The Joe Rogan Experience

books that general officers were being told to read and that I as an advisor were being told to read books like White Rage, like understanding why your problem, uh, you as a white man are a problem in the modern day military because, um, this whole thing's built on systemic racism.

Have you read the book 'Into Thin Air' or anything about it?

Okay, there's a famous book that's written about it where 11 people die, right, in this moment. It's called 'The Death Zone' where you enter above 26,000 feet, the human body basically can't survive for long, even with supplemental oxygen, and this massive snowstorm and windstorm blows in, kind of out of nowhere, and we're trying to push for the summit.

the power of one oh yeah I read that was a couple years ago yeah my favorites yeah it's great audiobook too who's the author that again I don't recall I think he's kind of a one hit wonder with that book I can't remember his name but love absolutely love the story pull that up Jamie see what's up a movie they made a movie probably like some kung fu movie yeah the power of one yeah do do do rice court that's right rice court can you pull up the image of the book what's the description of the book what does it say is that the power of one is there a novel expense no I don't think that's it no that's definitely not it it no no it's the rice court you won for sure it is about it's about a young boy growing up in Africa ... it's a novel ... it's about a young boy growing up in Africa during apartheid he's very like ostracized ... it's really good

I have a book called Spontaneous Happiness, which is about emotional wellness.

I read a book called It Didn't Start with You and it talks about how these things are passed on generationally from like trauma your grandparents had is passed on to you through your DNA and it changes us like how much is passed on to us that we have no control over.

And you got a book, bro. I do. Color of noise. Blue or the color of noise. Yeah, what's it about? It's about memoir. It talks about the beginnings, goes through my process or goes through a lot of different things... It's my favorite color and actually my last name means Blue tree.

my book my books called Blue is my favorite color and I want the feeling to feel futuristic so it's the neon future cave now if you look up at the ceiling...

your book Blue the color of noise is available right now.

your book Blue the color of noise is available right now.

I helped him write his book.

I said, you haven't written shit.

I said, write those stories you've been telling me every night.

He yelled from his car and he goes, hey, I sold the book to Martin Scorsese.

so that was kind of the end product of the first book, which was called A Curious Mind, a secret to a bigger life.

curious mind I realized that cheese I've done 35 years of these ... the kids don't really know what I'm doing.

There's a book called "The Antifa Handbook" is written by Mark Bray.

He's an academic at Dartmouth.

He actually argues why that's ethical.

He outlines and explains essentially why Antifa's violence is ethical, that it's... Because they're opposing fascism, and fascism is a violent movement, this is sort of a pre-emptive move.

I highly recommend that people take a look at his book.

If you remember The Phantom Tollbooth, myelo gets this present of a car and a toll booth and he goes through the toll booth. What is that from uh I see norton jester was the author and Jules feiffer was to deal illustrations which is this brilliant book where there's like the land of letters in the land of numbers so it's arts and sciences oh and you know like there's a there's a person who starts from his head and grows down until his feet reach the ground and there's a numbers mine and he has to rescue the princesses of rhyme and reason in order to restore order between the two kingdoms of you know like left and right hemisphere it's some incredibly exciting story and the idea is that after he goes and does all of these like there's an island called conclusions and when you make an assumption you leap to conclusions so you suddenly jump I mean it's all very clever word play and stuff um at the end of the adventure the toll booth disappears because it has to go to the next kid who needs you know.

So when we look at thinking grow rich, right? The book thinking grow rich was to tell you to do it, tells you create a council of I think he says dead people or something like that, right? So created council of dead people, your council right?

John Henry Clark has a book they come before Columbus, I mean look at that, I mean these Olmex heads they all looked like that and I saw the America yeah, so it's kind of if you have amazing you there has to be a large population of people in order to create these things.

Then we have the book "A Whole Tap" was what you're talking about, which is already written. I wrote it two three years ago and it's that, that uh, structure for your life so you can manifest these things. You know, so you can use spirit in your work to manifest these things.

The cover was designed by Rollo Tomassi, The Rational Male author.

So, uh, like 15 years ago I read the Richard K Morgan book "Altered Carbon", uh, and at the time I was like, this has to be made into something, that's the one that's on Netflix now, right?

Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur and angel investor, a co-author of Venture Hacks, and a co-maintainer of AngelList.

