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i was like there's only one way to do this i've just not drank for a while so i took like eight months off and then i had like a margarita dinner once i was like oh i missed this and then i had a glass of wine here and there i was wondering how that was gonna hold up yeah but yeah but you're

I know that you're not captured by it.

No, no, no.

Neither am I, but our religious observance requires it. You require abstinence or drinking? No, we drink. When do you have to drink? Shabbat, any Friday. How much do you drink when Shabbat? I probably have two and a half glasses of wine.

Is there like a number that you're supposed to hit? No, there's a communal cup. Otherwise, you're a bad boy. What?

Well, that's Purim. We should get into Purim. We're getting into it. All right. Do we need glasses? Do you want to have a drink? Usually I You and I tend to go a while So we usually do that at the end

Well let's get some ice and some glasses Are we rolling already? I've been rolling Okay Let's get some Tell Jeff to get us some ice and some glasses I didn't know we were And a bottle of Buffalo trays Do you want to wait until I get back to start? We either haven't started or we started We started Fuck it We started Let's just roll We'll get Jeff to do it What's that? I don't even have headphones Are we rolling still? Are we doing headphone shit? We can. Headphones, no headphones. I don't give a fuck. We mix it up.

Okay.

Are you more comfortable? You've got a nice head of hair. What? See, for me, it doesn't matter. I feel bad when people work on their hair real good, especially ladies, and they get it all nice, and then they have to fucking smush it with this thing.

Okay, if you ever have that kind of consideration for me, I'm going to be very disappointed. I thought we were closer.

Some people worry about that.

No, I worry about the gray.

That you have gray in your hair? Yeah. Well, you're pretty dark for your age. How old do you now? 60. Yeah. You have fucking dark-ass hair for your age. If I had hair and it grew out, like my side hair, it's mostly gray now. Yeah? Yeah. I'm sorry to get some gray hair to my eyebrows a little bit. What's that?

I should have thought ahead like you did. What? Shaved it? Yeah, shaved it when everyone knew it wasn't gray, and then it's just normal. Because it's very clear if I shave it now.

I think you can avoid gray hair with proper supplementation. At least that is the thought today, that with enough zinc and copper, and that somehow or another that's involved in the diet. I'm talking out of my ass here. I don't know that much about what causes your hair to go gray.

This is Austin Tep?

This is Buffalo Trace, older than America.

Really?

Yeah, this is a distillery from 1773, I believe they started.

Wow.

Them apples, huh?

It's like that Chinese-sounding beer, Yunling or something. Cheers, my friend.

Buffalo Trace is like Yun...

Why, is their beard really old? Beer really old?

Do they have an old beer?

Yunling. Is it old as fuck? Jamie knows everything. He knows a lot. You know, people...

1829.

You see? People say, I have this AI, I'm using Claude, I'm using ChatGPT. I use Jamie. Jamie, right, for sure.

Oh, he's way better than AI. He's way better than AI because he's kind of psychic. You're a little psychic, right? A little bit.

Well, I mean, I've listened to you talk a lot. My theory is that he also looks ahead. He knows sort of where you're likely to head, so he's got it ready. Oh, 100%.

He knows how my goofy fucking brain works. Yeah. For sure. Good to see you, my brother.

Good to see you. Hello.

Joe how was your your what what was it exactly how would you describe it a

speech I gave a talk on dark energy to the Karch group at the UTexas UTexas

Austin physics this is what I wanted to ask you about Michio Kaku has been saying that he believes that dark energy is possibly something leaking in from another dimension is that look at that face go on he gave a little side eye well let's see what he says james see if you can find that please i think he said it was gravity from different

colonies and put them together as a kid just to see what happens did i no i never did that i did

that oh why just watch him fight oh yeah oh you're fucking psycho yeah a little bit no i never did of that you were saying about Michio yeah that he I just I didn't even read it I just saw it went oh Jesus I gotta talk to Eric about this just dark matter isn't matter at all it's gravity leaking in from a parallel dimension and this guy won't do mushrooms isn't that wild

ah what do you think about that you remember when I was here and I said get Michio

Cuckoo in here with me. Yeah. What is it about? Well, clearly he's a brilliant guy. He is and was a brilliant guy. He's decided to do something else. And to be entirely honest, I don't love going after other named people. In general, my shtick is that I go hard after institutions. I'm a huge institutional supporter and their worst nightmare in the current world. Individuals I don't like beefing with. I watch all of the energy, the beauty of life lost to beefing with people. Michio Kaku is doing a tremendous amount of damage to theoretical physics.

How so?

Theoretical physics is, in my estimation, the most beautiful, most powerful, most economically potent thing you can do with your life. And we are the best. the united states is in my opinion the greatest nation in the history of the earth for theoretical physics because we are cowboys we are irreverent we are the we are the people who invented the atomic and hydrogen bombs the semiconductor um this is what we do and we've lost the ability to do it at a level that I cannot believe happened during my watch, my lifetime. So from 1984 to the present, those 42 years have been the greatest intellectual implosion I think that I know of, where people just got dumber.

And what do you think is the cause of that? I'm going to distract this humidity.

Quantum gravity.

Quantum gravity, did it?

Yep. Mm-hmm. In 1984, there was a result, and it's called the Green-Schwartz anomaly cancellation. And the guy that I've talked to you about before in UFO context, the guy who is Louis Witten's son, Louis Witten, happy birthday, turned 105, was the anti-gravity guy from the 50s. His son, Edward Witten, decided that the 1984 Green Schwartz anomaly cancellation meant that all the smartest people should pile into one narrow subspecialty and that that was the future. And because he was so much smarter than all of us, people listened, and I didn't. And Michio Kaku is part of his wave. Almost all of the people that you've traditionally had on in physics have some connection to this. So you've had on, I don't know, probably Sean Carroll, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brian Greene. Nobody wanted to say what was happening, which is that we were being unraveled and destroyed. Our ability to be the world's greatest theoretical physicist was being eroded year by year for 42 years.

And specifically, the pursuit of string theory?

It's not string theory itself that's the problem. String theory is harmless. It's just a bunch of equations, a bunch of ideas, and it's beautiful mathematics in many places. So that's not an issue. The issue is the exclusion of everything else. And this goes under the name Tojit, or the only game in town, T-O-G-I-T. And it's this idea that only we, the enlightened, can do theoretical physics and the rest of you are just doing finger exercises and you're too stupid to know it.

So specifically, what's isolationist about string theory? What is it about this one particular theory that all this thought has been pushed into that?

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the claim is that there's this thing called uv complete physics there's no way that we can have a discussion about that directly if i could ask jamie could i impose upon you to call up on youtube wheel of fortune and then use i've got a good feeling about this i can explain it to you

wheel of fortune i've got a good feeling about this i've got a good feeling about this okay Is that an episode of Wheel of Fortune?

It'll be over briefly. It's very, very quick. It's about a minute and a half or something. And the key point is it's a tight analogy for the problem faced in physics that anyone can understand. So I don't – people think I try to make things complicated. I really try to make them understandable. But what I do is I talk about things – I don't know that you've ever had anyone talk about UV completeness on the Joe Rogan experience. I don't believe so. Yeah.

Is this it? Okay, put your headphones on.

Yeah.

Well, you're not going to be able to hear it unless you have headphones on. I know it like the back of my hand. Ha. Wheel of Fortune.

We need a phrase this time. That's a category for this puzzle. And it is a prize puzzle. Go ahead, Rick. Gladly. And what do we get here? 500. R. Boy, you'd think there'd be an R in there somewhere, Oh, Rick. Obviously, you called it. Caitlin.

L.

One L. Did you really solve? What's that?

Can I solve? Okay. It is a prize puzzle. Yeah. I've got a good feeling about this.

That's right.

That's insane. That lady's a wizard.

That lady is what I want to do with my life. That is what great physics looks like. It's totally irresponsible. And, you know, Pat Sajak is, like, trying to ask her, like, how'd you do that? And she says, well, I had a good feeling about this, you know. And the funny part about it is you can figure it out. If you go back, Jamie, can you show the board right there? Yeah. So clearly that apostrophe is a huge clue, right? So the idea is that if you read that property, is it I'll, is it I've, right? And then there's no R. So think about all of those blank squares as orders of magnitude that you are away from the energies that would allow you to do experiments that would explain physics. And think about the apostrophe, the L, and that pattern, as well as the fact that there's no R, as the standard model of physics. So right now, what you have is a debate about whether or not we should buy more and more letters with higher and higher energy. Or, like, should we build bigger accelerators and spend more treasure trying to collide particles? Or should we just Caitlin our way out of this? So Caitlin Burke is my model of what I think we're supposed to be doing.

So an exceptional mind with an ability to see or propose things that other people aren't seeing.

I guarantee you that if we studied this, if we spent a month with the world's smartest people on this puzzle, we'd learn that there are certain things that were present. That the frequency of certain – the fact that there's a single letter there that almost certainly is I or A. She took a tiny number of clues. But here's the really important thing. Jamie, can we show the filled-in puzzle? So you'll notice that the word this could be changed to that because the only letter that's been excluded is an R. So that is what the issue of unique UV completion is. In other words, A unique UV completion would say there's only one phrase that fits there. She guessed, she couldn't have known it isn't, I've got a good feeling about that, or I've got a nice feeling about this or that. So it's actually not, or I'll get a good feeling about this. But all of those were much less probable because they're just not as natural. So this is a combination of science, guesswork, and raw courage. Like the most marvelous thing about that exchange is she says, can I solve? And there's like, he's not even sure he's hearing her properly. And then finally he says, okay, that's gatekeeping. Can I put this article on the archive? Can I give a seminar in your department? I want to solve the puzzle. And a lot of what we're arguing about is that the string theorists are the only ones who have the right to try to solve the puzzle at the moment. So imagine that somehow there's a rule that only Rick, poor Rick, who guesses that there's an R, imagine that he's the only one allowed to solve the puzzle. And when she asks, may I solve the puzzle? No, no, no, you can't. That's pseudoscience. You're a charlatan. That is crank physics. So that's what the problem that we're facing is, is that we've got one group that got control of the gatekeeping, who is very good at mathematics, extremely bad at physics. And they've redefined what physics is and what good science is, where they're the only ones who are guessing the puzzle. They can't guess the puzzle. And everyone else is like, here's a crazy story from yesterday. I wasn't allowed to say that I gave a talk in the physics department, even though any normal person would say that that happened. And I wasn't allowed to do that when I visited a physics institution in Canada. I wasn't allowed to say that I was visiting for a week, nor was I allowed to say that I gave a seminar that lasted nine hours.

But you just did. Yeah. Are you a lawbreaker?

I'm breaking the rules now because I've now I've had it. I agreed. I agreed to not do this. And with these missing scientists, I've changed my mind. I'm not going to deal with these people anymore. And whatever is going on with science and the suppression of different ideas is terrifying. right now we have a situation i you know i gave a talk at the university of chicago

there's no record of it who's asking you to do these talks and who's asking you to not give a

record you don't have to name names yeah particular people in general the funny part is that the people who ask me to give talks in the physics departments are the most courageous person in each department so the problem is that the person that i you end up feeling resentful towards how dare you tell me that I can't give this talk in this department officially, is the person who's arranging for your stay and is arranging for the room, and they are under the most pressure from the institution.

So the institution is forcing them to say, you're allowed to give the talk, but you're not allowed to talk about it on social media, you're not allowed to advertise that you're doing it, you're not allowed to say that you're doing it.

So in this case, in the case of UTex's physics department, I was allowed to say I'm speaking in the Karch Group seminar. It's like a condom to make sure that the physics department doesn't get pregnant.

But isn't that really bizarre? Because University of Austin, Texas was supposed to be a university that fixed all the bullshit that was wrong with other universities.

Oh, it's much more insane than that. This was the home of Steven Weinberg who moved from Harvard to Texas because the money, the oil money was used to buy brains. So basically Texas raided Harvard for people like John Tate in the math department, Stephen Weinberg, who was probably the greatest living theorist. And that was the continuation of the Bryce DeWitt group from North Carolina Chapel Hill that was set up to do anti-gravity by Agnew Bainson. So you're right next to an amazing physics department with a crazy history that in fact touched anti-gravity. This is one of the tiny number of places that has a real legacy in that department. And I was speaking there on gravity, on dark energy. And look, I've been lying my whole life about my relationship with the physics world because of this pressure. They can't listen to me if I say I'm a physicist. So I say I'm an entertainer.

Yeah.

But people say, well, why would you do that?

Why would you say that you're an entertainer when you obviously are conversant in all this stuff? And the answer is I don't want to die. I don't want to lose my ability to enter a physics department. So I take on this completely wrong persona. And, you know, I have the emails. You're not giving a talk. You're having conversations in room 5308.

It literally says you're not giving a talk?

I could read what it is that they write to me.

But what is the benefit of this formal declaration or this formal designation of the way you're talking?

So when I was at a physics institute in Canada, I was told, we're worried that you're going to use it to legitimize yourself. It's like, I'm going to do that. Of course I'm going. I have a PhD from Harvard, you stupid. I mean, like, you guys imagine I'm a podcast guest?

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there you remember when like i think reagan thought i forget who it was reagan thought there were recallable missiles well you could turn them around right sorry we changed my mind

so like a base jumper who's also a suicide jumper halfway in he's like oh fuck this no i like you know a lot of these people who survive

jumping off the golden gate bridge they learn like i love life yes yes most of them they're reborn yeah um so what i would say is the problem is that i am i don't i don't this is not a boast as you know i don't usually put my credential first i'm probably the most blue chip defector from the institutions mutant mutineer let's put it call it that um i have a i have essentially perfect credentials and that's the problem so it's not a question about you're going to legitimize i already legitimized myself by harvard phd mit postdoc nsf postdoctoral fellow onr top in the country sloan foundation grantee i've been in math physics economics departments i'm so bulletproof

so that's the problem that's the problem that's the problem it's not that you're a kook that's

That's what I was trying to say. You didn't understand.

