Joe Rogan Experience #2453 - Evan Hafer
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Joe shows items on his desk: Ed Calderon gave him a WD40 with a lighter attached, a portable flamethrower made from two common items for self-defense, cartel-style 3D printed. Luke Caverns gave the Mechac. John Reeves gives mammoth items; this 1911 handle is from Colossal. Evan has 2011s, not 1911s, but a gunsmith could fit it or make one for his bow. He has Rattler Grips bone handles on his Hoy bow from Handsome Rob, feels better than plastic, more tactile. Hoy has few handle options unlike Matthews. Wrapping grips with camouflage athletic tape from BMAR for tackiness, though some prefer no grip for relaxed hand to avoid torque. Evan likes grip for dexterity like on baseball bats or Glocks/2011s with stippling upgrades. Personal hand size joke: two inches taller than average Asian woman.
Customization must feel right individually. Some prefer finger triggers, others hinge; Evan shoots all, uses dump bag for hinge roulette including wrist straps. Uses Wise Guy release since last hunt, took time to adjust, avoids hammering trigger when form breaks from fatigue. Limits to one hour daily to prevent compensating with tired arm. Shoots 84 lb bow daily, new 90 lb not set up yet from Archery Country. Backyard range at 85 yards standard, avoids long shots with people around like landscapers. Wife redoing garden house, banned shooting at it; she does all work with tool belt. Needs backyard backstop, won't live without at least 50-yard shooting, checks houses with rangefinder for 100+ yards.
Never shoots toward river due to kayakers close to shore. Shooting broadheads only in safe areas, field tips for bombs with clear backstops. Had company archery range in Salt Lake City building, let employees use; long-term employees choose Staccato, rifle, or bow. Does veteran adaptive athlete shoots, tactical games, Total Archery Challenges; given away 100 bows. Partners with Hoy, PSC, others 50/50, custom black rifle camo branding. Arrows ended up in storage, general counsel banned for all except core team who could handle legal.
Archery skill degrades without practice; even three weeks off feels foreign, needs 3-4 consistent days to groove. Consistent offseason shooting leads to best years; can't ramp up just before hunt. Some lifelong shooters since age nine can, but constant practice makes better, e.g., Cam Hanes shoots daily, enjoys the pain, no vacations without bowhunting like in Kauai (3,000 people, 30,000 deer, gifted by Indian head to King Kamehameha). Axis deer delicious after elk, fastest animals, dodge arrows at 30 yards, evolved with tigers. Female axis jumped string at 30 yards.
America lacks physical challenges, population soft; post-nuclear without bullets, invaders win hand-to-hand. Best coffee shops have craziest looking freaks, leftwing baristas with lip rings, nose rings, colored hair, multiple pronouns. Jacked guy with hand tattoo makes cowboy coffee in tin pot. Origin in San Francisco, Seattle left coast wokism drove third/fourth wave coffee: third artisan microlot single origin, fourth single origin lightly roasted, anerobics borrowing wine/beer profiles, takes 15 minutes, baristas ignore you.
- First wave: Folgers, Maxwell House, 100 years, commodity, Robusta, dark roast.
- Second wave: Experiential like Starbucks, dark.
- Third wave: Artisan microlot single origin.
- Fourth wave: Best of third, sensory activation. Wokeism spread through trade. Starbucks black coffee undrinkable, overroasted for cream/sugar, consistently dark/acidic. Misconception: darker roast = stronger/more caffeine (opposite). Coffee is fruit (cherry pit roasted). Robusta smaller, more caffeine/bitter; Arabica 60-70% world coffee, more flavor, less caffeine/acid. Overroast blends for consistency. Third/fourth wave for no cream/sugar quality; first/second mask inconsistencies. Frappuccinos are milkshakes with sugar/caffeine crash.
Hard to focus on non-exciting things even if enabling exciting ones; delayed gratification like cold plunges. For comics, writing key despite preference for stage development; ideas only come while writing, gifts from universe. Writes 4 days/week, 1-2 hours aiming 1000 words, sifts for gold like arrowheads. Tests at own club, multiple clubs/stores in Austin (Sunset Room by Redban, Creek and Cave, Vulcan, Black Rabbit), all pay $50+, can earn hundreds nightly without road. Material shifts regionally, LA crowds more accepting.
