Studio Launch Party - Indian Fetishes, Betting on Wars & Tom Cruise - #1078

28:29Oh, wow. What is Polymarket? You're not going to be on XTEN. He just discovered X. I just discovered X, George. I'm 14 years. Mentally, I'm 68. I don't know what Polymarket is. Do you want to describe it, Sean? I don't even know how to fucking say what it is. Yeah, it's basically a casino for everything. So you can go bet on anything. That sounds dangerous. They call it a prediction market. It's kind of like the Aoli versus Mayonnaise situation. So it's like, oh, sports betting, not legal. Polymarket betting on a sport event, legal somehow. And so basically you can bet on who's going to become president.

29:03You can bet on who's going to win this game this weekend. But you can also bet on anything like who's going to win or like, you know, will there be a strike? Will this guy be the president in a month? And so you can bet on basically any outcome. And the criticism of prediction markets early on was they become assassination markets because you create this huge incentive to just say, will this guy be around? And if I want money, it ends up becoming a bounty. This is becoming a Deadpool. Yeah, exactly. So that's always been the criticism. And it's like, oh, there's plenty of other good things about it.

29:36But if you want to know the truth about how likely something is to happen, if you go to the New York Times or any just traditional news outlet, the incentive of the writer is to write a juicy headline and then maybe they have their opinion. But Polymarket is basically only people with skin in the game betting on an outcome. So if you're wrong consistently, you will lose money. If you're right consistently, you'll have a bigger bankroll on Polymarket. So over time, it becomes the closest thing to accurate predictions. Did they get the election right in 24? Yep. did they and there's a cash payout for this like you're actually gambling it's just gambling but it's gambling with a graph it's an exchange it's very important it's gambling but there's a graph on it uh which makes it look a lot more like a market yeah yeah what's your kind of take on it do you think how do you think it's gonna play out over the next few years unstoppable like i think it's gonna be people love gambling people love predicting things people need the information uh i mean it's growing like crazy right now i don't know if you saw there's actually a funny story.

30:33I think I have it on my sheet if you don't pull it up, but there was this man and woman apparently getting divorced. This might be a fake news AI, by the way. It's like the story is almost too good to be true, but they're, they're getting divorced. The man worked part-time in a warehouse, but suddenly started driving like a BMW. And the wife was like, can you, she asked her lawyer, like, can you just, do you have a way to check? Like, how could he afford this car? And basically he did like a forensic audit and, and subpoenaed, like kind of subpoenaed his digital wallets. And they basically found that this guy had made$3 million over the last year with a pretty much 100 % hit rate on his poly market bets.

31:07And what he had realized, and so she was now going to be entitled to half of$3 million. But the guy fighting it in the courtroom was like, well, this is not an asset. It's a strategy. I'm running a strategy that's allowing me to win. So the judge was like, okay, what's your strategy? And he basically was like, well, Well, I just realized that the Las Vegas sports books would update and the market I was betting on wasn't updating fast enough. And so I would just bet the new odds. Even if the thing didn't happen, it was going to always match the new odds. And so he's like, I was just arbitraging that.

31:40And so he had like, they audited his bets and it was just all green, basically. And so there's a lot of people that have found these little arbitrages. Like people are sending people to, let's say a sporting event because they can relay what happened faster than the broadcast and faster than the like the database updates. I swear this was happening in Asia with soccer matches. Yeah. I swear this was happening there and someone was going over and sending it back. Yeah. It's like, have you ever read Flash Boys? There was like a whole quant trading thing where if you put your server close to the New York Stock Exchange server, you could get your trade in before the guy who was doing it through a normal server.

32:13And they're like putting fiber through mountains to like shave off pennies off of every trade, essentially. Wow. So do gambling laws apply then universally to Polymarket? When it came out, it's a gambling affiliate. So like, we can't do it in Georgia. There's basically a loophole. So prediction markets are not considered gambling. They're their like commodities contracts. So it's like betting on the future price of like soybeans. So they're regulated by the same people who do like the commodities markets. And so that's how they've been able to get around this. Everything. Everything. World events.

32:44There is no, oh, it's so much smaller than world events. Like what color is the Gatorade going to be that gets dunked over the head of the coach at the Superbowl? Anything. And we're calling this, it's called Polymarket and it's market. This is like when someone says, what do you do for work? And they go, I'm a sanitation engineer. He's a fucking trash guy. It's just like, this is the same. Branding, branding. Branding. Every bit of life essentially becomes inside of trading if you take it further enough. Wow. It's an interesting question. During the halftime show, they were like, oh, is he going to play this song?

33:18Well, guess what? There was like 400 backup dancers. And so it was very, they're getting caught because it's like suddenly this wallet comes out, puts 32 grand on this one obscure market. And it's like, guess what? He was a backup dancer. You see the guy who stood outside of the stadium in the days preceding it, timing how long the national anthem was going to be. And he was out there with a stopwatch. He videoed it himself because they're rehearsing, rehearsing, rehearsing, and then puts the bet on and wins a fucking shit ton of money because he knew exactly. And that was legal because he was outside.

33:51It was public information. And he's one of those radio telescope listening device things, like tuning in and sure enough. We need a close-up of just his face during this discussion. The whole discussion, we take a picture-in-picture cam of his face during each of those explanations. Okay, so Polly Market? Did you guys see the Super Bowl streaker guy, his YouTube channel? No. He put Meta Ray-Bans on, right? He did. So this guy, this video is incredible. I don't watch many YouTube videos, but I watched all 30 minutes of this video. Hang on, how many? He's been training. He's fucking training. So this is a big agility drill.

34:30No, no. It's so funny. So this guy did it before. And he's like, I'm going to do it again, 23 days. And this is basically a training montage of like a bank heist. But it's just streaking at the Super Bowl. Wow. So he's doing agility drills. And he shows pictures of the security cars, which, you know, they look like event security. And he's like, you think they can stop me? As he's doing like a shuttle drill. This is brilliant. This is like he's training for the combine. Yeah, exactly. And so he, and then if you skip forward, he's like on SeatGeek looking at the like 3D images of which seat is optimal to jump.

35:01Like how high is the rail? How deep is the fall? And then he has a decoy. So he has his friend do it with him. The friend jumps first. Everybody goes to tackle him. And then he jumps second and gets a free run. This is the run. That's the friend. Oh, so. And then he goes second while they're. Oh, no way. He said the decoy. The fallen soldier. And then this guy. You think you can stop me? shake and bake and then he's like in the meds get this is like madden right in the meds he gets taken down by by an actual player that's unreal what's the penalty for something like that a ticket because it's a misdemeanor no he goes to jail so he goes to jail for the night but he knew that because it happened last year so he's like i gotta remember to piss before i gotta eat because i don't want to you know like he's like planning for his jail visit and at the end he basically respawns like it's gta because the footage comes back when he's leaving the jail and all of this was to promote his like um stock tips platform or something but he got like over a million views if you could have bet on yourself on polymarket he did he did he did yeah he knew what the fine was and then he bet on himself yeah and he did it odds of a streaker at the super bowl he didn't want to like confirm it but they're like pretty sure wow him and his crazy bag off this but isn't that crazy isn't it like just insane what youtube will it's like show me your incentive i'll show you your outcome it's like youtube is basically like do the craziest shit yeah so then people do exactly the craziest fact that he tried for it is unreal did you guys see this you're on x but you're not on are you on tiktok yes okay he is tiktok there is a tiktok that i thought was just super funny it's tom cruise there's this tom cruise impersonator and what happens is this guy invites him over to his house he basically hires the tom cruise impersonator but not for a party or a corporate event, just come over to my living room.

