#2515 - Chase Hughes

the Joe Rogan experience what's happening how are you good been really good just got an awesome last night I watched these videos of you describing this intravenous DMT experience and the first thing I said is I need to talk to this guy about that like that seems like one of the most insane descriptions of anything that anybody's ever experienced yeah that I've ever seen online yeah so tell me about this experience so it's DMT and this guy makes it and they put it into a pump and it's like an anesthesia pump that you'd have in like an operating room and essentially they can adjust your like milliliters per hour dose like they would use for anesthesia and like they launch you off you're laying the space is beautiful if they hold the space really well and they can what do you mean by that they hold the space really well like it's a beautiful space like there's this amazing place where you lay down in the middle of the room it's like on a really soft pillow thing and good great music on and like it's it's very calm and these people are just unbelievably calm and good human beings to take you through the experience and the cool thing about this pump is that you can adjust your altitude so like you could be in the middle of this and say I need to go up more I want to come down if you need to take a pee break they'll like pull you down you kind of go on to the runway and then you go pee and you come back and you launch right back up as high as you want to go as fast as you want to go so it's five and a half hours and we did I did one pee break but it is it's DMT like the highest you can feel on DMT like the most you can see on DMT but it's five and a half hours of that and the next time I go back we're gonna mix Alzheimer's drugs with this why to see how much I can bring back to see if it improves like the retrieval like cuz you know like when you when you're in the DMT space you're like I have access to all this stuff like oh my god I wish I could bring this back I want to write this back so bad and it seems like we're protected from bringing it back it does it does like a dream yeah it's there's there's real similar comparisons to the dream state yeah the dream state is very strange so I've had like profound dreams and more or really bizarre dreams and when I wake up they're so crystal clear and with I go to take a pee I have a cup of coffee yeah I can't remember them anymore yeah I barely barely can grip them they just slide through your fingers it's like we there is a protective layer there it seems like it has to be because if there's anything that you experienced in the regular conscious state that was that profound you would remember it forever yeah just think of a great thing just UFC fight this weekend I remember everything oh my god it's so like drilled into my brain and that is like nothing compared to a DMT experience yeah and it's it just seems like I've never met someone who's done DMT that would just call oh yeah it's a psychedelic it's a hallucination I've never met anybody that's actually done it and then we'll we'll just go back and say I hallucinated something there's a few people that say that I've actually I've read this one piece by this guy and I forget his discipline I forget what a serious academic and his his position after I think he did like a hundred DMT trips and his position was that this is all being concocted by your visual cortex in your brain your imagination that was his position but I mean why wouldn't you why wouldn't you go to Walmart on a DMT trip then I don't think that's what I just think you know it's because it's very disorienting and you know you really should sit still but I think that there's contrarians I mean like in the DMT space why don't you just see a target or a 7-eleven or something right right right I see we're saying something that your imagination could concoct like a dream like in a dream you might be a target yeah and you had on Andrew Gallimore yes I did yeah he talked about this world making part of our brain yes man that really hooked me in and during the six-hour journey experience whatever you want to call it at the end of I mean it's DMT like you're like it's just realities gone like you like everything oh yeah you see all the stuff that you think is real goodbye it's like everything's gone and at the end of this I on camera I asked if I was dead 39 times I wasn't concerned with what the answer was I just was like am I dead and coming toward the end of this experience I was bawling I was crying and it just felt like I had to wrap myself in some kind of ego in order to just return back here to come back there's no way for me to come back and not have some little ego thing and it made me so sad coming back that I just didn't want to come back at all you know I'm talking about it's like Avatar depression times a million for people don't know what I'm talking about when the movie Avatar came out it was so wonderful they experienced that these people seemed like to live such a righteous peaceful existence in the forest that people came back and they they were depressed that they don't live in the Avatar world yeah it was it was like a psychological condition that was it was happening with so many different therapists that people started calling it it was like a psychological condition that was it was happening with so many different therapists that people started calling it avatar depression that's brilliant it's got a name like in the 90s there was a truman show syndrome right right right right into that but i mean how badass is your fucking movie and it creates a psychological condition in people that wish that reality was like your movie yeah i love that it did feel like that times times a million or whatever it is yeah and one of the things that i didn't know happened was my wife was with me michelle and the night before when we were at their house there they just said you can pick a vial and i said let michelle uh pick pick a vial and i was in the other room and michelle was with this guy who makes the dmt and he said would you like to pray over this uh dmt and michelle did that and i didn't i didn't even know she prayed over it and the next day and i'm not saying there's anything here but when it started the first thing that happened was i was in the other room and i was in the other room and i was in the other room and i was in the other room and i was in the other room and i was in the other room and what happened was like these alien beings or whatever kind of pinned me down on this table and ripped me open like from pelvis all the way up to my neck like all the way open and i could hear my organs kind of moving around inside my body and they're doing something in me and the second thing was they pushed my head back up on the table and they this big drill bit went up inside of my nose like all the way to the back of my head it didn't hurt there's no pain or anything and it was they were doing that for probably 45 minutes a long time and it was freezing cold and then after this journey i told michelle about this and she's like that's what i asked them to do i asked them to fix your heart and your brain because i have a heart thing going on and i have a brain disease which is why i was doing this in the first place and that was the first thing that happened on the on the journey i'm not saying there's causation did you get looked at afterwards to see if they did anything i haven't because they have to do a pet scan and it's so much radiation radiation radiation radiation radiation radiation radiation radiation radiation radiation radiation oh it's like it's so much radiation i can't even hug or sleep with my wife or or my our two-year-old for like 48 hours it's a ton of radiation but fuck that yeah what is the condition that you have i in the brain i have mesial temporal sclerosis yeah we talked about this the last time you're here yeah and i had a seizure like the night before our 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How far is that from your face right now? And you look. And you look over at that flying saucer thing. You'd be like, oh, it's eight feet or something like that. But then if you know it's a dream and I ask you how far is it, you're still going to say, oh, it's eight feet. And then I ask, what is it made out of? You're going to say, oh, it's aluminum or whatever that thing's made out of. But there's no aluminum in your brain, right? And then I ask again, what is it made out of? And eventually you'll get to a place where you say it's made out of me. It's made out of consciousness. And then I say, what is the distance made out of? That entire eight feet of distance is also made out of your consciousness. And then I say, well, why did you have to manufacture eyeballs in your dream to see out of? And then what are the photons? Like you're seeing colors and all this stuff in your dream. There's no photons bouncing off of stuff in your dream. The entire body is fabricated. Your eyes are fabricated. Like you're seeing all this stuff without your eyeballs at all. But you made up eyeballs to see it all through. And then the distance, like from you to that flying saucer, you say it's eight feet. The distance is zero. Like there's not eight feet inside of your brain. So kind of walk people in to show that everything that you would do, like not in a dream, like sitting here in the studio to prove that this picture of water is real, you could do identical. You could do everything in a dream that you would do in waking reality to prove that something is real. And then you realize that the distance between you and that thing is, A, made up of consciousness, and B, doesn't exist. Whoa. Does that make sense? It does make sense. It does make sense. Because we assume that because we have tools to measure distance and sound and touch and all those different senses that we possess, that this is what the world's made out of. Yeah. And it makes sense. So like, and there's dream logic, right? So like if you're all of a sudden, riding on your rhinoceros to the pizza factory, you're like, oh, yeah, it's normal. So if you look at like a galaxy, it matches the shape of DNA. If you look at the toroidal shape of like gravitational stuff, it matches the shape of a red blood cell. You look at an eyeball close up, it looks like a nebula. And if we just look at as above, so below, like any of that is even remotely true, then dreams might tell us more than we know. And then we think about what's going on here in this, what we call reality. Have you ever seen the comparison between the universe itself and human neural tissue? No. It's bananas. It's identical. An image? Yeah, it's like an image of the known universe with an image of, is it a brain cell or a human neural cell? I forget which one it was. But when you look at the two of them together, you're like, okay, is this whole thing a giant fractal? A giant fractal? Inside of a fractal? Yeah. If that's what infinity is. You know, we'd like to think that like this is what it looks like. That's a brain cell and that's the universe. Good Lord. What the fuck? I mean. Oh my gosh. It's the same thing. So it's, at least it looks like the same thing, right? You know, when we think of infinity, we think of what we are here on earth, that there is no distance that you could travel where you find the end. That the infinite universe just keeps going on, but it's way crazier than that. It might be that the entire infinite universe that doesn't have an end is actually a part of a cell that's in another being that's in an infinite universe that has no end. That's actually just a part of a cell that's in a part of an infinite. And it goes on and on and on. Yeah. And we have some evidence that that might be the case just in the weirdness. Of these supermassive black holes that are in the center of every galaxy. So these supermassive black, we had Michelle Fowler on the podcast the other day, fascinating woman. She's an astrophysicist and just discussing all the strangeness of the universe. The more that we experience it, the more, the deeper they look, the crazier it is. It's like the further the James Webb telescope goes out, the more shit that they find. They're like, what is going, what is that? How is that there? This is not supposed to be there. They think that there's a real possibility that inside every black hole is a completely new universe. Yeah. That it's some sort of a passageway. So if there's hundreds of billions of galaxies just in the known universe, and every one of those galaxies has a supermassive black hole inside of it, in the center of it. You go through that and you are in hundreds of billions of new galaxies, all with black holes. And then you go into those fucking universes. And you find creatures with brains and you get to their brain and their brain looks like a universe. And if you get closer and closer and closer, you might see hundreds of billions of galaxies, each with black holes inside their fucking brain cells. Yes. That was well said. It's that needs to be a short, but it's, it's infinite. So there's no end to that process. It's not like there's us. And then we are a part of a brain cell of a creature. No, we're a part of a brain cell. That's a part of a creature. That's a part of a universe. That's a part of a brain cell. That's a creature. And that's what real infinity is. There is no end. Yeah, I agree with that. And we need less certainty about this shit. There's so many people who are like, oh, I have this figured out. What you said about coming back from the DMT trip, about how your ego tries to kind of reclaim reality for you. I think that is a genuine problem with human beings today in which they cling to ideology. They cling to ideologies, to political parties, to ethics, morals, religion, whatever it is that they, they connect themselves to inseparably. And I think part of that is just being afraid of the vastness of what this experience really is. And the way to shield yourself from it is to pretend to be sure. That's it. Yeah. It just gives me a little blanket of I've got this figured out. I know what's happening. And it's, it's, we need less certainty in the world. Yeah. We need more people to say, as far as we know, before they say some shit. Yeah. Sounds sciencey. As far as we know. Why can't we just put that phrase in front of more things? And if you're doing DMT, it just, or if anyone does DMT, maybe it's a hallucination. But Terrence McInnes described it so well when he said death by astonishment. And it's, there's no words, at the moment you try to like label anything that you see in the DMT space, it's like you're destroying, it's an act of destruction almost. There's no words for it. They don't exist. Because words, words are sounds that we make with our face to describe known reality. And that, there's no words for that experience. Yeah. And we invented language for trading chickens and spices and stuff. That's what language is for. Yeah. And if you just look at like one little thing. One little sciencey thing, like that's weird, like quantum entanglement. And then somebody says, we can't explain how this is like faster than light or anything. Well, we can explain it if we go to a dream and then say the distance doesn't exist. Right. The distance isn't real. Right. So I think that's, I want to know about the UFC fight at the White House. To get away from Super Woo Woo for a second. It was insane. This episode is brought to you by Blue Chew. I'm sure you've heard of Blue Chew by now. But let me tell you what they've been up to. They've been on a mission to get you. Bricked up for years, and now the number one brand for better sex. 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And it was the storm, like, miraculously just passed us. Like, there was all these weather warnings at one point in time. The fight was supposed to start at 8 p.m., and at one point in time, one of the weather experts wanted us to start at 10.30. Yeah, because there were 10.30, which would have been a disaster. 