The Group Chat - #145 - Our Smartest Podcast Yet (We're Still Stupid)

Episode Date: January 30, 2026

Our smartest podcast yet... but you gotta remember, this is The Group so the word "smart" is used very loosely but the most important thing is that we tried and we hope you enjoyed | VISUAL PODCAST - "THE GROUP CHAT"

Like I'm going to be hanging upside down in a hammock sometimes and then like I don't know, dude, jumping back to the argument pad podcast episode. The argument pad. Episode 145. Dang, dude. You remember. Every time I hear that episode count, it's just like we've been going for a long time and even with that year. I thought we were on 128. What did you guys?

What you guys think about? Hold on. I'm having like Groundhogs Day right now. 145. It's almost, we're coming up on three years. Three years with the potty. Podcast. Wait, no, we're past three years now.

Well, we've been, we started three years ago, but I'm talking about three years of concurrent. Oh, yeah. Weeket, like weeks. Which I think would be 156. I think it's three years. It might be. I got to look into the date that we actually.

I don't know. It just does it. He just goes. Dude, because that's all he has to do. Yeah. That and like commentated on like boxing and be like oh Hit it with a cake maneuver UFC bro.

I'm sorry bro you're right I disrespect and because of that you have to use code group For 10% off with your order I have to use it you guys I have to use it and I think God I did Because I got me a big whole water jug that I've been using for a minute not only that We also don't have Tanner guys

This is quite the standing misunderstanding I have a perfect explanation What happened Go ahead So as most of America knows over the weekend, especially on the northeast, um, y'all got hammered with some snow. Yep.

But so what are you doing that for, bro? People in Oklahoma died. You are so fucking echo chamber. You're echo chamber, bro. You're just Texas echo chamber. Dude, because people died. So I don't know if they did, but I do believe that. Okay.

Die bad. I do believe that it was really bad. But for Texas, it got overhyped for Austin specifically. Oh, my God. I'll be real. She got arrived here too a little bit. If I was a Texas native and this happened, I'd be like, I would be scared. There was a lot of ice.

Dude, there was a lot. We've experienced before and like nothing really happened. And it's... 2021 was worse than this. Yeah, it was. The trees were actually falling on the ground and shit. Yeah, a car outside, it can't leave its parking spot. It is in ice divvets in between two cars that have not left since the...

Oh, man. And so I'm stuck here. just today cleaned the ice off my car. And it was actually like really satisfying because I took my little scraper and I went under it and I used that as a lever and a big piece would come off and I would throw on the ground.

Dude, I just got a spatula that we got from Meat Canyon and it was just like flipping it like patties and he was setting into his grandma on a video. I was using a mop. I was actually using a mop. I was like smacking it on the woodland.

You are so brave, dude. You never did. That's why I reached for the Meat Canyon GamerSubb silicone spatula because I'm able to hit it and it won't shatter my windshield. Yeah, no, it was funny.

I should have done that. He was like SpongeBob flipping them shit's back. Like, it was like a bunch of little paddy. It's really fun. Patty sized eyes. It's so crazy. Like, you can't walk around here without slipping. It's,

it's, everything is completely iced over. Are they not salting anything? Well, they are. It was actually crazy yesterday from out of my window. I saw this team of like, uh,

workers in their bright vests going down the sidewalk. There's like six of them. and they were using shovels and just going whoops whoops it was like a cartoon and they were like yelling and making jokes and laughing and it was like they're like dwarves or something they only come out when it snowed yeah only should shovel

they did great work but then they stopped like for some reason they gave up yeah they put ice down but I mean salt I want to clarify I was only saying that for Austin Texas specifically people are overhyping it like they were cleaning out the shelves, bro. Like, like, there was nothing on stock.

Yeah, there was just nothing in stock at all. All the fruits were gone. All the bananas are still gone. Like, that's okay, cool. Thanks, man. I'm starving now. Is that all you eat? Yeah.

Okay. Okay. I had a, there was starving now. There was a, there was a clip where all the water was taken, but Desani. Oh, yeah. I see it.

I thought that was like not real because it was like a cut. It was like a hard cut. And like, I swear they used a different clip. but I saw that. The sannie has enough sodium in it that you could use it as like brine. You could probably just sprinkle your driveway with real water and it will clear all the ice away and never go back. Everybody was like every time I drink this onani, I have to like use another water brand so I can wash it out of my mouth because it tastes so bad. It's not it's not even the taste.

It just it makes you thirsty. No, they say it tastes bad. How is that such a universal thing? Like how can water actually make you thirstier? Well, when you put more sodium, yeah. That's what the sani does to make you thirsty. steer. They do. That's so dumb. That's horrific.

All right. So sorry, with your continuation Isaiah, you were talking about Tanner's absence? Oh, yeah. Oh, um, so he died. We went sledding on the ice. I pushed him down

our driveway, which is a mile long and it was a mile long of ice and he just kept going. And he just kept on hitting the curb over and over and over again until the sled like broke into a million pieces because it was that cold here. And then he just kept on rolling down the hill. Like not like a gentle roll.

Like he was bouncing and rolling in the air and bouncing again and rolling in the air. He was laughing the whole time. He was laughing. And then I saw it. It was like a YouTube poop with like the SpongeBob gore. There was blood everywhere. It was horrible. Just horrible.

And now he's like recovering. No, he's gone forever. Oh. We'll have to replace him. with another Tanner clone. Okay. We'll get one. That's left to look into it.

We've done it before. So last episode, we did talk about, sorry, I just moved my mouse across the screen. We just talked about, we're talking about books because we want to start a book club. And we got a lot of books now. I hadn't had a time.

Not that, like, I did have the time, but usually I checked this stuff the day of. But today I went to the gym, you guys. I really just walked on the treadmill and I had a two mile walk, six thousand steps.

Good stuff. And then I made me some breakfast. I came home and I showered and I got on here. But six thousand steps. That's enough. Yeah, no, I'll do more. Don't worry. Don't worry.

10K will be around the corner. So I didn't get to go through all the books. However, I have two emails picked out and they're not book related, but they were, one was really sweet. And I would like to start with this one. It's a little bit lengthest,

lengthest, but it's like a, it's a little bit lengthful. There you go. See, I should read more books. But it's a good reminder. It's called, or at least the header is advice for living right.

And this feels like a little, this feels like when you turn to a book and you're reading the backside and it's like the summary. For living right? Advice for living right. Dude, like what life coach hit our line? So this is coming from a med and psych student. Oh, good God. Okay.

Okay, nice. So you guys watch this podcast. Yeah. Yeah. The smarties. Side note, quick side note. We got a lot of really big emails about creatine. Like just big stats.

And it's really detailing a lot about like ATP's and a lot of P's and TTPs and all that stuff. We're like the scholar's guilty pleasure. They can't they can't let their friends. That's a really good way to put it. Yeah. That's a really good way to put it. So the email goes, I've noticed that health has been a prominent topic the last few episodes. So I like to offer a few little witness tips.

I say quote unquote, but witness tips is what they said. I've never agreed with the sentiment that you should live like tomorrow isn't promised. I think you should live life in a way that makes tomorrow something to look forward to. I've watched people take their first steps or their first and last breaths and every breath between that deserves to be cherished. And then they put the next few things in like paragraphs. So it's kind of like topics, right? So you have your body is beautiful and it was made to do incredible things. it, nourish it, and treat it kindly.

