me i'm the captain now that guy's cracked out i mean they're all real skinny and what's really important in that dynamic is who is the leader that emerges. That's the interesting thing about Genghis Khan.
He became super powerful. That person could have been incompetent.
Genghis Khan could have been a bunch of different people. He instilled one of the really revolutionary things is meritocracy.
Right. By the way, he appointed his kids, several people, including Marcus Aurelius fancy you know meditations he he failed as a emperor by appointing his kids the ever before him the five emperors all appointed base generals based on merit right so Genghis Khan always appointed based on merit who's the best person here to lead the groups, which is a revolutionary idea for the time because it was usually based on kin, like your relationship, your brothers, your sisters, your father, so on.
That was really important. And the other thing I mentioned about the tribes, the origin story, is everybody would kidnap and actual rape the women.
They were steel women in the Mongol Empire. As soon as he won over the entire original Mongolia, he banned.
That was a strict rule. There's no kidnapping of wives.
That was a rule for Mongolia, and that rule propagated everywhere. That's wild.
He's like, this is what got us into this shit. Yeah.
So, which is one of the pieces of evidence where they're like, it's like there was a lot of cracking down on the whole rape thing. But there's a caveat of like, well, why is there so many dead bodies where like the atmosphere changed? Yeah.
Why is the carbon footprint different of the human race during the time that he was alive? But it's interesting because we also have to look at things in a perspective of living in the year 1200. Or what is it? 1240s? Like when was he around? I should know this.
12 or 13. Yeah.
Well, Jamie will find out. So you have to.
It's very hard to do, and it's not apologizing for these people.

I'm not saying that we should apply the way they looked at the world today.

I think the way we look at the world is infinitely better, and we're moving in an infinitely better direction.

And I think we have large extremes that go in one direction, and things push back in the other direction too far.

There's an overcorrection, and then they balance out.

I think we're generally moving in a direction of a more kind, more peaceful society. I think we're better.
That said, 1,200 years ago, the world was hell. There was no newspapers.
No one could read. Okay, where did you get your information from? You got your information from priests and from generals.
And you shared information of your farmers. The world was horrific.
People fought with bows and arrows and cannons and catapults. And murder was commonplace.
If you were 12 years old, you'd probably seen a few people killed already. It was a different time to be alive.
Diseases would kill everybody. There was no medicine.
You broke your leg you're dead you know you you get infected you're dead it was just the world was a very very different place it was so so dangerous and so fucking terrifying and people relied on their base instincts and their the the worst aspects of, they relied on that to survive

because that was all around you.

You had to become a monster

if you wanted to live in monstrous times.

And that's why the rule of law

had to be enforced in a brutal way.

One of the really powerful things he did

is protect merchants, people that traded.

If you fuck with people that trade

on the Silk Road, you're going to get slaughtereded it's not like there's going to be a process you get slaughtered yeah in fact one of the one of the reasons i hesitate to say this because people are projecting to the future but he slaughtered he took kiev and slaughtered people because they broke the rule of, I forget the term for this, but the people that are sent out to communicate before the battle starts. Ambassadors.
And the ambassadors, the rule is you don't fuck with them. Yeah.
And the Kievan residents killed them. And that's where you break the rule.
Yeah. like that's it then it's total war and you had to do that i mean you don't have to do that but that is one of the well if you're living back then you have to do that and then you look at like but the result is complete slaughter and by the way thank you for uh uh rescuing me for i said a bunch of stupid shit and you're adding more complexity and depth and nuance and well we just got started you know i don't know i love you too i love you to death man you know how you uh when you begin a podcast um you know i don't know if you're you're like this but for me i gotta get cooking you.
Sometimes that's one of the reasons why I like to talk to people. I like to talk sometimes like 15 minutes even before we go on air.
The danger is they're going to say something and I'm going to ask them to repeat it. I don't want that.
So sometimes I'll come in hot and I'm like, let's just go right now. But your brain, you don't know we're going to talk about the Mongols and rape.
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You have probably more responsibility than anybody. And then this subject comes up in the middle of that.
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So it's like, you know, this is, again, you reacting to criticism, right? So it's like the fear of the criticism of you yourself knowing you could have done a better job of explaining that had you prepared something. Which is really the difference between off-the-cuff conversations and, like, your actual well-considered thoughts on things expressed in the best way possible, which is what you would do if you're going to write it out, if you're going to write a Substack piece about it.
Well, one of the things I'm trying to do for myself personally, I think a lot of people have to do this, young kids have to do this, is figure out how to create a psychological framework where I'm not affected by the internet. It sounds ridiculous to say, but you say don't read the comments, but they get they come at you like they they you yeah they'll find their way and i need to you but it doesn't work nobody to nobody's good at it even elon's not good at it just post and ghost post and ghost but post things that you think are interesting and just get out of there don't read stuff about yourself someone said this i think was anthony hopkins he was talking about someone's opinion of him he said uh that doesn't concern me uh no was it anthony hopkins i think it was but he was like um their opinions of me are not my business but let's let's add to this little puzzle what if a bunch of your friends say you're getting canceled online by the way tucker carlson is good at this he doesn't read anything yeah he Yeah, he doesn't even have social media.
I know. I always want to send him things.
I'm like, this motherfucker's not even going to look at this. What if all your friends have read the thing, right? Or your parents or so on, your loved ones.
And the thing could be just a bunch of lies about you. Sure.
like what – for me, that's a little bit of a tricky thing. Well, that's not something you should ignore, right? If you want to make a statement, there's nothing wrong with that.
What I'm saying is don't regularly engage in people's opinions of the product that you put out. I don't think it's healthy for you because I think, first of all, I've said this before, I'm only kind of joking, but I'm kind of serious.
Most people commenting are losers. Sorry.
If you're doing it all the time and you're doing it in a negative way all the time, this is not everybody. There's a lot of really well thought out commentary on YouTube videos that I see.
If occasionally I'll read someone's Instagram page and I'll read my friends comments some people are brilliant don't get me wrong but it is a haven for fuckheads it's a place where people can go and just try to insult people and say the most negative thing possible and they generally I think there's generally a lot of like dull-minded people that gravitate towards the negativity. You know where that differs is Christians, which is interesting.
Like a lot of like low wattage Christians are still super nice, you know, and they'll just praise Jesus and look for forgiveness. The real ones, right? Which is a great thing that we should all aspire to.
Yeah, like the default state is super nice. Yes, the default state.
What you're supposed to do if you really follow Jesus' teaching is like be completely nonviolent and be a beautiful person and love everybody like it's your brother. That's what he wants.
That's like, you know, and if you follow that. But there's just too many assholes and too many disgruntled people out there that have terrible lives.
You know, the most men lead lives of quiet desperation, the Thoreau line that I fucking love so dearly. It's such a great line.
That's so true and maybe even more true today because of the unnatural world in which we're thrust in. So not only are people doing things that they hate most of the time, but they're also engaging with their phone more than they are with people.
So they're engaging in this very bizarre, non-physical way that is detached from any human interaction, detached from emotions, eye contact, the feel of being with someone, the back and forth of a conversation between two people. Like if you and I were going to disagree about something, if there was like some political thing or some social thing that you and I disagreed about, we could sit and just, I want to know why you think the way you think.
Like I want to know. Like if you think a thing and I disagree with it, the first thing I want to know is, and this is not something I always had.
I got way better at this in my life as I've gotten older and had more conversations with people. You got to absolutely know what this person thinks.
Don't attack it. Don't twist it around.
Don't distort it. You have to kind of steel man it.
You have to be as charitable to that position as possible And then occasionally when you find things that you disagree with you have to stop and you have to say okay Here's my problem with this and it has to be done in good faith You have to be doing it not to win. You have to be doing it to figure out what's right And everybody's so fucking attached to their opinions and their ideology that most of the time, most conversations are had where one person, at least on social media, one person's trying to win.
You're trying to win all the time. You're playing this stupid game.
It's a dumbass game where everybody's a loser. But we just watched the Piers Morgan thing.
That's the same thing. It clearly pulled in your attention.
You're aware of aware of it See you love it. You're you're the you're part of the problem Joe.
Oh 100%

Yeah, I'm a huge part of the problem. You're gonna get me wrong

You're a human being well. Yeah, well also like how much do I contribute to people wasting their time?

Tick-tock reels like Instagram reels Twitter things how many fucking Twitter articles get written about every stupid thing?

I said I mean for three days

Dragon believer was trending

Just get some wacky old lady thinks I believe in dragons, but this is just the nature of the world

I love that aspect of the internet. I love the wacky shit.
Yeah, even though Ukraine war footage, which is horrible

What it's doing is giving you a more nuanced version of the world.

And some of it's not good.

Like, I watched a video today of a guy who got killed by a tiger.

Well, he didn't get killed by a tiger.

He got torn apart by a tiger.

The wounds, man.

The wounds that this guy...

Like, I didn't think, like, what would a tiger do to you

if a tiger bit your face?

You want to see?

Yeah. Yeah, you do.
I know you do. fit? You wanna say yeah, you do cuz I'm

Curious I'm switching over to Android buddy

Welcome yeah, I just have a few more steps that I have to do before I switch over and I'm gonna try to communicate only

With encrypted apps from now on no what's up?

It's just sort of like limiting Twitter replies to registered accounts

Mm-hmm.

You know, people like to do that. I'm going to try to do that.
I'm going to try to use WhatsApp for everything. I was going to use Signal, but.
Yeah. I don't know.
The people that use Signal, I don't know. It seems too secret squirrel.
I don't know what that means, but yeah. You know, like you're a spy of using Signal.
I use it, though. I use it all the time.
I mean, I'm totally being hypocritical here. What was I looking at? Oh, the tiger thing.
Bro, this one's rough. This one's rough.
This is Tom Segura. I sent it to him today.
Tom Segura and I send each other every day the worst shit that we can find on the internet. And it has been, like, legitimately, it's been one of the worst aspects of modern life for me.
It's like every fucking day me and Tom are sending each other guys getting killed by assassins. Nice.
It's every day. There's so many footage, so many videos of cartel members whacking people.
After a while, you're like, holy shit, I don't know if I could do this anymore. Every day, someone's getting run over by a truck.
Every day. So here it is.
So this guy, they're shooting at the, give me some volume so I can hear this. So they shot at the Tigers just before this, because this guy had been bitten up.
And so, see, they're shooting at him right now. And the Tiger's like, nah, bitch.
And the Tiger's just biting down on this guy.

So this is what the guy looked like.

This is his wounds.

Wow.

He's not dead?

Bro.

Look at his head.

I mean, his bone is exposed.

No, he's moving.

