Do we have free will? What if all our decisions are foregone conclusions?

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Okay, I just gotta THHC legally
highest THHC Seltzer from New Jersey wanting to

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work together. Oh that's not the
type of content I typically dive into.

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However, to shotgun a couple of
these on a podcast but takes might get

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a little weird. Yeah, I
don't know, man, I could be

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down for that. It seems so
scary as long as actually I mean I

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could. I don't think I would
shotgun them, and I don't and it

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would be hard on a podcast.
I don't know. So my my thhg

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C experience in my life is,
uh, this is revelatory, like in

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high school and college whatever, you
know. Yeah, weed was not that

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strong back then, is what they
say. I mean it really, I

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mean California more so, I think
than some places. Yeah, imagine imagine

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whatever that isn't in fucking Tennessee.
Yeah, the fifties, Yeah, I

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mean, ditchweed here was probably higher
than ditchweed some other place, but it

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was more of a hashish kind of
situation. Yeah, and because it was

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super cost effective for one thing,
like it seemed expensive but like you could

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break off a little bit and you
know, you would not need a whole

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lot and whatever. Yeah, that
generation probably invented like the spliff and stuff.

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I saw a documentary on like jazz
music. Yeah, basically I guess

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revolutionizing the marijuana industry in many a
way and then being in northern California exactly,

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so I think this came from Afghanistan, though strangely enough the Afghan blonde.

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I have heard of Afghans. So
yeah, and then I got to

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be about twenty two and just all
that stuff made me super paranoid and I

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just had to stop altogether. Not
that I was like any kind of a

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heavy user, you know, right, but I mean I stopped drinking around

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twenty three. Yeah, similar reasons, super paranoid. And then as I

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have gotten older and having had more
trouble with sleep, and gummies are legal

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in California, and so yeah,
that's what does But I never and when

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I'm awake, only when I'm asleep. So that's what looks crazy on here

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is I mean, I'm just clicking
on their Instagram, but it looks like

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it's a high level THHD drink,
which obviously they have all over but it's

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just in a convenience store. It's
in a regular market in New Jersey.

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Interesting. Yeah, like they have
a stand on the corner of like a

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frozen aisle. That's crazy. And
when I was a kid, when I

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was in high school, I guess
they test marketed. Heissert Bush test marketed

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a drink called Chelsea that if they
hadn't said that it had any alcohol in

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it, you would have thought that
or you would have just looked at the

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label and said, oh, it
doesn't really have much more alcohol than a

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regular soda has in the in the
in the manufacturing process or whatever. It's

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like really really like half a percent. Yeah, and uh, Anyway,

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there was such a backlash against it
that they pulled it off the market.

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They just test marketed, and like
where I lived was one of the places

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they test marketed. What was the
point It was just a soda. Yeah,

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yeah, basically just a soda,
but like that that it was like

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a little bit forbidden me because it
said it had a little bit of alcohol

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in it, but it had almost
done. That's weird because I mean that's

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basically what a seltzer is, right, and those are popping off. Yeah,

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like they call them like a you
know, like a I don't even

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know what the techniquely I guess they
just call them a seltzer, but they're

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all just sodas with like a hair
alcohol and Trulley's and what do the hell's

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people drink? But the deal is
like you didn't have to be twenty one

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to buy them. Oh yeah,
because of the legal because it was yeah,

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it was illegal amount. Yeah.
I don't know. It was delicious

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and I wish it would come back
somewhere. It was really good, kind

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of kind of like Ginger Ale but
a little more tart maybe, you know,

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I mean Ginger's good. Ginger is
delicious anyway, Yeah, just like

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backlash against that. So I'm surprised
they're able to sell it in like a

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Reglar store. Yeah, I mean, maybe it's just marketing. I mean

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all they dm me. I don't
want to put these guys on blast,

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but they literally just said let's work
and then a handshake emoji handshake emoji.

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Yeah yeah, just so the let's
work move. I wonder if they follow

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a bunch of people, No,
they don't follow me. If you've got

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a if you guys have thoughts about
this and just throw them in the discord,

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yeah, uh yeah, it could
just be marketing whites out in the

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middle of nowur there has been a
bunch of drinks that have like tried to

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do shit like this. Mm hmm. Like I remember growing up in high

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school was kind of the energy drink
revolution, you know, Red Bull and

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all that's popping off, and there
wasn't that many. It was just kind

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of Red Bull and rock Star.
But then they did have Bob Marley drink

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and it had like you know,
it's called the fucking it's like the opposite

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of an energy drink, like Bob
Marley on the cover, but maybe CBD

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but maybe something else. And then
it had like melatonin I think in it.

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Okay, you know, so yeah
we're gonna drink sleepy. Yeah,

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if you're gonna drink a soda with
melatonin, and yeah, you're probably gonna

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vibe a little bit. But there's
just no way it had pot in it

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in the you know, early two
thousands. Even this sixty milligrams, that's

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a lot. I mean that's probably
for the whole So, I don't know,

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people are crazy. You start listening
to what's his name, Joey Coco,

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Uncle Joey the comedian, Oh yeah, Joey Dias. Yeah, that

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to be taken like yeah, three
hundred milligrams or something like just asking for

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death. Yeah, it is funny. Yeah, I don't know, this

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is crazy. It's just in a
market. It's in a liquor store.

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So every states are obviously so different, like, yeah, most states have

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liquor stores. Yeah, California,
we have them, but we don't need

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them. We have liquor stores,
but they're not there's a lot of state

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run liquor stores in different I think
most states are are must like Ohio.

