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I remember that George remember the book I was talking about the George Friedman book where it was the next hundred years and they predicted all that stuff.

This is the book. This is the book dude. This is the next hundred years book.

Russia collapses. All those countries, Turkey's gonna start, they're all gonna start grabbing pieces of the former Russian states whatever.

Dude this book is sick as hell.

I just read that one book but pretty sick.

He basically called 2020 was gonna be chaos, bro.

He tried to lay out what will where will be in terms of geopolitics his to define it he's saying geopolitics are the kind of like the Churning and like invisible forces that come about from a bunch of distinct countries pursuing their rational and like if you're from Yugoslavia, you're gonna want Yugoslavia to be doing as good as Yugoslavia personally possibly can do and that'll have an effect on the neighboring country Then a bigger power might have to intervene.

So he was saying his prediction is where we'll be in 2100 and The best part about it is he just comes right off the bat and he goes I you know, I'm gonna it's gonna look like I'm America centric but all this shit about America like being over. He's like, it's just hogwash He's like we're a young.

We're a young democracy. We have just unrivaled military and economic power. He's like it's not even fucking close Like he's like it's not like our Navy just our naval power It's ridiculous.

He's like they'll be the superpowers of the I fuck with that Russia collapses China collapses Poland's gonna be strong Poland's gonna be tight said hat Poland has been off the map for a while He's like they're gonna come back.

He was saying we're gonna go it's tough to predict. Oh, he said we're gonna get a Out like space generated energy, so we're gonna have a solar panel. He's like solar panels on that land. It's too much. It's too clunky, it's kind of shitty. He's like, but we're gonna go out set him up on the moon We're gonna start harnessing why try the energy back?

There's a good book called The Next 100 Years. By George Friedman. He laid it out in the early 2000s, predicting things like Russia taking back Ukraine and the future of global power struggles.

He wrote that the United States just needs to destabilize any other power, not win wars. He said Russia's population decline will be a huge problem by 2050 and that China won't take over.

I read Roots bro. Jury Roots, you would know. You read Roots, you know it's half race in the very beginning.

You sure? I thought that was like the uncle's rule.

Half your age plus seven, which is actually really fucking young, but that was that was the Muslim rule, half your age plus seven.

It was like 34 is what like 17 plus 7, 24. I'm gonna take a stab so it was like, it's actually pretty good.

But then back then in the village, you know, according to the book Alex Haley and Roots, who yeah, did get people, but it's funny to people the book came out, people were like motherfucker and they're like I'm gonna I'm gonna sink this fucking yeah.

Did you read Roots, bro? You would know. You read Roots, you would know it's half the age in the very beginning.

They tried to give the Muslims credit for wanting to fuck young chicks. They said Muslim rule is half your age plus seven.

So it was like, that's actually pretty good. But then back then in the village, you know, according to the book, Alex Haley and Roots who yeah, did get people, but it's funny too, people with the book came out and people were like motherfucker.

So in the African Roots, feel that's right. And you explained it right. I was just not, yeah. And the book Roots that's what, if you were a widow or, you know, I mean, you know, I don't think back then chicks just like didn't get wiped out. It's fiction.

I read Roots, bro. Jerry Roots, you know, you read Roots, you know, it's half in the very beginning.

They tried to give the Muslims credit for wanting to fuck young chicks. They said Muslim rule is half your age plus seven.

So I think in the book, the guy was like thirty four and had like a I don't know the exact math. It would have been thirty four as well, like seventeen plus seven.

But then back then in the you know, according to the book, Alex Haley and Roots who did get people.

In the book Roots. That's if you were a widow or, you know, I mean, you know, I don't think back then chicks just like didn't get which is it's fiction.

I'm gonna fact-check it my a fact-check it like they did to Roots Alex Haley

I read Goggins book your nookies are gonna go straight in your ass

I read Goggins book your nookies are gonna go straight in your ass It's very cold to stay in there for like yeah

David goggins his knees. He grew up in fucking indiana, dude He was the only white kid in school. He went he dude his story's fucked up.

He was getting like legitimately tortured for what

He was like beneath. It was just bullshit, dude

He was on the bus And a little kid ran out with like a tray of cookies to bring to the bus driver The bus driver didn't see him and ran his head over And fucking and goggins got off.

Open his textbook and get notes of people being like we're gonna fucking kill you like hitting them with like hard ends Went to the principal to report it. The principal's like they didn't spell it right though

I wrote a book called The Franklin Scandal, which is basically Epstein has a carbon copy of The Franklin Scandal was about child trafficking that we're retrying it to but that the first time.

