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Joe Rogan and guest Bill Thompson, founder of Spartan Forge, talk through a wide-ranging conversation about fast cars like the Tesla Cybertruck and a flying Roadster concept, archery and pressure, hunting and thermals, dreams and Jungian ideas, addiction, and AI's effect on jobs and society. Thompson argues that facing real pressure and hard challenges builds resilience, and that hunting taps into deep human instincts.
- They discuss a flying Tesla Roadster concept and Thompson's doubts about it being released, plus Thompson's regret over pulling out of a Cybertruck order because of reported bugs.
- Thompson describes learning driving at a military high-risk course, where the key lesson was keeping tires on the road, braking before turns, and avoiding oversteering.
- On archery, Thompson explains that pressure causes flinching and that building comfort with pressure through repetition and experience is what makes a shot reliable, including command-trigger versus surprise-shot technique.
- Thompson recounts a deer hunt where he took a 12-year-old buck and afterward experienced an adrenaline drop, and he describes his military acronym STAB (steady position, trigger squeeze, aiming, breathing) for staying calm.
- Thompson's Spartan Forge app is designed to map thermal wind patterns for hunters, and he argues hunting and fishing connect people to deep survival instincts that modern life no longer provides.
- The guests discuss dreams as a source of insight, referencing Carl Jung, and Thompson shares how a dream about a legal dispute helped him reframe his anger.
- They discuss addiction, including Rogan's family history and Thompson's sisters, and Thompson's view that addictive focus can be both a strength and a danger.
- Thompson predicts AI could eliminate many jobs within about 10 years, while arguing that live events and handmade creative work will remain valuable to people.
- 0:01Intro and Roadster Flying Car
- 1:34Fast Cars and Suction
- 3:42Cybertruck Regret and Car Feel
- 7:12Driving Lessons From the Military
- 12:17Pressure, Archery, and Trigger Control
- 16:43Surprise Shots and Competition
- 19:50Heuristics and Reps in Hunting
- 24:44Hunting the Monarch Buck
- 28:39Closed-Loop Thinking and Calm
- 29:14Survival Escape Training Story
- 2:46:53Fighting Sports and MMA History
Intro and Roadster Flying Car
0:01Joe Rogan podcast. Check it out. >> The Joe Rogan Experience. >> TRAIN BY DAY. JOE ROGAN PODCAST BY NIGHT. All day.
0:14>> Put the microphone [music] in front of your face so we can use this. What are you saying? >> Some people think the stuff about the Roadster online was like, you know, it's not real. >> It's 100% real. >> My friend was there. >> No, no. I so I'm even like words are tough to you have to you have to use your words very carefully you know >> well here's the thing will it be available in the general public >> right probably not >> no how could you use it how could you make that legal where you have a car
0:38that can fly over other cars if there's a traffic stop >> uh like uh I'm trying to I guess what some people are saying it's like you know the a test model car like it this will not this is the version concept car yeah >> well there first of all it probably won't be released anywhere where near when they say it's going to be released just based on what he's done in the past.
0:57I mean, the Roadster, there's a lot of people that paid $250,000 for the Roadster in 2017. >> I know a guy who did that. >> Yeah, I know a guy who did that, too. And like, imagine you did that back then and you were expecting that car. You got a completely different design. >> Yep. >> I mean, completely different looking car.
1:15Now, it has the [ __ ] Lamborghini doors >> and it flies. >> What? This guy's nuts. I would. He's insane. >> He's so out of his mind. He's got too much money. He just does whatever the [ __ ] he wants. >> People saying it's fake with wires and stuff. Some people said that there was wires on cranes and Yeah.
1:32I don't I'm not buying that. >> No. Well, there is already a car that does that trick where it can go upside down. There's this uh there's this race car uh god, I forget the name of it, but it actually has a fan underneath the bottom of the car that acts as a suction. And this car does insane lap times because it's absolutely glued to the ground.
Fast Cars and Suction
1:54>> Perfect handling. >> Yeah, perfect handling. And it's only a one-seater car. >> McMur um >> try to find a video. >> Put some headphones on. [ __ ] Watch this thing. Put it See if you can find It's a It's a hyper. Yeah. See, that's it. It goes upside down. This thing is literally crazy. It it blows away all of the lap times on every single racetrack because first of all, it's really light, really tiny, has insane power because it's all electric, and it has so much suction at the bottom that it can go
2:27upside down. So, they were the first ones to at least demo this type of tech. And they did it on this car. Like, this car literally has so much suction. Give me some volume so you could hear this. So, this is a literal suction cup underneath the engine that's allowing this thing to hold its entire body weight, which has got to be like I I would imagine at least close to 2,000 lb.
2:52>> Wonder if it's one of those carbon fiber bodies. Carbon fiber. >> Even if it is with the engines and the batteries. So, if it was a a a combustion engine car, maybe it could be under 2,000 lb. Like there's a few Porsches, like they make some really old like uh restood Porsches from like the 1960s and early 1970s that can get under 2,000 lbs.
3:16They like there's this guy that worked for God, I think [clears throat] he worked for Bugatti or something like that. One of those crazy high-tech car companies and he built a car that was completely the opposite. He built a car where he stripped everything out of it. He made like a 1969 Porsche, stripped everything out of it, made all of the panels fiberglass, and he got it to like 1,800 lb.
Cybertruck Regret and Car Feel
3:41>> Wow. >> And the idea is like that is like the most um visceral driving experience, the most connected you are to a car, the lighter they are. The heavier they are, they can get really crazy with performance. Like my Tesla is probably like 4,000 lbs, but it just if it's like a time machine, >> isn't the Cybertruck like seven or eight or something like that?
4:01It's even bigger, right? I have the Model S, but the Cybert truck is all it's all cold stamp steel. I think that's the the type of steel that you But it's incredibly heavy. I ordered one of those and then I ended up pulling out. I regret it. I don't know. I just >> I wanted one. I loved it. I just like the idea of it.
4:19It's very seldom that I would look at a car and just smile every time I looked at a car. And every time I looked at that Cybert truck, I just smiled. So, I was like, I kind of want one of those. And then I put the money down. My wife was like, "What are you doing?" And I [laughter] was like, I want one.
4:32Like I I've always been a Ford guy, so I've got like a Ford Tremor, >> which I love that truck. And uh so [clears throat] I put the money down and then I started hearing like other guys got them and they're like, "Oh, there's some issues and bugs being worked out." So I was a coward and I pulled out.
4:44I shouldn't have done it, but I did. >> Well, you can get one now. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> They're making I'm sure they make them better now. I'm sure they're Oh, yeah. They figured out whatever the kinks were. >> Any other thing with the first generation, it's going to have kinks that have to be worked out.
4:57>> Yeah. There's some issues where people like pulling the panels off and some of the panels were like literally glued on, but they fixed all that stuff now. So, this is the thing in the air. Honestly though, I completely honestly I like the look of the original model better. >> I do too. That's That's >> I think it looked cooler.
5:13The original Roadster, it looked more like a modern supercar. And that looks more like a Lamborghini. >> Looks like a Lamborghini had a baby with a Cybert truck, >> right? >> Yeah. >> And not even like a new Lamborghini. like a Lamborghini from the '9s. >> Yeah. >> Which are cool. >> Like a Countach.
5:32>> Yeah. It's just like it like that one is sick. >> That's slick. >> That's That thing's sick. That looks amazing. That's the I mean, maybe they could redo that. I don't know. [sighs] >> I don't know. >> Crazy world. >> It's These things are weird. It's weird that you can get a car that goes 0 to 60.
5:50That is going to be real. It's going to go 0 to 60 in under a second. That's [ __ ] >> Well, at that test it was 08.9 seconds or something like that. >> That's crazy. >> That's that's like you're going to liquefy your inside. You go any faster. >> Well, it's half the speed of sound, [laughter] >> right?
6:04I mean, it's it's full top speed, rather. It's top speed is uh half the speed of sound, which is just insane. I think it's like top speed is over 300 miles an hour. >> What is half the speed of sound? Is it like 380 or something? >> Said 360. >> 360. That's insane. >> That's [ __ ] insane. [laughter] I mean, I like going fast, but I don't know if I want to go that fast.
6:27>> I I like uh I like going fast, but what I really like is the feeling of a car. That's what [clears throat and snorts] Unless you're a race car driver, all the how fast you go is all horseshit. They're all fast. Every car is fast. You can get a get a if you want like the bargain, this is like the absolute best cool car bargain.
6:47Get a Ford Mustang GT. my my favorite car of all time and I've been saying this for years and I've never bought one but my sister and her husband used to race um Mustangs and he had a 71 Ford Mach 1 >> with the big big back end >> and uh he eventually turned it into like what they call a supercom funny car so it became alcohol fueled and the only thing that was original was like the back end but everything else got replaced over time it was a funny car essentially but I've been in love with
Driving Lessons From the Military
7:15that car since I was like 8 years old like I just look at that and I think to myself that is like that is muscle are par excellence. Like it's the perfect >> Yeah. And those cars aren't the best to drive. They don't handle that good. But it's the feeling that you get when you're driving them. It's like you're driving a ride.
7:30Like when my kids were little, they used to love this one ride at Disneyland. >> God, what is it called? It's It's based on the movie Cars. It's like you get in a car and you're kind of steering and you're going on It's like you're on tracks and you're going around >> like the Lightning McQueen car type of thing.
7:48>> Yeah. I forget. There's two car rides. There's one car ride where you're not steering. You're just in a car. It's like a roller coaster and there's a car next to you and you're supposedly racing. This one's different. This one you you get in these little cars. You actually do kind of steer them. >> Huh.
8:01>> And they're they're fun and it's not fast. It's like but it's like loud and you feel the steering in the engine. Like that's what I like. I like cars that engage you. Like they there's a visceral connection. There's like there's some sort of a mechanical connection. You feel it. That's what I like.
8:19>> Yeah, I did driving courses while in the military. Um, we had like what you would call I guess it was called at the time like a high-risisk officer pipeline. >> So the I guess like the expectation would be at some point you might be caught or captured. So there's all these different courses that they send you through >> in order to, you know, >> Sure.
8:38>> It's like Sears school on steroids. But one of the courses was um for like a week and a half all you do is learn how to drive per like they have um rally car drive instructors come and teach you how to drive and like how to do trail turns and >> how to uh you know navigate course and then you do onroad off-road and like they put you in all kinds of crazy scenarios.
9:01Like at one point they drive you up to a checkpoint and you've got a bag over your head and they put you at the checkpoint and they say, "All right, we're going to take this bag off. When we take the bag off of your head, uh react to the situation like it's an operational scenario and you can employ whatever you need to do."
9:16Like they basically just want to see how you do under pressure, but it's part of the car course. So, you're at this checkpoint and you know, for me it was, you know, the guard started freaking out and then they're shooting blanks and stuff and basically they just want to see because they teach you exactly how to do it.
9:33Like you plant your left foot or you Yeah, you plant your left foot, you stand up, you get behind yourself and then steering backwards and like how can you >> navigate a serpentine >> uh in reverse in a car while under fire and get out of a situation. It was a lot of fun. The courses were a ton of fun and you learn like from the best drivers in the world.
9:51And uh like everything in life, you think you have a conception of how these things will be before you get into them. It's like golf. Like I really I got into golf years ago cuz I I was told I would suck at it and cuz I was a rugby player at the time and it was my you know father-in-law said you're not a golfer.
10:10You're you're a large blunt instrument. Like go keep playing rugby. And so I was like [ __ ] this guy. I'm gonna [laughter] [ __ ] be as good as golf as I can. So, um, you know, at first I was trying to lift the ball or I was trying to overcorrect and and prevent a slice by really strengthening my grip.
10:30It was actually no, you got to hit from the inside to the out. You got to transfer your weight here. Um, you actually, if you want the ball to go high, you need to hit down on it. And it was the same thing with cars. If you want to drive fast, keep your tires in contact with the road as much as possible.
10:44Use the brake to frontload the weight. because we were driving um Interceptor Impala's >> in the course. So, it's like most of the weight's in the front. So, you want to apply brakes through the corners. >> People think fast and furious is like the fastest way to drive a car. You know, the I should say the public consciousness.
11:00Obviously, anyone who's ever been around a race car driver or watches race cars knows you need the wheels in contact with the road as much as possible. You you try to draw a straight line through the course and navigate that straight line. So if you're cutting corners and stuff like that to keep the cars as straight a line as possible, steer as little as possible.
11:18Don't over steer like you always see in the movies like people are over steering like the car. And it's like no. Like the guy in the course was like never over steer. If you have to put one hand over the other, you're failing. Feed one hand, feed the wheel from one hand to the other >> and and take a trail turn.
11:34And if you over steer, you're going to lose contact with the ground and you're going to be slower. >> So it was all these opposites. I guess the point is >> opposites of perception. You mean? >> Yeah. You have a perception going in that this is like a fast like when I get really good at this course, I'm going to be, >> you know, uh, what do they call it like in Fast and Furious when they're, you know, >> taking a really tight corner and their back end swings out and it the car it's
11:59squealing. I don't remember this. Drifting. Drifting. >> Drifting. Like you think like, you know, 25, 30-year-old me at the time was like, "This is what I'm going to be doing by the end of the course." Like, "No, apply the brake and take the turn. >> Turn it correctly. keep the wheels on the ground. >> Yeah, that's the key is knowing the limitations of the car and being able to avoid doing that.
Pressure, Archery, and Trigger Control
12:17>> Yeah, but it's been around quicker. >> It's been the case for me in life. Anytime I learn something at a very high level, >> um like even with archery, like the slower you can pull the trigger on the release and and and and you my instinct would be like snap slap it and some people slap it and do fine, but for me it's the same with long distance shooting.
12:36Like when I take a long distance shooting course, pull that trigger. So you almost can't even anticipate where the where the um uh where it's going to fire, at what point it's going to fire, like manipulate the play and pull the trigger as slow as possible, and that will be the most accurate shot you're going to take.
12:52If the shot surprises you, nine times out of 10, it's going to be more accurate than a shot that you've anticipated, >> right? Because you're anticipating recoil. >> Yeah, >> there's there's a caveat to that. Um the the caveat to that is there's some very high level archers that win a lot of big tournaments that do what they call command trigger >> for sure.
13:12>> And I think what's going on there is those guys learned how to shoot a surprise shot first. >> And th those guys almost all those guys those target guys they use a hinge. >> Y >> and or at least sometimes they use a hinge. A lot of them use thumb buttons now but and they use a thumb button like a hitch.
13:29They just load it up with back pressure until it goes off. Yeah. in a surprise shot. But there's there's guys like James Lutz and there's a few of these Kyle Douglas, Tim Gillingham. These guys win giant tournaments and they command shoot. >> Yeah. >> So they shoot. What they do is they put the pin over the and they know how to stay stable.
13:49>> Yeah. >> And they've done it for so long and they have tremendous back pressure on the trigger or on the uh the bow they're pulling and then they hit the trigger when they want it to go. >> Yeah. they can keep their [ __ ] together and I think it's it's a mental thing. The real problem with people in target panic is two things.
14:04One >> if you're in a tournament like when you're shooting if you're getting target like those guys are shooting if people have never seen a Vegas round. So what a Vegas round is you have three targets and you're shooting at 20 meters and you're shooting you're trying to hit a dime at 20 meters 30 times.
14:26>> And so that's how you get a 300 score. Yep. >> This guy Lutz just shot 719. So he out of 720. 720 is possible. So out of 72 arrows, this [ __ ] only got a nine once and he's command shooting. >> Yeah. >> This is the thing. It's like so it's not it's not a steadfast rule. Yeah, >> but to overcome the pressure of that anticipation and flinching, that's when people turn to a surprise shot.
14:58I think the pressure is the problem. It's not the technique of releasing. Because if you show someone how to shoot a bow and they put the target uh they put the pin over the target, they hit the trigger for a while, they're good at it, right? So, what happens? What what what makes them not be good anymore?
15:15Well, it's clearly their mind. It's clearly the pressure. >> Yeah. >> And so I think maybe you can be just as accurate, if not more accurate, using a command shot, but you need to understand how your mind is working and you need to understand how to mitigate pressure >> and and how to stay calm. >> Yeah.
15:36>> And I think there's only a few ways to do that. There's there's strategies that you can use. You can learn techniques, but the reality is when a mo a big moment hits you, you're going to freak out. So I think the strategy might be just have a bunch of big moments, have more big moments in your life, more instances in your life where you have to deal with pressure.
15:55And that kind of tracks with everything else in life. The people that have dealt with pressure, that understand pressure and and and know how to perform, they can kind of do anything. You can kind of go from that and be involved in all sorts of other things that involve pressure. But if you don't know pressure at all and then all of a sudden there's a screaming bull elk in front of you at 40 yards and all you've been shooting at is a target.
16:20>> Yeah. >> You're going to panic. Especially if you're not a pressure person. >> Now if you are a pressure person, >> you're probably still going to freak out the first couple of times, but eventually you'll figure it out. >> Yeah. Your road to figuring out would be a lot quicker. >> Yeah. >> If you've dealt with pressure in the past.
16:35>> That's what I think. I I on our with Spartan Forge um we have a guy on the on our ambassadors I guess you'd call them. I don't like any of the terms. He's a guy that we trust to consult for us on features in the app and then he'll talk about the app. It's his name is Levi Morgan. >> He's a fantastic archer.
Surprise Shots and Competition
16:50Um and just spending time around those guys. They they definitely have a way of because we had an archery competition a couple of years ago. Everyone in the company and he was part of it. What's funny is this now if we were to do this nine times out of 10 this guy wouldn't win. But one of my engineers is this killer named Evan uh Freed.
17:08And he and Levi were in the final. Like 20 guys started this archery competition. It was the two of them at the very end. And Evan beat him. >> Oh my god. >> I couldn't believe it. >> Weaponized autism. >> He's one of them. He's one of [laughter] them. He I mean he absolutely was a stone cold killer.
17:25And then we did it with these other guys at an attack event like a total archery challenge. We went u >> How much did he beat Levi Morgan by? >> I mean he won. I don't remember exactly what the Delta was, but he won. >> That's crazy. >> And nobody could believe it. Like, everyone looked at him like John freaking Wick for the last for [laughter] the rest of the weekend.
17:43Like, who is this guy that just went and shot at the king and didn't miss? Um, and Levi's the best in the world. And like I said, if they had done that nine times more, right? >> Right. Levi would have won the next nine. But for one moment, maybe >> for one moment, he was Prometheus. >> I don't know about See, there's the We're going back to the mind again.