Yeah, no, he's alive, dude. What the fuck? Look at his face.
Watch them show his head. I mean, his bone is exposed.
Yeah, no, he's alive, dude. Look at his face.
Watch him show his face. So this guy climbed into a wildlife enclosure.
Those were not wild tigers. It was, uh, they were, you know, I don't want to say tamed.
They they're not tamed but there's some in some way at least minimized in their effectiveness without you know uh our buddy paul sent me that paul rosalie sent me oh yeah yeah so this doesn't remind me of the jungle yeah our buddy our buddy paul is fearless he's a bad motherfucker yeah paul rosalie's a bad motherfucker. Yeah.
Paul Rosalie's a bad motherfucker. That guy is literally putting his money where his mouth is, where his life is, trying to save the Amazon.
Like, living in it. Helping people.
You know, hiring people to guard it. Taking people that were chopping the wood, chopping the trees down down and then giving them a new job to protect the trees It's fucking amazing and feel and he feels the pain like he literally like physically feels the pain of lost trees He sent me something.
I don't even know if I'm allowed to talk about it, but if If we're not I'll edit it out afterwards, but he sent me a video I can't show the video, But he sent me a video of an uncontacted tribe discovered. Yeah, did you send you that? Yeah fucking insane yes, it's just complete uncontacted tribe naked in the forest hundreds of them and They're like pushing these boats filled with bananas out to them to give them food The reason we could probably probably talk about the they they try not to show it So yeah, but don't show up and try to find them exactly you want to kind of protect them exactly That's why I don't know if we could even talk about it But he has brought up the uncontacted tribes before on the show and one of his friends was murdered by one One of the tribes he was these guys drop off food to these people one day.
They're like, you know what enough whap

I'm just gonna kill you fuck you. I don't trust you Yeah, we we hung out we talked to it to a guy that works with Paul's that has like a scar from from a spear

jeez

bro

At least a hundred uncontacted groups in the rainforest

Unbelievable man, they're living like they were living 20,000 years ago, maybe even more, you know, completely uncontacted. That is, to me, one of the most fascinating aspects of human life today.
It's not just that we're on the verge of quantum computing and AI becoming sentient. It's a we're

coexisting at the same time with people that have a completely subsistence based lifestyle with the the stuff that's around them, you know stone tools literally pointed sticks for spears that they've been doing this for thousands and thousands of years. And they're living at the same time as smartphone addiction.
Not only that, those people probably, their roots go, they could be the original civilization. I believe that there is.
Look at that. Isn't that crazy? Look at those people.
That is so wild. This is taken in June, I think.
Man, that would be so... If you could just be a fucking fly on the wall and observe that life without interfering somehow, so just remotely...
God, that would be so incredible. You would be doing what the aliens are doing right now.
I think that is what they're doing. I think it's real similar.
I really do. Yeah.
I think if you just looked at the natural progression of human beings and what we're talking about with quantum computing and AI and the technological innovations that are without doubt going to hit us like a tsunami over the next 20 years, 30 years, whatever it is. What are we going to become? We're going to become what they are, the same kind of thing.
And if there was a planet that had something like us that's emerging and just figuring out how to split the atom and still involved in tribal warfare, a primate that's still involved with tribal warfare, but now has nuclear bombs, that's us. Also dick pics.
Also OnlyFans. Also just massive social media addicts all over the entire planet while we're engaging in tribal warfare with hypersonic weapons.

So they would be studying us the same way we're studying these folks.

Same thing.

When we find out a guy got hit with a spear, like, oh, fuck, what happened?

These people are crazy.

You got to be careful.

When Paul was saying that they were there and they realized that the tribe was close like they were starting to hear things and they realized they were probably being hunted and they just got the fuck out of there as quick as they could that's terrifying i do not want to wake up to uh news on my feed that paul rosalie got killed by an uncontacted well he's, he's, I mean, that guy leaps into adventure.

I've gotten the chance to hang out with him, and it's great.

There's certain people, I haven't met many people like him

in the way that you've described,

but also in the way where he sees,

Elon is a little bit like this, actually.

Like, he sees the opportunity for adventure,

and he just leaps into it.

There's not like a deep, deliberate process of strategy and planning and so on. It's just something pulls at him.
And that's a really fun person to be with. But couple that with just extreme competence.
Like he's good at surviving. He's just – he's good at taking risks and good at surviving.
And that's a, so like the uncontacted tribes or the crazy shit we did in the jungle,

just like getting lost and half almost dying,

all that kind of stuff.

And he's a really nice guy.

Super nice.

Really nice guy.

And it's just like,

there's something to that.

He's an actual good person.

He's really doing this for a good cause.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And it's not just the, the, the Amazon rainforest. He's also going to Africa and India and sort of trying to save nature.
I mean, you go out hunting. The forest is a bit different than the Amazon rainforest.
Their life is a lot different. It like real intense like there's a lot you're

in the middle of a soup of life when you have that much life just think about the amount of insects the button you around it the buzzing at night explain that what that sounds like yeah it's an it's an orchestra i mean it's millions of little organisms and if you're screaming there's no silence at night.

Oh, yeah.

They're all fucking...

They're all screaming

and fucking

and killing each other yeah you know and it's all life eats life all around you it's life eating life and with one of the ways to experience that is the sound the other way is just standing there stuff starts crawling on you pretty quickly

So and you get you get bit by a bulletin

No, but you know step very close to it. There's a lot.
I mean I want to get bit by one

In the context here. I would love to get bit by one.
Would you do it on the podcast?

We brought in bullet ants let's go

Yeah, so I have to take a day off of everything else I think what are you pussy I think you do I think you don't want to be interviewing some person about AI just sweating just sweating and agony I think everybody likes to think they have like super high pain tolerance you know that about men it's fun fun men always like to think oh man I got fucking crazy pain tolerance yeah me well don't women have a much higher much higher. You know is the highest redheaded women.
Oh that explains a lot This is up for debate, but I sent Jamie something recently You remember that thing I sent you so we were talking about on the podcast multiple times because I had read that that they had a higher pain Threshold I'm like that's weird. I wonder why well well because everybody's been fucking with gingers forever.
They've been beating their ass They're like an MMA guy who's got two older brothers, you know the fucking they can take it the scariest MMA fighters have older brothers used to beat them up Because they're ready to fucking throw down all the time like the scariest guys guys or abusive stepdad. Those two.
That makes a scary guy. Or abusive father.
The guys that I know that are the fucking scariest, they had abusive dads. They had people that beat them up when they were young.
And they just get fucking used to going, just ready to go. They don't have a fear of going.
They want to go. They want to go all the time.
Let's fucking go. Like, they've just been, that's the only way to survive.

If you're a kid and you have a brother who's four years old and your dad is a raging alcoholic

and he beats your mom in front of you and your brother beats your ass too, like, fuck, man.

You better be hard or you're not going to make it.

There's no pillow to cry into.

You got to fight your brother.

He's four years older than you.

He might knock you out today.

He knocked you out last week.

He laughed at you when you're on your back.

Yeah.

I mean, not to return to the topic, but Genghis Khan murdered his older brother because he was picking on him.

Because he stole his fish.

Stole his fish.

Yeah.

He said, fuck you.

Shot him with a bow and arrow.

The mom freaked out.

Yeah.

Called him a monster.

Yeah.

She was right.

Well, also, you learn how to kill your brother when you're you know what was he six wasn't he yeah something like something like that yeah like gets married at nine yeah you're getting off on the wrong foot and conquers an empire at 16 but they didn't expect you to live past 30 you know if you got to 30 you fuck back then. Meanwhile, he lived like into his 60s.
Yeah. He lived really long and he was consulting with monks because he was trying to figure out how to live longer, how to live forever.
He was like, you know, he felt the iron ebbing from his blood. He felt the body weaken.
He wanted to visit today. He'd be on TRT.
He'd be fucking great. Meanwhile, his kids are kind of disappointing of disappointing I mean this like well, of course.
Yeah, isn't that always the case? That's the thing like show me a man Who's a great man who's the son of a great man? It's tough. It's tough.
It's a hard road I mean you have to have a very exceptional father who recognizes the requirements that this kid is going to go through if you're fucking Genghis Khan's son.

And meanwhile, you're also running an empire.

Like raising kids is it is a very involving thing.

And it's a nuanced thing.

And you have to know which ones to push and which ones to just let them be themselves, which ones to support, which ones to encourage, and how to encourage and how to instill discipline, how to show them how important it is to feel the pain of loss and to feel like failure and to understand that this doesn't make you a bad person. These are just the lessons of life and the energy that comes with doing something well and throwing yourself into something and finding success versus half-assing your existence and feeling filled with misery and regret.
And that's a difficult thing when you're sleeping on silk sheets. You know, that was like, uh, what Marvin Hagler used to talk about.
Like, you know, it's hard to get up in the morning and run when you're sleeping in silk sheets He was talking about the pull of as you become successful boxers get softer And it's because they start getting rich, you know, and then you know

Just chill a little bit. Well, if you have a son then the son's growing up rich and you're chill

Like fuck man, like you want to make a conqueror you want to make a you want to make a champion fighter give them a rough childhood i don't think you should do it definitely shouldn't be mean to your kid just so they could be a badass fighter well i think it's also there's probably a balance you can hit but a lot of these folks because they had nothing they want to spoil their kids they go too far in the other direction Yeah, it's not it's a harder to be a strict parent. I think Mitzi sure used to ignore ignore Pauly just to make him funnier She talked about it.
She talked about ignoring him when he was crying. Yeah, it'll make him funny She was right.
Yeah, she knew what she was doing but it's like to do that if You're a conqueror and you came up from shooting your brother with a bow and arrow and then raising an army to take back your wife And then you have children and your children are born when you're 40, you know And you've you've got this insane empire. That's like one of the most Spectacular and impressive military accomplishments if you just look at in terms of just like the sheer numbers of human beings they sent into the reincarnation cycle It's fucking it's a crazy number man.
They killed somewhere between I Think the estimates are 50 to 60 million people. Over the course of his lifetime, 10% of the population of Earth.
Yeah, and they, you know, how? Brutal. One-on-one contact.
Bows and arrows, fire, catapults, swords, spears, trampled. And through all of that, it doesn't seem like power corrupted the guy.
So he was big on unmarked grave. No statues were allowed to be made of him.
No paintings, no anything. Not just that.
They killed everybody that was involved in it yeah the people that went to bury him another group came out to kill them and then another group came out to kill the people that killed them they came in three waves so that no one would have any idea where genghis khan is buried and we still don't know you know that's one of the the qualities of there's a perception of zolensky sort of the actor the showman all that kind of stuff some of that is true but in his interactions that i'm aware of with the soldiers there is no like he wants to be on the exact same level sleep on the same bunks no glamour none of that which i personally admire in a leader in general just walk amongst it's a very thing. I mean, if you're going to ask people to lead, could you imagine if Biden was at the front line? You know what I'm saying? Yeah.
Yeah. Maybe you see Kamala Harris at the front line in Afghanistan.
Could you see that? No. Could you see Obama at the front line? No.
Could you see Trump at the front line? Fuck out of here. 78 years old.
Leave him alone. Yeah.
It's a very adm a very admirable thing and if you know that's the thing if people have always said the number one concern that people have with the military industrial complex is sending young men to die in a war that's unnecessary for profit while you are in an air-conditioned office right that was um during Fear and loathing in las vegas who was it mcgovern did mcgovern say that but it was a very powerful speech he said i'm tired of watching these old men in air-conditioned offices send young men to die in these unnecessary wars.

Actually— So if you're willing to be out there too, that's a very different thing. That's a very different thing.
I mean, some people make the argument that a president should moderate how much they do that because— You could die. You could die, but it also wears on— to make compromised decisions in the realm of

geopolitics and in the realm of war you have to have a bit of coldness if you really feel the pain of soldiers you may make unwise decisions in terms of diplomatic decisions yes in terms of for example you've seen a lot of people die, children die.