No, I do understand. It is specifically- I just don't understand why they want to do that to you. That's what's bizarre.

Narrative. Okay. I am the greatest danger to the narrative. I'm the most followed mathematician in the United States. Maybe the world, Hannah Frye, maybe above it. That danger to the narrative is the problem.

Well, specifically for people who don't know what we're talking about, what is, to make this a standalone show, the people that are not aware of your work, what is it about you and your ideas that they are so hesitant to platform or legitimize or why you're such a danger?

Okay. So in 2001, I said mortgage-backed securities were a great danger to the world. I have one of the first published papers on the danger of illiquid, of the pricing of illiquid securities. uh i went on chris williamson's show and he asked me who's going to win biden or trump i said you don't even know whether biden's going to make it to november i said that the people representatives of the democrat party reached out to me and said stop talking about biden's dementia you need your affirmation that you're seeing something real we've put in three people uh as a committee to replace the president and i i said like i'm supposed to feel good about that um so i keep Well, they told you they put in three people. They put in a committee of three people. And if you knew who those people were, you'd be pleased as punch. So shut up.

That's what they said. Yeah, correct. You would be really happy. So shut up.

Yeah.

They didn't even tell you who the people were.

I think that they did. And I've conveniently forgot them. One of them might have been the chief of staff.

Wow.

So it's like. But I said.

But I say this, right? And I'm not trying to – I mean I keep lots of secrets that people ask me to keep that I should keep, things having to do with national security, for example. But these people are incompetent and they're a danger to us. And right now the string theory narrative is a complete danger. It's not string theory that's the problem. It's the only game in town. And so, you know, there was a – look, people are willing to spend their entire credibility just to make me go away.

Could you briefly just describe like what is the – so there's not a problem with string theory or string theory not complete or string theory read it – has it reaped actual results?

Mathematically, it's reaped results. And string theorists have occasionally done really great work in a subject called quantum field theory. But quantum field theory isn't about the quantum field theory of the world. Quantum field theory is like calculus. It's something that's very useful. And it grew up in physics. But we've now found out that quantum field theory has to do with pure problems in mathematics that have nothing to do with physics. And what they haven't done is they haven't dealt with the physical world. So if you take physics, why do we care about physics so much more than really almost any other aspect of the sciences other than biology? I had to give a talk at the New York Deep Tech Week. Shout out to those guys. And I put it on the slide as three things. There's boom, vroom, and zoom. Easy to remember. Boom is weapons. Physics will create weapons. You'll dwarf everything else, with the possible exception of biologicals. Zoom, vroom, is energy. And the story of energy is basically the story of prosperity and control. If you look at wealth and the amount of fossil fuels burned, it's more or less like a one-to-one correlation as to which nations are rich and poor per capital. And zoom is everything else. It's propulsion. It's computation. It's communication. And those things, if you take them together, more or less define the economy and the world order. Physics is the center of what makes us modern humans. And it became too dangerous in the 1950s. Even the 40s, you know, atomic weapons are extremely bad, but they're not hydrogen bombs. Somehow in November of 52, everything changed. And we became too dangerous. The community of physicists is the most powerful group of people made into completely ineffectual humans.

And do you think this is by design?

Partially.

And what was the purpose of it? By saying that physicists became too dangerous, the ideas became too dangerous, is the idea that the weapons would become so immense and powerful that they had to do something to stop and curb that?

Well, we didn't know how to control it, right? So in other words, for example, in 1940, we set up something called the Reference Committee, which I'm sure your listeners have never heard of. And the reference committee lived inside of the National Resource Council. Now, why was it important? Because chain reaction physics was so hot. Once the neutron was found, right? So think about neutrons as bullets. They can go right into the middle of an atom because they're not positively charged, so they're not going to be repelled by the nucleus. And they can bust apart atoms that are barely being held together. And that's why you get bullets, be getting bullets, be getting bullets, and that's what a chain reaction is. The people who were doing that in the 30s suddenly found that when they mailed off a paper to a journal, if they weren't part of the secret group in Los Alamos, their paper got held up and sent back for revisions. And there was no money in it. We secretly set up this thing to shunt real research into the National Resource Council. I think this was organized by a guy named Bright, B-R-E-I-T. and that was the beginning of this whole peer review control mechanism and this control do

you think is this ego-based that the people who are the gatekeepers want to remain in the position

we all want to survive joe i mean this is a real problem so you and i can hate on the institutions all we want from the safety of the jre but what are you going to do when it becomes really really easy for people to commit like mass murder. If you think about all the

really bad mass, like the Vegas shooting that never really got sorted out. It's very hard to kill large numbers of people using things like bullets. If you want to really kill a large number of people, you're going to go to biologicals and you're going to go to nuclear. And what happens when that becomes easy? Like maybe it's a lot easier to build these weapons than the way we currently do it. Right now we're bottlenecked on things like centrifuges. And by the way, Who knows what the next innovation in physics is going to bring? So I always say this thing about if you're not tracking everybody at my level, what are you doing as an intelligence service?

Is this part of your concern about the missing scientists?

Yeah, of course.

Yeah. So the missing scientist narrative for people that aren't aware of it, I think they're up to 15 now. And a lot of people say that some of these connections are baseless and that some of them it's just – We're not really up to 15. No. Okay. So what do you think we're actually up to?

I don't know. Probably five or six.

But I saw someone online did a breakdown of it, and essentially they were saying that the odds of this being a coincidence are off the charts, that the people that are all involved in very specific types of technological research, different things that are top secret, that all of these people either wind up missing.

There's a lot of murder in math and physics, first of all. People don't really appreciate that. But, you know, the Unabomber was a famous Ph.D. mathematician.

He's a big story, though. There's a lot to that story. Yeah, sure.

There was a guy named Cantor who broke into David Rittenhouse Laboratories in the University of Pennsylvania where I was an undergraduate and shot up a seminar. um there was uh you know this situation in iowa where a relative of mine got a seat in the physics department um because somebody was killed by one of the graduate students i think it became a movie like dark matter so there's an incredible amount of murder uh the ball peen hammer uh killing of Was it Carl DeLue by Stralesky at Stanford? So first of all, there's just a lot of death because mathematicians and physicists are somewhat close to unhinged. And it's a really nasty – there's a lot of nasty culture and sometimes it becomes violent.

Why do you think they're close to unhinged?

You spend that much time in your head? I'm amazed that I'm as well-grounded as I am. No, seriously, you're just way out in the stratosphere. I completely forget who I am, where I am, that I'm even a human being. When you're using your body as an instrument, as you do in combat sports and training, you become a different thing. You know that archery thing where you have to twist your arm? A lot of people don't know that they can do that initially. Just a small thing like that.

What are you talking about, archery thing that you twist your arm?

If you have an old-style bow, you often get burned by the—

Oh, that you have to twist your arm like that so that you're not like this and get hit.

But you don't see what you're saying. See, but then you twisted your wrist. You keep your wrist straight.

I don't do that kind of archery. That's why I'm confused.

Well, okay. Sorry. You do real—

This kind. Yeah. You keep your hand like that.

Okay. That's a torque issue. But if you're a sniper, there are all sorts of things about breathing and how you adjust your eyes. You use your body as an instrument as a mathematician or a physicist. One of the reasons that I wish I were in better shape is that in order for me to keep my mind in a particular way, I have to not think constantly about suppressing food. So you're doing a very unnatural thing. and that unnatural thing uh not everybody can handle it right and they see what you're saying and we snap and also our minds are more perfect the messiness of the world and the perfection of our minds is at odds with each other and i love disappearing into math and physics because it's perfect but how does that lead to violence um you're upset because people are lying you know Like the Unabomber had really interesting points. He wasn't a dumb guy. He was really correctly, you know, he has an amazing story called Ship of Fools. I highly recommend anybody read it. Just the way Charles Manson's Look at Your Game, Girl is a great song. It's a great song.

Okay.

Yeah. We're not comfortable in part with coming back to the half measures and the special pleading that sort of characterizes normal life. So to get back to the missing scientist narrative, I don't think there are 15 missing scientists.

this data set that's bullshit but it seems like they're adding as many as they can yeah they're

trying to make connections that don't don't do that it's like it's like the junkification of the ufo narrative all of these narratives have a junk to them so that and i believe a lot of the junk is affixed to the narrative so that those who want to follow the institutional instruction to ignore the fact that this is happening can point to the crappiness right and so that's the out and the really difficult thing that you do and you do really well is you try to piece together okay what's bullshit what's real there's a lot of real in the ufo story and there's a lot of nonsense there's a lot of real in the covet story and a lot of nonsense the same thing is true for physics but physics is more dangerous and the fact that we're not tracking like i always wonder why they allow me to come on the jre and say stuff i know a lot of stuff that i don't know what it

unlocks well it's easy to dismiss anybody who comes on here sure but china is smarter and by

the way the llms i mean look there are a lot of threads here to get back to the physics um and i'm giving a talk tomorrow on at the at the u texas austin on supporting science math and physics and renewing our commitment to it. I don't want to give the impression that it isn't dangerous or that the gatekeeping is stupid. It's really important to do great gatekeeping around mathematics and physics. It's cryptography, it's weaponry, it's propulsion. It's a sudden change in the world economy. If you figured out how to do fusion, it would have immediate geopolitical results.

So these specific scientists that are missing, whatever the number is, five, six, that you think are legitimate, what specifically are they working on that's so dangerous?

Well, the fusion guy, obviously, is at MIT, is anybody who might, I don't know, fusion isn't my thing, plasma isn't my thing. But that is unquestionably dangerous if you imagine how much depends on oil.

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that's going to completely disrupt the fossil fuels industry. And they go, listen, we can kill this fucking guy. And it's still coming down the pipe, but we'll delay it by 10 years and make $15 trillion.

So this is the question about the far right tail, like the extreme right tail of human intelligence and ability. And if you think about certain areas where you have a dominant figure, Rodney Mullen in skateboarding, for example, What percentage of all tricks derive from Rodney Mullen? You couldn't have stopped skateboarding, but you could certainly have held it back by getting to Rodney Mullen, right? When it comes to, you know, guitar, the amount of impact that Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen had is just wildly disproportionate. You know, when I was doing my podcast, I was really excited to do Rodney Mullen and Eddie Van Halen together. I wanted to get them you know totally different sports but um those two guys are sort of the same they just created so much vocabulary you can't even imagine it and Eddie Van Halen doesn't get

the credit he deserves either oh tell me talk to me well it's just Van Halen became Van Hagar and it became a different kind of music and I think a lot of the original hardcore fans left but a lot I think it got more popular with sure Sammy Hagar but it was a different kind of music and not that it's bad but it's different and then I think a lot of people just went yeah but like if you go like to you know some of the like big van halen with david i think van halen with david lee roth in his prime was a literally a perfect band it was phenomenal that was they were the shit when i was in high school i mean it was everybody had van halen on their notebooks they made the vh i remember it they were awesome and they were so good and van halen and eddie specifically could shred so hard and some of those classic riffs I just don't think in the mainstream world he got the credit that he deserves I see it differently well people mention Clapton who of course is a great wizard always it's number one is Hendrix most people have Hendrix as number one because he was so revolutionary well nobody's gonna say Alan

holdsworth yeah i don't know who he is exactly yeah i mean my point is is that um david lee roth kept eddie van halen from becoming alan holdsworth and that's who's alan holdsworth oh it's interesting alan holdsworth like if you talk to your hot shit guitarist friends they will very often like everybody will just pause and say well yeah that's alan holdsworth really yeah and it's sort of like listening to a modem for normal human beings right um that's why it's just not popular and so eddie van halen was who did he play with i don't know alan holdsworth just by himself yeah okay can we just actually weirdly put alan holdsworth just like choose

something with it yeah yeah we'll listen to some of his music so we might have we'll edit it out of the episode because otherwise we get dinged okay well i don't need okay but we'll play it We'll play it, and then we'll just come right back to it. All right. Let's do that. Give me some, Jamie. Is there any specific song that you'd like?

No, at all.

It's all mind-melting. I'm just trying to see if he's got anything popular. We might have known, so I could tap into that, but I don't see nothing. Like, is there a song that you like that you could recommend?

I just listen to a certain amount of it, and then I don't listen to it again. I'm not at that level where I need Alan Holdsworth.

Okay. What does that mean? No, what does that mean? Thank you, Jamie.

I'd rather see some guy flying through the air with his pants on fire than listen to Alan Holger.

Panama! Okay, here we go. Live in Tokyo. 1984, live in Tokyo. Tokyo dream.

See if you can use the histogram to figure out where the nerds are going.

Histogram?

Yeah, it shows you where people spend their time on a video. Oh, really? I would go right into the middle of it or something.

I'm already checking. What's he doing? These concerts sell out? Nothing's going on right now. Put it in the middle, Jamie.

Thank you.

you've heard this before though yeah what is that a bass what is the other guitar I'm hearing because that is not matching up with what that bass player seems to be playing do you hear that extra guitar that's slower and off time I don't know

That's a bass I think It doesn't sound like it's playing My guitarist friends would just salivate And I'll look at them

They need help No offense but It sounds like jazz Right so it's like jazz guitar Like, there's no singing. I apologize, sir. Well, look. If I put on, if I.

No more Jerry. I've had it.

Oh, Jamie.

Jamie, you are going to have so much nerd hate. He gets that every day.

People will agree with me, too, I believe. Oh, 100%. More will agree with you.