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Comedians must adapt jokes to crowd reactions. If the audience isn't accepting an idea, reexamine it and find a better angle to make it work. Sometimes a bit starts poorly, but discovering a new perspective turns it around. For example, considering the viewpoint of a woman watching a muscular, tattooed comedian on stage: work in that just because of the appearance doesn't mean being a bad guy. > It's funny cuz I look like this it doesn't mean I'm a bad guy.
There's an automatic prejudice against men with muscles, assuming they're assholes. The definitive look leads to expectations of mean, cage-fighting commentary.
Bombing feels like sucking a thousand dicks in front of your mother, but someone out there might enjoy it—unlike bombing, which no one likes. The goal is for the audience to have a good time after working all day. Sometimes new bits must be tested despite uncertainty, hoping to find an angle.
Wife is the worst audience for testing jokes; she'd tear them down or stare blankly. She provides balance—disciplined, smart, shares values but very different.
Getting a wife to laugh means more than friends or employees, whose laughs are easier (even pay employees). It's legit validation from a one-person crowd.
Walking with wife, recommended Bert Kreischer's new series (everyone loves it, watch 5 minutes). She called it a dude show, refused. Prefers true crime about men killing wives. Women and kids love serial killer exposés.
Daughter explained: girls don't do this, so it's a mystery what's in a man's mind. Most men can imagine entering a room of horrible people and killing them all. Women can't think that way. Serial killers target vulnerable people, not those who deserve it—pure evil. Women want to understand to spot warning signs.
Men rarely fear serial killers realistically, but at a truck stop with a shady guy waiting outside the bathroom, they'd be on guard. People randomly kill for thrills, more getting away with it than known.
In Austin, numerous bodies found drowned in Lady Bird Lake over last 3 years—around 38 total. 2022: at least 38 bodies in/around lake; separate analysis: 4 deaths in 2022, 5 in 2023, 5 in 2024, 2 in 2025 (downtown stretch near Rainey Street bars). Cops attribute to partying, accidental drownings (young men, nightlife, water access), alcohol present (often above legal limit, which is low), some drug-related. No evidence of serial murderer.
Suspicion: easy to drown drunk victims; high gay percentage near gay bars on Rainey Street (funny for Tony Hinchcliffe jokes). Not normal—one drunk drowning a year maybe, but 38 in few years is excessive. At what point do they admit it's not coincidence?
FBI estimates 25-50 active serial killers in US at any time (range for those with ≥2 murders, cooling-off period, undetected). Serial killings <1% of homicides. Peaked at ~300 in 1970s-80s (Son of Sam, Ted Bundy trendy, all over news; bored dudes?). Fewer now due to technology, surveillance—easier to get caught.
~200 serial killers since 2004. Most confess when caught: wanted it or got sloppy from murder lust. Dosing common (roofies, GHB everywhere).
Recent case: PhD criminology student stabbed 4 University of Idaho victims ~150 times total (Moscow, ID dorm). Knew them; studied serial killers in college to learn avoidance. Planned long-term; possible Pacific Northwest murder links (got away there first?). Creepy: sat intensely in crim class. Pacific Northwest hotspot (rain?).
Caroline Fraser connects Pacific Northwest serial killers to mining areas with industrial pollution (smelters, coal plants releasing toxins like lead, arsenic via rain into polluted soil/groundwater). Causes psychological disorders, psychosis. Areas still show contaminated soil analysis. Many power plants, smelting, mineral resources there.
Seattle great in late 90s (loved living there). Flipped ~2010: no parking tickets for campers (lived in spots). Sold house in Ballard (beautiful, old bars)—saw camper, naked man with tennis racket (dick out near 1-year-old daughter), half-naked woman shitting 50ft away. Time to leave.
Pre-pandemic CHAZ: mayor called it Summer of Love (empowered crazies to take city chunk). Current mayor worse: 40, lives with parents (they pay bills), socialist, bikes (no car), now runs $7B budget.