And if you've seen enough, the idea of quote-unquote peace is a dirty word. Right.
Like, you want justice. Isn't that a problem right now, not just in Ukraine, but also in Gaza? Yeah.
I mean, this is the thing that the sheer number of people that died that had nothing to do with it is crazy. It's crazy.
I think the most recent estimate, and they don't even know because there's so many people that are under rubble. The most recent estimate was somewhere north of 60,000 people.
And how many of them are kids? Like, what's the number of kids that have been killed by missiles that had done nothing wrong? Like, what's that number? And those kids have families. And those kids have mothers and brothers and sisters and some people that lived and some people that died.
And whoever makes it out of that, you want to radicalize somebody. you want to radicalize somebody you want to radicalize

somebody to to to just want nothing but revenge i can think of no better way no better way and here donald trump is tasked with going in there trying to make peace i think i'm pretty optimistic about just knowing the skill set of all the people involved in Israel-Palestine, in Russia-Ukraine. I'm pretty optimistic about.
I can't believe those people. Those hostages are still alive.
Yeah. How many of them are still alive now? I don't know what the exact numbers are.
But it's crazy that they were not freed sooner. The whole thing's horrible from top to bottom, including all the people that have decided what happened, people that are saying it was definitely a false flag.
Like, boy, these things are complicated. These things are complicated.
It's definitely, like, whenever something horrible happens and someone fucked up, like, someone fucked up. Israel is the most protected place on earth.
It's one of the most secure countries on earth. For them to let something like that happen is just a huge fuck up.
But what I had heard was that there was also a lot of troops that were stationed near where there were protests.

So there was a lot of protests about Netanyahu before October 7th happened, which most people aren't even aware of. There was hundreds of thousands of people in the streets protesting Netanyahu before October 7th.
So then October 7th comes, and then all of a sudden, now whenever you have any sort of military engagement, sort of you're at war right now when those things happen one of the first things that happens is all the protests and all the bullshit stops because now a bunch of people got killed and when anything like that happens and you are now involved in a countrywide assault on this other country, everything else gets put aside. And so the big conspiracy fear has always been when a leader knows that they're going to get pushed out, they'll start a false flag or start a war.
So they look at October 7th and they say they let that happen. Or they say they had knowledge of it, they knew it was going to happen.
They knew it, but they wanted an excuse to raise Gaza. They wanted an excuse to just have a full-on bombing campaign against Hamas.
I mean, you definitely need to look at the incentives there. That is one of the concerns in Ukraine for President Zelensky, the prospect of ending the war, because right now the country is unified.
If you end the war and you have elections, now you have to face a lot of the consequences internally about the potential discovery of corruption, about the suspension of democracy, about all these things. And the same thing with Netanyahu, who, by the way, also, they want to do a three-hour podcast with me.
I talked to him before October 7th for an hour. I regret talking to him for an hour.
One of the things I really learned a lot from you and from just myself, you can't do. One of the things I really don't like what happened with me talking to Donald Trump is like 40 minutes with Donald Trump.
Yeah. It was a mistake.
They didn't really. I was almost willing to do that with Kamala Harris.
I was entertaining the 45-minute one. I was entertaining because I was like maybe if I could just come in at a 10 to work my brain up.
Like really come in and just engage with her real quick. I just wanted to get, I wanted to get loose.
I don't, the problem is like, I want to see how you are as a real person. I think actually genuinely with you and Kamala Harris, I think 45 minutes is horrible.
But I think you're so skilled and like compassionate. Just like, it's fun, fun to talk to you.
I think you would just end up being much much longer that's that's the hope if that's the hope yeah there would be questions though and some questions would be very complicated like the immigration question like i would say what's happening like what is happening what do you do you think that there should be limitations to this you think it should be stopped all right? Do you think we should round up all the people that we know that are terrorists that made it across?

Are we keeping track of them?

Do we know how many?

Do we know what happened?

Do we know why it happened?

Why are people opposed to the idea of cracking down on border patrol,

making more soldiers available, putting walls up everywhere?

What is the reason to not do this?

Tell me what you're thinking.

And when people start talking about labor, they're talking about bringing in labor

and then our population is lower. Like Chuck Schumer brought that up.
Talk about like,

we need workers. And I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, What are we saying?

We don't.

Is there is that really what the problem is that Americans aren't willing to do jobs and you you want to bring any illegal people how about just make legal immigration easier for poor people that are trying to get over here how about just scan them screen them make sure that they're not fucking murderers make sure they're not cartel members and then let them in easier like wouldn't that be a better way to do it to vet people but the idea of not vetting people just just doesn't make any sense at all. That would have been a problem That conversation would have been a problem because it doesn't make any sense at all and I'm a I'm a grandchild of immigrants I I believe in immigration I think I think America is the fucking shining light in the world Like if you can get here, you can actually make something happen.
There's not a caste system They actually reward people from you know started from the bottom now. We're here like that's a thing here Oh, that's Drake.
He's Canada, but it's that That's gonna be America soon, right? Yeah, we're gonna take over Canada for sure. Yeah, that needs to happen Yeah, 51st state.
Let's go Puerto Rico's next you got to become a real state now Puerto Rico's got a weird thing where you're allowed to not pay taxes, but you can't vote.

Do you know that deal?

That's the Peter Schiff deal.

You don't vote, but you don't pay federal income tax.

I feel like I think you're going to go to jail someday.

I think one day they're going to fucking pull you inside and go, we changed that rule and you owe us four billion dollars in back taxes you fucking

Criminal what are you doing out here? Hanging out on this island just stealing money But yeah, we definitely need legal legal immigration the idea of bringing like the best people in the world here. Yeah, but also Also, Mark Andreessen talks about this.

We need to make sure we recruit the Midwest, the farm boys.

Yes. world here yeah but also mark andreason talks about this like we need to make sure we recruit like the midwest the farm boys yeah get them to like do epic shit inside you know americans well here's step one ramp up the fucking education system yeah jesus christ at what point in time do we not say how far do we have to slip down the the list of the best performing students in the world before someone comes along and says, hey, the whole thing about this place is if our kids are losers, they're going to grow up to become loser adults.
Make it way easier to be a winner. What's the best way to do that? Have a way better education system.
Just imagine if they completely revamped the education system in this country, just poured a shitload of money and had the wisest minds come up with a brilliant strategy for more creative ways of approaching learning, pushing people into viable pathways that maybe didn't even exist when the education system was structured because things have changed so much in the world You could probably do a way better job than we're doing which would make people come out of that They would emerge better qualified people so we would get more shit done in America So America would prosper overall the GDP would grow the fucking everything would be better. You'd have less poverty.

You have this is that's where they need to start.

It's not just let in all the immigrants.

How about fix what we got here and then expand that outward?

Like make this place the best it can be and then expand that idea out to the rest of the world.

So instead of like letting everybody walk here from third world countries because third world countries suck expand what's better out to the rest of the world and uh a big part of that is actually culturally changing uh accepting celebrating venerating meritocracy yes like the guy in the class see i you know having gone to school in the soviet union I was good at math, and I was actually, believe it or not, super cool because I was good at math in class.

Whoa.

I was the cool kid because I was good at math.

I was getting like-

In America, we think you were a dork.

I had a girlfriend when I was young.

Shut the fuck up, bitch.

Isn't that funny?

No, no, no.

I think it's wrong.

I'm getting violent.

I think they're wrong.

You should get violent.

You should.

You should.

I think they're wrong, but it's a fascinating thing to make fun of the smart kid. Especially math.
Look at that fucking robot over there. Science.
Isn't that weird? But honestly, even in all walks of life, sports is a little better. We do celebrate great athletes, but there's still kind of the participation trophy thing.
There's still a kind of sense where we want to help the people that aren't quite as good at a thing. That's only with little kids, though.
Sports are one of the pure. How little? Sports, once kids get into the teenage years, sports is a meritocracy.
Yes. But culturally, do we really say this is amazing that this person is winning? Yeah.
We do get there. I want to take you to a Texas football game.
Well, Texas is different. I mean, Texas is Texas.
This is what America should be. This is what America should be.
That it should all be fired up.

But not just about football.

No, but all kinds of things.

But about everything.

Music, math.

Here's the problem.

Football, like quarterbacks get laid.

All right, that's a handsome guy.

He's going to have a beautiful life.

Okay, scientists.

Physicists in the Soviet Union will get a lot of pussy.

What about Feynman?

Well, he got, yes. Yeah.
But he's another level. One of those guys were freaks, right? Oppenheimer, you saw the movie.
He was a freak. Those guys were studs because they were the smart people and there was a lot of grad students that wanted to fuck the professor.
And that was normal stuff back then. But I don't know if they were studs in the general population.
They were studs in a way. They were like, look,

Einstein was a national hero.

Right? There's no one like that today.

There's no one scientist

that's a groundbreaking research

of theory of relativity where everybody's

aware of it. There's nothing like that today.

We celebrate people like maybe like

Neil deGrasse Tyson who are communicators of science.

Yeah, but not to the same extent.

Not to the same extent.