I'm on your camp. That was my point. I think David Lee Roth had some comment about it. If it weren't for me, the brothers would be playing biker bars in the Far Valley or something, you know. And so David Lee Roth came up with what we would call the syntactic sugar, the thing that made Van Halen fun and listenable and danceable, like dance the night away. Yeah. I didn't like Van Halen. I loved that song. I never liked Van Halen. Oh, how dare you. Well, but I loved Eddie Van Halen.

You didn't like Van Halen?

i didn't you want to i'm not even embarrassed about that the one i'm embarrassed about i completely dismissed acdc in real time because i'm an idiot oh i've never been more wrong about something in my life how did you dismiss acdc good question they had a dumb thing going on with the school pants and the dirty deeds done dirt cheap and fucking song what great song well like musically Hot for Teacher is an amazing composition yeah unbelievable right but it's the key thing that they figured out is making things marketable right and that's David Lee Roth and I think it's David Lee Roth

he was so charismatic and did jumping splits yeah he was amazing

and he had a secret weakness for old timey music right Right? Like, Just a Gigolo, Ice Cream Man, all that kind of stuff. So he's like almost a throwback to 1930s, even earlier, vaudeville. He's an odd guy. Have you ever met him? I've wanted to so badly. I'm so jealous.

But I don't think you ever really get to him. It's always the show. Like, in podcasts, I really enjoy talking to him, but it's a little odd.

I've seen, I didn't love the way he was. My feeling, like, I would go the Jewish angle. I would connect to him based on shared cultural heritage. But what I think about Eddie is that Eddie wasn't just a guitarist. He was an electronics guy. He was a keyboard player. He was handsome as the day is long, bursting with charisma. And, like, you and I mostly don't know whether guys are good looking. I know Eddie Van Halen was good looking.

Tell me more.

He was the whole thing.

Yeah, for sure. Right. Rockstar.

Yeah, and so my feeling is that those two guys really, you know, it's one of those things where you have two guys in a band that, you know, both of them are one in a billion kind of people and they happen to meet. I'm happy to be wrong about Van Halen, but I didn't do it in real time. I came to it later. But I remember the first time I heard Van Halen 1, I had the same mystical thing. What is that? Nothing sounds like this. I've almost never had that in music. The first time I heard Smells Like Teamed Spirit, what is that? There are these moments where something discontinuous happens.

But you heard Ain't Talk About Love and That Never Got You?

No, Panama doesn't get me.

Ain't talking about love as a fucking jam. When was the last time you listened to it?

This year?

And nothing? It's not that.

Well, okay, so part of the thing is, is that do you play an instrument? Yeah, that is a problem. Yeah, I don't play anything. You know, the thing about Eddie Van Halen is that he accepted the geometry of the neck of the guitar.

are. And very often you see musicians say, I don't care what key it's in. I can figure out how to do anything. Eddie Van Halen didn't do that. He said, look, there's certain things that this thing makes possible. And I'm going to, I'm going to accept the limitations of the instrument and figure out how to push it in all sorts of ways. Another quote of his that I just love is this thing about, um, if it doesn't cry, weep, moan, I don't care. He wanted all of those noises and figuring out how to get those noises, figuring out how to make the guitar into more. This is a thing that obsesses people like Jeff Beck or Roy Buchanan or Eddie Van Halen, where they're just, they're in some other space where it's no longer an instrument the way you and I see it you know I've never wanted a whammy bar on my instrument until I saw Jeff Beck do crazy stuff that just isn't possible

I never told you I drove him around once

yeah yeah yeah we had that car on air and that you know you've never had Derek Trucks on the program have you Tedeschi Trucks? Yeah.

No.

That guy is not a human.

Oh, he's amazing.

Amazing.

And has a bunch of different people sing songs.

So, yeah, look, I care tremendously about the guitar. And the funny thing that I realized is that I stupidly mentioned guitars on JRE, and I got sent amazing guitars. And I had Jamie send a quad cortex. Um, I should have mentioned like Lamborghinis or like Jules or something. It doesn't work. I've mentioned all those things. Okay. Um, but I became friends with like the greatest guitarists of our time and they're all suffering because nobody cares. And, and I, I heard, and I haven't seen it, that you had Marcus King on and talked about the death of rock.

Well, I talked about the death of rock before and Marcus reached out and that's why I had him on. He's like, man, rock's not dead. We're doing it every fucking night. And I was like, all right, come on, man, let's talk.

And did you get to the blues, which he excels at?

Well, we mostly just were talking about just music in general and his life.

Boy, did he give you a nice guitar?

Yeah, it's beautiful, right? He's a cool motherfucker.

He's a cool guy.

And he's super talented, too.

Never met him.

Well, it's like these, this is what my conversation was about. Like, this is what prompted it, rather. Is it when I was a kid rock and roll music was the big popular music hundred percent? It was all Rolling Stones ACDC these bands were huge Zeppelin they were fucking huge. They were the biggest bands That's not the case anymore. That's right. And that's weird. And I what I said is I don't understand how a music genre that's so popular can stop being popular when it's still so good like when we have Protect Our Parks and you know we'll play Freebird we still go nuts for that guitar solo

what happened to Freebird I'm pretty sure if you looked at Google's data Freebird was in it went away for a long time and then it got resurrected as a meme right because you can feel all right this insanely long intro just so luxurious you can't believe anybody would put up with it right and then it's two different songs right lord knows i can't

and then all of a sudden it becomes alive right fly high free bird yeah and then

suddenly you're on fire yeah yeah you know it's just like you want to fly an american flag you want to shoot lasers whatever it is that feeling i think went away and i think that i think that freebird if i'd love to see the data it came back and in part it was probably trump and elon and this re we're in a masculinity crisis world over and the masculinity crisis originally killed freebird and it brought it back i think freebird was brought back by protect our

parks okay you think so i mean as google trend says it's never really gone away wait wait wait wait what what is there's a peak in 2010 there's a peak around december 9th to 2010 wait wait that's 20 a peak in 2010 that's weird something could have happened could look it up wonder what it was it probably was in a movie yeah it seems pretty steady

Well, the reason that I said that is that I would make this reference because you used to be able to refer to free. it was a meme right everybody knew it yeah people would yell and then there was a period of time where no young person had any clue what i was talking about and i i know oh that's interesting because they still knew stairway to heaven if you remember these like top 500 songs of all time yeah and then it would always come down to the last two and it would always be free bird and stairway to heaven those would invariantly right then suddenly nobody knew what free bird was and Now everybody knows again. So I will stay uncorrected, but there was a period of time where young people didn't know it.

Well, is this Google Trends? Is that what that is? Yeah. So it's just people looking it up?

I could even go like, that's probably when they put the video on YouTube for the first time, or it became available on Apple for the first time to download, and it wasn't only on Napster or something like that.

To go back to the blues aspect of it, it's blues-based rock that feels like that thing that you and I relate to. Mm-hmm.

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the blues but that's uh it's its own controversy because when black audiences stopped showing up to blue shows the performers got worse because the audience was a huge part of the experience i tell you about this argument i got into with john mayer about the blues no so i i ran into john mayer um sam vasetti bungalows and i've been in awe of that guy intellectually when he talks about music i get so much out of it it's just very perceptive very brilliant guy and so i was you know really excited to meet him and we get into this discussion and i said you're like a huge Stevie Ray Vaughan fan and I said I really don't get it I like him I think he's a great player but I don't understand the focus and he said oh I can explain that he says I came from the MTV generation and he was the blues packaged for us like a genius guy for sure but packaged for MTV He said, but you know, blues isn't really, um, blues isn't a, isn't a real musical form. It's an ingredient. I said, what are you talking about? He says, well, you would never go to a blues show. I said, I can't believe I'm saying this to John Mayer, but I don't think you know what you're talking about.

House of blues. It's literally.

Well, he meant something. So the thing is, is that I caught the end of black audiences, like old black people listening to the blues and paying for it. So there's who pays and who plays. And black people are still paying for blues, but a lot of them aren't, are still playing blues, but a lot of them aren't paying for it. So when I go, for example, to see Cadillac Zach's Maui Sugar Mill show every Monday night, I go occasionally in Tarzana. it's like 70 year old and up white people so you see like hot chicks in their 80s and crop tops dancing and that's what it is now it's like a really old crowd keeping this thing alive and i can't understand it because it feels great joe right and um and that's the thing it's just like Like, you know, Bonamassa, he does these cruises, keeping the blues alive. My feeling is like, F that. We've got to actually get people back into understanding what it is. So if you picture those huge bands in your youth, stop thinking about the band on stage rocking out and pan in your mind into the audience. And what do you see?

Young people.

Young people. What are they doing? Dancing, having fun. They're dancing. There's some chick in a crop top on some guy's shoulders rocking out. Free bird. When hot... chicks stop dancing to your music it starts dead or it's death throes damn and that's true with jazz it's true with traditional r&b and it's true with the blues it's true with rock and so the important thing i keep telling people is that you have to get people dancing once you start becoming intellectual like alan holdsworth nobody's dancing to alan holdsworth maybe you are that's not my shit

you have no idea what do you think

dude honestly you guys sound old as shit right now there's so much music and rock music in arenas right now what is rock in arenas right now there's a bunch of bands like Bad Omens Beartooth, Korn just posted a video in front of like Sao Paulo Brazil with 50,000 people going crazy yeah like Meshuggah it's out there yeah but it's not what you got you guys don't like it either you know yeah but it's not it is

it's not the big popular music that it was when i was a kid there's only five artists in the world

that are popular like all over the that's right now because it's now micro right right because

there's too many bands there's too much music it's also the the control of the institutions to tell us what we like has uh has slipped right and so in part you know like it was our version of payola that um you know when i was growing up in uh in la it was kmet and klos that determined or kroq those are the three stations that mattered and they told us here's here's the offering boys this is what's on tap right now you know are you into math core do you think that's

it it's the death of because wow now that you're saying that i'm thinking the death of radio and the death of rock and roll they sink because radio really stopped being a thing early 2000s early 2000s radio stopped being a thing well remember when LimeWire came through

and everybody could get all the songs that they wanted right that was an issue but it felt like

if anything I thought at the beginning when like Metallica was railing when Lars Lars Ulrich was railing against napster i'm like these are just your fans they're just your fans that are getting your music for free yeah you're gonna have to adapt but they still love you and you know don't you make most of your money touring or i don't know i don't know what the economics of it are

but they're gonna change this is a new thing micro markets you know just just in prog metal there are so many different flavors i understand but but what we're getting at is that the radio

sort of dictated what became popular in a lot of ways. And now things become popular in more of a sense of a viral way.

Sure. Well, one thing is that these clips, if your clip gets picked up by TikTok and Instagram reels, that's some tiny fraction of a song is the catnip that leads everyone to your door.

100%. I've downloaded many, many songs that way.

But I was hanging with Misha Mansour, who was making the Jamie claim, like, you've got old grandpa. And his point, yeah. The thing is, I have at least the courage to hang out with actually cool people. He said, you know, his point was, you're just not even watching it correctly. And I said, what do you mean, Misha? He said, video games. The music in video games matters much more than you imagine. And it's, like, totally right.

That makes sense.

And so, you know, what we are thinking about in get off my lawn mode is there was something lost and it hasn't been reborn anywhere. So that's the part that young Jamie is not getting correct. Something was just lost. Now, lots of new stuff sprouted up. But like EDM and DJing is really where a lot of that dancing hot chick energy went.

That makes sense.

Yeah. Right?

And that's where guys want to go, where the dancing hot chicks are.

They will follow anywhere. Right. Right? And, you know, that's the whole... I was in...

What's this, Jamie? This is EDC Vegas 2026. This is just the example of what you're saying.

Is this electronic?

Yeah. Yeah. This is, like, as big as it gets. If I look at the stage, look at all these lights.

I wonder if Molly didn't exist, how much of this would be out there? I mean... It's a good question, right?

LSD didn't exist. how much of that music wouldn't have gotten big, too.

Oh, a lot, yeah.

But yeah, this is where all the girls sing out.

Right. So I found myself in Vegas.

Except for Ella Langley now is sort of antithesis to that. What is? Ella Langley. What's that? She's the biggest country artist in almost ever now. First female with two top 100 songs ever.

How am I so out of the loop? What is her big song?

Oh, I know that song. That song's great. She's got another one now.

And has she been around for a long time?

Nope. Pretty new. She's like 24, 25. And she's killing it.

Murdering it. So part of what's going on is there's no way to monitor. Like even if you have really current young people, they're monitoring a subset of what's going on. Nobody's tracking the whole thing.

Right. And why country, though? Why is country exploding the way it's exploding?

Well, because we're all in a meaning crisis. If you think about the way in which country music, for example, can develop a story through tropes very, very quickly.

Yeah.

Right? And so in part, the idea is that story songs and a return, try that in a small town, is transgressive. Try that in a small town is a really powerful message. Right. You don't have to say a lot. And we all want the cowboy. We all want the girl at the county fair. We just don't know how to get back to her. right we don't want a wholesome existence you know i got a barbecue stain on my white t-shirt that's tim mcgraw right like you know she's killing that miniskirt you know heart don't forget something like that beautiful story very very quickly told that's old now but the point being, um, hip hop and its storytelling and the return to spoken word and poetry and the legacy of the talking blues had a, had a great run spread worldwide. You know, you talk about whites taking over. What do you mean whites? Like Tamils and, you know, indigenous Peruvians are, have taken over hip hop in their local sectors. So hip-hop was just this great platform that once every local culture figured out some version of that. And I talk about when I entered Bollywood, there was a song, Mama, look, your child is being ruined. And it has this, like, hey, Mom, hey, Dad, don't moan and groan. Why don't you learn to live with the times and please leave us alone?

which is every generation's message

yeah but it's like it's delivered in you know boogie woogie reggae rap rock and roll and bhangra you know and it's like trying to it was the first lame attempt at rap that I saw in a Bollywood film with Jackie Shroff and they've all made it theirs and so I was hanging out in India now with a DJ on his program Untriggered and it's changing the developing world um at a level that rock and roll changed us it was a you know the music of liberation john mayer's point of course is that the guitar the electric guitar retains the stylistic characteristics of cars in the 1950s and that thing was the twin experience of having a car and having a guitar was was personal expression and liberation for fifth for american males in the 50s so um yeah i but i think a lot about our guitarist friends because they're suffering the world's greatest guitarists are living today nobody cares they all follow each other the funny thing is if you start following these people on instagram as i do um i look to see which of my friends are following the great guitarists and it's other great guitarists it's none of my normal friends like how many of my normal friends know who tim henson is a great texas guitarist uh i do this man you know you yeah what kind of music paul i mean i can't

explain it he pretty much invented a genre that only he mastered and is can explain it's like

tex-mex melodic if i had a glass and i broke it if i took tex-mex and i broke it on the ground and I reassembled it from different things. It's completely angular and an idea will last. It's like a psychedelic thing where it'll last for five seconds and then it'll be on to the next thing and it's just angular and fragmented and sewn together and beautiful and inspiring.