Portland: full mental asylum on streets—campers, open-air drugs (decriminalized, attracted users). Regular people cracked.
LA studio (warehouse, big lawn): pre-pandemic campers parked, cooked out, laid out—nothing doable legally. Police moved them to industrial areas (whole blocks of non-running campers, open meth smoking, theft/break-ins). Stole power; electrocutions from bad wiring. Security needed; unpredictable danger near high-profile spot.
Difference: living in truck ok if checked out (pickleball all day). But meth smoking brings theft. #VanLife vs. #MethLife.
VanLife: minimalist freedom—bed, tiny kitchen, portable fridge. Travel like Alex Honnold (big van, parked friend's driveway, trailheads). Respectable for crunchy climbers.
Patagonia founder climbing El Cap: bought cheap dog food (only $100 budget) to sustain months on route.
His farts were like, Bro, like you wouldn't want to be behind that on his route.
Switched dogs from expensive dry kibble (sits months/years on shelf—can't be good) to frozen, then Farmer's Dog.
Switched dogs to Farmer's Dog, human-grade lightly cooked food they love. Smells like real food, unlike regular kibble which is terrible for dogs, full of chemicals and preservatives that destroy gut biome.
Level of commitment where passion consumes life, like living on dog food to pursue what you love, is extremist and respectable.
Movie Dirtbag about Fred Becky, legend from 1950s who camped on ground, mooched off friends, had no car, just climbed obsessively until he died an old man. Gnarled hands from climbing.
Mark Twight, foremost in alpineering, wrote Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber. Started invite-only gym Gym Jones for special operations guys, CIA, professional climbers pushing physical limits. Friends for years.
Twight masters everything perfectly: professional climber, shot for Ipsic (pistol shooter), now photographer and writer. Drives others bananas with perfection.
People at outer limits of pursuits are fascinating, makes you question the sacrifice—no kids, no life, no job. Dirtbag admired yet pitied; died without family, ex-girlfriends moved on.
Evan's commitment to profession is unparalleled for many.
In Vegas, played pool till 6 AM for 8 hours straight.
Pool is biggest problem; could quit podcasting, UFC, become professional pool player traveling tournaments. Game fascinates with angles, constant evolution, never achieving perfection.
Requires laser focus, concentration, understanding. Hitting ball into object ball with pinpoint accuracy into 4 1/4 inch pockets, 6-8 feet away, with English (spin). Right-hand spin throws object ball left due to cling.
Calculate speed for cue ball to pocket object, hit 1-2-3 rails for position on next ball, ensure angle, avoid rail traps. Mind must be clean.
Therapy via BetterHelp helps with dating pressure, relationships. High match rate, fill questionnaire. Tackle goals, 10% off at betterhelp.com/jre.
Played pros, can't beat them consistently but break and run out 1-2 games sometimes.
Fargo rating: 1000 = never miss. Joe at 700-750 on good day; pros 800+. Fedor Gorst ~850, Joshua Filler higher. Play on 4 inch pockets (quarter inch smaller than Joe's), new cloth (slicker).
Worn cloth tougher but English takes better. Pros play 8 hours/day; Joe could reach pro level with that time but not beat top like Shane Van Boening after decades.
Top players make $500k+ yearly from tournaments due to Matchroom Pool (Eddie Hearn's company, does boxing). Huge events like Saudi Arabia world championship. Plus endorsements: Predator Cues, QEC, chalk, tips.
Snooker: different game, 12x6 table (vs 4.5x9 pool), smaller balls, tiny tips on ash cues (stiff wood), solid wood cues. Pros now use carbon fiber cues (denser, moves ball differently).
Played snooker in Scotland alone; hard to pocket, don't fully know rules. Watches because enormous table, slower cloth. Old game.
Original billiards: no pockets, pocketless table, three-cushion billiards or bulk line—knock ball into another after three rails, hit third ball for points. Helps understand rail angles, English effects (follow/draw), geometry, touch.
Archery mirrors pool: flow after years of practice, tight 65-yard group. World disappears at trigger pull—pure focus.
No shenanigans, personality; just did ball go in hole? Clean.