You can dance, so do it. Exercise and nutrition are very important, but that leads into my next point. Don't torture yourself trying to be perfect or fit into a standard. Eat food you enjoy, go out or stay in instead, and surround yourself with people you love and treat you well. Don't waste precious time with things that don't feel right for you, especially not to please someone else.

And then you want to... Are we able to like address? each paragraph. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'll stop right here because there are like two more or three more after that. Yeah.

I have such an anti-quote. It goes against everything that paragraph just stood for. Okay, go ahead. I'm not even good to say it. I'm just going to let you guys know. Why would you point it out? Okay, I loki forgot some of the things

that he was saying. But is this in regards to like to working out in fitness? Just in general. No, they said at the very beginning they said they just heard some witness tips. Sorry, I said a witness.

They said a wellness. I have, my screen. Oh, okay, that changes everything. Yeah. Does it really? Does it really change? Dude, yes. Also, my audacity just froze.

Okay, we're good. We're back in our mind. You're going to address first, Isaac? No, you go ahead, because that changes literally everything I was about to say. Okay. I was going to say that I agree with a lot of that because you're not, especially when it comes to like working out and weightlifting. I, uh, and actually is crazy. A lot of, a lot of audience members back in like 2022, they realized very quickly that I

essentially developed some sort of eating disorder at one point, um, because I was taking the fitness journey too seriously. And I started real, I started thinking to myself that like, less eating equals more results, right? And then working with private trainers over the years and even working with Tanner now, it's very important that like, one, the mental is like, dude, you're not competing, so like take a break. You know what I'm saying? Like, dude, you're able to have that freaking milkshake if you want it. Who cares?

Two, it's like your body's a machine and like whatever you put in definitely. Like, it's all internal, right? Yeah. And so. Yeah, I put in Cheetos in my body and I poop out red. Like, okay, it makes sense. Yeah, exactly. Talkies, blue, everything.

Yeah, exactly. But like you, I was going to say that like, it doesn't really at the end of the day, it's about like what you're thinking and what you're perceiving about yourself, right? So as long as you're happy, as long as you're doing things like in, whatever's right is pretty subjective, but like there are certain things that are objective, right? Like you always want to hydrate, right? You always want to eat moderately healthy, good active lifestyle. I'll close up what I was saying with. The most depressed I ever was, I was eating like shit. I wasn't sleeping properly and I wasn't being active. And so when I

went to a doctor, they were like, yeah, well, we're not going to help you with anything until you get those three things in order. Yeah, your T levels are zero. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you have mooms right now, dude. And so I was like, okay, I mean, that actually totally makes fucking sense. And so the number one thing is fiber.

Fucking have fiber people. So you don't get backed up. Good Wi-Fi. Anywhere you go. Yep. And, yeah. Damn, fiber. It's like the guy I underestimate myself.

What has fiber? Because I only know if fiber. Grains. Survival evolved, those you know. Grains. Those who know. Oh, yeah. Fibre like the internet?

No, fiber isn't like to help you poop. So fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, seeds. I'm reading just on that now. But like for what I eat, sweet potatoes are fucking amazing. They're your best friend. You know, asparagus. Raisin brand. Raisin brand, yeah.

Unironically, yeah, but it's all sugary cereal. Lental soup. Like I have lentil soup every now and again Lentil soup It's like What is a lentil actually Like a garbonzo bean You know like you know fibers

You know like when you buy a celery It's a seed, it's a seed yeah Wait am I serious What? Are lentils garbonzo beans? No no no no Lentils are those little green ones Garbanzos are big

Oh chickpeas are Garbanzo beans Okay I know what chickpeas are That's like the closest thing I have But quinoa but lentil But garbonzo You guys are not making a lot of sense to me, right? Or is it?

Avocados are great, healthy fats. So stuff like that. Dude, I feel like the number one most, like, easy thing to take in, but people don't really think about it is fiber. Whatever you come, you know, take in, you have to let it go out. And if you don't get enough fiber and you only like taking in protein and stuff like that, nothing's going to come out, bro. Think of fiber as the oil to your digestive tract. Yeah, that's really. You want to oil that thing.

Yeah. It's a good way to put it, Isaac. What about carrots? Do they have fiber? That's a really good question. Carrots. Oh. What about apples?

I don't know. I think carrots have ashtazanthin and vitamin C. Like, Sivanson? Astazanthin. Astazanthin. Carrots are apparently a good source of fiber. Okay. Wow.

Perfect. 61 grams is 1.7, 161 grams of carrots. What's like 40? 10 grams of dietary fiber. I guess. What's the next paragraph say? Let's try to get through the email before an hour or so.

Okay. The next one is, and I know everybody gets to it, but just real quick, because I saw a comment in the last one. They were like, I already know what they're going to talk about. Wellness and Larry editing. It's always like, it's always like Tanner's Way Journey and Larry editing. And then they're like, add below what next they're going to add or like what they're going to say.

But, okay, sorry. Yeah. The next topic is learn all the time. The world has so much to offer and in such a scary, stressful time. The best thing you can do is find the beauty in it and nourish your brain. Take up a few hobbies, speak to a few new people, learn history from a country you're not from, or spend a lot of time learning the history behind a video game you love. The internet is great, quote unquote, but so much exists beyond it.

Which is, yeah, I mean, that's something that I am very tied to. I love learning and I love that in dude that entire paragraph Larry is the embodiment of grunk for me yeah like really the exploration bodyman of that he boundless grunk when I think of grug you're like you're like fox here from fanafti when he's like jumping at the camera you had adventure and opportunity dude I'd my gears need some oiling dude I feel like I'm hitting a a wall lately of just like god-day am. That's a self-imposed wall, by the way, Grunk.

I know. That's not a very, that's not a very grunk thing to say. Grunk would be like, dude. Well, I know, like, it's peace and love at the end of the day, but I'm still, like, at a point where it's just like. Grunk's hitting a wall calling. By even doing the right things right now at all in my life, you know?

Oh, existential crisis. I was about to say metabolic decline, but. No. Existential. But it's all pretty, like, I don't know. It's just, like, I don't know how people stay motivated and, like, want to, keep doing the things that they started doing unless they're like fully

into it you know well to what to what you agree or in what aspect um like school well okay yeah so I'm like trying to go into research a bit just kind of off a whim I'm not like like 100%

interested in research but to succeed in research you need to basically dedicate a bulk part of your life to it and it's like I don't think I have that in me. And I don't know other career options at the moment. Can I be honest? Loading.

Can I be honest? You sound like you're having a midlife crisis, and I think a Corvette is your solution. A Corvette. I saw one on the road the other day, and I was like, damn, I look good in that. And I think everything will change. You should research how to you want at your age. Get a roly too. For the avalanches that come around.

I'll start buying shit. I'll start buying a bunch of stuff. Yeah, dude. I'm materialistic with it. Mm-hmm. To be to respond in a serious way and kind of help you a little bit instead of buying a Corvette, which sounds really enticing. Yeah, roly. Dude, there's a massive difference.