18:00If he can do it once, why can't he keep doing it? Yeah, maybe. I mean, there you go, Evan. Maybe you should quit as an engineer for me and go and be a professional archer. >> There's a lot of these rules that people have for things. And I'm like, well, who invents these rules? Other people. And a lot of times people invent rules to sort of >> to kind of rationalize or deal with their own struggles, right?
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Heuristics and Reps in Hunting
19:58Well, another example of this would be um Cam Haynes. He doesn't he really slap the >> whenever he fires? >> Well, he he kind of pulls it slowly back, but he it's a definitely a command shot. >> Yeah. >> But then again, look at first of all his ability to deal with pressure, right? He runs 300 mile races.
20:15He does all this crazy [ __ ] On top of that, he's been a hunter for 30 years plus, >> probably more, probably 40 now, right? So, he's been hunting most of his life and he's had so much experience pulling the trigger on animals. >> Yeah. Yeah. And that reps, it's all about reps. >> It's all about reps with everything in life.
20:34And it's all about, it's not just reps, it's recent reps, you know? It's like having the amount of repetitions like recently to the point where it's a normal natural part of your psychology, the way your mind works. >> I'll do that with white tail hunting is I always make sure I try to kill two or three dough >> before I really start zeroing in on going for a buck >> because if a buck's the first thing I'm looking at and it's been nine months since I've hunted or 6 months or whatever since I've hunted, I'll still
21:00get it. I've been hunting for 25 years and I'll still freak out or get the adrenaline drop afterwards. I don't usually get the I've never really gotten the adrenaline drop when it's happening, but as soon as that arrow is loosed, then I'm like like I'm just like freaking out like I don't even know what happened.
21:15>> Well, at least you can keep it together before the arrows loose because that's where most people fall apart. I mean, I've seen professional, you know, I don't want to call them professional hunters, but people that make their living as hunting influencers and they have these videos and you can watch them on YouTube and they're shaking like a leaf when they're drawing back their bow and they're like, "Wow, this guy's been hunting for 40 years."
21:32Yeah. and he still gets jazzed up. >> Yeah, there's something about that. Um I think it's why we all want to keep hunting, right? Because it's probably wired. Well, it's hard to do for sure, but it's wired into our, you know, whatever, however we evolve, however we established over time. One thing is true is that we were able to stick around and have success because we had these groups of hunters that would go out and hunt for the tribe.
21:55Yes. >> So there's wiring in us >> 100% >> that that hunting might be the only way or one of the few ways to tap into that in in a way that your body immediately understands. >> Fishing is too. >> Yeah, fishing. >> I always bring Well, I I I have these comparisons that I do. It's one of the reasons why I say I never go to protests cuz protests are like fishing.
22:14This is why like fishing is a part of your DNA. Like you get a little kid. When my daughter was five was like the first time I took her fishing. When she caught a fish, she was like so excited like Oh, it's in you. It's in you. You know that catching this thing means you're your your your body's rewarding you with all these good feelings and good endorphins because now you're going to eat.
22:35You're going to be able to feed your family. You're going to be able to survive. >> When you're protesting and everyone's walking down the street chanting and cheering, that's too much like war. >> Yeah. >> That excites the part of the brain that thinks we're supposed to smash Starbucks to crush the patriarchy or whatever the [ __ ] you want to do.
22:56When you see people behaving with, you know, air quotes, mob mentality, what is that? I'll tell you what that is. That's war. That's your body's ability to recognize that it's you with a bunch of other people that are supposedly on your side. You're in a life ordeath situation and you're against another team and you're marching and chanting and screaming and everybody's hyped up and next thing you know, violence breaks off and everybody gives into that feeling.
23:24giving into the kind of behavior that would be almost impossible to imagine if you were by yourself. Yeah. Smashing someone's car window while you're by yourself. Walking up to Starbucks with a a [ __ ] traffic cone and breaking the window and diving in and throwing things off the shelves. You would never do that while you're by yourself.
23:40Why are you doing it with this giant group of people? Yeah. >> It's it's the war thing. It's just like the fishing thing. >> Yeah. >> You know, like the it's in you. Let's go. You start black lives matter. Whatever it is, whatever it is, you know, no kings, whatever it is, you start marching down the street, free Palestine.
23:58You, these [ __ ] buildings are keeping us from freeing Palestine. You want to light them on fire. And that's what people do. It's it's a normal part of us that allowed us to survive to 2026 with tribal warfare. >> Yep. That we needed that circuitry >> and that feeling that you get from uh catching a fish, >> multiply that times a thousand for archery, elk hunting.
24:22>> Yeah. It's it's off the charts, the highs and the lows. >> There was a um a deer I was chasing. I'm more of a white tail hunter. I've only been elk hunting twice. Um I I want to do it more. I just haven't had the time and I lived on the eastern seabboard. Most of my career I was in the military. So the option of going west and elk hunting wasn't in the cards for me.
24:38So I mostly whitetail hunted. But a couple years ago I was hunting a um a public land buck in the Alagany that was 12 years old. >> Where's the Alagany? Uh um well it was actually wasn't actually the Alagany. It was east of there but it's uh north it was north central Pennsylvania would have been the better way to say it but I just say Alagany because that's near there.
Hunting the Monarch Buck
25:00It's farther it's farther east of there. It's actually a couple hours east of there. >> But um anyway uh I was hunting up there and uh there's buck everyone had knew about and he was old and huge and at one point he was like 170 in and that's pretty big for a public land whitetail buck. It's >> huge.
25:15and everyone knew about it. And I was going up into this area to hunt where there he had been historically during the rut. Thermals were wrong in the area. Thermal draw was pulling and or it was rising still and it should have been pulling at this point. So I was like, "This is a bad spot." Like where where he's at, he's going to smell me coming in.
25:32So I'm just going to walk to a different part. So I walked to the front of the mountain and just went up there where I knew the thermals would be better. And he was on a dough and I was still on the ground. I hadn't even climbed a tree yet. I was on the ground and he was pushing a dough into like a ditch and then he popped out and when I saw him I was like holy crap that's him like that's the monarch.
25:50Everyone called him the monarch and I was like like I'm still like freaking out. Anyway, I pulled back and put it right in like double lunged him at like 35 yards and uh I had like an adrenaline drop for like 25 minutes afterwards. I couldn't even call my buddy to come and help me drag him cuz I was so I was freaking out so bad.
26:11And uh it was it was a consequence of like 3 years of knowing this buck existed or that he was in the area. And then you put all this time in, like way more time than you should to chase this animal. And you you have this goal and then all of a sudden it's in front of you and you're like, I can't believe this is happening.
26:26This is happening. And then I always say the same thing I used to say in the military when I was shooting, which was to kind of get into my zoning out mode. We I had this acronym I learned in the military which was stab, steady position, trigger squeeze, aiming and breathing. So every time I'm at full draw, I say to myself very silently.
26:44I'm just like steady position, >> slow trigger squeeze, aim, breathe. And then I always breathe at the parige of my breath. So I'll take a big breath in. >> I'll breathe all the way out so there's no air in my body. And then slow pull. And I when I say that when I remember to say that to myself, then it's kind of like >> any panic or anything kind of falls away and I'm just focused on the task of steady position, trigger, squeeze, aiming, breathing.
27:07But it happened for like 25 minutes afterwards. Dude, I was >> Have you studied any of Joel Turner stuff? >> Uh-uh. I know who he is. Um, we've talked on Instagram a couple of times. I've I mean, I've watched some videos, but to say I've studied him or I know the whole story, I would that would be inaccurate.
27:21Well, his strategy is essentially what you just outlined just with different words, but the same the same thing. He he says you should talk to yourself through the entire shot. So that you make this a closed loop thing. >> Yeah. >> Instead of an openloop thing. And so what that means is an openloop thing is like swinging a baseball bat.
27:38Once you start to swing it, you're swinging it. Yeah. Right. It's going. >> Yeah. >> And a closed loop thing is something you could stop at any moment. Like writing. When you're writing something down, you could just stop that pen at any moment. It's not like it gets away from you, right? So, the thing about an archery shot is it can kind of get away from you and that's when you flinch and that's when you're six inches off the mark.
27:59>> Yeah. >> At 20 yards and you don't understand what happened. And it's that's what he teaches people to avoid. and he was a a SWAT team member and he he would teach people proper techniques in order to I mean he learned psychology and he learned like what's going on in the mind in order to be able to execute in those situations that are extremely high stress hostage situations like you had to shoot somebody that was holding someone hostage >> right he's been in those things and he
28:28realizes that that's a life ordeath situation that can be mitigated by a certain amount of understanding of what's happening in the mind and what causes openloop or closed loop thinking. >> And so what you're doing is instigating closed loop thinking by talking to yourself the entire time. >> So by having every moment controlled and every moment calm and you have a system and you're actually saying that system through your head, that's what keeps you in the present, in the moment instead of
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28:57just panicking like a lot of people do. We've all seen it. People just freak out. >> Yes. And some people don't understand what is happening in their mind. So they just repeat these things over and over again. And they have good days and bad days and they don't understand where the bad days are coming from.
29:10And what is it? Well, what it is is your mind got away from you. And sometimes the mind can just run a muck. >> Yeah. >> It can just take like that's why people have anxiety attacks. I mean maybe some of the reasons why people >> I don't want to say but I don't know why people have anxiety attacks but some people have anxiety attacks because they start thinking about some something and dreading it and then it builds up in their mind and then all of a sudden it's just a runaway train inside their brain
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29:38and they haven't developed personal methods for stopping that and mitigating that kind of stress and and recognizing what's happening while it's happening and then talking yourself down off the ledge and just peace of mind, getting getting yourself to a a peaceful place. >> Some people don't have those strategies.
29:58So, the moment something goes sideways, especially if they're not used to pressure, the moment something goes sideways, it just runs away from them. >> Yeah. I So, lots of people say lots of things about me. I I remember Andy on here talking smack about me being Captain America of autism. Uh [laughter] that's the first thing that comes to mind.
30:15Andy's the best. He's I mean, I talk to Andy almost every day. He's become one of my closest like I shouldn't say closest friends, I should say someone I regularly talk to and he's good for me because he's kind of the opposite of me in ways like he like like my wife and I are good for each other in the way that she worries about everything.
30:33She's worried right now. She's sitting outside worried out of her mind right now about something probably something she hasn't even talked to me about. [snorts] I almost worry about nothing until it becomes something that's important to me. like if someone asks me to do some work or something that's particularly important um then I care about like okay this work will represent me I got to do it as diligently as I can um my my representation reflects on my family so then things I start caring about things
31:02but if I do have a superpower I would say it was imposed on me in a weird way by my mother was a alcoholic and um would go to AA meetings and drag me along like when I was really young and uh she there to say their serenity prayer at the beginning of every um alcoholic synonymous meeting which was God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change courage courage to change the things I can and wisdom know the difference so I'd be standing here and watching these people tell
31:29these insane stories like I went on a 7-day bender I'm from Missouri I woke up in Las Vegas and I just be like what am I doing here I'm like 9 years old like what [laughter] is what is happening but that did stick with me and um I would say [snorts] that's one of my superpowers is if I can't affect something, I don't worry about it.
31:46Like if there's nothing I can do about it, like I just had a conversation with my daughter about this last night who's worried about teenager things. I was like, "Look, you know, I've told you the serenity prayer, your Elma, my my mother used to tell you tell me like try to just live by that." And that kind of goes to the things we're talking about with shooting is let's just focus on the things we control >> and let's develop a heristic or a way to get through this closed loop system that
32:11you're talking about. And for me it was a heristic because it was just something the military taught me that worked particularly well. I didn't know all the psychology or stuff that you were talking about it there. But um I would say if I had one superpower it's my ability to just not care when I can't affect the outcome.
32:25>> Well, that's very wise. >> I wouldn't say Yeah. And I would wouldn't say it's my wisdom. It's something I adopted from someone else. But it served me particularly well in life cuz whether it was in Iraq or Afghanistan or the Philippines or Africa or anywhere else I was in like a shady situation. is like, "Okay, this is going horribly.
32:42What can I focus on? I can get on the radio. I can do this. I can do that. Like, let's do those things and let's get out of here." Um, and so it's it's served me really well. Um, so, >> well, I think that's the proper strategy for navigating life correctly. I I I think the opposite like just freaking out about everything every time it happens, that just doesn't it doesn't serve you.
33:06I think what we're talking about earlier is an issue too. Like think about all the things you just said, all the different places you were where things went sideways. Like most people don't have those experiences. And that's one of the reasons why most people are not resilient. And I think you need a certain amount of very high pressure situations in your life in order to kind of to galvanize your character.
33:31>> Yeah. >> You know, >> find out who you are when the chips are down. >> You don't know who you are. Like we've all seen these guys that get in fist fights online um and they these videos online and they don't know how to fight and yet they talk themselves into this fight. They cuz it's almost like they want to believe and they want to convince this other person they know how to fight and then they think they're going to be able to do it and everyone's watching.
33:54I'm just going to hit this guy and it doesn't work out. No. [snorts] >> And they wind up a highlight reel and everyone makes fun of them and then their life is literally ruined. Now, when I was a kid, if you got your ass kicked, no one knew but you and the guys who kicked your ass. >> Yeah. And it happened all the time for me.
34:08It was like every two or three weeks, somebody would get in a fight. >> Yeah. >> Fighting was so common for me growing up in like in a farm town in the middle of North Dakota. I'm sure >> it was the highlight of our month. >> Nothing else to do. >> If the school bully and someone else threw down or whatever and that guy won or like >> it was just like this is awesome.
34:23>> But everybody got over it after a while and you forgot about the fight because there had been 10 other fights since then and life moved on. Yeah. Now, if you get your ass [ __ ] up in a if you you go to talk some [ __ ] to some dude in a convenience store in front of his girlfriend, he KO's you >> with a can of something like >> and someone's got the thing in your face like, "Oh [ __ ] >> got knocked the [ __ ] out."
34:44>> The internet remembers. >> They remember forever and all your friends remember. All all the people that hate you remember. >> You become a meme. >> Yeah. It's [laughter] a way more difficult time to [ __ ] up than ever in the past. It's one of those things too where I I I said this while I just did Andy's podcast like three weeks ago.
35:00Um but it it's like essentially we can ch if you don't force you said talked about resilience, but if you don't force um the the harshness of nature upon you, like if you don't adopt it and try to put yourself in situations where things will get hard so you can find out who you are. And you can do this in a multitude of ways, right?
35:20You can do it with jiu-jitsu. You can go to a jiu-jitsu gym and get your ass handed to you time after time and just understand like, okay, I'm not the badass I thought I was. And there's a whole wealth of things that I can learn for the next 50 years. And so, you're adopting something or like hunting.
35:33My I have friends that I do, we do fasted hunts together. We were going to do this one this year, but Spartan Forge kept me from >> Fasted. >> Fasted. So what we do is we take a cooler, we pack it with drinks and food and a cuchimon like salads and stuff like that and then we get a a Yeti and we lock it and then one of the wives has the code for the Yeti and she doesn't give us the code for the Yeti until we kill something.
35:59So we have to send her a picture of a dough or send a picture of a buck or something like that. And so we'll just have salt water and we'll fast for 2 or three days and then you know somebody kills a dough finally. Like there's in the past when we'd do it there'd be five or six of us. So someone's going to kill in the first few couple of days.
36:15The shortest time was ever like 36 hours. The longest time I think we went 4 days and you're just hunting fasted and uh it's the best feeling in the world when someone texts and says like dough down. It's like when you're 3 days into like and I'm a heavy guy so I can go a long time without food. Like I usually do a quarterly fast where I'll go the shortest is usually two or three days and the longest I'll do is 7 days.
36:38But isn't that different when you're out hunting? Like you're burning off a lot quicker. >> It wears it down a lot quicker. >> Yeah. So like by day three you're hurting. And so we we we have always killed within was except for one time we've always killed within 3 days. But the sense of community and we talked about the wiring that it taps into.
36:58Like when you're sitting around a fire with like five, six people and nobody's eaten and now you're texting the photo and you're opening the cooler and like you want to you want to cry almost and you're like, "Oh man, you're the best. I just I can't believe you did this. This is the best day ever. Oh my god."
37:13Like you're just you're feeling like you're on top of the world and uh it's you just killed a dough. >> I know. But that's what we're wired for and we're missing that. I mean, this is one of the reasons why people are so attracted to like these videos of people who survive or v videos of subsistence cultures in the frame.
37:31Yeah. All that stuff. There's a reason why we're attach attached to those things. >> I think it's because that those human reward systems are the strongest purveyors of happiness that we have currently available to us. >> Yeah. Cuz we're not really wired to get happy from an Instagram video. It happens.
37:49Like we get happy laugh a little, but it's different. It's not the same happiness. It's a very temporary h. It's not a body happiness. >> Like you shoot an elk at 60 yards and double lung it and watch it tip over. That kind of happiness is there's nothing like that. There's nothing like that. That's a different thing.
38:06That's a survival thing. It's built into your DNA. But the point I was making was if you don't choose something like choose to eat well, choose to train, choose to hunt or choose to do jiu-jitsu or choose just to get a degree in something really difficult. If you don't adopt those things, then like nature, reality will judge you and you're going to get fat and old or have no meaning.
38:28>> You're also going to get anxiety over anything, almost anything and everything. The people that I know that freak out the most about things don't do anything difficult, >> right? and they're the ones that are freaked out all the time about things that I'm like, just walk it off. You're going to be fine.
38:43>> One of the things that works really well for my wife is I'll tell her to do something creative when she's feeling the anxiety. She'll like paint or >> draw or build something or do something. Um, and that seems to be a good way to get like the creative juices flowing and just like complete something because I think one of the other problems is that we work, both of us work in the tech industry.
39:02Um, and the job's never done. Like when you're building software or you're building things, like it almost never gets finished, >> right? >> It's always like, we're done with this thing, it's on to the next thing. So, you don't get that sense of like, you know, North I would go back to North Dakota every year and just farm and drive beet trucks for like two weeks.
39:22I'd take vacation to go and farm and drive beat trucks, like do harvest because I just liked it being done. >> And most times I donated the money to my church. So, I just go home and drive trucks for two days, 12 hours a day. Beat trucks where I'm following a loader, putting beats into the back of the truck and driving it there just because I was like, I did three fields this week.
39:40I feel awesome. >> Yeah. You worked. >> Yeah, I worked and I did physical labor and it's finished. That's the best part about it is the work's done. >> Well, there's something about that stuff that's very appealing to people. That's why Yellowstone's appealing, right? These people, they they have to run these cows or they're going to not survive.
39:55I mean, there's >> that's why we like, you know, these people that live as trappers and they live the the [ __ ] Siberian mountains. >> Yeah. >> There's something about that stuff that's just built into us. >> I think we're probably more evolved for that than we are for what is going on today. So, it's it's satisfying the same circuitry we talked about before.
