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We rip off the plastic mask to reveal the true gurus lurking underneath and discuss:

01:20 Russian Propaganda and Influencer Scandal

13:50 Profit Incentives and the Need for Disclosure

23:50 Excessive Profiteering and Advertising

30:55 Lex Fridman interviews Trump (with love)

42:49 Trump and Conspiracy Theories

45:41 Trump and Kamala Debate Reactions and the Heterodox Take

55:11 Destiny vs. the Alternative Media

59:38 When Joe met Bret

01:11:30 Projection and Hypocrisy

01:15:51 Gabor Maté and Neuroimaging Studies

01:25:40 Matt's HUGE Correction on Twitter Funding

01:33:09 The University of Austin in Texas still exists

Links

Legal Eagle video on the Tenet Media scandal

Kanai, R., Feilden, T., Firth, C., & Rees, G. (2011). Political orientations are correlated with brain structure in young adults. Current Biology, 21(8), 677-680.

Boekel, W., Wagenmakers, E. J., Belay, L., Verhagen, J., Brown, S., & Forstmann, B. U. (2015). A purely confirmatory replication study of structural brain-behavior correlations. cortex, 66, 115-133.

Joe Rogan Experience #2198 - Bret Weinstein

Donald Trump Interview | Lex Fridman Podcast #442

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Ceri

👍🏻 Morning commute sorted👍🏻😃

Violet

Yay!

Saladus

Tim Pool couldn’t get a better mic with all that Russian dosh?

Phoebe

I absolutely lost it at Lex Fridman saying he has "impostor syndrome". It's not impostor syndrome if you actually are a moron who doesn't deserve to be successful!

Dial-1-2-enter-in-2-diaLOGOS

I’m looking forward to hearing Chris reading out an ad for «Moooink» or that weird mushroom coffee Eric Weinstein read ads for.😄

Ryan Booker

Talking about his media strategy is the most coherent I’ve ever heard Trump.

Liz Tily

Does Lex read stories for the Calm App? I think I recognize him from that midnight train sleep story. Also guys, numbers no one has ever heard of! Like infinite ♾️ numbers of listeners!

SHOUNAK SARKAR

Boy I pity the fools who enrol for that IDW University in Austin. Just like Chris, I’m shocked that they even made it this far but yeah it’s scary. Think it’s just going to serve as a propaganda organisation stuffing the selected few impressionable and gullible students with a hard-right ideological agenda. Of course, those students are not going to get grad jobs after graduation; but hell they will serve really well as the brainwashed new generation of youngsters who rich billionaires and tech bros (Peter Thiel, Sacks, Musk, Andreesen etc) can handpick straight for their organisations. They can do a good job as lobbyists, influencers, right wing thought leaders etc. Basically it’s a lifetime indoctrination of sorts that these deplorables always accuse the mainstream education and liberals off; while quietly pushing their own nefarious agendas.

Tim Tripp

Wow two huge spreaders of misinformation talking about others spreading misinformation. They both need a kick.

Milquetoast Ramen

I’m less sure about Lex’s history with MIT, credentials, and skills as a programmer than you both are. His background with MIT is more suspect other than that one video of him lecturing an intro course, but I can believe what he’s claimed about his skills with robotics and programming. For example he posted this which he claimed to have programmed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy_oYCNhiUI Not to say he couldn’t lie about it or that it isn’t shitty code, but seems easier to believe he actually programmed it given the fact that he can clearly follow along and engage with computer scientists and programmers in his interviews.

Adam Sher

I'm rooting for U Austin.

Adam Sher

Re accreditation, you have to offer a degree first. Drexel Law school went through the same thing 12-14 years ago. So those early classes took a leap of faith that their degree would be worth something by the time they finished school so they could sit for the bar exam

Adam Sher

If you want to shout your heterdox views and be uncancellable, become an accountant. There's such a huge shortage of them, particularly in audit, that you'll practically be allowed to show up to client meetings in your best IDW speedo

brianshmrian

Looking forward to when future historians can finally settle the question of what Donald Trump thought of Joe Rogan, and why he disrespected him that one time.

Devin Poore

You guys out here sounding like Chomsky during the first segment calling out the influence of money/capitalism within the media/information landscape 😁

Kgar

Rogan is too much. ‘Saving democracy’ —he asserts ‘they’ place the importance of this above everything. In his list he says ‘letting the people decide’. Holy fu, dude. The ignorance is … beyond. And has he not heard trump’s rhetoric? ‘They’re destroying our country. In fact, We won’t have a country if…’ It’s just so stooopid It’s no longer Rogan falling for trolls. It’s Rogan trolling himself.

David Noble

Some slight pushback on your response to Gabor Mate's "we are all capable of being nazis" idea. I'm sure for many people that is a novel idea, my mother still holds some prejudice against German people for WW2, as though they are uniquely bad in some way. Sometimes banal ideas need to be repeated.

deanofcaffeine

If I interpreted this correctly, Brett says that vaccines' negative effect on people in any individual case is hard to determine, yet says the negative effect is detectable at the statistical level; to me this seems analogous to thinking meta analyses from bad studies can yield quality insights.

Pixel-davis

Is there a way to get this in RSS for a podcast app?

Mark Francis

Gabor Mate’s son Aaron is a untapped gold mine of pro Russia disinformation, I would not be surprised if the kremlin is not funding far left media like his outlet. Aaron is on Ukraine’s shit list for his Putin apologist rhetoric. Aaron once interview Gabor, where Gabor was linking his trauma research to the Wests foreign policy causing trauma on Russia… quite egregious claims.

Linda Sears

Lex the love farmer. He doesn’t seem to get what historians do. They’re not creating immortal narratives. I’d guess historians in the future will use all the click bait stuff we’ve created to figure out how we were as a culture.

Idan Ca

Bret and JR used so much “THEY” in their clips that I felt myself starting to believe them. I mean, the thought of a mysterious, nefarious THEY is just too fun and intriguing to ignore. How boring is it to live in a world where all THEY are just normal people like us.

Jill

Thankyou for keeping us sane … in an insane world ❤️

Jamison Shipley

captain Orange sounds so old, tired, and demented