And I've hit that wall too, especially with goddamn videos and editing. There is a massive difference between motivation and discipline. True. Sometimes, you know, it's not going to be all sunshines and daisies. and as much as I wish it was, it sometimes isn't. That's where discipline kind of takes the wheel, more than motivation.

Discipline helps when you're acting and you still don't know what's ahead of you. So it's like you're doing something still. You're sort of treading on a path even if you don't know what's ahead of that path, right? When someone is like in your position, they're still trying to actively move because they have that discipline in them to be like,

yeah, they're trusting it. So they're like, it's like when you're in a snowstorm and you're like, okay, I'm trusting this road leads me to where I need to be, right? So I'm just going to make sure to kind of like, I can't see you far ahead, but I'm trusting that it's going to take me home and I'll be a okay. And then you make it home. And you're like, damn, I didn't know I was going to make it home or now,

but I still made it home. And that's great. And I feel great. So it's like, yeah, I mean, it's essentially that. You don't like, it sounds like you're just, you don't have the foresight right now about like what you can see ahead of you. And you're scared to act because you don't know that. But it's kind of like a, you know, it's a,

okay to act still or like you should yeah and I'm like I've been acting it's just like I mustering up the like okay it's time to sit down and and actually read three articles and take notes on them and then write about them and it's time to

get ahead on schoolwork so I can work on this other thing I need to get done and I feel like a big part is especially with the snowstorm like I've just been stuck at home really and that's definitely a vibe killer bro I've just been working as well I've just been working in my bed which I feel like is not conducive of like a it's not the greatest I've done it a few times I go to my bed

but then I'm like it's like I'm getting I need a desk with like a plant or something you know dude the point changes like there's no room to work here yeah big googly eyes look at you all the time dude there needs to be a separation of work and rest and if your office and where you work is in your bedroom then there comes a confusion in my bed especially in your bed right and then yeah it's I think also it's like I know what I need to do yeah and it's like my father um gets uh seasonally depressed and I feel like I don't know I feel like genetics do play a large role in people's lives and how they act whether they know it or not it's like I feel like there's real genetic predispositions that exist within everyone I also think um

like before jumping onto the seasonal depression ship I also think that just like your environment right now and not being able to go anywhere and do things because you're a very adventurous fuck like you want to go out you want to do ish but you can't right now because it snowed 24 goddamn inches and it's freezing it's like I think this is the earliest

I've ever like wished it was warm again you know me too I'm not yeah I miss when it was green and and happy out I think go ahead I just I'll just say this much like when it gets cold

like everyone moves slower when they're freezing um i remember i woke up i didn't go to the gym or anything i just i was at my computer it was freezing out it was the worst day i've had in a minute because i just felt like a poo turd i couldn't do anything i couldn't go out couldn't work out i didn't get my body up and ready there was nothing i could do my hands were freezing i was like typing at i think 40 words per hour like it was the worst yeah but you know there's uh there are better days ahead dude yeah it really everything comes and goes nothing is constant ever yeah look forward to the future do not ever indulge in the present especially if it's negative i was um i was having a conversation with an uber driver and he was this

really like hyped columbian dude or no was he columbian what i say he was larry i said he was uh i know dominica poppy was he did i say he was columbian i think i said he was columbian yeah because uh oh yeah i did i did because he was talking about politics with me or whatever um but he was like the least suspecting columbian ever he looked like a generic like john dear john do don't dear yeah john do kind of guy yeah but but he had like he would say like crisis crisis like he would say like he had an actual like you know like it was crazy you know it was yeah so it was really funny because like he was talking to me about how he's like dude i hate this weather and he's talking about how if you go to the beach, people at the beach seem to be way more laid back.

And his suspicion and just his whole reasoning is people at the beach are more laid back, the fresh air, the good vibes. Life is just a lot easier if you're on the coast just a little bit. And maybe kind of like think about like when you're not so much near like areas like that, right? I wonder how that like impacts. Because then you think about people in Washington. One of the most depressed.

That's the highest, yeah. One of the most depressed states in the entire country. country. Yeah. And it's rainy and fucking it's just shit-ass weather. It's like London, mate. London. That too. London's great. A.F. Um, to add on to that and this is like a statistic. It's not just like a fable. The highest retirement, like people that retire, they move to a state. The number one state in the world, not the world. I'm sorry, the nation where people retire is Florida. The old fucks go down to Florida. with their old wrinkly selves

and they, they, for some reason, there's like a longevity period there. I don't know if it's like a, like a big Minecraft beacon that covers the entire state or if it's just a warm weather and the beach.

Disney World, bro. I really don't know, but it's, it is real. They're a lot happier in Florida. They grow old and Florida. They just like it more. It's just so much easier

to be happier in the warm weather. It is. You don't have to work so hard for it. People, they own more lizards over there. and that's a fact. Really? Okay.

And that's one more lizards? And that's why it's a lot happier. Yeah, it does. It does. It's like when you have a lizard, you're like happy. You're like, oh, I have a lizard. Hey, you want to see my lizard? Like moves every once in a while.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He doesn't really do much, but he's cool. And I have him. I've been getting a lot of motivational TikToks saying be the penguin. Be the penguin. What's the penguin doing? What does that mean? Well, there's videos of this one penguin that he just like goes away from the pack

and he just says he's solo. and he just runs to the mountains. Dude, that was an old video, and they said they were worried for him because he was depressed and suicidal, so he ran away. Oh, don't be the penguin. Like, don't be the penguin.

The penguins are supposed to stay with him. Okay, well, everyone in the TikTok comments was put, like, they were like, knight in shining armor pictures and saying that he was. Well, it's all about outlook, I guess, but realistically, that penguin shouldn't be in a pack. That was, we should be in a pack.

Don't be the penguin. It's going to be by yourself. No. Dude, all those guys in the night Armors are going to die, man. Without their army. Like, you can't... Run away from your friends to all.

It's crazy how one misinterpretation can change it all. I'd go my entire life from now I'm saying be the penguin. Be the penguin. Be the penguin. Dude, yeah, let me look up like depressed penguin on YouTube

and you'll see the video. It's so sad. Or he throws himself into the ice. No, he just like diverts from his friends and walks to the mountains that offer nothing for him. Oh, I thought that was the motivational penguin.

The one that encourages us to break the... No, to be different. No, I don't think so. You can be the fish that jumps out the fish bowl. How about that? I love that image. What's the... The sassafras that text that's over it.

It's like, um... It's something like, bro, be for real. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just him jumping out the bowl. Yeah. Um, okay, so then that was learn. That was all learning. See, that got a lot of out of us.