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I think even Oregon you can't buy
like tequila at a store. Yeah,

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all hard alcohol you have to buy
a liquor store. Yeah. Canada is

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like that too, I think a
lot of them Midway some of the provinces

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at least. Yeah, and then
you can't buy it past like like eight

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pm weekdays or something at six pm
Sundays, like you just can't find it,

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which obviously you know living here on
Sundays and yea, yeah, I

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think it's six pm. They close
it all liquor stores. And sometimes you

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can get beer certain places, but
yeah, I mean my two vibing in

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Vegas and here you can buy even
here, right, you can buy alcohol

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till two am at CBS if it's
open. Yeah, you can buy whatever

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bottle, which is just kind of
weird because I think the rest of the

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nation ain't used to it. I
think I said that before that the guy

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who owned the airbnb, one of
the airbnbs that we stayed in London,

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had a CBD company, CBD drink
company. Yeah, they tasted fine,

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but I didn't really notice anything from
them, And I've come to understand since

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then that like CBD has a synergistic
effect with THHC. Obviously they come from

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the derived from the same kind of
a world of plant, but if you

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put them together, they do something
different than they do alone. So I

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get that. I get that.
Yeah, I don't know. Has the

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CBD train has kind of slowed down? Yeah, On the internet, there

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was a fucking punch there for about
four or five years where everyone sponsored by

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CBD company, everyone had a CBD
company. Everyone's slamming CBD like it's a

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goddamn miracle drug. Where are those
guys? Now? You ain't getting paid

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for CBD, You guys aren't.
I don't see you guys posting about it.

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That's odd. Yeah, UK,
they don't have they don't have legal

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weeds, So yeah, they lean
heavy, heavily into the CBD. I

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mean even here, right, less
than half the states it's legal. No,

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I think it's more than half of
You're thirty thirty thirty one something like

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that, either combination of recreational and
medicinal. Yeah, medicinal I don't really

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count. Yeah, I'm looking meth
as legal medicinally, you know, like

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you're getting the crazy drugs on the
planet medicinally. Yeah. Well, yeah,

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if you have ADHD you can get
so well, if you have any

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if you have any issue and the
doctor writes it for you, I mean,

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pot's the same. Yeah. I
don't count that because that's everything,

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and then they'll give you oxy coding
and whatever. The fuck. It's harder

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to get now for those drugs.
Yeah, yeah, I'm sure it depends

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on your doctor. Oxy's a lot
harder to get now, depending upon you

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know where your where your doctor is. Whatever. My point is, POT

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being legal by a doctor doesn't really
count. Yeah. The other thing they're

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doing now is with with oxyes and
stuff like that. Is that like if

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you have a surgery where they give
you like X number of days of it

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without any refills. Yeah, well, yeah, I mean that makes sense.

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But I don't know. I don't
know if the refills are always issue.

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Like obviously, the longer you're on
it, I'm no expert in this

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category by any means, but the
longer you're on it, the more addicted

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you're probably gonna get. But if
you're on it, you're gonna go and

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you get addicted, you're gonna go
find it on your own. Yeah,

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right, it doesn't really matter if
the doctor is given it to you or

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no. That's the whole idea of
the black market or even just street drugs

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or people finding a way or shitty
doctors or millions of different ways. I

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have perhaps either the one of the
best or worst topics ever that we've we've

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ever discussed on this program, yeah, or any program in which we have

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participated together, which there are a
total of four. Now, I think

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who is the more who is the
judge whether it's the worst, best or

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the worst? Like category what Some
people think it's the best and some think

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it's the worst. This is gonna
be This is gonna be divisive. I

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think it's pretty divisive. It is
not specifically a fitness topic, but in

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a way it is. Okay,
So I this hit me this morning.

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This is from the La Times and
the headline is this scientist, after decades

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of study, we don't have free
will. Oh shit. Yeah. And

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you usually hear this from mathematicians where
they tell you that everything is like the

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math works out and everything and it
just is going to happen the way it's

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going to happen, and there's like
no decision that you can make that's going

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to keep something from happening that was
gonna happen anyway. I kind of get

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that. So this guy's written a
book. His name is he's a Stanford

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University neurobiologist. His name is Robert
Sepolski. And somewhere in here is the

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name of the book, but I
can't find it at the moment. But

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he says, we've got no free
will. Stop attributing stuff to us that

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isn't there, he said. MacArthur
genius Grant Winner is extremely aware of his

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out there position. Most neuroscientists believe
humans have at least some degree of free

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will. So to most philosophers and
the vast majority of general the general population.

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Free will is essential to how we
see ourselves feeling, the satisfaction of

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achievement or the shame of failing to
do the right thing. Saying that people

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have no free will is a great
way to start an argument, which is

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probably why we're going to talk about
it. He says, this okay,

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analyzing human behavior through the lens that
this is just from the article. Analyzing

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human behavior through the lens of any
single discipline leaves room for possibility that people

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choose their actions, he says,
but after a long cross disciplinary career,

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he feels that it's intellectually just on
us to write anything other than what he

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sees as the unavoidable conclusion free will
is the myth, and the sooner we

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accept that, the more society,
more just our society will be. He's

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basically saying that all of us are
influenced by the situation that we've grown up

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in what our biology is. Yeah, I've heard of these arguments, all

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of that, and so when it
comes down to decision making, all of

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that stuff just pushes us in the
direction of whatever decision we're going to make.

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Yeah, I've taken a lot of
psych before I dropped out, and

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you know, the nature versus nurture
conversation and what percentage on the spectrum most

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humans sit into that obviously, this
just takes an extreme one that goes beyond

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right, So you're treated a certain
way from age five to six or sorry,

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one to six or whatever, then
its situations arrive in your life.

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You're so programmed that your reaction or
action to environment two situation two X is

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already quote unquote planned out. I
think that argument's just tough because I think

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you could probably throw one there's a
trillion variables, and then two you could

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throw kids in the exact same situation. And this is like the most top

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level. So I mean, this
guy's a neurologist, a fucking Stanford.

