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Ninja reveals his single biggest month ever across Twitch and YouTube and explains why the number is not what most people think "I think there was a month I made like... it was during the 267,000 peak subscriber count, like that prime sub, that prime wave, and then the ad revenue as well. I think I made like 1.7 in like ad revenue maybe more, I can go back and check. Just off Twitch." "And then YouTube, I think YouTube we were making like 900k or like a million or something. I mean maybe more." FaZe Apex: "And then item shop too." Ninja: "Yep." FaZe Apex: "So you're probably what like three, four million that one month?" Ninja: "Yeah. Wow. I mean dude but like again, here's what a lot of people don't understand also right, like you can sit there and say someone signs a hundred million dollar contract right, 50 if it's gone. Taxes for sure right. So like that's another... and then not only that."

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Timothy Alberino explains the ancient ritual where young men were sealed inside giant tombs shaped exactly like a womb and what they were believed to absorb inside "The purpose of this was to incubate inside of the gallery in order to be empowered and energized by the spirit of the mighty one buried beneath the tomb. And again, according to legend, the mighty ones were giants." "The tomb looks like a womb. If you pull up a womb, you'll see what I mean. It looks like a womb, shaped like a womb. And this was to accommodate the rite of incubation." "These young people, the idea is they're in there, they are communing, incubating in the presence of the dead hero buried beneath, and they're absorbing their spirit, their prowess, and then the tomb is unsealed and the young person emerges from the womb as it were. It's like a new birth. They went in a boy, they're now coming out a man, empowered by the spirit of their ancestral heroes."

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Joe Rogan reveals what he thinks about whether Ethiopia has the Ark of the Covenant and why it might be something radioactive Timothy Alberino: "Do you think they have the Ark of the Covenant?" Joe Rogan: "I think, let's put it this way, I think Graham Hancock makes a very compelling case that they do. Have you read his book, The Sign and the Seal?" Timothy Alberino: "Yeah, the whole depiction of these people that are the watchers of this thing get cataracts because it has some radiation properties. Very compelling narrative." Joe Rogan: "Yeah, none of them live more than a couple of years after they get the assignment. I think it's a very strong possibility that they do." Timothy Alberino: "That's crazy." Joe Rogan: "It would be crazy, yeah. And I think that many people, including Graham, think that the Ark of the Covenant was something technological about it, something radioactive about it."

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Robert Pape explains why a war with Iran in 2026 could trigger the worst domestic chaos America has seen in decades "And this is, we're heading into the fall of 2026. And this was always my nightmare scenario. Why? What does that mean? What are those two things colliding?" "Those two things colliding start to look like the 1960s. And what happened in the 1960s? The 1960s, we had mass demonstrations. We had anti-war violence. We had anti-war terrorism with the Weather Underground. We had multiple assassinations that occurred. Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy was assassinated. The convention in Chicago there was just mass demonstration. Mayor Daley in Chicago gave a shoot to kill order." "So what we faced in the 1960s was the collision of domestic political tension with an unpopular war. That's how you got the chaos of the 1960s. I have a whole chapter in the book about the 1960s and why it was so particularly intense."

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Ben Felix explains how billionaires borrow against their stocks to avoid tax and reveals the hidden risk most people ignore Steven Bartlett: "I got some money was that you can take a loan against your stocks and there's no tax on the loan. So if I have a million dollars of Facebook stock, I can go to a bank and get 500k in cash loaned against that stock without having to sell it. And then on that 500K, I have no tax to pay. And I can just hold that Facebook stock. And when it goes up to 2 million, I can go back to the bank and say, give me another 500K." Ben Felix: "You could, but if it goes down, you get margin called and they have to come up with the cash to..." Steven Bartlett: "Don't they just sell? Don't they just sell the stock?" Ben Felix: "They might, but then you're selling after it's come down. So it's not risk-free. But yeah, that is a thing that people do."

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Ben Felix explains why women are better investors than men and reveals the data that backs it up "Do you think women are better investors than men? I'm not super good on these data, but I believe what the data say are that women tend to be a little bit more risk averse, but they tend to be a little bit less overconfident." Steven Bartlett: "Which I assume gets better results, no?" Ben Felix: "Yeah. I think women are probably better investors." Steven Bartlett: "I've just got some numbers here. Fidelity said that across 5.2 million accounts, women beat men with their investments. Warwick Business School, women outperformed men by 1.8 percent per year over a three year period. UC Berkeley, men traded 45 percent more often than women, leading to annual returns that were 1.4 percent lower than women's. And Revolut says that women's investments in the UK outperformed men's by 4% overall." Ben Felix: "I believe it. Give your money to your wife. I would assume that a lot of that is related to over-trading. Men tend to be overconfident. They tend to trade more. They try to pick stocks. They think Tesla stock's going to go up because they like the car." Steven Bartlett: "They're also the biggest gambling addicts in the world. So it kind of correlates."