And then it says, and this is kind of like tying in with learning. So they say, go out of your way to exercise your mind. Memory works as a muscle and you can train it and make it stronger. Read more. Take up journaling or even practice looking over your day before bed. I find myself remembering a lot more when I take the time to pay attention and look back. Look into rehearsal in psychology. Isaiah, you got to remember.

you got to remember rehearsal and psychology rehearsal and psychology what are we doing today sorry keep going no that's well that's the that's the paragraph you guys want to dig into that

there is one more after this rehearsal in psychology is the cognitive process of repeating or actively processing information to retain it in a short term memory or transfer it to long term dude repeating is good

writing it down is better Dude, I feel like I definitely, my brain is definitely rotted over the last six years because of like, and it's just only progressively getting worse. I missed the world where like there was no AI slop and stuff and having a question what's real or not. Like, are you supposed to exist in this world at all anymore? I feel like that's where a lot of uncertainty comes into

because it's just like bruh. The uncertainty of the future. You got the kaisenad journal out? What is it? No, yeah, I was looking at my journal because I was going to say journals are so crazy because I have entries in here from like not even a year ago and it's like bro what the hell am I talking about

I knew nothing and it's like I have stuff that I'm writing you know today that it's like I'm gonna look back on that one day and be like bro what was I on Larry was journaling before Kaysenat was see Pete Larry's on his second journal well he's got two death of these I'm almost on my second journal

I love these much left I have I have uh I still have it probably around here somewhere but when we used to go on trips and I really should I do it on my phone now actually that's why I would write down everything we did on the day when we go to

trips so I have like the whole like we went to Japan I have all of Japan written down and it's like every detail like what I did that day yeah it's like the whole the whole thing how do you compare digital versus

physical journaler? Digital for sure is way more convenient, obviously. Like, you know, it's just in your pocket and you just pull it out. And I also get reminders of my phones. I set it up so that it's like, hey, you want to journal at the end of the day? And then I, like, I tap on it. And then I just start, you know, there's a little face ID scan.

And then I just like, all right, type whatever you want. So I just kind of let go of like, I'm like, okay, what was I doing today or whatever? Like earlier today, before I went to the gym, I was, I did like a quick log on like my thoughts before going into the gym. and like it's kind of like you're like talking to yourself like I know I'm going to read this so yeah it's sort of trying to put myself in the perspective but then also you're just letting go of like whatever you have in your mind so that it's somewhere at the very least and then you can go back and be like oh I know exactly what I was thinking that you know time or that day or whatever the hell and it puts into perspective to like what changed about yourself because it's so gradual

that you just forget and yeah you don't realize it you don't realize it yeah Yeah, exactly. And then you're like, and you reflect and you look back and you can see the exact thoughts you had. And you're like, oh, my God. Dude. Dude. But it's also so interesting because it also makes you realize the things that like are constant within you that like are really like. Repeating pattern.

Yeah. And it's like damn. You know, it's so easy to look at like the negative things that it's hard to remember the good things, you know. But like it's like, dang. have some things that are deeply wired into me that are going to be really difficult to change and progress on. But it's like I need to start somewhere. And it feels like I have started.

But it's like seeing that progress is difficult because it is something that's so gradual and making those like mental loops and thoughts. And I could tell you just like calm, not call me nerves, but share some insight from someone who I guess is seeking like self-betterment through even things like a journal. Like you're one step ahead of someone like me in terms of of that because I don't I don't journal. I don't write is down. Larry does. You know, you do.

I don't know if Nick does. Maybe sometimes when he's bored. But writing it down with your actual hand can really help with like remembering when your teacher says take notes. You know, typing it is super easy. You know, it's much more convenient. But you're going to retain the information and kind of, I guess, I want to say internalize again. I keep saying that word, but you do register everything that you're writing down with your hand. Yeah, much, much better.

It does. I don't know. I've had an interesting experience with doing both. Like I said, I started with writing, and now I'm doing typing. And I still can look back through my phone and see the, you know. And sometimes I had images too. And it's cool because then I'm like remembering that era of like that image when I found it. And then I'm like, oh, I know where I was at during that.

I have all the texts to follow with it. I'm like, oh, okay. But you are right. Writing it down does add this cool, like, okay, not visual-wise, but like it does add a sort of emotional thing where like sometimes when you're writing and you're really sad and it's like all shitty, you know? And then other times when you're writing something good and it's like, oh, wow, yeah, there's a contrast there.

Whereas when you're typing on your phone, it's all the same font. So like it's harder to sort of feel that. I would honestly. Going forward with journaling, this might be like a stretch, but I would try your absolute best if you're going to like encapsulate your day in an entry to kind of lean towards positive entries and positive things that happen throughout the day. It can include the negatives. Don't overlook those. Don't look at it like leaning towards. Just do it as like a do. Like I like I said, I wrote down me going to the gym and my thoughts of it. There weren't bad thoughts. It was just thoughts.

It was just like whatever it was in mind and that was that. Right. And you just get into the habit of putting it down and like that's that. So that when you're looking back, it's not all just bad stuff. You're like, oh my God, that was a good time. That was a good-ass time. That was like, that's long as long as it's not like all or mostly negative, you know. And it's super easy to remember negatives more than positives.

But if you are actively journaling every single day, it can be much more, like much better if you focus on the positives, getting those out, it almost teaches your mind to focus more on positivity than the negative things that come throughout your day. Right. Yeah. It's like a mindset thing. Yeah. Dude, it's funny.

It's also got like a mood slider. Like it tells you or asks you like what's your, if you want to, like what's your mood? Circle the smiley face. How do you feel? And it has like a voice. So you can also, yeah, it's a, it's called journal. It should be, it's like, it's like an Apple native app. Oh, okay.

Apple. Yeah. And it has like a voice input option as well. So you do a voice memo if you want to just do that or anything like that. Like it's really, really cool. Obviously it's online. Well, not online, but like, you know, it's the technology device. So it's one of those things where do you trust it or not personally, hey, man, I'm going to, I'm going to die one day.

So it's like, whatever. They find it, find it in. Oracle's taking all those notes and they're building a customer profile out of you. They're doing that. I can't wait to buy this Amazon product. No, don't do it. It's backed by horrible Israelis.

They're learning more. Right. Right, right, right, right. So yeah, that's my two sense on that. That's my two twos. And something interesting that is like trying to reckon with is like trying to balance how much I want to use technology in my life has been like damn. Because I feel like I'm, I've been trying to do the extreme like,

don't use technology, but everything within me is like use some technology. Use so. I can't find the balance, you know, but I think that is something that will come with time. I made a promise to myself when I was like younger because when I was younger, I was like, you know, I was playing games. I grew up on, you know, games and tech and all that ish. My parents sort of a little bit did like they can, you know, use an iPhone and send an emoji and whatever. My grandparents, however, can.

not. I'm pretty sure they still got the home button. Like they're, they're back in that. They're back in there. Um, but seeing that, I was like, okay, I'm going to be your age one day. Do I want to still have a theoretical home button when everyone else doesn't or do I want to stay on top of it? So I've kind of, I've tried my best to be on top of it, especially when you're like, when you grow older. I don't know what age you just lose track of it all. I feel like that's right now because what the fuck is happening. But I'm doing my darndest, bro. I just want to be on top of that. I want to be the, you know, the grandpa or the uncle that's like, what the hell is this? And they're like, oh my God. I'd say you're in the perfect, I'd say you're in the perfect demographic because there's a

whole other universe and whole other world of like people our age who go into their regular jobs, come home, play call of duty on their Xbox. And then they're like they have no, like they're still asking what six, seven meant to this day. Like they have no. Really? Really. He did not. He did not. Somebody explained this to me. And all their friends around them are like, I don't know. And so they don't know.