40:16>> Yeah. >> Which is really what we're made for. >> Which is interesting because like you recognize this yet you're in tech and you have an awesome application for phones. Yes, [laughter] but the goal of it is to get people out. I always That's true. Your your tech is actually >> very good for people that are outside and it actually helps you.
40:35>> And because people have less time, they can scout at home or like when they really want to get out into the woods or, you know, September 13th and they fly in two days. It's like or I can go scout this mountain digitally, find out places I want to go and look at and then mark them and then get on the app.
40:48But I always tell people when we're developing the app too like there's a bandwidth between the brain, the thumbs and a phone. And the amount of I'm trying always trying to maximize that bandwidth. >> So the less time that I have to interact with an app in order to get more information. I've increased bandwidth, >> right?
41:07>> So less buttons, less time, just let's just get them the information they need and get them focused on the woods. Because if I had my way about it, they wouldn't pick the phone up once they're in the woods. it goes in their chest pocket or their rig or whatever and then they're hunting. Um that this is the apps that I'm building like we're just about to implement an awesome thermals feature that we've been building for a long time and we can now accurately map thermals.
41:32So when you're elk hunting and you see like a you know I'm waiting for these thermals to switch because where these elk are at where these elk are at um the sun is hitting the side of this mountain thermals are rising from the bottom and the wind is coming from the top. So there's no way to get to these elk.
41:46So, I need to wait for the thermal switch. So, with this um update we're going to put out first on the web, you can pick a day, time of the year. You can go historical and look up historical weather. So, you can say these elk were in this area. I dropped this pin. Now, I'm going to place this marker here and I want to see how the thermals are acting in the area.
42:02This is what kills most hunters is not understanding how thermals work, >> especially white tails and elk hunters. they don't know how the thermals work or they don't understand it or they've never gone in the offseason like >> what we're talking about with pe for people that don't know what the [ __ ] we're talking about when the morning is happening when it's cold and early in the morning all the wind is going down the mountain when it gets hot then all of a sudden the ground heats up and then
42:26the wind starts going up the mountain so when these animals >> are below you as you're coming down the mountain they're going to smell you immediately because all the smell is coming down so you have to approach them from the bottom Yeah. >> And you got to get above them or they'll blow out. >> They'll blow out of there.
42:46They'll they could smell you from forever away. I've seen animals smell me from a hundred yards away. It's wild. >> I I've seen I've seen um good data on studies and a buddy of mine, he used to take a friend of mine, he died in 2017, but he's a prolific whitetail photo. Uh he took photos of whitetails.
43:02He had a deer pen and there was a mountain that was a threequarter mile away from his property in New York. And when those doe's came into heat, all of the bucks would gather at the base of this fence to smell the wind coming off of this mountain of these doe's that were 3/4 mile away. >> So you think about that, like how well they can smell.
43:22>> And uh so yeah, we we're putting this thermal feature out, but the thermal feature, the reason I bring that up is because it's designed to be used at home. So you can map the thermals for an area, you can put in the temperature, you can put in the wind speed, and this engine beautifully maps exactly how the scent is going to move around on this mountain side.
43:39>> Can I ask you this? Does it vary depending on east or west slope? Because if it's east slope, it the thermals will rise quicker, right? >> Yes. And yes, because the sun and the incidence of the sun cuz what we had to build into this was an extremely high resolution topographic layer. We had to um have this engine, but then we also had to put like canopy cover into this.
44:00>> Oh wow. >> So it it modulates differently based on the type of canopy that it's in. Whether it's elk on the side of a hill or it's in in the open air or it's elk inside of a bunch of hemlocks or not hemlocks but aspens or something like that. Um it's going to change how those thermals work. And uh I've been using it um just the other day I've got these spots with whitetail.
44:20It's a little different because the bucks know where these thermals are. as bucks get older and we'll get off the white tail deer. I apologize, but you got me hyped up on hunting. >> No, I love white tail deer. Uh >> it's number one most hunted big game animal. >> Yeah. No, I just mean hunting rit large.
44:34People I doubt mo most people want to hear me talk about hunting. >> I think people like hearing people talk about things that are very fascinating to them. And I think people that don't understand hunting, especially people that think it's easy, you really don't understand what it is. You really don't understand how complicated it is.
44:52particularly bow hunting, but even think rifle hunting is easy. Good [ __ ] luck. Rifle hunting rifle hunting is not easy. It's not e that there's so much territory. You have no idea how big the mountains are. When you get out there, it is insanely hard. It's all hard. Yeah. Yeah. It's a little easier than archery in that you can be 300 yards away and accurately shoot.
45:11Okay. Still not easy. Not by That's like saying that boxing is slightly easier than MMA. Boxing is not easy. Shut the [ __ ] up. It's they're hard things to do and especially to do them well and to understand all these different like when I first started hunting when Steve Vanella took me that's that mu deer that I got right there 2012 that's when I first started hunting >> immediately I was like oh my god >> this is so much more difficult and there's so much more to learn than I
45:39ever understood >> there's layer upon layer it's so complex >> especially to be good at it >> and I'm not that good at it I mean I'm successful at it but it's also a lot of it cuz I these really good guides and people help me and I'm and I can handle pressure so and I'm in shape. So there's those things, but I'm learning things all the time.
45:58I'd say like if I was a hunter, if it was like a jiu-jitsu belt, I'd be like a >> a highle purple belt, maybe a brown belt, you know, but I'm not a black belt. I know the difference. There's like when I hunt with Cam Haynes, I'm like, "Oh, okay. >> Yeah, I don't know anything." >> He's a sixth degree black belt.
46:10He take he he shows me things all every time I've known that guy for 12 [ __ ] years and every time we hunt together, he shows me something new and I learn something new. some new approach, some new way to handle a situation. This is what's going on. They're going to do this. This is why they're going to do this.
46:26You got to know that we got to get ahead of them. Like there's things he knows that I I don't know. And I I that you only learn with time and with studying and when it becomes the primary focus of your life. And for me, it takes over my life around June. Around June, it just takes over my mind. Yes. >> I do other things, but I'm thinking about September.
46:46>> Same thing. I was when I was driving yesterday, I was telling my family, I'm like, I'm watching the leaves change. All I can think about is I want to be in those trees right now. It's like it's there's something about Well, anyway, to finish the point on the thermals, I marked some of using this model, I marked some of my best white tail hunting spots in the mountains.
47:02>> And then I w I mapped the thermals and looked at the thermals and it was it became apparent why deer were using these routes because an old wise whitetail buck knows he's getting thermals from like 320 degrees are funneling into this one spot based on the predominant wind for the area. all these things that the app can tell you and it's like, oh, that's why he's always been in this spot because he knows the whole mountain before he ever steps a foot on it.
47:24He knows he knows if there's a hot dough on that mountain. He knows if there's hunters on that mountain. He knows if there's anything on that mountain. He can smell it. >> And it really has opened my eyes like I can't wait to get this feature out so people can see it. But the goal to put put a bow on this is to get people out and experiencing it because uh I think it's a great mechanism for like coming of age for young kids like hey you know you're you're 14 or 15 or whatever I'm
47:50going to treat you like a man from today we're going to go out and kill an animal and eat it together and get a bunch of guys together. for men. I think it works for women as well, but I'm saying particularly for young men, we've kind of lost coming of age um rights or we've kind like, you know, Native American tribes you study or Viking or all these other they had a time and place where it's like now you're a man.
48:10I'm going to treat you like a man. No more excuses, >> right? And we've kind of put that off and we kind of spoke about this last time, but it's something that I think we desperately need for young men because and for adults even who haven't really chosen to start acting like men and I can say I act like a child all the time so I'm not a perfect dude but um I the military was that for me.
48:30So mine got kind of outsourced. Um but it's I think it leads to a lot of problems that we have in society today like things my grandpa used to [ __ ] at me about when I was a kid. 100%. There's a lot of people who are never truly tested >> and they live their life with this just cloud of uncertainty constantly hanging over them and this >> not this lack of understanding of their capabilities and how they can expand those capabilities.
48:57That's the thing about being tested is that you realize like, oh, I fell short. I'm I suck at this. This is not my thing. I got to learn how to do it. And then you learn and and then you realize, oh, I can expand my potential in all things. >> I learned it from martial arts. That's what that's what happened with me when I was young.
49:15I got into martial arts when I was 15, like really heavily. And that it became my whole focus. And it changed my whole the whole way I approached life. I realized like that pressure and big moments and things that are difficult are good for you. They're blessings. Yeah. >> And you you learn about yourself from those things.
49:33>> Yeah. I think it I talked about this with Andy, but um I think it was Plato um was not only known for his great thinking, but known for his excessively good wrestling ability. >> Really? >> Plato uh means broad or broad shoulders. That's what his name meant. Um and he said it's one of the worst things in life to go through life and not understand the full potential of the human body.
49:56like to not push yourself physically to a place where a you understand the actual capability of your body to make it through a situation. Um and then b to understand what type of person you regress to when the chips are down which was another thing the military gave me. It wasn't like something I had this profoundity and I went out and searched for it.
50:15It's like I'm in a SEIR course where I'm being pursued by, you know, operators and you because there's there's a regular SEIER courses in the military and then there's graduate level SER courses and that was kind of >> what is a steer course? How do you >> survive, evade, resist, escape? Okay. So, in the initial one, which is kind of more for pilots and aircraft crew members, they teach you how to survive in the wild, how to evade, capture, like if you're being pursued, and then if
50:43you're caught, how to resist torture, enhanced interrogation methods, that type of thing, and then how to escape. So, you get kind of like a watered down version that a lot of people go to. But then this high-risisk officer pipeline or um if you're in JC and other organizations, they put you through like a real deal Holyfield one.
50:59The one I went to was like 3 weeks and they teach you picking handcuffs, how to escape from a trunk, how to escape from a house, how to improvise, like make firearms, shotguns, how to uh you know dress a squirrel and eat it. But they put you through like like a week, I think it was actually six weeks, maybe not four weeks, but you do two weeks of training where it's like you just sit in a place and you're picking handcuffs.
51:25You sit in a place and you're learning how to get out of a trunk. You sit in a place and you learn how to like conduct polish on what you're wearing. So if you have to if you're spotted by a policeman and you need to change how you look, how do you polish yourself so you change your appearance? So if they've got an APB out for a guy in a gray shirt and a black pants, how do you change that quickly?
51:42Um then after they teach you all that stuff, they throw you into an operational scenario where you're just being pursued by a bunch of people who do this for a living. And um you know, my evasion was like I think like 12 or 13 miles through the Appalachian Mountains and you're sleeping on the ground at night.
51:57And I actually had a crazy. It's the only thing that ever happened to me. So I was in an invasion. People are going to make fun of me for the story, but it's fine. Um, I was in the Appalachian and I was like on day two or three or maybe four or something like that and I had I had eaten very little um before I left the town that I was in to get up on the and they teach you like how not to just walk a trail.
52:26You basically serpentine snake a trail and so you know where the trail is. You can still orient yourself but you're not following the trail because that's going to make you easily caught. So, you're running and when they started the the operational scenario, you're put in a trunk of a car with a painting outfit on.
52:43You're handcuffed and you're zip tied. So, you have to first defeat all of those restraints. So, you're learning you learned how to pick the cuffs. You learned how to get out of duct tape or or these other things. And then you learn how to pop the trunk um from the inside whenever it's not built to be popped from the inside.
52:58Now, they have all those latches that you can pull just jump out, but they'll put you in like an older vehicle. and then you have to evade. So now you're running from people who are chasing you and the local authorities know that you're part of this course and they're also if they see you, they'll also um pursue you.
53:11So you quickly learn how to change what you're wearing, whether that's going to like a Walmart donation point and reaching in and grabbing clothes or, you know, one at one point in the course I just put my whole bottom half in a mud puddle so my white outfit now looked like I had black jeans on in the dark.
53:29Um, so you learn all these like, you know, little things to do and then you do the evasion part. Well, during like day three of the evasion part and I still don't know if this is a dream or if this happened. I'm pretty sure it happened. I'm 80% sure it happened, but I hadn't eaten for a few days. And I thought I ran into hikers on the Appalachian Trail.
53:48So, I came to an area and there were these people sitting on a log. And again, I don't know if this was a dream. I don't know if this is because I hadn't eaten for days or cuz I was being tracked or I was under a lot of pressure, but I had like a quick conversation with them and they're like, "Well, we're going to go to sleep."
54:02And I was like, "Okay." Like, and they had along the trail, they had these like little openfaced cabins, >> right? >> And so I saw them go into this openfaced cabin and uh and um go to sleep. And then I started a fire and uh slept on the ground next to the fire. And I just told them, "Oh, I'm just, you know, they give you a cover so you can just tell people what your cover is while you're in there when you inter when you interact with people."
54:28Um, and uh, so I did all that. I started a fire. I'm sleeping um, by this campfire. I wake up in the morning and it was a big dirt area. So I wake up in the morning and I looked over there like 3 hours later. This was like 2:00 a.m. when I got there and it's like 5 or 5:30 now. And I look up and I'm like, "Oh, they're gone already."
54:46I'm like, "That's weird." So, um, like I start the fire again, quickly warm myself up to keep evading. And, uh, then I looked at the ground, there were no footprints anywhere. So, I was like, wait, did I see people here last night or not? Like, did this happen or not? And I'm like freaking out. I'm like, I'm not seeing like there should have been dirt.
55:04Like, I thought they were sitting on a log. There's no log here. So when I was debriefing after the course, I told the you do a debrief with like a with a doctor um who's monitoring everyone because at one point you're being slapped around or you're locked in these cages or you're locked in like at one point the government detention part I'm locked in a cement block like you're in a cement room where you can't stand up, you can't sit down, it's too thin for you to like get on the ground and
55:28they're playing this horrible freaking music at the top behind your head. It's like violins that make no sense and you're in there for like eight hours and so you really start getting like Have you ever done like a like a a dunk tank or like a tank where it's dark? >> Yeah. Sensory deprivation. >> Yeah.
55:44So this is what this is. It's sensory deprivational. You can't lay down. You can't stand up. You can't get comfortable because it's only like 5 and 1/2 ft tall. Um it's too thin for you to lay on the ground. They're playing this music in the back of your head. And this is after you've been evading. So you've been captured.
55:58So you're dehydrated. You haven't eaten. And I was like seeing worms everywhere and I was like I kept telling myself like you're hallucinating like I was seeing like all these snakes inside of there like all this awful [ __ ] is happening to you. And so I talked to the doc afterwards he's like oh no I've heard this story like 15 times.
56:15>> Did he hear the story of people meeting people that weren't there? people meeting people that weren't there or having an experience or being in a place because they do have you with a GPS sensor in like a um in a fanny pack >> so that if you get lost or you get turned up or hit by a car or something like that um they know where you are.
56:30Um but they don't use that to chase you or they're not supposed to. Um and so he he's like, "Yeah, I had to brief guys who thought they were in like different parts of the city or they were thought they were at a different area altogether. Um or they get lost and turn around, they're dehydrated. It's like when you're not eating for a while, you've got the stress of being chased by people who do this for a living.
56:49You haven't had any water, no reliable meals, you're stressed out, and you've been running for three or four days. Like you your mind starts doing things to you. So, I still to this day don't know if a that was a dream, b I hallucinated those people, or c they were there and just like the dirt was gone in the morning.
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58:07>> Maybe they're interdimensional. It's it's possible. >> If you're an interdimensional traveler, why do you have to look like an alien, you know? >> Yeah. >> If you've got the ability to come here from another dimension, I think you probably have the ability to look like Elon Musk. >> I think it's highly likely that Elon Musk is an interdimensional traveler, but >> something along those lines.
58:27>> He's something. >> Yeah, there's But that's my thought about aliens in general. Like I think if they were amongst us, there's no way we would ever know. >> If they have the technology to do the things that we think that they're doing, we are woefully inept to try to comprehend or understand what it is they're doing or who they are or what they're doing, >> right?
58:44And why wouldn't they be able to imitate us? We're simple. And there's also so many different models of us to choose from. There's so many different versions of us that you could draw from and create a compilation and, you know, make an artificial person or an image of a person or just affect someone's visual cortex to the point where they don't see you for what you really look like.
59:06>> Yeah, for sure. >> That seems like simple compared to traveling interdimensionally >> or traveling interstellar. >> Yeah. >> If they really do have these gravity drives that can instantaneously transport you from one galaxy to another, >> I think they could probably pretend they're a person. Yeah.
59:20I mean, we we we can screw with our own perception all the time and then people explain it to you and you're like, "Holy crap, I didn't even realize that." But like the two faces looking together with the vase or there's a there's one on the line where it's like it's a block with like a black bar in the middle.
59:36>> Uhhuh. Yeah. We did that the other day. Yeah. >> On Oh, you Okay. Well, I won't retell the story. >> Oh, we've done it twice. It's It's incredible. >> So, what is that called again? >> Cornsweet. [clears throat] >> Yeah. Yeah. So you can your perception can be messed with and if you think >> that's that one's nuts.
59:51>> Yeah. If you think you're in control of your faculties, you rest on a limbic system and a central nervous system that's been around for a long time and it's very patterned the way that it met metabolizes reality and our ability to mess with that is >> I wonder what evolutionary advantage, if any, there is in being able to hallucinate when you're tired.
1:00:11I think there's probably something to do with well what I am not an expert on this but I know that dreaming is particularly important when it comes to that stage of sleep cycle is where you store memories. So one of the things that happens when you're not sleeping for a long time is your memory is one of the first things to go >> um because you need those stages of sleep in order to remember things.
1:00:35>> No that makes sense because when I'm sleep deprived my memory sucks. >> Yeah. I mean I think dreams have tremendous amount of function. I myself am a huge belie it's probably one of the things I believe in most is dreams and this is going to sound crazy coming from somebody who makes this living doing engineering but I do think that the collective subconscious and the individual unconscious um we we're resting on millions of years of learned lessons that we can't possibly be born with.
1:01:04Um, and so they pop up out of this collective subconscious. Like you see a person, you just get the ick. You're like, I don't know what I like this guy. I don't like this guy. >> Right? >> That lesson's probably happened to your ancestors 10 million times. And something is popping out of that substrate that you don't have full access to and is telling you that because it's a heruristic that has been adopted over a million years of evolution or 300,000 years or whatever you think humans have been around for.
1:01:34That story's been told a million times and I think dreams it doesn't make sense to me and again I I'm not the expert on this but it's stuff that I think about all the time. Actually, I was um back in the day, I was trying to impress my now wife and she's a mathematician and she uh you know went to John's Hopkins, super smart, like just outside of the normal distribution of people, especially um you know, a woman who's really into mathematics.