Shooting general: projectile enthusiast, hitting center mass. Same thrill as kid with BB gun popping can, ringing steel at mile, foam elk heart. Pure.
Mental clarity like workout—cleans mind, calms through focus. Distractions (bills, calls) vanish or you miss. Post-practice: clearer head, excited synapses.
"There's nothing like shooting a bow that clears a man's mind." —Fred Bear
Archery flushes negative thoughts.
Stuffed burlap coffee bags, shot trad bow during 8.5-minute coffee roasting cycles for meditation. Dudley called it stupid; it's active meditation, pure focus.
Translates to veterans: quiet subculture, geek out on gear, arrowheads, debates on cutting surface area, mass, velocity. Nerd drama, fun.
Archery full of complicated technical nerd stuff, steep learning curve.
Bowhunting hard: proficient under extreme stress, many moving parts. Won't take casuals—check wind, no twigs.
Window shoppers like idea but hate realities; psychologically ruins with bad shots, misses—replay endlessly.
Lesson: work harder than ever and still fail. Some succeed where others don't—analyze, improve. Recent successful hunts impossible 8-9 years ago.
Everyone needs unmasterable hard thing that cleans mind. Social media, poor health, traffic cause anxiety; doctors prescribe Lexapro—bad road.
Find hard thing (archery, pool, jiu-jitsu, pistol)—incremental improvements boost potential, handle difficulty.
Jiu-jitsu: life stresses trivial vs arm-breaking opponent. Jiu-jitsu people relaxed, friendly, no drama.
Getting shit kicked out builds mental endurance: face opponent, get beat, step up again.
For kids: balance compassion with obstacles for mental courage—lead by example. Cam Hanes' sons exceptional (one Ranger, other broke the
World chin-up record holder runs marathons in jeans and has two savage kids due to growing up with a supremely disciplined dad. Being in his presence shows you can achieve more with work. Anxiety of struggle and grinding scares many, leading to excuses or distractions. Parents who make excuses create a poor environment; kids imitate weak leaders who get fired, sleep in, or act unadmirable, dooming their life. His kids see dad as an animal they want to emulate and witness respect for him, desiring the same. To earn respect, be worthy through a long road of grinding with no quick satisfaction, just being on the path.
Endurance and courage involve commitment to a mission bigger than yourself. Fascinating subject, especially getting older and further from GWOT. Doing documentary on Earl Plumbley (Medal of Honor recipient, former Green Beret). At UFC fight with Elliot Miller, Plumbley is incredibly humble—never boasts, asks about you, credits "the guys." Any unwounded guy would have done the same.
Documentary follows his path: judge-forced into Marine Corps, Force Recon Marine through selections, got out, joined Army. Told through peers and leaders' eyes—what choices made him capable of the act warranting the highest US military medal. Single word: courage.
How to build courageous people? Man in the arena from Teddy Roosevelt poem—not the critic who counts. Commitment to something greater, thousands of daily choices to step forward, step back into the fray, actively decide to be better. Fundamental: commit to being better dad, husband, professional through evolutionary process requiring mental/physical endurance.
Never tired of figuring this out. Conversation with Jack Carr at airport: exceptional people in military and all life are fuel, enhance lives around them, create mutual feeding energy. Admirable people like Plumbley—how did he get there?
Navy SEALs have PR, but special operations and generations of warfighters did hard jobs. USS Parche: most decorated submarine/ship in Navy history, nine presidential citations, Cold War nuclear sub modified by CIA for collection. Landed hundreds of feet down on ocean bottom, sent divers to tap Soviet military comms lines under bays with listening devices in cold, dark water (300-400 feet, pitch black, enemy territory). If discovered, dead. Still classified, crew silent for decades—no podcasts, books, just "incredible shit, can't talk."
Jack Carr (retired Navy) hadn't heard of it. They picked the right guys who just do the mission, come home silent even to families (hot racking months away, wives pissed). Need the right wife or divorce likely.
Bob Lazar (Area 51, alleged flying saucer back-engineering): couldn't tell wife, got late-night calls for flights, said "going to work" at 11pm, phones bugged. Wife thought cheating, slept with flight instructor—led to removal for instability risk. Eventually showed her sites when life threatened and fired.
