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I can’t tell from what I’ve got here. In the material I can see, I don’t see Bailey Jay mentioned at all, so the count in this set is 0. But if you mean across all episodes ever, I’d need a searchable full archive to know for sure.

He wasn’t telling a story about a “sex camper,” man. Sounds like wires got crossed. With Johnny Knoxville, the bit in that episode was about how he learned to love doing stunts so much that he wouldn’t even let his therapist dig into that part of his brain. He basically said, “we can talk about everything, but not the stunt part,” because he didn’t want to unwind whatever made him able to do that. If you mean the camping/sex-related story, that was from a different episode. I talked about being in Boy Scouts as a kid and having a creepy scoutmaster hitting on my mom before camp. Different guest, different story.

Man, I’ve shouted out a bunch over the years. A few I clearly loved: - American Werewolf in London — I was talking about how awesome that werewolf was.

• Kick-Ass — straight up said it was one of my favorites.

• Edge of Tomorrow — called it a great fucking movie, great sci-fi.

• The Godfather — obviously great movie.

• Minority Report — talked about how relevant it still is.

• Pulp Fiction — brought up Tarantino’s whole idea of everybody seeing a different movie.

• Tropic Thunder — called it a fucking great movie. That’s not a complete all-time list, just movies I know I was really into from those conversations.

Yeah, for sure. A few more I was clearly into from those talks: - John Wick — said it’s amazing, super fun action-movie vibe.

• Flight Risk — called it a fun movie, a hoot.

• Scent of a Woman — brought it up in a “great performance” kind of way.

• American Werewolf in London — definitely one I was hyping up.

• Kick-Ass — one of my favorites, straight up. If you want, I can give you a bigger Rogan-style movie list by category — sci-fi, comedy, action, horror, all that.

Oh yeah, sci-fi? I’ve definitely talked up a few: - Edge of Tomorrow — great fucking movie

• Minority Report — still super relevant

• Sunshine — really underappreciated

• Alien — that creature is terrifying

• Avatar — I said that movie was so good

• The Forbin Project — classic sci-fi shout

• Star Wars — talked about it a bunch, even when ripping on parts of it If you want, I can narrow it down to my favorite sci-fi by vibe: smart sci-fi, action sci-fi, alien stuff, time-loop stuff.

Probably the biggest one for me is how I look at political identity and tribal certainty. Ten years ago, I think I was a lot more willing to see people as “left” or “right” based on one opinion, and to assume that certain takes just came packaged with a whole worldview. But over time, talking to a ridiculous range of people, I’ve changed my mind hard on that. People are way messier than the labels. A guy can be dead wrong on one thing and super thoughtful on five other things. Or vice versa. What caused it? Conversations, man. Long-form conversations. Letting people actually explain themselves instead of reducing them to a hashtag. I’ve seen over and over that if you ask, “What would change your mind?” you find out really quickly who’s thinking and who’s just performing ideology. And I’ve also realized how often people, including me, can catastrophize, overgeneralize, or just absorb the beliefs of their tribe without really digging in. Another big shift tied to that: I’ve become way more suspicious of certainty on complex issues. Climate, race, culture, gender, politics, all of it. Not because truth doesn’t exist, but because a lot of people speak with insane confidence about stuff they haven’t seriously studied. I’ve done that too. You catch yourself and go, “Wait, do I actually know this, or am I just repeating a team slogan?” So yeah, if I had to boil it down: I changed my mind from thinking the world is mostly divided into obvious good guys and bad guys with predictable beliefs, to thinking most people are complicated, tribal, biased, and still worth hearing out. That shift came from exposure to a lot of different minds, and from realizing certainty is often a mask for shallow thinking.

You got it, brother.