They never get the answer unless they use chat GPT because they are like AI's fucking awesome. That's how they feel. This thing knows it all. Hey, chat GPT. What is six, seven? Yeah, it's like those types of, so I don't think you categorically fit in those groups of people. Yeah, I'm glad. I don't want to use this term because it's really cranes.

but like it's just like, I'm not even going to say it. Oh, it's that bad. Normie, it was Normie. Oh! I vote Nick to be kicked off. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I'll be kicked off.

It really is a whole other world of woe out there. Look at that tail. It's monolith. It's the earthworm. Just the crack in. I don't know what the hell that was. Oh, so is freaky, bro. Look at it.

Like, it narrowly cut off in the butthole. I was about to say audio listeners, Katz grunk was on the camera. Cats grunk. Cats grunk. Cats grunk. Okay. All right.

All right. Wait, wait, wait. So shifting from, like, the mental lifestyle, wellness, everything. And I guess Larry editing, whoever made that parlay, I'm about to fucking just trash it. I'm trashing your parlay. I need to call attention to a shit. show that recently came out that I watched with Tanner yesterday. Really upset.

He's not here to talk about it. It's called the Darwin incident. Oh my God. Is it? And it's an anime or it's an animation. I don't know. It's all in English. What's up, Larry?

No, go ahead. Keep going. It's a, um, it kind of reminds me of like Invincible style animation. It's all in English, but it's about this monkey that once he's like, trying to be a normal boy. And like he's like the, he's the product of this freak experiment where this scientist, I don't think he impregnated a monkey,

but he like got a monkey pregnant somehow. I don't know how he did it, but this thing came out and he's like, he knows English and he talks and it's weird. We watch it yesterday and I, I don't think I've ever seen a show that is more like in your face, fuck you, whatever. Here's a monkey doing this and that.

ever in my life. It threw Tanner and I in a spiral. We were laughing our ass off. Every single line they delivered felt like a joke. But I think there's a deeper meaning, but I don't want to get there. I don't, I don't know.

Because just to break it down for you guys, like the antagonist organization, you know how all these, all the shows have one, you know, you got like the evil guy. They are vegans. And they blew up a building.

and spray painted a monkey on this brick wall to make people stop eating meat. Like I was sitting there scratching my head, like, what on God's good green earth am I like watching? And it's like these monkeys' parents are also vegan and they have to like explain to this friend. Oh yeah, we're not like those guys. We just don't eat meat.

Yeah. Blah, blah, blah, blah. Dude, I... That sounds ridiculous. It was the most ridiculous three, four episodes. It got me. me. It broke my rule of three episodes. I watched four of them with Tanner. Oh, my God. It's just the most, it's ridiculous. That's all I can bubble it down to. It is ridiculous. Someone needs to watch

it and let me know what you think because, oh my God. It's on prime video. You can go watch it now, Darwin incident. Enjoy yourselves. Just kidding. Not, I wish, dude. I really do wish. I would love to get paid to talk about that experience because, oh, good God. Um, yeah. I got to watch that. Yeah, when you sent that, I found the image. It looks really, really funny. Like the anime monkey looks really good. I didn't know it was that like that.

Dude, the monkey started beating the hell out of like intruders. Like he was like really good and super strong. He used the rug. You know, and you like, you dust a carpet and you go, but it's like a blanket or something. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, he did that with a rug that had a sofa, a coffee table, three intruders on it.

And he flung everything. All of it. by picking it up, super monkey Darwin strength. It's ridiculous, dude. It really is like, you sound like a kid who like first watched this ever, like his first ever show ever. And they're like,

dude, these guys were flying. They were called superheroes. No. The monkey looks so strange. He's like a man, but he's super. I don't,

hold on, hold on, hold on. I'm just going to text you a picture, Larry. Or you could look it up on your phone. Look at the Darwin incident on your phone. Just so you could see a picture

of the monkey because it looks, you've seen it. I sent in a group chat. Oh, did you? Yeah. Oh, I didn't shoot it. That goes back to memory, huh?

Come on now. Hey, come on my memory. Work that muscle, baby. I think I know at least one person who looks like that in my high school. High school, call them out right now. Go ahead. We're looking at you, Devin. Who is it?

Devin? It actually might be Devin. Oh, shit. No chance. I mean, I'm not sorry. Devin. It looks like you, dude. Oh, dude.

Yeah. It's just a ridiculous show. You're looking at it right now? Yeah, dude, I can't stop looking at. I got to close that tab. It's so strange. But yeah, anyways, I had to get that off my chest. Really weird stanza was here.

I'm like, God, you have so much input. But, yeah, besides the Darwin incident, I'm actually curious, is anyone been on like the lookout? Because I'm going to drought here. I'm watching monkey anime. I need something, guys. Bro, we've told you to read manga. Yeah.

But you haven't yet. Read? You got books, bro? I just started Jojo Part 8 today. Oh, my gosh. Silver ball, whatever the whole lot? No, this one is, what is it even called? Jojo Lehan.

I think. There's another one after this one, too. Holy God. Y'all, they're ahead, bro. Guys, I just started one piece. Did you actually? No. But when I do, I'm on episode three.

so wait so did you just start one piece? No I start One Piece back in 2021 and I'm on episode 3 Okay nice Dude I couldn't handle

I couldn't handle The fucking aspect ratio I got spoiled Why it's so charming There's it Dude You're talking to the guy That watched Demon Slayer movie

In theaters Like there's a standard for him Yeah I can't really blame you either I can handle some shit Dude I remember when I watched Berserk And I was like

Oh God You guys need to try this out. It's actually kind of pretty cool. And then you guys all laughed at me and I was like, all right. No, that shit was buns, bro. I'm sorry, but that still holds up as Buzer. Lucking integration

of that ever. It was all CGI, bro. Yeah, it was all CGI. I just finished reading this book called The Master and Margarita. Whoa. Okay. It's literally about

these like Russian dudes in Moscow in like the 1930s and then like the devil comes in and just fucks up everything like because a big saying in Russia is like oh devil take it and then devil comes

and then fucks it up but it's like really Is that true? Yes dude Low and behold he did Devil take it! The devil devil come and fuck it up lo and behold the devil came and did exactly

and like This book was written by this guy, Bulgakov. And he, like, everyone hated his ass in the literary field in Moscow when he was putting shit out. Literally, like, he has, there's a quote from him. It's like 298 of 303, like, critiques, like, were bad. And only three were, like, good things to say. Oh. And, but this is, like, now regarded as one of, like, his best work.

Oh, I love that. Oh, that's good. And it was during like the censoring period of the USSR. So like, it is a banned book for sure because he was like, oh, he's like, Oh, so it's not a book.

It's not a book that takes place in 1930. It's from 19, like the 1930s. Well, both. It's both of those things. Wow. Okay,

yeah. And like, it's so funny because he basically, like, he wrote about his life in here. Like, it's just kind of sprinkled in. Like, there's parallels here because,

like, there's characters in the book that are just like, like getting shit on for their writing, even though it's like their best work ever. There was, dude, I figure what the book is called, but there was one about the like the nine circles of hell. And it's like this guy and this other guy and one's guiding him through the hells. What is it called?