10.30 at night. Would have been a disaster, because it's a six-hour show. Yeah. You know, or close to it, whatever it is. I'd say 9, 10, 11, 12, 1. I guess it was five hours. But somehow or another, the storm just, like, almost, like, went around the White House. I mean, I don't know. Mysteriously. I don't know what that is. I don't know if that's science or if that's consciousness. I don't know what steered the storm or if it's just random luck. It could have been all of the above. But, um. All my fears of the weather getting in the way of the fights were, they were null. It didn't mean anything. And then there was this long sort of ceremonial thing where they had jets fly over and, you know, they played music and all this different stuff. So by the time we got to the actual fights, dark out, perfect. The weather was perfect. So that wasn't an issue at all. And it was just the magnitude of the event. I know people saw it on television. And it looked insane. Yeah. But the magnitude of the event being there live. So there's the event that's taking place on the lawn of the White House. And that has 4,000 plus people. The main event. Yes. Yeah. So the actual UFC. So there's a bunch of military guys that are standing up in the back. There's, like, 1,000 of those. And there's 3,000 plus that are seated. All these people are seated. But then, behind that. Not that far. Like, 100 yards, 200 yards, whatever it is. I guess it's more than that. Maybe 300 yards. There's the Ellipse. The Ellipse has 85,000 people. This is on the ground. Who got in for free. Yeah. It's, like, in the whole White House ecosphere. Whatever it is. Wow. Yeah. So this area, they have giant screens set up. And they have, you know, huge speakers and sound. And so 85,000 fans are watching. The fight's live on the screens. And they can see the lights of the fucking, this claw dome in the distance. And they can see the White House in the distance where the fights are taking place. But they're watching it on massive screens with commentary. And it was insane. And you could hear them roar. So you hear the crowd from here. And then you hear 85,000 people. And it's fucking raw. You could hear it in the distance. It was insane. It was insane. Just the magnitude of it was insane. Unlike anything else you've ever done. Beyond. I mean, I'm a hyperbolic individual. And I'm always, like, this is the greatest. This is awesome. That was the wildest experience that I've ever had in my 20-whatever years of calling combat sports. There's nothing even close. Nothing even close. It was the greatest night of fights of all time. And it was the only night in the history of the sport where, every single fight ended by a knockout. Did they all? Every single one. Seven fights. Seven fights. Every one of them ended by knockout. Wow. Which never happens. Which is unprecedented. Unprecedented. Wow. It was, like, the perfect experience for anybody that had never watched the UFC before to see it that way at the White House like that. I mean, it was nuts. A huge experience for the fans that got to be there in the Ellipse. Yes. And, I mean, I saw videos. These guys, they were having so much fun. And it's like, everyone's in there for free. You don't have to pay for the tickets. There's 85,000 people out there. They're all screaming and cheering, and the drinks are flowing. And it was wild. I mean, just absolutely wild. What a 250th. Yeah. Wow. And it's a sport that was, like, banned just, what, 15, 20 years ago or something? 20-plus years ago. So when the UFC— So when I first started working for the UFC, I was a fighter. The UFC was in 1997. And back then, you had to watch it on DirecTV. I had DirecTV just because that was the only way to watch the UFC. That's why I didn't have cable. And then Zufa purchased it. So the Fertitta brothers and Dana White, they started running it in 2001. And that's when I came aboard it again. So I had quit in 98. I worked from 97 to 98, and then I quit, and then they brought me back in 2001. And when that was going on, it was banned. It was banned from cable. And they slowly started working it back. They got it on Fox SportsNet, which was the first time I ever commentated for the UFC. That was UFC 37 1⁄2, a very special show that they put on for Fox SportsNet, tried to introduce people to the sport. And so that was the first time it was on, like, cable again. And then they started getting pay-per-view buys, and it started growing and gathering steam. But even back then, like, it was like you were doing porn. You were doing porn or something, or snuff films, or you were doing something that was damaging for your career. You know, and people would, like, look at you, like, you're working for a cage-fighting organization? Why would you do that? Cut to 25 years later, it's on the lawn of the White House, and it is one of the most-watched sporting events in the history of the world. I don't know what the total overall views are as of now, but I know that it was, like, well over a hundred years ago. I don't know what the total overall views are as of now, but I know that it was, like, over a hundred years ago. It's called a day. This is what it is, let's preserve my body my brain and rebuild and come back another day but for justin it was like one of the most epic things i've ever seen in my life for him to to win like that when everybody had counted him out he was saying it was going to be his last fight it was like a retirement fight 37 years old been in the game forever you know fought who's a who's who of all-time greats in the sport and this is going to be his last fight and he's like what if i can win the title at the white house what an ending to a career and that's what everybody was saying like yeah but you're not gonna because you're fighting ilia taporia he was like all right we'll see wow and he pulled it off he pulled it it was insane it was epic absolutely epic what do you think that what do you think the mindset is between somebody who you know you walk in as an underdog and wind up winning even though your skills may not be more proficient than the other guy what do you think the mental difference is between them like somebody who loses or wins well there's a lot of factors one of the factors is that justin has always been incredibly durable i mean it might just be a genetic thing he even joked around about it like science needs to take a look at this hard-ass skin i have because he very rarely gets cut at all and his he's like i got these hard-ass bones and hard-ass skin he was joking around like science needs to study this um and it's true though i mean he really is insanely durable he's been rocked and hurt before and he's been stopped in fights before he was knocked out in the last second of the last round by my excuse me max holloway in the bmf title which was an insane fight but the guy is just he has zero quit in him it doesn't exist like if you're looking for quit you go into a room it's empty the quit room has no one in it there's nothing in there he's not going to quit he can lose because he's a human but he's not going to quit and he's also been into the deep trenches before the deep trenches of these five round chaotic insane battles and oddly he thrives in those kind of battles he's a guy he's described as the most violent man in the most violent sport that's we've all talked about him like that for years since the moment he burst onto the scene when he fought michael johnson well in the ufc at least he just he's an extraordinary dude just a very extraordinary dude and not the most technically skilled like ilia looked technically better than him but it didn't matter justin found a way to land shots found a way to like persevere from the early early rounds where he was in real trouble and just shocked the world it was amazing one of the coolest things i've ever seen in my life that's cool it was fucking amazing i was there oh my god i i talked a bunch of people into going i didn't want like shane gillis was thinking about not going i'm like bro you gotta go it's gonna be epic it's gonna be a once ever thing not a once in a lifetime once in anybody's lifetime it's never happened before it's probably never gonna happen again probably not no but yeah that's something you have to see and experience yeah and so many people are trying to make it a partisan thing like they're mad at people for being there like oh you support like it's a it's a fucking fight at the white house doesn't mean you endorse foreign policy like shut the fuck up that's too much just please stop and again it's this thing the ego thing where people are just they just want so badly and on both sides for sure you know the right celebrates this as a win for mass masculinity and patriotism and all these different things like okay settle down everybody settled down we should all be together and i mean one of the things that i wanted to do when we went to the white house to try to push through psychedelics for therapy for veterans and people you know first responders people struggling with ptsd is you need to take these steps to give people a path to change their mind i think that's the title of michael pollan's book and it's a great way to describe it change your mind yeah change your whole perspective and there's no better way to change your whole perspective than a complete dissolving of your ego momentarily just yeah at least for a while just lock it all away push it out and then you get a chance to see what it actually is doing and the effect that it has yeah when you let it back into your life yeah how much are these clothes do you want to put back on right right i described it as like control alt delete for your brain and then when your brain reboots it has one folder and that folder is just labeled my old bullshit yeah and you have a decision to make the go back into my old bullshit and most people do at least a little i do a little yeah but for sure you recognize that it's your old bullshit instead of thinking you are who you thought you are yeah and it's a lot of stuff that wasn't didn't really belong to you like it's like we act like decorator crabs all throughout our lives we're just kind of grabbing these little things yeah and you you realize that and i think that the we're just talking about this politics thing i think separation is the number one greatest deception of all time the the biggest problem with the biggest problem that we have and the biggest deception that we have it's like we are separate and the one thing that you see and you do it some of the and i mean this therapeutically i don't mean you're like you're taking my mushrooms and going to go into a concert um when you when you do this like psych therapeutic psychedelics the first big realization you have is like oh shit this is all me like we're all kind of connected we might be one thing but there's something here that's connecting all of us yeah whatever that is well you want to call it consciousness or our souls are connected or something yeah there's something where we're connected that we're kind of denying for some reason and i think that that's one of the reasons um i think you you maybe would agree that we're in a loneliness pandemic right now like we have more rampant loneliness around the world than we've ever had before and if you look at how this has evolved oh shit i didn't know it was coffee thanks man gotcha so if you look cheers sir thank you man if you look at this loneliness and people are you could stand in a room full of people and still feel lonely for so many people the majority of the world right now yeah is in this loneliness pandemic so what's really going on and this is my opinion feel free to toss it but we're in a in a place that's becoming more and more performative on a daily basis just fake artificial let me say what people want to hear let me act how people want to however i want to be perceived sure and which means that if i'm even if i'm a little bit performative no matter who it is my best friends they put my hand put their hand on my back say chase you're a great guy you're a good person but in the back of my mind i know that i'm performing i know for a fact that probably not even my spouse has ever seen me right they can't like me they can't love me because that's not me right and i think this hyper performance world of i don't mean performance i mean like let me act out uh this thing i'm gonna i'm gonna act a certain way and because let's look at if you look at our ancestry i had to worry about like you and i were maybe eight nine years apart but when we were in elementary school or middle school we did some stupid shit we had to worry about 20 people making fun of us and now we got to worry about 20 million and that is a that is an existential between those things so we get better at hiding shame and pretending like we don't have it and then what if now going back to separation now this is what i call the the disease of specialness of i am special which means i'm the only one here pretending and everybody else has got their shit figured out and then 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Like you kept those friends because no one was telling you to get rid of those friends. There was no pressure to be a part of a group. There was no silence is violence bullshit. There was a bunch of people that thought differently and you talked about stuff and we weren't as informed. That's a fact. We didn't know as much. How the world works. That's a fact. But now that we do, one of the things that we should all be acutely aware of with us spending so much time interacting with each other online is that a lot of the people that you're interacting with are not real and not a small number. If you are on X, it, you know, look, there was an FBI analyst that he, before Elon. What do you mean not real? They're bots. Like an actual not human. AI bots. AI bots is a big percentage. And then there's actual humans who work for organizations that push narratives. You can hire an organization to push a certain narrative. You can hire them to support you or you can hire them to attack your enemies. You can hire companies that will artificially create a movement of people that agree that this person's a bad person, that this project's a bad project, that this is a good idea, that he's a good person, that he's a good, this is a good politician, whatever it is. You could, so it's, you're not dealing with genuine thought. You're dealing with bullshit. And here's where it gets really weird. I think it's natural. And I think everything is nature. And I think this idea that this artificial communication that we've developed through social media is what's really fucking everybody up. I don't think that's the case. I think this is a natural progression of nature. The idea that our stupid fucking creativity and intuition and technological ingenuity, it can bypass nature, I think is horseshit. It is nature. It is nature. And I think nature is creating this convergence. It's creating this very bizarre convergence of humans and artificial intelligence through a bunch of ways that are, unproductive in a bunch of ways that are productive, but all of it like gathering together in a device that's like almost impossible to resist. If there was anything else that you use six hours a day or eight hours, if you're a good person, if you're good with it, like a lot of kids are on seven, eight, nine hours a day. Like if there's anything else like that, you would think that person's got a horrible addiction. But for us, we've accepted it as a normal part of society. And that, whatever that interaction with it that we have, that, that deep connection we have is only going to get deeper. And it's ultimately going to lead to some sort of hive mind. And it'll probably not be a hive human mind only. I think it will be a human AI hive mind. And I think one of the things that's happening to us is there's this weird like movement to, this is, this weird movement to discredit traditional femininity and traditional masculinity. And there's this bizarre over celebration of outliers, of weird gender people, of people that are confused with their gender. And I think that's because if you play that out, this is a new thing. Again, I'm an old man, but when I was a young guy that did not, there was cross-dressers, there was guys that got off on wearing women's clothes. There was, there was, there was always stuff like that. There's always been people with gender dysphoria, but there was never like this. And this is also coming at a time where microplastics are disrupting our endocrine systems. Big time. Big time. So testosterone levels are dropping. We're like, oh my God, it's a crisis. What do we do about it? It's natural. Our use of plastic is probably natural. It's probably all somehow or another connected to take us out of our territorial primate bodies and move us into some new stage of existence. Like some post biological. Exactly. Exactly. I think it's inevitable and I'm not fighting it. Does Elon agree with that? Like we're moving toward that direction? Well, he most certainly thinks that we are moving into a direction where we converge. And I mean, he said about, this is what, I mean, the dude's literally cutting holes in people's heads and shoving fucking circuits in there and doing a lot of wild shit with it. I mean, people are using their, their eyes like ants. It's like aim bots and a paralyzed gentleman that we have had on the podcast