He's criticized way more than Einstein ever was Einstein was pretty celebrated. It's just and Even Feynman like for the people that knew him like he was us.
He was a cultural figure He wasn't an obscure name like if you brought up Richard Feynman Most people that like watch the news and read newspapers probably know who he is if they were in their 30s. That's not the case today for, you know, say someone who's groundbreaking research with AI or someone who's involved in quantum computing.
It's just a few of these science communicators, you know. Brian Cox, like guys like him were great at it in terms of like space.
you know and some guys are better at it in terms of like talking about AI or talking about all he does just all the different emerging technologies because there's so many of them but there's no one person who's like are other than Elon but Elon's like such a unique character you can't even like you can't put him in the same category as Einstein because he's just like a cultural weirdness like who is this guy like making memes cracking jokes dunking on people telling people to go fuck themselves buys Twitter you know it runs a bunch of different companies simultaneously while playing video games constantly it's like that doesn't fit in anywhere else. That's like a very unique thing that exists, this Elon Musk guy.
He's one of the most unique human beings in all of history. But you can even move to like even the Jeff Bezos, who, by the way, successfully launched the first rocket yesterday to orbit.
Yeah. Which is incredible.
Amazing. Even he gets, like, I think that should be venerated.
Sure, but he's not the guy that's making the, he's not doing the calculations and designing and engineering the machines like Wernher von Braun was. So it's like what we're fascinated by today is different.
It's like we're fascinated by these public figures that talk about the work that's going on. But the people that are actually doing it, there's not like one standout.
Although to say both Jeff Bezos and Elon are legit good engineers. Like to see them on the factory floor, they know what they're doing.
Yeah, for sure. But like the thing about Elon is weird.
It's like he just does so many things. You get get confused Like how can you do this? And I was talking about possibly buying tick-tock Yeah, like I wonder if they would go after him if you do that would that be like a minute book But but Bezos or rather a certain Zuckerberg rather they bought Instagram Right, so they have Facebook and Instagram right and then they like why couldn't you have tick-tock and Twitter? What are you talking about wise yeah what's oh yeah I don't think they'll go after they're trying to split up Google right now alphabet really like to make maybe Chrome or YouTube its own business mmm I think there's an argument there's some argument but like they the crazy thing about YouTube is how effective it is right like YouTube is just think it's like seems so straightforward just have a place where people can upload videos okay that's straightforward and everybody should be able to make one of those by the way no there's just one really hard to actually pull that off on the engineering side to be able to like yeah just there's there's just no other place like it to be able to host that much data the scale just the volume the volume of fucking data that comes into their site every day yeah it just and then there's people of course online sort of criticizing youtube for censorship blah blah blah and i'm like oh they should they should but like hey more people need to be like this this fucking thing exists.
It's like Wi-Fi on the airplane. It's like this is – there's no other platform like YouTube in terms of, like, the set of features, the community they create, the search and discover.
Yeah. Do you think Apple regrets having it being one of the first built-in apps on the iPhone? That could have had a lot to do with the growth.
Well, it definitely did, I'm sure. They didn't make it Right also Google Maps was too so they made their own well I mean you probably want to have the best shit on your phone if you want people to buy it You're kind of trapped everybody knows YouTube is the best shit And if you get YouTube on an Android phone natively Instantly which you can when you get an Android phone it already has YouTube loaded onto it Why wouldn't you load it on an iphone everybody uses youtube you got to pick your battles it's 2007 though that's true i don't have three minute videos you're right they probably didn't realize how big youtube was going to be right but what they did do that's the sneakiest thing that drives me crazy is the 30 so like if you start if you start an app, you put an app in the App Store, the Apple Store, they get 30%.
Like, that's crazy. But because YouTube dominates so much, if people get censored, that's really painful.
Like, that's not. Well, they're so in control of the video market.
And, you know, I don't envy it. It's got to be an insane place to try to manage.
But it's just kind of wild that no one else has been able to come up with anything even remotely close. You know, you've got Rumble.
They do really well. But it's like Rumble's like a very conservative, ivermectin-using, libertarian sort of space.
It's like the opposite of Blue Sky. Like Blue like these guys like Exactly, but there's a lot of like left-wing shows on rumble rumbles essentially like a legitimate free free speech platform They don't censor left-wing views, you know isn't breaking points.
Are they on rumble? I watch them on YouTube Twitch for a while though was kind of close and then Amazon bought it. Right, right.
Twitch was close. I mean, but then when Amazon bought it, it's something like Twitch kind of disappeared.
It's still a thing, but it doesn't make money. It's not profitable, which arguably neither is YouTube.
But isn't that crazy? Like, if they didn't buy it, maybe it would have been, because Twitch was huge. It still is.
Really? Yeah, I mean, that's what kids watch. But a lot of kids, they stream everywhere now, right? And there's a bunch of different...
Is video games different? Are there like a bunch of different... Twitch became more...
It was just in TV, and it's kind of reverted back to it now. Most of the popular stuff is IRL streaming, people walking around, going places, doing shit, streaming, doing nonsense.
That's so weird. And so what are the video games streamed on? What is everybody like? It's still that.
There's been a few other ones that have tried. People like YouTube tried to do it.
Facebook tried to do it. Microsoft tried to do it.
It didn't work? Twitch is still. I watch video game streams on YouTube.
YouTube is still there. Twitter has now tried to do it.
But like the Microsoft one went away. YouTube doesn't really advertise the live streaming stuff very well.
You can find it, but it's not prevalent. So essentially it's just Twitch for video games.
It's dominant for sure. Dominant.
Okay. So Twitch didn't go away.
I'm just old. So it's – I thought there was a bunch of new ones that were good, though, that people were using.
It took off. Yeah.
It's not back to twitch after they so was that a deal where they like get like a famous streamer and they say hey we're going to give you money to come over to this new platform then they try to start the platform yeah i mean it's a good idea you buy everyone to come over and hopefully everyone sticks just didn't stick but just think about the resources you would have to have if you wanted to take on youtube like look if Elon had decided like okay We need to turn X into the new YouTube well, he kind of wants to do that Yeah, which is kind of what if you wanted to start a separate app Because twitch or excuse me X is still mostly people exchanging information mostly exchanging hyperlinks The closest thing it's to is like uh tick tock on the video the short video clips is is good so i can see actually i'm buying tick tock it makes it makes total sense and integrating into x yeah but in terms of long form content it's just not quite there because you have to implement all these features and uh it is engineering wise really difficult to have that much video you can we can up we upload hours at a time yeah hours so think about like each one of our shows is at least two hours three hours mostly that's so much fucking data if you're letting everybody do that how much are you paying for bandwidth like what is that like because it's free and. And then you have to get ads.
And then the ad's like, hey, we don't want anybody saying fuck. Oh, shit.
All right. Put up a filter.
Get rid of all the fucks so that Paul Maliv can sell their fucking hand soap. Whatever it is.
Whoever's getting upset at us. Oh, did someone talk about the vaccine? Yeah, you can't get an ad because we're trying to sell vaccine ads so don't be a cocksucker don't ruin my giant business that i've created on your data but it is surprising that nobody's built a competitor not even close and it just shows how incredible the teams are right well they they nailed it this is what they did they made the perfect algorithm to constantly show you things you're interested in you know when i go to my youtube feed they're right every day every day they're right i'm like oh i'm interested in that oh when was that built oh look at that oh is that real that's what they got me every fucking day yeah i actually uh tweeted complaining a little bit about youtube recently and we had a whole meeting and stuff what were you complaining about uh So they have this incredible I don't want to complain about Wi-Fi on the airplane before saying the positive

So they have this incredible feature called MLA multi-language audio

I don't know if you know about this, but you can have multiple tracks of audio for a single

Podcast a video in different languages. So I had to do that for the last interview.
That's

Overdubbed into three languages for the different did you use AI to do that or did you hire people? So I did both, but in this case, I did AI because of the voice cloning. There's something really intimate and powerful about hearing the person speak in that language.
And I've just found out that, for example, on audio, people to the zelensky interview he's it's dubbed into english he's speaking russian or ukrainian they listen and they enjoy it like they've they've they you could see the numbers you could see how they write to me personal messages how they uh you know on instagram stories they're listening to it in english right and they're able to listen to it for a prolonged period of time like it's in English did you review it and listen to it make sure the context translates correctly yeah so I should give a shout out to a company called 11 labs that do the voice cloning that do the translation in this what's called text-to-speech they're're incredible people. Not just the product, actually.

There's certain companies that I work with.

Nothing frustrates me more than incompetence,

and nothing excites me more than competence.

They're just sweet people. By the way, stayed up crazy hours through the holidays.

A lot of big companies take two months off.

They're nine to five. They're all very polite.
There's a manager of a manager, and there's meetings, and it's slow, and there's this bureaucracy. With Love & Labs, with a lot of startups, good startups, you have this vibrancy and kindness, and everybody's excited, all that kind of stuff.
Anyway, they do the text-to-spespeech you know you have like text on the page that you can speak in the Joe Rogan voice I mean you're aware of this thing so if you want to translate you first translate the transcribe the original language translate it on the page and then text-to-speech, bring it to life in that other different language. The translation step is the tricky one, is the hardest one, where a human should correct and help.
I got, I mean, we had very little time to do this. We had to do it really rapidly.
But you get into trouble. So, for example, he said...
How much time how much time did you uh i don't don't remember the exact number of days but probably five or six days to do everything so in three languages in three languages and he and i did the thing which is we kept switching languages sentence to sentence oh no because we we kept and like and he would swear in russian mid-sentence so of course the translator is like sweating because the most of the sentence is ukrainian and then he says or go fuck yourself he swore a lot like you know uh that that part would be in russian the the the swear so you have to catch all that you have to not make mistakes and some of it there was ai in the loop we had to figure out because nobody really has done this kind of thing before so we had to figure it all out and mistakes can be made when you're rushing like this rushing like this like i just did uh by the way me saying that could be transcribed into me saying russian and right like that yeah, for example, we said he was talking about corruption, sensitive topic. He said something like anybody who we caught doing something with the weapons or being corrupt, we would beat the exact term is beat them on the hands.
He was speaking Ukrainian, which in Ukrainian means we'll crack down on them that was automatically translated to slap them on the wrist which makes sense as a direct literal translation beat them on the hands slap them on the wrist makes sense and I didn't catch it I'm not sleeping I'm like reading it I speak all the languages. I'm not sleeping.
I'm like reading it. I speak all the languages.
So like I'm trying to like figure out this puzzle. And we didn't catch it.
And then, of course, like a lot of people got really mad. And they spoke up.
You know, the internet in general is like, how can you translate this? Are you, of course, it must be because i'm a putin shill i'm getting funded

and i'm not translating but yeah that's you see it's very there could be sensitive moments like you had a lot of really high profile figures here there could be sensitive moments if translated uh could do a lot of damage on the flip side it makes it accessible especially for important conversations it makes it accessible to people that really need to hear it. Why were you under such a time constraint? Because the seriousness of the conversation, like every single day there's major missile launches.
So did you, it just, you didn't have a five-day deadline. You just, it took you five days to do it.
Yes, and the, I don't want to sort of put it on them but the president's alinsky's office was asking like when it's coming out right they were really pushing it and they were implying probably correctly that there's just going to be a lot of dynamic stuff happening on the on the peace negotiations so he wanted to use this as a statement and the same because you know um the the kremlin watched it so everybody's watching it and like it's part of the puzzle pieces that they're using to figure out when are we going to meet when are we going to what are going to be the outlines of a of a treaty you know so like you have to take it very seriously but then you know i've learned a lot because i uh you need to probably hire more uh and trust everybody involved and turn it around much quicker you know i don't know um you know me um but in terms of production everything the team is one person. And then there's now folks helping with editing,

but it's just a tiny team.

There's no...

And so for things like this, you have to take it seriously.

You have to maybe have a special force team

that kind of steps up and helps.

Right, a group of people that are translators

that you could really count on to get it right.

Because a lot of the...

Review it.

But you would want to have to personally review it anyway.

