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Joe Rogan Experience #2293 - Chris Williamson

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  1. 0:0015:00

    (drumming music) Joe Rogan podcast,…

    1. NA

      (drumming music) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out! The Joe Rogan Experience.

    2. JR

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (rock music) Man, whatever. You took the glasses off. I was hoping you were gonna keep them on.

    3. CW

      You want me to keep them on?

    4. JR

      You can pull them off.

    5. CW

      Let me try them on.

    6. JR

      Some dudes can't pull off douchey glasses, you know?

    7. CW

      You think these are douchey?

    8. JR

      A little bit if I didn't know you, but I know you.

    9. CW

      All right, well-

    10. JR

      You're not douchey at all, so you can wear cool glasses.

    11. CW

      Well, these were requests by you-

    12. JR

      (laughs)

    13. CW

      ... so I can wear what I want.

    14. JR

      You've been wearing them a lot. I like them.

    15. CW

      Yeah, yeah, I do. They're kind of... It's like w- having an Instagram filter for the entire world.

    16. JR

      Right.

    17. CW

      So everything feels just-

    18. JR

      Just a little rosy. I had a, I had a pair of rose-colored glasses before, and I got it. I was like, "Oh, I get it."

    19. CW

      Mm-hmm.

    20. JR

      It is better this way.

    21. CW

      It is nicer.

    22. JR

      (laughs)

    23. CW

      Yeah, yeah, it's like a full-on... Dude, I got... I, I need to show you this, so...

    24. JR

      Okay. What is this?

    25. CW

      Have a little open of that. So you'll remember that I sent you a photo on iMessage a couple of months ago of a friend of mine who was in Antarctica?

    26. JR

      Yeah.

    27. CW

      And he flew a Comedy Mothership lighter out to Antarctica.

    28. JR

      (laughs)

    29. CW

      I've been reliably told that that lighter was used to smoke weed in Antarctica.

    30. JR

      In Antarctica? Wow.

  2. 15:0030:00

    Distract them with social…

    1. JR

      people like, uh, University of Austin, which is, uh, they're aiming to do just that and to d- kind of bypass all this nonsense and just teach people reality. Um, and I also think that it's most likely ... I mean, I don't even wanna say most likely. It's most certainly influenced by other countries that wanna degrade our ability to develop meaningful minds that come out of universities, like i- intelligent, useful people.

    2. CW

      Distract them with social justice.

    3. JR

      Yeah. Not just distract them, but destroy society with them. It's Yuri Bezmenov's prediction from 1984. It's like you could pass that off as a ridiculous conspiracy theory i- if, if it wasn't totally accurate. (laughs)

    4. CW

      (laughs)

    5. JR

      It's like-

    6. CW

      How-

    7. JR

      ... it's amazing how people don't want to believe that maybe, um, there's been subversion and that maybe our universities have been overrun for years with f- both funding, which we know is true, uh, s- particularly from China. China funds a lot of American universities. They do, they give a lot of grants. They spend a lot of money. And this was th- this was a part of the whole thing with George W., or not George W., excuse me, um, with Joe Biden's bizarre job that he had where he was a professor, that he never showed up for classes, and that he was teaching, and h- he got a, a, a large salary.

    8. CW

      Like a mob no-show job.

    9. JR

      He di- he got a mob no-show job teaching.

    10. CW

      But as a professor?

    11. JR

      Yeah, as a professor. And I think he got $1 million a year to just do nothing.

    12. CW

      You know that, uh, question that people ask about-

    13. JR

      Find out how much he got. I don't wanna get sued.

    14. CW

      (laughs) Allegedly.

    15. JR

      By Legend Man. (laughs)

    16. CW

      Um ... Uh, he doesn't know what's going on.

    17. JR

      He doesn't know what's going ... Well, he might auto-sign the-

    18. CW

      Yeah, yeah, yeah.

    19. JR

      ... legal papers.

    20. CW

      Um, there's that question about there's two options about, um, life in the universe, that either we're alone or that we're not, and both are equally terrifying.

    21. JR

      Right.

    22. CW

      Right? I feel like it's the same when it comes to Western anti-Westernism.

    23. JR

      Yeah.

    24. CW

      And you say, either we're doing it to ourselves or we're not.

    25. JR

      Right.

    26. CW

      And both are equally terrifying.

    27. JR

      Yeah, yeah.

    28. CW

      You know? You're being puppeted by this nefarious foreign power, or you're just turning around and kicking the ball into the, uh, your own goal over and over again.