was the first Neuralink patient. I'll watch that. Yeah. He, he said it's like a cheat code. Like he, cause he look where he looks, that's where the cursor goes and he just shoots people. Pow pow. You know, like he's shooting people with his mind. Or Fortnite. Yeah. On a video game or something. He's playing video games with his mind and he's like excellent at it. Well, you've got to think, well, eventually you'll be able to move your body that way. And then eventually you'll have all sorts of other tools that didn't exist before. And one of the things that Elon has famously said is. You are going to be able to talk without words. That's the hive mind. We're moving towards that. And this gets us into all this weird UAP shit. Like what are these aliens? What are these experiences that people are having? Like what is this all a mass hallucination? Is it us from the future? Is it us from the past? Is it another species that's far more advanced than us? That's come down here to monitor us and shepherd us through our very difficult time. Um, whatever it is. They seem to be what we're going to be. If we keep going in this direction, our brains are far larger than monkeys. Our bodies are far weaker pound for pound than any of the other primates. So what do they look like? They look like these fucking spindly things with no muscles and giant heads. And they, they communicate telepathically universally like everyone from all over the world, every planet or every country rather this experience, these creatures, they all say the same thing. They all say they communicate with them telepathically, which that's where we're going. Which is exactly what you experienced on DMT, right? And like you can get a, uh, a test drive of, of what that's like. Do you know that the original, when the original scientists or I guess whether anthropologists or what kind of people were studying, uh, ayahuasca when they first went down to the Amazon, um, they wanted to call harming telepathy. They didn't know that it had already, because of the rules of scientific nomenclature, it would, it already been named. So they, they didn't know. So this substance that these people had created one of the aspects of it, they wanted to talk, they wanted to talk to it as telepathy and that they want to refer to it that way. So they, that was what they were going to call it scientifically. Wow. Because they had experienced these telepathic moments while on it, but because it had already been named, they weren't allowed to rename it. So they just stuck with harming, but harming had a real chance of being called telepathy. That's beautiful. It just seems like consciousness is coming to the forefront of every debate right now. Yeah. The telepathy tapes shot out of, of a cannon. Like nobody's ever heard of that stuff. And I think you had the director or something on the show and it just seems like the level of certainty that some people have about consciousness is adorable, adorable to me. It's like we're these little hairless monkeys and we're like, every generation is like, oh yeah, we didn't know a hundred years ago, but now we know, we know now. Right. It's just ridiculous. Yeah. But that's, we, that's the ego, right? That's the certainty. We need that certainty. And I think we're at a place where curiosity, maybe except for politics, curiosity, isn't really dangerous anymore. It's like people got, are scared to be publicly curious or, or to be publicly curious. I mean, you know, the public questions something like, why is this here? Why is that there? Do you know who Ignaz Simmelweis was? No. He was a doctor back in the day. No idea what year it was, but it was very, very early days. He was the guy who said, hey, maybe in between these operating room patients, what if we wash this blood off of our hands before I go do this next operation? And he got laughed out of the room and then eventually thrown into an insane, insane asylum where he died. for questioning this thing. And it seems like so much of what's going on with psychedelics research, even though. And document after document, it's showing it's the most effective thing for PTSD and anxiety and depression and addiction and all this other stuff. And I'm not a champion researcher in any of this stuff, but it seems like kind of coming out, people are getting the same treatment as this guy did when they're coming out, even though it's been documented so well. And it's still a Schedule I drug. Well, I think now that's changing, and I think one of the things that's changing it is the acceptance of it by the right, some of them at least. The old boomers, they don't want to let go. But the young guys, like especially special forces guys, SEALs, Rangers, those kind of guys, they come back. So many of their buddies have had experiences and then recognize when one of their friends is struggling and take them to have these experiences. And that word is getting out. Sean Ryan is responsible for a lot of that because he's talked really openly about it. And obviously he has a huge platform. But Marcus Luttrell, him talking about it. And then Rick Perry, the former governor of Texas, Republican governor of Texas who hated marijuana, hated psychedelics, thought it was all just a bunch of hippie bullshit. Well, he had brain atrophy, natural age-related brain atrophy. And the doctor said, oh, it's just pretty normal, standard. You're fine. Goes and does. This Ibogaine session comes back. Rick did it himself. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A couple. He's done a few. Goes and does this Ibogaine session. Comes back. The doctor says, you felt like it was 25% improvement in your brain atrophy. So then six months later, he goes back again for another scan. His brain atrophy is gone. It's gone. He says he feels different. He thinks different. He feels better. Like his mind works better. So it's not just an experience. It's Ibogaine in particular. It seems to be neuroregenerative in a profound way. Yeah. That if this was a drug that you could patent, the pharmaceutical drug companies would be all over this shit. Yeah. And it's proving to be one of the most effective drugs ever tested. If you're looking at like efficacy versus like a sample size, it's one of the most effective ever tested. Andy Stumpf and I just did a show about it. We're talking about this stuff. And he's brought a lot of awareness to this. And if I think if we could get a little bit of awareness to it, I think we could cure a lot of this stuff. But I think the number one thing is like, is there a way that we can help to get this faster to people? And they're working on it. Brian Hubbard and Rick Perry. I mean, Rick Perry's said openly that this is my life's mission now. You know, really? Yeah. I mean, former governor, Republican governor of Texas. Yeah. Yeah. His life's mission is to promote psychedelics. I'm so glad. Oh, I'm so glad. And this is another Ibogaine is the best one to start out with because Ibogaine has zero recreational use. It's zero. You it's not fun. Nobody likes it. It's not a good time. You throw up, you shit yourself, you freak out for 24 hours. But when you come back, you're a different person. And if you're willing to do that, if you're willing to do that, you can change. You can. You could do a lot of. Fixing all that's and also maybe even more importantly, be aware of what these little traps, these little these little deeply carved grooves that your consciousness seems to comfortably slip into over and over again, whether it's alcoholism or gambling or whatever it is, it seems to just shut those down. Yeah. In a very profound way that you can't get anywhere else. Yeah. And it's just I think it zooms you out to where you're like, oh, shit, I thought all that was important. Like you're talking about zooming out on these galaxies within galaxies and black holes and stuff. It gives you that perspective like, whoa, I thought I was really special. Right. I thought I was super important. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that is one of the things that most psychedelics do is they remove that idea completely. I go, this is you got to get rid of this. This is tripping you up. You're carrying this fucking weight around everywhere and it's really stopping your progress. Yeah. Yeah. And it's kind of like it's like you're in. It's like you're in a video game and then somebody comes back and be like, hey, man, here's the way that here's the shit you need to actually worry about. You don't need to do all this other stuff. Right. Right. Right. Yeah. Like a little helper guy in the video game. Yeah. Guys got to come with me. This is the wrong room. Yeah. They're coming. We got to get out of this room. Don't do that quest. Yeah. That's that's what it is. And I mean, I'm a I'm a hypnosis guy. I studied all the brainwashing interrogation. Kind of stuff. This is the fastest way, I think. And I've studied every possible way to change human behavior that that probably has ever been researched. And this is bar none the fastest. And I think the one of the reasons that it helps people so much. And I don't want to this is going to turn into a two hour psychedelics discussion, but it's your show. I don't dare. OK. I think it's because perspective shifting is what happens. Like if you're looking at life and you're you have this little. GoPro is your consciousness and you're looking at this level. It just snatches that thing up and zooms it out and puts it in another location where you're like, oh, my God, I had no idea it was like this. Right. And it seems to be that that perspective, just the shift in perspective seems to be the number one thing that psychedelics produce therapeutically. And that's the thing that like cognitive behavioral therapy is is trying to get done over the course. Of like 10 or 12 years or, you know, however long it takes. But it just seems like it does it so fast in a profound way. And the stuff is non-addictive, non-toxic. You're not going to see it's not a street drug. You're not going to see people out there on the street selling like DMT capsules and DMT. I would say similar to Ibogaine. It's not recreational. I think it is. You think DMT is recreational? Yeah, I think there's a lot of people that recreationally do it. I think. I think that would be your thought, you know, oh, just do this and have fun. And then once you do it, it's no longer recreational. It's too profound to be just purely recreational. Yeah. You've heard of people getting banned? Yes, I have. Jamie and I were just talking about this. Yeah. I knew a guy who was a tattoo artist who got banned. And you can keep taking DMT. Like you can go take 10 hits on a DMT vape pen or something. And you're not going. You're not going anywhere. Isn't that nuts? It's insane. It's like they just decide. Yeah. No, no, no. You're doing this for the wrong reasons. Yeah. I listened to one guy describe it. And he's like, it's basically like you're knocking on the door of a nightclub. And like the little thing opens up. It's like, no, you're not coming in. You got to think like, what are they doing wrong? Yeah. I think maybe going in with ego seems to be one of the things I see that's in common. And people try just treating it like a little recreational thing. Yeah. Ego thing is a problem even within psychedelics. Because there's sort of a carve out that happens, which I always refer to as spiritual narcissism. There's a bunch of people that do it that somehow or another want to be a guru or a leader. And to show you that they're somehow or another better because they have had these experiences. They know more. And they pretend they know more. They pretend they know more. And then they get a whole bunch of people that are very suggestible. And those people sort of listen to them. And then that's how you start a cult. And there's something to that. There's a specific type of narcissism that occurs from regular psychedelic use when people want to lead groups of people. Yeah. And I think if you go into a journey or two with no ego, do you know what you learn? Less. Like you're less certain every time. Oh, yeah. About the world. From the moment you get in there, you're like, oh, how is this real? How is this available? Fifteen seconds away from normal reality. Yes. Yeah. And I definitely think that we're moving forward. If we move forward with psychedelics, our species is going to move forward. Yeah. Yeah, I agree. Yeah, I agree. And I think all the time what would have happened if that sweeping psychedelics acts, the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, hadn't been enacted. If this stuff had been available to people. For the last, you know, 56 years, what would that be like? Yeah, what would the 94 Ford Taurus actually look like? It would be dope. It would look like a 69 Mustang. Yeah. Because those are the people that were doing drugs. Exactly. I mean, there's no other explanation in my mind why cars started looking like shit. And music. Yeah. Well, we still had some good music. We had some good music. Like Depeche Mode. Because there's a bunch of people that still did drugs. But there was a giant change between 1950 and 1960 with automobiles, with music, with everything. And I think a large part of that, if you're really being honest, a large part of that is psychedelics. Absolutely. Yeah. I mean, if you've ever gone into a huge mosque and looked up at the ceiling. Oh, it's incredible. It looks like exactly like what you see on all this stuff. Yeah. I'll go no further on that topic. But just all the ancient artwork. It's so psychedelic and beautiful. It's like they got written out of history somehow. And I think there's a. a difference between drugs and medicine. Can we take a pee break? Sure, sure. Go ahead and take a pee break. I'm good, but I'll hold. I think it's the coffee. Yeah. We'll be right back. This episode is brought to you by Uber Eats. This summer soccer is here, and the watch parties will be going back to back to back, but don't worry. Uber Eats has your game day essentials covered with 30% off all orders from Aldi, Kroger, and Dollar General. All the snacks and groceries to keep your crowd happy, delivered straight to your door, like chips, dips, wings, guac, and fresh ingredients for the perfect game day spread. Order in so you can stay locked in on the game. All the hosting, none of the hassle. Order now for 30% off your game day snacks and grocery order only on Uber Eats for a limited time. Offer eligible for 30% off entire order. Taxes, fees, and terms apply. Offer valid through July 5th. Product availability varies by region. Exclusions may apply. Pull it up, Jamie. Yeah, I don't know. So we're looking at, Jamie pulled up a bunch of photos of inside of mosques, and that in particular, that is absolutely a DMT experience. So here's the question. Like, I feel like I've been to that location. Right, how about this one? I mean, that looks super DMT. I've spent time there. Not in that mosque, but like in that. Dimension. What is that, uh, one, Jamie, to the upper left? You just, you scroll up, up left, upper left corner. That, yeah, look at that. What the fuck is that? Is that 3D? Oh, you know what that is, dude? I think that's Alex Gray's place. Is it? It says it's in Iran. Oh. Okay. Oh my god. Well, you know what Alex Gray's doing? Do you know Alex Gray, the visionary artist? Yeah. So his Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, this, uh, he has a real church that they built based on his artwork. Wow. It's incredible. Non-denominational. Yeah, it's just like. Like a Rothko, like the Rothko Chapel. You know, he's one of those guys, you know what I was talking about with spiritual narcissism, running a group? He's the opposite of that. Yeah. Like, he's pure. And his place, like, this is his artwork, but this is his place. And if you look at the outside of it, that's the outside of the place. That is so cool. So the outside of the place is basically like 3D printed artwork of his that they've constructed into a building. I don't even know how he did it. It must have cost a fuckload of money. A bunch of people donated. But the inside of his. I think that is. So he used to have a place in New York City that was like a gallery that was the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors. So where's that? His daughter does a lot of painting now. That is it. That's on the Hudson. Yeah, in the Hudson Valley. I mean, he's an incredible, incredible artist and his ability to capture that experience. Like, that one, if you go back. Oh, actually, scroll down to the lower left, right there, the Egyptian looking one, lower left, right there. Bam. I've seen that, dude. Oh, yeah. I've 100% seen that. I've seen that, too. But go back to the other one that we were just looking at. No, that's not the same. That's the one I've seen. I've literally seen that. I've seen that those. And they move and change and morph. Yeah. He's just able to nail it. I don't know how he does that. He's incredible. One, he's a good artist. But two, being able to bring that back with coherence to where you can kind of show someone what it's like. I remember seeing that face, and I was like, in the DMT space, I was like, is that me? And right when I said that, the mouth moved exactly like my mouth, and I was like, that is me. Well, you're it, and it's you, and you're everyone. Yeah. You're everyone, and it's everyone. Yeah. The weird thing with the mosques, if you go back to some of those images, please, of the mosques, the first one that you pulled up, the ceiling, what were they doing? Not that one. The original one that you pulled up. That one, yeah. Like, that's very, very DMT. So, like, what were they doing that they saw this, and is that. Was that a part of their religion at one point in time? And has that been forgotten? Like, what is it? Like, why did that exist? Go back to the first one, please. It had to have been. That one. Those colors seem a little sus. Oh, really? You think it's AI? Yeah. I just, I'm just seeing so much AI stuff from last year. Right. It doesn't look like the rest of them. Could be. Well, go to that website. It just looks juiced up, rather. I mean, the photo just looks a little spursed up. Go to that website where it says 50 mesmerizing mosques. Yeah, if it says where it is, then I'd totally, yeah, say it says where it is. There it is. That's in Iran. We probably blew that up already. God, I hope not. I hope not, too. I mean, didn't Israel blow up a bunch of, like, ancient Christian places in Lebanon? I believe they did. I don't know. It's the same place. This is the same place. So that's a, whatever that place is. Is that the same place? Yeah. That is a very psychedelic place. Okay, look at that one. That's nuts. What? So, what were they doing? Is that 3D? Well, it's like a 3D photo, so it's manipulated in a weird way. Okay, so that's like a fish eye. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. But either way, just, because the designs themselves are the actual designs, so, like, what were they doing that they wanted that to be represented? And is that missing? Because there's a great book called The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross. Have you ever read that? The John Marco Allegro book? Yeah. So, John Marco Allegro, who was an ordained minister, but he was agnostic, and he was a guy that studied theology, and his conclusion after a year, I mean, even being an ordained minister, his conclusion was that, like, it's probably not any one religion doesn't have it right. Yeah. And so he was one of the people that was brought on to decipher the Dead Sea Scrolls. He deciphers it for 14 years, he works on it, and he writes this book called The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, where he believes that the entire story of Christianity is connected to the consumption of psychedelic mushrooms and fertility cults. Yeah. Have you seen, like, Jamie, am I allowed to ask Jamie to pull something? Sure. Yeah. Like, one of the original paintings of Jesus was him with a bunch of mushrooms. Right. Yeah. Well, the Adam and Eve, the fresco in France. So that Adam and Eve fresco that's painted on this God, I want to say it's at least a thousand years old. It's painted on this wall in France is Adam and Eve and the tree of life, and the tree of life is mushrooms. Yeah. Yeah. It's the tree of knowledge. Yes. The fruit of knowledge. Right. Right. It's not the tree of life. It's the fruit of knowledge. But this the story of it, like, that, like, what is the actual reference to why, in the Bible, I don't want to paraphrase it, as to why God told them not to eat from the fruit of that tree. Put that into perplexity. What did God say to Adam? By the way, everybody blaming Eve, Adam was the only one to talk to God. We don't even know if Adam told Eve. He might have forgot to tell her and then blamed the whole human race. He's suffering forever. I didn't know that. Yeah. I read that over and over again. I'm like, where does it say that Adam told Eve? It doesn't. Anywhere. God told Adam to eat from any tree in the garden, except for the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and that if he ate from it, he would surely die. You are free to eat from any tree in the garden, but you must not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it, you will certainly die. Okay. And what does that mean? Right. You will die of what? Ego death? Because if that's what it is. Yeah. And there's a weird thing is that the whole connection between the Amanita muscaria and the psychedelic book, or rather the Sacred Mushroom and the Cross book, is that the Amanita muscaria is a red mushroom that looks like an apple, and in fact the term, like there's confusion as to whether or not the term apple is actually a mushroom. Actually, meaning a red thing. And that it might not actually be an apple, but it might actually be the original version of it might have been the Amanita. And then you have to think, how many thousands of years has this been around that it took? How many different people have translated it? How many different people have passed on the story? Like, what was the source? What was the original story? And why delete it? Right. How does this get deleted so like pervasively? Oh, yeah. Around the whole world. Have you heard the Christmas traditions as well? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Santa Claus is a mushroom. Wow. Oh, my gosh. And it's the same mushroom, the Amanita muscaria. The weird thing about the Amanita muscaria is it doesn't like, not a lot of people have had psychedelic experiences on it. It's a very weird mushroom. Do you think it evolved maybe over time? It very well could have. McKenna had some thoughts on it. He said that it could be seasonal. It could be location. It could be like where it is could be genetic variations. It could be very, there could be a bunch of different factors. And if you consume it by way of reindeer piss. Right. Yeah. Well, not only that, people drink their piss when they consume it and it gives them like the second dose, the second burst. So apparently the psychedelic compounds come through the urine and if you drink it, you just get a full straight blast. Yeah. And reindeer have been known to like knock shamans out of the way to drink their piss because the reindeer are addicted to this mushroom which is why they fly. In the Santa Claus story. Yeah. And I heard the story these shamans would go around pulled by dog sleds or something. And the snow was so high that they would drop the stuff down the chimney to these people. And it was fresh mushrooms or fresh amanita or something. And in order to dry it out, you'd have to hang it by the fire. Right. And you hang it over the trees, too, that people would put it on trees. And that's where they're decorating the Christmas tree is. Also, those mushrooms, the amanita muscaria, has a mycorrhizal relationship with coniferous trees. I didn't know this. Yeah. So that's where they grow. They grow underneath the trees just like the brightly packaged presents that are underneath the trees on Christmas. This story is— It's a crazy story. It's like, what did we forget? How much did we forget? What's been revised. Right. Well, just think about what we're just talking about inside of our generation. So the 1970s. We had the Control Substances Act. Now, that's a government that's restricting its citizens and trying to control its citizens. And one of the ways it does it is limit their psychedelic experiences. Yeah. That's not the only time that's happened, right? That's the Illusinian Mysteries. That's from Brian Murerescu's book, The Immortality Key. Like, this is what they did back then. They banned these rituals. Why? Because it's very difficult to control people when you realize that we're all one. Yeah. You know? It's almost impossible. It doesn't work. They don't want to listen. You don't want to do it. You know? You start getting your lawmakers and your military people start doing it. Well, then war becomes impossible. Yeah. Absolutely impossible. At that point. Because that's me. I'm hurting myself. Right. Doing all of that. Exactly. Yeah. Man, it's insane. It is insane. I want to—I wish there was, like, on a Google Doc, how you can look at revision history. I wish there was something like that for our race, our species. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Right. Just so much has been changed and modified, and we have historians, but they're studying something that's been permitted and something that's been officially released, and this is more certainty. It's just more certainty. Like, oh, that reindeer story, that's bullshit, because I got this book from— Yeah. They don't know it's bullshit. Lichtenstein or, you know, whatever, from this historian. Yeah. It's a plea to authority that you have the answers. You don't have the answers. Yeah. You definitely don't. You can't. It's not possible. You can't have those answers. Yeah. And we're in an age where this is proving to help with so many other things, and it's not just depression, but it's like Alzheimer's, dementia, Parkinson's, myasthenia gravis, multiple sclerosis, autism it's helping with. Yeah. Would you see that woman that had dementia that took five grams of mushrooms and slept for like 19 hours and woke up and then she could talk? No. You didn't see that story? No. Yeah. It was a recent story. There was a woman. She was nonverbal. She couldn't communicate. She couldn't dress herself. Couldn't walk. Couldn't do anything. Took five grams of mushrooms. Slept for 19 hours. Came back. Started communicating. Looked at people in the eye. Was able to change herself. Was able to walk around. How beautiful. Crazy. Yeah. And her diagnosis or condition improved even more. Yeah. And you had, I think it was Paul Stamets on. And he helped his mother through cancer, I think, like stage three cancer with turkey tail or something. I can't remember what it was. Well, there's a bunch of mushrooms that help with inflammation. There's a bunch of mushrooms that help with cognitive function. Lion's mane is famous for that. Yeah. There's some weird relationship that we have with fungus. Yeah. And one of the interesting things about fungus, we think of it as like a plant, but it's not. It breathes air. It breathes air like people do. It's a weird thing. And it also can survive in a vacuum. It can survive in the vacuum of space. Space. Yeah. Which is the panspermia notion. Yeah. That mushroom spores came here riding on an asteroid, slammed into the earth. And it might be one of the reasons why we're people in the first place. That's McKenna's idea. Yeah. Of how we separated from our. I'm sure you've heard of Blue Chew by now, but let me tell you what they've been up to. They've been on a mission to get you bricked up for years, and now the number one brand for better sex. And you know what? Girls love the results too. 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And I figured this out talking to game developers. And I was talking to them about, you know, I was talking to them about, you know, I was talking to game developers about how people figure out ways to exit the map, to exit the playable area of the game. Cause it's kind of feels like that's what psychedelics do. There's like, it lets us kind of exit this little playable map temporarily. So one of these game developers said, oh, you just, if you can get somebody to modify one pixel, then they can modify the entire map. So if, if one pixel is glitching, then we can glitch, you can glitch all kinds of stuff. So I thought maybe we can do that in humans. So I've done this hundreds of times. So you just make a mark on the wall with a pencil and then you kind of fast forward their life. So like you bring them to like, say there were six. Now we're going to bring them back into the room when they're eight, the bed sheets are different. Maybe the wall color changed, something like that. But the one thing they can do is walk over there to the light switch and see that that tiny little dot is still there. So something, and now you're starting to see that there's permanence through time. It makes sense so far. Yeah. So if we can get them to do that, like 50 times, tiny change. You're doing it through hypnosis? Yeah. Okay. I mean, hypnosis is such a loaded, crazy word. They're, they're relaxed. They feel safe and their brain is in theta brainwave state most of the time, which is around seven Hertz. Yeah. I've been hypnotized. Um, and I thought it was going to be like, uh, I didn't know what was going on. I was in another world. No, it's a, it's a very odd state of mind. Yeah. It's kind of like guided meditation or, but you feel very conscious. It's not, and I remembered it. It wasn't, it didn't wake up my pants off. It was pretty normal. Yeah. It didn't become a Manchurian candidate as far as you know, as far as I know. Right. So, uh, if you can do this 15, 20, 30 times of one pixel at a time and show that it's permanent through time, then you can go back to other events. And instead of editing the memory itself, you teach them how to shift perspective. So you, now you can do it. You take them through 30 more events really quick, a true events, a birthday party, a dinner, adult life, children doesn't matter. And now like, let's say I'm at, at a dinner party. Can I jump from one body to another and experience the event through that lens? So now, so first we make them an expert at editing memory and seeing permanence in time. Second is perspective shifting in real memory. So I can jump across the table. I can be at my own wedding and maybe be somebody in the The final layer is exactly what psychedelics do. So the final layer is go back to that event when you got kicked in the nuts and everybody laughed at you in elementary school or whatever. And you can reprocess that memory in a very short amount of time as an adult with the perspective of an adult. So meaning like so if you had a traumatic event in high school where somebody beat you up in front of everybody and everybody mocked you and it just like destroyed your year and destroyed your confidence. You can go back and shift this person's experience. Yeah. And instead of modify the memory like, no, that never happened. The memory stays. The perspective changes. So now you show permanence over time. So that has downstream effects for all kinds of stuff later in life. So this is when a script got written of I've got to be tough. I've got to be loud or somebody's going to hurt me or you know what I mean? Like one of these little childhood scripts. So you get the downstream effects. So you can go in there and there's probably you could probably edit memories. I've always been nervous to modify stuff that's way more than like a pixel or something insignificant. But the memory stays the same. The perspective is what changes and you can show that it's got a demonstrable effect downstream of that. Their whole life can be different after that day. And it's just like a mushroom. That's exactly what psychedelics do. This is massive perspective shift on memory. And so is this something that you're actively doing? With clients, I'll do this on occasion. But now is anybody else doing it? Maybe a few. There's probably a few people doing it. And is there any like times where you guys get together and discuss techniques and what's effective and what's not effective? And there should be. We don't. Right. Because it seems like this is kind of a big deal. And it seems like someone could fuck it up. Like it has. It has the potential for delusional perspective shifting. Yeah. I mean, you've got to be responsible about it. But nowadays, I think that psychedelics can achieve a lot of that without having to go through some like I need you to go back to the original event. And like having me vocally take you back there using this archaic, stupid ass language that can't even describe a psychedelic experience with this language. Right. This is what I was doing mostly before. Psychedelics. And you know how I got into psychedelics was the Spirit Molecule movie that you did the voiceover for it. And that was what kind of introduced me to the entire the field of everything where I thought, wow, this just doesn't seem like a recreational drug. And that was the big shift was watching that documentary for me. Yeah. My big shift was reading Rick Strassman's book. I still haven't read it. I need to. Yeah. He was the first guy to get FDA approval. To do psychedelic