100%, but you want the translators you trust to do a good job. And one of the things we learned really quickly is you can't just get any translator.
I mean, translation isn't art. It truly is.
And people that were translating it, it's like open mic comedy. Right.
It really, like, there's... Right, right, right.
You think... Even the same joke in the mouth of different comics would just be way different.
Right. And the way they were translating it was cold.
They were missing the points. They were not understanding the context.
The AI way is genius. Yeah, but the translation piece of the AI still needs the human in the loop.
It needs the human to fix it. And how does the human emphasize emotion? Like if he has a specific intonation, if the way he's talking about, how does AI know how to say the words in translation and which ones to emphasize? So this is where 11 Labs is really incredible.
It uses the actual words to figure out the intonation. Okay.
So the translation of the words? Right. Or the original word, hearing the word? No, it's always working on the text.
So let's just stick with English for now before I say translation. Text on the page.
I have a Dwight Eisenhower speech here. Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fire signifies.
That feels like a serious thing. Like we can probably infer how to read that.
If I gave you that text, you you would infer the heaviness the timing right and the eye is pretty good at doing that not perfect

and you can what if you delivered that speech like hitler like uh like i want to know like how

are they getting the like when hit would yell about stuff and then they had a translation of

it in english and so are they doing it off text or they're doing off the sound of the like

Thank you. yell about stuff and then they had a translation of it in english and so are they doing it off text or they're doing off the sound of the like when he's saying the words and translating it because then you would know he's conveying a certain amount of emotion or are they editing it in post and saying he's got to be louder here he's yelling or is a human involved in that or Yeah, a human involved in every part of that.
So they're setting the hyperparameters of like how loud is it, how dynamic it is. They can change all of that and they can change specific.
They can basically generate like five different options for the sentence. That's so crazy.
But that is in our form, right? Yeah, but it really is so crazy that we're not going to be able to tell if you said something yeah like we're kind of there there's there's real cheap ones of me selling everything i see all the time on instagram like you know different rappers and country western songs and go to this plus go to this restaurant like you just generate them from AI. But you can still kind of tell.
But then I've seen some ones. I'm sure you've seen that one.
The one guy where it's a completely AI-generated thing, voice and everything, and he's talking and he's telling you this is completely AI-generated. And you probably can't believe this, but it's true.
He's explaining how it's done, and it's. It's so realistic.
And I mean, I should say, like from my experience with the Zelensky conversation, it's dubbed into all these languages, it's dubbed into English, he's speaking Ukrainian and Russian. There's a lot of people, like I've seen this, that think he's speaking English just because it's so close.
Right. It's his voice.
It's crazy. And so like now I have this responsibility.
Here I am with my fucking exhausted, sleep deprived, translating like his exact words. I could put whatever words in his mouth.
Like I could have, the slap on the wrist thing, I fuck, you know, let me just take responsibility. I guess I fucked up, you know, it was three hours.
It's very tough to like, but like I could could have you know put in like i like dicks in there just throw it just throw it in there you know just for fun yeah that's kind of crazy right yeah and it's out and there's a lot of people that believe like okay this is what he's saying right um so i mean there's a huge responsibility with that and i think that's why people trust a particular podcast and so on like you're not going to fuck with that responsibility right no you're very um aware of it and you take it very seriously yeah but it's still hard to decide who and how to talk to it was really really difficult to think through the Zelensky conversation it's difficult to think about whether to talk to Putin or not and how to talk to him. It's difficult to think about Benjamin Netanyahu, to talk to him after October 7th.
He's one of the most universally hated people on the planet now. Right.
And it's like, okay, so how do you talk to him? And what do you get him to say about the innocent people that have been killed? But he has a certain perspective, which I should say that a lot of people inside Israel probably support.

It's,

I mean,

I should also say not now,

but earlier in Qatar,

when the Hamas was in Qatar,

they were interested in doing a podcast.

The,

the members of Hamas who are not in hiding.

So the representatives were interested in doing a podcast. And there I decided not to because it's like everyone knows what Hamas is.
It's almost like easy. Why not do a podcast? But it was like, well, that just feels, I mean, you are platforming hate there that's in a way where you can't properly dissect and present and analyze and push and pull you can't criticize them right you're not going to be in a position where you can criticize them well i should say in qatar it's safe what's that well in qatar it's safe so there i could criticize in, one of the ways I would imagine talking to Hamas is pushing them actually pretty hard.

In that case, I would actually push hard.

And they would probably, because a lot of them are kind of just pretty shallow and insane.

So, like, they would just get really angry.

Like, there's a real anger.

They would not come off as... One of the fears talking to dictators one uh is just the charisma this yeah like they would you know my opening um statement to netanyahu was you know a lot of people hate you when i talked to him in august a lot of people are protesting outside there's a lot of people that hate you what do you get to say what what do you have to say to those people right that's the opening thing he says like he said something like everybody loves me I just uh gave a talk in Iran and 20 million people listened to me and they love me so that's just like so how do you talk to a person where the reality is like, well, no, no, there is people that love you, Prime Minister Netanyahu, but there's quite a lot of people outside that don't love you.
What did you expect him when you brought that up? Did you have expectations? What did you expect him to say? I expected for him to analyze where that hate comes from, to start to empathize, fake or not, to understand that perspective. And to understand the perspective maybe of the Palestinians or the Gazans that hate him.
Right. And then maybe make the case of Israel like after steel manning the Palestinian case, say, well, listen, we're like this tiny country that everybody's shooting rockets at.
Then make the case for Israel, the historic case, the military case, the geopolitical case. But he didn't.
There was like everybody loves me. Jeez.
But in that answer. Do you think he really believed that? Yeah, yeah.
He believed it. He's locked in.
Locked in. Or, I mean, it's complicated.
He's just so... That was definitely a wall.
How much more time does he have in power? I mean, it's a consistent minute-by-minute thing. As long as he is being elected.
And it's the same question for Zelensky. How long does he have in power? It's the same question for Putin.
When does Israel have their elections again? Are they doing that while they're in the middle of this conflict? I'm not deeply familiar with the dynamics of it, but I think they can have elections at any time. There's there's coalitions that can i think it's a bunch of countries have this kind of thing so i think there's elections like coming up um there might be a martial law type of situation forgive me i'm not exactly sure but it's basically under constant internal political pressure where he can lose power are you aware at all of uh his political opponents? Yeah, there's a bunch.
There's a bunch of people. I mean, they have to walk a tight rope because there is a lot of fear and anger inside of Israel now.
Like you said, after October 7th, there's like an existential fear when the whole assumption of the Israeli people was that this kind of attack cannot possibly happen with the Iron Dome and the defenses. And so you have a more—there's more room, there's capacity to elect more radical people that are more right-wing, they're more aggressive, they're more militar well this is why we the one of the big reasons why people um love to dive into the false flag narrative because they find an incentive for people to allow something to take place because if you allow something to take place and you sacrifice a certain percentage of your population you um you have now new rules and you have much more power and you have a society that's behind you now because there's a reason why they want to fight and this is why anytime there's anything that ever happens there's a bunch of people that think it's a false flag a bunch of people think 9-11 was a false flag and then there's real ones that we know about like operation north Northwoods.
Didn't happen, but they really did sign.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff signed a proposal where they wanted to blow up American airliner and blame Cuba.

We wanted to arm Cuban friendlies and attack Guantanamo Bay.

And they wanted to invade Cuba under false pretenses of a false flag.

We really do stuff like that. And I say by we, I mean humans.
Humans in power. Nero burned Rome.
Hitler burned the Reichstag. There's false flags that they create these situations to force people to fight.
And that's a real thing. But it's also like people get caught with their pants down too so it's like it's hard to know what's what it's hard to know what's what but the same organization that did the whole pager thing the the sophisticated intelligence yeah required for that somehow missed an obvious breach of a...

Right.

And they were warned by Egypt.

The whole thing is very, very, very tragic.

Jamie, just quick request.

Are you tracking the Starship launch?

I know you want to watch.

We've got five minutes, I think.

Four minutes.

It's 3.56 right now.

Fuck yeah, I want to watch it. Yeah, I know you do.
America. We're going to wrap it up with that.
Is it launching live? Yeah, it's live. Yeah, yeah.
Let's hope it doesn't blow up. That would suck.
What if it blows up while we're watching? I don't think at this stage blowing up, I mean, it would be really awesome if it doesn't blow up, if it flies and then it's caught by the... In 13 minutes.
In 13 minutes. Okay, we've got time.
Jamie, keep an eye on it. At this time, I mean, it's called Starship Test 7 for a reason.
Right. Blow a few up every now and again.
Find out what the tolerances are. It is nice for Jeff Bezos to succeed on the first try.
Like, the first one is really important because there's a lot of skepticism. Couldn't this even be done with the new Glenn rocket? And now Bezos and Elon are homies again.
Homies. They're expressing platitudes on Twitter.
Yeah, they're going to sit together at the inauguration. What, Jamie? I'm trying to check.
I'm not finding the right video. Okay.
No worries. Where should I go? Because I tried typing SpaceX.
Yeah, be really careful. Just find the official SpaceX channel, or you can go on X.
Yeah, go on X. There's going to be a bunch of bots selling you crypto if you're not careful.
SpaceX on X. Don't go on Pornhub.
That's a different one. You can't go on Pornhub in Texas.
You've got to enter in your ID. This is a violation of human rights.
That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying.
Are you going to the inauguration? Perhaps. Are you? Unfortunately, yeah.
Really? Unfortunately? Socializing. All the socializing.
Oh, you're doing it on purpose for work? No. I just, no.
Listen, I never go out to things for work. I don't work.
It's more like I felt like it's an opportunity. To meet people? No, like you would regret it if you didn't go.
Like it's a historic moment. And also George St.
Pierre said he's gone somewhere. Oh, okay.
Yeah.

I think Gordon's gone too.

Yeah.

It's a very different thing this time around.

People are very hopeful with him as president now, which is very different than in 2016.

2016 was like this existential crisis that the media just blasted into everybody's head.

I think enough time has passed and enough faith has been lost in the media that people have sort of woken up out of that and realized, like, we can't keep going the way we're going. I hope the good vibes continue in general.
Like, the politicization of everything will not escalate quickly here. It's possible.
It's possible. Even the inauguration itself.

Yeah.

Like, I hope they're not.

It's not a divisive event.

It's more of an inspiring event.

Well, it's going to be divisive with some people.

There's no getting around that.

Some people, just their psychology.

Like that lady in the pink that was yelling.

Yeah.

Like the lady that said that Pete Hegseth said that when he really didn't say it? He just published it? Someone else wrote it? It says 37 minutes. 37? We don't have that kind of time.
This just went live, so it doesn't say anything. Just a big old SpaceX.
There it is. Is that it sitting there chilling? I'm trying to double check most of these.
They all say 37 minutes and counting. Wow, man.
No, let's see. Who's Felix? These are just channels.
Oh, so a bunch of different channels are going? There's tons of channels with it. That's why I'm trying to find the most accurate or real one.
Because someone could be live streaming a fake one. What are they live streaming, though? Yeah.
All sorts of stuff. NASA Space Flight is good.
Does SpaceX have its own page? I just went to live on YouTube. This is where I bringing up a Twitch, like it's hard to find stuff that's live.
Does SpaceX have an account? That's when I typed it in, that's when he was bringing it up. You start getting all sorts of crazy shit and I get like space, all these weird, that's not them.
That's not them? SpaceX live? No. That would not, they wouldn't put that in their official account.
Oh, wow. That's not NASA's channel.
You know what? SpaceX might've just closed their YouTube channel, I'm guessing, because they want to do it on X, right? Yeah, that makes sense. So I went to there, and that's what it's not showing me.
Oh, how weird. How weird.
It just went up three minutes ago. So it's just a bunch of fakers pretending to be SpaceX.
What's that? SpaceX Live? Like that? You're not SpaceX. Yeah.
Tricking me into looking at your channel. They're boosting the algorithm.
I guess. So this is it.
This is an older one, I think. Oh, this is old? And some of them, Everyday Astronaut is really great.
I recommend people stream him. He's great.
Wait, I feel like, have you talked to him? I'm not exactly sure. But he went after Bart, what is his name? civil yeah yeah did he he's really i mean and not went after i should say just he's an opportunity to educate like he like has this really long um gotta get the two of them in the same room yeah for sure that's what he wants he keeps being on my case like i want to debate him did you ever have bart on your podcast no but When Bart wants to debate him, I was like, hey, do I want this? Of course you do.