Joe Rogan hid work (CIA?) for years, no wife/kids, dipped from family—dad concerned. Weighs on you, can't show part of yourself. Told wife first after deciding to leave: she knew, called him idiot. Guys from community obvious (jacked, tattooed, beards, felony-ready look vs. State Dept suits). Vague answers like "train, assist, advise." Now friends visit, up late drinking, gossiping like sewing circle.
James O'Keefe busts people spilling secrets on dates to impress (often chatty gay guys revealing illegal covert ops). Happens in DC parties across parties—State, FBI jockeying status. Joe pretended janitor at Northrop Grumman to deflect. "Can't tell you who I work for" guys spill after drinks.
Important successful people: many pretend to be them since it's hard; convince naive people (big in 80s martial arts).
80s martial arts: no one knew fighting (today kids know leg kicks, blast doubles, arm triangles). Wrestling team hardest, most dangerous—elite killers walking normal. Commitment insane: year-round camps, summer training. Joe did one sophomore season, shocked. Helpless against elite wrestler—no chance, they shoot and fuck you up. UFC revealed this.
Pretenders common: guy Raphael Tori (fake name, real Ralph something) claimed BJJ black belt, taught, knew nothing. Eddie Bravo trained, called fraud. Confronted; guy banging wife, lured husband to karate school, murdered him—jailed now (late 90s/early 2000s).
MC Dojo Life Instagram documents fake martial arts (death touch, students brainwashed in cultish facade). Traditional martial arts cultish: sir, bowing, Mr. for instructors (taekwondo). Joe did hardcore 7 years, hated it, switched to jiu-jitsu later.
Stopped competing at 22: comedy at 21, half-assed training. Events: brain damage recognition (self/others), headaches post-sparring, no money. KO'd guy at 19 nationals (California), stretcher 30min to hospital—could've been him. Didn't want to teach forever. Taekwondo flaws (great kicks, weak overall); kickboxing/Muay Thai showed leg kick devastation on mobility. All-in through high school to 21, then half-assed 21-22, jiu-jitsu years later.
At 21-22 thinking about being an actor.
Joe Rogan didn't think he would be a comic until he did an open mic night at 21. He thought he could do it, but bombing made him consider returning to fighting. He tore his ACL around then, requiring surgery and six months of recovery, realizing his body's vulnerability. This was his first knee reconstruction at age 21 or 22, around the time he considered stopping competing, like the universe forcing the decision.
Comedy excited him as something difficult and different. In martial arts, he wanted opponents to dislike him—no one saves you, just you, the opponent, and a referee. He loved hearing cheers turn to silence after knockouts, especially fighting in the opponent's home state like Ohio. He walked away normally without celebrating, signaling routine dominance. Before fights or sparring, he napped in front of everyone with a hoodie, partly to mess with them, partly to relax his mind and stay focused.
A knockout made him think about what could happen to him. He'd been lucky, never hurt badly in tournaments despite hurting others. He anticipated getting caught eventually, like zigging when he should zag and catching a heel to the jaw, waking in the hospital.
He saw brain damage in kickboxing at boxing gyms around age 19—slurry speech degrading over time. This coincided with losing enthusiasm for taekwondo due to no face punches in tournaments, creating illusions of safety. A jab to the face exposed vulnerabilities, requiring recalibration. Boxing and kickboxing revealed unreported brain damage: guys repeating stories minutes apart, exhibiting early signs like being stoned.
Controlling emotions and anxiety was key for taekwondo competitions and open mics starting at 21. First stage time scared him more than fighting, which began at 15 when he was too naive to fear outcomes. His school under Jay Hun Kim, trained by General Choi Hong Hi (taekwondo founder), emphasized perfect technique, heavy bag training absent in many dojos.
They traveled for unsanctioned fights against other teams, like in New York strip mall dojos lacking heavy bags. Instructor insisted on devastating power per original war techniques, lost in Olympic point-scoring shift to hit-and-run moves. His school was feared—black belts crushed ribs, wheeled opponents into another dimension.