I read about half of The Franklin Scandal. And like I said, I was falling asleep. I would listen to, I listen to audio books at night.

it was fucking me up. Like every night I was like, Jesus Christ.

The Franklin Scandal, I was very, very cautious with it and very, very careful. I wanted to nail everything because I knew what I was, the book that I was writing was so antithetical to people's mundane reality that it was going to be met with very, very, a lot of skepticism.

And like I had a list of 60 victims. So it was up to me to find the victims.

And that was tough because a lot of those kids, and you see with Epstein too, you see with a lot of pedophile networks, a lot of the kids come from lower socioeconomic backgrounds and dysfunctional families. And that makes them ripe for predators.

I Downloaded that book that audiobook of The Franklin Scandal

It's about like government officials doing a pedophile ring.

It's very scary

I overheard some of that Just hear that whatever they're talking about the darkest shit ever

And then they start talking in this book and they're like and all the addresses were on one Street in Washington DC I was like, it's real

I will do that book. The history of the world in six drinks is it's good. It's not the most in depth history thing, but it's a it's pretty sick, dude.

They talk about how the Romans conquered the Greeks. Then there was this one guy, I think Cato, who was like, dude, the Greeks conquered us their culture. We like conquer the Greeks and learn their culture and completely just degenerated. Like we just degenerate it completely.

The one book I'm reading Six Beverages That Changed The World

I mean I only listened to half I should have done better and listened to like two hours on the way up

The invention of beer is sick as fuck

I was in my head I'm like you're not gonna brew beer You should start brewing beer I got in a bug I'm like yo Can I just like brew myself a six pack Dude have you ever had someone's fucking brewed beer It's disgusting

It's like fucking 90% alcohol Just you go blind But yeah I was listening to like How they I just dude I had such a fucking It sounds so dumb But I like listening to it I realized how sick beer is Beer is sick

There's that book the five beverages that changed the world and they talked about coffee

It's way better than War on the Run

We're on the runs like The most the one I'm reading about Robert Rogers.

No, very different very different information go through the ether and into your brain

So I was reading fucking Yeah, I was listening to fucking War on the Run and it's very dry.

Hey, it's it's a lot It's a lot to listen to but then this one's just purely like

It's way better than War on the Run.

It's very dry. It's very like they left camp with three satchels of blueberries, six gunpowder sacks.

I was listening to that book again. First off, the book book is Oh yeah. A lot of people were asking. It's called War on the Run. It's about Robert Rogers. And but it's also about like just life pre revolution in America, and like Native Americans and shit.

And I have been harsh on the natives. Last couple episodes. That's what happens when you report on something before you finish a book trail. Like I read one chapter that was just like this is what the Indians used to do. And then the next chapter was like, they did have some good things, but I only got the bad part.

And I was like, they were called savages for a reason. But no, they had some dude hilarious. This was making me laugh.

Remember I was talking about the book The Shallow Shane? The book about the internet and how it's affecting our brain the first half of that is just the history of writing and reading it just goes on for fucking ever they finally explain how the internet affects our ability to learn and retain information, it's fucking nuts.

I was reading so remember I was talking about the book To Shallow, Shane, the book about the internet and how it's affecting our brain.

the first half of that is just like the history of writing and reading it just goes on for fucking ever they finally explain how the internet affects our ability to learn and retain information it's fucking nuts

so when you read a book you just sit there like you're talking about like forming ideas and writing stuff down if you're reading a book

so if you're like your short-term memory is like a like a thimble you can only now you can only have like five chunks of it five to seven chunks of information that's why phone numbers are like six when I like you know you can only they're only like seven digits

they chunk stuff together because if it's more than that your brain will most likely just forget unless you sit and wrote rehearsal it so they're saying how typically if you're reading something or audiobook and same thing really if you're doing that you're taking like your short-term memory is like a thimble and that has to go it has to fill up your long-term memory which is like a bathtub so you only bring a tiny bit of information at a time and try to get it to your long-term memory when you go

I Started I so I have another Audiobook I started dude might be the best thing I've ever ever fucking put my eyes on it's called The Shallows

Yeah, it's about I I think it's about it what I thought it was when I downloaded They haven't even talked about it yet how the Internet's changing our brain and how like, you know Computers are changing our brain and they go all the way back

Yeah, they sell like Hardy Boys books and just like bamboo shoots like for real.

