The Joe Rogan Experience

Then a book called The Dragons and the Snakes by David Kulkulian. And he talks about them buying up hotels in Scotland that watch submarines head out there.

I have Alice's character I introduced two books ago for In the Blood and an AI quantum computer and people really liked this character.

I went over to Kamchaka Peninsula, did a hunt over there and had a crazy experience with a bear over there but I don't know if I should go back.

I asked for my first book, No One Knew Me, and you have to ask people for blurbs. And it's tough because you know you're gonna get, some people are gonna say no and you put yourself out there to ask. And almost everyone said yes. Even though I was totally like Lee Child, all these people I look up to, they were all about it.

Red Sky Morning, the latest.

And you have seven of these now.

And the non-fiction comes out when?

September.

September 24th.

The first one's called "Bar Brawler", and it's about, um, it's 300 plus pages long. It's about how the, um, um mid 80s and early 90s, how people used to be, and how there's some really graphic, um, uh fights in it, and um, who, um some people think it's an autobiography, but it's written as a novel. Okay, that's a good way to do it. Yes, and the main character is Walter Fox, and Walter Fox, it's how Walter Fox goes through his life beating people up at bars and all that, and ends up fighting in a show called NHB, and they call him "Crazy Fox", and um, it's how Walter Fox through all these trials and tribulations ends up as Crazy Fox at the end of it. It's a trilogy, it's 900 pages long, plus.

It's called "Before There Are Rules", and um, it's awesome. I'm pumping myself up, but if you want to know how a real fighter, in my eyes, before there were rules, yes, that's the third book. The second book is "Cage Fighter", and the first book is "Bar Brawler", and it goes pretty much the whole what we've been discussing. It goes through all of those things.

It's exactly right, folks. Was it plausible deniability? Yeah, exactly. Fiction, folks. And there's like the, um, there's a fighting promoter, matchmaker, and his name is Big Bart Shady and of that, of that show, the NHB show, the referee's name is Winchell Duncan, um, and he's a little, a little guy with a big ego, and uh, so you could draw parallels, but I don't tell you how to think, but of, but it's actually how Walter Fox got all the way through the bar scenes and everything that I discussed. Discussed, um, that's how Walter Fox ended up becoming Crazy Fox.

So I went to the catacombs under the city, which allowed me to then put it in the second book, True Believers.

This is the Emerald Tabits, The Epic Of Humanity and My Financial Book. Woke doesn't mean broke. Financial literacy book, not the political woke either, but the real woke.

This is the Emerald Tabits, The Epic of Humanity and My Financial Book. Woke Doesn't Mean Broke. Financial literacy book, not the political woke either, but the real woke.

I had Eddie Bravo's Monster in the Rub-a-God book that came to me at a very influential time where I read the chapter about weed.

I was like thinking I'm gonna learn some techniques ended up smoking weed all the time

I think if you if weed makes you lazy, you're lazy

Like if your life is shit and you smoke weed, it's gonna feel terrible

But if your life is great and you smoke feed weed, you're gonna feel good

It was like I had Kara Parisian judo for MMA

Don't.

I mean it's so good, but it's the most...

It doesn't matter if you do spoilers for old books, but one of the scenes...

It's about a kid wandering...

I think it's World War II.

You know, I think the manifesto that's always very interesting from the other side was this book by the Club of Rome, 1972, the "Limits to Growth", and it's you can't have, we need to head towards a society in which there's zero percent, there's very limited growth because if you have unlimited growth you're going to run out of resources.

But those guys up in the mountains, they're talking about in that book Born to Run.

Like they have insane endurance and they live up in that mountain and they just run around.

People forgot about Spawn, you don't hear about it anymore.

I think it's weird to me that Spawn doesn't get brought up like other superhero movies do.

I helped make a movie called Thank You for Smoking.

I brought you a copy, Joe. Cool. ... I know you love feminists. That's why I brought that copy.

And a guy that I think was on your podcast a long time ago, Sam Sheridan. Yeah. Yeah. In the fighter's heart there's a great chapter where he talks about, I think it's dog fighting in the Philippines. And he talks about how brutal that sport is, which indeed it is. But he talks about the love between the owner and the dog can predict and of course the dog and the owner, it's reciprocal, one presumes, that the strength of that relationship predicts how hard the dog will fight for the owner. And he uses this as kind of a parallel construction for why, and you tell me if this is true or not, that many of the fatalities in boxing were the consequence of sure 15 rounds as opposed to 12 round fights but also when the corner man or the coach was the parent.

And he uses this as kind of a parallel construction for why, and you tell me if this is true or not, that many of the fatalities in boxing were the consequence of sure 15 rounds as opposed to 12 round fights but also when the corner man or the coach was the parent.

I actually think that's a really terrific book because I think it speaks to a lot of really interesting aspects of bonding between humans, bonding in that case between animals and humans.

Of course dog fighting like, I don't know if there are many things that people look down upon as much as they look down upon dog fighting but he speaks to the relationship between the dog and the owner as a loving one which was super surprising to me.

Anyway, that's a bit of a tangent but I don't know, maybe it's possible to find that chart. I don't want to send you on a ridiculous expedition but if you just say sort of genes...

I'm thinking about all the time but forgive me. Rick has always said the key to being really great at something is to just be you. And I'm like that sounds like about his mystical wrapped in a riddle as possibly that's so true I can hear it in his voice when he said it but what he's saying is what he's saying and I finally got it. It's like what are the things that really pull that energy out of you what did that when you were young and if you're fortunate enough to get into something young that's a beautiful thing.

And I only wish I had read it years ago. And here's the main takeaway that there are about 10 percent of people out there and it cuts across all the standard labels of like narcissists and borderline and all that like they include some of that but they they depart from that and they just focus on what is a guy who's a psychologist.

It's written by a guy who's psychologist has worked a lot on conflict resolution over the years courtroom type stuff etc. And he says in this 10 percent of people they are high conflict people but within they like conflict they feed off it.

They like drama they like conflict they like creating it. But within that category it's pretty evenly divided.

He claims between women and men and then there's a further division where about half of them play passive and victim but are highly manipulative. They use other people to try and basically harm. And then the other five percent are very like aggressive and abrasive. And so he has this great set of protocols.