studies. And the way he did it was very clever. He did it to prove that these are damaging and dangerous. That's how he framed it. That's so brilliant. He's a very smart guy. I mean, you're talking about a guy who taught himself ancient Hebrew. Oh, wow. Yeah. Over 16 years, taught himself to read and speak ancient Hebrew so that he could really read the Bible in its original form. Wow. Yeah. He's fast. He's fascinated by prophecy and ancient religious stories. And, you know, like a lot of people that have had DMT experiences, once you do, you look at those old stories and you go, OK, what are these stories really? What was the original event? Like, it's so hard when you're like Moses in the burning bush. Well, there's scholars in Israel that think that burning bush was the acacia tree. Yeah. But the acacia tree is rich in DMT. And that might be what it represents, this experience of meeting God through a burning bush as he smoked DMT. Yeah. Which, for anybody who's done DMT, they go, oh, that makes sense. Yeah. I mean, these scholars, I don't think these scholars are freaks. I don't think they're psychedelic heads. I think they're just religious scholars that are trying to, like, figure out, like, what was the origin of that story? Yeah. I've never heard of it. Yeah. The acacia. Yeah. Well, acacia tree, very rich in DMT. But phalaris grass, very rich in DMT. Mimosa plant. And for people that don't know, the reason why – well, DMT exists in probably thousands of different plants. But you can eat those plants and not experience DMT because of monoamine oxidase. So mono – MAO is what your gut makes to break this stuff down so it doesn't become psychoactive. But when you take an MAO – Right. When you take an MAO inhibitor and the psychedelic, then you get ayahuasca. That's what ayahuasca is. That's why it's an orally active version of DMT. Yeah. Which methylene blue is in MAOI. Oh, interesting. It's a pretty light – it's a pretty light form of it. But if you're on methylene blue and you do psychedelics, it's going to deepen. I can imagine. A lot of people are very hesitant about methylene blue. They don't like the idea of it. They think it's very dangerous or potentially dangerous that we don't know enough about it. We've been researching it since 1890. And it's in every emergency room. Is it really? Every emergency room. Have you ever heard of anybody having bad experiences with methylene blue or side effects? There are some contraindications. So people that are on a high-dose SSRIs. Oh, OK. And if you're taking an MAOI, you can't eat aged cheese and wine because of this chemical called tyrosine that's in there. Oh. Aged cheese. Yeah. So something about the fungus? The mold? Yeah. Maybe there's – Red wine and aged cheese both have tyrosine, which when you mix tyrosine with an MAOI, it can cause a hypertensive crisis. Oh. So like a super blood pressure issue. But I haven't heard anybody having a bad time with it. But you've got to stick to the right dose. Obviously, you've got to talk to a doctor about it. Well, let's ask AI. Put that into AI. See what is the negative. Consequences of taking methylene blue. Maybe there's something that we don't know. Huberman's a little bit hesitant about it, you know. Yeah. And I've talked to other people that say it seems like for certain metabolic conditions, it's very beneficial. But for people that have a normal metabolic, like your whole system is working fine and perfect, it might not just not be necessary but might cause harm. But they were very vague about what that harm would be. I don't think it's for everybody. It may not be for everybody. It saves my life for sure. Which, I mean, I could stop taking it today and I'll have a seizure within 48 hours. That's wild. Yeah. You said you had a seizure last time after you visited here? The night before I came on the show. Wow. Okay, Methylene Blue, this is our AI sponsor, Perplexity. 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It probably says that on. Oh, interesting. Safety for chronic low-dose experimenting for anti-aging or cognition is not well-established and is not. Currently recommended without medical supervision. I know a lot of people that take it. I know Bobby. Bobby takes it. Uh-huh. Yeah. He's one of them. A lot of people that take it that say it improves cognitive function. It's supposed to. Also, when you take it with red light therapy, it's supposed to greatly increase the effectiveness. Unbelievably so, yeah. Yeah? Really? Yes. If you want to go into it for just a minute here. Sure. Methylene Blue has what's called a neuronal affinity. So they used to. Like you stick it on a microscope slide with a brain cell, it sucks into the neuron automatically. And it does the same thing in your body. So if I know that I'm basically dyeing all of my neurons blue, and I'm not just talking about in your head. We have neurons everywhere, our whole body. So if I'm dyeing a lot of my neurons blue, and I see something that's. Methylene Blue is blue because it reflects blue light, which also means that it absorbs almost all red. Uh-huh. So if my neurons are dyed blue, and then I go into near infrared and infrared light, I know that I'm getting way more absorption in there. Let's fucking go. That makes sense. In the third stage of cellular breathing, we produce this chemical called cytochrome C oxidase. And cytochrome is. It's like cell color, cytochroma, where our cells can start running, essentially running on photons, which is beautiful and amazing. And if you get a good red light system, and I have no plug, but you get a good red light system, it'll penetrate through the skull, up to like four inches through your skull, in good systems. Whoa. Even lasers. They make laser beds and all this other stuff. Yeah, I have one of those red light beds that looks like a tanning bed. I bought it off. From Gary Brecker's company. It's very expensive, but it's pretty profound. I don't need reading glasses anymore. I used to have these fucking things everywhere, all over my house. I used to need them to read my phone. If I wanted to read an email, I don't need them anymore. Wow. Yeah. It's nuts. I don't bring them with me anymore. If I would go on the road before, and I had to do a trip for the UFC or whatever, and I didn't have my reading glasses, I'm like, fuck. Now I've got to make everything big. I can't read anything. Not anymore. No. My vision got better from red light therapy. I don't doubt it. For sure. I also don't close my eyes. I keep my eyes wide open. Same. It's like, oh, you need goggles. Like you're fucking staring at some nuclear bomb or something. Yeah. It's not. No. So it doesn't seem to bother my vision at all. Yeah. And I've heard so many doctors, and obviously none of this is advice for anybody, I've heard so many doctors say throw the safety goggles in the trash. Look right into it if you want to. It's going to help your eyes. There's so many stories of people with macular degeneration and glaucoma and eye conditions and stuff that it's gotten multitudes better than it was. Obviously, my story is anecdotal, but my vision was shifting in a real bad way. I was using three, those three power ones, you know, those cheap, these things are cheap. I buy them off Amazon. But I used three, and I started with one, like one power, and then it got to two power, and then I'll get to three. I'm like, Jesus Christ. I'm fucking going blind. I can't see shit. Yeah. I don't need any anymore. Now, my vision's not perfect. It's not 20-20. It's not what it used to be. So when I read things, it's like maybe slightly blurry, and if I put reading glasses on, I look a little better. But I don't need them anymore, and it keeps getting better. I also take Lutein and a bunch of different supplements. I take this, no affiliation. I don't work with them or anything, but it's called Pure Encapsulations Macular Support. They have a supplement for it. I take those. I've been taking those steadily. At the same time, I've been doing the red light therapy, and it works. At least it works for me, you know. It worked for Whitney Cummings. Same thing with her. Her vision got way better. She's very diligent about it. She does it every day. There's something there. Yeah. Something there. Well, there's for sure something about staring at a fucking phone all day that's really bad for your eyes. Yeah. Staring at a phone. Staring at a tablet. Staring at a laptop. Staring at a computer screen. It's not good for your eyes. Period. There's no way. There's no way. Yeah. When I look at my phone in bed at night, if I do, it hurts my eyes. Yeah. You know? Like, if it's dark in the room, and I'm like, let me check my email real quick. I get to my email, it's like, ugh. It's like it's bright. 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It's tough, but I did it on our two-year-old's iPad, and nothing is addictive anymore. Like she won't sit there and stare at it for more than three or four minutes anymore. Whoa. Yeah, and it's just like I didn't buy some special device or anything. You just go into accessibility and make it red. And it used to be that she would just sit there and hold the iPad. I'm an anti-electronics guy, so I wanted to try this experiment. And the moment I turned it red, she didn't complain about the red. She got used to it within 15 minutes and never complained again. Her iPad has never gone off of the red mode. And she doesn't get hooked into shows anymore. Whoa. She'll watch it for a few minutes and be like, okay, that's great. Put it down and then she'll go play. Wow. So it's worth an experiment if anybody's got little small kids out there. Or do it to yourself. It's amazing that they provide you with a tool to escape the addiction that they've created. Created. It's so true, man. Because it's a pretty intense addiction. I think they feel like, good luck. You're never getting off this hook. This hook is sunk in deep and the barb is strong. Big time. It's so strong. And it's the production tool of reality right now. If I want to alter reality, I've just got to engineer how you see it. And that's the way that we see reality is what's on my phone. Yeah, and that's the problem that a lot of people have with tech companies is that you're giving these people that aren't particularly wise, they might be intelligent, they figured out how to code these things and make these things and market these things, but it's not like they're monks. They're not these profound visionaries that are much more educated and enlightened than the general population. No, a lot of them have autism and no empathy. They're out of their fucking minds. And they're optimizing the software continually to make sure that they're doing the right thing. To get people to engage with it. They want you to. Yeah, I mean, that's the EBITDA. That's the bottom line revenue comes from ads. And how many ads can I show you? And if I know. And your data. How much data of yours can I sell? Yeah. It's nuts. Which is why I think it's so important for people to be literate, extremely literate in what's going on with your phone, what's going on with your brain and psyops. The shit that we see coming out of the news right now. And I'm the guy that trains psyops. In two days after I leave here, I'm going to Fort Bragg to train the United States Army Psyops Division. I'm the guy. What are you training them in? Are you allowed to say? In psyops. Are you just training them how they work and how to do it? Yeah, I'm the body language, like people reading guy. I don't know if you've ever seen our YouTube channel, The Behavior Panel. Yes. You got a great YouTube channel. It's awesome. Really good. Thank you. Thanks. And I have another one with three other behavior profilers where we break down videos of people in interrogation and stuff like that. And I think it's so important to be literate in a lot of this stuff and how does our brain work? How can I be compromised? And so I created a tool and I gave it to Jamie before we started the show that will give you a 1 to 100 score on how likely something is a psyop. Oh. Is it an app or is it like on a website? It's just a PDF. PDF. Okay. And you can run anything through it and you can run it historically and see what's a psyop and what's not. And it's kind of subjective, but at least you get a standardized score for everything. And you can see like if you went to like the invading Iraq initially. Okay. That's a good one. That would score a 98 out of 100 for psyop just on this tool here. So it kind of goes in layers. So step one, it's like this pre-ignition. Like I have societal stuff going on. There's moral panic. Then operational. Are there drills happening that are kind of similar to this? Military ramping up. The regulatory. Obviously, it's pretty there. Like bills getting passed at two in the morning. Right. 5,000 bills. Then alignment. So like people suddenly aligning different news agencies and then authorities, celebrities are starting to come out with the same messaging and stuff like that. And then media. Like, it's just kind of flooding little slogans and stuff. So if that kind of score's kind of high, and you don't even need the numbers right now. Then we move to the next one. So has this happened before? The precursor anomalies. Like, have they done this before? Well, a matter of fact, they gave people LSD against their will at MKUltra, you know, whatever. Like, is there some precursor? - Right. - And then identical phrasing across unrelated outlets. So we see something on MSNBC and Fox saying the same kind of phrasing or something. That's kind of suspicious. And then, they introduced villains that are pre-packaged. Pretty obvious. Injecting symbolism. And then the manufacturer urgency. Like, if this bill isn't passed in the next 72 hours, we're gonna face a national crisis and all this kind of stuff. And then you can just kind of go down the walkway and it'll give you a predictive score of how likely something is a psyop. And one of the biggest things is, if you don't wanna like, this is a lot of crap to memorize, but are you seeing authority figures resonate with each other? And is nuance not being presented to you? And that's like, if I'm not seeing nuance. If I have a left versus right issue and there's a pre-packaged villain, that's a psyop. If you just look at those couple of things. And nowadays, we have a death of nuance. Where no one's getting presented any nuance to anything. It's either you're on this side, you're wearing this jersey or this jersey. Which is really toxic to our whole society. The whole entire country. The whole world. - And it's accentuated by clips and these weird little things. - Yeah, and if you're on the left. - The take out nuance. - Let's say I'm on the left. When I log into social media, whatever it is, they're gonna show me the dumbest shit head morons on the other side that they could possibly find. And the same thing if I'm on the right. They're gonna show me the biggest idiots. And the only goal is being like, me thinking, oh my God, these people are insane. And it's me thinking that's all of them. But if you go to Target right now and see somebody that voted differently than you, you want the same shit. You want your kids to be healthy. You want safety. You want to pay less taxes. You want the government less and less involved in your life. They're not all insane. But the goal is to make you think all the other side is insane. That's the ultimate side. So then at the end here, you kind of get a one to 100 score. And I bought a TV station. Did I tell you about this? - No. - I was gonna text you. Or I was gonna send you an email about this. I bought a TV station. We started our own daily news show where we run the day's events all the way through the PSYOPs index every single day. And we show here's how you're being presented. Here's how you're being made to feel about this issue. Here's where nuance has been taken out. Every single thing that's like truly going on. Here's the bill that got passed that nobody's talking about that has a lot to do with this. They're saying the Strait of Hormuz is gonna open, but here's what Brent Crude is predicting oil price is at. So the insurance market has a lot more info than the news is gonna give you. So we'll try to give you every single day, here's how you're being made to feel. Here's the actual news. Here's what the left is gonna say. Here's what the right's gonna say. And here's where they're killing nuance. Here's where you're being presented a binary choice. And I think I'm trying to, like I wanna make, Syops irrelevant. And what we have to do, what are the steps we have to take to not really inoculate people from Syops, but just to make them so fucking visible that it's just obvious. And yeah, they're gonna have to invent something else and they will. But at least for a few years, people are really wise to everything. Like this is very obvious. 