36:50And so, I don't know, have you guys seen this? He's, yes. Put the sound on because the voice is amazing. This is so good. Hey, what's up? Woo! Expect the cock and tea. Yeah, I guess just like whatever. So it's super awkward, right? Woo! Oh, Carter. Wingman for the, I love this. Woo! Expect that. Tom, Tom. Hey, good to see you. Hey, my dastard's gone. You don't know what it's like to be out here for you. It's an up at dawn, provide swallowing seeds that I can never fully tell you about. Just help me, help you. Help me, help you. What are we talking about here? What have you done? Tom, I'm going to sit here.

37:31We're the best day of my life. I'm just going to keep getting better. It's an honor to meet you. I'm going to keep compelled. Good to see you, Dodge.

37:42What are you working on, Tom? Deep learning. I'm working on a ton of things. A lot of stuff. No. Flying inverted, you know, buzzing the tower, all that stuff. Woo! Just really happy to be here. You ever had a new tonic? I got to read the ingredients first. Yeah, I like all these things, yeah. Did you put ketamine in this new tonic? Rolio. Am I in a K-hole right now? I studied Rolio. Health theany, one of my favorites. How's the church? Church is good. Church is good. Really giving me everything I need. Oh, sure. That happens sometimes.

38:20I miscomposed myself. So how's everyone doing? So much better than I was five minutes ago. How far down the rabbit hole have we gone? Let's go deep, okay? How far are we going to go? I feel like I'm in a fucking fever dream. I feel like I'm in a fever dream. How do you think I feel? By the way, if you'd been a mass shooter, we would have all been dead. I have no defensive capabilities at all. Holy shit. You need to tighten the security in this place. How did he get in here? Do you have any questions for me? Have you ever met the actual Tom? I did. I met him, yeah. How was that? Tom Ramon. It was very exciting.

38:51He was going away? Well, you know, it was two in the morning. I was with some friends having drinks, and he was having dinner with a big group of people. And I wanted to buy him a bottle of champagne as a way to commemorate after impersonating him for 10 years at the time. Just meeting him for the first time. And the waiter shot me down, said, have you been to the Chateau Marmont? Anyone? No? In LA? Iconic landmark hotel. but now it's like a different different kind of place like a special like so ask kind of membership club but tried to buy him a bottle of champagne the waiter shot me down said you'll be banned and i'm going to be fired so i just couldn't approach tom cruise but my girlfriend at the time said uh there's no way in hell you're leaving here tonight without meeting him so she was really adamant about it so he leaves two in the morning i'm having uh drinks with my friend getting more progressively more drunk, right?

39:41And everyone's gone. It's just Jimmy, my friend Jimmy, myself, and Donna in the Garden of the Chateau. It's a restaurant. And she ends up leaving to go to the bathroom. And Jimmy gets a phone call from Donna saying, Tom Cruise is waiting for me in the ballet area. Like, literally waiting for me. I couldn't believe it. So I get up out of my chair, a sprint through the whole lobby and the whole hotel. I get there, and he's there with Jeremy Renner about to get on his motorcycle at 2 in the morning. and we had this really nice moment. We shook each other. You know, it's an honor and privilege to meet you.

40:12You complete. We shook each other. He's very handsy. Close talker. He's handsy, you know. Yeah. It was very exciting. I didn't go to sleep that night. It was definitely a wonderful experience. Yeah. Tom, we appreciate you being a special guest. Oh, absolutely. I've already stayed my role. Wow. I'm going to back off. If you need anything from me, just let me know, you know, if you need to learn about, you know, logic and reasoning, I'm here for you, okay? What a pleasure. I love you too. Hey. Bye, y 'all. Beach volleyball tomorrow at 8 a.m. Sure. It's even the right height. Bye. I'm going to get the close-up of the crying.

40:51Where do we go from here? How do you think audio listeners feel? The big question. The big question. Get a studio, they said. It won't drive you insane, they said. the mass shooter line had to do something special completely if that guy had a sidearm he was in Chris's ear three seconds after the door opened yeah he moves fast damn I was telling the guys I was like I want to do this I think it would be fun just do something different and they were like you know we want to throw Chris off his vibe for the first episode and I was like I don't know I think I'm going to do it I think we're going to do it anyway I think that's part of the vibe holy fucking shit it might work but just don't touch Chris and he went straight for the hand shake I was like oh fuck rugby tackles me to the ground Jesus fucking Christ, dude.

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43:31But in India, the most common completion was, my husband wants me to breastfeed him. This pattern appeared far more frequently in India than any other country. In India, searches about breastfeeding a husband appear roughly as often as searches about breastfeeding a baby. Wow. Before you make a comment, Sean, bring her through.

43:59I think the most...

44:05Too quickly this game. Bonnie, come on down. I think the most shocking part about that was after you relayed that bomb drop of a statistic, I look at Sean and he goes, yeah. Of course. It makes a lot of sense. And the sky is blue. So if you look at a map, Pornhub released all of that. They've got a good data science team, which you might not expect actually but Pornhub have got a great data science team and if you look at the most popular types of porn across the world varies country to country the absolute outlier is India with breastfeeding porn and I'm fascinated to work out why I think maybe it's something to do with the sort of overbearing mother thing redemption arc some fucking Freudian shit going on or something to do with cows and milk sacred I don't know yeah I like how you're like explain your people's behaviors you speak for the billion indians well i think it's basically our version of the stepsister genre right like that's basically the i think in america it's like it could be a man and woman hooking up but what if she was his stepsister or stepmom it's like there's always like a step whatever in india we don't really get divorced so there's not really a step there's not really a step thing so you just go straight to the mom that's my explanation straight to the source.

45:22Right. It's the closest thing that you can get to acceptable. It might be like, isn't there like the Freudian thing? Like you, you know, there's like desire for the mom or whatever. Yeah. Speak for yourself, Sean. Not that I have the experience, but in early childhood, the Freudian thing is that there's like, that's your first attraction. I was reading, I'm reading the Elon biography and they were talking about, because Elon's had pretty like terrible choice in women or at least like for himself, like the relationships have not worked out. He also had quite a big sample size. He's the common denominator.