Shut the fuck up. Do it.
I think there's a, yeah, it's something that happened in the past. Like, what are we going to learn from it? Say it was completely fake.
Like, what's the, I would rather focus on modern day conspiracies. What? You don't want to know if they fake the moon landing? Are you crazy? No, I do want to know.
But like, okay. To me.
How does your life change? A lot. A lot.
Okay. This is how.
Yeah. Because you know.
That government is able to do this kind of thing. That the government is able to fake the fucking moon landing.
And to get people to shut their mouths. Yeah.
And a bunch of people disappeared. dude yeah do you know the story about God what was his name I don't remember but he was a journalist what was he assigned to do other one I got murdered signed to do an audit of NASA and he wrote hundreds of pages and his analysis this is like 1964 65 66 somewhere around then so it's years before the moon landings god I can't remember his fucking name I used to have this shit at the tip of my tongue um but uh he parked his car with his family in and on a train track and a train smashed their car and the the document was never retrieved it was it vanished it went away bye-bye and then a few years later everyone's on the moon um i wonder what gus grisham the uh pilot of apollo one the guy that burned alive in that thing he hung a lemon on that thing saying that it would never work they couldn't communicate with the tower how's this thing supposed to get us to the moon and that guy you know people his family believes he was murdered for that there's a lot of weirdness in the moon landing buddy see tim dodd if they really did pull it off yeah and then all these people are cucking for the fucking government of the 1960s it's kind of hilarious wait they pulled off the fake the faking the faking yeah so tim dodd everyday astronaut apparently has an answer to all of this yeah he's uh what's answer to the Van Allen radiation belt? There is an answer.

I'm not going to turn this debate into it.

It's a cute one, whatever it is.

The answer?

It has to be cute.

To send people through thousands of miles of intense radiation and have no biological animal that you've ever done that to

that's come back alive, and just let's try it on people. So let let me try to convince you as an agent of the massad and the cia i don't i think okay this is from me uh looking at wikipedia for about five seconds so i thought uh i thought the belt is not all the way around so you can go around the belt no you can get through the top and bottom, but you have to fly out of Antarctica.
Right. And you really can't do that.
And then- The way we did it, we had to go through it. And we had to go through it, I think it was for a couple hours.
Maybe it's possible. Maybe it really is.
We're going to find out soon, right? Hopefully, unless they go through Antarctica. So it's like a donut.
That's what it is. The intense band of radiation is like a donut.
But apparently the actual amount of radiation is not that intense. I mean, again, speaking as a massage agent.
It depends on who you're asking. Van Allen thought it was pretty fucking intense.
And also there was Operation Starfish Prime. Do you know about that? Operation Starfish Prime, they were trying to blow a hole through the radiation belt.

So they launched nuclear weapons into space and detonated them.

And it had the opposite effect.

It like supercharged the radiation belt.

Made it more radioactive.

Yeah.

Operation Starfish Prime.

Google that.

Temporary, though, wasn't it?

What's that?

I think it was temporary.

And it dissipated over time. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It dissipated. He's also a Moss what's that? Yeah, he's right.
No, he's right. But I mean like when they measured it When they measured it was like way more radiation they didn't blow a hole through it at all.
They fucked it up They supercharged it But just the fact that they were trying to do that they were trying to blow up Nuclear weapons in space Like if I was the aliens, that's when I would start showing up like look at these what fucking assholes high-altitude nuclear tests What what are people doing not only that it shut off the power in Hawaii it fucked Hawaii up Hawaii had like a brownout like these guys are psychopaths Can you imagine like sitting at a table with a bunch of generals and this guy comes in with a cigar? I

Want to launch a fucking nuke in space. I want to see what happens.
I just want to see what happens

You know what my favorite one of those is the very first detonation of the very first nuclear bomb

There was a non-zero chance that that bomb was gonna destroy the entire atmosphere of the the earth. Just imagine what that feels like, right? Yeah.
And they were like, let's see. Let's see.
Boom. Nope.
We're still here. They were reasonably sure that it wasn't going to do that.
But, you know, you've never done that before. Who knows? And there's a lot of people asking the question of, like, in the war in Ukraine, whether Putin is willing to use even tactical nuclear weapons.
Yeah. Just send a statement.
That's an open question. It is an open question.
And it's like a terrifying possibility. We, I think, generationally have forgotten what nuclear weapons are.
Right. Like most people think it's like a fun TikTok meme.
Right. Right.
The mushroom cloud could just... And then what happens next? Yeah.
More of them. Back and forth, back and forth.
Now everything's gone. Everything's gone like that.
And that's why I'm excited about Starship launches because the backup. Let's get the fuck out of here.
Let's live on the sex cult on Mars. No.
I love Earth. I prefer Earth.
The earth the sex cult right but if you had to be a person who lived and earth was gonna blow you'd probably try it you'd try you'd say listen maybe we can maybe i'm gonna be the fucking davy crockett of mars and then years from now this would be a mall and everybody remember when lex came over on the rocket yeah yeah i mean it's really is exciting to see what kind of societies form on mars even just like 100 people a thousand people 10 000 people 100 000 people what are the um prospects of terraforming because the problem is like mars is too far from the sun like it's just not warm enough like so what are they going to do in terms of like oxygen and do you know uh terence howard the actor you know terence howard's theory he's got a great theory it's really interesting theory he thinks that all solar systems that instead of it being like a collection of debris from the outer galaxies,

it's that too.

But what it really is, is the sun is ejecting matter.

And we know that, right?

So after millions and millions of years, the sun ejecting matter,

the matter coalesces and becomes a planet.

As it gets further and further from the sun, it becomes more hospitable to life. As it gets into that Goldilocks zone where Earth is, it peoples.
And then he thinks that this is happening all throughout the galaxy, that planets get to a certain stage and then they people. And then those planets are slowly going to move further and further away further and get colder and colder.
And it's up to these creatures to figure out how to get the fuck out of there before it becomes inhospitable and that's where the advanced civilizations come in and this is why he thinks the most advanced civilizations are on the planets of the furthest from the Sun because they're the ones who've adapted and figured out a way to exist off of some other form of energy other than just sunlight What does he have an idea about which planets in our solar system might be people probably used to be Mars Mars? Still or no no, there's nothing on there now. I mean, it's not But there could have been it wasn't atmosphere it could be life there now there's water there there could be Well, there's probably some sort of bacterial life, right? There's probably the real question is Is there any evidence that there was other life? Like think about how difficult it is for us to find like dinosaur bones, right? Like dinosaurs have to become a fossil.
It's like it's a very complicated process They have to die in mud or something they have to get covered up and then they calcify And if you don't know when you get a fossil that the bone that's fossilized, it's not really that bone. What it is, is it's been remineralized by all the earth elements.
And so it's kind of a different thing, but it's in the shape of the bone. That's fossilized bone.
And what if you're talking about like 30 million years, 50 million years, 100 million years, 200 million years, a billion years?

What if Mars a billion years ago had life on it?

What would be left?

Nothing.

I mean, in that case, nothing.

What would be left?

Nothing.

Like Earth is 4 point something billion years old, right?

How old's Mars?

Do we know?

How old's Mars?

Yeah, that's good estimates for that.

Like is Mars older?

I believe it's older, yeah.

So that's pretty similar.

Right?

When did the solar system start forming?

See, these are just wild guesses by a bunch of fucking eggheads.

The solar system formed 4.5 billion.

Bunch of eggheads with wild guesses.

I'm going with Terrence Howard.

I think he's right.

What a brilliant idea, though. I'm offended you called him an actor he could be a mathematician, physicist brilliant guy his conversation with you with Eric Weinstein and you was just as art it was a good conversation some conversations are art yeah that was a good one because he's a good guy he's a's a very good guy the way he handled it.
You know, he was stern and very clear and obvious that who is right, but very kind and very friendly, which is a quality that Eric has. Like the ability to do that, especially when you're talking about something that's so incredibly complex and esoteric.

You know, like you're talking about like super complicated math and he's showing it to him.

Do you know how to do this?

Like you're showing it on the board and you can tell he doesn't know how to do this. He's like, let me explain how this works.
And then you realize, oh, boy, self-taught. You know, this is the thing.
Like, there's a lot of brilliant people that just don't get the correct education, but they're still brilliant. the raw horsepowers yes the raw

horsepowers there yeah but I think this theory that he has about planets peopling I find it so fascinating I couldn't stop thinking about it for days I was like I think he's right yeah I mean we're gonna find out we're gonna find like even if you discover bacteria on Mars, that's going to change everything.

I'm convinced that there's alien life throughout even the galaxy.

But that's a really open question, and most people don't think so.

You know what I think?

I don't think it gets past where we are very often.

I think it probably fucks up a lot.