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I'm a meathead. But the top
levels situation you see often, right,

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it's a kid grows up in like
an alcoholic house, one kid becomes an

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alcoholic, one kid has never touched
alcohol in his life, right, right,

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And so obviously there's other variables within
that is that parents violent, and

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each situation is so unique that there's
a million variables, but it would just

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be I actually tend to agree with
this guy, although I'm playing Devil's Afka

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right now. I tend to agree
more that the spectrum is is further away

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than we think, and people argue
it, because then who are we?

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What are we? Who am I? Right, you start to go into

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existential crisis if you don't think you're
in control of your life. But that's

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kind of the beauty of peace,
you know, enlightenment if you're trying to

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find it or digging deep into yourself, is that you control a lot less

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than you think. So just kind
of grab on and go on the ride.

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Yeah. Yeah, it is frustrating
to think of yourself potentially as just

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a drone who's going to do what
they're going to do. And the extent

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to which we all fret over decision
making, right like, is that entirely

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wasted time? I mean, how
often do you make a decision about something

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that goes against what your gut initially
told you you should do in the first

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seconds that you began to contemplate it
or even deeper, right like, what

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is our gut? And then say, we contemplate our gut, but the

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decisions already laid out with it or
against it? Right? Yeah, against

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our will obviously, Yeah, even
on the base level. Psych I've done

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you know, therapy for decades now
our brain, you know, and a

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lot of therapists are psychiatrists. Think
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might dig in and it can like
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where this you know, gets real
murky, but that you're you know,

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and I think of it this way
as well as like I am who I

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am is like kind of my soul. Maybe over here and maybe Western world

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always attaches our soul to like our
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we die, but or as we

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know, we die as we know, but our brains I often think about

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with my own issues and other people
that i'm you know, interacting with life,

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is that your brain is programmed,
and a lot of that is through

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how we're grown up, and so
it has like a default program. And

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if anyone's done basic coding, which
I haven't gone advance, but I did

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some basic ass coding in high school, if a happens, B will happen

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and it will trigger Z. And
so your brain does do that, like

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and I notice it all the time. The reason I don't necessarily think that

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everything's set out for me is because
I've had moments where I've stepped away,

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like okay, my brain is doing
that, Like this has happened because X

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y Z's happened in my past,
and I remember I reacted this way.

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I'm seeing that my brain is running
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thoughts, my brain is doing this, My brain is already on this roller

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coaster trigger and not stopping. But
I'm I'm going to decide to you know,

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switch the little train path and stop
that program going, or or kind

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of the like the most basic one
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and then your brain goes on it
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happens in real life, and now
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like am I getting after? Am
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but those thoughts and that program isn't
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running on their own. Yeah,
And that's where I see some of this

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and psychs. You know, a
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and tools to kind of derail that
or think about that, or walk yourself

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out of those thoughts to see how
much of it is real. Yeah,

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because a lot of it's not a
lot of it's just your brain fucking saying

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shit or running forever. Yeah,
he says, we know we make worse

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decisions when we're hungry, stressed,
or scared. We know our physical makeup

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is influenced by the genes inherited from
distant ancestors and our mother's health during pregnancy,

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which is a bigger thing than most
people consider. Yeah, talk about

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abundant evidence indicates that people who grew
up in home was marked by chaos and

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deprivation will perceive the world differently and
make different choices than people raised in safe,

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stable, resource rich environments. Yeah. I mean, I believe all

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that. I just don't know if
it's worked totally on cruise control. I

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don't know either, But and I
think that it's there's the potential that this

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theory says that that stuff will change
over time as you experience different things.

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And then I guess the X factor
is, like, is then is the

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universe on cruise control? Yeah?
And that's what the mathematicians tell us,

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right, So the whole thing is
just that's more where I sit, like,

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I think I'm maybe, you know, sixty seven percent sentient and having

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some fucking choices or fifty or whatever. But if the universe is on cruise

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control, that's where I was gonna
talking about, like enlightenment, and it

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probably is, you know, like
whether you want to believe that it's set

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in stone or we can change it
or not, the universe is on a

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path that we can't control, and
so you just kind of hands off,

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much, so many factors and so many

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things that are out of our control
in this world, which is obviously very

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relevant to what's going on in today's
age. Like just do what you can

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do. But but if you can't
fix it or change it, yeah,

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yeah, Yeah. I'm not saying
try not don't try to do good or

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don't try to help, but if
we're stressing over things we have no control

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over. So a thing that he
that he's an argument he makes here that

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I have some trouble with, is
that like if somebody does a mass shooting,

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we treat them as you know,
a terrible criminal, or we treat

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them as someone who's mentally ill or
whatever, but we don't treat them as

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if they were just destined to do
that. Although some in the same way,

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he's arguing that that we should look
at them the same way that we

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look at somebody who had a heart
attack. Some I don't think the public

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do. But isn't there some laws
that do though? Yeah? And for

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sure, Yeah, like the law
is kind of set up that way,

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like oh they were crazy, yeah, or they're give them ten years or

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go give them a hopefully treatment.
Yeah. I mean if this guy's right,

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like he's destroying like twenty industries,
yeah, you know what I mean,

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Like like therapy's out because it can't
change nothing. Fitness is out.

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Yeah, a lot of and and
so that's where I do semi agree.

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That's why I do think we're probably
you know, seventy percent robots because and

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even me, you know, my
whole family's pretty large, and I was

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raised with you know, great family. But like eating habits were not taught

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and they're and what's the right way
to be taught when you're eight, Right,

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you can go too strict. You're
just gonna feed your kids ground turkey

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veggies. Like that's not it either. No one has the answer is part

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of the issue of all psychology.
There's no rule book. But I do

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believe that people's brains are more and
some people blame it on hormones, gramarlin

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and all these things like what or
grellin what when you can say no,

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you don't know what full feels like. You don't know what satiated feels like.