'Cause like all the things that were up on that sheet right there, if you look at that a few times, it starts to become irrelevant. And my goal is to make people more expensive to influence. - I think it's possible. I think if this gets out there, the more people are aware and just can piece it together. And the more that narrative starts getting pushed, that people start repeating it. Like, let's pay attention to this. When you say you bought a TV channel or a TV station, what do you mean? - Like an actual station, a physical station with a news desk and-- - Where does it air? - Yeah. - It's on YouTube right now. - So where'd you buy this place? Where, what, was it just like-- - 10 minutes from my house. - So it was a former TV station that was like going out of business? - Yeah, we retrofitted everything, upgraded it. - Oh, wow. - But it's-- - It's probably a fire sale on TV stations right now. - Yeah, it was, we got a good deal. - Nobody's watching TV, that's great. - Yeah, we retrofitted it and like the quality's up there with like Fox or anybody else. Like we have a daily show. - What's the daily show on YouTube called? - Station One. - Station One. - Yeah, surprisingly that wasn't taken. - It's a new channel? - Yeah. - Oh, perfect. - Brand new channel, we have like, most of the subscribers were my mom, I think for the first month. We're growing now. - So you just started it off and no fanfare, just try to get the feet on the ground, figure it out. - Yeah, try to kick it off. And it's, you know, I do it with my YouTube channel, which I've got two million something subscribers on YouTube and it's cool that I can make videos and make these documentaries. But you know on YouTube, like you can't change it up on people. Like there's, the algorithm punishes when you change things. So we had to start a new channel. Like you had to-- - Interesting. - Like you guys started JRE clips. 'Cause you can't like, back in the day, the algorithm said you can't do short form and then long form stuff. And the algorithm kind of punishes you for that. So you had to make a new channel for it. Probably what Jamie did or the team did. - I don't remember what the initial reason was. I think we decided it would be good just to have a second channel as well anyway, just in case. 'Cause there was always the threat that YouTube was gonna remove us. - Okay. - Which I do think that if it wasn't for Spotify and it wasn't for the fact that I was primarily on Spotify, I probably would have been removed during the whole COVID thing. - Oh my God, yeah. - Yeah, 'cause we were regularly questioning a bunch of different things that could have got you removed. We were regularly questioning the COVID lab leak, We're regularly questioning whether or not there was any danger to taking these vaccines, regularly questioning alternative medical care. Yeah. And that was maybe the biggest psyop of our lifetimes. For sure. And now confirmed. That woke up normal people. That woke up average people. Oh, yeah. Because it was so obvious. Woke up a lot. Some of them, like, they just can't shake them. They're on 15 ambience. Fucking, they're just, they're going to stay. Yeah. I've got family members that are very trustful of government. And they're like, no, Chase, if it was going to go bad or if it was this thing, they would tell us. And I was like, these are the people who gave you the food pyramid. Right. And told you to eat 16 loaves of bread every day. And, yeah, it's the idea that the government is here to help you. It's like, that's the dumbest. That was Reagan's best line. Yeah. That they're the five. Yeah. We're the government and we're here to help. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's, it's interesting how people will believe in the government if it is convenient. But then if the other people are the government, then it's 100% negative. Yeah. It's like, people are so ideologically captured. And that's why people are completely unwilling to look at anything positive that one of the other members, someone from the other side, proposes. Exactly. Which is what I found really fascinating. the response to the Trump thing. You know, that Trump passing the psychedelic initiative and trying to push through Ibogaine and psilocybin and all these different methods that people have used to overcome addiction and treat all these different things that we talked about before. They didn't know what to do with that. That was a weird one because they tried to find all sorts of negatives. I saw people trying to find negatives. Because it's him. Yeah. Which is so crazy. And there was also negatives because it was pushed by me. And because the idea was Joe Rogan helping mental health policy in America. Is that real? You're the green guy who takes horse pace. Yeah. And a dragon believer. Yeah. It's an interesting time to be alive. You know, really is. So emotionally for you, I think if I saw myself edited like that on CNN or something, I feel like that would. Wreck me. I feel like that would emotionally make me feel like shit for such a long time. Were you just like over it? Oh, it didn't make me feel like shit for a second. I started laughing. I thought it was hilarious. OK. I was also very aware that they weren't aware that my show was way bigger than them. See, the thing about mainstream media is that mainstream media had ruled for so long that they had gotten delusional. They had been like a champion that didn't think that he had a train anymore. And then some new contender came along that had been, you know, in the mountains of fucking Siberia. Yeah. You know what I mean? And someone came out of the blue and just fucked them up. And they were they're so bad at this thing that they think they run. And they're also they also are very they're very unaware of the actual playing field. So the actual playing field that they exist in is so limited that they cannot ever achieve the kind of acceptance. Acceptance or interaction or trust that alternative media can. Yeah. So there's too many people involved. Too many people will most certainly move things and water things down to like what you were talking about before. Like, here's what I want people to think I believe. Right. Yeah. Which is most of what mainstream media produces. It's here's what I want people to think I believe. You don't believe any of those people reading that teleprompter because none of it seems sincere. Your mind registers. This is a person. Reading something that's been written. It doesn't register. And then when you see them talking freeform, like on those panel shows on CNN, you're like, oh, you guys are fucking retarded. Like this is you guys have some of the dumbest opinions. You're so uninformed. You're so ideologically captured. This is so not compelling. They've turned CNN into a fucking group podcast. That's a lot of the shows on CNN are bad podcasts with like shitty guests who, you know, they're no nuance. They're yelling over each other. Exactly. It's a terrible form. No nuance whatsoever. It's also the problem that they have to break for commercials. Oh, yeah. And then there's the problem that the funding for those commercials, a giant chunk of it is pharmaceutical drug companies. Huge. Yeah. And and as Mike Benz and Callie Means and a lot of people have talked about, they don't do that because they want to sell drugs. They do that because now the news will not criticize. The pharmaceutical drug company, the pharmaceutical drug company is responsible for enormous part of their income. Yeah. And I mean, I wouldn't say definitively that that's happening. But I mean, if you're the if you're the CEO of the president, you know exactly where the money's coming from. A hundred percent. And if you get a phone call that says, hey, you know what? Maybe not mention that. Yeah. Or maybe maybe attack someone who's got a narrative exactly and turn them green and do all that. But like I said, for me, it was a big deal. It was making me laugh. I thought it was funny. I was like, this is such a classic mistake. Like you guys are completely out of touch. Yeah. Just delusional. Not understanding the backlash of that, of just doing open. Like in your face, like there was no like, hey, look over here. Right. It was just in your face. Sigh off. Not just that. They're also you. You're making a green version of a video that exists on Instagram. On Instagram first. So it's already out there. You don't think the Internet is going to see that there's a difference in my skin tone on CNN than on Instagram? On Instagram, I look rosy and healthy. I wasn't lying. I was making a video. I was if I was really sick, I was outside. I was outside having a I was like, I feel good. I felt shitty for a day. I was being completely honest. Nor did I ever think that it was going to be controversial to talk about ivermectin. I had no idea. So ivermectin was not a controversial substance. Before I talked about it in that one video. Yeah, it was. It was normal. You could get it at a pharmacy. Your doctor could prescribe it to you. Mine did. But he also prescribed to me a ton of other stuff. Exactly. Yeah, it's so much other stuff like finbendazole. That's now getting into the same category as ivermectin was. And Mel Gibson talked about it here with you. Yes. That combo. And there's a study now that shows I think it's from 2022 that it's a cancer like a new cancer treatment. Right. What the hell? I know it's not patented. So it's exactly it's a demon. It's a demon. And these news stations are all complicit. They're all in bed with the pharmaceutical drug companies who, again, are responsible for an enormous part of their advertising budget. And that's where they make their money. Yeah. And they don't have a lot of people that believe them anymore. I think they lost a lot of their credibility during the COVID epidemic. Who? Media? News media. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And the government. And the government. But most people are aware like, oh, this is a psyop. And then, of course, the final straw was Elon purchasing Twitter and then the Twitter files. So when Matt Taibbi and Michael Schellenberger and all these different people got a hold of these files where you could see the emails between the federal government and these social media companies where they could see the emails between the federal government and these social media companies, and they could see the emails between the federal government and these social media companies, they were all trying to censor true stories. And you're like, what? And then when Zuckerberg was on my podcast, I explained how the FBI had contacted him and told him that they wanted him to censor stories and censor the Hunter Biden laptop story. Terrifying. It's fucking crazy. This is this is literally Banana Republic shit. So have you heard of Project Mockingbird? Yes. Operation Mockingbird. And I mean, it's not new. So, I mean, somebody says like, oh, I can't believe the government's doing this. I'm like, wait a sec. Just go just look at history. Right. And Dr. Phil says one time is a pattern. And if you go back, there's way more than one time this has happened. Operation Mockingbird, Walter Cronkite was a CIA asset. Yeah. Legit CIA asset. So is Anderson Cooper. Is he? Anderson Cooper worked for the CIA when he was in college. I didn't know that. Yeah. Look that up. Make sure that's true. I'm 99% sure. Julia Childs. Oh. Did you know she was CIA? Oh, it's a lovely, lovely little thing. It's beautiful. She was in the CIA teaching people how to bake. I think she did the hand to hand combat course. Fuck people up with a rolling pin. Is the Anderson Cooper thing correct? I believe he worked for the CIA in college. Anderson Cooper interned at the CIA for two consecutive summers while he was a political science major at Yale University. He did not pursue a career in intelligence, wink, wink, after graduating, later describing the agency's desk work at Langley as less James Bond than I hoped it would be. Yeah. Well, I think it's all less James Bond. It's more money. It's more money and influence and what do the people in power want people to believe. But he's not the only one. Walter Cronkite- There were hundreds. Yeah. Hundreds and hundreds. Yeah. So much so, it was every network. Yeah. And there's no direct. There's no declassified document that says, "Here's what we told them to say, or here's how compromised they were. But they were compromised completely and most likely told exactly what to say or what stories to suppress. Does Mike Wallace have some sort of a connection? I don't know. See if Mike Wallace had some sort of a connection with the CIA. But it's a bunch of prominent, respected, trusted news anchors. Yes. All over the place. And this is through the 50s, 60s, I think in the beginning of the 70s until this thing called the. Mike Wallace is famous for his probing investigative reporting on CBS's 60 Minutes regarding the CIA, most notably a landmark 1993 report, Carl, titled the CIA's cocaine exposed. So he's the opposite. So he worked to expose CIA stuff. The report exposed a covert CIA anti-drug operation in Venezuela that allowed hundreds of millions of dollars in cocaine to be smuggled. Okay, this is unfair. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So it's the opposite. But with so many things, like somebody's like, oh, I can't believe COVID's doing this. Be like, well, look at history again. Like we dosed millions of people with LSD against their consent, against their will. Was it millions? I think, well, there were experiments with aerosol forms of LSD that were in cities. What? Yeah. I didn't know about that. Jamie. Aerosol, LSD. In cities? Somewhere near like Vermont or Boston. It was somewhere up in like the New England area. Dude. What kind of a psycho do you have to be to like get a crop tester plane and fill up a tank of LSD and just spray it on kids? I don't get it. And then you go back to when we dosed, I don't know, I don't know how many African-Americans with syphilis or we like grouped them together. They had syphilis. Uh-huh. And didn't treat them. And gave them fake treatments and stuff. U.S. government has never openly sprayed LSD from their air over entire cities. However, during the Cold War, intelligence agencies and the military did conduct covert aerosol and mind control experiments on the public. What does that mean? It means you did it. Yeah. Not from a plane though, most likely. They were like- They probably had a fan and a bucket. CIA's notorious project MKUltra sought to weaponize LSD and use it for mind control. CIA operatives were sent to San Francisco to- Yeah. Spray the air with LSD 25 at an unwitting party of guests. Oh, I did hear about this. The result, the agency ultimately abandoned the specific aerosol test at the last minute because the summer weather was too hot to keep the windows closed and their specialized aerosol device malfunctioned. There we go. Number two, the army sprayed thousands of unsuspecting Americans with aerosolized chemicals. Yeah. Military released a fine powder called zinc cadmium sulfide over 33 urban and rural areas. Scroll up a little bit, please. Yeah. The targeted cities, affected cities included St. Louis, Minneapolis, Winnipeg, Corpus Christi, and Fort Wayne. St. Louis was deliberately chosen because its population density and the terrain were similar to the Soviet targets like Moscow. I was just looking up something else. Did you know about this? Why the fuck did Dan Rather and Donald Rumsfeld buy a New Mexico ranch together in 1981? That's the same year he was promoted to news anchor at CBS Evening News. Good Lord. It's also right next door to the Epstein Ranch in New Mexico. Right. And Epstein famously got that to be close to Los Alamos, right? So he could lure those scientists over with a pussy. Unbelievable. Yeah. But I mean, you go back through history, everybody's like, oh, the COVID, it was crazy. It's not new. It's just we hadn't experienced it so blatantly before because they had never tried something like that during the age of social media. Yeah. And they used a playbook that relied on putting a letter in the mail or sending a telegram. Yeah. They used a playbook also that required having control over the narratives that were being pushed out by the media. Yeah. And the media had lost its luster, lost its impact on people. At the same time, the rise of podcasts had happened kind of under the radar. And they didn't recognize it. They missed it. They just overestimated their position. Yeah. And during COVID, you had more viewers than CNN even. Not only that, when they