Dante's Inferno. Dude, I fucking forget. But in that, uh, in that story, the author adds people that he knows in real life. And like, it's like their full names and everything. And he puts him in like the worst positions.

He's like, he's like walking through like hell. He's like, oh, that's that one guy I fucking hate. He's right over there and fucking died slowly and getting like chewed to death. And it's so funny. Dude, it's so funny. Like, yeah, they just do whatever the hell they do. Yeah, author, dude, authors are, uh, the really like funny ones or the crazy ones are like always, they always have that trauma.

Like when you read the backstory, you just add so much more. Yeah. Um, it's like that fuck. I'm like so bad with names right now with books. But it's, there was another one about this like, I don't know if it's about. but it includes this character who's like an albino and he's really bald and he's kind of like no and it's like

it's kind of like a western I think and um in that story like it's not even about the story it's about how he writes it down because he uses a typewriter to do his books and he uses no commas or like barely uses punctuation so it's almost like a complete run on sentence and it's apparently really hard to read because of it

which yeah um it's just like funny I love those little, like, behind-the-scenes story things or, you know, when you learn about the author. Right now, I'm on this one book. What's more of an audiobooks? Sorry, you guys, right now. It's just after Steve.

I'm back on my audio book, read. Sorry. I'm sorry. Yeah, that was good. Yeah, that was great. You need to read. Yeah, after Steve. I'm back on my reading about Apple stuff.

So I had an audiobook about, Steve Jobs, the biography. And now I'm reading another one that's not a biography, but it's about what happened to Apple after Steve passed. Apple. Apple. Apple. What happened to Apple after Steve passed? You lived through that, bro. They came out with the iPhone 17.

Oh, I'm trying to see what the behind the scenes are. You got the answer in your pocket, man. Yeah. Nick, did you fall asleep? Do you? No, I'm right here. I'm listening. I'm a viewer at this point. I was sorry. I thought your eyes were closed. How's your book going from last week? I didn't start it yet. Oh.

This book club is on fire. Well, there's a lot of books that we got recommended. I went to Spark Notes and I read to catch up to make sure. Which book, dude? Huh? Which book? Could you read Spark Notes for it? Oh, no, I was kidding.

But I will, in due time, I will read. Once someone assigns homework, that's when I'll start to read and take it serious. Yeah, I want to hear some of these books. that people recommended? I was, so what I was going to do was just go at the very end and sort of talk about, because like I said, I need to go through these emails and sort of pick out the books. Because there's, you know, some people go into depth. Other people are like, you know, they send us.

Diary of a wimpy kid for. Yeah, well, there's that too. Yeah, we got a bunch of that. We got a bunch of like, read Fortnite for dummies, please. And, you know, that's great. But yeah, some people are like descriptive and like what the book's about. Other people are like, just read this. and then he just give us a title and then that's that.

But there's a bunch of recommendations that I would take a while to go through. I'll be honest. And I also got to find them because there's a few emails in there. I think I mentioned there. Maybe I mentioned they not during the recording, but people who are a lot of, we have a lot of like science folks, okay?

We got a lot of chemistry folks in medicine, which is great, yeah, which is great. And they were just talking about like, the creatine talk that we had so they were just adding some more input but it is

more input yeah it's just like if I talk about it I'm not gonna lie I'll probably we'll probably lose ourselves

in what they're talking about because it is I mean I get what they're saying I'm just like God it's a lot that's a lot of info which I appreciate like we appreciate

very much what's up I just I kind of want to sign in and look to see dude everyone can look you guys are so many there's a surprising amount of um what's the word emails oh yeah but um like people that have input about gym or fitness

oh yeah yeah all of the knowledge comes from like tictock it's all tictock now well now ticto sucks you guys they got a track oh my god i want to talk about that holy shit it got uh the deal remember when it shut down like a year ago yeah um and it was like like sorry guys we just got banned in the u.s and then they were like okay wait what if we work out a deal a deal a deal and then a deal well it was like a bid and more or something anyways uh the worst fucking company you can possibly think of one that deal and the changes went in today or was it now owns oracle the u.s branch of ticot what does that mean for larry ellison Every single thing, every input, every video you save and like, every interaction you have on the platform is more than likely being used and stored as data and information.

They track your, like, sex life. What? Based upon, they try and track your sex life based upon what you like and interact with to. Mm-hmm. The more you know, the more you interact with and show the app. Like Larry, you saw me go in there, right? What? And I was like, I was refreshing Larry's page and I was doing things to make more videos of that type appear.

So if you find a video that you really like and you save it and interact, leave a comment and like it and then refresh your page, you're going to see more of that content. Yeah. So Larry has a whole lot of Spanish class on it. Have you ever tapped like on a twerk video? Because I haven't. No, I don't think so. Oh, I don't know about that. Yeah.

They don't got it. I'm going to start liking all. Maybe they know that. I'm going to confuse them. I'm going to confuse them. Yeah, yeah. Like, it's like multiple people using my phone.

I'm gonna be like, who is this guy? We need to especially. You're leaving likes on shit you actually don't fucking like. Yeah, you'll never know what you like. You like, but I hate this. You're like confused the boss.

Like, I don't know. Which one is it? The bot's like, damn. Guys, uh, this guy doesn't like anything. He's bookmarking it,

but he hates it all. I don't fucking kidding. But yeah, um, really upsetting news. I think everyone's algorithm changed. People are seeing the same video over and over

over it's just bad bro i was actually thinking about it like if ticot wasn't such a powerful platform to like actually you know be seen and whatever and since i'm also looky kind of verified there sorry to totally brag um i i actually i thought about disabling that shit like actually because it is so like um assembling what like just just deactivated my account oh yeah um i've i've also thought about it's like dude remember when that whole like timu thing happened where people were pissed off because of the fact that they were stealing data. Yeah. And that's not why they were pissed off.

Wait, why were they pissed off? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

that's what the fuck? How else did anyone expect them to get fucking low, what? Are you, are we serious right now? Is it. Dude, Willie is up, everyone. Willie,

Willie, Willie is risen. I, hold on, why was everyone pissed? I'm telling you right now it was the labor. Everyone was good.

because. Exploitation of suppliers with heavy fines, poor product quality, long shipping and significant data privacy concerns. Yeah. I don't think anyone gave a fuck about the child labor laws. I'm going to be completely for real. What?

What I'm talking about it. Why would people not give a fuck about that? Yeah. I heard first about the labor conditions of some of these people and kids overseas. I do know that it's child labor that people were upset about. Yeah, I heard that more than that. But you know, every time I talk about that, I always get hit back with, well, look at your iPhone. It's like, damn, you know.

Yeah, okay, bro. Yeah, yeah. Look at your iPhone. I have, this one had recommended it to me, Colbaut Red, because of like the, I got to get into it, actually. So I can actually properly explain why. But I have it here on my stack of books I need to get through as well. And there's a lot for us to learn about how shit is made. that we use and why and how it's happening.

It's one of those interests that I have too as well. It's like I use a lot of products in my life and a lot of devices and a lot of stuff like that. And it's one thing to learn about like, okay, cool. Tim Cook is really good with his books and he knows how to make more profit margins and all that stuff. Or Steve Jobs was a brainiac, but he was an asshole. Like it's all stuff that's like, right? It's like, oh, wow, that's interesting or whatever. But there's also the shit behind the scenes.