Give me something, Jamie. Yeah, I have to play it for you because the drummer and bass player are also awesome, but it pretty much revolves around the guitar.

And you see, the thing is that they're so tight with each other that um you know a better example even than this would be this thing that they released called goat which was the thing that put them on the map um and that was great it was right

also tim is just like the loveliest human being as a young boy boy it's him before we got all the crazy neck tattoos oh that's just broken out i don't know it's not tim is it they posted it

this is this is a different different human let's hear the song okay

I think that's someone posting a riff. That was their account. I know, but maybe he just put it up there.

By the way, you hear the Mexican influence?

Yeah, definitely.

So, like, this is...

Very unique. Very unique sound.

This is who I hang with. I love these guys. This matters to me. And this is new, right? And just the way this... Like Antoine de Potrén that's taking over the world is basically you hear the Middle East. But these guys are basically into microtones. If you take 24 beats, you can divide it by sixes, you can divide it by fours. So the mathematics of rhythm, the stuff that only Vinnie Cagliuda was able to do before, people are sort of getting hip to, things that were happening on oud are now happening on microtonal guitars. And what it is, as I see it, It's like this violent birth of people bored by standard Western forms. And I'm for this. I'm not for all of the slop that, you know, like young people are always into the coolest stuff. No, they're not. There are lame times. There are cool times. There's really cool stuff happening now. But it's the fact, particularly this Quebec kind of thing that broke out with these guys in costume. Huh? You don't know this? Antoine de Poitrine, something like that?

Quebec costumes? Yeah.

You remember the residents who were this art group from San Francisco and nobody knew who they were. They would have giant eyeballs as heads, and they would play completely insane things like Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire, but in angular, bizarre ways.

I missed that, too.

Okay.

Did you miss it? I don't know where we're going.

So Antoine de Poitrine is this thing that took over, which doesn't sound like anything. It's like that new thing. So, you know, because... so look at that guitarist freds Now, the mathematics of this is that there's this freak fact, which is that if you take the octave, which is doubling a frequency, you take the 12th root of it, break it into 12 semitones, and then take 19 of them stacked. two to the 19 over 12 is equal to 2.996 something. It's almost three. And that means that you can force people into this quantized music where you come up with this number 12, which is magical for number theory reasons. And you can fool the ear into thinking that 19 of these 12 semitones is a complete tripling of frequency. And because of that, we've been in even-tempered music since the time of Bach and these guys are breaking us out together with Jacob Collier

they're saying why would you accept that as a prison and so how does stuff like this become

popular is it just viral yeah yeah because suddenly you see two guys in costumes don't look anything like anything you know making music there's a moment where it switches into six beats per unit into four beats per unit because it's on a 24 cycle and suddenly you just feel good

and also if any of these guys get cocky you could just swap them out put a mask on some new guy get him in there no but it's it's anti-egoic it's anti-egoic

right right so in part you know it's like buckethead buckethead didn't want to be like you have trouble being joe rogan i even have trouble being eric weinstein i'm a fraction of a joe rogan it's hard to be well known and these guys are erasing themselves and that idea of you know um it's very funny tim henson i think has a song called ego death with steve vi um ego death is really hot because people are racing

They're chasing themselves is what everybody isn't trying to do who's chasing clout.

And people like that.

Yeah, because it's a form or they don't just like that. They also don't mind if you're chasing clout and you say, I'm chasing some clout.

Right.

I'm trying to get that bag. So what they don't want is somebody saying like Bill Gates.

Right. I'm just looking out for humanity and global health. So what I'm doing, I'm engineering ticks so that they bite you and you get allergic to red meat. And I'm dropping them off from helicopters.

We're going to administer vaccines involuntarily through ticks.

Yeah. And mosquitoes.

Yeah. So all of this stuff really bothers people. It's the disingenuous.

Well, it's also he doesn't have any friends. And he can't get any pussy anymore because he keeps getting caught. He can get it. But if we were smart, we'd feed that guy pussy.

We did.

Keep him happy.

We did. We? I wasn't involved. Neither was I. Yeah, allegedly. What do you mean allegedly? Just kidding. I didn't go to that island.

You didn't. No. No, you were one of the people that saw through him right away.

No, but he offered me partnership, and I didn't take it. And I regretted that for a while.

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offered real wealth and with crazy stuff but the epstein thing i don't know that i've actually said that on a podcast um yeah he offered me partnership and the only condition was that i had to get rid of my existing partners like i had to stab my partners in the back in order to become his

partner oh yeah so he'd own you yeah yeah you know it's like show me that you're i don't want

I'll sidetrack this or I'll come back, but these two are 333-year-old aliens, time travelers. Yeah. So they cannot be easily replaced.

Yes, they can. That's horse shit.

Look, I'll make a prediction. If these guys haven't been unmasked, you're going to unmask these guys and you're going to find out that they've got Middle East.

Well, please don't unmask them. They already unmasked Banksy. Can't we have some fucking mysteries in this world, damn it? I think they're cool. I like that music. That was fun. That was fun. i like viral things too i like things that just spread just from weirdness you know someone sends it to me that's one of the things that i love about spotify if i'm listening to something weird it'll suggest something weird you know like that i've never heard of before bands i've never heard of before and all of a sudden i click on it the suggestion thing that's how i get new music now or i use um what's that fucking app shazam yeah shazam if i'm at a you know pool hall or something then something cool comes on. I'm like, ooh, what is that?

See, I do that, but then I can end up in these ruts. Like, for example, I really like songs that go between A minor and E major, and that is, so it just gives me more and more of them.

You're a nerd. You're a music nerd. But listen, that's your algorithm. There's nothing wrong with that.

Okay, you're a mixed martial arts nerd.

I am.

Yeah, I know. And also, there's a lot of things that are way more boring than that. Pool. I watch professional pool probably three or four hours a day.

Yeah?

Yeah. That's how I escape. I escape in the geometry and the movements, the patterns.

Dude, you should have seen the comedians in the physics department yesterday. Oh. It was hysterically funny. It must have been amazing. Duncan.

Duncan and Kurt together. First of all, together, they are the fucking dynamic duo. They are such a good duo because they're both sarcastic and they're both like heavily engaged in satire.

They were so well behaved as far as they could. Yeah. But then, I don't know whether I can tell these stories. Tell these stories.

Tell them. What happened? What did Kurt do? So part of the. Fuck, I love that guy. He's so awesome. I love that he's a real person. Whenever he comes into the mothership green room, I'm like, yes. Give me a dose.

When he got real, he gave me some wild anti-Israel stuff, I think. I couldn't tell whether it was pro or anti. So at the end, there was an experimentalist who was like, come to my parlor. I'll show you my etchings. No, no, no. Cryogenic giant vacuum tubes from hell or whatever. So we all went down there. And so we're in the basement of the physics department. And you can tell the difference between the theory floor and the part where they actually do things. And these guys were just, you know, were effectively at 77 degrees above absolute zero with conditions that only occur in deep space inside of this thing coated in like tinfoil. So these guys are just cracking jokes about growing weed and what happens if you put hydroponic weed in that chain? But the other thing is that comedians are really intellectual nerds. And a lot of them, not all of them. Those two guys are, for sure. Yeah, for sure.

Yeah.

And they really wanted to know, okay, what is it that you guys are doing down here, and how do I understand?

The good ones are very curious. The good ones.

Well, Duncan's amazing. Very curious. Although he drew a completely pornographic. I know.

He was making notes, yeah. Let me send it to Jamie, because Kurt sent it to me. This is the notes Duncan was taking during the physics season.

Because I'm like doing battle a little bit with the, there's one extremely smart string theorist in the audience. named Jacques Dissler. And so almost all the interactions between Jacques and myself were, we were both being very collegial, but it was, you know, it was pretty hot.

I said it to you, Jamie.

And so he says, while you were doing that, I did a little sketch of you. I can figure out your exact anatomy. It's a gift.

Well, you need something like that.

That's the last talk he's ever coming to. No, I'm kidding. every one of them no actually I was really trying to hook

so he's taking notes

oh no please give me some volume Joe thank you Joe hey guys I got some other things to do this afternoon it's been great

okay bye oh my god so oh jesus but yeah i wanted

you know cp snow did this uh famous essay called the two cultures and it was about how um literary intellectuals and scientific intellectuals used to be one group and then And they moved apart. And so now we can't hear each other across the chasm. I really wanted to create a pipeline of not the seven scientists we see on all of the podcasts. But like choose who you want to talk to. Who's doing cool shit. The comedians belong in our science departments. Otherwise, how are people going to know what's going on? There's funny shit happening. And by the way, the UFO thing that's now blowing up, there's going to be some crazy science collision with the UFO narrative. There's no way of stopping it at this point.

So you've turned a corner on this. Let's talk about that because I saw you on Jesse Michael's show and you were talking about how just a few years ago you thought that the entire narrative was complete nonsense.

Probably five, six years ago by now.

And what changed?

Um, there was no way to explain. So Jesse was going on and on about it. I said, Jesse, you're a smart guy. And you know, I often would call him the back alley. scholar so he knew a lot of stuff um that was sort of forbidden knowledge and he wouldn't be quiet about it so i said okay i'm going to disabuse you of the idea that you're actually into something and i realized very quickly at a minimum there is a massive denied program like usually called a special access program one or more there's no way to synchronize that number of people who've had experiences that are so similar and there's a lot of stuff that I couldn't make sense of and what attracted me in a certain sense um was I couldn't come up with any explanations so rare I usually have exactly the opposite problem which is I come up with too many explanations I can't come up with a single explanation that makes sense of what I now know and also the fact that the government outreach to me and to Sam Harris And to Lex Friedman. And, you know, there was this thing where these guys who checked out said there's going to be a massive disclosure and we need people to disseminate these things to the public. And you have a share of the of the public who listens to you. And we need to get you informed so that you can help mediate the disclosure. So what prompted this change in narrative? What's going on behind the. Yeah. The government. Yeah. We don't know. We don't know – look, we don't know what the thing or things is are yet. Some of it is, again, so low quality that it's embarrassing to be seen with it. So my colleagues who don't want to take this seriously use that like, okay, so you're now on the little green men train. And I said, no, I'm on the special access program train. There is for sure a special access program or programs that have UFO on the side of them that may or may not have aliens or craft or non-human intelligence in them. It may be that it's decoys. It may be – I don't know what it is. There's no way to deny that there's like a giant lump under the carpet.

And what prompted you to change your opinion and decide that there is some sort of a special access program?

when i started coming in contact with totally sober people from reasonable walks of life who would say the craziest things to me and a lot of them checked and they didn't yet know each other like what kind of crazy things um let me take somebody who's public brandon fugal for example uh was at a dinner where he started talking about being visited by a craft a few feet over his head that came over the mesa and his head of security was catatonic standing in the back of a pickup truck unable to move and it was just way too specific and a shared experience that multiple people had had right and so you know the joke of course is that uh the secrets of skinwalker rants or whatever this is, there's real stuff going on there and there's nonsense BS that the History Channel has packaged to come up with a salacious series and one is funding the other. So I don't know what that is, but some of these injuries are real. Injuries. Yeah, like Gary Nolan talking about people reporting. Gary Nolan told me a story that somebody had said that a ball of energy would come and enter the body and move around and then leave. And he said, you know, the craziest thing is that when I inspected the tissue, there was a path of necrosis that can't be explained, like something that shows up on imaging. And Gary's a really smart, serious guy. I can check a lot of the things that he says scientifically. Why would he say something like that? I mean, I didn't see it myself, but...

Well, he's also done some very strange work on material science.

Right.

Where he's analyzed particles or little pieces of metal and alloys that have come from wreckages from the 1970s and 60s.

Yeah, that I don't know the providence. Like, he'll carry around a little thing and he'll show it to me. You know, say, you know, there's no combination of materials and alloys that this matches that we know how to produce. And I say, OK, it doesn't mean anything to me. Again, it's just it's all I have no at this point. I have no primary contact with anything anomalous. I just have all sorts of secondary stuff. And by the way, the thing that you saw with the Jesse Michaels and American Alkyl.

welcoming um boy did that get a response inside the government that particular episode how so i had a lot of people who had stopped talking to me about ufos who suddenly you know i had like eight calls immediately after it aired hey eric just thought i'd catch up with you i was like oh okay there was a huge discussion inside um and the first uh without getting into particulars the first official outreach, like really official outreach, the checks in the wake of that episode. And I'm not under any NDAs. Nobody's told me anything that I can't discuss, but that may change. One thing that's very clear to me is that when I hear something from many sources, I don't need to protect it anymore. It's already out. Okay. I have now heard the white sand story

from many sources this is the one where the crafts hovered over the base shut down the

nuclear program is that it i'm just going to say what i can say that's fuzzed out that can't be traced to anybody okay um i was very upset with this shutdown of the el paso airspace that was recently yeah it was supposed to be supposed to be we had a problem with cartel drones. I don't believe that. I think Texas is another name for New Mexico. I think El Paso is a name for white sands. Can we get a map of the United States that can focus on white sands in El Paso? I think we have a problem that we've lost control of our airspace.

