Joe Rogan: What I've Learned From Podcasting

Oh, as someone who's been listening to your podcast for a long time actually, that's something that's, I, what you just said is something that I've noticed a change in actually over the years. You know, going back and listening to some of the older ones where I think you were a lot more, how would I put it? Not aggressive, but a lot less tolerant of say like religion and religious viewpoints. Yeah, guilt is charged. Yeah, yeah. And I think more recently, you know, more recently over the years, it's been like, okay, I can, I can get where that's coming from and what the value is and whatnot. Well, I've experienced a great benefit from this podcast. Yeah. I know other people benefit from it, but I've experienced a great benefit in that I've been exposed to a lot of different points of view, different personalities, different intellects and different brilliant human beings that have very different ideologies. I've met brilliant people that I love and respect that have polar opposite ideas on how the world works on both sides. I mean, it's, and through that I've developed a sort of an understanding of the various mechanisms that are at play with why people believe what they believe and how they benefit from believing that and what's the pros and cons. And then I've just sort of opened my mind up much more to various viewpoints, financial viewpoints, political viewpoints. And I've developed a much greater appreciation for the variety of opinions and ideas. Yeah. Yeah. No, that's been, it's been awesome to see like, I've, I've noticed it myself and been like, ah, that's, that's cool. I realized how dumb I am about a lot of things. I mean, if I had lived my life, like I'm being honest, if I'd lived my life without doing this podcast, I would probably be a far more ignorant person right now in the same place. I feel like I've gotten not just great conversations and met great people like yourself and had a great time, but also I've been very privileged to have a tremendous education through all these people and for, for many of their books and, and right after you right now, Neil deGrasse Tyson's coming on. That's awesome. So I'm fucking pumped. I'm in the green room. Oh, sick. Yeah. Awesome. So it's like having these incredible people to share their knowledge and a lifetime of learning, you know, they can fill in blanks and educate you and point you in the right direction. And also you can see the way their mind works. And then there's guys like, you know, like David Goggins, who just, you realize like, oh, okay, there's levels to everything, man. This fucking dude, you know, he will, he will make you realize that you have more in the tank. You know, he will make you realize you can do more. You can push more. He fucking sends me text messages all the time. Like he sent me one yesterday and they just come out of the blue and like, there's no rhyme or reason. There's nothing going on. No need to respond. Hope all's well, brother. Continue to live in the grip of life. As you know, nothing gets done by being a bitch. Stay hard, brother. That's amazing. Oh wow. David Goggins. Wow. I get these all the time and I get them. My fucking hands start sweating. I'm like, yeah, I'm not a bitch. I'm going to run. I'm going to fucking lift. That's awesome, man.