And there's more to it as well. there's a lot. There's a lot to still go through and sort of catch up on and and dude be active. You know, thinking about how many books there are in this world that you can read is just like it's a lot to learn. A lot of history. There's a lot of history to catch up all dude. Bro, Kim and I were watching this one channel that just like covers medieval type ship from history and like we were watching one on how like the Renaissance is coming like and there are there are things there are signifiers that happened with the last renaissance that are like lining up with this

right and it's like whoa just his i love how history is such a flat circle the renaissance should have been happened bro like we have devices we have a connection so the world and the devices are causing the renaissance that's what i'm saying that's what i'm saying it should have happened he was equating the printing press to AI like and how printing press allowed people to just kind of print whatever the fuck they wanted and hand it out and distribute it it doesn't have to be true or false it's just like here take this read it and then like AI is kind of the same thing in that sense. Like it's the mechanism that is going to like cause this shift or something.

The Renaissance is coming. The Renaissance is coming. Wait, run that back in TLDior? Sorry, I was speaking. Medieval, this guy on YouTube is able to, he studies medieval history and he notices the patterns and he's noticing some parallels between like pre-renaissance and now. and saying we're forecasted potentially for another renaissance. I do agree.

I think we are. And the only reason I say that is because of the classic saying history repeats itself. Oh, yeah. And also looking at like the past 100 years even. Yeah. We might have to go through a dark age first, so I can't even lie. And I may be in that a little bit. I'm really excited for the crab, the crab war.

Because that's coming and everyone knows that. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. A little baby. I was watching. A video last night about the United States and why they ended up using the atomic bombs. And then you like really put it into scale at the amount of people that died in like both places, right?

Like 200,000 people plus or something like along those lines. But I was thinking to myself, I'm like, that is really horrible. And then also what if like there was the next Einstein or like the next like person that was going to. And they were just just rinsed like gone. Oh yeah. They just wiped out 200,000 thousand people plus. and then other people were dying from radiation poisoning. And just like that, no more.

And then you have to wait a certain amount of more years for the next prospect. Was that an original Willie thought? That was an original Willie thought. I was going to ask real quick, because there's a lot of times in the podcast where you got, I was thinking about it. And so I'm wondering what position are you in?

What's your facial expression? What are you doing when you're getting to these willy thoughts? I was thinking about it moments. Okay, well, what got me to that point was because I was looking at all the reasons. why people don't like Timu and that's fine that's cool but when we're talking about the renaissance it reminded me of how do you get to like another cultural like boom or like another like but then I was like well in order to get there it took certain particular figures to help

pave those pads and lead that and change things right and like I was like well damn what about like all the people that are dying and all these wars right now what about like yeah you know what I I mean, it's kind of selfish to think, like, it's kind of happened right now. Well, no, it happened like last night, but into this conversation. Yeah, but like it was kind of like this whole picture of like it's really selfish to one, think that the United States has only all the geniuses in the world because we definitely don't. Yeah. And there's definitely possibilities that there could have been other people in other worlds. There was.

I could tell you where that. There was. situations happen to them. Even now currently, like really bright prospects that get put into like horrible situations. Yeah. Enslavement, genocide, stuff like that.

That could make them like not get that chance to fucking. It's terrible. Yeah, you know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

That is, it reminds me there was a movie. Uh, I watched a long time ago in school called the boy. It's like something about the boy who created wind or controlled wind. Um, but he essentially created a windmill. that powered his village and he made it out of like spare parts and he got books,

um, like a bunch of these books together. He basically just, he was like a wind. Yes. Yes. And so that he was genius, right? And it was just like the conditions and,

and just like the situations. And it's like, what if like, like how you said, what if something had happened where someone just fucking does the stupid and then kills a bunch of people and in that crowd where several geniuses that could have change like so many things in our lives and done you know so many other like it's just i mean it's you guys i wish i was a genius so i could just like figure it out when i was in school it's either that

or they get assassinated just going to be completely oh dude yeah bro willie says it's straightforward straightforward straight from the top either they get killed you know they end up in a horrible plane crash yeah i i do want to say because i've noticed uh this trend where in this podcast willie says something but this i don't get to fully finish what i'm saying and then i look like a total fucking idiot and everyone in the comments tears my ass apart. So I want to clarify fast on the T-Mu thing. I was reading on this, right? Yes, there were, back in 2023, there were reports warned of extremely high risk

that products of T-Mu are made using forced labor specifically in certain places in China. Okay. I'm pretty sure majority of people actually knew that that would have been possibly a thing. But it was more so the concerns of data privacy and security. concerns, and then also like the aggressive marketing and user experience and also product quality and safety. So like there was a lot of issues with that. I'm not fucking side with child labor.

I'm not saying that. I'm just saying that I'm pretty sure the headlines that I read where people were having a huge issue with them stealing their fucking data. My reference for why people like my, why I think that people were mad because of the child labor was just from, you know, hearing people talk about it. They're just like, yeah, dude, it's just like another brap or another company that uses kids to make really shitty stuff and like quick shit. And so that was like where my reference came from. Right.

And that's, yes. There's a saying. It's called it, if it's too good to be true, it's too good to be true. If it's too cheap, there's something wrong. Something's going on over there. Right, right. Well, shame. Yeah, no, I'm like reading this now.

It says the government officials in several U.S. States have banned the app from government devices with some lawsuits alleging its acts as malware or spyware. Now we don't know if that's just like America saying China's bad. We don't know like I don't know dude like I don't I honestly just kind of sit back and I just know this point bro. Yeah I don't know the the propaganda war that's happened in between that because I saw a video oh my god I saw a video I saw a video guys and this is like this this feels like a GTA update in real life okay I saw a video and it was like a it was like there This Chinese company that I think they say they make a phone they can make a phone a second and it's all operated by robots and it's in a dark room and it's like there's no man doing anything.

It's all robots going in and they had footage of like these robots going in the room and like opening a door and it's like dark out right? And it's like it's like grabbing all these things and it's like zzz. It's like these square robots that are just moving around this facility and there's no one around. It's like, what is that? Okay, and then there's that, and then you have like the U.S. You're talking about, yeah, you're talking about where the giant, yeah, they can keep the lights off. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I've seen that. I forget what company that was.

I want to visit China, though. There's one thing I will say. History concerns, there are history concerns because Timo's sister app Pinduoduo was previously suspended from the Google Play Store for containing malware. So I think that there's, malware and spyware entail the real question is and I think I have a general answer for it I think

every purchase or things like a lot like how TikTok was operating it just collects data only to market products back to you using my question is my question is what the fuck is the difference between malware you don't know it exists and it's

taking your data versus the government literally telling you we're taking all of this data yeah well It's only malware when it's outside, though. Is it only when you're aware of it? Because I guarantee most of these apps are still doing it without you anyway. You can go and look at when you go and download an app on the app store, you can go and scroll down and see what this app is going to take from me or what they want to use for me. Like I can click on Clash Royale right now.