You think this was part of what happened in New Jersey as well?

i can't say as much because what i know no what happened around new jersey i don't have from as many sources that i feel comfortable saying that this is fuzzed out i can fuzz out the el paso story nobody has told me that el paso was shut down because of the problem at white sands okay People have said things about New Jersey that is.

All right.

All right.

So there's El Paso.

El Paso here, White Sands, right above it.

How far away is that?

My guess is about an hour.

By driving? Yeah, let's see. It's probably 60, 70, 80 miles at most. Okay.

So I don't know what's going on, but my guess is. so on pierce morgan i said this thing um which is that new mexico is the connector of the nuclear story the epstein story and the ufo story they're all going to come together remember when we're only talking about the island And somehow, I think I was the first person to seize on this. There's this thing that isn't an interview, which is Steve Bannon trying to train Jeffrey Epstein how to respond to rehabilitate it. And if you can find this, this is- I've seen it. Okay.

It's very weird.

So he says, you want to know about why I got Zorro Ranch in New Mexico? Can we play this clip? Can you find? I think Jesse repackaged it after I pointed it out. But this is the story. Like somehow we're so hung up about sex. We're either angry about trafficking or we're getting off on the idea that all these rich people are going to get their comeuppance. We keep turning the Epstein story into something other than a scientific espionage story, which is one of its facets.

It's one component.

It's one component. Right. Yeah. But it doesn't excite us that this is a guy spying. Control of science, Joe, is not something that is officially a big issue, and it is a massive issue.

It's not publicly a big issue.

That's correct, yeah.

And he clearly had a big interest in science.

So why did I buy a ranch in New Mexico in 1993? So that gives you some sense. So I would have funded it in 1990. uh los alamos which was the high energy lab up in new mexico was losing all its scientists

in los alamos it was where oppenheimer and where the where the a lot of the the nuclear weapons program the bomb that's where manhattan project manhattan project was yes that's los alamos and you bought your property out in new mexico to be near that yes

because the scientists were going to be they cut the funding for high energy physics but the people who worked in los alamos would still be in the santa fe area they cut that because the end of the this was the cold war dividend right i don't remember exactly why it was because again people thought there was that physics and high energy physics really wasn't that important because that was about nuclear weapons no it was because they were trying they decided it was maybe not right this was the same time that murray gelman came up with the term quark q-u-a-r-k he he picked it out of a old poem the word quark but it was something it was mysterious so they were starting to understand in the 90s that they're in the our world of the physic world there was things that were just unexplainable they called it strange things you gave it a name you gave it some characteristics you called it had charm it was one of the terms it had a charm it had a flavor it had a color but nobody really no one mr bannon understood what it was just like the financial system and you wanted to investigate that i wanted to see if we could build tools so others smarter

than me could help investigate it and that was the beginning of your concept of the santa fe institute yes and santa fe institute was founded to do study in this type of can you can these

areas of strange things be described by some form of mathematics okay now what you're seeing there

is fascinating like just take by the way very well isolated exactly the bit that i wanted

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In that interview or that training, he claims to have founded the Santa Fe Institute. Santa Fe Institute was founded, I think, in 1984, not 1990 or 1993. Bannon clearly knows more about why these scientists were being defunded than does the person who buys this property. Now, that property is not only close to Los Alamos. It's also close to Sandia National Laboratory. What you – like people said to me, Eric, you said he was an idiot. He's clearly very knowledgeable. You can see there that you were wrong. I was like, that is an actor. That is not anyone smart with proximity to Murray Gell-Mann and others. Like, he knew Murray Gell-Mann well. Murray Gell-Mann didn't name quarks in 1990. That goes back to, like, the 60s when George Zweig called them aces and Gell-Mann called them quarks for three quarks for Muster Mark that came out of James Joyce. So he's just repeating stuff that he doesn't understand. And why did he buy the house, Zorro Ranch? To be close to the scientists whose funding was cut. The people who make weapons and who do high energy physics, who had the rug pulled out from under them by the United States when they won the Cold War by putting this pressure on the Soviet Union. Like, there's no thing more important than theoretical physicists, you idiots. and you don't fund these people and you don't watch them like the Department of Energy is supposed to have counterintelligence

to stop creeps from hanging around the National Labs, which is America's secret university system. Hello. And that's what he was doing. He was buying a property to be close to the National Labs in New Mexico that make the weapons and that are in charge of trying to figure out the future. So if you think about the National Labs as this parallel thing to the universities, system. But it's the secret part where you have to be American and you have to have a security clearance and all this kind of stuff. Epstein set up a listening post. Now, what's the UFO story? The UFO story is all about nukes. And what was Epstein doing in Cambridge, Massachusetts? The analog of Zorro Ranch is named One Brattle Square. It's right in the heart of Harvard Square. You know, I know it like the back of my hand. It's a seven-minute walk to the Science Center. The Harvard Science Center on floors three, four, and five is where the math department is. And who was Epstein's initial contact in the math department? It wasn't Martin Nowak who he funded. It was a different guy named Benedict Gross. Dick Gross was an expert in number theory and in elliptic curves. and elliptic curves are what power the cryptography behind bitcoin behind public keys you're talking about a guy who was setting up listening posts next to extremely sensitive stuff that we've stupidly left unprotected in the open university system or defunded in our

national labs when you say listening posts like what do you mean he's gonna hold no no no no You just remained in contact with these people?

Joe, you've got real money. Guys with real money use dinner. Dinner is an incredible thing. I watched Peter Thiel use dinner. Fly people in for dinners. You put people up in a nice hotel for three nights. Serve them amazing food from a private chef. You get a black car to collect them, and they'll tell you anything. I don't mean that Peter was doing this in an evil way. But I watched dinner after dinner after dinner as people disgorged all they knew because they were so happy they're getting a $200 bottle of wine and being treated like humans, you know, like respected. So in part, you have to understand that dinner in and of itself or a mansion or first class ticket is all it takes to get people to start talking.

uh jeffrey epstein was cia the communications network at zorro ranch prove it the doj's own file showed epstein built a military grade encrypted link to satellite orbit at zorro ranch the contractor who built it now holds a pentagon missile defense contract

so remember jeffrey epstein is a construct you know there's this whole question about like why I won't Jews talk about Jeffrey Epstein and the sex shit. It's like as if I haven't been on this since 2004.

Yeah, no one can accuse you of not talking about it. If they can, they're just being ignorant.

No, they're being a bitch because it used to be super dangerous. This was like one of the really costly things is to say.

So what do you think that was though? This satellite encrypted?

All right, let's go there. But I'm a little bit nervous. why was Jeffrey Epstein able to get all of these people much richer than him into his orbit? That's the question you should be asking. So here's my theory. Just be careful. Okay. What happens when you become a billionaire? I don't know. Not there. Nowhere close. What happens is that you find out that it's not what you thought it was. First of all, you now have staff everywhere. You can't move around easily because you need a security detail. When I first met Peter Thiel, I said, Wow, your security detail on this beach is amazing. I can't even tell where they are. He says, Am I supposed to have a security detail? Peter, you've got to be kidding. Now he's got one. So the first thing is that you find you lose your privacy. You lose your freedom of movement. You've got a retinue of people who have to be constantly maintained. They're under your roof. You know, this isn't what I signed up for. I wanted to be rich. Well, you are rich. You can buy things. Well, you can't buy privacy. You can't buy freedom. You can't buy anything.

anonymity, all these things that you want. And you can't buy the ability to do fun, naughty stuff. I'm not talking about little kids. I'm saying like, if you're going to take drugs, you're at risk of having everybody want to tell the story. If you want to have a menage, you're at the same risk. So the question becomes, what do I do to get what I thought I was going to do, which is the right to have freedom over my own life and to misbehave in fun ways, whatever. Nobody can figure out how to do it. Jeffrey Epstein could do it. Now, why is it that he could do it? Who's spoken to the contractors who built his island? It's the most obvious thing to do. If I was an investigative journalist, that's what I'd do. I'd talk to the plumbers, the maids, all of the people who are just working for a living. Those are the people who constantly leak information about their employers. Well, who's the only person who has the ability to build something? The CIA has its own construction company. Sovereigns, countries, nations have the ability to do stuff where they know how to keep things under wraps. If you think about S4, I guarantee you there's a men's room at S4. Well, who cleans it? That's a really important question because that's the weak link. And so rich people haven't figured out how to be rich. That's what everybody was attracted to in that upper income bracket. That he would provide them with experience. He would provide them with things that they couldn't figure out how anybody could provide because they were dealing with a state. I assure you that the Sultan of Brunei knows how to do stuff because he's both an individual and a state. most of us are either in this sort of black ops world or we're dreaming about being very rich or just normal human beings. The very rich are very disappointed. Epstein felt rich, as I said before, in a movie sense. He had freedom. He could say and do things that other people couldn't. Elon is constantly tripping over the fact that I think he's a wild guy. I'm up for wild guys. I want cowboy billionaires, cowboy physicists, cowboy everything. But in general, we don't want cowboys. And again, this has nothing to do with little kids.

That's a different thing. Right. But if you want to go take drugs, take drugs. If you want to have a menage, have a menage. Fine. I don't want to hear about it. Don't spill the tea. I can't stand this culture. Epstein knew how to keep quiet stuff quiet. And why is that his product, as I've said before, was silence. If you want a really dangerous question, ask the question, what did the people who were in his direct orbit have an unusually high number of disappearances around them did they i don't know but it's a dangerous question i've never investigated it but that's have you ever seen yeah everybody talks about eyes wide shut now you notice that nobody talks about crimes and misdemeanors where woody allen was directly in his orbit god i don't even know i've seen that movie there is a scene where martin landau and jerry orbach's characters are a pair of brothers i think that they only meet on screen once and martin landau is having an affair and the woman has decided that she has rights and martin landau is a very wealthy ophthalmologist or something like that and he has a brother who's a starker starker being the yiddish word for a tough guy and it's one of the most can we find jerry orbach martin landau crimes and misdemeanors is the most blood-curdling so well done which the scene description though you didn't really get to it well they're only in one if they're only in one scene together they'll be at a i haven't seen it in ages but it my memory is that they're at a house walking around a pool and then they walk inside to the pool house and there's a resentment that the brother who's in the life is only called to the house occasionally, right? And it's this way in which the genteel and the people who can get things done that you're not allowed to do within the law are connected. And so Woody Allen is clearly writing this from personal experience. He has some interaction between being in high society and knowing starkers. and i actually knew um his old woody allen's old producer is the father of a friend of mine so a guy named jack grossberg and jack grossberg was a epitome of a tough jew in hollywood who would deal with the teamsters or when there was a labor dispute and you know he wasn't in the life but he was a guy who could stare down a mafioso um i think that in part woody allen is writing about what Jeffrey Epstein was providing, which was a measure of silence. Is this it? No, no, no. Oh, okay. Well, then I don't know.

No, we're looking for Martin Landau and Jerry Orbach in Crimes and Misdemeanors.

Yeah, I don't know. It's going to be hard to find because it's... Oh, that one. Anybody right there? Yep. Okay.

i think that this is the scene that nobody's talking about i don't know but she's killing me

want me to have somebody talk to her like what straighten her out what do you threaten her that's all i need how else do you expect to keep her quiet

can you turn that up as long as i can get it unfortunately okay

well Christ Jack what do you suggest what did you call me for I don't know I hoped you'd have more experience with something like this

you called me because you needed some dirty work done that's all you ever call for look how bitter you are you've staked me plenty of times I don't forget my obligations Threatening will only make it worse, Jack. Okay, forget about it. What do you want me to say?

How the hell can I forget about it? I'm fighting for my life. This woman's going to destroy everything I've built.

That's what I'm saying, Judah. If the woman won't listen to reason, then you go on to the next step. What? Threats? Violence? What are we talking about here? She can be gotten rid of. I mean, I know a lot of people. Money will buy whatever's necessary. I'm not even going to comment on that. That's mind-boggling. Well, what did you want me to do when you called me? Not to do dirty work, despite what you think.

Anyway, it's gone beyond just Miriam now. She's talking financial doings. I'm out of ideas.

I don't know what I expected from you, Jack, but... You know, you're not aware of what goes on in this world. I mean, you sit up here with your four acres... Don't give me any of that stuff. I don't want to hear about my success. your rich friends and out there in the real world it's all different story i've met a lot of characters from when i have a restaurant i've heard these stories before seventh avenue from atlantic city and i'm not so high-class that i can avoid looking at reality i can't afford to be aloof you come to me with a hell of a problem and uh... then you get high-handed on

jack i don't need to be high-handed i haven't been sleeping nights at their level okay okay Okay, forget I said anything. Let me just get something straight here. Am I understanding you right? I mean... Are you suggesting getting rid of her?

You won't be involved, but I'll need some cash.

What will they do?

What'll they do? They'll handle it.

I can't believe I'm talking about a human being, Jack. She's not an insect. You don't just step on her.

I know. Playing hardball was never your game. You never like to get your hands dirty. But apparently this woman is for real, and this thing isn't just going to go away.

I can't do it.

I can't think that way.

So while everybody's watching Kubrick, this is a guy in Epstein's direct orbit. This is what Epstein was. He was a shtarker.