1:02:00It's just not normal. Um or it's not, you know, as there's far more many men. I'm going to get [ __ ] on for this. I meet way more men mathematicians than I do with women. And I'm sorry I don't control the fabric of reality, but it seems to be the case. I'm just observing things. I'm observing patterns.
1:02:16Anyway, she's a mathematician. >> What are you covering all your bases? >> Yeah. [laughter] >> Well, dude, doing your podcast the first time. So much hate. >> Yeah, you got to stay out of the comments. >> I don't know. I don't go to I didn't read your comments. >> Where you getting the hate? >> DMs. >> Oh, well, stay out of the DMs.
1:02:31>> Yeah. Well, I will now. >> Should close those off anyway. >> Yeah. Um, [laughter] but uh what? Oh, yes. So um dreams um I will have a problem in my life and so the reason I was talking about impressing my wife um I she was into chaos theory and she's reading all these books on chaos theory >> and uh so I went on YouTube to watch some videos about chaos theory and I actually this is an origin story for me of types of of a type.
1:02:59I actually saw a Jordan Peterson video, but it was not about chaos theory. It was about chaos and order. Like it was like, you know, it was one of those, but I didn't know. So, I clicked the video. And this is before he blew up. This was like um, you know, when he was just posting stuff on YouTube. So, I watched this video and my goal of watching the video was to get into understanding chaos theory.
1:03:21But what I ended up doing was getting into Carl Jung because I watched one of these first videos. So, I have a very addictive personality. So I read it started reading every Carl Jung book I could like the everything about the collective unconscious uh the red books everything that he wrote um and and and really got into to dreams and this might be a self-fulfilling prophecy it doesn't matter because it's particularly useful to me but I'll have dreams where and I used to you know have a psychologist
1:03:53that I talked to when I was in a kind of a depressive state years ago and he was I made sure to hire one who was the union. So, I would document my dreams and say, "Here's what I had a dream about." And um it would just became astonishing to me that my dreams were trying to tell me things. And from an evolutionary standpoint, it made sense to me that your body wouldn't just present you fuzz like a TV screen.
1:04:16That dreams would have an evolutionary function where you're able to draw on the lessons of the past. And you could call that the collective unconscious. You could call that the Holy Spirit of God. You could call that transcendent reality. It doesn't matter. But there seems to be something to dreams.
1:04:31I'm convinced of it because I still document my dreams to this day. And when things are happening in my life, the dream will be telling me like, "Here's where you're at. This is what you need to do." And then we watch these dreams manifested in reality through a particularly good book or a particularly good movie.
1:04:49And it's t it's tugging on that same string where we're watching something and people have done this better than me, but you're watching something and you're not understanding what you're watching, but you know that you love it >> and you want to keep watching it. And it's because your unconscious is telling you there's a lesson here for you.
1:05:06And I'm going to make you keep watching this until you understand what the lesson is. And the example I always give people is let me tell you a story. And the story is about a guy who's innocent, but he's sentenced to death. And um he had a collection of disciples that followed him around. And he taught them beautiful things about the world and the fabric of reality and gave them appreciation for life.
1:05:30He w he he died and was reborn or raised from the dead. Um and but also passed through to this world um through a woman's womb. And uh he's a fisher of men. So I'll tell people that story and I'll be like, "What story am I telling you?" They're like, "Well, you're telling me the story of Christ." I was like, "No, I'm telling you the Sha Shank Redemption.
1:05:51It's the greatest movie of all time per, you know, IMDb, per Rotten Tomatoes. It's a perfect movie." I'm not saying Stephen King wrote that book to retell the Christ story. What I'm saying is that story is a very base story, a story of the complete perfect man who's innocent of a crime, who's tried and killed for that crime, but reborn.
1:06:10And that's because in the collective unconscious and in our lives, we need to undergo those same things. Like I talked about before, you have to force nature and reality onto you and adapt to them and suffer a little death like a even an ego death. Like you had a system, the system failed, now it's time for you to recalibrate that system and then be reborn into the world.
1:06:31And so I think all of those things are tightly coupled when it comes to dreams, when it comes to media that we consume, stories that hit with us and we don't understand why. And I'm and great art is art that's made and the and the artist doesn't even know the story that he's telling. He just is con is is just has a compulsion to tell the story and so they write it down and we don't know like Stephen King is great author.
1:06:56I love consuming his his his stuff but he's more of a vessel to the unconscious than he is somebody who just thinks up great stories. >> Well, he wrote a lot of his stuff basically unconscious. Yeah. >> You know, some of his great work. >> What do you mean by that? Well, he doesn't even remember writing Kujo.
1:07:15>> Great movie. >> Yeah. Great. Great book. The book is fantastic. Well, he was >> heavily drinking and doing drugs. Yeah. Back in those days and he would just get blacked out and write these books. >> Yeah. >> And I think it was Carrie too, right? I'm not sure >> what he's got a a bunch of his books where >> you know some of the best ones where he was just obliterated when he wrote that and that was the way into he's tapping into that get away from himself get out of his own way and tap into that thing
1:07:48cuz that's one of the things that creative people always talk about is getting out of your own way >> and you know finding that that zone >> drunk is super cocaine >> deuce have Have you ever seen the movie Maximum Overdrive? >> No memory of writing the book at all. Yeah, I did. >> Oh, great book. >> King wrote it between 81 and 85 while deeply dependent on alcohol and cocaine.
1:08:10One of the best books. Uh he also wrote books like The Shining, Pet Cemetery, and The Top Tommy Knockers during that era while regularly consuming alcohol, cocaine, Valium, Xanax, marijuana, and even mouthwash. He's openly shared in his on writing. Yeah, it's in the book. Um, he often had to stuff cotton swabs in his nose stop cocaine induced nose bleeds from dripping onto his typewriter.
1:08:32>> [ __ ] yeah. >> Geez. Meanwhile, [clears throat] some of his best stuff. >> Diving into unconsciousness and then like a hero coming back with something a story. >> Have you ever heard of the hypnogogic state? >> No. >> Yes, I have, but I don't remember what that term is. Well, I have a perplexity describing Salvador Dolly's use of it because I found a few people that did it.
1:08:52But I was getting really into dreams too and was having some weird sleepd deprived visions and I found that this is a thing that >> smart people I guess have tapped into h being half awake and sleepd deprived. Well, I told you about the news radio writers. >> I've told you that before. Yeah. And so the the writers on news radio, they didn't do drugs, but they would stay awake.
1:09:14So they'd stay awake till like 3:00 in the morning and then start writing the scripts. >> Wow. >> Yeah. And everybody was just like delirious. And they would write till like 600 7 in the morning. We would show up to do the table read and these guys were still awake from the night before. So they written the ENT and >> hilarious [ __ ] because they were just like it's like they were high but they weren't high >> and they would write these ridiculous absurd scenarios and really hilarious
1:09:41lines and they were do they were purposely doing it under sleep deprivation to induce that state. >> Yeah. And that that I think is a you know it's gonna sound paradoxical to say it but that's a heroic action right like going [laughter] into going into the unconscious a place where you're either depriving yourself hurting yourself but you're you're you're diving into the mud the the the the water and you're pulling out something great like it goes to what you said about fishing like Christ said
1:10:09I'll make you fishers of men and that means I'm going to dive into the water to the abyss I'm going to pull out something of value and everyone gets to eat and be happy and that's the That's the hero story par excalance is um people going into unsavory conditions making sense of an unknowable environment recalibrating themselves and then returning.
1:10:28That's always the story in the book, right? The hero gets defeated in the beginning. >> Um, he has to go through some type of transformational period which often like Star Wars, he's in the swamp or Thor Ragnarok, he goes to this upside down world where he has to fight the Hulk who's his friend or um any of these movies, they have that and then there there's the return of the king where he sets order and makes everything right.
1:10:51And uh dreams I just it's one of the most valuable things to me and one of the things that kind of sucks about it is is And Jung talks about this is once you start to really learn and live like you try to become a better version of yourself, you'll actually end up dreaming less. But when you do dream, the dream will be more um dense >> and but the layers of the dream get more um the dream is never just to solve one problem.
1:11:19It's usually it's many problems stacked on top of themselves. >> So say that again. When you learn more about yourself, >> when you start listening to the dreams and you start living like you dream less. >> Well, not not necessarily. The the better lesson is if you start listening to your dreams and you start orienting yourself based on the feedback that you're getting from the collective unconscious or the word of God or the voice of God and you start setting your life in order and you start acting like
1:11:44a better person, the need for dreams is not as profound. >> Well, how does he make this determination? Does he do is he running a study? >> Like how many people is he looking at? Is he dealing with his own personal experiences? So, I read this and I think it's called um uh I think this was in the red book, but I'm not sure or it might be I can't remember which might be man and his symbols.
1:12:05It doesn't matter. But what what what he's basically saying is the dreams are there to provide you input and corrective measures and to let you know the the the archetype that you're acting out. And then once you start setting yourself in order, um a good marker is you're no longer dreaming. In other words, you're doing the right thing now.
1:12:24So your dreams don't now have to keep giving you this feedback. >> Um Jamie can pressure test me because I might be wrong and I don't want to say something wrong on this podcast of all. >> Well, it's also it's like >> this statement this is taken from something he said. It's almost like that but it's not.
1:12:38>> Dreams balance the conscious mind. If your waking mind is overly rigid, hyperrational or arrogant, the dream will supply emotional, vulnerable or contradictory imagery to restore equilibrium. Interesting. Self-prayal of the psyche. Young saw that a dream was a spontaneous self- betrayal in symbolic form and of the actual situation in the unconscious.
1:13:02They show you where you truly stand psychologically without the ego's filters. >> Yeah. Dreams to um drive towards um wholeness and self-realization. So what I got from Yung was the more you start to become more of a whole person and you engage in the self-realization, the less utility the dreams will have and therefore you'll have less of them.
1:13:22So, in other words, if you're doing well by yourself, >> I understand this, but I don't understand how you'd be able to study this unless it's all completely anecdotal from an individual because you're one person and your thought process, especially as a psychologist and a psychoanalyst, is going to be very different than most people.
1:13:39It's like to say that >> it's got to be people that always dream like there's people that have very vivid lucid dreams and they're they're able to cultivate those. >> Yeah. And I would also say what Jung falls out of the distribution of today what most people engage in is cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT >> is not what Jung was doing.
1:13:58Like Ying was far more radical and I wouldn't say the most pre-reviewed guy in the world. Um so it just it it and it could be like anything else in life a heristic that doesn't necessarily the the right way. And the reason I say that is because heristic is something that's not the right way to do something but it works for you.
1:14:15It's the right way to do things for you. Mhm. >> Um and it just might be a useful heristic to me, but it it certainly um I can think of just, you know, a dream even I had last week where I wrote it down and went back to it the next day cuz I woke up at like 4 in the morning. I wrote it all down. Woke up the next day and looked at it and it was like smacking me in the face like what the dream was telling me.
1:14:35Um >> what was that? >> It >> is it personal? >> Uh I mean I I can talk at it at a high general level, but it is personal. um uh uh problems with legal with uh some legal stuff and um uh you know I'm almost through it but uh it's taken a toll on me for about a couple of years and we got some resolution that was some of what I wanted to see and some of what I didn't want to see and that night I went to bed pretty angry and then I had a dream where I was on a train and there were these people that were like
1:15:11rendevous people all over the train And they were like, you know, biker looking guys, kind of rough. And uh they were making fun of me or they were telling me I wasn't [ __ ] And then some of them would challenge me to things. And then in the dream, I met a woman and I was like, "Hey, I really don't know what's going on in this dream."
1:15:27Like, or not in this dream, in this in this place. Like, can you help me out? And she was like, "Well, you kind of have to learn what's going on here on your own." Like, and so at one point a bunch of gunshots came from the outside of the train. And I grabbed her like as the guns were shooting and I put myself in between her and the gunshots where they were coming from.
1:15:46And then she said when we got up and like the gun stopped firing. She's like, "Okay, I can help you out some here." Um, and she started telling me things about this this this train world that I was in. And then a guy came and challenged me whose name was also Bill, but he looked like old like an old bearded guy, like an old like biker beard guy.
1:16:06And uh we started fighting and I put him in an Americana and which you know you anybody who knows how to fight shouldn't succumb to an Americana. >> What are you talking about? >> Well, I'm saying like a you know if I'm fighting like a blue belt and I try to hit him with a you know a basic jiu-jitsu move, he's going to [ __ ] my world up.
1:16:25>> Oh, I don't know about that. >> Well, Andy would guys that Gordon would or high level black belt. >> Well, I don't know. It just seems like >> people get caught in Americanas all the time. Maybe I don't you know more about [snorts] this than I do, but I put him in an Americana and I ended up not not that this is possible, but I ended up compound fracturing his elbow.
1:16:45>> It happens all the time. >> And um he didn't quit. And the woman told me as I was fighting, she's like, "Not only does he have to say, uncle, you have to accept that he's submitted before it's over." And so he's like, "I'm not done." And I was like, "Oh my god." So, we keep rolling and I he tackles me and I get into a guard and I and I put him in an arm bar and I break his arm with an arm bar, his other arm.
1:17:09And then he's like, "Okay, I submit." And then she's like, "Now tell him you accept his submission." And so I was like, "I accept your submission." And then and then later in the dream, like I get off this train. >> This is a crazy [ __ ] dream. >> Yeah. And I wrote it all down. I can show you it on my phone when we get out of here cuz I woke up at 4:00 a.m.
1:17:25and wrote it all down. And then I got out of the dream and I ran into my wife and my wife said, "Um, I'm going to get on the train as well." And I I feel like I need to um go and test myself or get into the world. And I was like, "Baby, don't like don't do that. Don't get on the train. Like, it's not a good place to be.
1:17:43It's it's horrible. Don't do it." And she's like, "Oh, I feel like I need to do it." And then I woke up. So the dream like I immediately knew just from like the self-study and and reading these things the train was a framework for the legal system. In other words, there are these we there are these people that speak terms you don't understand.
1:18:03Um it's got a it's got its own um direction and inertia and gravity and you don't control where the d train goes just like you don't control where a courtroom or a judge or the justice system goes. you are subject to everything that's happening in that train and they're going to say and do things um that um don't make sense to you and that you're going to need someone else and like it said up there a compensatory a compensatory function for men is usually an animma character and anima relation
1:18:35is you know you I've heard you talk about this and what you're describing isma integration but essentially men need to first become men and once men become men then they can start integrating and what what a way easy way to say this is a grandfather or a man needs to grow up and become hard. He needs to be disagreeable.
1:18:54He needs to fight. He needs to learn how to push himself and test himself and instill these masculine features into him. Once he's done that, then he can be the old grandfather that's got like a granddaughter on his lap. Um or or he's emotional with a grandchild or he's starting to learn really more about his wife, but he first needs to learn himself.
1:19:13So he has to harden his masculine um his his um his masculine features before he integrates features. But anima features in movies um or in books or in all of these things it's usually a character like if you watch the movie Wolverine um or not Wolverine if you watch the Logan movie he's got a young version of himself who's a woman who has no ability to speak.
1:19:38So she lacks logos she lacks um an ability to express herself in the world. And as she starts to integrate and get closer to uh to Logan, um who's this masculine character, she finally adopts Logos and starts to speak towards the end of the movie and even starts speaking English. And so, and because they're the same person, she's a clone of him, you Jung would say that's thema part of Logan that he needs to integrate before he can defeat the bad guy in the end of the movie.
1:20:04So, this anime character on this train who is is, you know, a particularly good lawyer or someone who understands this world that I don't understand. Um, and I need to show them something like protecting her from the gunfire before she starts telling me about this world and how it works. In other words, I have to I have to use that compensatory relating function in order to understand this train that I'm on that I've got really no control over.
1:20:30and that the stakes of this fight were far bigger than I ever thought they were. And that the person that I'm fighting, which is not the person I'm fighting in court or not the person that I'm fighting in life, was actually me. And there's a part of me that I was experiencing that dream who's not willing to give the fight up.
1:20:46He will fight until his he's gotten a Americana, until he's got a broken arm, until he's got a ankle lock and he can't walk anymore. My dream was warning me about taking this to the end. And if you take this to the end, it could be bad or it could be good. We don't know. >> Well, it can consume your life.
1:21:05>> It could be important. Yes. And consume millions of dollars and consume everything else. >> And so my dream was readying me and saying, "Look, you're at a threshold where you have to where you have to open yourself up to parts and really learn the justice system and really learn these things um or you're not going to be ready for the fight."
1:21:22And the fight's not against the other guy. The fight's actually about your against yourself. Um, and and so that that that that's the c that's the nexus of the dream. And the dream is not telling me about the future. It's telling me where I am at this point in time. So it's it's very useful to me these things.
1:21:38Um, and we see them reflected in media. Like I said, um, in that Logan movie I talked about, he actually fights himself and that himself that he fights, the clone, have you seen the movie? >> No. >> He's got no logos. He can't speak. And he and this daughter or this clone of him has no logos and he cannot speak.
1:21:56And they're moving from south of the border um which is this like chaotic desert wasteland up into North Dakota actually in the movie which is this like garden of Eden type of place and it's there it's this like buddy travel story across this place where he has to integrate these parts of himself in order to finally defeat his shadow self which is a yian thing which is this other wolverine with no ability to speak who's this anim animalistic version of himself and only then in the end of the
1:22:24movie he's you know it's really the story of Moses, but in the end of the movie, he's literally hung on a tree and killed by his own shadow self, and then only then can this new version of him, this animate integrated version of him, um, go north into Canada and live freely. So, it's it's >> one of the highest grossing Marvel movies of all time.
1:22:44I think it made over a billion dollars, but it's telling a very old story. And that old story that it's telling is an ascent of a mountain like Moses to go up and get the new law, but it's also an ascent of the mountain to that that will ultimately lead to your crucifixion, but it will save everyone else that you love.
1:23:00It's like, you know, the the Jews in the wasteland. Um uh it's this death and rebirth story that um it speaks to a very deep level in people. And even as engineering minded as I am and as scientifically minded as I am, [snorts] I can't dispense with something when it's as useful as it is, um there's just something there that keeps scratching at me and I can't let it go.
1:23:24And it's part of my addictive personality. Like I said, I've consumed so like Eric Noyman and Carl Jung and Freud and Adler and all of these great authors who wrote about all of this, the perseverance of the human soul under extraordinary circumstances. um you can't dispatch with these things because it got these people to where we are today and there seems to be some truth there.