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You don't know all these factors.
I do think that plays a role.

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But we've seen it time and time
again. People go from insanely unhealthy

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lifestyle is too healthy. So it
has to be possible somewhere. And again

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the programming, say we are one
hundred percent on autopilot, is more complicated

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than any computer that's ever been on
earth. So maybe, yeah, there's

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that one percent factor that if xyz
Domino's fall, then that person will stop

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eating McDonald's. Is possible. It
is interesting in fitness, it is.

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But yeah, because we are all
entirely enchanted by like transformation stories, right,

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yeah, and but the real trick
of transformation is sticking with it.

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of that and back into old habits and

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stuff. Sort of an argument for
yeah or no, free will, like

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you ultimately end up in the same
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there's been like transformations, I don't mean

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to rag on this guy because he's
really popular. I don't even know his

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name. But like there's been like
trainers and a couple I can think about

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in particular, not friends, but
just internet folk out of like, uh,

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they're all jacked, probably on steroids, and then they get fat on

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purpose to prove a point. Then
they get hell of skinny, right,

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and they do it with their clients
like oh I can get up to three

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hundred pounds and back to two twenty. Yeah, yeah, all those there's

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multiple but like, well, yeah, one because you have the tools too,

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because you're probably not built to be
like a fat kid. And we've

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joked about it for years, like
having a fat kid mentality, or like

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I always say I'm fat, and
I don't necessarily mean by like my body

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fat percentage, but like by my
habits and how my brain works. I'm

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fat, you know, Like I'm
stressed, I'm tired, I'm anything.

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I just want to go get ice
cream, you know. Or like there's

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a whole box of cheese it's in
front of me. I can't have a

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serving. I'm going to eat the
whole box of cheese. It's like there

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are things like that that are Yeah, you want to call it addictive.

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You want to call it cruise control, you want to call it no free

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will, whatever the hell you want
to call it. That that are so

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strong that I have had times I
fuel them like a drug addiction, you

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know, and I know a lot
of people are straight up addicted to food.

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Whatever that means, right, Because
you when we're looking at conversations like

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this, every definition or example we
have is like almost meaningless or like become

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so small. Right, this is
like the overarching what is life? What

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is the meaning of life? Question? So all these other examples because if

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that is true, then addiction is
in a thing, right right, So

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like that's why it's like backtracking on
my own sentences, because yeah, it's

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not addiction, it's just the behavior
that you're programming. Discipline is not thing.

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It's not a word. All these
words are once we open this door,

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you know, Pandora's box. Yeah, all these words literally lose meaning.

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Discipline is not a thing. Addiction
is not a thing. Yeah,

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hard works not a thing. These
are meaningless words, yeah, exactly.

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And I think that the people who
who do successfully make a change, they

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are able to do it because that
was part of their makeup as well,

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right, they're supposed to do it
when they reach thirty because they get their

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first heart palpitation, right, whatever
the fuck, Like that just happens,

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and it is true. But I
think for this neuro scientist who's probably twenty

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times smarter than me, maybe one
hundred times, that's still even with his

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knowledge. And I don't even know
this guy, he could be an idiot.

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But let's give him the benefit of
doubt, because there's dumb doctors out

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there, people, and there's dumb
people that get fucking New York Times,

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and there's dumb people everywhere. That's
one issue. But let's say he's the

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smartest motherfucker on the planet, there's
still too many factors for him to straight

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up say yes or no. I
would think that that's the case, although

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I tend to agree with them.
Yeah, okay, let's take another another

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perspective, like maybe a little bit
more historical perspective on our on our own

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lives, Like we've been traveling together
for at least twelve years, yeah,

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twenty eleven, Yeah, And and
I mean that's that's one slice of time.

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And then like your whole life slice
of time, and you think about

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the things that you've been involved with
and things that you know, jobs you've

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had, or or quote decisions you've
made or whatever, and how many times

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have you made decisions that were inconsistent
with your basic character? Yeah? Yeah,

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we'll start maybe by dumb it down. My little bro, myke Sean

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stop by the other day and we
were just talking about a bunch of ship,

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but then we ended up talking about
as kids because I've known him since

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he was in kindergarten. Because now
he works for Cold Plunge, you know,

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he's one of the lead salesmen there. And he said, he's like,

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Dude, if you told me I'm
gonna grow up and be a salesman,

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I would say no, there's just
no fucking way. Yeah. And

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he's like, and if we grew
up and said, you're probably gonna podcast

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and do like apparel and stuff like
maybe, And I was like, yeah,

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I I never even thought about my
shit, you know. But he's

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a lot like me, so he
would probably see himself more in this yeah

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world, although he works for a
small ish company or an internet company,

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so he does get the creator side
and the entrepreneur side, I think.

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But yeah, even that alone,
like what you see yourself as? And

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then what you see yourself become can
be so different, maybe based on this

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guy's truths. Yeah right, because
what you see you want to do,

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and then making yourself make the decisions
to get there is very difficult. I

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see. I don't have any trouble
seeing Mike Sean as a salesman. I

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don't. I mean, yeah,
but you didn't know he's kindergarten. I

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didn't know I kindergarten. But like
the time that I've done him so like

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the last three three plus years.
He's tall, Yeah, he is good

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looking. Uh, he has very
noticeable eyes. Yeah, his eyes are

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you know, and and he is
just a king of making eye contact yeah,

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yeah, yeah. And he's very
charismatic and yeah he's very relatable.

