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Christmas Guru Special 2024 (Advance Release) (Patreon)

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2024-12-10 07:23:07
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Lucky Patreon folks that you are you have earned a proper early-release episode. In this special festive episode, Chris and Matt are joined by guest decoder Helen Lewis to discuss the myths around genius, extract her 2025 Guru predictions, and, of course, participate in her annual Guru Quiz. Again, the decoders are challenged over their mastery of the gurusphere knowledge, and again, one is found wanting. Who will it be? You all know already... but act surprised, anyway.

But that's not all! We are also joined by Discourse/Discord creature & DTG Weinstein correspondent Dan Gilbert (Bad Stats online) for another mystery quiz and a dystopic guru squad-building game. You can play along at home and see if your guru squads can match the synergistic power of our chosen champions.

P.S. As it is an early release, if you find any bad audio snafus please let us know and we will edit before the release on the public feed.

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Helen Lewis on Substack

Dan Gilbert on Twitter and YouTube

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Lord Brannigan-7

No audio issues so far but can we have more Helen and less Chris and Matt next year please? KIDDING! It does work well with the three of you though. Interesting thoughts about Walliams and Carr too, talk about what happens when you stop singing for your dinner and it becomes a whole 'nother game. About halfway through when I wrote this, and I'm not even Gen A...

Kit McLean

Woohoo, Helen's back! One of my favourite Christmas surprises👏

Kurt Ressler

Matt picked the superior team, clearly. (just give it to him because he’s so poor at guru trivia)

Penrice

What did the New Statesman call Konstantin? Rewound 3 times but can't get what Chris says.

Andy First

I’m taking Destiny, Rogan, and Jocko Willink (does he count?)

CrystalJade

Great episode. I do wish that the desert island question included a barbarian outsider guru that your choices have to keep your entire team safe from. I mean who wouldn’t want the chance to see gurus throw imaginary rocks at Andrew Gold for example!

Pixel-davis

New end of year ritual: the worse I do on the quizzes, the better I'll consider the year to have been for me

Emma

I vote team Matt for the win! Two smarties and a muscle head, who is also sort of smart if nuts. What could go wrong.

Kgar

Greetings DTGers, and Happy Christmas to our intrepid hosts!

Rod Hodges

“Fish eyed ghoul” made my day. God bless Peter Lorre

Linda Sears

Thanks, Helen, Matt, and Chris (ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future). I’ll let you decide which one is which.

Jen

I’m saving this, it’s a present I don’t want to open yet. Thank you!!! 🎄🎅🏼

Kyle Wilson

My favorite holiday tradition. Helen is the best!

Chomagerider

Helen quoting Theo's cocaine bit during the Trump interview in a matter of fact style was hilarious!!! I really hope Theo doesn't turn more into a Rogan!

Mark Francis

Yes, Elon’s views are nothing like Tesla’s and everything like Thomas Edison. Edison was a deaf, anti social, anti union and staunchly conservative crank, with some brilliant inventions that are still in use…. In Edmond Morris’s book ‘Edison’ Morris’s point out that the YouTube lore about Edison and Tesla is not true. Morris points out numerous antidotal stories to show they were cordial and respectful to each other….Thanks for the entertaining episode!

Randy

"Matt, do you have anything you'd like to add to the brassiere?"

john statham

Did someone call one of the decoders ‘Quizimodo’?

Jean-François Melançon

I island survivor team would be Jocko Wilink and the Redscare girls. I think Jocko and me can do all the survival work easily while the Dasha and Anna spy and gossip about the other teams.

Kimberly Beer

Helen is so funny! You guys giggling just cracks me up. Happy holidays, and thank you!

Erquirk

Helen is simply an international treasure, and a lovely person to boot

Nancy Hale

Team Matt FTW on guru island. I think Sabine harbors hitherto unknown skills & do not underestimate the power of Talib’s withering insults to demoralize the competition. Safe travels and sane holidays to all!

YellowDreams

Team Matt for sure. I think Scott Adam’s would literally melt in the sun Chris. Not to mention drive one inseeeeeen

Fiona St Clair

I can’t believe no one chose Gabor Mate. He’s super skinny, so wouldn’t eat too much. He’s an actual GP type physician with decades of practice, so he could attend to injuries and illnesses. And finally, he could probably find some psychedelic plants for recreation. Oh, and the win for Matt. Love that he chose Sabine. I think she’d be a lot of fun to have around.

Alex A

Helen talks about how many of Elon’s promises are vaporware, but how many of academic’s research proposals never yield the the results as promised? I’m in the academic world of physical sciences and many research proposals have a similar flavor: promising to solve grand challenges but mostly not getting there. Why is Elon held to a different standard than other academics- or more broadly, to people trying to do hard/innovative things?

Ben Godek

When you were joking about Andrew Huberman and negative ions, I got the amazing mental image of him powering up like Dragonball Z character.

Subodh Kafle

Bret is a good choice for the island. Didn't him and Heather spend time in the jungle doing some sort of field work? And he wrote a book about how to live as a hunter gatherer so he's something of an expert.

Saksaas

Team Matt will surely be victorious. Unless it’s all a part of some sick reality show where they get supplies based on how entertaining they are. In that case team Chris will win hands down.

rooftowel

Is this imagined fallout between Musk and Trump wishful thinking? Musk did not become the richest person who ever lived on paper through market fundamentals. And if Musk hasn't said it in private it's implicit he will double or triple Trump's net worth through some later scheme. That seems more predictive to me than imagined psychodrama. I would not be surprised if Musk went the Anduril/Palmer Luckey route. There's an opportunity there considering how well his investment in AI is going as a Johnny come lately with no novel ideas. DOGE or whatever is just another way to market to the public

Linda Sears

I just want to remind us all that Matt won last year’s quiz with Helen. Chris got points deducted for some reason.

Salex

Chris’ choice of Scott Adams is legit psychotic. If Dr K is anywhere on that island, immediate cult formation happening. BUT, maybe the presence of that many competing gurus with narcissistic personalities will cancel out the cult effect? More likely, it’s a mutually assured destruction kinda situation.

Dada de Broglie

Excited to read her new book. Sounds interesting.

Amy S

I was dissappointed that Russel Brand was not on anyone’s team! He has a purple belt in Jiu Jitsu and can kick some ass with that. Yeah it’s not black belt but it’s good enough. He’s fit. Give him a cold plunge and set him out for battle and you’re golden! 🌟

Daniel Reed Miller

I’m amazed the guys somehow missed Tucker’s kink-daddy daughter-spanking insanity, but i guess that’s a perk of not being *entirely* trapped in the US news and social media cycle.

ketracel-white 🧁

Hilarious 🙀 love you all. 2025 will be the year of Saad! 🍾🥂