He was a science spy. He was a starker. He had buttons. And we're just all pretending like we have no memory of this, no idea about how we're all connected, how the highest in society are connected to the people who get things done. And blackmail. Blackmail is a lot – like we're over-indexed on – in my opinion. Again, who am I? I'm just a guest. But this is this assumption. Well, I was very early saying he was a construct when nobody would listen. Here's the next piece of it. I think he had buttons. He had button men at his control. He made problems disappear. Things went away. That's how you make sure that you have the experience of being a king rather than a billionaire. The billionaires had more money than him. but they didn't have the ability to make their problems go away. And by the way, they're not suggesting that all the people in his orbit were availing themselves of this as a service. But if I was a competent investigator, I would be talking to Woody Allen and saying, what did you mean by that scene?

Look, because you think that scene is directly connected to Woody Allen's relationship with Jeffrey.

No, I think that that scene is directly connected to the connection between Hollywood and Teamsters and unions and organized crime. There are people who know how to make things happen that aren't within the law. What is the mafia? We go, we watch all these mafia pictures, right? The mafia is about contract enforcement when you can't use the courts. That doesn't sound like what the mafia is, but that's what it is. It's a business. what happens when you're in an illegal business and you can't enforce a contract right you have to use muscle so we use genteel like he says you want me to talk to her we can handle it this is the genteel language of roughing somebody up killing somebody and making problems go away. So the mafia is about business. It's not about violence.

Okay, so his connection to scientists, though, was the purpose of that?

We don't know, but I keep saying... What's your assumption? My assumption is that he was a clearinghouse, that somebody set him up at fair expense. I'm going to say nine-figure expense. So I think this was a nine-figure fortune, hundreds of millions. And what it had was it had the trappings of multi-billionaire. It had trillionaire written all over it for a nine-figure fortune. So it's orders of magnitude off of what it was. And I believe that that was only possible because there was a collection of sovereigns behind him. I don't think it was one nation. I think it was a bunch of countries. And the most obvious country is not Israel. It's the U.S. because he was operating on U.S. soil. Do I think Israel was involved? Certainly. Do I think that the U.K. was involved? I do. Saudi Arabia, I do. I think that this was a massive piece of structure confused with a sex scandal and a blackmail operation. We're all sort of taking the bait.

So the sex scandal and all the sex stuff was sort of to keep people happy and give people a place to go to where they could have these experiences. If you're dealing with physicists or some high-end scientist guy, they don't have access to this. They've probably never been with a beautiful woman in their life. all of a sudden they're hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein. I'm not talking about you, bitch.

No, I'm not talking about me either. I'm sure you're fine. Ain't talking about love.

But let's be realistic. Most of these guys aren't, they're not hot, right? And then all of a sudden they're around tens who are giving them back massages and drugs are being used and there's this feeling of anonymity, of safety. You can get away with this. Everybody else is doing it. It's been going on for decades. It's fine. This is the place you go. And it's fun and they look forward to it. And they probably also do have intellectual discussions because you are surrounded by who wouldn't want in. Right. Right. And so that's how he ropes you in. That's right. So what is his why scientists and what would be the benefit of having access to these scientists and having this place in Zorro Ranch and being able to talk to these people?

Think about it from the perspective of who is doing the constructing rather than the construct.

did so he's the construct okay he's an incompetent he just lied to Steve Bannon miss you see him touch his face classic tell of lying touching your face is a classic telephone if you looked at what he just did the way he did okay 100% so

he's lying about the information or he's lying about his he's a liar yes he's

lying about his depth of knowledge okay so how did I know he was a construct in in part, one of the things, like they're dumb tells that we give away. One of his was he was supposed to be a currency trader. And when we say we're trading currency, we're not trading currency. We're trading what are called spot contracts that are to be settled with an exchange of currency in two days' time, right? So in other words, if I do a euro trade, it's really a dollar euro trade, and you and I are going to trade dollars for euros, and we agree to do it in two days' time. And then if you want to keep the position on, you exchange that contract for a contract that will follow to erase that contract and form a new contract which pushes it out two days. You call that rolling things over. He didn't know that Dollar Canada was on a one-day contract rather than a two-day contract where everything else. So in other words, there was an anomaly. And anybody in currency trading would have known that. Or I forget whether he didn't know that trading pounds for dollars is called cable in the business. So there were just dumb tells that he didn't know about foreign exchange yeah so you know he's claiming to be an fx hedge fund manager to me and there were there were stupid tells like that right and then he like he knows way too much about my exactly particular specialty in mathematics like the number of people could come from would be five or fewer um so technically what i did my thesis on is something called self-dual yang mills theory which is about every force other than gravity is a yang mills force except my thesis was really about gravity and i didn't disclose it and only people very very close to me knew that that's it was about he was obsessed with gravity and he shows up i think in the harvard math department in 2002 with Dick Gross. And clearly he was talking to people in the Cambridge mathematical physics world who would have been, you know, there's something called the Chern-Simons theory, which is mistakenly associated closely with Yang-Mills theory, but is really all about gravity. And that, my work really shows that there is a parent theory that has Chern-Simon's theory and gravity as its two consequences. He knows about that without knowing anything about the structure and the subject matter. He knows about the history of my stuff and something called cyber-Gwitten theory. He doesn't know anything concrete. How does he know all this stuff? He was in my world. And he was very focused, you know, on... I met him through Jess Staley, who was at J.P. Morgan.

Now, Jess Staley is deeply implicated in this. I didn't know that at the time. And Jeff Epstein has been mirroring my entire life, everything that I do. And I became well-known when I was writing these essays for edge.org, and he was in with John Brockman at the Brockman Literary Agency. When I got married, the rabbi came from Harvard Hillel, which was a building now called Rossofsky Hall, which he put together with Les Wexner's money. He was funding probably the conference at the Perimeter Institute that we did on the financial crisis. At every turn in my life, since I was a young man, Jeffrey Epstein was there in the background, even though I only meet him once.

Why do you think that is?

Because we're interested in the exact same thing. And why is that? the most powerful stuff in the universe why is he interested in that if he doesn't know the so what do i care about i care about finance and financial markets i care about the cpi i care about the fate of israel i care about uh evolutionary theory i care about mathematics that goes like geometry like the geometry of elliptic curves but really more differential geometry. He cared about physics. Every time that I care, and I care about the world's smartest people at a functional level, not the people with the highest IQ, but the people who are irreverent enough to actually move the needle. So he and I, we're interested in where's the action Where's the high-end intellectual action in the world that actually moves things? And, you know, quite frankly, he was meeting in my offices in San Francisco while I wasn't aware of it in 2017. I didn't know that.

Meeting in your offices? Yeah. Meaning he went to your office and met with who?

With Peter. That's in the records.

About you?

No, I don't know. Hopefully not. I know that I'm in an email that he sends Peter late in the story, but I'm not going to discuss specifics. But, no, I was telling Peter not to deal with him, and Peter thought I was overblowing the danger. He scared me because I know what element he came from. That was not a refined person. That was a scary, scary person. that was a person who came you know like the Hesh character on The Sopranos or Mo Green in The Godfather that's that element

and you recognize that immediately

that was my point in bringing up crimes and misdemeanors it's not like I don't know people

I understand all this but what do you think his purpose was like so getting connected to all these scientists being around all this knowledge the new mexico i still don't understand like what was the end game can i get another drink

absolutely thank you sir can i share this article with you please do okay this was the one i just

pulled up a second if we could get another ice cube too that would be great about this um

jeff can get us an ice cube please i would just down here this kind of this is a long article i I believe most of this comes from the Epstein files that came out on the DOJ's website. The woman who wrote this, she's a former Boston Globe and New York Times reporter, also LA Times. The summary here is what I was kind of getting at because it's two or three paragraphs, but it explains a lot of what you're asking here.

Standard framing of Jeffrey Epstein as a Mossad asset is well-supported. Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine's father, sold Israel backdoored Promise software to Sandia National Laboratories in 1985. His eldest daughter, Christine Maxwell, built the FBI's post-9-11 counterterrorism data warehouse through her company, Chilliad. Isabel Maxwell, Christine's twin sister, co-founded ComTouch with Israel Unit 8,200 alumni. Ghislaine ran the human intelligence operation, the Israel Intelligence Network, around both Maxwell and Epstein is documented and substantial. But the intelligence infrastructure supporting Epstein and Maxwell at Zorro Ranch points somewhere else, or to somewhere additional. It points to the United States military intelligence, plain and simple. The contractor who built his encrypted link to orbit is American, headquartered in Georgia, and now holds a missile defense agency contract. The satellite uplink was authorized by an American FCC license. The project was managed out of New York office. The man who recruited Epstein as a child served in the American OSS, and his own son was in charge of the Federal Justice Department when Epstein died or didn't in its custody.

Bill Barr and his father is who that's referring to.

The man whose ranch provided the ideal relay point was OSS, built American missile guidance systems and military drones, And just up the road, another former OSS guy, Carl Ingwer, sold his New Mexico ranch to the strangest duo of all time, Donald Rumsfeld and Dan Rather.

Hmm. So this is what I've been trying to say all along. The only country that I'm absolutely positive was behind Jeffrey Epstein is us. You can't operate here. look right now we are in the middle of endless anti-semitic Christmas just goes on forever and you can you look at Jeffrey Epstein I have no question he was directly connected to Israel you know um but first and foremost I believe that he and I hate when we use the word asset you should use a vaguer word because those technical things like who's an agent who's an operator uh agent is a word used differently by the fbi and cia every time we try to sound like we're cool like we know what the intelligence community actually is we make mistakes because we say something that it becomes deniable you know so like there's a concept of knock non-official cover you know If you say somebody, you know, is a knock and you guess the wrong distinction, they can say, no, he wasn't. Was he an asset? I'm sure that has a technical meaning. You don't mean it technically. You mean, was he in any way affiliated with the intelligence community? And it's not just the intelligence community. One of the ways that the intelligence community functions is as a cover for the special operations community. Right. Covert operations is something the CIA does through ground branch that is not intelligence. So we call it intelligence and we give them a free pass all the time. No, those are the guys who do the wet work. That's a paramilitary organization. Right. So my claim is that Epstein is a major piece of structure and having nothing to do with the actor that they hired.

Okay, so you think Epstein is essentially just a construct figurehead of an intelligence-gathering organization? No?

Epstein is a construct, first of all. Second of all, there is an intelligence part of the intelligence community, and there is a covert operations part of the intelligence community.

Okay.

Covert operations is not intelligence. I know it's under that roof.

Right.

That is totally wrong.

Got it.

Right.

Okay.

So if you want bad things to happen to somebody, you don't call intelligence because that's just human intelligence or signals intelligence or whatever. You're not going to call a cryptographer to make a problem go away. Right.

What does this have to do with the science community?

One, we have huge amounts of power. The United States is terribly configured because we pretend that we're okay doing everything through our university system, which shouldn't be done in an open setting. Like you have to be honest about the fact that we're badly configured.

What do you mean by that?

We didn't know how deadly physics was. When Rutherford in 1911 said that there's a neutron, nobody – I'm sure nobody said to him, oh my god, you've ended the planet. Now new humanity is doomed. So it used to be the case that physics was something that was like interesting and fun. But now it's like the most deadly thing you can imagine as well as being interesting. And a quick timeline too if you stop and think about that. 41 years.

Yeah. So literally. Yeah.

41 years. So my claim is that we are walking around right now with all of these extremely deadly ninja priests in our physics departments, in our math departments, who don't even know that they're deadly ninja priests. They've never worked on something classified. They've never solved problems for our government. But in part, we fund our scientists as part of a complex cryptic arrangement worked out by Vannevar Bush that is now remembered by essentially no one. So the idea is you people, Teller, Ulam, Feynman, Oppenheimer, von Neumann, you are dev group. You're SEAL Team 6 of the human mind. You're Delta. And most of the time, you're going to teach classes. You know, it's like Indiana Jones, you know, an archaeologist with a bow tie, and then he's running around with a whip and, you know, killing people.

Right.

Okay. That's what physicists and mathematicians are. That's why we're funded. That's why the Department of Energy funds physics. It's not the Department of Energy. It's the Department of Nuclear Weapons. It's the Department of Physics.

So they let the physics people work out all these problems, and then they take whatever their findings are and apply them to weapons.

Boom, vroom, and zoom.

All right.

And that changed the economy. It changes the ability to compute. This is who I really am. This is what I really do. And I will not mouth this narrative that all of my colleagues will mouth. Physics is interesting. Yeah. A lot of the time it's dull. You know, physics is international. Oh, really? Why do you think the American taxpayer is funding this international effort just to educate Chinese? For all I know, we're trying to sterilize the Chinese and the Indians with string theory. So because nobody's talked to me about this, I can speak freely. But if you ask me, you know, the Indians are some of the most aggressive string theorists on earth. And my question is, do we import them in such large numbers so that they'll go home and be ineffectual? that's

crazy so that's a real possibility yeah that string theory exists as a distraction

joe what do you think the odds are that a scientist can say my failed theory is the only game in town and not get laughed out of town not so good yeah i would imagine in a free thinking world not in a free thinking world i would say ed witten you're full of shit who talks like that you're not you're the smartest person i've ever met and you have not earned the right to say that your failed theory your disaster of a catastrophe of a theory is the most failed theory in history in physics and you're saying it's the only game in town who

died and left you kings sir i want to bring you to one of the weirdest theories that you have all right which is you talked about this very overly supported physics department in this Upstate University, Upstate New York University, that's attached to a hedge fund.

SUNY Stony Brook's mathematics department and physics department.

Yeah.

Yeah.

This is a weird one. All right. Because it's attached to a hedge fund that does Bernie Madoff type numbers.

Bernie Madoff is a loser piker. Joe, Bernie Madoff was regular, and that's why they called him the Jewish T-bill.

T-bill? Yeah. What's a T-bill?