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But like, uh, like,
I think a lot of it comes down

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to like your interests or what you're
good at, and the things you just

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described are just as good as an
actor, right, the actor or a

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comedian. Him and I used to
write like comedy skits together in high school

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and shit, yeah you know,
so like I just h or even his

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brother's brother's my best friend. He
works in like politics, we just never

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like put that on him in high
school. Yeah, like both of them

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are goofy kids are funny. We're
all kind of the class clowns. And

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I didn't know what I would be
either. I would never probably put in

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this world, although I liked clothes
and yeah I like basketball too, I'd

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probably say it would be a basketball
coach, you know, like you just

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never know. So yeah, how
much of that is lined up? How

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much of that is based on your
decisions? What is a gut decision?

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I can like factor in my brain. I don't know about gut decisions because

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I don't even know if I have
a good gut or not. But like,

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because guts sometimes too, I think
fools, at least me, I

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can only speak on my perspective because
gut feeling is always what would be like

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comfortable right for me? Right?
Yeah, A lot of if I make

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a big decision or a decision that
makes me feel not good, it's probably

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because it's hard doesn't necessarily mean it's
wrong, right, Like going out of

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my way to do something that's hard
doesn't always feel good because everyone does.

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Say. That's where I get so
caught up in like entrepreneur, Instagram and

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shit, And I listen to a
lot of podcasts about business and just like

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I talk shit on doctors sucking,
there's just as many content creators that suck,

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and there's just so many entrepreneurs that
suck. Some people could be worth

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there could be three guys worth a
billion, and only one like has a

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recipe to make a billion another like
got there, which again may lead to

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this no free will shit or not? But or luck? You know,

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people throw on luck or karma,
all these terms. There's always two people

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arguing both sides. Yeah, you
know. And so if you argue,

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like some people say, always follow
your gut and then always people say,

406
00:28:25.960 --> 00:28:29.519
oh no, always make the hard
decision or whatever, and those often aren't

407
00:28:29.519 --> 00:28:32.559
the same. And I don't necessarily
know one's right or wrong, because you

408
00:28:32.720 --> 00:28:36.359
don't want to make all the wrong
all the decisions that make you uncomfortable,

409
00:28:36.880 --> 00:28:40.240
right, because that could lead you
down to a very dark path. Yeah,

410
00:28:40.279 --> 00:28:41.440
who knows you're gonna be a criminal, or who knows what right?

411
00:28:41.559 --> 00:28:45.400
Right? Right? But then on
what you're uncomfortable with, I guess,

412
00:28:45.519 --> 00:28:48.039
yeah, yeah, right, but
you know what I mean, or like

413
00:28:48.079 --> 00:28:51.039
what makes you feel weird? But
then you follow your gut on everything.

414
00:28:51.039 --> 00:28:55.160
I'm gonna be driving through McDonald's drive
through every morning, right exactly, and

415
00:28:55.319 --> 00:28:57.519
playing video games all day. Yeah, you know, so like I don't,

416
00:28:57.519 --> 00:29:04.240
I don't necessarily know, And I
think the bigger like an applicable question

417
00:29:04.359 --> 00:29:08.960
is like how many again this just
because I isolate or try to isolate,

418
00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:12.359
like my brain from what it does
and who I am? How many decisions

419
00:29:12.400 --> 00:29:19.240
do you think about making versus just
making that I think is more important.

420
00:29:19.279 --> 00:29:22.559
I think I think about most of
them, really, yeah, or which

421
00:29:22.559 --> 00:29:26.039
is why I'm balled up all the
time. Or maybe you're just looking at

422
00:29:26.079 --> 00:29:30.559
the like the the macro. So
if you look at the micro we step

423
00:29:30.599 --> 00:29:33.359
in our car, like I don't, I don't think about that, right,

424
00:29:33.640 --> 00:29:37.400
Yeah, but those maybe matt matter
just as much in this butterfly ripple

425
00:29:37.440 --> 00:29:38.640
effect. Like every day, Yeah, I didn't even think about getting ready

426
00:29:38.720 --> 00:29:42.599
or riding my bike here, you
just did it, especially just because it's

427
00:29:42.640 --> 00:29:45.440
been two months I haven't had a
car. Here we're back at the you

428
00:29:45.440 --> 00:29:48.319
know, two months ago. I
think about am I going to drive the

429
00:29:48.359 --> 00:29:49.680
day? Or am I going to
bike today? Right? And so like

430
00:29:49.720 --> 00:29:56.039
in this butterfly effect of free will, all these micros may add up to

431
00:29:56.079 --> 00:30:00.680
the macro decisions. Yeah, that
makes sense, looking at like back like

432
00:30:00.799 --> 00:30:10.680
career wise, like my first career
job, I was somebody's assistant and that

433
00:30:10.720 --> 00:30:18.359
person had a strong personality and relied
on me a lot and gave me a

434
00:30:18.359 --> 00:30:23.119
lot of positive feedback. And then
kind of the next career job I had,

435
00:30:25.319 --> 00:30:30.880
I worked for someone who was an
ass but not one hundred percent of

436
00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:34.160
the time. But like the their
asked us was so much worse than their

437
00:30:34.480 --> 00:30:37.720
then then their good was good.
Yeah, scale was still tips. Yeah,

438
00:30:37.720 --> 00:30:41.039
and this scale was still tip.
I mean that was like a year

439
00:30:41.039 --> 00:30:42.599
and a half and then fuck you, I I can't deal with you anymore.