You get like an old "Hardy Boys", but we

Sam's really great, really great author, decent comic, but his writing's cheese.

I wrote a book, right? So why are you...

I'm very proud of the book but I've been doing a lot longer. The books called Running the Light. It's about an old road comic, guys. You probably worked with up there in the Wild West circuit, running through Calgary and Winnipeg.

Well, that's Matt. His book is genuinely really fun. Running the Light. Yeah, like going on past the light, that's right. Yes, like in a comedy club, right? Yeah. It's as if he was past his prime but yet he won't he won't stop this curse that he bears. Yeah. It's really, it's shocking how good Sam is as a writer, and he's very smart. Yeah.

Yeah, and it's even better on stage. I can only do, you act out really soon.

You wrote a wonderful book called Running the Light.

Despite the fact that my room has about four copies.

I just finished all the Harry Potter ... Watch them all in succession. It was fucking awesome.

Harry Potter.

How to be a bad bitch in the business world, sitting poolside, a subtle art of not giving a fuck.

It's co-written with Mark Manson, who's a subtle art of not giving a expletive.

I get all my history from Robert Green books.

I remember you, but you've been reading the same book for two years now.

I read it over and over again.

You didn't read it once. You read the same book 10 different times. You didn't finish it once.

No, I did finish it three times.

You got to know the author, dude. You've read it. You're lying about reading it.

the book that got The Denial of Death it's I think Ernest Becker

I've been reading the The Denial of Death dude.

It's such a good I like read it for a little bit and put it back down.

It's about how basically most of our deepest insecurities and are kind of like the personas we build so that we can kind of like go out and function in the world or typically build on like a lie or like we like restrict what we pay attention to so that we don't freak out about the fact that we're just like floating through space and we're gonna die.

It's pretty tight.

It's pretty tight.

Obviously I also watched all the Lord of the Rings in succession Spade's favorite fucking movie.

Lord of the Rings is the only thing I'm reading.

I think I talked about this where they were fucking it was the guy Milton who wrote Paradise Lost.

He got real into this English and this I think is a 1600s there was this political movement where they're like oh and we're the political party where you can we can behead Kings if they fuck up.

He wrote Paradise Lost.

If you do any research into actually what Native Americans are doing it's nuts.

So what it it's a pretty simple explanation for why the why Native Americans were fucking fired up rowdy boys.

Yeah, so then you'd run into this tribe of dudes that were living like cavemen, Yeah, and they'd be rowdy dude. Obviously, they're gonna fucking throw shit at you.

Comanche fucking rule They absolutely rule their ugly short shitty people that everybody crushed so they came over

They sucked they were short. They never you know every so we see we see like the Northeast Native Americans is like that's like what's on yeah, that's what you see is like these tall slender fucking athletic sinewy long motherfuckers

Rogies posted something on Instagram yesterday, so I immediately downloaded the book and listened to it. I'm like halfway through it already.

If you do any research into actually what Native Americans are doing, it's nuts.

It's a pretty simple explanation for why the why Native Americans were fucking fired up, rowdy boys.

They were hunter-gatherers, they were from the fucking Stone Age, yeah, running into today, you know, essentially today. It was like 1800 future, man.

Damn, thank you, praise Rogies for recommending his. I read some of his poster. He was in the sauna just bugging out on Comanches and being like, dude, it is a fucking like that's it's a wild to read.

There's a book called How Not to Die and it's from a medical doctor who talks just about like eating vegetables eating plants and he was like dude, they never they mentioned it I think like very very very briefly.

There's a book called How Not to Die and it's from a medical doctor who talks just about like eating vegetables, eating plants and he was like, dude, they never they mentioned it I think like very very very briefly.

Not exaggerating that's that's what I'm talking about level of that's what that books about of what they're up to hunting Comanches

Really? Yes that book all those atrocities throughout that book and like how horrendous the land was

No, dude That was fairly similar to like the actual historical accounts of it pretty pretty pretty crazy

Also, by the way, Blood Meridian. Not exaggerating, that's that's what I'm talking about, the level of that's what that book's about, of what they're up to hunting Comanches.

That book, all those atrocities throughout that book and like how horrendous the land was.

What's your Lenny Of Mice and Men?

I take you out to the river. Yeah, shoot you in the back of the head

Wait, he kept a glove on for his wife and mice and men.

Yeah, the Coco you'd be the dude there's one of those in every every course I mean now they're catching up there finally Stephen King's finally catching up to me when I discovered fucking sleep paralysis