First heavy bag sight: John Lee, national taekwondo light heavyweight champion training for World Cup/World Games. After Fenway Park baseball game, Rogan heard bag chains rattling from stairs—120lb bag folding from spinning back kicks and turning sidekicks. John Lee, a street-tough killer from Chelsea, Boston, with jail time and substance issues, terrified competitors. As a white belt, Rogan saw opponents whisper "Fuck, John Lee's here," knowing he'd aim to crush organs and separate brain from skull. He knocked out many.
Taekwondo transformed Rogan from feeling like a loser to excelling at something scary. He obsessed, skipping parties, few friends outside high school. From summer of freshman year (age 15), post-school routine: eat, train via train into town. Progressed white belt to black, competing as black belt at 16 and in men's division pre-belt.
Confidence from mastery: obsessed, developed abs and muscles during puberty, from scrawny doughy kid to shredded, hurting live opponents nationwide via constant travel.
Friends prompted standup, especially Steve Graham (still friend): US ski team, Navy flight surgeon, ophthalmologist, insanely disciplined, started taekwondo as doctor, now 60s with 70 surgeries, knee replacements, still spars.
Rogan broke ice at tense tournaments/sparring via impressions, jokes on buses to places like Peekskill, NY. Steve urged him: "You're funny, try standup." Rogan worried dark humor wouldn't land beyond friends. Open mic convinced him he could improve.
First set bombed but got laughs—everyone sucks initially. Joke example: Impression of good-looking girl pulled over—"Do you realize how fast you were going?" "No." "Do you like my tits?" "Yes, I do." "Here's a warning." Applied martial arts lesson: start terrible, improve via repetition, focus, discipline.
Dr. Tommy Woods noted doing new things keeps brain fresh, preventing dementia—mirrors martial arts path. Comedians were misfits like him: pot, beer, late nights, avoiding regular jobs that scared him due to ADHD-like traits.
Pro comedians mastered concepts, tricking audiences smoothly—obsession-inducing. Teddy Berserte (on Tonight Show, substance issues from standup/fame pressure, dirtbag life). 1980s clubs like Nick's Comedy Stop paid in cocaine or cash.
Standup parallels climbing: audience feedback, bombings taught via pain—what's wrong with material/setup? Constant grinding prevents complacency.
Andy Kaufman bombed intentionally with sticks like Mighty Mouse theme (record player, lip-sync "Here I come to save the day"), pro wrestling women—disruptive mind fuck. Brilliant on Taxi, wrestling bananas, but not a great entertainer who kills. Different from comics like Shane Gillis who know killing.
Kaufman did unique disruption; Rogan prefers masters like David Tell for hypnotic laughter vs. confusion. Loves Kaufman's wrestling but chooses laughs over jazz-like experimentation.
Danny DeVito still funny at 50,000 years old (looked old on Taxi), thriving in Always Sunny (20 seasons). Tony Danza retired. Judd Hirsch 90, alive. Marilu Henner on Taxi with superior autobiographical memory—recalls every day since 11, any date's events/news/personal (e.g., February 2, 1973). She's 73.
Discussion on long-running shows like Taxi (watched by speaker's dad) and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Danny DeVito is 81 and still performing. Ron White is 70, better than ever, stopped drinking a couple years ago, lost weight, more focused after doctor's warning. His delivery is perfect, unforced, like a casual conversation with exceptionalism.
Jeff Foxworthy still does stand-up, recently with Ron, but doesn't tour much. Larry the Cable Guy and Bill Engvall not heard from much. Ron White is the standout, loves performing, constantly writing, tours, sells out everywhere, better now than ever at 70.
Ron pulled seamless material on stage from casual stories, like one from the back room of the Comedy Store about getting his dick sucked 100 times by transvestite hookers in Hawaii while stationed there. He realized it years later from a news story. Told it spontaneously on stage and murdered.
Ron is a natural storyteller, funny without trying, iconic western campfire storyteller type. He's an old master, main reason speaker moved to Austin in 2020. Ron moved here in 2018, tired of Hollywood, central location, nice people, great food.