440
00:30:44.400 --> 00:30:52.279
And then and then after that,
the first year or so of the

441
00:30:52.319 --> 00:30:56.799
next job that I had, I
had these job jobs. These are like

442
00:30:56.839 --> 00:30:59.839
career jobs. Career job, yeah, like adult job, career adult jobs

443
00:31:00.319 --> 00:31:03.799
working on taco bell. Yeah.
After that, it took like a year

444
00:31:03.880 --> 00:31:10.920
year and a half to develop a
relationship with somebody who was you know,

445
00:31:11.039 --> 00:31:14.920
kind of a leader type who needed
needed the kind of support that I could

446
00:31:14.960 --> 00:31:21.240
give, but was also very good
at doling out you know, praise and

447
00:31:21.559 --> 00:31:25.720
like and sincerely saying gees, I
couldn't do this particular thing if I didn't

448
00:31:25.720 --> 00:31:30.599
have your help. Whatever, Yeah, when that was over, I was

449
00:31:30.680 --> 00:31:36.039
consulting for a while, and that
was not quite a while. And that's

450
00:31:36.079 --> 00:31:37.680
not the same thing at all.
You kind of have to be the leader

451
00:31:38.200 --> 00:31:42.880
in what you're doing, and it's
entrepreneury. I could have been more successful

452
00:31:42.920 --> 00:31:45.839
if I was more outgoing, but
I also had a lot of stuff going

453
00:31:45.880 --> 00:31:51.319
on outside of that that kind of
held me back. Like if I actually

454
00:31:51.920 --> 00:31:53.440
succeeded this, then I'm not going
to be able to do the other things

455
00:31:53.440 --> 00:32:00.279
that I'm that I'm like responsible for
in the same way. And then you

456
00:32:00.319 --> 00:32:08.839
know, the fucking twelve thirteen years
of st Like I don't think I mean,

457
00:32:12.039 --> 00:32:14.000
I'm not gonna be mos for a
second here. I don't think that

458
00:32:14.000 --> 00:32:15.799
that all would have happened the way
it happened had it not been for me.

459
00:32:16.039 --> 00:32:20.279
Yeah for sure. But yeah,
you're the core of the media from

460
00:32:20.440 --> 00:32:23.799
day one. But the you and
and and yeah, see that's where like

461
00:32:23.880 --> 00:32:27.799
free will gets weird too, Like
did you get lucky? Like obviously you

462
00:32:27.799 --> 00:32:30.480
put in the work to do that
stuff. Yeah, I always consider my

463
00:32:30.519 --> 00:32:32.799
career lucky because like, you put
me on YouTube, you put me on

464
00:32:32.880 --> 00:32:37.039
podcasts. But what if those weren't
cool? Right? That was out of

465
00:32:37.480 --> 00:32:38.720
But if it didn't work, yeah, like you're like, oh my god,

466
00:32:38.839 --> 00:32:42.000
like let's put you on cam Okay, but then yeah, what if

467
00:32:42.039 --> 00:32:45.039
YouTube never grew right, what if
it was uh be real or some others

468
00:32:45.160 --> 00:32:50.400
you know, social media that just
flopped right exactly, then we all lose

469
00:32:50.519 --> 00:32:52.160
my Space, right yeah, yeah, even MySpace he had like a little

470
00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:55.000
five year run, right yeah.
But you know, because then then we

471
00:32:55.039 --> 00:32:57.920
don't mean bar it. We don't
mean you know, some of my best

472
00:32:57.960 --> 00:33:00.799
friends. We don't mean omar.
We obviously don't have the resources to build

473
00:33:00.839 --> 00:33:04.400
all this, so like some of
that, that's where I see the bigger

474
00:33:04.440 --> 00:33:07.640
picture of the universe's free will out
of our control. Yeah, you know,

475
00:33:07.920 --> 00:33:14.759
yeah for sure, and powerlifting becoming
cool like all that has. Did

476
00:33:14.799 --> 00:33:16.720
we play a role? Maybe?
Yeah? I think so? Yeah,

477
00:33:16.720 --> 00:33:20.279
I think, I mean, immodestly, Yeah, I don't. I mean,

478
00:33:20.599 --> 00:33:27.079
there is no point in diminishing what
we accomplished. Really, even if

479
00:33:27.079 --> 00:33:30.759
I'm on you know, like going
back to the point, then the appreciation

480
00:33:31.039 --> 00:33:35.519
wasn't really there in the same way
that I was that I had experienced it

481
00:33:35.559 --> 00:33:39.759
before and and kind of needed it
before, and so I was always like

482
00:33:39.839 --> 00:33:45.720
in turmoil over it because it's like, why am I doing this? Because

483
00:33:46.519 --> 00:33:51.839
the feedback from the person that I'm
supporting is that isn't what I'm looking for.

484
00:33:52.480 --> 00:33:55.880
And at some point, the feed
the positive feedback started coming from audience,

485
00:33:57.599 --> 00:34:00.079
you know, the Internet, which
is the yeah, the dangerous loop

486
00:34:00.119 --> 00:34:05.759
we're in now with creators, right
exactly exactly. People start are chasing audience

487
00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:08.760
when the reality of audience is that, you know, it's not the same

488
00:34:08.800 --> 00:34:14.840
audience for you know, even three
years Yeah, yeah, well and a

489
00:34:14.920 --> 00:34:17.760
lot of the time. And who's
to like say that they're like a good

490
00:34:17.840 --> 00:34:22.079
judge, right, all right,
because now content and we've talked about it

491
00:34:22.199 --> 00:34:25.400
eight years ago when people started lighting
their hair on fire and doing backflips and

492
00:34:25.440 --> 00:34:30.920
deadloafts, like you're just going to
chase attention, and attention comes to crazy

493
00:34:30.119 --> 00:34:34.480
yeah, right, Murderers get attention, yeah exactly, you know, like

494
00:34:34.719 --> 00:34:37.840
crazy shit gets attention, not always
like good people get attention. People doing

495
00:34:37.880 --> 00:34:43.159
good work don't always get attention.
And a lot of that, to me,

496
00:34:43.280 --> 00:34:45.719
lies on the phrase you just says, like what you were looking for,

497
00:34:45.880 --> 00:34:47.920
because so much depends on that,
Like entrepreneur world, you don't really

498
00:34:47.920 --> 00:34:52.360
get that, like you have to
patch yourself on the back or you have

499
00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:57.440
to be okay with just like running. And I think maybe I in some

500
00:34:57.480 --> 00:35:00.960
senses, I am built to be
an entrepreneur. Like sports, I was

501
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.719
lucky enough to have a really dope
coach and like everyone just wanted to play

502
00:35:02.760 --> 00:35:06.039
for him, which was cool,
and like that's the key to a really

503
00:35:06.039 --> 00:35:07.880
good team, right, you have
one leader and everyone wants to do good

504
00:35:07.880 --> 00:35:12.679
for them, and then you want
to do good for us. But like

505
00:35:12.719 --> 00:35:16.880
on my own own, it's like
love languages or whatever, you know,

506
00:35:16.920 --> 00:35:22.679
all the fucking like, how you
receive your appreciation can look very different.