45:49Yeah, fair enough. But like he was with Amber Heard and it was like a pretty toxic relationship, but they stayed together. They got back together. He was with, I think, Tallulah Riley. They got married and he proposed in seven days and then they got married, divorced. At the divorce proceeding, they start making out and tell the judge they don't, they're going to go ahead with the divorce, but then they move back in together. So he's done some like questionable things. And one of his wives basically said like he's attracted to like the abuse because his father was so abusive. and it's basically like he there's something about like love and the intensity of a toxic abusive relationship that like fused somewhere in his body so when he meets a woman who's intense and they get into like a toxic relationship like he has that anchor to love somehow parental love in some weird way so i was like i found out some interesting stuff this week about uh insecure attachment so uh avoidant attachment fearful avoidant and anxious attachment there's different types of attachment styles and about 50 % of the population are securely attached.

46:51About 20 % are anxiously attached. About 20 % are avoidant attached, sorry. 5 % are fearful avoidant, which is both. About 25 % are anxious avoidant. What you think is most people that have an insecure attachment style, they're not happy with it. They want to change it. They would much sooner not be pushing people away that they want to get close to or worried that someone's going to leave them, that maybe they feel like they're overreacting to their absence too much. So I was interested to work out what the evolutionary advantages are that are conferred on people by being anxious or avoidant.

47:25And you think, well, there have to be some. Anxiously attached people, they have a much keener sense of paying attention to small differences, changes in the moments, changes in environment. and there was a great study done where they brought people into a setting and they'd already done an attachment style quiz prior so they understood the different attachment styles in the room. And then a computer would slowly blow a little bit of smoke out as if there was a fire that might be about to start. What's fascinating is the anxiously attached people were the ones who noticed the smoke first, but the avoidantly attached people were the first ones out the door.

48:02Every single time. and the argument here is that the anxiously attached people are able to pay attention to small changes they're the ones that will be scrutinizing they're hyper vigilant for stuff but they'll think should we do we leave that tiger like do we think it's getting closer is it the avoidant people are like i'm fucking out of here and everybody then follows after them so one of the cool things that the avoidantly attached people have is a competitive advantage they work better on their own they're decisive but they're really good at being in calamity because they're able to actually partition a bit of their brain off.

48:36So if you were an EMT, if you were dealing with some horrendous car accident, some car wreck, and you just need to get the job done, you almost need to sort of put one bit of your brain off to a side. You need to be like, okay, compassionate. It's not time for you now. Whereas a more anxiously attached person would struggle somewhat more to do that. And I think what's cool about it is we don't ever look, we tend to not look so much at the advantages conferred by stuff that we feel are shortcomings. And this is a really good example here of, sure, maybe you wish that you weren't worried that your partner's going to leave you all the time, but this is why you're amazing at marketing copy or paying attention to brand.

49:16For instance, if you were a police unit, you would want the SWAT guys to be avoidant and the detectives to be anxious. And it's just, I think it's really interesting to think about how different psychological makeups give you both benefits and costs and uh that's a a cool study about it i like that the secure ones just stay stay and burn the secure people are the worst yeah secure people by far the way they've got the best relationships but they're the ones that don't notice the thing and would right be burned alive yeah it's like a gossip right like gossip is seen as a negative thing to do wow that's like that's a that's a trait you should try to get rid of it's like well why does why did gossip survive evolutionarily.

49:55It's, well, it's actually incredibly important. I can't vet 150 different people in a new tribe. So we need gossip to quickly spread about each person's reputation for me to like survive in any large group. So gossip is actually incredibly important if you're going to be in any sort of social tribe, but it's seen as this like really negative behavior that you should stop doing. You know what I mean? You know what venting is? So it's somebody that is able to couch gossip under concern for another person. So there's an effect in psychology called the bless her heart effect. And it really only happens among women, not so much among men.

50:27So they brought women into a lab and they had a confederate, as they're called, so that the person that's a part of the study come in, although they didn't know it. Two versions. First version, the woman is dressed very provocatively and looks sort of well put together, like quite sexy. In the second version, she looks like a mess, like not a sexual rival at all. So how much of a sexual rival is this particular woman? That's what they were controlling for. And in both versions, this woman comes in and says, I slept with two guys last night, and I don't really know what's going on. And like, I'm not really too sure about this thing.

50:59And then later on, she would leave the room. And what you find is that the woman that she said it to, if she was dressed provocatively, more likely says, tells somebody else. They gossip about what's going on. But the type of gossip is what calls, they called it the bless her heart effect. The type of gossip is couched under concern. So George, I'm just so worried. I'm really, really worried about Christina. She's just sleeping with all of these guys and I'm so worried that she's going to get hurt. And the reason that you do that is that if anybody ever pulls you up on it, it's like, well, look, Christina, I was just like, I'm sorry.

51:32I'm just worried about you. I'm just so worried about you. And implicitly it says me. Right. I would never. Right. No, I wouldn't. I could never, that would never be what I would do. Also, I'm pro-social look at how much I'm looking out for but also she's after two fucking guys last night by the way and uh yeah it's just the bless her heart effect gossip thing is is pretty fucking and what do they say about the other woman they were less likely to say shared at all they were less likely yeah because she looked like she was down on her luck she didn't look like a sexual right right it's a enforcement mechanism for um intrasexual competition among women that's the way it works didn't you have a lady on recently you had a discussion about malicious nature within females a full two hours of it yeah danny solikowski she's a beast but um the fact that the internet hasn't got angry at that episode just shows how much female privilege there is well she can say all of that everyone goes there and finds all of the problems with it yeah it was uh it's fascinating dude it's like endless this is just a big promotion and master class on how to hang on to all your traumas and actually don't change no stay avoided stay anxious life's better this way don't do the work what if a computer gets set on fire it's very important you need to hang on to that thing that made you not have committed relationships so you don't die in a fire of course naturally time has flown by during this podcast which brings me on to my point about time the king of transitions amazing segue Bill Collins' grandson is just on it right now he's Sylvester Stallone's stepson you're so perceptive of the environment are you anxiously attached there needs to be an award for um worse transition um so there's a guy called albert hein in around about the 1880s and he is a geologist who's climbing up a mountain and he falls 60 feet right so from the laws of physics a 60 feet fall is one two boom and you're dead um so he but now he recalls what his experience was like a falling so he falls and he immediately thinks as he's falling down um he thinks should i take my glasses off or should i keep them on should i drop my cane or should i uh basically cry for help and he goes oh because i wonder what it's going to be like when people realize that i'm on this trip with that i'm dead should i let them know like this is happening then he starts thinking about the lecture he's going to give next week and how um they're going to all be there and go oh he's dead then his entire life flashes before his eyes two seconds and he can't what would be interesting about the story you'd immediately go well this is quackery this is like him potentially making this thing up post hoc but he then spent his entire life like chatting to other people that have had this experience of falling off things from builders to different climbers and lots of them mirror the exact same thing that just as you're about to die your dilation of time slows down so much it's one big thing i've been writing about of late around um how do we go about slowing down the speed of time or changing time?

54:30And if you could find it on my Twitter, Jared, he searched George Mac Janet's Law about how time compresses with age. And it's kind of this idea that you've experienced, according to this theory, which I don't think is necessarily true, but according to this theory, you've lived half of your life by around about the age of 20. Experientially. Experientially. Particularly because children, the reason why time feels so slow as a child is everything is new so that's one of the arguments of how you slow down time is for example once we've been here time has slowed down um to some extent because we've been doing something new or you're in a new environment but by the time you've been doing it 300 times things go so much faster but i'm i don't know if you guys have actually thought through of like how as you get older do you go about slowing down time and not just waking up 85 yeah i have shit everything went what do you do we'll get back to talking in just one second but first tell me if this sounds familiar.