I think it's too difficult to harness the power of the sun while you're a tribal monkey and not blow yourself up or fuck things up horribly or just get involved in natural disasters that you didn't adequately prepare for. I mean, we're still not prepared at all for asteroid impacts.
I mean, yeah, Young Address Impact Theory, that's very recent. Yeah, and also super volcanoes, we're not prepared at all.
If we have a super volcano, if Yellowstone blows, which it's gonna, one of these is gonna, one of the big ones is gonna blow, they just do. It might blow 100,000 years from now, it might blow next week.
They fucking happen, and we're not prepared. We're not prepared for that.
Even if you just look at the LA fire, sorry to interrupt, imagine the chaos that's going to be created. Oh, and imagine the L.A.
fires with no fire department. Right.
Okay? Imagine that. Imagine that there's no one out there trying to put that fire out.
That would be fucking insane. And, you know, I think civilization has probably gone through a gang of those before.
I think Graham Hancock, as much as he gets criticized, I think he's onto something. I think Randall Carlson is as well.
I think they're onto something. I think it's probably the end of the ice age.
It's probably asteroid impacts. There's too much physical evidence that corresponds with the timeline for it to be ignored.
I mean, it's a pretty accepted theory now, the Younger Dryas Impact Theory. It's just like what happened during that time and what existed before that time and all the stuff that we see a few thousand years later.
Is that a reimagining of civilization out of complete and utter chaos? Because I think it might be. And it might be one of the reasons why we're so fucking barbaric.
It might be that our ancestors were the ones who survived the most horrific time in history, where we got hit by asteroids and civilization just evaporated instantaneously. Millions of people probably instantaneously died.
We were left with chaos in a completely different climate. Places that were covered in ice are now raging rivers.
The whole thing's fucked. All the animals are dead.
Most people you know that are anywhere near the impact are dead. People get washed away in the floods.
Entire civilizations just instantaneously flooded and destroyed. That could happen again.
That could happen again tomorrow. That could happen again next month.
We're in the shooting gallery. We're in the the shooting gallery of the universe and I bet that's pretty common So I bet the race is to try to get intelligent enough That you can do all these different things but also intelligent enough that you abandon these ancient primal instincts that you have And that's where we're we're at the cusp of that.
We're at the cusp of our, our tribal chaos mixed in with impossible knowledge. And it's all like happening at the same time.
And so there's this wild race that's going on and people like you and people like me and people that are hopeful, we hope we get it right. We hope we right but we might not get it right and i think out there in the universe i think it's probably more likely that people don't get it right than do get it right and if they do get wiped out i mean we got the toba volcano we got down somewhere around 70 000 years ago to a few thousand people on earth what are those motherfuckers like like Jesus Christ those are our ancestors those people must have been brutal Well, that's one of the things I've just seen even on the smaller scale of the war in Ukraine is you know Your house or the city gets destroyed and people adapt immediately Like the tough people rise up like it changes you immediately there's a resilience to the human spirit it's crazy you can adjust so if if an asteroid hits earth like the united states you know let's say 70 percent of people dead yeah like you get an unlocked power that like your character in the video game has yeah i I mean there this is where the people in Texas immediately become The the valued commodity versus like I don't know people in Silicon Valley something yeah technology doesn't matter None of that matters survival matters individual radical individualism matters and that's one of the things that gives me community matters Local look very you got a band together But like it it really is a tension because it's not collectivism.
It's not like – Right. So governments that rely on central authorities fall apart from that kind of thing.
Well, 100%. Any natural disaster government, like a real big one, like an asteroid impact, it's gone.
The government doesn't do anything anymore. They're useless.
Power goes out for a month, they're gone. Everybody's gone.
It's any man for himself. No one's protecting you from outlaws.
You've seen that already in the California fires. There's gangs of kids, a hundred at a time, breaking into houses and looting them in the middle of these evacuation zones.
You're seeing chaos. They can't protect you from that if something happens.
And this is something we're not prepared for. We're spending so much time doing other things and not recognizing the incredible vulnerability that our society has, this very fragile system that we put in place that's so much better than at any time in human history.
This is the best time to be alive ever by far. And it's so fragile.
And we don't think it's fragile because the power stays on. Yeah.
And one of the things, you know, just having traveled across the world, like the thing that really America stands out with and why I'm excited about what's happening now is the radical individual freedom. I think theer the country is the individual back to Genghis Khan with the free freedom to practice religion the freer the people are the more resilient they are to the the the terrors the cat catastrophes of the world yeah they just respond they're much more dynamic the more centralized and collectivist the society is, the more you're susceptible to corruption, to this kind of propaganda that you're not able to respond to even like the pandemic.
Just governments are not able to do that. The Fauci's of the world will always emerge.
It's not even, say even Fauci wanted to do the right thing or something. It's just, it's very, it's impossible for the centralized authorities to do the right thing.
You have to have a distributed, you have to put much more weight on the freedom of the individual. That's a really important thing that you just said.
It's impossible for the centralized authorities to do the right thing. It really almost is if they want to do their job.
That's why I doge it. I mean, there's a lot of promise there.
You want to decrease the power, the size, and the bureaucracy of the federal government. You want them to be mobile, agile, small, efficient, and distributed to the state or to the small companies, the companies.
And how about stop going after the American people? How about that too? Which part? Every part? All sorts of things. All sorts of things.
You know, attacking people, what's happened with this country because of January 6th and their version of it and what actually happened. Then, you know f the fbi did with the twitter files with uh influencing things what they did with uh facebook where they contact and we're taking telling them to take down memes can i actually just say about that i don't know if he gets enough credit but i think what mark zuckerberg did on your pockets is actually it may not seem that way but it's courageous i think it's courageous i think he had to do it too I think it's both things but like internally he's running a gigantic company he's running a gigantic company but also this is the way things are rolling like you either get in the way and get rolled over or you get on board and if you want your company to succeed in today's day and age and not be disdained and universally um whether it's whether people boycott it or people just start hating on the stock drops like if a new thing that's like facebook because facebook is although it's so common it's one of those ones you could do without, kind of.
It doesn't have the kind of information gathering aspect that X does. Like, if I want to find out what's going on in the world, I go to X.
Facebook's not like that. It's like people talking about stuff and posting videos and things.
I mean, there's also WhatsApp. That one could take a hit.
That could take a big hit if people if people just decided like fuck you and your censorship, you know And I think more people are inclined to say fuck you and your censorship now than ever before So it's a good business decision to stop censoring people and the community notes thing is fucking genius It's the greatest invention ever in terms of like the ability to find out what's right or what's wrong Let's let people post things and not true. Enough people report it.
People look at it and go, oh, it turns out that's not true at all. And here's why it's not true.
That shit's huge. It's huge.
It's funny when Elon gets community noted too. He gets community noted.
It's so great. It's so great.
Yeah, you get community noted, son. Everybody does.
But it's the best way. It's the best way to find out what's real and what's not real.
But then it's also like, you know, should you let people on your platform that are just fucking straight up Nazis and trying to recruit people? Should you let horrible racism exist on your platform? The problem is that slippery slope, man. If you say no, yeah, if you say no then You then other people are gonna decide you remember punch a Nazi what people saying you should punch a Nazi I remember like Kurt Metzger was he was like, well, who fucking gets to say who's a Nazi if it was just like a guy You know running a gas chamber.
Yeah punch a Nazi But if it's just some guy who doesn't think that a trans woman should be competing against his daughter in high school sports, like, that's not a Nazi. Like, you've changed the term.
I think the slippery slope is important. There's people like Pavel Durov, who's running Telegram, and he was, you know, Europe, rest in peace, is going after him for like.
You get arrested. Yeah.
Because there is legitimate terrorists talking to each other on Telegram. But like what's the alternative? But if it's an encrypted app, how are you going to stop it? How are you going to stop if it really is encrypted if they can't read it? Right.
Like this is WhatsApp. If you use WhatsApp, if you and I message each other on whatsapp no one can read it but us yeah but the government wants the back door that's what they wanted right but that's crazy because you could use that back door in all kinds of ways like they use that back door for signal that's how they found out that tucker carlson was talking to putin's people about setting up an uh an interview he was like we know you did it on signals tucker's like, I didn't even know you could do that! That's what Tucker says.
You think Tucker's lying? How dare you? He's not lying. You son of a bitch.
You are a Russian plant. CIA and Mossad and Russian, yes, for sure.
All of them? How'd you get on all of them? Bring me to the meeting, bro. I want to see what happens.
I want to see what they do with that goat. Well, Tucker said they read his signal.
Well, it's very possible. But technologically, I'm not sure how it's possible to do that.
I mean, it's possible that I'm... But the way it's been explained to me is even though your phone is encrypted, it's not encrypted to you.
Like, you see it, right? You see his messages. It's encrypted peer-to-peer, right so if they can just see your phone you mean all the other screen yeah not just screen recording get access to your phone find out all your contacts all your emails yes but all your passwords all your locations and tend to encrypt it so it's difficult I mean it's possible it's difficult but it's not through signal if you're going through the phone so if you're using Pegasus you're just compromising the entire phone if you if signals on that phone You you know the passwords already you go into signal you can go in anything.
Oh in that way Yeah, you have access to the phone, but that's right. That's that's legitimate hacking right right but this is what they're doing right like That's not what they wanted with telegram they wanted legitimate like full-on backdoor.
Gavin DeBecker explained this to me. He said with Pegasus 1, you needed to click a link.
This was the Jeff Bezos thing. Someone sent him a bad link on WhatsApp.
He clicked it. They had access to his phone.
They got compromising information on him. With Pegasus 2, they just need your phone number.
So they got your phone number. Boom, they're in your phone.
That's it. And so if that's the case if you have a

A

An app like signal like I would assume they could read your signal

Mm-hmm

Because it's like right there on your phone like if you already got the phone open

And they've got a compromise where they can get into your into your phone

That's actually by the way why you know, I'm going to Ukraine going to Russia going back to Ukraine Try get your phone hacked. Well, I also try to make sure like Dick pics that I sent to you and Tim Dillon aside.
I try not to there's nothing to hide right Do you have a burner you get a burner phone do you bring when you go overseas? You bring a real phone? I wouldn't tell you. Bro, that phone is hearing everything we say.
Yeah, for sure. For sure.
What are we saying that we need to hide? I mean, there's some embarrassing things for sure. Like, you know.
Drunk texts. Drunk texts.
Yeah, I mean, from the past. Some shit from the past.
I'm so glad I grew up when I did., my God. Imagine if you were 15 with a phone that you could take a picture of your dick.
So there's like a hit piece on me. Fine.
Great. Wonderful.
I love you all. Write some more.
But this journalist found like some shit poetry I wrote. Oh, no.
I mean. When you were young? Yeah.
Before you were hanging around with comedians? It was like late. It might have been late 20s, early 30s, so there's not even an excuse that you're not that young.
It just sucked. It just sucked, yeah.
And I was just reading it, because they know how to get... Who is this article for? It's for the person writing it.
They want to hate on you. And it's clicks.
And you're popular. So they want to hate on you by attacking your shitty poetry.
It's just hilarious because like well they got you you gave them a little rope yeah and uh they hung you with it but like what i'm saying is that's not a big deal the the bigger deal is like if you grew up with that like so there's like shit you said when you're 14 or 14 or 16 yeah exactly it's even the piece like you know that that stuff like the article all that kind of stuff you can even i mean one of the big things we have to do is allow people to evolve and just say, you know. Yeah.
Yeah, that was shit poetry. Well, I'm still, I'm worse at poetry now.
But like, that was embarrassing that I would be publishing shit poetry. I think that these people that attack, almost all of them are leftists.
And I think leftism is a religion, just like being a Christian is a religion, in that there's a way that you approach it. Mark Andreessen says it best.
He was describing that it has all the attributes of a cult. And I think people have a default system in their mind.
We all do. That we fall into.
That gives us a religious-like adherence to some ideas and the thing that this cult is lacking which is paramount Christianity is forgiveness there's no root road to redemption everyone is ostracized and kicked out and what you wind up doing is you wind up cannibalizing your own thing. You can never be left enough.
There's always crazy people that are like far to the end of it. And every ideological group gets defined by its most extreme members.
That's why when people think about like far right people, who do you think are the worst people? You think of like people who want war, warmongers, assholes, stupid people, uneducated. That's what people think of when they think of like the worst.
They think of like white nationalists. That's what people think of when they think of the worst.
They think of white nationalists. That's what they think of when they think of far right.
So you can kind of like, you flavor everything else in the group by the worst members of the group. And if you don't have forgiveness in your religion, you have a fucking terrible religion.
If you don't have a path to redemption and you want extreme adherence to dogma, even if like even if whatever this idea with this ideology that you're pushing, it's like clearly, clearly destructive to a bunch of humans. That's what they're dealing with.
It's like people fall into thought patterns, man, that most people are too busy to formulize their own opinion. So they develop opinions to sort of merge with the people that they're in touch with all the time.
And if you get stuck in one of those fucking woke hives, like you're basically surrounded by mentally ill people that are preaching in a logical version of the world that no one believes could ever exist. I hope there will be left-wing leaders that emerge that kind of shed that.

I think they will have to just by virtue of their survival.

I think the woke thing is so widely rejected now.

And when I say the woke thing, I mean what Elon calls the mind virus,

the crazy aspect of it, like your kid knows it's trans when it's two. That kind of shit.
Like the people that are just far off the rails. That's going to die off.
It's just too nutty and it doesn't make any sense and it's ultimately destructive to a lot of different groups of people. And it's not fair.
It's like the trans women in sports thing is the most unfair aspect of it. That one's so crazy.
When you see people argue for it, inclusivity, like you're out of your fucking mind. Like you're out of your mind.
And the inability to discern who's a pervert and who's actually trans, like the impossible nature and then just greenlighting perverts to do whatever they want. And that, you know, my concern is I do think the wokeism is either dying or dead.
My concern is those folks who are now looking for a new religion. There's people like that on the right.
I think they're mostly rejected. No, there's a lot of people like that on the right.
The right has a woke right. They have an attacking woke fucking.
They're not united. There's an aspect of the right that attacks other people on the right, especially now because the right has more attention than ever before.
There's always going to be a group in any sort of ideology. There's going to be a group of people that use the opportunity to attack people to elevate themselves.
Yeah, I think Marc Andreessen... Is it going up? Five minutes.

