Joe Rogan Experience Review podcast - A Review of 1222 Michael Sherman

Episode Date: January 17, 2019

Michael is the ultimate skeptic and man you want around when Eddie Bravo gets talking conspiracies. He’s a wealth of knowledge for debunking all kinds of conspiracies and this conversation shows just that. Make sure to check out the podcast! Enjoy my review folks! Please email me with any suggestions and questions for future Reviews: [e-mail]

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Michael Sherman is the skeptic guy and I think he works with like skeptic magazine or a website similar to that I'm not too sure but he's really the go-to guy that will debunk a lot of these conspiracy theories that are you know Just too wacky and he explains why Really interesting guy and great conversation so let's check it out. They get into it right away talking about psychics and how psychics are bullshit. Really if there's any of you out there that think that psychics have something interesting to say, really reevaluate that because from what this guy is saying, it's all nonsense. Basically, what they're doing is they just keep things way too general. It's almost like a horoscope. things way too general. It's almost like a horoscope and by keeping things general they can just be like I'm seeing a person in your life who maybe meant a lot to you but is

recently died and you know I love it. If there's a huge audience of people there's bound to be a couple in there to where it works and at least for that person that heard it seems very important and real to them, but you know, it's just a numbers game, it's gotta be. And one thing he talked about was back in the day, really before the internet, so on, people used to do the psychic hotlines. And I remember these commercials, and you would call in and you speak to some person who proclaims to know the future and be able to give you advice and it was like 4.99 a minute so they would keep you on the phone for a really long time and the longer they kept you on the more money they got right and it wasn't just

like more like the same amount of money per minute and it all adds up but like the actual employees on the phone were able to make a lot more money after like five minutes or ten minutes. So they really try and hold you on there. And they get people hooked in. And what started to happen, Joe was saying, is that people stop paying their phone bill. They just stopped paying it. They would get phone bills at like $6, $700 and they're like, fuck this, they're not paying. So the phone company had to step in and calm it down. So other than these like guru type individuals,

Joe starts talking, he brings up people like Tony Robbins, right? So he's not pretending to be a psychic or know the future, you know, or be a guru in a sense, though he kind of is saying that he is that. But, you know, he's coming out and giving advice. It's like an alternative to that, and it's just like, people want to follow something, and at least he has some good information. Joe was saying when he was younger, he'd sit

by a pool, there's crappy apartment he rented, and he'd listen to some tapes, I think, of Tony Robbins, and it had some good advice about sorting your life out. And, you know, that means something. I mean, Joe has obviously been able to position himself very well through hard work and focus to kind of get all the bullshit out of his life. And you've got to wonder what were the steps that he took to get there. So if he says this really worked well for me, there might be something to it. And it does work well for a lot of people. There's other motivating people out there, like Jocco, of course. Jocco getting up at 4am.

You don't need to get up at 4am, but it's just the idea that people are willing to get up early and start their day and get going. It's like the complete opposite of procrastination. You know, if you could just imagine if you got up at four, let's say you got to put eight a.m. Most days I do that by eight a.m. But if you got to put four, you got four hours of stuff you could do. And it really is four hours of like easy to do stuff. There's no traffic. There's no one at the gym, there's nobody

anywhere that would still be open, which not many places will be, but if you have a 24-hour membership to a gym that you can get in there, I mean just people aren't in your way, you know, you can get a lot done without any distractions during that time. Sure, do you have to go to bed pretty early? Yeah, you would, but it's still really motivating. And then there's people out there like Jordan Peterson, doing the same sort of thing and, you know, sort your life out, stand up straight, that kind of thing. I mean, they're not, they're not professing to know the future. They're just saying, you know, this is a better way to kind of orient yourself, which is, which is interesting. Joe gets into some studies that he knows about