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56:26And right now, you can get$25 off, bringing it down to$340. Get the exact same blood panels that I get and save that additional$25 by going to the link in the description below by heading to functionhealth.com slash modernwisdom and using the code modernwisdom at checkout. That's functionhealth.com slash modern wisdom and modern wisdom at checkout. I mean, this sounds incredibly rudimentary and it's such a cliche take, but I think it's cliche because it's true. Yeah. There's a reason that cliches exist is I think things feel slower when you make an intention to over romanticize them. Like how one of the things I heard a friend say is, is how good can it get?

57:04How good God can it get? Like the cup of coffee, how damn good is this cup of coffee? and it forces you into the present over something seemingly minuscule. But if that coffee was bad, you'd notice it, right? Because you want a decent cup of coffee. And then if it's horrendous, you get pissed off. So why not notice, wow, this is the perfect temperature. It's just bitter enough, but a little sweet. And then you look up and you go, wow. And the sun's out this morning and it feels warm. And I find that when I bring perceptive or a sensory experience into the present moment and just romanticize your life, as the cliche would call, everything feels more novel.

57:36So we were having cheeseburgers the other night. I'm just like, how fun is this? You know, we got to watch, I got to watch my friend work out materially so excited about, and now we're eating a damn good cheeseburger. How good can it get? So my, that literally what I wrote about was three things. So like the original story that's part of it is, it comes at it from a different angle, but it's essentially this boy called Henry, which I think I've told on the Christmas show, but just for people who haven't heard it before, Henry is like five years old. He's playing that side on the streets of Connecticut and a cyclist doesn't see him, clatters into henry knocks him unconscious and his life becomes a bit strange he starts having seizures but by the age of 27 he's having 20 seizures per day um and he's desperate to fix it he's trying everything that he can and this is during like peak experimental brain surgery so he goes forward volunteers and wakes up and he basically gets delivered some good news some bad news some awful news by life so the good news is that the surgery's largely fixed his epilepsy the bad news is that he won't remember the good news because of the awful news and the awful news is that he's destroyed his ability to form new memories.

58:38So Henry lives from the age of 27 to 82 the same day, because he only can remember things in two minutes increments and then it disappears. So he meets his psychiatrist for the first time every day. But the most disturbing thing about Henry was he would look in the mirror each day and be confused why the reflection looks so old. Because he's just forgotten everything. He always thought he was 27, but now I'm 65, but now I'm at 72. He had some long-term memories. Like he was anchored at a certain time. Exactly, before 27. So it basically begs the question, you have all the Brian Johnsons of the world, which I think are great, like the longevity people, but very few people talk about time longevity.

59:14Because in theory, Henry lived a long life. He lived till 82. Or did he die at 27? And it's such an important part of memory. And the three things that I concluded when I was looking at the research for it, there's a great book called Time Expansion, Dilution, I believe, that goes into this more in depth. But number one is novel experiences. So doing new things. number two is around both two and three are kind of what you said uh rolled into two different things so two is like trying to create stories so what's interesting is you don't remember your social media feed from yesterday um you can barely remember a tweet from yesterday despite the fact you scrolled past so many novel things but you can remember a movie from two years ago because we like character arcs we like purpose we like emotion we like a build-up so thinking about your kind of day or life into a story like what would the hero do next and then the third one was very closely tied to what you said too which is like this japanese concept which i'm going to butcher but called like ichigo ichi which is essentially this idea that every moment even if it is a recurring moment because you're not gonna be able to novel max every single day um but even right now we're all this exact age that we are in the studio for the first time um so whenever you look for the specific details exactly like you did there, time itself does begin to slow down.

1:00:33It's amazing. The novelty thing is such a huge part. I mean, I wrote about this seven years ago, badly. And then again, 18 months ago, slightly better. And the two things, novelty and intensity, were what I sort of landed on. And you're right. It is really, really important. People don't want to miss their lives. Objectively arrive, but subjectively not feel it. And this thing, this sort of sense of stuff rushing past. I think it's something that's particularly felt by people that are optimizers because by virtue of optimizing, you find what works and then you rinse and repeat it. That's what routine is.

1:01:05And the problem with that is it actually compresses time together. My best, my favorite example of this is your drive to work. Your drive to work is something that you've done 500, 1 ,000, 2 ,000 times throughout your life, throughout that one job, that one office. Can you tell me anything unique about that drive? It's compressed into basically a single memory, except for that one day when it was icy and the car skidded backward. Well, what's that? That's novelty and intensity. And it's also called the holiday effect. Why is it that holidays seem to stretch out? I think about this trip I took to Africa nearly a decade ago with an ex-girlfriend.

1:01:41And I can remember the squeak of the leather shoes of the porter and the ornithology book, this weathered ornithology book that he was carrying. and the steps down, the steps were rickety and he, the bellboy, offered to carry my bag, but I felt bad, so I took... I can't remember the fucking 16-digit number on the front of my credit card that I've had for fucking three years. Why? Well, because novelty and intensity. And the more that I think people can just try and ratchet that into their lives... And it's strange because if you have too much novelty, you end up with chaos and you don't actually gain any of the benefits of consistency and reliability.

1:02:17Yeah, there's no compounding because the environment changes so quickly that you can't get any in there. Right. But yeah, you've hit on something I think super important. Well, it's cool because like who lives it? Because I see all this advice, right? Whether it's on X or it's in podcasts and it's like, here's a study or here's a quote I love. But it's like, okay, are you doing this? How are you doing this? What do you do? Like I like your burger example. And then if you could find somebody in your life that actually lives that way, it's like a game changer because super contagious once you just notice the delta like if i sit next to you and i notice that you sit differently or that you eat differently when we go in order it's very apparent to me when my peers do something different than me and so for me like my my trainer is a guy who basically is like imagine never having listened to any of the podcasts and self-help at all but you just did all those things that's basically him these guys like i've I've seen him probably five days a week for the last five years.

1:03:16And it shows. And also he, I've never seen him have a bad day. Like not even like in a bad mood. I could be late. He can get in a fender bender. Never, never seen this guy rocked. And so that's kind of like seeing a billionaire, but for mood. It's like, what? I don't know what that is, but that's incredible. You have a lot of good mood. How do you do this shit? And he tells me, because I've noticed, what does he do differently? He's always playing little mind games, little mini games. So I've told the story once before on our podcast, but people have come up to me like years later mentioning like, I love that story about your trainer.

1:03:47And it's this DMV story. I don't know if I've never told you, but he had to go to the DMV. So he comes to my house and he's like, he's like, dude, he's like, today's the day. I'm like, what's, what's today? And he goes, I've been driving for the last two years with an expired license. And it's been this low underlying anxiety every time I drive of what if I get pulled over, I've got this expired license. And he's like, I've just been avoiding going to the DMV because DMV is terrible. He goes, so today I did something different. It basically, he went on Yelp and he went to go look, where's the DMV?