1:23:46So, >> well, it's undefinable and it's very strange. Whatever the dream state is, it's there's something going on there that's very odd. Very very odd. And um I I don't dismiss it. I don't understand it. I don't dismiss it. But I'm very wary of people who are clearly defining it like mapping the territory.
1:24:07>> Yeah. I don't I don't I don't know if you have the ability to do that and I don't you know I think people want to define things that are undefinable because it gives them comfort >> for sure that there's a structure to things that you know they can they can say oh I get it now I don't know if you're ever going to get it >> I think it's the same thing that you get when you hear from people when I was 16 is the only time I've ever done drugs in my whole entire life and I can now say
1:24:31this that I'm out of the military >> that's outrageous >> I've never done anything but when I was a child Um, >> meanwhile, you're doing drugs right now, >> right? Nicotine. When I was a child, um, some friends some friends gave me mushrooms when [snorts] I was like 16 >> and it was crazy experience.
1:24:48>> Um, and uh, it it also I won't tell the story because we've already done this once, but it also led me to an updating of my system and an understanding of who I am. >> How come you never did it again? Mil >> I was in the military. How come you don't do it now? >> Security clearance. Um, I don't know.
1:25:03I just uh I'm not saying I wouldn't. All I'm saying is I'm so hyperfocused on what I'm doing now that I don't I don't there'll be a time and a utility for it. There'll be a time and place for it. And I do think I've talked to lots of veterans um other guys um who have done like the uh um what they go to South America and they do.
1:25:27>> I Yeah. Um, and you know, I talked to one guy, um, who said, you know, he had a ton of anti-depressants and medication and stuff, and he went down there and did that, and when he got back, he threw it all away, and he was better afterwards. Um, so there's definitely value there, but again, that's that d that's that that pattern of diving into unconsciousness and diving into these this world that will judge you.
1:25:48Um, and some people come back better, some people come back broken, some people overcook the goose. I'm not sure. I'm I think I would probably do it. I I one day. Um I'm just so busy building. I I would worry I also worry about my mind. Like I also know I would never do like a cocaine or I would never do like some of these other drugs because I'm really already highly strong and I'm already hyperfocused on things.
1:26:18>> Yeah. That's why I've avoided aderall even though it's very interesting to me. >> I would never be able to get near I mean I do nicotine. >> Try it once. I do nicotine because it helps me think. It's the only thing that can make me focus. Like when I I don't do too many a day, but when I do them, it's usually when I'm trying to think about a problem or like zero in on something.
1:26:36>> Whereas other people, it like makes them feel like giddy or high or whatever. I get no feeling from this other than like it just >> Yeah. It's a It's a definite neutropic. >> Makes the world focus in. Um, and I had it, you know, when I was in Iraq on my second tour to Iraq, I started doing like mint skull because we'd convoy like a long ways and there wasn't anything to do.
1:27:00It's not like we had a turtle box or a Bluetooth speaker in the Humvey. >> You just had six hours of driving in front of you. So, [snorts] I'm going to throw a skull in just like dip mint skull. And but then I started brushing my gums away. So, I quit. And then when this stuff came out, I was like, "Oh, I get to get the nicotine without the without brushing my gums away.
1:27:18Sign me up. >> Right. Yeah. It's very addictive to people. It's interesting. It's uh it's this stuff. These pouches have come out of nowhere. >> I get off of them every once in a while. Like I'll switch to um there's this one that I use um that's got no nicotine in it. >> Ultras. >> Ultras. Yeah. So, I'll just do like that for like two or three weeks.
1:27:38Um >> Yeah. Those are great. >> And then >> and that's just neutropics. >> Yeah. And so I'm not, you know, wired up like the first day is always like this kind of sucks. like I want one. I don't have like the come down that most people have where I'm like I'm going to kill someone if I don't one right now.
1:27:55>> But I do get >> I do get um disagreeable. >> I don't I think it's biological, man. I I I can just stop taking them. I took them uh like uh when I was on vacation, I took off 10 days and no problem at all. And I do that all the time. I take three 4 days off. Doesn't irritate me. But I think that's biological.
1:28:14I think some people have that weird thing and some people don't and some people they it gets in their system to the point where they need it all the time and some people don't. I've heard horror stories of people. Um I've also heard horror stories of people with other stuff that I I find really troubling like is a big one that I'm sorry.
1:28:38>> That's that weird [ __ ] It's kind of an opiate and it's everywhere. It's in those live free drinks and those there's a lot of different like they banned the synthetic version of it from gas stations now. People are buying this stuff in convenience stores and weird sketchy stores. >> Opiate. >> Yeah, man.
1:28:57>> That you can buy in a grocery store or a convenience store. >> You can get it from a leaf, right? It's from a plant called theratomratum leaf. I don't know what the plant is, but this stuff has become very popular. And uh I've heard horror stories of people going to like you know a quote unquote health food store like a juice shop and they have these little live free drinks and they go oh this must be healthy.
1:29:20It's in this place and you drink it and you're [ __ ] vomiting and it's like you feel like you're on opiates. >> Wow. I've not even ever heard of this. >> Yeah. It's interesting because uh there was a guy that uh he had some real problems with opiates and then he started telling me that well he got off opiates got clean and then he was telling me aboutratom that he takes and I say what is this stuff and he said well at low doses it acts almost like a stimulant like caffeine and then at
1:29:51higher doses it's uh it it's it more relaxes you and I'm like okay like how much do you take? So he told me, "Well, you know, if you want to take a couple of them, like before a podcast or something, try it." And I did. I was like, "This is kind of interesting." Took a couple pills. I was like, "It is.
1:30:06It's kind of like a little stimulant. No big deal." And then I said, "How much do you take?" [laughter] And uh he said, "Well, before I wake out, work out, I take 10." [snorts] So I said, "What?" I go, "You take 10." I go, "What does that feel like?" He goes, "I don't have a problem with it at all." So I took 10.
1:30:21And uh I called him up and I said, "Hey, man." And [clears throat] I go, "You're high." I go, "You're getting high. This is You're not sober. Like, this is not a sober thing. You're this I'm high as [ __ ] right now." It was a weird high because it was a high that didn't seem to affect my motor skills.
1:30:40So, uh uh it was at the studio I did it. So, I worked out. Have no problem working out. It didn't affect my cardio. It didn't affect my ability to lift weights. It didn't affect anything. And then I was playing pool. It didn't affect my ability to play pool either. It didn't like uh [ __ ] with my motor skills like alcohol will.
1:30:57>> What do you feel like when you're on it? Like what are you feeling? >> It's so it's weird. It's a weird high. U but whatever it is, it's a high. I was like, "Dude, you're high as [ __ ] if you're taking 10 of these." Like, you're not sober. And you know, I think there's a bunch of people that have had problems with opiates that don't recognize that this takes them down that same road.
1:31:16And then I know a lot of people that are heavily addicted toratum and can't get off of it. >> Wow. >> Like friends, I have one good friend who takes it every day. He's taking he drinks bottles of these things and he's drinking like six a day. I was like, "Fuck, dude. That's crazy." >> I I I I'm so afraid of drugs.
1:31:34Um just because I come from a family of not to smite my own. I love my family, but just drug addicts and alcoholics. >> Many people do. I mean, it's it's not nothing to be ashamed of. It's normal. I think I'm the only one who's not been to jail or >> rehab. >> That's crazy. >> And then, you know, I've got two sisters that died from overdoses and a brother that killed himself.
1:31:55>> Oh god. >> Um I just [ __ ] >> Yeah. Two years ago or three years ago, my sister Jenny died, >> maybe even longer, four years ago. And then my sister Heather, >> who was the most like me in the family. In other words, like we both wanted to get out of North Dakota. And um she married into a great family, like one of the best families I've ever seen, and then got on anti-depressants.
1:32:15And then I believe when she got off the anti-depressants, it was really rough, like a really rough time for her. And she got addicted to methamphetamines. >> And then ended up leaving her family and going up to like Fort McMurray, Alberta, and she was up there for like seven years and wouldn't talk to any of us.
1:32:35And her and I were very close growing up. We were the most alike. and that we just wanted to leave North Dakota and see the world and do things. And um and so while she was up there, she was at like a rehab facility and in this wacky [ __ ] Canadian America's Top Hat place. Um they would give them meth once a week.
1:32:58>> What? >> At the facility. Yeah. And so she either stored up her meth like didn't do it one week and kept it and faked it or got some from someone else but did like a critical amount of meth and killed herself at the facility and and um >> they would give you meth. they were giving it. I mean, >> why were they giving it?
1:33:20>> Jamie, you can look this up, but there's a term for it, and I don't remember what it was cuz I asked the same question cuz her brother or my brother, ex-roin-law, her husband, Rick, told me. And I was like, why are they giving it to people? And he's like, well, they wanted them doing it like in a clean, safe environment instead of like out on the streets.
1:33:38>> And I'm like, how about we just get them off of that [ __ ] Like, can we all agree that's bad? >> Yeah. What a strange strategy. >> Um, this is the strategy that they employ in a lot of these cities, right? where they give people access to drugs that are safe and they also give them clean needles and crack pipes.
1:33:51This is something that you see particularly on the West Coast. It's a very common thing in the Pacific Northwest. There's a bunch of these places that will give people they give them money, they'll give you you drugs and they'll give you needles. And uh the idea is that you're providing them with safe access.
1:34:12>> Well, it killed my sister. Um, well, she killed herself, but I'm I'm saying, you know, my family's just the story, not the story of it. There's good people in my family, very good people that I love very much. So, I'm not trying to smite my own, but we have a problem with addiction. Um, >> dude, a lot of people have a problem with addiction, whether they believe it or not.
1:34:30You know, I think addiction is a normal part of human behavior. And I I think there's probably uh an evolutionary aspect to that. I think um addiction is what allows people to get very focused on certain things like uh like to become a good hunter. What do you have to do? Well, you have to be very addicted to the idea of hunting.
1:34:53>> Yeah. >> You know, and I think that same sort of pathway can be very destructive. And it can be very destructive like you can get addicted to gambling, which I've seen a lot of people get addicted to gambling, or you can get addicted to drugs and alcohol. You know, there's this guy that I knew that was a world-class pool player, like one of the best in the world.
1:35:13And uh he hurt his back in a car accident and then become addicted to pills. And my friend Tommy said this best. He said the same thing that made him great at pool made him addicted to those [ __ ] pills. Like he couldn't put them down. He he was just invested in those pills. He wanted to take them all the time.
1:35:28And he died of a drug overdose young. And this was a guy that never drank, never smoked, was clean and sober, and was just his number one focus was just being the best pool player in the world. And um I think that thing that we all have, especially some people have uh in in spades, I have it is I become very addicted to things.
1:35:51>> Yeah, me too. It's >> very focused on things where it consumes me. >> Golf did that to me. I don't golf anymore, but I got to where I was like a six handicap, which is a fairly good golfer. >> What are you, Jimmy? >> That's better than me. >> Um >> about a 14, 15. >> So, I just shot a play I had played for the first time in a few months the other day and just shot like 12 over, which is like a good golfer.
1:36:15But there was a point when I lived in Hawaii that I was like, you know, I shot a couple of par rounds, like one or two over. And I did this solely because somebody told me I was too much of a [ __ ] gorilla and I'd never be good at it. That was the sole reason. Every time I was practicing, I'm like, I'm going to show that [ __ ] I'm going to show him.
1:36:32[laughter] I'm going to show them. >> That's so ridiculous. >> I'm I'm going to beat. And I like devoted my whole life to it. And then when I got really good and I was better than most people I ran into, I lost all interest. I hardly ever do it now. >> Really? >> Hardly ever do it. It's how am I? It's that's that's a really weird It's happened to me a couple of times in life where I would go down a road of addiction.
1:36:52It just fortunately the addictions were in like positive kind of, you know, positive control loops um where I would get into something hard and then once I felt like I had a certain level of mastery, I'd move on to something else. >> Well, that's probably the part of you that wants to learn something from scratch again to go through that same process.
1:37:13Yeah, >> which is that's the most important part. I think the most difficult part is the beginning. The becoming a beginner at things I think is very beneficial to the white belt. >> Yeah. It's very beneficial to you to learn that there's something that oh my god I know nothing about this. I'm terrible at this.
1:37:29I have so much room to grow. >> Yeah. >> Whereas something that you've been do doing for a long long time. It it you know it's it becomes more of like fine-tuning. >> Yeah. and these slow incremental improvements rather than understanding there's this like enormous sea of information that you're not you don't have access to yet.
1:37:49>> Yeah, with golf I was like I'm hitting the ball straight. >> Moving on. >> That's nuts. >> Uh like next thing. Um bow hunting is though is something I haven't exhausted and obviously technology is something I haven't exhausted. >> Well, I think bow hunting is so variable too. There's so many different thing.
1:38:06If every shot was 20 yards and every animal stood still, it would be boring. You'd get bored of it. Well, I don't think you'd get bored of it, but it wouldn't have the same appeal that it has where there it's completely chaotic. >> One of you doesn't even know the game you're playing. That's the animal.
1:38:23You know, it's it's playing a different game. Its game is survival. It's looking for predators and you are a predator, but it doesn't understand how you're doing it. and your your your thing is like to get to a position where you can execute execute a shot >> and do it right. And then the amount of time that you have to put into it I think is the real thing for me.
1:38:42It's like the understanding that look if I take a few days off of archery and I go and shoot my first few shots are a little shaky. Like a lot of times I'll still, you know, hit the 10 ring at 60 yards with, you know, a few days off, >> but it feels a little odd. It feels doesn't feel 100% locked in.
1:39:02And then I have to do it again till I'm locked in. And if I had to shoot an animal like that, like if I had to shoot if I had a very difficult shot on an elk at like 70 yards and I hadn't shot a bow in two months, I would not take it. I wouldn't be able to, right? >> Which is nuts, right? I've I've shot thousands of arrows at 70 yards effectively in a lethal zone.
1:39:25Yeah. >> And yet >> I wouldn't be confident that I could do it where there's a lot of other things that I would be very confident that I could do if I hadn't done in months. Right. >> It's weird. >> It is weird. And I think because of that, because it's such an engrossing and involving process, the process of archery in particular, and then bow hunting at the extreme level of it.
1:39:48I think there's two different extreme levels of archery. There's target archery, which I think is extreme mentally, but it's still a stable static shot, a static uh target versus bow hunting, which is non-static, moving enormous animals and all their senses and all the different things that are involved, wind, all the all the factors, elevation changes.
1:40:09There's a lot of stuff going on. They're moving. There's a lot of things happening that you never can master it. There's no mastery. You can get more effective than you used to be. And there's different ways to do it. >> Like I've got like I'm a very analytically minded bow hunter. I like breaking everything down, understanding the thermals, rise and fall of the sun, first light, last light.
1:40:31What are these thermals going to do on this hill? Where's this buck coming from? Where's the dough betting? Where are the scrapes outside of that dough bedding? How do I get downwind of them? How do I avoid the parking lots? How do I do all of these things? Then I've got this other buddy, his name is Johnny Stewart, who is just a deer.
1:40:45Like I'll go scouting with him. This guy kills two or three big bucks every year and you would think this guy must have like a system and he's just like this feels like a place where there are deer. I'm like well John what are you talking about right now? He's like I don't know Bill but like just the way this place looks to me pattern recognition too.
1:41:06>> But yeah, but he's pulling it from a place where he he can't sight to you what's going on. Whereas when I walk into a spot I'm like well I've got three intersecting trails that come here. There's you know dough bedding over here. I've got two scrapes here. the thermals come up at 8:30. So, I want to be I want to wait for the thermal switch before I get into my stand.
1:41:21Otherwise, my scent is going to paint this side of the mountain and he's just like, "This looks good." >> It's interesting that there's there's people that are systemoriented and then there's other people that are instinctive. >> Yeah. >> That that's a a big factor in striking. So, in striking, one of the things that I find interesting is some people who are great strikers, and by strikers, I'm talking about martial arts.
1:41:44Yeah. Uh, some people have a system and they're really good at like sh showing their system and teaching their system and other people can't quite tell you what they're doing, >> right? >> They just know how to do it. They know how to they know how to like do something at varying speeds in order to [ __ ] with someone's perceptions, their timing and reads.
1:42:06>> Yeah. >> And they just do it instinctively and it's just they've done it they've done it so many times they just know what they're doing but they can't teach it. Yeah. Yeah. It's It's so strange, especially when you talk to people who are at that very high level. Like I I think you know, but I've become pretty good friends with George St.
1:42:22Pierre >> and when you him and I bear hunted last year together and I spent basically a week with him and I didn't do jiu-jitsu. I did it mixed martial arts in the milit or I did combives we called it in the military for like seven, eight years. So, it was a little different. Like, you would learn the basics, but then it would get into, all right, now that you've got him in this position, you can stab him or now that you're in this position, you can break contact or like so there was a combat nexus to it
1:42:50>> that wasn't strictly jiu-jitsu. There was more to it. And um >> but like talking to him and then just like messing around or seeing like how he applies pressure or what he's doing or h how he's a great wrestler and how he integrates these other things. It's just when you deal with these people or like with Gordon, it's like you're at a level that's just I couldn't ever get there even if I hoped to and even if you could explain to me what's like in other words Gordon could pin me in a position
1:43:19and say here's what you got to do, I still can't do it. >> You know what I'm saying? Like to him >> to him. >> Um and so they're just at such a level that even if they are able to articulate it to you, you're still not getting there because you don't have everything that it takes to bridge the gap from here to there.
1:43:32Well, Gordon's very systematic, you know, and it comes from his uh teaching under Donaher. Like Donaher, John Donaher, was I think the great mastermind of jiu-jitsu. He has a very specific systems and he breaks things down. Like they're very technique oriented. And then there's there's things that you just learn from over the course of training.
1:43:54There's the flow of it all. Yeah. That you learn from it. But Gordon is like a great example of someone who's an amazing teacher as well as an amazing jiu-jitsu competitor because like his um a big part of his income comes from his instructionals, selling instructionals cuz they're so good. >> Yeah. He I mean the thing that that's interesting to me about Donner is like he's almost like a first principles jiu-jitsu guy.
1:44:21Like when you hear him talk like he breaks things down to like very elemental levels where it's like what is the point of jiu-jitsu? what are you doing with jiu-jitsu? Like what are you trying to establish? And it's like I'm not even [clears throat] thinking about these things, but he's like because I think his background is in philosophy, right?