    29. JR

      Well, I think people will turn around and kick the ball into their own goal. But I also think they're being helped. I think there's a substantial amount of this that just works automatically. It, it preys upon really weak minds and particularly bullies and mean people who wanna find other people that they can hate to justify, like, whatever virtue they believe that they have above those people.

    30. CW

      Mm.

  3. 30:0045:00

    Is that purposefully no…

    1. JR

      they pay people to show up at these places. Uh, I've got pamphlets that people have given me that they've taken from these, these locations or gotten from email lists, where-

    2. CW

      Is that purposefully no digital record?

    3. JR

      I, I think probably, but I don't think they care. I mean, I think as long as they're saying they're gonna pay you to protest, I think that's legal. I think it's legal to pay someone to protest. So they're paying people $1,000 and they're giving them food and snacks, and you can get a lot of people to just show up for 1,000 bucks. And then some of them are gonna get a little vandaly. Some of them-

    4. CW

      (laughs)

    5. JR

      Some of the-

    6. CW

      Bring enough people together and they get vandaly?

    7. JR

      How crazy is it that the left are the ones who are painting swastikas on cars?... just understand how crazy positions can flip and flop. The left is upset that we're not continuing an endless war in Ukraine. The left is upset that this guy is uncovering fraud and waste. And so, in order to stop that, you must light cars on fire and put swastikas on them, 'cause he's a Nazi, 'cause he said, "My heart goes out to you." Even though there's countless videos of AOC doing that gesture, Tim Walsh doing that gesture enthusiastically, many, many people.

    8. CW

      I do think, if you're in that position, if you've got this heritage coming in-

    9. JR

      Don't do it.

    10. CW

      ... just be careful with where you put your hands.

    11. JR

      Don't do it.

    12. CW

      Do you know what I mean?

    13. JR

      Don't do that, Mike. (laughs)

    14. CW

      Like, just fucking think about where you put your hands.

    15. JR

      He's, you know, he's on the spectrum, man. He's not w- normal.

    16. CW

      You seen that video comparing him and Trump's son? There's two different types of autism.

    17. JR

      (laughs)

    18. CW

      Have you seen this?

    19. JR

      No, I haven't.

    20. CW

      Oh my God.

    21. JR

      Ugh.

    22. CW

      It's so good. I think it's at the ... Is it the inauguration? And, uh, they're both stood next to each other, and Elon's sort of fist pumping and loving it, and, uh, Trump's son's just, like, staring off into the distance.

    23. JR

      Apparently Trump's son went up to Biden at the inauguration and said, "It's on now."

    24. CW

      (laughs) What is this, a fucking UFC fight?

    25. JR

      I mean, that's literally ... Apparently lip readers have, like, read what he said-

    26. CW

      Mm-hmm.

    27. JR

      ... when he went up to ... 'Cause there's a moment where he goes up to Biden, and Biden looks confused, and he doesn't smile, and he's like, "Uh?" But he walks up to him and goes, "It's on now."

    28. CW

      What they need to do-

    29. JR

      Which is pretty fun.

    30. CW

      You know how, uh, football coaches have got ... They put the, the play thing over the front of their mouth-

  4. 45:001:00:00

    Yeah. I think it's…

    1. CW

      of claims over only the most recent period. And I just thought, guy shoots person, typically the guy that shoots them is in the wrong? And the reaction on the internet just, I, I, I wasn't ready for it, and it really sort of taught me this undercurrent of dissatisfaction that almost everybody in America has with the healthcare system.

    2. JR

      Yeah. I think it's a quiet epidemic. I think there's been a lot of people massively affected by it, and they're just steaming, just sitting there seething-

    3. CW

      Mm-hmm.

    4. JR

      ... just angry that's-

    5. CW

      Waiting for some righteous-

    6. JR

      Yeah.

    7. CW

      ... person to come in and do retribution.

    8. JR

      But then you see the, the fucking revolving door between the FDA and the pharmaceutical drug corporations, where these people leave and then all of a sudden they have these amazing jobs at pharmaceutical drug companies, they're making millions of dollars. Like, how is that legal? How is this whole thing legal? Like, e- when you realize that doctors are incentivized to medicate people, they're financially incentivized to give people certain medications, whether it's vaccines, they get bonuses if they vaccinate more than 60% of their clients and they lose those bonuses if people don't get vaccinated. There's like, a lot of creepy shit that's involved in medicine.

    9. CW

      The FDA ban on compounded Ozempic started yesterday.

    10. JR

      Oh.

    11. CW

      So-

    12. JR

      It's a ban?

    13. CW

      So-

    14. JR

      So you have to get it from the big, big companies.