No. No, they use it all. And I'll do it. No, it crush me. The following data may be collected and linked to your identity. Purchases, contact info, user content, usage data, other data location. Identifier as contacts diagnosis Little bro, that's the secret

That's the secret That's the secret Don't even look at the Flappy Bird Don't even look at the Flappy Bird one The Flaver wouldn't even worse It took my parents The Flapby Bird took my parents It did something to me, man

I know Yeah, bro You find out about this wicked world The harder it is to live Yeah Yeah, yeah Ignorance truly is bliss Chat

I'll say that much also as you guys see three days ago this is like a random thing that just popped up in my head there was like the first image of quantum entanglement ever captured what worldwide

the hell does I even I'll do it again I'll do it again he's entangling the quantum wow what is that what is it due yeah well allegedly

it basically means that focused observation affects outcomes because everything that exists is interwoven by an infinite cosmic web That gets me so hype bro So more or less proving that What was that stupid analogy, Nick, that you love? Shrodinger's cat I think so

where a tree falls in a forest that didn't really fall unless you actually watch it and the information is retained or something like that's so fascinating It only yeah I mean it doesn't make a noise because you didn't record it

Technically there was no noise Until you recorded it So more or less proving Yes that is true sort of When the noise is the cat dead in the box Yes or no We don't know until you check So therefore it's dead and alive

At the same time Yeah pretty much Until you open it up And record it, recording it is perceiving it. That is the entanglement. Yeah. Which is crazy. Now, again, I think that that's still like a potential hypothetical.

I don't know. Like, I still don't know. These are words on a screen after all. That was so much. It's kind of hype. There's so many things in this world that are kind of magical. Like my therapist recommended this podcast. I listened to the first episode and a half.

And it's about telepathy tapes. And it's like these nonverbal autistic children can just like, they just know what their mom is thinking, like straight up. Like without talking or anything and they can communicate. Like their mom will think of a number. And they say the number. They type the number. And, um, and like.

And the kids know. Yeah. The kids just know. And it's like, whoa. Dude, there's more to things. There is more to things indeed. Well, I think looking at it, it's like the cat is alive and dead, and it is in a state called superposition.

Superposition. That's like a purgatory waiting for you to either look at it or not. It's a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics where a physical system, such as an electron or photon, simultaneously exists in multiple distinct and often opposite states. The group has gone. Quantum mechanics now Can we get a professor on this podcast?

Tanner is in a super position state right now until someone calls him up Tanger is a super stitious state We don't know We don't know

That's the last thing I wanted for him too He's in both a bench press And a running position That's crazy No idea He's in and out of existence In reality I think about stuff like that.

I do like, I like what grunk asked. I think it would be really funny to get like a really really smart professor. Actual guy. Or Mark Roberber. We either know those squirrels. Why? Yeah, I was about to say.

I think professors watch our podcast? I don't know. We have some early professors. We have some like, you know, early on. Yeah. And we have some definitely smart. Dude, there's psychology professors. watching us right now.

I'm trying to study. Yeah, they're trying to be a case study on four idiots. We're going to get a case study sent at the end of their semester on all of our breakdown. I give consent. I give consent. I give consent to. Make me a case study. Study me.

Oh, I got to give consent to. Yeah, Tanger's two. It's superstitious, though. Superstitious consent. Superstitious consent. Superstitious consent. All right. Well, we are now because.

Oh, I wanted to say one more thing. I was talking about this before the podcast started. But that little V that's on Grunk's neck. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Ties it all back together. Dude, that actually has a purpose. It has a purpose.

What's the V? What is it? It was like years ago. I forget if it was rugby players or if it was whoever, but obviously wearing a sweatshirt, right? And so when like you pull that over your head, not only is it good to trap some of the sweat that's right here from continuing down, but if you were to put your sweatshirt on over your helmet gear or whatever,

if it was like a regular collar, the collar would be kind of like out and kind of like that where it'd be like overly stretched. So the purpose of that V is to help prevent it from being overly stretched. Yeah. I love this shirt. This is one of my favorite shirts.

I love that shirt too. Yeah. There's a lot of information this podcast, boys. A lot of take in. Can we title this our smartest podcast yet? I definitely have that title. I swear to go. Yeah, I feel like we have our.

A couple of brainsians. To add that title. Dude, we could do, we could always do our smartest podcast yet. You can always do that title. True, because it's a constant crawl of time. We are very smart. Next week we could be really smart. It's not going to happen, but we could.

I don't know. Well, thank you guys. Can we choose one book? To read. Can we just choose like an easy book that we want to read? Altogether. Just like a chapter a week. A chapter a week.

And even the viewers can know by today so they can get it. if they want to partake and then do the comp. Yeah, if you're proposed, you have to propose pose. I want to do an interesting one that'll open some discussion. I want some like mindset book. There was one book that I did get, I was talking about earlier, how it has like a really interesting title. And it was called The Mind is Flat,

the illusion of mental depth. That sounds really boring. I'm sorry. No, no. I disagree. It sounds interesting if it wasn't a podcast. The mind is flat. Dude, these viewers are going to say Diary of a Wimpy Captain Underpants.

Dude, we got a lot of really crazy books. Okay, here, let me read the description of this. Psychologists and neuroscientists struggle with how to best interpret human motivation and decision-making. The assumption is that below a mental surface of consciousness, awareness lies a deep and complex set of inner beliefs, values, and desires that govern our thoughts, ideas, and actions in that to know this depth. is to know ourselves. In this profoundly original book, Behavior Scientist, Nick Chater,

contends just the opposite. Oh, rather than being, the plaything of unconscious currents, the brain generates behaviors in the moment based entirely on our past experiences. Oh, predetermined. Determination. Engaging the reader with eye-opening experiments

and visual examples, the author first demolishes our intuitive sense of how our mind works, argues for a positive interpretation of the brain as a ceaseless and creative improviser. God, yeah. That's what we're working with you.

That's the email that we got, Isaac. That's what the fuck thing. Wow, okay. I am curious. I wonder what people think. That sounds super interesting. We can wait and see what the inbox says.

See what the people is. I want to do a wheel. I think we should do a wheel. Ooh. The scholars tapping out when Captain Nunger, wimpy kid underwimp. I'm going to challenge all those scholars.

Dude, scholars, even if that book may be adolescent for you, how about you join us in that journey anyway? Yeah. Yeah. You have to lose. Join us in that journey. You already know how he goes.

Maybe Roderick has a fallacy. Roderick's fallacy. So I deep-punch Roderick's fallacies and all of his attitude and everything. Maybe Ron Ron Groh grows up. Is his name Ron Ron? is that who it is manny

Ron Ron Ron Ron Ron I don't think I don't think it's a character Wait Is Ron Ron Ron not a character? No man You're thinking of Rowley maybe

Oh yeah his best friend I think I'm thinking of Jack Jack from Incredibles but I just repeated the name Hey bro Holy shit All right Ladies and gentlemen This has been the intellectual

cast. Okay, guys, thanks for being here for the podcast. We're going to be wrapping it up. Remember to use co-group, 10% off, and we'll see you guys soon. Sounds good. Thank you. Hey, guys.

Thank you, superposition Tanner. I just observed him as real. I just observed him as real.