1:44:36Or something like that. >> Colia. Yeah. >> He was he was a professor. >> That's so that's crazy to that transition to >> or at least was he a professor or was he was definitely was a PhD I believe and then uh started doing jiu-jitsu because he was a bouncer and um wanted to learn how to fight. It's like I probably should learn how to fight cuz he was a powerlifter at one point in time and a rugby player also >> and then became obsessed >> and you know became the greatest coach
1:45:03of all time and >> he's like a character from a film. >> Yeah. >> Really doesn't he doesn't exist in real life because he's a guy who wears a rash guard every day >> everywhere he goes. I saw pictures of him at a wedding. You just took the words out of your mouth. >> He's I mean but he's a real eccentric.
1:45:17It's not like he's trying to be eccentric. >> It's like he's either this or he's a bad guy in a Bond movie. >> Okay. So is sixth degree black belt. Uh arrived in the United States in ' 91 to study at Columbia University's philosophy PhD program. After arriving in New York, Doner was introduced to Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
1:45:31Continued training at the academy became teaching classes as well while Gracie uh Henzo Gracie was uh traveling for competition. So did he finish his education and did he start teaching PhD master's degree in philosophy and was pursuing a PhD and so that's when he became obsessed and so while he was attending the university he worked as a bouncer in various Manhattan nightclubs so I've elevated his education but a little bit I thought he was teaching but he uh when he started teaching jiu-jitsu he's like
1:46:04sleeping on the mats like he's mean he was there all day long every day >> another addictive personality Not just that, but a man who is obsessed with uh Do you know the Japanese term Kaizen? >> I've heard you talk about it. >> Yeah. Kaizen is you continue to improve on one thing constantly where it's this neverending cycle of improvement.
1:46:25And this is his philosophy that he applies to jiu-jitsu. This this continual cycle of improvement. You know there's uh there's certain applications that people have seen like the the application of Kaizen in engineering for example like uh a good example is like they take a specific platform and continue to work on like a good example is the Nissan GTR are you aware of the Nissan GTR?
1:46:51Yes. Okay. So Nissan GTR is one of the best examples of that where it is essentially the same car for 20 plus years >> and they they don't change the body shape. They don't change the geometry. They don't change the way it's a all-wheel drive sports car. But what they do is continue to refine it to the point where it was just [ __ ] dialed in tweaking it.
1:47:15>> Just constantly improving it and just dialing it in, dialing it in further, further, further, further, further. And if you get like a 2025, I think it was 2025 or 2026 was the last year they made the GTR. And you compare it to like a one that was released in the 19 God, when was the first GTR? Was it 2000s?
1:47:36Was it >> I think it was late late 90s, I thought, but maybe early 2000s. >> It might be early 2000s. I think it's in the 2000s, but it it almost looks the same, but they're so much better. And that's that's the same with everything. I mean, Kaizen as applied to mixed martial arts as a whole, like if you looked at mixed martial arts as a whole, all these individuals that are competing in it and all these individuals that are pursuing it and teaching it and and studying it, they're essentially doing
1:48:05that. They're uh taking this thing that used to be this chaotic thing where uh you know, there was certain strategies that people had. You know, one guy was a brawler, the other guy was a grappler. get you down on the ground, punch you in the face a bunch of times, and then they're expanding the possibilities to this like insane level where you're seeing people now that are like on the Dana White Contender Series that would be absolute world champions in 1994, >> right?
1:48:35>> And these guys haven't even entered the UFC yet, >> right? you know, because the level of the game, this constant pursuit of excellence >> and then this competition, this boiling pot of competition where you have I mean, how many MMA athletes are there worldwide now? My god, >> who [clears throat] knows?
1:48:51H it's got to be in the hundreds of thousands of elite MMA athletes world. When I say elite, I mean like guys who can fight professionally. I would I would say there's pro they might not all be fighting professionally yet, but they're at that level. When you introduce amateurs and you think about how many thousands and thousands and thousands of gyms there are and out of those gyms, how many people have like people that are at a very high level.
1:49:15[ __ ] it's crazy. So, this is a new thing. Like I I say this all the time, but it really is accurate. Martial arts have evolved more in the last 33 years than they have in the last 33,000 years. And that is true because from the time the UFC came about in 1993, I mean the Brazilians were way ahead. The Brazilians were way, the Gracie family in particular were way ahead of the curve.
1:49:42They were pursuing this and looking into this in the 1940s and 50s. like Ilio Gracie was having mixed martial arts competitions in the 1940s. >> You know, they were having what they called it valley tudo was anything goes and they were having fights in the ring in front of large groups of people long before the UFC was ever around.
1:50:03>> You know, Hicks and Gracie famously had them when he was 18 years old, when he became the champion of the family. I mean, he was he was defeating much larger people when he was 18. >> Yeah, I remember watching that back in the day, too. Like peak UFC, not peak, but it's big now. I still go to it now, but watching like GSP in his heyday back in the day and stuff like that is just we get >> Well, that was Peak Emergence.
1:50:24>> Peak Emergence, right? >> Yeah. Peak Emergence was like 2005 on. So, 2005 was the Ultimate Fighter. And uh it's very rare when one moment really sort of defines the growth of a sport, but you can find that in MMA. And in that one moment was the Stefan Bonner Forest Griffin fight in the finals of The Ultimate Fighter on Spike TV.
1:50:44got millions and millions of people watching it, like more than anything anybody had ever watched on Spike TV before. And it was just because it was so good. It was so crazy. And you see the rise of people watching it. They could they could track the ratings in real time. So people were calling their friends going, "Dude, you got to [ __ ] watch this.
1:51:02Turn on Spike TV. This is crazy." And they were watching it and it it changed the entire course of martial arts forever. >> That that one fight. >> Yeah. I mean, for me, the one my watershed moment was like GSP bisping, like watching um uh when GSP went up a weight class >> and what year was that? Um 2017 or something.
1:51:28>> Somewhere around there. Yeah. Went up to middleweight. >> I can't even. But for me, it was just like, okay, now I'm obsessed because this guy's just done so like I thought I love GSP. I know him, but I didn't think at I didn't know him at the time. I just thought, I don't know, this is going to be tough.
1:51:41Um, and just to watch somebody go up another weight class and go and win in this like >> I just it was amazing. It was >> By the way, GSP is not even a big welterweight. You know, GSP when you look at welterweights today, GSP is the size of a large middleweight or excuse me, a large lightweight today.
1:51:57A large 155 pounder today. >> I think he walks around like 160 right now or something. >> Well, that's light. I think he's heavier than that. I think he's in [clears throat] the 80s. Maybe in the maybe even in the 90s. Well, depending on how much he's weightlifting and what he's doing. >> I thought he was less, but >> he's definitely heavier than that, but in his prime, he would hover around the the high 190s and then cut down to 170.
1:52:19>> Yeah, but he was a beast in that fight, too. He looked like >> There's guys now like do you do you follow closely like top contenders? >> Not closely. Not like I should. No, not as closely as I should. I mean, I like I watch the big events or like you know, >> there's this cat, Michael Morales. He's one of the scariest guys in the 170lb division.
1:52:35He's a [ __ ] monster. like a really really dangerous guy and he's enormous. He gets well over 220. Well over 220 and gets down to 170 >> and just cuts at the last minute. >> No, he he cuts it slowly over time but then he rehydrates and reinflates and when you see him inside the octagon you're like how the [ __ ] And I don't know how many times he can do that.
1:52:57So that is essenti brutal on the kidneys. It is uh essentially a uh a death's door event. You're getting to death's door. You're getting to death's door 24 hours before you have to fight in a cage and then you're rehydrating yourself and replenishing yourself. Not to 100%, by the way. >> No, you can't.
1:53:19>> You're not. Yeah, >> there's no way. >> So, this is how big Morales is. He's [ __ ] enormous, dude. And he's so powerful. He's absolutely huge for the weight class. When you see him, he looks like a light heavyweight. He really does because he is I mean he's basically like 220 pounds now. He looks like a big middleweight when he's in there.
1:53:36But yet somehow or another he makes it to 170 and he's undefeated and not just undefeated in the UFC. He's starching people and he's a wrestler who very rarely wrestles and has a judo background very rarely uses that. >> It's kind of like uh Gacha, right? >> Gatechi Justin Gatechi. Yeah, he does >> in a way.
1:53:56But this guy is much bigger and uh just a real seek and destroy welterweight and one of the absolute top contenders. Terrifying human. >> Yeah. I just mentioned that GA was a really good wrestler and you hardly ever see him wrestling. >> Right. Right. Well, it takes a lot of energy to wrestle people.
1:54:13That's part of the problem. In order to grapple and constantly shoot and taking people down, it's one of the most energy intensive aspects of MMA. >> Like shooting on someone, you're exploding. a lot of energy >> and then you're wrestling with them. So, you're you're grappling with all their strength using technique and leverage and then you have to hoist their body up in the air and slam them to the ground, >> get that take down.
1:54:35>> And you can only do that so many times, which is one of the reasons why Morab is so [ __ ] extraordinary is the fact that that guy can do that full blast for five rounds. It's insane. His his cardio should be studied in a [ __ ] laboratory cuz he's a real freak. Yeah, >> he's a real freak. But very few people have that ability.
1:54:56He breaks world class fighters >> like you know Umar Numov like when he fought him like it's like he you almost like couldn't believe this guy was still doing this like deep into the fifth round like it was just so crazy his his his work output and most people don't have that. So most people when they're really good grapplers, they develop a style that's like a mix of grappling and striking because there's time even Kabib like one of the rounds with Conor McGregor, he never shot for a takedown.
1:55:26Yeah. >> It's the round that Connor won >> and it's because he just chose to stand because he had to like realize like, okay, I burned so much energy in the first couple rounds going after this guy, taking him down, smashing him. Like I can't keep this up. I have to take a round where I don't burn off as much energy and let my body recover a bit.
1:55:45>> Yeah, that the White House fight. I watched that from my cabin out in North Dakota. The event at the White So I was alone. I've I've shown you pictures cabin out in the middle of nowhere. It was my father's cabin um that I I I bought back in the family like four years ago. Rebuilt it from the ground up >> and I was like, I'm in the perfect place to watch this fight.
1:56:02I was so hyped up like watching the whole thing. Like my son was coming downstairs. I was like, not now. Watch the fight. like, "Leave me alone. Watch the fight." I was cheering. It was crazy. I just remember watching Ilia talk. I think he was on your podcast, wasn't he? Saying he was just gonna decimate Kchi.
1:56:18>> Yeah. >> And uh that it was he thought it was going to be easy. And I said, "Man, I don't know how you could think it." And a lot of people were saying to me, like when I was saying, "Justin has a huge chance." And they were go, "Oh, you're hyping this fight up. I know what you do." Like Ari Shafir accused me of that.
1:56:34He's like, "Oh, I know what you're doing. The guy who's going to lose, you're you're saying he has a chance." I go, "No, he has a real [ __ ] chance. He's insanely durable. He's extremely experienced in very high level competition against world class fighters." And he's been in the deep trenches where you're in hell.
1:56:48Like if you're in a war like the wars that he had like with Dustin Porier, he had a war. He had that war with Max Holloway. He's been in those trench wars where it's four and five rounds. You've been beaten up for [ __ ] three rounds. Your body is broken and you're exhausted and yet you have to persevere and press on.
1:57:09>> He's a freak of nature. >> He's amazing. >> So Tyler from archery country uh is good friend of mine. We were in Vegas for the Patty fight with >> GA >> um that you were gracious enough to invite me to and um we we I don't gamble and but we were leaving a casino. We were there for some reason and I think I had like a hundred bucks in my pocket.
1:57:31So Tyler and I were like, we're gonna go back or go we're gonna go to the fight, I think. Actually, we're going to the fight. So I sat down at like a three- card poker table. And I was like, it's an easy game. Let's just play. Like I got a hundred bucks. Let's just do this. So I ended up getting up to like $1,000 at this three card poker table with Tyler.
1:57:48So I was like, "Dude, like let's just leave. Like we've got the money. Like let's just get out of here." So we're walking out of the casino and he says, "Hey, why don't we put money on the um Gea fight tonight against Pimpblelet?" And I was like, "Okay." So, I had to like download an app and we went to the thing and like placed the bet at the place and we both were like, "We got to bet on Justin."
1:58:07Like, "It's got to go this way." It's like, you know, because And he was the underdog. >> He was? >> Yeah, he was the underdog for sure cuz I got paid I put down 500 or something like that. >> Wow. That's crazy. >> Can you certify that? But I'm 99% sure because I got a big payday on it. I made like I think I got 2,000 bucks.
1:58:23Um or or maybe 1,500 or something like that. I do not know why he would be the underdog. >> Yeah, there it is. >> Patty Pimbo is a favorite and Justin Gage is the underdog. Wow. >> So, we put >> minus 238. That's crazy. >> So, we we put that 500 a piece that we won playing three card that I won playing three card poker on Justin.
1:58:46>> Wow. >> And then we got paid and it was in like my DraftKings account or whatever. Whatever the wherever the money got deposited. I didn't even know how to get to the money. I just had 1,500 bucks there. So, at the at the White House fight, I called Tyler that night, that day of, and I said, "Dude, I'm just going to put all of this money back on Justin again."
1:59:01And he's like, "Ah, I already took my money out. I should have done that." And I was like, I mean, it it was a hundred bucks and now it's 1,500 bucks. So, I put it all on the And he was the underdog again for the Ilia fight. >> Yeah. >> So, it ended up being like 6K. >> Wow. >> That I turned from $100 into like 6K and then I took it out and used it to rebuild my house.
1:59:22>> [laughter] >> So Justin, I owe Justin my my upstairs. I paid for all the flooring upstairs from Justin's fists. >> That's a good way to gamble. [laughter] >> Yeah, that's good. That's good. Healthy gambling. >> Never do it again. But uh it was awesome. I mean, I had one run. >> Yeah. I'm very conflicted about gambling because I've met a lot of gambling addicts.
1:59:42I know a lot of g because I come from the pool world, you know, and the pool world was filled with gambling addicts. That was my first real exposure to people that were addicted. They would go to offtrack betting before they ever got to the pool hall. Then they'd show up at the pool hall during the day.
1:59:56They'd have stories, the [ __ ] horse, I I bet on this horse, he didn't come in. They were all addicts. And then they would all be looking for action. They'd either go >> they play Jin. There's guys that would play Jin or they would play poker. Uh there was like a whole like elevated level where was like seating and stuff where it was like above the pool tables where guys would hang out and have card games and then they would gamble on pool games and everybody was just in action.
2:00:20It was in everyone was in action. And part of me is like, oh, you know, gambling can be destructive, right? But it wasn't for me. So why is that? So isn't it like isn't it a a personal control thing? Like isn't it like recognizing what's detrimental to you and what's positive? Isn't that a bunch of aspects of life?
2:00:39Like I'm pro- alcohol, too, but I recognize that people could become alcoholics, right? But isn't that also like a personal control thing? >> Yeah. Like should you shouldn't you know what you you can do and what you can't do and isn't the real thing learning how to control yourself? >> I mean so I don't have any problem with gambling at all and I know way too many people who enjoy it to ever like come out against gambling.
2:01:02But yet I have friends that are staunchly anti-gambling and they think that these gambling apps are terrible and think these casinos are terrible and that we should outlaw all of it. And I'm like man >> you just shove it underground. >> Yeah. It's also people have enjoyed that since the beginning of time and then also coming from the world that I come from coming from the pool world gambling is a huge part of how you get good at pool.
2:01:26One of the things about pool is stakes. Like you know the term pool it comes from pooling money together to gamble. >> No, I did not know that. >> Yeah. It's not called pool. It's called pocket billiards. >> So the original the original billiards game well there's a game that is uh also still played in a lot of Latin American countries.
2:01:44South Korea, they're really big on it. And it's called Three Cushion Billiards. And Three Cushion Billiards is a game that you play on a table that doesn't have any pockets. And what it is is you have three balls. And the key is understanding um geometry and force and spin and how it affects the rails.
2:02:01So the rails are all these rubber rails. And in three cushion billiards, you contact one ball and then you have to go three cushions, contact the second ball, and then the the the original ball. So, you're contacting these these three balls, but also hitting three cushions. >> Huh. >> Yeah. Or two the two balls, but also hitting uh hitting three cushions.
2:02:26So, you can't just hit one ball into another ball. There's a there's a there is an old billiard game where they did that but it's a very boring game. But this three cushion game is a much more dynamic form of it. So that's billiards and then there's pocket billiards. So pocket billiards is what people think of as pool is where you're shooting a ball into a hole and there's six holes on the table.
2:02:50>> So pool comes from the term of pooling money together to gamble on pocket billiards. Yeah. So when you go to a pool hall that's a gambling hall. That's what they were. And so in New York City at the turn of the century, the turn of the 20th century, I think there was some insane number of pool halls just in New York City.
2:03:10I think it was over a thousand. >> Wow. Yep. And it was a lot of these guys, especially in the 1940s and guys coming home from the war, they didn't have families and it was a bachelor culture. And these guys, they didn't want to be a part of society anymore. They just wanted to, you know, just unplug and be a part of this world of men where men got together and they gambled and they smoked and they talk [ __ ] and they and Sounds fun.
2:03:38>> engaged in a lot of vice. You know, there's And that was also when I was exposed to drugs, like a lot of drugs. >> How old were you at this time? >> 23. >> Yeah, about 23, maybe 24 when I really started playing a lot. Um and uh a lot of these guys that was the first time I ever saw anybody do heroin.
2:03:58Yeah. There it was a guy who was a worldclass pool player. Uh he had two nicknames. One of them was Buffalo Bill and the other one was water dog. And this guy um he was a worldclass pool player who was also a heroin addict. And what he would do is he would go into the bathroom and everybody knew what was going on.
2:04:15He would go into the bathroom, lock the door, shoot up, and then he would come out and he would sit on one of those billiard chairs. So he'd sit on like it's like a big bar stool with like arms on it. He'd sit there like this >> and just pass out. >> No, just just zone down for like 20 minutes just high as [ __ ] on heroin >> and then come back and then when he's back he was ready to play and his eyes his [ __ ] pupils were huge.
2:04:37That's what I remember. He was like he had gerbble eyes like shark eyes and he couldn't miss. I mean it was insane watching him play. We're playing. There's a table in Executive Billyards in White Plains, New York, where I used to play. Table one had these tiny little pockets because it was the gambling table.
2:04:55So the t the pockets were just just shy of 4 in. So you couldn't fit two balls in them. And they were very gaffy. Meaning like the way the angles were cut like it was like >> the way it was made was kind of halfhazard. The way they wedge these things in there to make the pockets tighter. It wasn't perfect.
2:05:12Like if you would hit the point a little bit, it would bobble out. It wasn't It was very difficult to be accurate on this table. And this [ __ ] guy couldn't miss. He was playing for $10,000. And I was watching this guy play. >> That stresses me out. >> I was watching this guy play for $10,000. And he, the other guy, the guy he was playing is this guy George the Greek, who was a famous gambler.