He wrote that book, Behold the Pale White Horse.

He said there's a base on the moon.

He said there's a base on the moon.

Have you ever seen that book, no, it's called The Blue Mind, um the guy's pretty interesting and he does a study of why we gravitate towards being on the beach why all the most expensive real estate is beachfront and that something about when we stare at the ocean they did all these studies where the it just totally lights the brain up that our whole something about the horizon and about the ocean itself that that affects our whole well being and part of it we don't even know why but we're just drawn like why you know why is why are we drawn there why do we you know and it has it has a you know an effect on our system

yeah I didn't read that one I read The Deep Self though the deep selves really interesting and The Deep Self I think The Deep Self is the one that also has diagrams on how to build a tank he was trying to get people to build tanks

I was doing the wipe-on wipe-off stuff I was doing this you're blocking yeah from a jujitsu book but I taught myself jujitsu from a book if you could believe that which is you know you'll get these books with the different moves in it and you can't teach yourself that but I did judo when I was six actually as well so I like the idea of doing these things but I felt judo was always at the bigger kid you all getting pajamas and the bigger kid just throws you around a bit I could never quite get hangar I couldn't throw the bigger kids I could do it now but I've never anyway yeah this is a fantastic video online of a very old judo expert and I think he's in his seventies or his eighties and he's working out with these young men and you see his mastery of judo as these young powerful men try to manipulate him and throw him around and he effortlessly watch this this old man and he's see him he's very very old and he's throwing these guys around and me as a martial arts expert these these men are not doing this willingly this is legitimate like even that guy tries to throw him and this is a black belt who's trying to throw him but he's so good and his use of balance and leverage is so amazing he just knows where to be like see how yeah yeah that just throws himself into a perfect position I mean it's really stunning to watch and this looks like it was from the fifties or something like that because it's really old but yeah does it say just a 75 year old judo master I mean this is an old man and the young man is much larger than him yeah significantly like 25 percent larger than him at least maybe even look at me he looks like he's twice as big as him and he cannot throw this old man it's really amazing judo is a beautiful art oh he's going more and more full on isn't he okay I gotta get this he's trying I mean he knows that this guy's a master but it's just look at that like it's incredible I mean the way that guys body can toss these people through the air and yet they they are helpless they can't do anything to him in a way that look at that boom three times 75 years old I mean that hurts my hips just looking at that you know you you can have many different martial arts yeah yeah which ones you jiu jitsu and striking martial arts my background was in striking which is in taekwondo and then eventually kickboxing and moitai and then I got really into jiu jitsu when I got older and what and jiu jitsu what's the difference in jiu jitsu's grappling it's all choking people it's like you it's not throws like judo there are throws in jiu jitsu but they're it really comes from judo it comes from the ground fighting aspect of judo which is not as emphasized but the Brazilians really really emphasized it and sort of they figured out what the best way for a smaller person to feed a larger person through leverage and jiu jitsu is really the only martial art that I can think of that works like you think of a martial art in a movie like in a Bruce Lee movie like there's all these people and they were always bigger than Bruce Lee Bruce Lee fucked them all up but in the real world that doesn't usually work like the bigger people have such a giant advantage when it comes to like striking like you're never going to see like a heavy weight in the UFC fight a banter weight fight a person weighs 135 pounds just wouldn't it's just too much of an advantage and jiu jitsu it's legitimately possible for a hundred and forty pound man to strangle a two hundred plus pound man and do it relatively easily if they're talented

I heard about that and then I read a book called The Deep Self and that was a book that Lily wrote about yeah I think that one each he even had instruction on how to build a tank he actually had like a setup like all these plans for how you like a blueprint for how to build your old tank yeah use water bed liners and yeah it's probably pretty easy right get a kiddie pool throw a lot of people have done it yeah much people have done laid out yeah you can do it but you know you really need um is there a filter at all yes right oh really a very heavy duty filtration system really yeah because the one that I have is uh it's a company called the float lab and the float lab is like the best they make the best tanks yeah the guy who makes it is my friend crash and he's like a super scientist dude yeah a mad genius when it comes to uh tanks he's like over engineering everything and making everything like this is like complicated as I'll show you the whole system it's like all that stuff that's in the back of it is like essentially from a public water purification system it's super heavy duty purification and even pumps ozone into the water.