The Joe Rogan Experience

When I read that chapter on Carrie, how he had written half of Carrie and threw it away, and his wife found it and made him finish it.

There's a great book called The Oxygen Advantage by Patrick McGoogle that he actually is on our board of XPT but he kind of realized that our issues really stem from mouth breathing.

Do you ever read Crime and Punishment? I have never read Crime and Punishment.

The book First Blood very different than the movie First Blood.

Yeah I never read that book.

It's so different.

You get Sheriff Tisle's perspective.

There's no knife in it yet.

No knife?

Sylvester Stallone brought that to the, he knew the importance of props.

I think I need a knife.

Yeah he brought it to the, because he knew the importance of props which is why I gave James Reese the tomahawks because I knew the importance of props as well from that and actually Stallone, this was so cool I got to talk to Stallone. He was fantastic. He was awesome. He wanted to jump on a Zoom with me and I was like oh my God as a child of the 80s I was so fired up so I was just like trying to play it cool, right? Like trying to play it cool. I have my phone down in the corner I'm taking some pictures just to commemorate this moment but he was funny, he was wise and he passed along some lessons and yeah we just got to hang out and talk and see if there was something that we could do together so I wrote up a little treatment for him specifically.

Dude, Shades of Grey.

Don't you remember those days?

Dude, this makes 50 Shades of Grey look like Dr. Seuss.

Dude, let me, can I give you like one of her books?

And by the way, now she's like got a stack of these fucking things.

Didn't he write Shawshank Redemption?

Yep.

Think about that.

It was a short story based off at least.

Dude you know what I love?

Yeah, it's not his story but think about that.

That he wrote that beautiful and the rest of his shit is very dark.

It's called Dreamcatcher.

Dreamcatcher. That's it.

You know, White Trash loves Dreamcatcher.

The Crazy Rich Asians... I never saw that. Was it good? I didn't like it because I don't like romcoms.

The Man In The High Castle... It's a future... It's basically America if the Nazis won the war.

William Peter Blatty actually wrote the book called The Exorcist, which became a classic horror movie.

Michelle Obama's book, great book, great fucking book. Matter of fact, I talked to her, I've been in the same rooms. I've seen her success. What is her book going to be about? Mm-hmm. We'll read a book, wow. I get it. I get why it's moving all the units that it's moving. I get why women are reading this book and walking away feeling better, feeling like they can, I get it, oh wow.

Hitchens had a great analogy with when he was dying, he wrote a series of essays for Vanity Fair, his column, which you can get as a book now.

I think it's called Mortality or something like that.

Mark Sisson is uh, he's the guy from he wrote that book The Primal Blueprint and um, he's like a nutrition expert and he's a former endurance athlete but he's a giant believer of this thing where you put it as like a mattress pad and it chills your body to a certain temperature.

He said it's a game changer to cool your body down, you sleep way better.

One of my favorite books, maybe my favorite, I don't like to use that word favorite, but like The Fountainhead. It's Ayn Rand. It changed my life. It freed me as an artist.

I'll read the first chapter of promise.

His book "The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming" is available now.

I think there's basically no way that we avoid two degrees of warming, which is like the UN calls catastrophic warming, the island nations of the world call genocide.

It's like an effect everything I think.

I mentioned before, I think two degrees about our best case scenario. Four degrees is where we're on track four now. This piece was looking at five, six, eight degrees of warming so things were not likely to get this century at least.

But all the science says that's totally naive.

And he wrote it down on a thing called The Red Book which he would not allow to be published for 50 years after he died.

Because he knew if people read it it would discredit his work in psychology because it sounds crazy, all this shit.