2:05:33And George would be yelling at him, "This [ __ ] he can't play without his [ __ ] He's got to take that [ __ ] shit." So he's trying to distract him while he's playing. And this guy just he just couldn't miss. Just moving around the table, seeing all the angles. It's like to him the game was simple and it was just when he was on heroin and he had to do heroin and uh I ran into him years later.
2:05:55So I knew him in New York and then I moved to California and this was like 95 96 I was playing in this tournament in uh Bellflower, California. There's this legendary pool hall that used to exist there. There's still one in Sacramento, but there's one in um Bellflower that was called Hard Times. And Hard Times was the mecca.
2:06:14When I was playing pool in New York, everybody was talking about Hard Times. Hard Times was where all the gambling was. And all the great players, the Filipino players would go there and they had this big Sunday tournament. And so I would go and play in the Sunday tournament because anybody could play.
2:06:28I just get killed every week. But I'd go anyway just to be able to play like world class players and to watch and just have fun. [snorts] and uh Water Dog was there and I go, "Hey man, what are you doing out here?" And he's like, "Yeah, I I took a trip. I took a trip to California, you know, just tried to get get in some action."
2:06:44He goes, "I want to get in the tournament, but I don't have any money." I go, "I'll put you in." So it was only like I don't remember it was 20 bucks, 25 bucks to get in the tournament. >> Oh, no. >> And uh so I said, "I'll put you in." He goes, "Oh, but I got to go get my shit." And I was like, "What?"
2:06:57>> I go, "Well, well, go get your shit." He goes, "I need a ride." I go, "I'm [laughter] not driving you." And he goes, "Come on." He goes, "You got to give me a ride. It's fine. Don't worry." And but I had a nice car at the time. My first nice car. I had a Toyota Supra Turbo. Nice. >> I loved it. >> I was like and I was like I can't drive.
2:07:12They'll confiscate my car. >> Highline. [laughter] >> You can you can get in real trouble. And he wouldn't he wouldn't play like or he he wouldn't accept that I wouldn't take him there. So I put him in anyway. He played sober and he played terrible. He like he [snorts] was angry like wasn't playing good.
2:07:29Like rotten like you you [clears throat] could tell it was a mess. And you just guy could have won the tournament. He was that good. >> I I grew up in Canada for a few years, like three years. And I remember reading and I don't know who this is and I hope Jamie can look it up for me, Jamie, if you don't mind, but there was a story of a goalender that would play on drugs.
2:07:48And I want to say it was something crazy. Maybe it was something simple like cocaine, but he would take the drugs before a hockey match because it made the world look slower. >> Oh. >> And it made him a better goalender. Mhm. >> And he said it was like the ball the puck became like catching a beach ball or something like that.
2:08:05Grant Fer, that's him. >> Edmonton Oilers and Hockey Hall of Fame goender. So he publicly admitted to abusing cocaine for about seven years [laughter] or using it correctly. Why is he abusing? He used it correctly. Rumors and reports circulated about cocaine use involving several members of the powerhouse Edmonton Oilers dynasty, including a well-known 1986 Sports Illustrated report.
2:08:27though Furer was the most high-profile player to face official league discipline regarding well probably because he admitted it >> right I mean I remember hearing him say like >> yeah 1990 he admitted it publicly >> yeah and I was a child then so I'd have been eight at that time but I was living in Canada where everything was hockey >> like you were not it was hockey night in Canada it was Molson Lebat blue and the whole like when I moved there I was in second grade and I only knew football
2:08:56and the coach was like uh yeah We we only play hockey here. And I was like, I've never played hockey. He's like, well, you do now. And [laughter] I was like, well, we're my mom. We're poor. We don't have any money. This is like an >> spoilers on cocaine. Look at that. [laughter] >> Look at the hockey news.
2:09:11>> Wow. >> Oh [ __ ] But all I did was watch hockey. They made you and I told them I was like, "We can't afford hockey gear." All of the kids on the team donated a hockey bag full of gear. The coach brought it to my house. This is like in a little town called Plumcoolie, Manitoba, like east of Winkler.
2:09:25Small town, 300 people. And they're like, "You play hockey now." And I started learning to skate and did that for like three years. And it was just all everything was hockey. There was no choice in it. It was it was [laughter] crazy. >> It's religion up there. >> It was total religion. Yeah. >> And uh it was I remember hearing that story about that guy and it made me think of that when you were saying that.
2:09:46And that's strange. That's so strange that people get better when they're in these altered states. Well, Ariel Helwani posted something on Twitter today that someone sent me because it was pretty interesting. And it was about this guy who's a goalie. See if you can find it. He was talking about how interesting and introspective this guy is and a fascinating thinker.
2:10:03And this guy's very intelligent. I don't know his name. I don't follow hockey unfortunately, but he was talking about how he has to be in an unconscious state to play uh a goalie and that as a when he's in his conscious state, like he's joking around and talking to people and laughing and having fun with his teammates, then he's conscious and he's thinking he's thinking too much.
2:10:26So, he has to achieve this unconscious state in order to just react as to be a better goalie. But it was see if you can find it >> like a flow state almost. >> Yeah. And the way he described it was really interesting because I was like, I get that. I understand what he's saying because you you get that with everything.
2:10:43Like I cannot talk and play pool. If I talk and play pool, I'll play like [ __ ] Like I'm talking to my buddies and having fun. I get frustrated. I'm like I got to stop talking cuz if I'm talking I can't like listen. Yeah. This is the guy. Listen to this >> about uh 34 saves in your night. Just how you felt uh and what you saw as you looked out from your crease.
2:11:03>> Yes. Uh I felt nothing. The the problem with me is that I have a lot of fun playing, but when I start having too much fun, it makes me into from an unconscious goalie to a conscious goalie. And my conscious brain is really bad at playing goalie. So, I have to like let my unconscious brain do the work because it reacts a lot quicker.
2:11:24When I'm having too much fun and I'm smiling and I'm talking to everybody and I'm hanging out, what happens is that shifts me into more conscious brain goalie and then I can't react in time and then I'm slow. I'm behind the play and then I give up seven goals, you know. But today it was just unconscious like don't think about anything, you know.
2:11:40If you asked me how I made a save, I'd be like, I have no idea. Just my unconscious brain does it. And uh that's what you work in practice for, you know. >> Well, you felt nothing during the game, but I wonder what you felt like after when you're doing the three stars and you hear the crowd and uh >> when the buzz when the buzzer went, that's when I was like, "Okay, now you can let it all go."
2:11:55So, you get a huge rush of like dopamine and serotonin and adrenaline and just like goosebumps. It's the best feeling in the world. That's like the biggest reason why I love to play. And uh yeah, then you can just let it all out. Now I can smile and enjoy myself. But yeah, like TV timeouts in between period.
2:12:10I'm like, don't smile. Don't talk to anyone. Just focus on your game. Let your unconscious brain do it. And uh it was great. It worked. >> What is this guy's name? Jamie. Does it say in Ariel's uh >> Okay. >> I don't follow cocky anymore. >> But it's the same as you were talking about with archery when you're shooting a deer, right?
2:12:29Like you're going through this process. You're thinking, you're going through it, but it's like you're just trying to stay focused. Then after it's over, you're like, "Oh, now you can be conscious and aware of this moment." Like, "Wow, this is insane." >> Yeah. It's a flow state. >> [ __ ] >> Devon [ __ ] Amazing.
2:12:45>> The only other place that I ever experienced that was in the military. Like we would plan for 6 months for an operation and do all this intelligence gathering going into an operation where blood and treasures on the line. Um, one of the operations. >> Blood and treasure. I like how you put that. Yeah.
2:12:58[laughter] Well, that that's the always the stake when I was collecting intelligence. Those were always the stakes that I kept foremost in my mind is that collect this like blood and treasures on the line. Like our country's money and the taxpayer that has to labor every day to pay these [ __ ] taxes and the blood of the people, your brothers that you love are the ones that are going into this.
2:13:21Because I was, like I said before, I'm not the longtabber. I'm not the cool guy. I was the nerd for the cool guys. So, I treated it like it was like the like the outcome of the entire operation depended on me is always what went through my brain. That was the only way that I went into this. And if I wasn't totally locked in, but when the when I would be on a hill or in a helicopter or in a Humvey watching an operation go down based off of my intelligence work, I would get into that
2:13:47same flow state I get with bow hunting. Bow hunting. When I was retiring from the military, I was so stressed out because I had no idea what I was going to do that was going to replicate rep uh replicate this experience. I was like, where where am I going to get this flow state from? And it dawned on me while I was in the military that helping hunters in the same way solve targeting problems as helping, you know, JC guys or Rangers or or Green Army guys.
2:14:09um that sense of completion that I would get at the end like when bad guys were dead or arrested or you know a terrorist operation was sunk um based off of all that work was just like the most addictive feeling in the is a very addictive feeling and that flow state that I would get into when I was doing work that was particularly meaningful is such a hard thing to replicate.
2:14:32It's like a place you have to find yourself in. It's not a place you can put yourself in. M >> you have to get there like start doing the work, start putting things together, start thinking. >> Here is what do we got here? Jamie, >> this thing I friend of mine taught me this a long time ago. I don't I think you probably learned it in college somewhere but >> Oh, I've seen this.
2:14:47Yes. >> Four stages of competence. >> Yes. Unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, unconscious competence, and conscious completion. Competence. >> Unconscious competence is the last one. >> The last one. >> Okay. So the idea is that you start from ignorance and we're all aware of a lack of knowledge of skill exists and then you go into conscious incompetence.
2:15:12We're aware that a lack of knowledge and a skill exists. We're unaware initially and then you go to we are able to use the new skill with effort. So that's conscious competence and then mastery. We're able to use the skill easily without effort. >> Yeah. It gets integrated into >> and then it starts all over again when you learn something new.
2:15:33>> Yeah. And that's why people are addicted to learning things new. >> Yeah. >> From the the beginning beginner stage is very important. Very very good for the mind and and becoming a beginner at new things I think is one of the best things a person can do. Especially a new difficult thing like bow hunting or like jiu-jitsu or like golf or like anything or yoga.
2:15:51Anything that's hard to do like learning it in the beginning it's very exciting and very good for the mind. And I think one of the things that happens to people is they stop doing that and then their brain atrophies. Their brain atrophies the same way your muscles atrophy when you no longer use it. And that skill of or the the the experience rather of learning a new skill, learning learning a new world, a new universe that you are now uh engrossed in.
2:16:15Very very beneficial. >> It's so good for your ego too. Yeah. like um just I the thing as I get better at anything whether it's um building apps, military operations, um my limited time and doing things like jiu-jitsu like I just rejoined or was trying attempting to rejoin a gym but I'm going to find a different one.
2:16:34Um just knowing there there's a thing in life like when I when you get really good at something, you actually start to learn how much you don't know, >> right? >> It's like you've just uncovered a new world of like, holy [ __ ] I really don't know anything. I thought I was getting towards the top and this was a false mountain and now the big like I looked at a mountain, I started to climb, I got to the top and I'm like, "Oh [ __ ] this isn't even the mountain I was looking at.
2:16:58That's over there." >> Dennis McKenna had a great expression about this. He said, and I'm going to [ __ ] this up, but it's essentially, I'm paraphrasing it, that as you expand the bonfire of knowledge, it highlights the surface area of ignorance. That's pretty good. >> Yeah. And that the more you learn and the more it expands this this understanding that you have of the world you live in, the more it highlights how much you don't know.
2:17:30>> And that's why people that pretend they know it all are so [ __ ] dangerous. As the bonfire of knowledge grows brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes. >> That's Terrence. I think his brother was the original. I think that's someone's paraphrasing that. I think they're attributing that to Terrence when it's Dennis.
2:17:48I think because I'm pretty I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that Terrence is quoting Dennis. Um, either way, both brilliant guys. >> Yeah, it's like the it's like the yin-yang thing, like have one foot in the competence of what you've learned and then another foot in the unconscious >> incompetence of what you don't know or what you know you don't know.
2:18:08And it's like one of those things too is like as you begin to learn these things, you realize I almost become ashamed. Um when I see how great I can be in certain like how good one of the things my grandmother taught me all of these pearls of wisdom that I come back to now because there's a significant amount of time where I was being raised by my grandparents.
2:18:28My grandmother used to say be good for goodness sakes. >> And as a kid I was always like whatever grandma. >> Isn't that like Santa Claus to be good? >> Good. I think it's from that song. I think that's right. I think that's right. [laughter] But she would always say like when I was [ __ ] up, she [snorts] like, "Be good for goodness sakes."
2:18:43Like just be good. And I threw that away. But she like put a seed. >> I think Andy said I I put that can of food on the on the in the pantry of my mind to come back to it later because now in my adulthood, it's like um I'm I'm always trying to um you know, be good, but also for no reward in itself. Like one of the things, a funny story I always tell is when my wife and kids when I go to poison my children at McDonald's every once in a while um I always pay for the vehicle behind me.
2:19:12So we'll go through and you know we have this thing and my kids are always like looking at the vehicle behind because I always tell the person at McDonald's like I'm paying for the person behind me. I do this in other places in my life much more meaningfully but this is a good example. And this one time uh the lady's like are you sure you want to pay for the people behind you?
2:19:29And like my wife looks at me and she's like, uh, you know, what's the problem? And she's like, it's going to be like 170 bucks or something. And I was like, well, it's not a principle if I don't do it right now, so I'm going to pay for them. And then as we're pulling away, just like big group of like, you know, a bunch of kids just going nuts that their food was paid for.
2:19:46Um, but I would often engage in those types of things because it made me feel good. And that's probably the wrong reason to be gracious. And as I've gotten older, >> why is it bad to feel good, though? Oh, >> you're doing a good thing and you feel good doing a good thing. >> There's something self-centric about it.
2:20:04There's self centered. And >> I say that all the time that there's something selfish about being generous. >> Yeah. And so now I try to do it with no expectation that the person will ever know who did it. And my hope is that they'll walk around saying there are angels in the world or good people in the world that do like I'll never know who this person is.
2:20:21So now I try to do big meaningful with things in that way. But that was the pearl that my grandmother dropped me was be good for goodness sakes. Like I'm just being good for goodness sakes. Not doing it because it's going to inflate my ego. I'm not doing it because I'm going to go tell people what I've done.
2:20:33Like I'll never tell people these things. I only use the McDonald's analogy because it's easy one. That's not like I'm not this benevolent guy. But trying to do it in that way. It's just, you know, these old ways of doing things and these old sayings that people have start to come full circle and you realize there's a ton of freaking profoundity in these things that we can leverage and try to make ourselves better people by doing it.
2:20:57>> Yeah. [clears throat] It's interesting that idea that there's knowledge that's in us that we don't know and that we've been given whether I guess it's through genetics or for lack of a better term or through >> whatever soul transmission. But you know if you're aware that there's a a young Chinese kid who did an experiment with moths and he ran this experiment with moths in the caterpillar stage and he found out that through the transformation from a moth to a caterpillar, you know, they essentially
2:21:36become like mush and then reemerge as a caterpillar once they go into the cocoon. like this is like [snorts] very intense metabolic transformation where their body is like broken down to this mush and then becomes a butterfly. >> Um that or a moth that this >> knowledge is transmitted through that process and not just that but it's also transmitted to their offspring somehow or another.
2:22:01Epig proven this >> epigenetics I think it's called. >> Yeah. But this kid proved this like physically with these animals with these insects. See if we can find that. >> I've only found a video saying it and they don't have a link on the >> It is something to do with lavender. They used a scent and the scent um when they encountered the scent they they developed this like they they had something where there was like a vibration and when they encountered the scent there was an uncomfortable
2:22:31vibration they experienced. So they avoided that scent and they he could prove that the moths had trans that it had gone from the caterpillar stage and the moths still retain that memory and then also it had been transmitted to their offspring. >> I believe BF Skinner also did this with rats, >> right?
2:22:49With mazes, right? >> Yeah. Yeah. And with the smell of cats, >> right? >> Something along those lines. >> Well, the rat thing is really interesting too because this puts it right Skinner, right? This also puts it into the um the principle of morphic resonance. You know, like the idea is that your So, this is one one of the things they've shown is that if you teach rats on the east coast how to navigate a maze, rats on the west coast can navigate that maze quicker.
2:23:16>> Yeah. >> Yeah. This is Rupert Sheldrick's work. >> Yeah. Strange. very weird stuff because I think we're very um [sighs] we have this narrow-minded perception of what knowledge is and what information is and where it is and where it's coming from. It's like that thing that you said when you see someone you get the ick >> like well I don't know what you're getting like maybe you're getting there's maybe it's pattern recognition maybe it's not maybe there's like a there's a sense that we have that's
2:23:45undefined >> that you can't put a ruler to or you can't put on a scale but there's something there that we're not totally aware of that allows us to stay safe and has been inside of us forever. I think it's like a framing problem because like the Greeks would say the spirit of war and they I don't think they meant like a flying demon or something or like you know they didn't mean that there's this god of war and he's a physical entity.
2:24:11I think they mean this is a persistent thing ac across all classes of humans that no matter who they are, this is inside of them. And so it's like a god to us. It's a god it's a god because it rules us. We don't it doesn't have we don't have it. It has us. >> Well, it's that spirit that comes out when I was talking about with protests.
2:24:31>> Yes. Exactly. Yeah. And so >> there's a the mob mentality thing. It's this thing that happens to us. >> Yeah. And so if that's why I say I don't make a lot of distinction between God, the collective unconscious or transcendent reality. It's this abyss of unknowing that we are fortunate to tap into every once in a while >> and pull something out of it.
2:24:52And like it was interesting. I watched your interview with JD Vance and you guys were talking about the difference between like what he conceptualizes as a demon and what you conceptualize as an alien. And I just think that was a mismatch impedance. I think you guys could be talking about the same thing, but you're using a regionally accepted formal lexicon to describe it.
2:25:13But you're but you could be saying the same thing. So >> perhaps but I had a purpose to why I was questioning him on that. Yeah. My purpose is that my p my perception was that he was signaling to uh a certain group of very religious voters. >> Yes, I know. >> You know what I mean? >> Yeah. No, I I and I know that's why I was so I don't know if I messaged you about this or not.
2:25:37I believe I did, but it blew my mind that people were talking [ __ ] that you had him on. It's like why wouldn't you want the vice president on? Like there are a bunch of comments like, "Oh, so and so's here. Big freaking deal." Blah blah blah. Like, look, we're in a hot war and there's a lot of [ __ ] going on in the world.