1:04:15And it has like, Google has like star ratings or Yelp has like ratings. So DMV is basically like the lowest rated venue on Yelp. And so it was like one and a half stars. And he goes, He's like, how do I have a five-star DMV experience? So he just asks himself a new question, creates a game out of it. And he's like, okay. He's like, I can't go there and expect them to give me five-star hospitality. He's like, I'm going to go as a five-star customer. So he just changes his mindset. He's like, I will go as a five-star customer and I think I'll have a five-star experience. So he goes, he parks, he walks in with a little pep in his step.

1:04:47He holds the door. He's not trying to rush in line. He's like, you guys all go. Yeah, yeah, go. I'll be behind you. and one of the women that he let in actually she was working there she was just doing a shift change he's joking around with her sort of flirting with her on the way in um this sort of like big old lady at the dmv and so she's like what are you here for honey and he's like i gotta get my license i've been driving without it you know expired for two years and like today's the day it's gonna be amazing when i get this license i'm gonna feel so good and she goes you know what come with me takes him front of the line gets him the thing he's supposed to do a driving test she just signs off on it, gets him his license.

1:05:19He ends up having this five-star experience at the DMV, which was kind of like running the four-minute mile or something. It's like this, like, if you can have a great experience at the DMV, you can have a great experience in any condition, right? Like, I don't need to achieve X to have great experience. And so his five-star DMV has stuck with me because now you can play that game pretty much any, I'm going through TSA right now. How do I, like, how do I have five-star, what if I was James Bond and how I kind of smoothly went through this versus just dragging ass like I normally do. And I found that that's like novelty without being like, today I need to go on this new hike, new vacation, new thing, because that's hard to do and most people can't do it.

1:05:56What I like is he brought the novelty into like the everyday and you become sort of invincible when you do that. He romanticized his DMV experience. Correct. That's exactly what he did. Which is different to you who tries to romance your DMV experience. Yes. I hit on the lady who's giving me the license and it works every single time. Come on now. You know what? That's a beautiful, to make it practical, that is a beautiful example of something you alluded to earlier, which I think is a summation of what you so beautifully wrote about, which is being childlike. In the Bible, God calls us multiple times to have childlike faith, to be like children in everything that we do.

1:06:32And somewhere along the way, we grow up and we start taking everything so seriously. And you said earlier, you said, just wait, when you have a kid and everything's novel, you can spin this. And they're like, whoa, because everything is now. That was Disneyland right there. Exactly. That's why I think it's so important in the Bible, the ultimate self-help book. It's such good advice. Just be childlike in everything that you do and that pulls you into the present moment. Huberman did a mini-sode recently on the importance of play in longevity and how as we get old, we just stop playing and stop moving in that way and we die from that.

1:07:06And in my life lately, I've just been like the curious six-year-old inside of me again. What did we do in the park the other day? We played. We threw the ball. We walked past. I know that you used to have a basketball in front of you on your plot. We did a pod and he was just a mini leather basketball. I always have this little ball with me. And he's just tossing it around. It's so fun. And we were walking through the park and some dog must have just left a relatively good conditioned tennis ball. Like, okay, we're turning around and spent 15 minutes just unloading on our rotator cuffs. I'm still...

1:07:35You hear that? Yeah, what was that? Was that audible? It's like a full on. but it was it was such a just little kid young boy moment because at the same time chris and i are walking and we both see the ball and i bend down as i'm bending down chris goes yep and we didn't say anything yep and we immediately started playing toss yep i just burned 20 minutes it was just so fun i have this uh phrase sorry i have this phrase called uh uh dogs kids and dead people and it's like what is that it's basically that's who i want to spend time with and learn from because you want to learn about like unconditional love, be with a dog, right?

1:08:11A dog is like loyal. It's a great friend. It's a great pet, right? Then kids are just like childlike wonder about everything. And the dead people is like, rather than spending my time consuming tweets and TikToks that people put 20 seconds into, it's like this guy put 20 years of his life into this book. Like go hang with the dead. You'll, you know, it'll be better for you. And so just hanging, changing who I hung with, kids, dogs, and dead people was like a pretty big game changer for, you know overall enjoyment who's your favorite dead person that you've discovered um who's my favorite dead person i discovered right now i'm hanging right now like i told you i was reading this like stoicism book and so uh which is like whatever pretty cliche but there's a guy who wrote a book that basically summarizes like here's what aristotle was saying here's what socrates is saying then this guy was all about suffering to prove himself so he kind of lived a pretty tough life this guy was doing this and they exiled him to this island it's basically like a walk through all the stoics and it's pretty good it's like it summarizes all of them and like the slight nuances of the different schools of thought that they had because they were basically all influencers and so one guy had this school of thought he influenced he got all these people behind him and then this other guy branched out spun it off and was like yeah it's that but without the suffering it's way more fun over here and then they all got really popular and so on and so forth and so they're all dead now but learning from their you know their philosophies obviously is so valuable.

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1:11:27There's a great speaking, I think he's dead now. He wrote this in the fifties. Have you heard of, um, uh, masturbation? Well, not, no, no. I'm assuming you pronounce that as an Indian man. Yeah. It's when you're, you watch a video of a mom with that. Bring him in, bring him in. Bring in the mother. We've got an active shooter. Um, so, um, uh, basically it's, he's a guy called um ellis and he had it's like rational emotive behavioral therapy so it's like a it's like a spin-off of cognitive behavioral therapy and essentially his idea i think it's lovely is that he basically has like a very very small rule because everything's fair game apart from you can never use the word must to yourself or like this has to happen and what i've actually realized with a lot a lot of things with myself is you almost because you try so hard and you put so much pressure on yourself that you end up there's two things there's either choking which is when you overthink, when you think too much in the moment, like an athlete that can't throw the basketball shot.

1:12:27Or there's, what's the opposite of choking? It's - Clutch, like coming through in the clutch? No, there's panicking. So panicking is when you don't think at all and you just do something reckless. So like scuba divers that will just grab the oxygen when they know they shouldn't do it. They can see themselves, but they do it. So overthink and underthink. Exactly. So, um, uh, uh, R-E-B-T essentially this masturbation idea, he essentially has this concept, which you can basically say anything about yourself, desire anything, but never say, oh, this podcast has to go well today, has to go well today or else.

1:13:02Because as soon as you do that, you activate the fight or fight response. right and you know it's like a lot of people that are type a people that probably listen to this sort of shit um it's often like an extreme statement so you can still say i really want this to go well it's not like stoicism where it's like whatever happens happens none of it matters because you kind of lose a little bit of the edge but you just i really want this to go well today and even if it doesn't i'll be okay and it's just that little bit at the edge that just gets it in that perfect like goldalock zone between the two which i think some which i missed by stoicism.