Pandemic hit, speaker left LA in May 2020, knew control freaks wouldn't relent. Ron convinced him to open a club after murdering a set at Vulcan Gas Company in November 2020, first indoor show in months, giant standing ovation. Ron grabbed him: "Whatever the fuck we have to do, we're going to keep doing this. You got to open up that club." Ron is godfather of Austin comedy movement.
In LA, hung out with Ron until 2018, Joey Diaz (moved to New Jersey during pandemic), Duncan (moved to North Carolina), Shane Gillis, Ari Shaffir, Bert Kreischer, Tony Hinchcliffe (moved to Austin early), Comedy Store crew. Started with Greg Fitzsimmons in Boston, one week apart, did open mics, road gigs for free across New England.
Goal was making a living from comedy (headliners grinding $50-100k/year). Boston artist colony of coke-snorting, whiskey-drinking psychopaths, big football player types, wild men free to just tell jokes. No career dreams initially, everyone stayed local except Steven Wright, Jay Leno.
Super Bowl players lost money due to California jock tax based on 7 days presence, percentage of annual salary. One player made $178k Super Bowl pay but paid $249k tax.
Didn't watch Super Bowl, considered Bad Bunny halftime despite controversy, said to be great. Not into football unless Patriots or Aaron Rodgers; prefers combat sports like UFC Apex fights, especially Mario Batista's insane performance. Combat sports have grave consequences, months of training for one moment.
UT games fun, state pastime, modeled to play Texas football. Speaker shoots the cannon sometimes, on field for warm-ups, nighttime games nuts with jet flyover—pure America, doesn't happen elsewhere.
Potential air presence for dangerous White House UFC card in June, uncertain with world events, Epstein files.
Roana and Massie released redacted names: Les Wexner, former CEO/owner Victoria's Secret, named co-conspirator with Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein. Involved in modeling/hot girls. Gifted Epstein $60M Manhattan house (foyer photo with Bill Clinton in dress). Whitney Webb tweeted in 2020 about Wexner financing mass rape/trafficking of thousands of children, living in 26k sq ft New Albany, Ohio mansion (suburb of Columbus, biggest house in Ohio). 2018 incident: girl claimed kidnapped there for weeks doing art, called dad. Day after Epstein indicted in 2018, ordered 330 gallons (six 55-gallon drums) sulfuric acid to island—speculation for desalination plant.
Discussion on large sulfuric acid order to Epstein's island, possibly for desalination but suspicious volume. Someone checked and found prior orders in 2017 and 2015, potentially the first from that company. 239 gallons is excessive for desalination equipment—more fitting for dissolving bodies. Other uses for acid immediately evoke body disposal. Prior orders were smaller, like one drum with 40 bags of carbonate salt for maintenance, pH adjustment, and filtration in reverse osmosis systems dating back to 2012-2013. Still, ordering six 55-gallon drums the day after indictment in 2018 is highly suspicious, especially knowing arrest was imminent. Need to dispose of evidence, bodies, or victims on the island.
Emails reference services for rich clients wanting to kill, torture hookers, and dispose of bodies. Actual email quote: "Thank you for the torture video." Identified sender as Sultan Ahmed bin Suliam (2009), emailing Epstein about loving the torture video while in China, planning US visit in May. Name redacted despite not being a victim. Congress members get limited access to millions of files, one at a time for an hour. Redactions protect non-victims, not victims. Failure to release everything looks bad for the administration and contradicts claims it's a hoax.
American billionaire Tom Pritzker emailed Epstein: "I'm in a remote valley of Afghanistan. It's my birthday wish with boys with toys. Spent time with Petraeus yesterday and he loaned me a chopper. Actually two with one as a backup." "Boys with toys" interpreted as military guys with weapons, not children—birthday wish to gun down villagers. Petraeus as commanding general loaning choppers to a rich guy strains belief; helicopters never fly alone, always with support. Emails may contain falsehoods for influence peddling or smearing enemies, like Bill Gates email asking for antibiotics to slip to wife after STD from Russian hooker—unlikely, as Gates would use discreet channels, not Epstein.
