The Joe Rogan Experience

Well, you said, actually, he said, well, this there's a great little explanation in Stephen Hawking's brief history of time about this, that the idea that you can't tell whether you're moving or not, demolishes the notion of absolute space.

in Victor Frankl's a Man's Search For Meaning he survived that nazi concentration camp because he had a purpose a higher calling

James Nestor writes about some of these in his book, Breath.

so it was right around when Book of Mormon was coming out too you know that hilarious musical and it's great it's really good but she was really honest about she was like the problem is like growing up in that fundamentalist background it makes me very susceptible to like healers and like psychics and clairvoyance and bullshit are spiritual people she's like I get sucked in to bullshit and she was like almost kind of upset yeah I mean no not almost like she was kind of upset but like perplexed like how do you rewire yourself when you've been trained to believe that a 14 year old boy in 1820 found golden tablets that contained the loss work of Jesus and all the Native Americans were the lost tribe of Israel I mean this is that's the story right?

People get tattoos of my book they'll get like "Running the Light" shit on their body and I'm like what were you going through when this happened hopefully they're in a good place

He set me hip to this fiction vampire book that I fucking love it's really good let me get the name of it

It's like Blindsight or something like that now you're saying I remember him telling that story yeah, let me find it cause I have it in my phone it's really good though I met George R.R. Martin oh did you really? yeah he came to see

It's Peter Watts it's called Blindsight it's a science fiction space movie about alien, about vampires and the vampires

It's kind of like I'm gonna fuck it up but the story is that these vampires they take some sort of medication there's some sort of medical thing that they do to keep them from feasting on people but that they did exist and that they had always existed

And then someone that they were killed off because you know they were killing everybody and then we kind of relegated them to myth and then someone cloned one and brought it back and then they started having more and the vampires were going to space with them

If you like this kind of stuff did you should read Warlock which is exactly what you just described oh yeah?

It's like a postmodern western it's really cool yeah it's like a self-aware western

I remember reading I think it was Henry Rollins book "Get in the Van" where the first trip he did with Black Flag they practiced for like two months in LA and they got real good when he joined the band

And then their first tour date was in Oklahoma and like 12 kids came and he was like fuck this why are we working so hard this sucks and then the bass player Chuck Dukowski was like no no no it's not their fault that no one else showed up we're gonna give them Black Flag they came to see Black Flag we're giving them Black Flag

There's a brilliant book on The Body Keeps the Score and he talks about how it lives in your body basically and you and he worked with vets and you know it's crazy like he in this book I've been rereading it again and he's talking about how when he was writing to get some from the VA to get a grant to study PTSD they were like no we don't even really think it.

There's a brilliant book on The Body Keeps the Score and he talks about how it lives in your body basically.

He worked with vets and you know it's crazy like he in this book I've been rereading it again and he's talking about how when he was writing to get some from the VA to get a grant to study PTSD they were like no we don't even really think it.

There's a lot of books on people just trying to avoid work.

Like I read W.

There's a video of him but from back in the day when he was running for governor and he's great you listen to him like look at this energetic intelligent guys articulate he seems like one of us.

the novel ... World War Z ... weren't the novels written by some famous guy's son ... it's a great scene.

World War Z ... it's a wild movie ... the zombies move fast ...

my wife's like, before I started watching him, my wife read Kitchen Confidential's ... and my wife's like, this guy's fucking amazing, Bert.

The New Jim Crow takes on racial injustice in mass incarceration you just read that book.

You just read that book you will be a completely different person understanding history.

I remember reading It a long time ago, and I saw the movie version and It was stupid, but the book was great.

The Amityville Horror. It was a truecrime horror story that inspired the famous movie franchise, based on a real murder in a house on 112 Ocean Avenue.

Tom Holland, a historian, wrote a book recently called Dominion.

It's called Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties.

When I finally got that, that was when I could see the hardcover, you know, a few months later, ... it felt like a giant baby being born.

Harry Potter was like a feminist series. If you really think about it. I mean, it really was. But without any fanfare. It was a feminist series. I think it's the most successful books of all time. It has sold over 500 million copies. The Bible has sold five to six billion copies.

Nick Bostrom, Oxford prof, who wrote this book "Superintelligence" 2014, and it was basically AI was going to be this super duper intelligent thing, way, way godlike intelligence, way smarter than any, any human being.