1:13:33It's almost a degree of surrender behind the intention. Surrendering to the experience and being fully open to whatever comes up, but hoping it goes a certain way. My friend Nick Comadina has this great quote, we live in a universe that what we run from chases us and what we chase runs from us. So if you're constantly, if we sit down like, God, this has to be a banger. It has to be a profound conversation. It would be the opposite of all of those things. And Tom Cruise probably never would have walked in. But we just sat down to shoot the shit and it's been a blast. It's a degree of surrender with an intention or hope that it goes a certain way, but also giving into the experience.

1:14:05I did this emotions retreat with Joe Hudson in September, and it was 12 hours a day for seven days on a flower farm in Santa Rosa of just very, very deep, very difficult emotional work. And you had to write an intention before you went in. And this intention would go on this huge piece of paper and we'd be writing loads of stuff and it was on the wall and everybody could see what it was that you'd written throughout the week. And some people's intentions were really big and really grand. And I felt really stupid. I was kind of ashamed of mine because it felt so small and it felt so silly. And by the end of the week, I'd just completely fallen in love with it.

1:14:40And it's my favorite definition of safety now, of emotional safety, of feeling like you're enough, of feeling like you belong, of feeling like you're supposed to be there. And it was, I'm okay, no matter what happens. And that sense of this goes well, this goes badly, the power goes out, it doesn't, Tom Cruise comes in, Bonnie Blue, like whatever goes on, I'm okay no matter what happens. And just that, again, that sort of sense of relaxing, it's a little bit of Jhana, the meditation technique that me and George are playing with at the moment. But on the good luck, bad luck thing, I came across a quote that I'd already seen a bunch and I wrote about it this week.

1:15:14Cormac McCarthy, you never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from. and uh there's this line uh i told this story to george this week and he was able to work out who it was but it's fucking fantastic so in the mid 90s there was a single mother living in near poverty in edinburgh when she left her first marriage it wasn't a quiet parting she's described the relationship as abusive she's fled to portugal with her baby daughter and a suitcase that contained the early chapters of a book that she was working on at one point her ex-husband hid the manuscript, trying to prevent her from leaving with it.

1:15:48She was clinically depressed and contemplating suicide. She couldn't afford to heat her flat properly, so she pushed a pram to cafes to write while her daughter slept. The manuscript was rejected by 12 publishers. That's 12 people telling her in different ways that it wasn't good enough. The rejection wasn't abstract, it was survival level. If the book failed, so did her last attempt at building a life. The humiliation of those refusals became momentum. J.K. Rowling went on to sell 500 million copies in the Harry Potter series globally and became richer than the queen. You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

1:16:22Fucking money, dude. She has a great line where she goes, rock bottom is the most solid foundation to build from. Arthur Brooks has got this line where he says, psychology is biology. And basically you can't try and trick... What's your thing about trying to think your way out of overthinking is like trying to sniff your way out of cocaine addiction. It's so fucking... Banger, George! All right, where you got? Have you guys seen the... You've probably all seen this. You've seen the McDonald's CEO thing that's been going viral. It's pretty... Have you been following this? So the CEO of McDonald's tries to do a promotional event for the new Big Arch, which kind of worked because it went viral, but not for the right reason.

1:17:06So I don't know if you've seen this. Check this out. With, you've heard about it, here it is, the Big Arch. First of all, is this what you thought he'd look like? tested all day in Portugal, Germany, Canada. I love this product. It is so good. I'm going to do a tasting right now, but I'm going to eat this for my lunch, just so you know. So here we go. Holy cow. God, that is a big burger. We've got a very unique kind of sesame poppy sort of bun on it. We've got two quarter pound patties, a delicious big orange sauce, and of course some lettuce. So, oh, there's so much going on with this. First of all, let's try to get this thing.

1:17:48It's like me trying to unhook a bra for the first time. If you had my narration. All right. The moment of treat.

1:18:00It's barely gone. That is so good. That's a big bite for a big bite. It's distinctively McDonald's. Only McDonald's could be this type of burger, but it also is unlike anything else on our menu. It's a delicious product. You know, you've got sort of the cheeses and the gooeyness, but those crispy onions as well gives a nice texture. And of course, we've got the pickles. So I'm going to enjoy the rest of my lunch, but Big Arch, try it when you can get it. Sort of cheeses is a great way to describe whatever's on that burger. You know, he's basically like lying when he's like, I'm going to eat this later off camera, but I'm definitely going to eat this.

1:18:38Yeah, totally. I want to be clear. I'm going to finish I do this all the time. That made me feel physically ill. That made me feel physically uncomfortable to watch that. It's like watching an android try to be a human. It was very strange. How did that get out? Like from the lab? Like a lab leak? What do you mean? Like the actual video. That wasn't him catching something. Oh, no. Let's go. It's so big, you aren't sure. Let's go. Ben, look at the tie length on Ben. can we just admire you may have to turn around turn around to the camera show the show the length of the tie that's your camera Ben wore his son's tie do we all try the big arch with the McDonald's CEO bite wait wait are you passing can you just reenact reenact the CEO yeah what was it like he was picking up an active IED first

1:19:32calls the red wire to the big arch enjoy the product Michael the product this is a great product wow this is mechanically engineered oh it's so it's so we all got big arches it's so wet it is unbelievable all right i'm gonna take a big bite for a big guy you know that scene in spongebob crabby patty it's just the tiniest little bit of oh wow oh it's medium rare that's good that's good i want my mcdonald's beef to be medium rare did it maintain the perfect good product on this Does it still maintain its perfect circular shape? That's a unique poppy seed. I've never seen a bun like that. He said, we have sort of a sesame pop.

1:20:13What do you mean sort of? A sesame seed. I'm really fucking. I love the way he used the word product. A good rule of thumb is no consumer uses the word product or consumer. Yeah. I shall now consume product, everybody. Hello, fellow kids. Would you like to consume product? Is it good? No, Bob's. Yeah, how is the big arch actually? That's what he should have done. if he made me want to eat it. But luckily, I already love the double quarter pounder. So this is great. It's not that special. But yeah, basically the CEO decided that he was going to fucking torpedo himself. Yeah. It's so funny to think, how did that get out?

1:20:49As if that wasn't meant to be for public consumption. Yes. Well, I wonder if they, maybe a Machiavellian thing from the social media manager. You think it's an accidental? I thought that was a promo. Nobody's that smart. Jared, throw up the meme I have on the dock of the McDonald's thing. It's so funny. I quite like it. When Ben was looking for his McDonald's uniform, he went on Facebook Marketplace. This is the CEO of McDonald's right now. Jesus fucking Christ. He goes on Facebook Marketplace and he found somebody who was selling a uniform. And she goes like, oh yeah, sure. You need it for work?

1:21:30And Ben was like, yeah, I need it for work. That's the actual uniform. No. And then, well, the woman you were messaging was trying to get the uniform, and then she looked him up and was like, it doesn't look like you work at McDonald's. And she got creeped out and did not give him the McDonald's uniform, so he had to make his own. You made that? My wife beat this one, yeah. That's unbelievable. She ironed on the M. Did she make the tie, too, or did you get that at Baby Gap? That's the perfect length, man. I think Ben's been in uniform waiting for the big arch moment with Tom Cruise in the green room.