507
00:35:22.719 --> 00:35:24.400
It could be monetarily, it could
just be a high five. It could

508
00:35:24.400 --> 00:35:28.559
be verbal, it could be spending
time, it could be buying you a

509
00:35:28.599 --> 00:35:35.599
cake on birthday or whatever. And
romantically maybe different than business wise. I

510
00:35:35.599 --> 00:35:37.519
don't even know what my business wise. Mine is just like success business wise.

511
00:35:38.039 --> 00:35:40.679
So yeah, in similar situations,
like if I'm not getting paid,

512
00:35:40.719 --> 00:35:43.519
then I feel like, oh,
then I'm not doing a good job.

513
00:35:44.920 --> 00:35:46.880
But then an entrepreneur world, that
happens too. Yeah, Now you can

514
00:35:46.960 --> 00:35:51.199
work forever not get paid, not
get paid. It doesn't mean you're not

515
00:35:51.239 --> 00:35:52.840
doing the right things, or it
could be feedback that you're not doing the

516
00:35:52.920 --> 00:35:59.039
right things. That's where this entrepreneur
content creation blows me up, you know,

517
00:35:59.079 --> 00:36:04.519
like some guys say, oh,
I think Hormosi most famously says in

518
00:36:04.639 --> 00:36:07.440
business, it's it's not what you're
not doing, you're not doing the things

519
00:36:07.480 --> 00:36:12.760
you are doing long enough. Yeah, right, because that's where you get

520
00:36:12.800 --> 00:36:15.519
lost in running your own ship.
You get lost in like, am I

521
00:36:15.599 --> 00:36:20.280
doing Is there something I'm not doing
X? To market, to sell,

522
00:36:20.360 --> 00:36:23.119
to give members to whatever? Or
do you just have to chug through the

523
00:36:23.159 --> 00:36:28.480
pieces that you do have? And
I think in a team or in a

524
00:36:28.599 --> 00:36:30.840
job, it could be similar,
right, like all right, am I

525
00:36:30.840 --> 00:36:34.400
not getting feedback because I'm not doing
it? Or am I not getting feedback

526
00:36:34.400 --> 00:36:37.000
as my boss fucking sucks? Am
I doing the wrong thing? Or am

527
00:36:37.000 --> 00:36:38.519
I not doing the right thing?
Long enough? Like, there's just so

528
00:36:38.599 --> 00:36:43.280
many X factors that sometimes it feels
good to not have free will and just

529
00:36:43.360 --> 00:36:47.679
say like all right, yeah,
some people are some people maybe the work

530
00:36:47.719 --> 00:36:52.920
to live, live to work,
yeah people, you know, but some

531
00:36:52.920 --> 00:36:57.119
people can't tolerate that. They can't
tolerate just you know, doing a drone

532
00:36:57.239 --> 00:37:00.480
job and then having a life outside
of it. This morning. Interesting,

533
00:37:00.599 --> 00:37:02.519
Yeah, so much of it seems
American, you know, I don't know

534
00:37:04.079 --> 00:37:07.760
besides Argentina, but you hear in
Europe, you hear all these other places.

535
00:37:07.760 --> 00:37:09.760
Like I don't even think like conversations
like that even happen. Maybe not,

536
00:37:09.920 --> 00:37:12.960
you know what I mean? Because
you have your job and it's like

537
00:37:13.039 --> 00:37:15.400
a part of your life, but
you only do it in a couple hours.

538
00:37:15.440 --> 00:37:17.880
And yeah, how do you do
a job you don't enjoy for just

539
00:37:17.960 --> 00:37:22.039
the money? And that's I think
I could do that because I think that's

540
00:37:22.079 --> 00:37:24.840
where me and Barter are on the
same page at least. Like everyone that

541
00:37:24.880 --> 00:37:27.800
says like, do what you love
and you won't work a day in your

542
00:37:27.840 --> 00:37:30.960
life, I think it's. Yeah, so in that sense that I think

543
00:37:31.159 --> 00:37:35.519
all of us are doing jobs that
we don't necessarily you can like have like

544
00:37:35.559 --> 00:37:38.199
an underlying like passion for, but
doesn't mean you love it. It doesn't

545
00:37:38.199 --> 00:37:43.719
mean you're gonna be stoked on it, and doesn't mean so it's different than

546
00:37:43.760 --> 00:37:45.639
a job you hate. Yeah,
for sure. You know, if you're

547
00:37:45.760 --> 00:37:50.800
fucking allergic to bees and you're a
honeymaker, like, yeah, that's probably

548
00:37:51.039 --> 00:37:55.119
a different conversation than just doing shit
you don't like to do, and maybe

549
00:37:55.159 --> 00:37:58.599
maybe some of that is just how
we're wired too. Maybe some people do

550
00:37:58.960 --> 00:38:01.519
love just fucking working. Yeah.
Well, I was thinking about, you

551
00:38:01.519 --> 00:38:05.480
know, the famous poem the Road
Not Taken. Yeah, I think so

552
00:38:05.800 --> 00:38:08.119
that guy was never gonna take the
other road. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

553
00:38:08.119 --> 00:38:12.000
he was never gonna take the other
road. He's celebrating the fact that

554
00:38:12.039 --> 00:38:14.840
he was never gonna take the other
road. Yeah, And I think that's

555
00:38:14.880 --> 00:38:15.800
a lot of us about a lot
of things. I think. Yeah,

556
00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:19.679
it's a little matrix c too.
Yeah, start diving into the matrix.