A treasury security that allowed you to just earn some very boring, very high rate of return where you were supposedly having your money at risk, but you essentially never lost. There were like almost no down months. Renaissance Technologies is like, no, no, no. Hold my beer. We're just going to make numbers like nobody's ever made in human history. There's nobody in second or third place relative to Renaissance Technology Medallion Fund.

And how is it connected to this university, and what do you think is going on up there?

One, I don't know.

But something weird.

It's weird as hell. I knew Jim Simons personally. Jim Simons is a genius, but a lot of other people are geniuses. I hate to say it, but you can't swing a cat in my world without hitting a genius. So he was great. But he wasn't that much smarter than every other genius at that level. So I would say, you know, top 100 minds in mathematics and physics clearly, better than that. Jim started off working for the DIA, the Defense Intelligence Unit, supposedly quit out of outrage over Vietnam, becomes the super young chairman of the SUNY Stony Brook Mathematics Department, holds a lunch center seminar with a guy who will become the world's smartest living physicist, a guy named C.N. Yang. And they discover over lunch a connection between differential geometry, Jim's specialty, and C.N. Yang's specialty, which is the standard model. jim then quits forms a hedge fund long before it's cool with the father of another guest of yours on this program brian keating and the two of them both have medals so they call it medallion because they've won prizes so what's his name james axe not keating uh and the two of them start this thing and it takes off at some level that nobody's ever seen numbers before. And then they institute this policy, which is we're not going to hire financial experts. We're only going to hire math, physics people. So we're going to hire geometers. We're going to hire particle theorists, general relativists, and machine learning people. Who came up with this story. Do you buy this story? This is so strange because it sort of also mirrors a second story that was not associated with Brookhaven, which is the national lab near SUNY Stony Brook, but associated with Los Alamos, which is a story called The Prediction Company. Except in that case, the name of the person isn't Jim Simons, it's Doyne Farmer. And The Prediction Company is the analog of Renaissance. So what you see is that once people have a pattern. It seems like these patterns repeat. So my point is, if you ask the question, do we have a Manhattan Project in the current era?

We don't know. You don't know. I don't know. But if we're allowed to speculate, the question would be, where would it be located? So how would you find, for example, the existence of a boys school in rural New Mexico where all of these super smart people are holed up? That's a real puzzle. How would you figure out that Los Alamos was happening if that was your goal? Um

Since May 28th, only on Netflix.

You'd look for indirect evidence. Jamie, can you call up an article called Forbidden City from 1944 by a guy named, unfortunately, Jack Raper, R-A-P-E-R?

Change your name, bro.

I know, right.

At least call yourself Rapper. Add a P or something.

So, in 1944, the craziest thing of the, what? Gee, Graper? Graper, right, exactly.

There it is.

Okay. So this article appeared Monday, March 13th, 1944. Santa Fe, New Mexico. The story of a secret city with a mayor who is the second Einstein working on a doomsday weapon where nothing leaks. And this is from what year? 1944.

Okay.

So the entire Manhattan Project leaked because a Cleveland journalist named Jack Raper happened to vacation in New Mexico and stumbled on the greatest secret ever kept. Really? Dude, how can we not know this, Joe?

Wow. And it's all about Oppenheimer. Residents must stay. Dr. Oppenheimer is a Harvard graduate, attended Cambridge. She's a Ph.D. from Göttingham University in Germany, professor of physics, University of California, California Institute of Technology, and is a fellow of too many organizations to enumerate. And so they were recognizing that Oppenheimer was doing something. They knew that he was working on a doomsday device.

Uncle Sam has placed the city in charge of two men, the men who command the soldiers i can't read it you see that the garbage rubbish are collected

the streets kept up the electric light and plant and the waterworks functioning and all other metropolitan work operating smooth is colonel somebody i don't know his name but it isn't so important because the mr big of the city is college professor dr j robert oppenheimer

called the second einstein by the newspapers of the west coast so what i'm trying to say is And Jack Raper never got a Pulitzer Prize, died in obscurity. Leslie Groves, who was the other guy who was running the town, decided to send him to the Pacific to punish him for being the best journalist in America. And when he found out he was 60 years old, they decided, okay, we're just going to ignore this story and hope everyone else does because it's too crazy to be real. now what i'm telling you right now is raper never figured out what los alamos was but he knows that it doesn't make sense i'm telling you renaissance technologies doesn't make sense so these different

what another widespread belief is that he's developing ordinance and explosive supporters of this guests argue that it accounts for the number of mechanics working on the production of a single device and there are others who would tell you tremendous explosions have been heard oh

Oh, that Jack Raper with his overactive imagination. Ha, ha, ha. The problem with conspiracy theorists is that they say the darndest things, Joe.

Okay. So what do you think they're working on, these people at this upstate New York university?

Well, what are we not working on? In other words, how do you discover what we're actually up to is in part you listen for the holes. What do I work on? I work on the ability to get out of the solar system. That is my life's mission. I think Elon is a bit of a pussy.

Okay. How so?

I don't know. He won't meet with me.

Well, it's okay. Maybe because you call him a pussy. Yeah.

No, but...

Maybe he's busy. Maybe he's...

trying to make chicks pregnant no it's something he does to with recreation elon's a genius and elon is trying to replace scientists with grok and one of the things that i was on an indian podcast uh called the guy's name is beer biceps guy ron veer he's the joe rogan of india and what's his name uh ranveer alabadia can you find him shout out to ranveer yeah so ranveer is a friend of mine in versova and i went on his podcast and i before spacex and x and xai merged i said um i said look i don't think spacex is elon's space program his space program is grok elon doesn't trust scientists for good reason because they're weak so he's building his own scientist from when when we were strong he's going to have it read the corpus of physics done by competent physicists who actually care about the physical world so he doesn't have to deal with any of us that's why he won't meet it's not because he's not interested not because he doesn't know i invited him to the talk as i did you yesterday the goal is to get out of the solar system and we're so far away from everything good that there's no way of doing it under relativity so why are we not researching the only thing that can save us which is diversification we need to spread out to the largest number of

habitable worlds possible so this implies some sort of a new propulsion system this implies

new science stop thinking technology there's no way to you can't engineer your way out of a science

problem you have to science your way out what would be that science post einstein post relativity that's what i do and how would that apply to us leaving the solar system we don't live in space

time space time has a speed limit explain that if you can only go the speed of light at your best and you can't even get anywhere close to that how are you going to get to something four years light years away in a fantasy world by the time you go and come back you'll be dead assume you can go under the speed of light just under you can use time dilation and relativistic effects to your benefit but it's going to cost you 8 years to go and come back okay I don't want to do that if I'm going to explore the cosmos I don't want to live in space

so what are the alternatives

the observers The successor to space-time, I'm happy to predict this on your show, will be named the Observerse, which is a combination of not just using a four-dimensional space-time manifold, but a 14- and a four-dimensional space simultaneously. This was what I was talking about at the university yesterday.

And how would that, like when you say the difference between science and technology, how would that science be applied?

If we look at the surface of this table, I can't do this to it.

Can't spread it apart, move it, right.

It's called pinch to zoom. Right. It's a multi-touch gesture invented around 2003 or something, debuted at TED. But if I come to this device, I can do that.

Your phone.

Right. So imagine that this is space-time.

Okay.

And this is the Observerse. So if I want to go to a distant star, there's no way I'm going to just go really fast. Right. That's dumb. And I need an energy source and I need to do things that we can't normally do. You have to jailbreak space-time. If Einstein is in force, we all die. If we go beyond Einstein, some of us will live and some of us will die.

And what would be the energy that you would need in order to do this?

So how do you unlock this? One is maybe it's not that energetic to do these things. Energy is technically time momentum. You can talk about momentum in the X direction, momentum in the Y, momentum in the Z. Fine. What's momentum in the time direction? It has a different name. We don't call energy time momentum, but that's what it is. So first of all, I don't believe that there's one direction of time. There's no arrow of time. That's not true. I believe that time is multidimensional. The only dimension that has an ordering is one dimension. So in other words, if I say to you, Joe has two cigars, Eric has none. Who has more cigars? Joe. Okay. Joe has two cigars, but Eric has three glasses and no cigars. Joe has one glass and two cigars. Who has more stuff? Well, now it's not. clear because Eric has more glasses than Joe, but Joe has more cigars. So in two dimensions, we no longer can say this is better than that for things where you have more of one and less of another. Time is like that. In one dimension, there's an arrow, there's an ordering. We call it, it's like a well-ordered set or something. In two dimensions, all bets are off and two and higher. The number of dimensions in total is going to be either five or seven. And each of those dimensions has a different kind of energy. So in other words, energy is unique because there's only one time dimension. But as soon as time has multiple dimensions, you can talk about multiple forms of energy, just the way you can talk about momentum in the X direction, momentum in the Y direction or momentum in the Z direction. So in part, what I'm trying to do is to jailbreak space-time. That's what I'm actually doing. And I'm doing it with zero support, with no confirmation that this is real, because something is controlling my entire community. To make this funny ha-ha, just like Forbidden City, was Jack Raper has gone mad. He thinks that there's a city in new mexico where there's a mayor who's a second einstein developing a doomsday weapon

is that funny what a loon that guy what an idiot that's what's going on joe so how do you think that technology could be applied to these ideas in order to create some mode of travel pinch to zooms joe right but how how would that be done so right now we're in a four-dimensional

world call that flatland okay imagine that there are 10 perpendicular dimensions called symmetric two tensors four of those are spatial directions and six of them temporal or four of them are temporal and six of them spatial. I can't tell you one of those two. But there are additionally either four or six extra time dimensions or six or four space dimensions. We have to gain access to break out of flatland. We live in flatland. We don't know we live in flatland. And I know what that, technically the name is, fiber dimension. What it is, We have to gain access to it, which is discovering that somebody gives you an obsidian rock that has a property that you've never seen before called pinch to zoom. So I need to make the distance to the nearest star small so I can go with reasonable speed.

Or instantaneously.

I don't need instantaneously. If I have something four light years away and I can make it 100 feet away, I can walk 100 feet easily enough. I can push something. So the idea is if I can gain access to the fiber, the distance becomes relatively immaterial.

So if you think that these physicists are working on this and all these –

No, I didn't say that I think – Okay. I'm saying if anybody – Is working on this. One of two things is happening. Either we have become the stupidest nation on earth, destroying our own ability to do physics. We gave away the store. We're morons. That's possible. Or we're doing it in private.

And you feel like it's possible to hide all this from the general public?

Well, my point is you're not going to hide it. No, no, no. The same way they did it before would be spoiled by satellites. Right now, if you tried to do Los Alamos, you couldn't do it because of the satellites.

Right.

So it has to be hidden in plain sight. It has to look like something that it isn't. So if you ask me, let's imagine you ask me a different question. Let's imagine you ask me, Eric, nobody's willing to give you money. Nobody's willing to employ you. Nobody's willing to have you speak at their seminar. Despite the fact that you have complete blue chip credibility. how would you how would you organize a secret team to get control of our adversaries the world and the ability to traverse the cosmos i sure sure as shit wouldn't build a chemical rocket company it's dumb but i'd do it as cover and i sure as shit wouldn't do things in an open university department. Here's what I do. I build an organization that could rationalize billions passing through it with almost no footprint. Because what I really need is whiteboard.

and coffee and smart people and a secure campus and a story. That's all I need.

God, wouldn't you love to have access to what they're doing?

No, because I'm going to do it myself.

How are you going to do that?

Because I know really smart people, Joe.

Don't you need insane amounts of money in a laboratory somewhere?

You know, it's funny. Sam Altman is racing. Dario Amadai is racing Elon Musk for superintelligence. So I asked myself, if you could have premium subscriptions to Grok, Gemini, XAI. Sorry. Grok, Gemini, Claude, all of them. Or you could have Edward Frankel's home phone number. Which would you choose? I'd choose Ed Frankel's home phone number. So I get to call Ed Frankel whenever I want to. that's smart look there are people that you don't even know about who are just terrifyingly smart who allow me to assemble that team that's what you know

is that literally what you're trying to do

oh yeah and how are you doing it I don't know I stayed with Ed for five days in Berkeley I got him and another colleague who's also terrifying i'm using soviets joe ex-soviets okay because those guys haven't haven't lost the magic and uh you know i had frankel and a guy named misha kapranoff come down for five days to kick the shit out of my theory it was crazy absolutely crazy we're drinking vodka at 10 a.m. having insane meals and just working our asses off the way we're supposed to.

How'd it go?

Amazing.

What do they think about your theory?

So far all systems go, Joe. Okay. So. In other words, the story. Can we just pull up? I just want to do this for my own reasons. Can we pull up the pinned tweet on my Twitter profile? Which, by the way, thank you for retweeting.

No problem. Yeah.

Love you.

Love you, too. What is it? Let's go to it real quick.

So, first of all, I want to show off the header. Can we go up to the top of the header before we do that? Those two formulas, the bottom one says CFJ. c is sean carroll the middle f is uh fields and j is roman jacive a professor at mit sean carroll's second most um cited paper is has this as its action or lagrangian right above that is my action or lagrangian and what you see all those zeros are things that Sean Carroll doesn't know how to handle, and that thing where you see a P, you see star parentheses P in the bottom line, not the bottom, the second from the bottom, is Sean's relativity-violating hack. Sean Carroll did not disclose that geometric unity is a direct competitor to his most cited work. So now if we can roll the clip, it'll make more sense as to what's going on. And let's blow that thing up to full screen. Your misportrayal of the situation is nearly constant for reasons that completely elude me. Sean?

The good news is I have read Eric's paper. Here it is. I actually have it here, right here. First thing you got to do is make sure that your theory makes contact with modern physics as it is understood. If you have a new paper out, businesses are going to look at it. They're going to look for, you know, where's the Lagrangian?

So this is, for people that are just listening, this is showing that you have Lagrangians in your, these equations.