1:22:05There's fucking Ben in a McDonald's uniform and Tom Cruise. This might be the completely original scenario. This doesn't exist in any other timelines or realities. Correct. In a thousand universes, there's only one where Ben was dressed as a McDonald's guy next to a Tom Cruise impersonator waiting to give us the food. During the break, I said, oh, can I get a napkin? Tom Cruise spilled new tonic on the table. I said, now that's a sentence that's never been said before. The first of your bloodline. to ever do that. I give that out of 10 on three. Say your rating. Ready? One, two, three. Seven. Interesting.

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1:23:53That's L-I-V-E-M-O-M-E-N-T-O-U-S dot com slash modernwisdom and modernwisdom at checkout. I think there's an upper bound for McDonald's. Yeah, I think if it breaks a seven, it's not coming from McDonald's. Except for the Filet-O-Fish. I will die on that hill. Best sandwich in fast food. What do you think they're trying to... Is this just every company CEO now needs to do self-branding? Just build a personal... Yeah, everybody needs to have a personal brand. Yeah, I don't know. He's been basically only in front of shareholders, you can tell. And this was like this big coming out party and only in front of reptilian people.

1:24:31it's a freaking lizard man dude if i was ever on the fence about that conspiracy he just proved it yeah but like if zuck it took 20 years for zuck to do this transformation right do you remember when he was also like a lizard he literally had like a thing where you could find this where he was like uh i was a human i am a human i i am i am a human right he literally was doing that the sweet baby rays yep and now he's just like swagged out and awesome and like based yeah that's what happens you get four-figure testosterone everything goes well all right um how about i tell you about this have you heard of the beer mile the beer mile yes you must have heard of i won one last year yes you want to be a mile beat devon levesque in the beer mile at running do you want to explain what it is can we guess it's yeah george what is your guess what is the beer mile you drink beer and run during before directionally accurate during so the beer mile is I wish I was being facetious when I said this.

1:25:28I think it's more painful than any marathon or ultra I've run because it's such an acute pain for such a short time. So the goal of the beer mile is simple. You run one mile and every quarter mile you have a beer. So over the course of one mile, you drink four beers. So the gun goes off beer one quarter lap, beer two quarter lap, three quarter lap, four. There's a great photo. I wish I'd known you bringing it up of me. We'll call it an action shot immediately after crossing the finish line on all fours just oh just exiting all of the beer that i had so that's the should we create the big arch mile i would do that interesting that you talk about the b mile how about the two beers two cigs two rubik's cubes speed run yeah jared uh this is if you were to look at your kind of elementary version of a physical challenge.

1:26:20Feels like it now. You know, let's... Oh, he's got Ben's tie. My time to beat is 3 minutes 33 seconds. I can't remember the warm record, but it's around a minute 30. You can see it up here. Will I beat that? If I'm the other one, but I'm hoping for under 10 minutes. Also, the up-top camera is dead, so hopefully... This guy's just on his patio. Let's do this. And he's got the special... There we go. I mean, that first beer is what? Four gulps? Nice. Watch him rip this sig watch him rip this thing it is absolutely absurd how do you even speed smoke a cigarette like that just like this that's i think technically sprint smoking a sig it's uh holy shit it's working is usain bolting that motherfucker that's it is unbelievable the hair the suit it's really scott adams's talent stack in its purest form isn't it yeah yeah bear's interesting a unicycle's interesting but a bear on a unicycle is fucking fascinating And then two cigs.

1:27:20So there's got to be a strategy here, right? He starts off with the beer. He needs the Joey Chestnut double dip. Two cigs at once. I don't think you can do it. I think he must not be able to do it. But look at his cumin. Oh, but see, he's doing this. He's going to be dried up from the cig, so he'll want beer after the second cig. I think that's the way it goes. Yeah. I wish they had a shot of his dad crying inside. Watch this. Does he have like a whoop on? We need like a live tracker. What's his strain after this activity? He's on track for a world record here, right? and he must be thinking well I guess you got a lot of nicotine in you but he needs to down the beer quickly is it a world record?

1:27:55this is the new world record was he creating the world record? no he was trying to beat it it was 130 something I like your idea we need to get this guy in touch with hands down George there's tens of them out there doing this 128.3 dude wow wow.

1:28:19Imagine if he realized the camera wasn't rolling the paint. Who is this small Asian kid he just showed? I think he's just called someone out. The former champion. Yeah, that was the former champion that we know well. Jesus Christ. That was something. Well, yeah. I mean, that's what you've got to do next. The two beers, two Sigs, two Rubik's Cube speedrun. I did get challenged to do, because I talked about the beer modeling content i got challenged to do the filet-o-fish mile because i'm convicted on the fact that i think the filet-o-fish is the ultimate fast food sandwich okay and so i think what i'll do is i'll run a quarter mile and every quarter mile swim to alcatraz down a filet-o-fish swim down another filet-o-fish mentally i'll already be in alcatraz it doesn't matter where we swim that's what uh that's what ross edgley is great at so ross was the first guy to swim around the uk he did it in nine months, something like that.

1:29:08And he swam six hours on, six hours off for nine months. He was just biphasic sleeping, six hours on, six hours off. And I had him on the show 18 months ago. And I was trying to work out like, what the fuck is it with this guy? He's jacked. He's got this sort of never unhappy fucking mentality, which is kind of crazy. But what is it really that causes him to be so good? And I realized it's the fact his digestion system, like his capacity to digest food. For instance, he swam the longest river in Canada. I think he's done the longest river swim unbroken, 50 hours that he swam for without touching land, without stopping, 50 hours of swimming.

1:29:49Yeah. So delirious. He tried to do it in Italy and got hypothermia, then tried to do it in America and got hypothermia, and then tried to do it in Canada and did it. he was so cold that the best way that he could heat his body was with piping hot porridge like burning scalding hot porridge that he just ate and it warmed him from the inside like wearing a hot water bottle and uh i realized he's able i don't know about you if i eat something i have to be upright if i try and lie down it's so fucking uncomfortable i want to burp it's awful he's able to do it while swimming not only is he fucking horizontal motherfuckers swimming so yeah i uh he's actively eating while striding in the water no he'll stop and tread water and they'll throw like a banana on a bucket and he'll just fucking force a banana down and pour uh protein shakes and porridge and shit video of this guy didn't you swim like the entire coastline of iceland or some shit the circumnavigated iceland yeah ice swimming for this it's i mean it's the the mad thing about it is he makes it look so effortless like lots of people that do crazy things yeah it's not that rubik's cube thing that is hilarious right watching ross do it it's just business as usual if you've done it twice a day for nine months just business as usual he's a fucking freak it's crazy well you know the only thing i was gonna do we've had like a lot of america chat and not much british chat you two yanks dominating things so uh hell yeah we do Let's go, baby.