557
00:38:19.719 --> 00:38:22.639
All this kind of ripples in how
much is laid out for us, how

558
00:38:22.719 --> 00:38:27.320
much of is planned? Are we
just fucking NPCs stumping around? And then

559
00:38:27.400 --> 00:38:30.440
yeah, how much can you just
wake up and just like change, Hey,

560
00:38:30.480 --> 00:38:34.079
I'm just not gonna eat fucking meat
today and just fucking stop. But

561
00:38:34.159 --> 00:38:37.960
then it goes back to if you
you have to have that in your makeup

562
00:38:37.320 --> 00:38:40.480
maybe to be able to change.
Yeah. Maybe, yeah, maybe I

563
00:38:40.480 --> 00:38:45.119
was supposed to not eat meat when
I'm forty or who knows what the chapters

564
00:38:45.159 --> 00:38:50.119
are written out. Yeah, the
people who, I think go back to

565
00:38:50.920 --> 00:38:55.239
substance use and abuse stuff. When
people just cannot pull out of the cycle.

566
00:38:55.400 --> 00:39:00.679
Yeah, and they like know what
they're doing and they still can't pull

567
00:39:00.719 --> 00:39:05.320
out of the cycle. Yeah.
I mean that would be the general analogy

568
00:39:05.360 --> 00:39:08.760
for no free will everywhere, right, just there's no substance. Yeah,

569
00:39:09.079 --> 00:39:12.519
you have no control. You're gonna
do what you're gonna do. Yeah.

570
00:39:12.800 --> 00:39:15.239
Yeah, I don't know. It
would be interesting to chat with that guy

571
00:39:15.280 --> 00:39:19.199
and see if he has some deeper
markers on how or why. Yeah,

572
00:39:19.760 --> 00:39:22.960
it's a pretty long article. I
just I kind of skimmed it. It

573
00:39:22.079 --> 00:39:25.159
was. It just struck me that
it was in the paper this morning.

574
00:39:25.159 --> 00:39:30.599
It's like what Yeah, but I
mean obviously long term debate. But again,

575
00:39:30.800 --> 00:39:32.800
like I said, it's usually mathematicians
who tell us that the math of

576
00:39:32.840 --> 00:39:37.480
the universe is pretty yeah constant,
or even philosophers, right, because philosophy

577
00:39:37.559 --> 00:39:40.119
is the idea of thoughts. So
you can just fucking say and do whatever.

578
00:39:40.159 --> 00:39:45.800
But you can do a neurologist,
but that person studying the brain,

579
00:39:45.960 --> 00:39:50.360
and if you have any kind of
spirituality in you, you probably believe that

580
00:39:50.400 --> 00:39:52.280
you are not your brain, which
would argue against this guy. And he

581
00:39:52.320 --> 00:39:58.039
can't really argue against that, right, because the soul, spirit, whatever

582
00:39:58.079 --> 00:40:00.519
you want to call it. You
can't define, and you can't control,

583
00:40:00.519 --> 00:40:05.719
and you can't really like study per
se. So then your argument, his

584
00:40:05.840 --> 00:40:08.480
argument always has to go to philosophy. Yeah, and you can never win

585
00:40:08.480 --> 00:40:12.559
a philosophical argument, really, Yeah, that's the point of it all.

586
00:40:12.719 --> 00:40:16.280
Tried to win a philosophical argument with
a neurologist right now, like this,

587
00:40:16.280 --> 00:40:20.519
this test that he said I should
do, I can't do it for six

588
00:40:20.559 --> 00:40:23.960
months. I was like, that's
a long long time for a diagnostic test.

589
00:40:24.000 --> 00:40:27.239
And I got offered another place to
say, yeah, we can do

590
00:40:27.320 --> 00:40:30.159
it like a lot sooner, just
have it redirected to us. He's just

591
00:40:30.159 --> 00:40:31.000
busy or something. What do you
mean in six months? Or that has

592
00:40:31.039 --> 00:40:34.320
to do with the test, has
to do with the test, it's the

593
00:40:34.480 --> 00:40:42.000
I mean the the there's a unit
within neurology that does these tests. But

594
00:40:42.039 --> 00:40:45.400
what I find out is that there's
also a unit in physical medicine that does

595
00:40:45.400 --> 00:40:50.760
these tests and is busy. His
bias well, yeah, they're just busy,

596
00:40:51.039 --> 00:40:55.559
just underresourced or whatever. And his
bias was yeah, but they don't

597
00:40:55.559 --> 00:40:59.679
know how to read it as well
as neurology does, so maybe they'll miss

598
00:40:59.719 --> 00:41:01.719
something and say, yeah, but
six months is still a really long time

599
00:41:01.760 --> 00:41:07.159
to wait for something very philosophical,
like, you know, like I'm willing

600
00:41:07.280 --> 00:41:12.679
to say let him miss something because
it might not be that important. Yeah,

601
00:41:13.039 --> 00:41:15.159
yeah, yeah yeah, And who
knows. I think doctors are just

602
00:41:15.199 --> 00:41:19.280
like anyone else, Like powerlifters hate
strong men and strong men hate weightlifting.

603
00:41:19.320 --> 00:41:22.800
Yeah, body, silent mentality,
yeah yeah. Whoever thinks they're fucking smarter

604
00:41:22.920 --> 00:41:28.000
or better? Yeah. I think
that's all I have on this topic.

605
00:41:28.119 --> 00:41:31.239
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606
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