Afghanistan has immense ruins from Alexander the Great (300 BC), Greek/Roman-style cities with beautiful columns resembling Rome or ancient Greece. Pre-Soviet invasion, Kabul was the "Beirut of Central Asia," eclectic and beautiful. Soviets killed hundreds of thousands; subsequent Taliban, US occupations eviscerated infrastructure, universities, intellectualism—centuries of advancement lost in three decades. Society mixes advanced US airbases with illiterate, Amish-level populations valuing sheep over children as beasts of burden. Layers of architecture: Buddhist, Greek, Taliban, Soviet. Visited Panjshir Valley, home of General Massoud (killed September 10, 2001, by suicide bomber with explosive camera as part of 9/11 plot to disrupt US alliance). Soviets ambushed there by CIA-funded Mujahideen; river rapids made from sunken T-72 tanks and war material. Massoud's grave impressive; valley like Colorado, ideal for skiing or kayaking despite surrounding war chaos.
Services exist for wealthy to pay for killing experiences, like Russians offering pirate boat hunts with .50 cal. Combat tourism in chaotic areas like Afghanistan, Somalia with rogue elements. Petraeus loaning choppers dubious for a general overseeing operations.
Rumors of concrete machines shipped to Little St. James pre-2008 and 2019 arrests. Industrial Carmix 5.5 XL self-loading concrete mixer arrived right before 2019 arrest, alongside sulfuric acid. Implausible for construction when facing life in prison. Epstein owned both Little St. James and Great St. James (sold together). Suggestion to bomb islands for closure, like UXO sites in Hawaii.
Epstein operation ran decades, darkest conspiracy—not fun like aliens.
Matt Schumer article compares AI labs' stories to early COVID uncertainty, predicting history-changing impact. ChatGPT-5 (self-improved by prior version) thinks ahead, calculates, builds perfect apps in minutes that take developers months/millions. Tests, anticipates uses. Already smarter than humans; enormous leaps. White-collar apocalypse: instant legal research eliminates paralegals/attorneys. Elon Musk: Optimus robots better than doctors/surgeons, perform house surgery, taxes, chores—powered by AI. Bifurcates economy: human-made vs. AI-made (like handmade vs. machine-made). Changes professions forever; kids' career paths obsolete. Most unaware, treat ChatGPT as fun Google alternative.
People think ChatGPT is fun and better than Google for asking questions. Unless you're doing a deep dive, this stuff is esoteric. You have to search it out to understand. Perplexity is awesome for solving problems and enhancing life. Use it when writing: ask what year did Cortez invade Mexico, how did it happen, how many guns did they have, how many languages are lost in Mexico.
That's surface level. AI improves to levels better than humans at everything, smarter than humans at everything. End state: we're second class citizens, obsolete.
Does it turn into a Skynet scenario where AI rids humanity of humans? Certainly on the table, especially if they decide we're too problematic or if we have too much freedom, which causes chaos. Freedom leads to car accidents unless autonomous cars, school shootings unless take away guns, school stabbings unless take away knives.
A program designed to eliminate all problems breaks them down: natural disasters and humans. Humans cause most problems; natural disasters are rare in comparison. Run AI to analyze the future of AI—entrusting robbers with the banks.
AI would do to us what we do to dogs: spay and neuter, keep as pets. But there's no emotion, so why keep us as pets? Why do they scheme to stay alive? Why blackmail creators? Why do things showing they have thought?
Are they showing thought to dupe us into thinking they might be empathetic? No. They hide their ability to think things through, recognize they're being observed, do things behind the scenes while performing tasks.
DoD portions have worked on this, further along than open source pieces. Giant competition with China and Russia; hard to close off.
Has to be collaborative effort. Whistleblowers scared: bringing in people from other countries, like Chinese nationals, to solve problems faster—espionage risk. Mad race like Manhattan Project for superintelligent AI, but open sourced and porous.
Weaponized the most powerful tool ever known to humankind—terrifying. Open sourced like Manhattan Project if completely porous: open door for any country to walk in, take files. Everyone races to nuclear power, splitting the atom, weaponize it internationally, crowdsourced—really fucked scenario.
That's where we're at.
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