1:31:21That's such a difference in reaction immediately. We have a fist bump, don't we? The European mind could never comprehend. The fuck is a kilometer? We don't know either. Okay, we don't use it. So I've got one of my favorite accounts called Mental UK Headlines. So it's just different like mental shit that's happened in the UK. But it's like it's a specific type of mentalness that would only happen in the UK. So I was thinking, can you give me like the gong? You know, like the news station gong? Bong. grandfather banned from u.s holiday after accidentally ticking terrorist box on visa form rescuers learned that the exotic bird that they found was actually a seagull covered in curry

1:32:06sean that must have been you that's a good one have you ever googled your birthday and florida man oh yeah no fucking what's your birthday april 25th april 25th florida man in google please how do you know that why do you know that a florida man was rescued after trying to ride a hamster wow oh 25th or 20th i love it uh no that's right that's right 20th not hillers no i know it's not okay good there we go open that up tried to ride an inflatable balloon to the Bermuda Triangle. Nice. Hamster ball to the Bahamas. Wow, that got more extreme. A Florida man was rescued after trying to ride a hamster.

1:32:49See, that's respectable. Ball to the Bahamas. Ride a hamster was definitely exciting, but in a different way. Yeah. Look at that at the bottom. Orlando's first free STD testing and treatment clinic. Amazing. Hook up with us. No judgment, no cost, just care. Only the first one. How fantastic. All right, Orlando Weekly. We need to subscribe. Yeah, minus Florida man arrested after dumping heaps of dirt on girlfriend's car heaps is an interesting word how much this constitutes the arrest heaps too much jail there's a hilarious reddit post on angry girlfriends uh this girlfriend went and posted in the uh am i the asshole subreddit about her boyfriend uh jared see if you could pull this up it's uh yeah am i the asshole he's been raiding every meal she cooked for him for like secretly for over a year.

1:33:39And she got a glimpse of the spreadsheet and took a secret photo and posted on Reddit. Like, am I overreacting basically to this spreadsheet? And so it'd be like, you know, spaghetti and meatballs, 7.7. And yeah, this is the screenshot. So she took this. Zoom in. Yeah. You got to zoom in. That's where the magic is. There's really two incredible things in this screenshot. The first is the rating system and the count. So she's made spaghetti and meatballs 282 times. The rating is 7.7. The average rating, 7.5. So, you know, she did a little above average this time. But the trend, three arrows up like the stock market.

1:34:16Spaghetti and meatballs is doing well. But then all the women in the comment section are just ripping them because he's also got like AI open asking how to grow his calves.

1:34:28It's like all the women are like, well, tell that little bird calf bitch that he needs to do this, this, and this. To increase your calf size, you must combine training that targets both the gastroc and the soleus, the deeper flatter muscle. In daily life, they're normally fatigue resistant, specializing techniques. Fucking hell. What was the lowest rating average overall? Chicken tacos, 6.9. Chicken stir fry, 6. 6.5. Oh, yeah, the average 6.5 there. That's not good. That's a tough dish, though. It has to work an audit at Ernst & Young or something. This is insane. That's fucking fantastic. I'm so glad you brought up Excel spreadsheets because I found something on how dogs can't get pregnant because of underwear.

1:35:10And I am terrified of this. Have you guys ever given any attention to this? The whole underwear thing, cotton clothing and how it's a big part of the health and wellness world? Austin Floyd's massive on it. He won't shut up about it. Okay, do you do? Do you pay attention? Bamboo cotton. I listen to him. I listen to stuff. What is it, microplastics? That's the issue or something else? I think we're all effectively as we sit here nuking our nuts. That's what I've gathered from this study. So a study on Twitter from the never controversial account Carnivore Aurelius says, ladies, you need to be wearing cotton underwear.

1:35:40Now this is targeted at women, but there's evidence for males as well. Polyester underwear on dogs tanked their progesterone 90%, which earlier we called out the ethics of studies and how we can't do them anymore. Do we draw the line at making dogs infertile through human underwear? Polyester underwear on dogs tanked progesterone 90 % from 50 nanograms per milliliter to 5, and 75 % of them couldn't get pregnant. Polyester creates an electrostatic field that disrupts hormone production. 100 % cotton only if you want babies. I have never paid any attention to this now and I don't think I own a single pair of cotton underwear.

1:36:14I thought this was fascinating. I'm doing the opposite. I'm going to do this as a form of birth control. Rather than a vasectomy, I'm just going to start polyester. I think I'm speed running infertility and I didn't even realize it from my underwear and not anything else in my lifestyle. So maybe a good incentive. George, what's your concern level? You constantly tell me about the sauna as well, right? The saunas. That's why we've got Nutsicles in the freezer. You have Nutsicles at the house. Nutsicles in the freezer. That's a Brian Johnson move right there. Yeah. I've been doing it since - Is that a branded thing or you're calling it that?

1:36:44No, no, no. Nutsicles. They are purpose-built. Search. Just Google Nutsicles for me, please, Charlie. There's a problem. There's a guy in a Shopify store. Nutsicles. The dropshimmers are undefeated. Like popsicles, but Nutsicles. And yeah, they just - Brian made this really great point, which is my sperm count went up a lot by me going in the sauna. Like, but it only happened when I iced my, they were there on the top left. Look at those. So they're special pants. I don't wear the pants because the pants are polyester. But I do just use. The irony of that. I know. But I just pop those on the outside.

1:37:17And oh, I don't want to see the fucking person. Don't show me the demo, please. Oh, okay. Is he drinking a beer? Go back. It's supposed to be for vasectomy recovery. or something bring him through yeah

1:37:35honestly if ben comes in with a fucking pair of nutsicles i think we found the hook for the show everything bring him through the viral person shows up and has to answer um yeah basically brian couldn't work out whether or not his sperm count went up because sauna is great for his body or because he was icing his balls for 40 minutes a day so it might actually have just been the fact that he was putting them in a really cool environment that was helping to foster fucking... Well, that's why they're in the sack in the first place, right? Correct. But you're talking about something that's come out of the fucking freezer.

1:38:09Like, oh, this is a little bit... I have a friend who does the face plunge you mentioned earlier to change his physiology to his nuts every single morning. Oh, like the nut dunk? Wait, why didn't you say this when I mentioned the face plunge? Well, we had... You held a secret close. You're talking about panic attacks. I wouldn't have thought, ah, testicles, yes. he every morning for many years now he has dunked his nuts in a and i was like but how do you i didn't ask for the demo but he literally just sits down into an ice bowl every morning for about two minutes and he said he's noticed difference in uh the way it hangs if you will and his sperm count also went up and his member appears healthier and fuller now pretty interesting stuff so honestly Well, I mean, between that and sunning the fucking butthole, I guess you can go from one to the other.

1:38:56That's basically contrast therapy, but just for your fucking groin, eh? Yeah, that's exactly right. Boys, I appreciate you being here. First one in the new studio, some technical issues and all the rest of it. I hope everyone enjoyed Tom Cruise and everything else. I'm really excited. Thank you for being – this feels like a real special moment to be able to do this for the first one. So go to McDonald's, get yourself a big arch, and we'll see you next time. All right. Yes, we did it. Amazing. Let's fucking go. All right, dinner. I'm late for dinner. Dinner. Love you. All right.

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