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#2566 - Cody Tucker
Cody Tucker is the host of "The Cody Tucker Show" and "Rewind and Repeat with Cody Tucker" podcasts and author of "And Now You Know: Mind-Blowing Stories from History and Pop Culture." His new book, "Where Did That Come From?: The Hidden History of Everyday Words and Phrases," is available…
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Joe Rogan says no one ever gets to see the actual study. Scientists perform the study and submit a report, and peer review covers the report rather than the actual data. The gap is one reason a medication gets called 100 percent effective at stopping death and illness.
One person in the medication group dies. The same group is also called the vaccine group. Two people die in the control group that did not get the medication. The control group had 100 percent more deaths, and the difference is what gets stated as 100 percent effective.
The wording gets called sociopathy, because the medication being delivered has the potential to kill people. Joe Rogan says the same kind of claim is how something like Vioxx comes about.
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Joe Rogan says the Theranos blood tests did not work. People were not learning anything about what was wrong with them. The people running Theranos knew the whole thing was bullshit.
The Dropout from ABC Audio follows the Theranos story from the beginning through a scammy ex-boyfriend and goes into long detail about what was going on. Joe Rogan calls the show excellent. Big investors dumped money in. Joe Rogan is not sure a big investor put $100 million in there. One lady dumped $150 million in there, and the money is gone.
Joe Rogan says that when she gets out, her life is in danger and she is fucked. Cody Tucker would do horrible things to people for far less money.
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Joe Rogan and Cody Tucker get sucked into doom scrolling all the time. Leaving the phone outside the bathroom stops the habit. Cody Tucker says his book covers the visit instead, and that it is way better.
Cody Tucker wrote the book based on the length of an average dump. Joe Rogan asks whether he calculated the timing, and Cody Tucker says only roughly. Joe Rogan says reading the whole book in the time of one dump means it is time to go to a doctor. Cody Tucker says some people just like their alone time. Joe Rogan says stay for a visit that long and your legs are going to be numb.
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Joe Rogan says a pointless fight is really dangerous. People jump into it freely, as if there are no consequences over things that mean nothing in the long run of a life. A person can get killed, kill someone, or end up irreparably injured or harmed.
Joe Rogan knows people whose personalities changed forever after a beating, and knows a man who is a vegetable because of a fight. Joe Rogan leaves the man's age open. His mother has to take care of him. He got in a fight, his head hit the curb, and the fight ended there.
The same harm happens to many people, and nobody hears about them because they are still alive. The other person is not charged with murder, but the fight has still taken the injured man's life.
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Joe Rogan says making every opinion into a political identity is new. He is older than Cody Tucker, and when he was a kid some people stayed tied to a political party, but not to the extent people are today.
A political flavor now runs through every view, from paper straws to electric cars to vaccines and healthcare. Leave a topic unsaid and people place the quiet person on the opposite side. Joe Rogan repeats the line silence is violence to Cody Tucker. A person can stay quiet and still share the same side, but the belief is the opposite. People got mad at anyone who skipped a black square on Instagram, as if the square would have stopped the violence. Joe Rogan and Cody Tucker call the performance virtue signaling and joke that a black square from the whole country would have ended the violence and moved everyone into a new timeline.
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Joe Rogan and Cody Tucker discussed one of the most disturbing parts of the Twitter purchase, the email review that followed. Journalists went through emails between executives at Twitter and intelligence agencies.
The intelligence agencies were actively censoring accounts and directing Twitter to remove accounts. The posts carried factual information that was inconvenient to the COVID policies of the administration. The same pressure hit legitimate scientists from Stanford and MIT. The order was to ban them and take them off.
Joe Rogan and Cody Tucker took up whether any real right way exists. The exchange includes the view that people may be doing it the best, the most right way it could be done, and that this is terrifying if it is true.
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A former FBI analyst looked at Twitter before Elon Musk purchased it and determined that bots were somewhere in the neighborhood of 80 percent. At the high end, he estimated 80 percent. The company had been saying the share was 5 percent.
The 5 percent figure came from a random sample of 100 posts, called only allegedly random. Elon Musk paid 44 billion dollars. Selling Twitter for 44 billion dollars is the last moment anyone wants to learn the service is mostly robots.
The 80 percent estimate sounds high and is probably right. Propaganda has always meant leaflets and films. The same logic uses the greatest vehicle of propaganda the world has ever seen and an army of comments. Manufactured outrage is what most things are now.
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Cody Tucker says reciting the lyrics to Going Back to Cali got a podcast flagged. Both people on the recording recited the lyrics. Ownership is not what triggers the mark. The flag itself is what marks the recording.
Humming can do the same thing. Cody Tucker says doing Sunshine of Your Love by Cream on a podcast gets the show flagged. Cody Tucker has a movie podcast with a category called Creed It and Weave, where the task is to place My Own Prison by Creed, called arguably the greatest song ever written, somewhere in a movie. The group always ends up singing the song. Cody Tucker is amazed the category has not been flagged.
Joe Rogan says the flags probably have not caught the movie podcast yet, and that talking about Creed It and Weave here means they will find it now.
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Cody Tucker has slept with the television on since the age of three and still cannot be alone with thoughts. The television has to stay on. Being alone with thoughts is too much.
Meditation does nothing. Cody Tucker can let a thought come and let a thought go without forcing the mind to zero, and kept the practice up for months at a time. Nothing felt different afterward. The practice does nothing. What works instead is suffocating the thoughts with distractions, because distraction is required.
Joe Rogan argues that one required way to live, think, and behave is not real, and that creative people whose brains work differently are a great thing. The burden of never being alone with thoughts is also why so much content gets produced, because the mind has to stay engaged. Joe Rogan says the facts and information put into the world have changed a lot of people's perspective, given people plenty to think about, and amount to a great service.
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Cody Tucker says Mother Teresa put sick people in a giant concrete storage room and gave all the money donated to her to the Vatican instead of using it to treat them. She believed suffering brought people closer to God, so she walked up and down the rows of sick, dying people as if to show how close to God she was.
Cody Tucker says the sick got very basic things, in Cody Tucker's view, while they slept on concrete floors. Millions were donated, including money from Princess Diana, while Mother Teresa looked like a frail old nun and funneled the money right up to the Vatican, the vast majority of it. People who expected care got locked in a giant concrete room with basically no windows and no sunlight, sick with dysentery, diarrhea on the bed sheets, slowly slipping away.
In most people's eyes Mother Teresa is synonymous with caring, kindness, and virtue, the way Einstein is with being smart. Cody Tucker says the public image is why she became Mother Teresa to everybody, while the room was a torture chamber where people suffered constantly.
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Cody Tucker says the Central Intelligence Agency started a push for modern art to pump up American art. America did not have any art that compared with the classics from Russia. Cody Tucker places the push in the middle of the Cold War and says there is a documented basis to Central Intelligence Agency modern art.
Cody Tucker comes in happy to tell it. The Cold War setting comes first. Next, the Central Intelligence Agency started the push for modern art to pump up American art, because America did not have any art that compared with the classics from Russia. The telling ends with a documented basis to Central Intelligence Agency modern art.