talking about population of cities and, and, and how in a city the faster and more, like the bigger the city, the faster and more efficient the people become, meaning they get more done, they move quicker, they speak quicker, and that can be quantified. Like you can measure it and see if people are walking very slowly and talking slowly, then they live in a smaller place. And you know, I don't know if it's just that I record a podcast and it's just me talking and I worry about dead air, but I do seem to talk pretty fast on this podcast, but I also live in L.A. So maybe it's not my fault. Maybe L.A. is making me talk quickly. I don't know. I don't know. But look around, if you live in a big city, or a small city, try and notice that. See how quickly people speak and how quickly they move. See if that works

for you. And then they talked a little bit about cults, kind of like Scientology, interesting thing they were saying is in Germany, they won't let Scientology in because there's laws against cults. And then there's also a weird thing that Germany does where, as soon as you're born, I guess you put on a census what religion you are, and then they choose what, like you pay a certain tax amount I guess towards your religion and you have to opt out of it and it takes time and that's what Scientology wants to get a hold of so they won't let you in. They won't let Scientology end the Germany because they know Scientology just wants

to get a hold of that money and you know they want the tax breaks in the same way as they don't have to pay tax here because they were able to fight the IRS and get away with it, which is still astounding and pretty shocking to be honest. But an important thing Joe said during this podcast is, you can give Scientology as much as you want, but most religions are kind of a bit wacky. I mean, in the sense of, and not to be disrespect for your religion,

but I mean, there's always those stories in there that are just not gonna be possible, walking on water, wine, burning bushes. I mean, just stuff that is just not likely to have happened. So these are just stories, and this is kind of like what's going on there. I don't know. They get into how intellectuals can make money on their own, like Jordan Peterson and Sam Harris, are incredibly rare. Being able to do things like that are very, very difficult

to do, but they're also super important for today's world because when you're an intellectual there has a lot of interesting things to say but you're not beholden to a university or an ideology or religion or kind of like a political affiliation. You have a lot of freedom to really stick to your guns and speak the truth instead of being swayed either way. And I really feel like that's a huge part of the dialogue on Rogan's podcast and why people really like it a lot. Unlike watching the news or other things that you know is like commercials based and yeah sure Joe has a sponsorship at the beginning of course, but I mean it's not like it's a pharmaceutical company and now all of a sudden he can't talk shit about pharmaceutical companies.

It's usually like a website making one, a watch one, me undies. I mean it's not anything that's really going to negatively impact the podcast and I don't think he would, I don't think he would tolerate being told what to say either. I mean, I think that's very important. And finishing up their podcast, they've got to know a few things like Joe talked about how he didn't use to believe in the moon landing. And it's quite funny, my brother over Christmas just watched a documentary about that. And he was also saying bringing up all these points where he doesn't think that maybe we went to the moon and I think it's just one of those things. I think you watch it, it's fascinating to believe that it could be true and it just shows the power of documentaries and how careful you have to be when you watch them because they really can kind of sway you one way or the other and it's that one's a big one. It's just silly. I mean the point that Michael makes is how many people would have to be involved in that

To for nobody to have ever come out and said, yeah, I was bullshit. I worked on that. I mean it will be tough And and that's just usually not how things work out and then lastly they finish up with the JFK assassination And some conspiracies to go along with that. So there was a lot to that conversation. So when you're listening to Rogan's one, Rogan's conversation with Mike, you know, check it out and see what you think. Joe had some points that he's looked into and there were some issues with like the bullet used and the bullet fragments and these sorts of things and the amount of shots and you know it's somewhat up in the air, but Michael doesn't think that anything

untoward happens, he thinks it was pretty straightforward. And really, I think by now in a lot of ways, people have decided kind of where they stand on that one. But again, it's just fun to believe in these conspiracies and you know, we need people like Michael Sherman to keep us on our toes And make sure that we're not going off into the flat earth round, but anyway Thanks a lot for listening. I appreciate you is brought to you by Inca Booch Kombucha. Go to Incabooch.com to order your drinks today.

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