turned me green and all that cancellation, I gained two million followers on Spotify in a month. Wow. Yeah. Wow. People were just like, what is going on that everybody's trying to cancel this guy? Like, what is he doing? And then they'd listen and go, oh, it's just a show where they talk to people. What are they trying to hide from us? And then you have guys on like Dr. Peter McCullough and Robert Malone and all these different people that are, you know, Peter McCullough is the most published doctor in history, in human history, in his particular field of study. And they were trying to make him out to be a quack. And then you see what they did with Jay Bhattacharya and all these different people. And one of those guys was the inventor of mRNA. Robert Malone. He has nine patents on the creation of mRNA technology. And he should never be out there telling people that it might not be safe. Not only that, he took it and had a fucking serious, horrible reaction where he almost died. Really? Yeah. Which is what prompted him to try to figure out what the fuck is going on. Because he was assured by everyone that it stayed local. It's not going to cause massive inflammation and, you know, myocarditis and all these different things that it eventually was absolutely causing, you know. And then there's, you know, they're trying to hide now the impact that it's had on children. You know, the impact that it's had on children that took it and what giant percentage of them that died after taking it died within days of the injection. Yeah. And they're trying to ignore the signal. And there's so many gaslighters all over Twitter. There's people that are paid to gaslight on Twitter. That's a fact. There's pharmaceutical drug companies, just like a lot of other companies, will pay people to post. They'll pay people to attack. They'll pay people to be the voice of authority. Authority and reason. So you can assure all the brainwashed boomers that they're right all along and everything's fine. Yeah. And if you just look at basic manipulation and mind control, the number one fear of human beings is supposedly public speaking, right? But that's not it. It's the judgment that might come from public speaking. It's not the being on stage. It's like, is somebody going to judge me? Am I going to get ostracized? So the way that they control a lot of this and gaslight people is to use the fear of social punishment and social enforcement. And if I can get one celebrity to go out there and call these people a name and just give them a name as if it's a group of people, like anti-vaxxer, conspiracy theorist, dragon believer, that kind of thing, we give it a name and that makes it easier for other people to socially enforce. And it comes from a group of people. So that's the fear of social punishment. I'm an authority figure. So you get the tribe involved and all you got to do is fuck up a few people. Yep. Like Robert Malone. And they're like, hey, I can take this guy down. What do you think I'm going to do to you? Yeah. And you just get that fear out there and that's all you need to do. And you kind of gaslight people because now I'm scared enough, but I won't say I'm scared. I'll say, no, I'd rather not just say my opinion. So now my identity gets tied into it. Now it's part of who I am. I'm just not going to say anything. And it gets normalized. Like the absolute, just let me mute myself and tape my mouth shut so I don't get punished. And then there's a bunch of people that attack and do the work for the man because they don't want to be lumped in with the other side. So they'll go on social media and call the anti-vaxxers, you know, plague rats and all these different things. And also say the wildest shit, like their children should be taken from them. They should be locked up, isolated from society. And this is something called category warfare. Have you ever heard of this? I know the expression. This guy, I can't remember his name. He wrote a book called Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things. It was the first language categories that we had for language was women, fire, and dangerous stuff. I think his name was Lakin, George Lakin or Lakoff. But if I frame something using a category, I can change what the allowed behavior is. So if I say that me and this other person are having a disagreement, your brain automatically has a list of what a disagreement is and what's acceptable. But if I say we're having a fight, now there's new stuff on the table. And all I did was change how something is defined in your brain. And we don't consciously process that our brain is getting permission to do things because of a category. But if I say I've been at war with these people for a long time, now war is way different. Or if I say like, I disagree with Rogan, that's one thing. But if I say Rogan is a threat, what do we do to something that's a threat? We have to neutralize a threat. Right. So just small words like that change what our brain says is permissible in that moment. And that is really what's going on here. So actually two layers. If I can go into this for a second. Sure. Number one is this category. Let me just get a category out there to make your brain think one thing is permissible. The second thing is I create the idea, in such a way that you get to feel more morally superior for adopting it. And you don't have to have any new morals or anything else. You just have to adopt this idea and you get to feel better than other people. And that's it. So it changed the category. It means like I can do something differently. So in a legal argument, if somebody says we're at war with the other side, this is my opponent instead of the other person, what do we do with an opponent? We have to take them down. It's a fight. There's a winner. There's a loser. There's always assumed competition there. So that is one of the biggest things that I hope everybody can look out for as the influence psyops expert. And I'm not immune to any of this stuff. I buy stupid shit off of an Instagram ad as much as the next person. But it's important to know when something is clearly presented to you and it's easy to feel emotional about it. You're being manipulated. Something's clearly presented and it's just like, here's this one thing and it's really clean and it's easy to get pissed off about or it's easy to feel comfortable about or whatever it is. If the emotional thing is easy without having to dig into it, you're being manipulated. And that's a giant percentage of what most people consume. It's yeah. All day long. Yeah. And it's it's compounding. So if I just consume a little bit, that's that's one thing. But now I get a little bit more, a little bit more, a little bit further into this rabbit hole. And we get in these obviously everyone says this online, but you get into these echo chamber of social media. All of a sudden you can you can find your people anywhere. You can you can connect with your people. If you like to make knitted yarn vest for hamsters, you can find other people that do shit like that. So back in the day, if you had a bad idea, you couldn't find a lot of other people that agreed with you. And now it's easier to find people to agree with you when you have a shitty idea. So there's a niche. There's a whole separate niche. And on top, while you're there getting told that your ideas are relevant and normal, they're not abnormal because there's so many other people. It normalizes bad ideas. The second part of that is I'm with all these people, but then I go back to normal social media and all I get told all day is, I'm right about those people. I'm right about those people. And it's just it is so sick. And and which goes back to what we were first talking about, how performative our world is. And like all of us concealed the shame so much that we can't ever be seen by anybody. Like we'll go to the grave and and feel like my wife has never even seen who I truly am. You know, and then the other thing is nuts is people have this complete inability to admit when they're wrong or change course. They have connected themselves. They've connected their their their whole being to whatever their thoughts are, whatever this thing that they've agreed is real. And once they've defended it, they never want to go back and objectively look at it and go, wait a minute. Oh, I believe this. And that's not the case. Oh, this is the case. Oh, I'm wrong. Oh, no, I got to. I got to. Correct. No, they dig in and they try to find other echo chambers that agree with their initial position and other people that. And there's plenty of people that have provided those services for you. Plenty of people. 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So I either have to say I'm a dumbass or those other people are stupid. Right. So like when Biden won the election, it was the same thing. People on the right either had to admit, wow, I'm stupid and I underestimated what our country's doing. Or the other people are just idiots and they don't know what's going on. Same thing happened when Trump got elected. Either like the whole country is stupid or I have to admit that I didn't know what was going on and I'm out of touch a little bit. And maybe there's something good. I'll just say they're all stupid. But protecting our identity is so it's ingrained into us. It's the ego thing. I don't want to be wrong. And if I am wrong and I'm wrong in public, then I risk ostracism again. So it's like it's getting kicked out of the tribe again. It's going back to the same fear. And people love to do that too. They love to attack people if they're wrong, love to destroy people and ruin all credibility that they've ever had, that they've ever. You could have been a public. figure for 10 years, putting out great information. You fuck one thing up, people want to ban you forever, especially if you don't admit it, especially. Oh, you're running for office? What about that? You took a nude when you were 19. You took a naked photo. What the fuck? And that goes back to everyone's pretending like everyone else has got their shit figured out. And that's why everyone thinks everybody's got it figured out and I'm pretending. I'm the one hiding everything. Everyone's got that shit figured out. Everyone who thinks like, oh, they're going to find out my skeleton. Everybody's got skeletons in their closet. Everybody's got stuff like that. And we're in the age where we're comparing ourselves to highlight reels. And Dr. Phil talks about this all the time. But we have to realize that people want you to be human. And we don't enjoy fake shit. This is why people are attracted to your podcast. This is why. Stuff that's real is trending so much more now. We're attracted to things that are human and flawed. That's why we buy shit that says handmade on it. We don't buy like, oh, machine made. No one celebrates that, right? We like the humanness of things. And even when I say there's a loneliness epidemic going on right now, everyone will nod their head and no one will raise their hand. Everyone will say, oh, yeah, it's affecting all those people. But no one will say it's affecting me. But they'll all nod along. I think we're getting to a place where maybe we're coming out of that. Maybe it's me. Maybe it's my echo chamber. But I feel like people are waking up. I feel like more people, not just through COVID, but just now, just the way the world is, they're like, well, you know what? This doesn't really feel. It doesn't really. It feels weird for me to hate and feel hatred towards one of my neighbors who didn't vote like I did. That feels weird. Yeah. Just to hate someone. For that reason. I think people are waking up that maybe the plan is going too fast. Maybe they're taking it too quickly. They're trying to go through all these steps too fast. It's what it feels like to me. Well, also, I don't think they're competent. I don't think they're good at it. And that's part of the problem. Good at what? Good at projecting narratives. I don't think the people that are necessarily in charge of propaganda, at least people at a government level, I don't think they're particularly slick no and that's part of the problem with all this it's like when When you're at a middle school sleepover and the dad comes in trying to be cool. It's like, hey, kids, what are you guys doing? That's the government trying to run this shit. This is when you get syringes dancing on stage on a late night TV show. Right. That was nuts. Yeah. Well, it's also a person who seems completely insincere. You know? Yeah. That version of him. It's weird because the version of him that was on The Daily Show was awesome. Like, it was this caricature. And irreverent. Yeah. And he was raw and irreverent. Yeah. But you realize, oh, that was just really good writers. Yeah. They have really good writers that created a fun Republican character that was a buffoon, but like a hilarious buffoon. Yeah. And then he went and did a TV show and you're like, oh, the real you is weird. But I think our saving grace is what you're talking about. Is that they suck at this. Like, when your teacher announces there's going to be a pizza party and expects everybody to be super freaking out about it. Like, yeah, it's pizza. But the government's like, hey, guess what we got for you? Yeah. We got this new data coming out. This new data. And the psyops are working less because of the spread of information. So people say, oh, social media is bad. You shouldn't be on social media. Well, some of that is what's exposing this stuff. Yes. And we have people. We have people out there that are like you. And I'm not kissing your ass here, but you're willing to say shit that sounds preposterous at the beginning of something and just make an observation that's real. And you're willing to just. The way that I phrase this in a lot of our training at my training is called NCI. The way that we phrase this is like the first ingredient of confidence is the willingness to receive social injury. Hmm. And we need. We need more of that. We need more people willing to receive social injury. Well, the position that I was in during the COVID thing was very unique. So it was almost easy for me because I had already I'd gotten such a head start. I was so far ahead of them. They didn't realize that my ability to say, wait, this this doesn't make any sense. Like, no, this makes any sense. And also, why am I green? And also, why are you guys lying? Why are you lying about all sorts? Different things? Why? Why are you measuring troponin levels when you're talking about myocarditis and not the actual scans of people's hearts when you realize like young people are getting legitimately fucked up from this vaccine? Not all of them, but some of them. Why? Why aren't you looking at that? How come you guys aren't looking at vaccine injuries? It seems like a significant thing that people are talking about. You got soccer players dropping dead in the middle of the field and no one's bringing that up. You're trying to gaslight us into thinking that that doesn't make any sense. I was in a unique position. I was in a unique position to be able to do that because I had like almost like quietly snuck up to this and had this large audience that they weren't aware of. Yeah. So when it happened, it was just it was just like I couldn't do anything other than what I did. I had to just keep doing it the way I did it. And it was the blowback was crazy. They tried to crush my sponsors. They organized campaigns. There was PACs involved. It was really. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Thank God I was on Spotify. And thank God Spotify is not an American company. And also it helped that I was number one in like 90 countries and not number 90 in one country. Yeah. That helped. Yeah. That helped a lot. The size of it was it was like it was so big that as big as they were, they were like, oh, like. And then there's the Streisand thing. Like you try to silence something. You're just going to make it bigger. If I went to if they kick me off of Spotify and I had to go to Rumble, it would have just blown Rumble stock up and it would have helped everybody. Yeah. I didn't know that there was that much shit going on in your life. Oh, I can't even talk about it. But there was presidents involved and former presidents involved that were contacting Spotify. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Trying to get me removed for vaccine misinformation. Yeah. Well, it turned out to be right. All of it. Not a single fucking apologize. Interviewing the dude that invented MRNA. Oh, yeah. And the most published doctor in his field. Not a single apology. Not a single apology from anybody. Not a single retraction. Not a single, you know, mea culpa. Not a single we were wrong. And, you know, I lost a lot of sponsors. I lost a lot during those days. It was interesting. There was a time where it was working. Wow. Yeah. I didn't know there was that much coordination. Oh, there was a lot of coordination. Oh, people are going to be pissed off at Joe. I don't talk about it too much because it's pretty deep. It was nuts. But it didn't work, right? But they tried. And they tried it out. They spent a lot of money. A lot of money. It wasn't a small amount of money. It wasn't a small amount of people. It was a lot of people and a lot of money. Good Lord. Yeah. That part was spooky. But the turning my face green was hilarious. That didn't bother me at all. That's good. It's also, I'm a comedian. Like, I'm a shit talker. Like, that's what I do. If you talk shit to me, it's like, you're not going to hurt my feelings that much. It's like, I'm used to it. It's normal. It's a part of the game that I play. So, you know, especially if you're doing it and there's a video that's the real video that's available for anybody that goes on my Instagram page. Like, fucking retards. Like, what are you doing? This is crazy. This is stupid jackass. The checker move. It's so dumb. And I think that what we see as authority hasn't changed in 200,000 years. But I think that what we consider to be social authority has been modified. Just kind of in the human side of things. Like, it used to be, oh, this guy's got a suit and tie on. Now all these CEOs are wearing a hoodie or a t-shirt or something. Like, the visual definition of authority has changed. And the social definition of authority has started to change now where it used to be mainstream news and now we're moving into like a post-news era of something. I don't know what the next thing is going to be. Well, I mean what Elon always says is you are the news now and the rise of independent journalists and what you have, what you're selling, what is your currency is authenticity and honesty. And as long as you don't break from that, as long as people don't find out, oh, he's secretly getting all this money from AIPAC. He's secretly getting all this money from Russia, secretly getting all this money. And, you know, oh, there's meetings where they've had – where they've told people what narratives to push. And then you see people on Twitter that are supposedly new influencers and then you see them almost cut and paste the exact same message over and over again. And then you find out, oh, there's this actual campaign. There's these campaigns where you're paid large sums of money. If you have a large following, large sums of money, like significant amount of money to be a person who pushes narratives online. That's your job. You are literally a paid propagandist. And when people find that out, you're going to lose a lot of your people that are paying attention to you, that take you seriously. But there's going to be enough that don't know about it, that just see the tweet and like, oh, my God, is that true? Like, oh, my God, that's crazy. Enough casuals. You're going to get some traction. But you have sacrificed the one thing that you need to survive in this environment, and that's authenticity and honesty. If you don't have those two things, you're fucked. Because when the mind-reading software gets uploaded and everybody knows, you and me will be all right. Yeah. They would probably look in some of our brains and go, dude, you're fucked up. But you're fucked up, too. Everybody's fucked up. We're all fucked up. It's like, how do you behave? What do you do? How do you manage your fucked-up-edness? What do you do? What do you do with your time? What do you do with your life? Yeah. We're going to know. We're going to know. Yeah. And we're going to know a lot of people online are just demons. They're just demons, like, in the real sense of the term. If you had a demon, if you were a demon, if actual demons were real, what would they be doing? What would they be doing? Well, they're going to die. Well, they would most certainly be trying to ruin people's lives. They would most certainly be trying to spread hate, spread misinformation, confuse people. Get you to compare yourself to other people. Oh, yeah. Destroy you psychologically. Get you to take medications that you don't need. Make you think that you're not enough. Yeah. Yeah. Make you think you're not enough. Take money and sacrifice other people's health and safety just for whatever financial compensation you've got. You've been given to push a narrative. Yeah. Yeah. It's demonic. And it's separation. All of that is like you are separate from these people. They don't matter. You shouldn't care about them. You are separate. There are different things. You're not connected. You're not the same thing. And that's how people justify bombings. Yeah. You know, that's how people justify war. That's how people justify all sorts of horrific behavior that human beings still engage in. What did George Carlin say? I think he said conspiracy is not required when interests all align. Right. That's a great quote. Yeah. He had so many. He said it's a big fucking club. Yep, and you're not in it. You're not in it. He had so many bangers. Yeah, he did. But there's a few people that are in the club. That's what's interesting, you know. There's a few people that get in that fucking club. And, you know, and then all of a sudden their opinions change. Yeah. All of a sudden they soften up on stances or they get killed on a campus. Have you had somebody on your show that you thought was compromised? Oh, yeah. You have to name names. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 100%. I've had people on my show that I guarantee are here to try to push a narrative. Yeah, 100%. No doubt. And my own, you know, I think in some cases it's obvious. And my job is to just keep them talking and let the Internet do its job. Can I teach you a tactic right now? Sure. That will be good for these people? Fuck yeah. All right. How much time do we have? We've got time. Okay. All right. So this is a CIA method called elicitation. And it was invented by this guy, John Nolan. And so the basic premise is you're going to get the more sensitive information you need out of a person, the less questions you should be asking. So here's how it works. You can get sensitive information out of people better with statements than questions. So there's a few different types of these statements. So the first one is called a provocative statement. And the provocative statement is just making a commentary on what somebody said. So let's say I just went through X and Y and Z. And you're like, so, so basically, and then you kind of recap what I said. Right. And so no question. And then I'll kind of, yeah, and. So I'll kind of, I'll keep giving you a little bit more information. The second is triggering a need to correct the record. So let's say you and I are in a grocery store. And I say, Joe, let's say you don't get recognized. Let's say, go over there. I want you to, within 60 seconds. I want you to find out how much the girl that's stocking the shelf over there makes per hour. So you might go over there and be like, hey, how much do you make an hour? But instantly you're weird. And that feels like an interrogation. Right. But if you went over there and you said, hey, I just read this article. Everybody that works at Whole Foods got bumped up to $26 an hour. That's fantastic. Congratulations. And she's like, what? We only make 22. And now she doesn't feel interrogated. And the answer came from correcting the record. Yes. So now you're not a weirdo who's asking how much she makes. Yeah. So now you got the sensitive information. And it felt like it was just a flowing conversation. So the third is disbelief. So somebody says something. And you don't get Jamie to pull up anything. But the disbelief is like they say, oh, and I've even worked with X and Y and Z. Or I've done this one thing. There is no way. That just sounds impossible. And then they're like, no, no. And and they'll keep going because there wasn't a question. So imagine if someone started telling you something sensitive and you're like, yeah, tell me more. Tell me more about that. It seems like you're kind of wanting to pull things out. So the more that you can use statements, the more they're just going to keep feeling completely comfortable giving you stuff. What's interesting is I don't know those methods, but I do all three of those. You do a lot of that stuff. Yeah. I just wanted you to be able to consciously grab onto it. I just do it instinctively. Yeah. I've seen you do it many times. When I smell bullshit. Yeah. My instinct is going, hold on. So what you're saying is and you just give a touch of incredulity, just a little bit of a little bit of skepticism. Yeah. And then allow them to kind of like expand on it and go, OK, so you're saying that this. All right. So are you sure that that's the case? Because a lot of people think this. No, no, no. And I do it sort of naturally. Yeah. Because the most important thing is to listen as much as possible and keep them talking and don't interrupt too much. But sometimes you have to. Sometimes you have to. Like you're pushing. Hold on. This is horseshit. Like this is like I'm going to get grilled for this online if I don't like stop this right dead in its tracks, because I know and you know that you're lying. Yeah. So let's. And then. But you. You also got to like keep them on the hook. So like you like you don't want to submit them yet. You got to like, oh, look, you got out of the arm bar. Crazy. And a couple of those, you make them correct you. And you also say like, well, that had to be challenging or that sounds fascinating. And just those tiny little comments that just kind of keep them pulling along. The Russians did this to America during the Cold War. The submarine would pull into Singapore or Thailand or something. And one of the some KGB guy would go up. There's. Some 19 year old sailor at a bar and say, like, well, we just Russia already has all these specs. And it's amazing that Russian submarines are faster than U.S. submarines because our propellers are 19 feet wide. And this is like, yeah, ours are 21. Like just just correcting the record, just a tiny little thing, correcting the record. And some 19 year old kid gives away top secret information in 35 seconds. Wow. So that's where this. Stuff came about. And when you're like if you work in the nuclear field, you have a top secret clearance. You have to go through anti-elicitation training before you leave the country and go spend time with some foreign national. God, I hope so. Yeah. And, you know, the number one thing in the first day of counterintelligence school, the first thing they say is if you're a four and she's a 10 and she's interested in you, she's a spy. That is the most primal and effective of all tactics is hot women. It is. And also we see with James O'Keefe, chatty gay guys. You see a lot of like hot guys. Yeah. You get chatty gay guys give up a lot of data. Yeah. They give up a lot of fucking information. Way more than I would ever think. Oh, it seems like the chatty gay guys are worse even than the guys that are trying to impress the women. Yeah. Yeah. I wonder how far they have to go. I wonder how many guys they have to. Sleep with. I don't want to know. I wonder. I mean, for sure, there's been a straight guy or two unless they recruit gay guys for the job, you know, because gay guys wouldn't feel nearly as bad for having sex with another gay guy to get information out of them. I think that a woman would a woman would feel like a whore, you know, a man who fuck some other guy that you probably fuck anyway. It's probably no big deal. You know, guys don't feel as bad about that. And have you ever read Red Queen? No. It's about biological behavior. It talks about like adultery in females occurs during ovulation most of the time. Really? It's fascinating stuff in there. But one of them was that women are reluctant about sexual activity because they face the risk of raising a child alone. Mm. And it's not a conscious thing. But like there's some biological. Driver that says, if I am not careful here, I'm going to be stuck with this child alone. And if I had 200,000 years ago, if you're if someone abandons you and you're pregnant and then you're raising a child on your own, you're kind of off the market for and no one's bringing you meat. No one's bringing you fish out of the river and all this kind of stuff. So I thought that was interesting. And that may be one of the reasons that it's it might be easier for dudes to go do something like that. Yeah, well, we'd have to ask James. There's got to be a reason. Well, it's also I think especially in politics, there's a large amount of in the closet gay guys that are in all sorts of levels of politics, all sorts of levels of government. Yeah, I have no doubt. Yeah. I think it's been that way since Rome, though. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, it's a very peculiar kind of person in the first place that wants to. Yeah, well, you know, the difference between today and Rome is the concealment of the shame about it. And I think most people don't know the difference between shame and guilt. I think that shame is a destructive force. There's nothing good about it. There's nothing positive about it. Guilt is focused on understanding the behavior and shame is focused on the person, the identity of the person who did it. And there's nothing productive like beating the. Shit out of yourself emotionally does not make the other person who you've harmed any better. It doesn't make the world any better. It's down. I made a video on my YouTube channel basically giving a review and a tutorial of planet Earth as if it was a video game. And like, what's that video called? I think it's called Earth is a game. Oh, so it's basically like a 20 minute like I'm with without breaking character. Like I'm giving a review. I'm actually in the game right now. And I'm making a video. I'm making a tutorial and a review of this video game that we call Earth. And one of the things I said in the video is like the developers don't tell you like what the main goals are of the game. Like, how do I get on the leaderboard? What's the way that how do you win? And we went through like 10 different metrics. But at the end of the day, I think what gets you on the leaderboard is were you an upward force on most people's lives that you encountered? Did you leave people better than you found them? and that's about it that's about fucking it wow It's like, am I a downward force on other people? Am I pushing people down constantly or am I just doing something else? And you remember like the moment you launch into DMT, you're like, oh, my God, I was worried about taxes. I'm 17 black holes away and I was worried about my I-9 form or something. I thought that was such a big deal. And it's the same thing that people – like I think if you want to learn the number one – and this is my rambling. But the number one lesson I think most people can learn is from people that are dying, people on their deathbed. There's no better book you could read about how to master this game, about how to get good at earth, is reading the regrets of dying people. Because there's so much clarity at these moments where you know you're going to die. Like, oh, my God, I thought all this shit – I thought that Lexus – I thought I had to get the Lexus. I had to impress everybody at the country club who didn't give a shit about me. And I didn't spend time with my grandkids. I didn't spend time with my kids. Everything gets so crystal clear in those moments that I think those are the best books in the world. Like you've written – I think there's a lot of nurses that work in hospice that write and like collect a lot of these things. And it's just so much perspective on what we think is so important. And then at that moment, like, oh, my God, I can't believe I prioritized all that shit. Absolutely. I think this is perfect. Way to end this. Yeah, man. That was awesome. Thank you very much. Okay. So Station One, is that what it is? Channel One or Station One? Station One. Station One on YouTube. Yeah. And then your show is – what's the channel? Or Chase Hughes on YouTube. Chase Hughes and Station One. Yeah. Thank you very much, man. Really appreciate it. Thanks, Joe. It's awesome. It's really, really good stuff. Thanks, man. Thank you. All right. Bye, everybody. See you. It's football season, and Uber Eats is delivering deals every game day. So order a six-inch turkey, tuna, or meatball. Sub from Subway, and you'll get one free. Order now for buy one, get one, select six-inch subs from Subway, only on Uber Eats. See app for details.