It's showing Sean Carroll lying.

Right. Did you, the interactions are in there as well. But you call, did you call him out on this, on the show?

I couldn't believe that he'd do this. So you didn't say anything? I was stunned.

Proton stability, that's in there as well. So essentially he's lying to make it seem like your theory doesn't work when you have all the things that he's saying your theory doesn't have.

One of two lies. We don't know which lie.

Okay.

There's a lie that says...

I read your paper I'm willing to entertain the fact that he's lying that he read my paper and I'm willing to entertain the fact that he's lying that he read my paper and he's going to deny that these things are in there. I don't know which lie he's telling. Right, one of them is a lie.

Either he lied saying you read your paper or he lied saying, he definitely lied saying those things aren't in there because he did say those things aren't

in there. That's a lie. Right, he just says there's none of that none of that, none of that. Right. Okay, so my claim is you respond like right there Joe what am I just let's just one second I'm in a world that makes absolutely no sense and I don't want to disappear I'm not suicidal I have been the major competitor of string theory for 42 years I'm not a podcaster I'm not a guest I'm not an

entertainer what i really do for a living i'm not paid to do okay i understand that yeah when he's

saying i don't know what to do you just didn't know what to do in the moment i mean what do i want do i want a legal battle right i've got a defense contractor i'm one of the world's largest companies is a defense contractor which is has a campaign against me for reasons i don't understand Just no clue why anyone would say you don't have a Lagrangian.

So he's attached to a defense contract?

No, no, no. But there's a – by virtue of the fact that the conspiracy against me, and I literally mean technically a conspiracy, is organized through these Discord servers. And there's an engineer at Google who, for example, can't get a paper against me that lies about what it is that I'm up to, published on the archive, which is where physicists share their stuff. So the engineer will say, how about you do a talk at Google, Sabina Hassenfelder. And Sabina Hassenfelder will come to Google. And she'll be given her thing if he will be allowed to post an anti-Eric screed or paper or whatever you want to call it against me. So what I'm trying to say is I'm acting as Jack Raper in some way. I'm doing stuff and saying stuff. Like Epstein is a construct. Well, okay, now you can say that, but you couldn't say that when I started saying it. You can't say Ed Witten is driving theoretical physics off of a cliff. You can't say the reason that we have the particles that we do is that there's a 10-dimensional fiber in a fiber bundle above space-time that isn't acknowledged. For some reason, the things that we're talking about on this show are dangerous. We're having dangerous conversations. Joe. That's what JRE does. And sometimes you go all the way and sometimes you puss out, but like this is a dangerous place because they can't tell you what to do. And that's why they put you in like a different color on the screen during COVID because you went against the narrative. The narrative was go get vaccinated. The narrative was, if you think that COVID came from anything other than a wet market, you're a racist. Every time you've gone up against the narrative, They try to destroy you. You're still here, but you've been badly bruised at various times. You are a danger to the narrative as I am a danger to the narrative. That's one of the reasons why this is like, I don't know what is this, my eighth, sixth, some large number of appearances. We are scary to the narrative, and the narrative can no longer be held together.

I want to bring you back to the technology that's involved. So when we're talking about this program that may or may not exist, and when we're talking about UAPs, for lack of a better term, do you think that these are connected? And do you think that...

Yes.

So one of the things that I've suspected, and I'm not the only one, many people suspected this, it's very odd that a lot of these sightings, that these Air Force pilots and Navy pilots It's that they find they're over and near military bases. That's right. Which is where you would practice or restricted airspace, which is where you'd use your stuff. And when they see these things and they have these experiences with these things, the people that they report them to don't seem shocked.

Right.

Yeah. I mean, this is what Ryan Graves experienced. This is what Commander David Fravor experienced, that they tell these people about these things. and no one is like what the fuck are you talking about right because they know because this might be ours so some of this is ours okay some of

Some of this is foreign nations, and some of this is not understood. That's what I believe.

Okay. So some of these things they're seeing is a part of some undisclosed program.

I believe that, for example, some of this is not craft, but the ability to create the illusion of craft.

Okay.

Some of this, I believe, is craft.

So the ability to create like a hologram?

I don't know. Like a halt. Plasma? Yeah.

Projected plasma? That's right. Okay. Which we know they can do. Which we've seen them. We've showed videos.

We've seen limited versions of this. Imagine that those things scale up.

Okay.

Okay. If there were no aliens or craft, I would want to create a program. If I was in the disinformation business, I would want to create one of these things. Because there's a God-shaped hole in all of our souls and minds. And so aliens and spacecraft fill that hole. Right. It's God for atheists. Yeah, it's God for atheists. So first of all, I would think that we were incompetent if we didn't have something that created UFO ghost stories. Why wouldn't you use that? I also believe that there are foreign nations that may have leapfrogged us. Clearly, we saw that where we invested in aircraft carriers and other people invested in drones and they realized that this was about economic warfare. It costs too much to shoot down, cheap stuff to make. So we're in the process of having our Suez moment, if you will, in Iran, if we're not careful, where it is revealed that our lead in aircraft carrier groups is not what we thought it was. So we can get to Iran in a second if you like. But what I believe is that we've been dumb. We've been extremely stupid since the end of the Cold War. Bill Clinton and Dick Morris ushered in an era of stupidity that I cannot even believe is so antithetical to my notion of my belonging to the smartest nation on earth. That we've just basically gutted our smart people. The smart people don't even know each other. Now, what is going on with the technology and what we're seeing? We've lost control of some airspace. That's what I believe is – I don't know that to be true, but I believe with very high probability.

And you think that's what San Antonio is about?

San Antonio.

No, I'm sorry, El Paso.

Yeah. I believe that El Paso is not about cartel drones. That's true.

Okay.

I mean, that's not to say that there isn't a cartel drone here or there, but I don't think we shut down airspace in El Paso to deal with cartel drones.

Right. So what were the experiences that people were reporting? And what do you know about what happened in El Paso?

Well, there's what I know, which is all secondhand. So what I can say I know firsthand is the reporting of various things by various people. But I probably had five-plus conversations about White Sands. People who don't know each other are not connected. So whoever is supposed to be keeping White Sands a secret failed. Okay, so I believe that White Sands has an infestation problem with stuff that is either not ours or is being blue team, red teamed ours and not told to our people. How would you deal with the following puzzle? So maybe we're putting our own, one group is putting our drones or something in the air.

Right.

And another group is being told, how would you deal with this problem? We've lost control of our airspace, but something is going on in New Mexico.

What was the descriptions of these drones? What does it say here? Airspace at the center of the brief but highly publicized incident, February 11, 2026, FAA abruptly announced a 10-day shutdown of the airspace over El Paso International Airport. The restriction was lifted after just a few hours. Pentagon anti-drone testing. The Pentagon was testing high-energy laser counter-drone technology out of the nearby Fort Bliss military base. The FAA grounded commercial flights out of an abundance of caution because of the unannounced testing. Cartel drone activity. Officials from the Trump administration cited incursions from Mexican drug cartel drones breaching U.S. airspace as the primary reason for the defense systems that the defense systems were deployed in the first place. Lack of communication. White House officials later noted that the FAA administrator implemented the surprise flight ban without notifying the Pentagon, Department of Homeland Security, or White House officials.

That seems crazy.

The story doesn't hang together.

That part doesn't hang together at all. Well, that's the thing. The FAA administer implemented a flight ban without notifying the Pentagon, the Department of Homeland Security, or the White House officials. That doesn't even seem legal. Joe. But I don't know.

You and I both have at least 105 IQs. These are like 65 IQ stories.

Yeah. Well, the Mexican drone cartel one seems like a dopey narrative.

But maybe there are actually Mexican drones.

I'm sure the cartels have drones.

Okay, so the cartels have drones. And we're going to use the fact that El Paso is close to white seats.

But what was the reported drone activity? Do you know anything about it? I do.

Yeah? Not going to say. Ooh.

No.

Mysterious. Hardly being mysterious. I'm saying as much as I can. I understand. But here's the thing.

I'm joking around.

Okay. but I mean I'd like to know like what right but I'm tell me later no shit no it's not like that look

oh fuck you both let's play that awesome music again there's a video from the AP posted out just four days ago that says there is a cartel attacking lots of people well I'm sure there's cartel drones what I'm trying to say no no

every single person who knows how to keep a secret knows how to use the truth to hide a lie right of course and that's always been so the the thing that i'm doing is i am i am an amer i am i am so grateful to this country i love my country i am going to maintain the ability till my dying day to help my country and advise my country my country is a bitch i don't know why she's acting this way i don't know why she's been stupid since 1992 right but she's been acting like a moron since the clinton administration we're bad at being america and i i can't stand it so i'm gonna with i would love to tell you everything i know i would love to penalize people for being bad at their jobs but i'm going to retain the ability to advise my government till my dying day and so i'm not

going to say what i know okay it says this is from new york times inside the debacle that led to the closure of el paso's airspace faa citing grave risk of fatalities from a new technology being used on the mexican border got caught in a stalemate with the pentagon which deemed the weapon necessary whatever okay who knows bullshit as many stories as you can spin right throw them

all out there right throw a bunch of them look our press was a largely set up in world war ii to go to war and it's been that way ever since and during the Walter Cronkite era and the Eric Severides and all that kind of stuff that nobody really remembers we had a measure of freedom to talk about things and it got too much and in the middle of the 1970s we had the Church and Pike committee hearings and we freaked out we found out who we really were we are both the super naive squeaky clean state and the baddest of the bad mfs we're both things we're a hybrid we're extremely machiavellian we're extremely naive there's no way of stopping that being what

we are so you think that it's very possible that there's a foreign nation that has some sort of technology that can invade our airspace at will and that's what the shutdown was i believe that

Somebody may have leapfrogged us as they have leapfrogged us in drone technology.

So they may have leapfrogged us in some propulsion technology.

I believe that there's a nation in Asia, China, which puts on amazing drone shows and buys up our academics who aren't being paid because we're sitting around bitching. What have you technical people done for us? why do you deserve to be paid from taxpayer dollars and the answer is oh shut the fuck up we created your economy you stupid bitches we're the baddest of the bad we are the source of your wealth and your strength and you come to us bitching about your taxpayer dollars you deserve to lose to china you little i have no words for the also the new crop of tech billionaires who were bitten by covid who think that what do you mean by that well they think that anthony fauci was a scientist and so they they believed in science before fauci and now they don't believe in science

I don't understand what you're saying.

Oh, my God.

I literally don't understand what you're saying.

All right. Silicon Valley had a huge about face when they figured out that Fauci was full of shit. A lot of them bankrolled our universities. They supported science. They were Democrats. And then somehow COVID happened. And because they had this childlike belief in universities, science, and the Democratic Party, they ran to the Republican Party. like children, not understanding that Anthony Fauci was not a scientist. COVID is a giant lie. Collins and Fauci and Ralph Baric and Peter Daszak are menaces to the credit of science. The credit rating of science went into the toilet with Silicon Valley. And a new idea was born, which is that the engineer is everything. The scientist is nothing. Everything should be a for-profit, not a non-profit. Artificial intelligence should replace our best people. I mean, this is the spell that many of our – I would like to think that I count Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel as friends. Sam Altman as a friend. i don't know what happened to all of these people they're just wrong and they're rich and somehow we like our public intellectuals became our billionaires what does naval say what does mark say what does elon say everybody who's talking their book is now our public intellectuals and quite honestly they're all brilliant but they're all highly motivated that's fact yeah but where are our scientists where are intellectuals where are our people who care more about how do i say this glory and immortality rather than private jet travel you could not give get me to give up my claim on immortality for private jet travel i don't understand the fascination with private jets they're cool mildly

well it's not just private chats well what is it i think they attach monetary gain to uh success and above and beyond needs so it becomes a way of measuring success they look at numbers above and beyond everything else my craziest brilliant friend who's completely

insane a guy named michael vassar michael vassar had made a point to me as he often does which is really dangerous. And he said, when did the world's smartest people stop caring about their own game and their own prizes and start focusing on the prizes of the people pursuing wealth and status? And he said, somehow when scientists care about McLarens and Lamborghinis, that something terrible has happened and boy is that like a splinter in my mind turning over i can't get rid of it he's right he's just right by the way this is a guy who also told me that dario amadai was like a really important person i needed to pay attention to him when he was just some guy that i knew um vassar's point is the scientists stop having their own game with their own prizes and so they've started caring about things that they should be completely ignoring i don't have a mclaren and i couldn't care less i do care about immortality i do care about recognition i do care about my name being removed from things that i've done and other people's you know cherry topping going on top of it quite honestly we're a different game we're a different species there's a you know that that song uh one night in bangkok it came from a musical about chess and he says in the lyrics to that song which we don't remember he says uh i'd have you know something like i have you over i would invite you but the queens we use would not excite you So you can go back to your massage parlors in Bangkok. The whole point is that the chess world doesn't care about who got laid. Chess world cares about the ever-

game, the immortal game, what did Fisher do to Spassky, what's going on with Magnus Carlsen somehow the science world stopped caring about our own stuff and we got to make sure that the public intellectuals are not dominated by billionaires as much, I love these guys they're my friends, I think you're right yeah, they're smart as hell, they wouldn't have gotten to be billionaires otherwise, but they're always talking their book always Look at, you know, people are like famous libertarians and they become surveillance people. You know, Bill Gates, you know, is he just buying farmland for to be, he wants to make sure that we have a steady supply of food, of something. We've got to stop the addiction to billionaires as the only people we trust because at least they're rich.

Let's end it there. I've got to wrap this up but I appreciate you very much this was very good yeah yeah it was a good one great seeing you Joe great seeing you too and I think you're the last point is it should resonate with a lot of people it's dead right

look forward to seeing you soon Joe

well maybe we'll go to another planet

love it

bye everybody

Thank you.