    15. CW

      Correct. I, Brigham taught me about this-

    16. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    17. CW

      I didn't understand how it works. If there's a shortage of a drug, compounding pharmacies are, kind of, allowed to just bypass patents in some way. It's like, you can produce it and you can make it cheaper and more widely available because the supply chain's fucked-

    18. JR

      Oh.

    19. CW

      ... or something like that. And, uh, yesterday-

    20. JR

      That would be a good thing for society.

    21. CW

      What? To make more drugs more widely available for cheaper?

    22. JR

      If it's, if it's good, if it's a very important pharmaceutical drug that can save people's lives-

    23. CW

      Of course.

    24. JR

      ... imagine, imagine not letting compound pharmacies make it for people that can't get it.

    25. CW

      Yeah, or can't afford it, or don't have the insurance for it.

    26. JR

      Yeah.

    27. CW

      So yeah, I mean, that, that came into effect, I think Tirzepatide got popped yesterday-

    28. JR

      (laughs)

    29. CW

      ... and then, uh, partway through April, uh, Semaglutide is gonna go as well.

    30. JR

      Yeah, that's all just eliminating competition, right?

  5. 1:00:001:15:00

    Whoosh. …

    1. JR

      and instantaneously adapt to an environment. Why would we assume to some super advanced species from another planet, they would be, we would be horrified if we saw their real face, they'd just transform and-

    2. CW

      Whoosh.

    3. JR

      ... look like the Queen of England?

    4. CW

      Yeah, and go sideways like that.

    5. JR

      (laughs)

    6. CW

      Fuck. Uh, do you know what a Boltzmann brain is? Have you ever heard of this?

    7. JR

      No.

    8. CW

      Okay. So, um, in an infinite universe, infinite, there is only, let's say the size of your brain, it's like, whatever, 20 centimeters cubed or something, maybe 30 centimeters cubed. Inside that space, there's only so many ways that you can put matter together so that it creates, uh, anything. There's a, a limited number of ways that matter can come together with different elements, different structures, different everything like that. So a Boltzmann brain suggests that across an infinite universe, there will be a brain the exact same as yours, the exact structure as yours, that comes into existence for a moment and then goes away. And the reason that you could be experiencing the world that you are now, all of your memories, your past, your history, the person that you think you are, is that you are a Boltzmann brain that just comes into existence and then goes.

    9. JR

      Oh. Why-

    10. CW

      Ludwig Boltzmann.

    11. JR

      ... why do you come into existence and then go away? Why don't you just exist somewhere else?

    12. CW

      You could exist somewhere else, but this brain appears just spontaneously because in an infinite universe, there is only so many different ways that you can piece matter together.

    13. JR

      Right.

    14. CW

      And it means that if you... It's the monkey's typewriter thing.

    15. JR

      Yes.

    16. CW

      It's the exact same as that, but for the way that matter's constructed. It's basically, uh, like a brain in a vat idea, but using infinite physics to kind of explain it.

    17. JR

      The way it was explained to me is that if the universe is truly infinite, not only is there another version of you somewhere, but there is another version of you that did the exact same thing you have done every step of the way.

    18. CW

      Mm-hmm.

    19. JR

      Every time you sneezed, every hesitation before you spoke your mind, every time you almost went into traffic when you didn't realize the light was still red.

    20. CW

      Mm-hmm.

    21. JR

      All of those things have happened in the exact same order an infinite number of times, and every possible conceivable variation in between-

    22. CW

      That you wore red instead of blue.

    23. JR

      Yep.

    24. CW

      That you turned left instead of right.

    25. JR

      Yep. Went trans instead of straight.

    26. CW

      (laughs)

    27. JR

      All of it, all of it. That you live in a totalitarian environment, that you live in a utopia, that you, that, you know, the, the Germans won the war. That... Yeah, all that. Everything. Everything that could possibly be different would be different and in every possible scenario. That's what infinite means.

    28. CW

      Mm-hmm.

    29. JR

      It means it's so vast. Like, the craziest one to me was the concept that inside every galaxy, in the center of every galaxy is a super massive black hole. And that super massive black hole is approximately one half of 1% of the mass of the entire galaxy. If you go into that super massive black... So there's hundreds of billions of galaxies, right? Inside that super massive black hole is an entirely nother universe filled with unit, with, with all sorts of different galaxies that have super massive black holes in them. You go into one of those, another universe filled, super massive black holes. Another universe filled, all super massive black holes. Each one, another universe.

    30. CW

      It's just a WinZip file all the way down.

  6. 1:15:001:15:10

    Section 6

    1. JR

      foods, a lot, but there's also environmental factors that seem to be altering the actual way a child develops in the womb. And this is, uh, Dr. Shanna Swan's work.

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