2:25:53And even if Joe's been told he can't ask about certain things, like you talked about with Camala, I still want the guy talking for 3 hours. >> Any requests from him about saying even if that happened, I still want those people talking for 3 hours because you can't sit for 3 hours and talk and not reveal yourself, right?
2:26:11>> Like I I He thinks Doth protests too much. Like you will talk about the things that are going on even if you don't want to. just get the person talking. And that's what I think is the beauty of this podcast for a a myriad reasons. One of them is everyone can come on here and just talk and people will reveal themselves in those three hours.
2:26:30You will get to the nexus of who someone is. Um over that three hours. And that's why I I want Bernie on here or I want JD on here, I want Trump on here, Camala. And when someone won't come on to the biggest podcast in the world who's running for high office, then we should dispatch with that person.
2:26:47And it wouldn't matter if it was this podcast or another one. The biggest if you can't sit there and talk about your principles and your organizing um criteria of how you the way you metabolize the world and why you think you're the one who's fit to change it. If you can't talk um extemporaneously about that, I don't want you in high office because you're not revealing yourself, >> right?
2:27:09You're not revealing yourself. You're probably a construct. Yes. You're probably you probably have this thing that you're promoting, >> this this image that you're pursuing and that you're you're trying to get the general public to accept. That's not totally real. >> Yeah. This isn't Fox News for 15 minutes where you get to read the talking points, >> right?
2:27:29That's that's the issue with those things. is just not enough of an understanding of who that person is. And in a long form podcast, you do get that understanding. I get why people have that sense you shouldn't platform people. I think that instinct is incorrect. >> If I didn't like someone, I want them platformed.
2:27:46>> No. Well, not only that, that you already know them. Like they're already out there. You're not going to make them more popular. They are who they are, right? But like there's certain times like the Trump interview was a good one where you never got a chance to see that guy talk that way in in really a non-combative situation because almost all media that he did is either kissing his ass like on Fox News or trying to take everything he said out of context.
2:28:15>> It was binary. >> Yeah. And so you know and you get a chance to see someone communicate for a long period of time. I got so much [ __ ] about Trump after the podcast with you when I gave him like a C++ or something. >> That was a majority of my messages were >> were they mad or >> you don't understand Trump and what he's doing.
2:28:33There's 4D chess here and you're not getting it. I was like >> the 4D chess one is great. >> And I was like okay um please elucidate me on what's going on right now because I'm not getting it. Um, but because I was for him in the beginning and then when everything started going teps topsyturvy and I wasn't able to, you know, rationally predict what the next step was going to be, now I'm the bad guy.
2:28:54It's like, look, I just wanted like these five things and I'm not getting them. I'm getting one of them. >> Yeah. >> Uh, can we have a discussion about the other four? Um, and so just it's like you said, people aren't going to get changed. There's no one's gonna listen to your podcast with Camala and say, "You know what?
2:29:10I was a right-wing guy, you know, before this podcast, but now I think I might vote for Camala." >> But the thing is, there are a bunch of people that she could have reached that are in the middle. >> For sure. Yes. >> And that's where I think there was a missed opportunity. And I think a lot of people agree to that >> or who want to know more about her.
2:29:26Like the one thing I'll say, I'll say a good thing about Trump. I've met him a few times. I was on stage with him in North Carolina. He's really good at like summing one up and summing one up. Summing someone up quickly. Like when I first met him, I like shook his hand. He's like, "So you're like the AI guy.
2:29:43You're the AI guy. You do AI?" [laughter] And I was like, "Uh, well, yeah. I mean, I was a soldier in the military. I kind of learned it while I was there." And he's like, "Soldier, I could see you being central casting AI? I don't think so." And and that was our conversation. And I was like, "This guy's like he just summed me up in like a second."
2:30:00Like, uh, cuz I, you know, I'm more soldier than I am that. And, uh, he said some other things, but that was about it. And I just stood behind him on stage for a couple of hours. But, um, uh, you know, it's he's got a ability. He's got this comedic timing, which I think is like unheard of. Um, pretty good.
2:30:18Um, but, uh, there's other things I just disagree with, and that's it's a free world. I have to disagree. It's very clear that um you don't have ultimate power as a president. No, >> you can't just do things. It's >> and thank God for it. >> Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. I mean, that's what the whole process is supposed to be about.
2:30:37That's that's the reason why we have Congress and the Senate. It's the reason why all that stuff exists. >> What What do you think What do you Are you think we're looking at Gavin Newsome? >> No. >> And >> I don't think so. >> Or someone like that? >> I don't I think he's too much of a liability. I don't think they're going to There's There's too much going on with them.
2:30:55just I mean unless they were severely desperate. I think it's probably going to be someone who's not tainted in the public eye. Um someone you know because we buy narrative so quickly. We we hated or I don't say we a lot of people hated Kla Harris as a vice president and then all a sudden she was our savior.
2:31:14Yeah. >> And they did that quickly. You know, there's there's a way that they can promote things, especially now through bots and social media. And social media is infested with nonsense. >> It's infested with bots. It's infested with completely fake stories. There's so many stories that I read, like national news stories that are absolutely fake on X and that people just put up there.
2:31:34And I think they're trying to discourage that somehow. I think, you know, like you you don't get as much money from do because there's the thing is like you get money from posting on X. I don't, but some people do. Like you you sign up and you It's people that make their living. >> I knew they had that on Facebook.
2:31:54Oh yeah, they have it on X. Yeah. Okay. >> People make their living with engagement, >> but the bots are a real thing. Um I can speak personally to that. like I've pulled the string on the bot stuff, looking at how they get funded, where they're ran out of, the people that are behind them, why they do them how they do them.
2:32:10Um, and it's such a real thing. Um, to a degree that people just don't understand how they're being being manipulated by these things. >> It's enormous. >> It's it's an enormous market, billions, and it's it's funded in ways that I think would surprise people. Um, and thank God for things like data links, leaks, and things like it.
2:32:30um where we can get to this information or just the fact that there's campaign finance laws and that money has to be routed and accounted for and these types of things to so that people can pull the string on it and understand how things are being manipulated in the public >> should be illegal. It really should be.
2:32:47I I am all for people being able to express their opinions, but it should be an individual's opinions or the opinions of an individual that represents an organization. If you're a spokesperson for an organization, you want to tweet something, okay, no problem with that. But I think that organized campaigns where you know let's let's say in particular like um there's some sort of big social issue some some some some thing that's going on in the world or some thing that involves our
2:33:13civilization our culture and then you have either a foreign country or you have an intelligence agency or you have a corporation that's funding uh this propaganda narrative this fake viewpoint and making it look like people are in lock step with this. And then you've got a lot of people that if that whatever that narrative is is attached to the ideology they identify with whether it's leftwing or rightwing then those people will start paring those points and you'll see it you see this like
2:33:43sheeplike behavior with people and it has a tremendous effect on how we view things as a culture and I think it should be illegal. I think you should have to be a person post for yourself. >> Yeah. Even if you post, even if you're not named, you should have to authenticate some way if you're going to enter the zeitgeist of public any of these types of things because I mean the other thing about Facebook and social media and these other things that people don't realize is they can feed you the
2:34:12narrative and put it on the vector that helps you metabolize it in the best way. In other words, if a public person is running for office and you might only agree with 10% of what this public person thinks, um there are ways to manipulate the algorithm. So, you're only fed that 10%. Right? >> So, you only understand this.
2:34:27You're only getting what you agree with with this particular politician. And there might be 10 other things you don't agree with that you're not going to see unless you pull the thread yourself. >> And unfortunately, is just a lot of people don't pull the thread themselves because they're busy, they have to make money, they have families, and so they're only getting one side of the story.
2:34:44Um, and then it's being monetized, which is also really gross. Um, it's just super dangerous. It's super dangerous. >> It's so super dangerous and it's super easy to manipulate us. It's It's like there's never been a better time to use propaganda on a society than today. >> Yeah. And I watch the ways I've been in the past how it's happened to me.
2:35:03So, it's like I'm not immune to this even though I understand a lot of it and how it's happening. >> None of us are. And you're certainly not immune to your algorithm. your algorithm and the echo chamber that you exist in, they just constantly bombard you with one-sided opinions. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. It's it's a weird time in terms of truth and you know, and everyone has to figure out what's the best way for them to engage with that.
2:35:24And my the way that I do it, I only look at things that people send me. Someone has to send me something interesting. I'm not seeking anything out anymore. It's just too much. It's too negative. >> Yeah. And you'll drown in it. >> You you'll drown in it. And it also takes away from your time. It it's uh it's such a time suck and such an attention suck and it will wasted it's wasted energy.
2:35:49>> And I I always try to explain it to people in terms of uh I try to look at my attention and my energy of the day as units. >> Yes, >> I have a 100 units and if I spend 30 of those units concentrating on nonsense and horseshit, I've wasted 30 units. Very precious units. It's only a certain amount of days in a year and a certain amount of years in your life.
2:36:09>> I was going to say that about gambling. The reason I don't like gambling is because if I throw down $100, that's an hour of my time and it makes me worried. Like I only have so much time. I'm like I I'm I'm throwing an hour away. Yeah. >> I just threw an hour to this casino. >> I think I would gamble on fights if I wasn't involved in the UFC.
2:36:27I think I would do that because I think I'm pretty good at it. >> It gets you into the fight. >> Yeah, 100%. If you got money on Gachi and he starts to knock down Ilia Tapori, you're like, "Oh, shit." >> I was doing cartwheels in my living room. But um it it it I just think about things as time. And so when I had that three grand, I'm like, "Well, this is what would take me."
2:36:44I think of my personal time. I bill it about a hundred bucks an hour is about how I look at my personal time. So that's that that's time I can't get back or I've just gained a bunch of time by getting that 3,000 bucks. So I get nervous when I think about getting rid of it. Like I don't like to spend like that.
2:36:57I I want to be able to pull the thread. And you said it as units. I would say money, units, it doesn't matter because time ultimately in the final analysis is the only thing we can't make more of. >> Right? And I think to live a better life, use your time wisely. And that is an old age-old expression.
2:37:15>> Yeah. Another one of those pearls of wisdom that seems to come back. >> Use your time wisely. >> Only so much of it. >> Yeah. It's so finite. >> I mean, it's so funny when I I have days where I do nothing on purpose, where I just I'm burnt out. I've done too much and I just like to veg date. I just like to hang out in front of the TV and watch cool [ __ ] I just want to be entertained.
2:37:35Yeah. >> But I'm amazed at how much time flies by. It's like sometimes I'll I'll be watching just YouTube documentaries and it's 5 hours later. I'm like [ __ ] >> Yeah. Co feels like yesterday, >> right? [laughter] It does. >> It does. >> It does. It does. It really does. It's It's nuts. It's nuts. We live in a a very unique moment in history.
2:37:56And I think about to become even more unique. And >> in which ways? >> With AI. >> Yeah. >> I think the way AI is going to transform society is going to be uh unlike anything that's ever happened before. >> How do you think it's going to transform society? >> Well, I think jobs are going to be eliminated.
2:38:14That's a big one. >> Eliminated. >> Eliminated. I think there's going to be no use for people for a lot of things that people do right now. >> What time scale are we talking? >> 10 years maximum. >> Maximum. >> Yeah. Maximum. In 10 years, the world's going to be unrecognizable. That's what I think. >> Um, so how do you feel you think this will happen?
2:38:34Do you think we're on that course already? >> Yes. >> And that it that um all jobs will be subsumed. >> No, not all jobs. I think creative endeavors are always going to exist. There's always going to be human beings are always going to have the need for human connection. We're always going to want to see live sports.
2:38:51We're always going to see want to see live music. Live comedy is always going to exist. Uh I think going to the movies is a great like sort of a community experience. I used to love going to comedy movies. Comedy movies when they used to make them cuz [ __ ] >> garbage. >> Woke killed comedy movies. >> We used to be able to go and you're laughing really hard with a whole group of people that you don't know.
2:39:13Just like going to a comedy club. It's very similar in a lot of ways. I was telling my wife about your comedy club and I said, "It's the closest thing to 1996 that I can get to." [laughter] And she's like, "Well, what are you talking about?" I'm like, "Well, you lock your phone away. You go in there.
2:39:26There's no worry about someone recording something. People get to go on stage and talk [ __ ] And you're just you just feel like you're back in a place. Like no one's sitting there scroll. I hate watching like people at dinner and both of them are scrolling their phones and you don't see any of that.
2:39:42It is just shit-talking and fun and you're with your buddies and you're laughing and it's just a great experience and and so I have a theory about AI with when it comes to what you just talked about. So, I think we're in agreement in at least one thing. And I think what's going to I think what's going to happen is if you look at like the number one movie in 2020 or 2019 was like Avengers Endgame or Avengers Infinity War, those two movies, highly digitized, uh, tons of CGI, everything's
2:40:14getting done in front of a green screen. Um, and it made, you know, $2 billion or over a billion, I don't remember exactly what the number was. And then you look at this last year and the biggest movie per dollar spent was Obsession which was made by a YouTube creator um who was doing stuff out of his basement a few years earlier.
2:40:32>> So I think your to your point about people wanting genuine human interaction. My theory as it pertains to AI is AI will become ubiquitous in certain ways. It will it will eventually unfort fortunately or unfortunately run massive parts of the economy. Um, it will run a lot of things, but what but what will happen with people will get sick and in a few years your daughters are going to be able to send you an Avengers movie where it's you, Ari, Shane, >> right now.
2:41:05>> Well, I'm saying like a they'll with a prompt they'll make a two-hour movie and it'll just be the Avengers movie and it will look un indistinguishable from another movie and you'll get sick of that quick. And and then people I think things like regional theater houses, my wife and I's favorite thing to do is to go to um the Nutcracker at Christmas time and DC at the National Theater.
2:41:28Those things will start springing up and they'll be easier to spring up because to start a business, to start an LLC, if you have a novel idea, you're looking at 30 to $100,000 of negotiating red tape and government in order to start a business. AI is going to make that super easy. And I think in a few years we're going to see theaters.
2:41:44I think we're going to see I I agree with Elon and that prices are going to get way cheaper to make something production scale-wise. Amazon's going to be you'll be able be able to buy a coffee table for a dollar or $2, $3. I think there will be a large deflationary effect where products are going to get cheaper and the quality of life will go up because more people will be able to buy cheaper things.
2:42:04And if you're living for at on $10,000 a year, you're going to be able to live really well in the coming years because of AI. But because people will be able to set up businesses easier like craft tables, handmade things, people setting up businesses, it will allow a rejuvenation of creative endeavors.
2:42:23And people with money or people who are making money in the middle income and above, middle class income and above will yearn for handmade things. And because it's so easy to start these businesses, we're going to it's it's the same thing with people who have money now. All my friends who have money now have classic cars.
2:42:41A lot of them have lots of classic cars. They have handmade things, handmade furniture, all of these things there. I think the market is going to get flooded because people are going to be so sick of highly stylized AI making thing everything look awesome. I think it's much more likely that in 10 years if you and your wife and myself and my wife are going to go out, we're going to go to a regional theater house and watch Hamlet or some play or something like that.
2:43:03Yes, that will start with people with more money, but as more theater houses pop up and more creative endeavors, I think people are going to be able to get creatively back into things and AI in my estimation will exist as like a utility in your house. Um, they're trying to not do that in ways that we've talked about, but um, a good output for AI is it becomes a water heater in your house.
2:43:25You have your own personal GPU that you do your own training or your own things on or it does your bills for you. It takes care of the doldrums of life and it can do all of these things for you. It's ran locally. It's not something that you go to open AI for or you go to um a large company. Name your large AI company.
2:43:41Um a good output from AI would would be we have these openw weighted systems that are available to everyone. You buy your GPUs. It goes in your basement. Your data never leaves your home. You're not out training some other company's AI. It all gets done regionally and it handles your bills for you. It does your bank account.
2:44:01It does all of these things. >> It's a very rosecolored glasses view. >> It is. It is. Um, >> but I I see where they're the the the human thing like human created stuff is going to be more valuable. That's the best possible best case scenario >> and people will be able to afford things. If you're not making a lot of money and you don't have a lot of economic output, you're going to be able to live very well.
2:44:21I think >> we'll see if we don't get killed by the robots. >> If we don't get killed by the robots. I mean, I just I don't see a path to sentience with AI in its current form today, I guess, is my big um >> that's another conversation that we're going to have to have when we have more time. That's a long one.
2:44:37>> I didn't think there'd be a second time. So, now I believe that there's a third time. Let's definitely do it again. >> I I really appreciate you having me. >> Pleasure, brother. It's always great to talk to you. You're a fascinating guy. If I can do the um obligatory um um so Spartan Forge, my company, we've released two Hunt Plus updates, tons of UI updates, UX, tons of features.
2:44:56We're about to release that thermal thing that I just talked about before. We've got CarPlay. We've done a lot of things. We've grown a ton and uh there's so too many features for me to uh go into there. But there's we just produced a film on YouTube about a engineer in our company who's also a gunsmith called um Old Soul.
2:45:16We're doing a third one about my cabin um that I purchased back um and having my family out there and we're going to have some veterans out there and raise some money. >> The Spartan Forge YouTube channel. >> Yeah, on the Spartan Forge YouTube channel. And so we're going to do one about my dad's cabin coming up here.
2:45:28And we've got some great companies. Hoy is sponsoring it. Um VPA Archery, which Have you shot VPAs before? If you haven't. Oh, you have? >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Best broadhead. I love those broadheads. >> That's the arch. They make the Archery Country broadhead. The whole bunch. >> Oh my god, dude. I've been aiming for shoulder blades with those things on doese's and bucks cuz you can just double shoulder blade an animal and drop it.
2:45:50It's a great broadhead. >> It's a great broadhead. So VPA um uh Azio Camo is another one and my buddy Joe um is runs Azio Camo. These companies are sponsoring us um to produce these films and we're going to do a coffee table book with it. But we're trying to get into reminding people why we hunt and why we're out here doing these crazy things.
2:46:10And it's not about blood lust or killing. It's it's about the joy of having a backstrap with your kids at the table. Like, you know, up until we run out of deer meat, most of my kids has died. It's deer meat. And it's about that coming of age and getting back to our roots and engaging that circuitry that we talked about before.
2:46:27And as paradoxical as it sounds, I'm hoping to help people do that through an application. But, um, yeah, we're producing a lot of stuff. And uh it's also just reminding hunters why we hunt. It's not just about the big racks and the blood lust. Um it's about food and tribe and >> beautiful >> shared heritage.
2:46:43So thank you again. >> Beautiful. My pleasure, brother. >> Thank you. Good to see you. Bye everybody.
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