I think Mark Andreessen calls the battle

I think on the right, maybe,

between the techno-libertarians

versus the

nationalists. So there's these

protectionist people that say

no more immigration, mass

support everybody, and then there's these people

which they align on a lot of ideas.

These people that say, we need to fucking build.

Yeah.

Like, they're both America first, but they just have a different flavor of that.

You know, the Marc Andreassons of the world probably are, or at least Silicon Valley, accepts immigration. Like, we need to allow legal immigration of the best people in the world.

Right.

But the nationalist part of the right, they're like, no, fuck that your h1b fuck you with the yeah but we don't need anymore we need merca yeah we don't need uh what is your take on the h1b thing because uh i i saw the argument and i was like wait a minute what is it do you guys want cheap labor are you trying trying to get like super skillful engineers from other places? Like what are we asking for here? I think as I understand, H-1B is just abused to get cheaper labor. Yeah.
So he needs to be reformed. I think the argument got really muddled.
Right. Because everybody was looking at the worst aspects of H-1B, which is the cheap labor, right? But there is an aspect.
I think there's an O1 visa. There's different kinds of visas where we need to get the best, baddest motherfuckers from the rest of the world and have them work here.
Look at that, baby. 353 to go.
Look at it steaming. Look at all those carbons being emitted into the atmosphere by people who sell electric cars You'd have to drive a hundred thousand fucking cars 24 hours a day for a year Just to get any of the release of carbon that that thing has here you go with your woke bullshit again You'd have to drive my Chevelle Until the universe died of heat death to get as much as you're gonna get off of this one rocket Turns out you need a combustion engine to get off this.
Do you think we do man? What do you think is going on with the UAPs? Do you think these motherfuckers have some new shit? Well, that's Eric Weinstein like you don't need to worry about the rockets you need to crack physics Yeah, I think I think yeah, I think that's time has a very unusual theory involving that one university that has a completely overqualified physics department. It's also connected to a stockbroker or not a stockbroker, a financial thing.
What are those things called? You know what I'm talking about, Jamie? A damn it. The porn is? No, it's like some financial investment group that does better numbers.
They do like birdie made off numbers, like nutty numbers. What's that? Venture capital.
Thank you. That's it.
So this company is connected to this university. This company makes extraordinary amounts of money.
This university has an insane physics department, and, like, they're not publishing anything. And Eric's like, what are you guys doing? That's real weird.
What the fuck are you doing? So he thinks that these motherfuckers branched off. He thinks that the government probably got a bunch of, like, super top secret squirrel-type dudes.
They're working on some high-level shit, and they branched off decades ago. And that they've been working on this for a long time.
Of course, the military often swoops in and wants that talent, wants that technology, wants those ideas, right? They're probably connected, all intertwined with the military because who's going to build these things, right? You need the defense department. You need defense contractors, rather.
You need like Raytheon. You need someone like that who's going to build these things right you need the defense department you need um defense contractors rather you need like raytheon you need someone like that who knows how to make spaceships like make this fucking thing you know and they probably back engineered it all they probably found some crash things that are probably left here on purpose and like figure it out monkeys and then in you know 1947 these dudes are fucking fumbling around and all of a sudden they figure out fiber optics all of a sudden they figure out transistors all of a sudden like there's a bunch of weird shit that just kind of emerges after these crash sites that's what I like to believe yeah I kind of believe that I also believe that there's that they're they're not so focused on us.
They're doing it here and everywhere else, too. Maybe.
Why wouldn't they be focused on us? I just feel like there's a lot of tribes in the Amazon. I think there are, but I bet it takes a long-ass time for it to get to the distance that our Earth got from the sun, where you can get liquid water.
And it only lasts for a little while until it freezes again. Oh, maybe.
If that's the case and they understand that, then yes. If you thought about, like, the way...
Let's just assume that the way life was created on Earth is the only way life is created anywhere in the universe. Let's assume that all those rules apply.
And let's assume that Terrence Howard's on to something. The peopling.
The peopling. You would imagine

that it would have to get where we are.

Where the water melts.

Where the ice melts.

17 seconds. And then

life emerges from the sea like it did

here. Right? Doesn't that make sense?

That that would happen everywhere?

Oh Jesus. Wherever there's water.

Here we go.

6, 5,

4, 3, 2, Jesus. Wherever there's water.
Here we go. Six, five, four, three, two, one.

Here it goes.

That's 100 million diesel trucks blowing coal.

This is America, baby.

Look at that thing. Vehicle's pitching downrange.
Holy shit, man. And that thing's gonna get caught.
Bro, I want a rocket. I just decided I want a rocket.
I need a rocket. I want a rocket.
Look down. All right, we're more than 30 seconds into flight.
Telemetry shot. 30 seconds.
33 out of 33 engines as it's pitching downrange. Look how high that is.
In 30 seconds. Booster chip, avionics power, telemetry nominal.
Bro. Is it going to snap off? I don't know.
You just heard the real thing. About six miles away.

When it snaps off, where does it go?

You're talking about the... They drop it in the ocean?

No, it lands.

Oh, that's right.

It's the Falcon.

Yeah, it gets caught by these arms.

I know, I was thinking about the Saturn V.

I think it was a booster. I forgot.
It actually can land, which is even nuttier. Yeah, it's nutty.
It's that this gigantic thing that's the size of a skyscraper is going to just land. They just pass through the greatest stress the vehicle's going to experience going uphill.
Speed is 2,000 kilometers an hour. What the fuck? It keeps getting faster.
Look how high it is, huh? As they get away from the gravity of Earth, look how it gets faster, you fucking flat Earth dorks. It gets easier and easier.
I don't know, it looks flat from here. It does look flat.
They're right. Oh, my God.
Bro, you believe this CGI? You really believe this is happening? You are a shill, Lex. Watch the camera might go off for a little bit, which will explain everything.
Have you seen the guy who takes the flat earth people to Antarctica where they could see the sun spin around and like, oh shit. You could go to Antarctica that's done an ice ball? No.
I mean, I like people that can change their mind in that way let's see let's see if it lands it should be a few minutes so it's 54 miles or 54 kilometers in the sky right now and it actually has I think, satellites on board. I was active.
Just turned them all off. Just slowed down.
Bam. Yep.
Stage separation. So that fucker's going to go land.
That's going to go land. That's so crazy.
That's a building. How long does that take now? Like two minutes before it comes back down? Maybe three, four more.
That is so fucking crazy. It's going to go land now.
Look at the earth. It looks round.
Lex, the earth looks kind of round. Oh, wait a minute.
It looks flat there. Oh, this is the real camera.
That other one is bullshit.

Facebook's kind of more around than me. That other one is a fish eye lens.
No stars out there. Yeah.
Look at the fucking, where's the stars? This is bullshit. This is in a lab in Nevada.
This is a screensaver. What is this? Wow.
Wow. I think they have a payload of a satellite that they're testing and releasing.
Bro, imagine what it feels like looking out the window and seeing that. The one on the right is going way faster now.
It's humbling. It's almost to 6,000 kilometers an hour.
Oh, my God. The other one's heading back down.
Still slowing down. Wow.
Ooh. Space station? What is that?

Is that the space station?

Is that what that is?

I hope so.

I don't know what the fuck it is.

She just said it.

She just said it.

All right.

Otherwise, we just saw some UFO.

She just said it.

Definitely a UFO.

Is it possible they get that close to the space station?

Like, hey, guys.

Yeah. I mean, they're extremely precise about their flight trajectory.

So would you ever fly on one of these?

No.

No, no, no, no, no.

How much would I need to pay you? No, no, no, no, no. I'm already rich.
You can't get me with that. That's the one fucking money thing.
Yeah, I don't have that expensive taste. I would love to find one of these, man.
Flat. Flat.
Dude, that's so insane. Incredibly flat.
Look at CGI, bro. What do you think would happen if you did send flat earthers up in that and they got to see? Do you think they would believe? Yeah.
How many of them are schizophrenic, though?

They'll think everything was a lie.

Like, what percentage of the flat-earth community... Like, the percentage of all communities, it's like 1% that are schizophrenic, right?

But don't you think...

Isn't it? Like, across the board?

Something like that.

Yeah, so it's not disparaging the flat-earth community.

Yeah.

I'm just saying.

Wow.

Can you be, like, schizophrenic light?

I wonder if they have a higher percentage.

Can you just be a little schizophrenic? Yeah, you definitely can. I know a dude that you got to touch.
They got to touch. Yeah, a little bit.
Just a touch. I told this story once.
I was talking to this comedian and I've known this guy forever. I thought he was totally normal.
But he's always like odd and he starts showing me pictures on his phone of clouds. He's like, see that? I go, yeah It's gonna go through a cloud right now It's a high-ass cloud 20 kilometers up Wow That's so fucking cool How fucking cool is that? That this thing is gonna go land now You wanna make a bet about if it's gonna catch catch.
All right. Yeah, I believe so, too.
Yeah, no, I wouldn't bet against it. That would be un-American.
Yeah, what do you hate American? Look at it, though. Look how cool that is, man.
Wow. They're focusing on it now from a distance.
It just dropped fast. It's now only two kilometers above.
Wow. It's going quick.
It's going to be the second tower catch. Goose to landing first.
Bro, this is so insane. This is amazing, this is so insane

This is amazing

This is so insane so it has this it's controlling

Look at the position. Wow.
This is look at the tower coming in to catch it too. Oh my god

Fuck yeah Fuck yeah Wow Holy shit now That is so fucking badass That is so nuts Seven minutes from when it left Seven minutes for the whole flight? Yeah Wow That's a fucking building That is so dope Look at the other ones What is that? Climbing in speed 16,000 kilometers an hour Oh my god 140 kilometers away Wow New Glenn yesterday Starship today This is why I fucking love America That's so incredible dude That's so incredible Hey the question is like How tall is, like, how tall is that in reference to, like, a building? Isn't it, like, a 20-story building or something crazy? Yeah, they showed before it took off right there. Yeah, wow.
It is? Look how much bigger it is than the Millennium Falcon. I like how they...
He compares it to the Millennium Falcon. How fucking amazing is that? What's the other one? Is that Blue Origin? Oh, that's another...
It, that's another SpaceX one? It's bigger than the Blue Origin rocket, but quite a bit. I think it's the biggest rocket ever made.
123 meters. Yeah, and that part right here, halfway, that's what came back.
Right. So that's got to be...
I mean, do you think it's... It looks higher than half.
How many floors of, like... Yeah, it's got to be 70 meters so that's gotta be I Mean you think it's it looks higher than half how many floors of like yeah, it's gotta be 70 meters.
That's so crazy That's so big Yeah, it's like 33 Raptor engines. So just the raw power Just just even one of those engines is sick.
You ever see it live. It's incredible It's so much cooler watching it actually happen live than it is watching a video.

When you watch a video, you're like, yeah, that's cool.

But we didn't know what was going to happen.

That's the cool thing about live.

Fuck yeah.

That was awesome.

Let's end with that.

We're ending on a positive note.

American ingenuity, baby.

Let's go, America.

Peace on Earth.

Good one to all.

Love you, brother.

Love you too, man.

Thank you.

Bye.