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Joe Rogan explains why mainstream media has no idea how badly they lost and reveals exactly what gives away that none of them believe a word they say "The thing about mainstream media is that mainstream media had ruled for so long that they had gotten delusional. They had been like a champion that didn't think that he had a trainer anymore. And then some new contender came along that had been in the mountains of f***ing Siberia." "Someone came out of the blue and just f***ed them up. And they were so bad at this thing that they think they run." "The actual playing field that they exist in is so limited that they cannot ever achieve the kind of acceptance or interaction or trust that alternative media can." "You don't believe any of those people reading that teleprompter because none of it seems sincere. Your mind registers this is a person reading something that's been written. It doesn't register."

ft @joerogan @AravSrinivas

Joe Rogan explains how ancient Indian temples were carved from a single piece of rock and raises the question of what tools or knowledge made it possible Joe Rogan: "How about these temples that they find in India that are carved entirely out of one piece of stone? What did you do? How did you do that? How long ago did this happen? How many of them were buried and then they had to uncover them and then figure out, what is this? Who made it? There's no timeline. No one really knows. There's no evidence of tools that were capable of doing this kind of work back then. And they're huge and beautiful and perfect." Aravind Srinivas: "It's not just that all of these temples were actually just built, they were specifically, the locations for them were picked out so that you get the right seismic vibrations over there. In terms of like proximity to the ocean, the gravitational waves from the sun and the moon. People actually made that level of like..." Joe Rogan: "Look at this, man. Imagine the undertaking of carving that temple out of the side of a f***ing giant piece of rock. You screw up one thing and it's over. There's no simulations. You just have to build it. What did they have? This is the question. Like, imagine today if we had to do this."

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Joe Rogan explains why ancient texts like the Mahabharata might not be mythology at all "Now, if we think of history as this linear progression from caveman to us, and we hear about autonomous weapons that were written in the Mahabharata somewhere around 2,000 plus years ago, we go, well, mythology." "But if not, if there's been some sort of rise and fall of civilization, if there has been catastrophic whatever it is, asteroid impacts, shifting of the poles, whatever it is, it's caused great disasters. You can imagine that these people are remembering a time where there was some sort of very advanced civilization. And this is what they're describing." "Like if you knew for a fact that there had been a great advanced technologically advanced civilization, when we have evidence that they had some technology like the pyramids of Giza, like how did you do that? There's some technology involved, right? But we don't have evidence of the technology." "But if we did, if we knew for a fact, you would look at the Mahabharata and go, oh, this is history. They're just explaining it in a kind of crude contemporary way for the time, arrows instead of semi-autonomous drones with exploding heads on them." "I mean that's what we have now, all those things that they're describing, hydrogen bomb, semi-autonomous and autonomous drones. I mean they have autonomous fighter jets now."

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Aravind Srinivas explains what he believes is the only thing you actually need to be a scientist "Fundamentally, there's this belief that scientists have to go through a rigorous PhD and you have to get accredited by an amazing university to be that. Sure, but anyone who's curious can be a scientist." "The only thing that's required to be a good scientist is intellectual humility, to understand that you could be wrong about things. Things that everyone takes for granted, you could still question them. And when you're presented with new evidence and new data, you're willing to change your mind." "And you're willing to operate with ambiguity and uncertainty about the world, that's basically all the qualities you need to be a scientist. You can run your experiments. You can gather data. You can gather evidence. And you can consult people. You can bring in experts and talk to them." "As long as you're uncovering more and more about the world, you are a scientist. You don't need a PhD to feel that you're allowed to be a scientist or not." "And I think that's the most important quality we need to inculcate in our kids, the upcoming generation, so that they all feel more liberated."

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Mert explains the great irony at the heart of crypto and why it has become the opposite of what the cypherpunks originally built it to be "It's like a great irony that cryptographic money doesn't actually use cryptography. It just doesn't actually use encryption. People say we're gonna break Bitcoin's encryption or something and it's like surprise, it doesn't have any encryption to begin with." "I just think fundamentally it's such a retarded place we've ended up in where crypto was started by the cypherpunks and the cypherpunks' entire operating thing is you use cryptography to enable privacy and freedom for the individual. Instead, what we now have is you don't use cryptography for any of that. And you have something resembling a perfect surveillance rail for real world assets." "People will say like, oh, crypto can be used for money laundering. It's like you have to be completely retarded to use crypto to do crime because it is infinitely less private than cash. And it is there on the record forever to be used against you." "Whatever you do on chain can and will be used against you, as a riff on the cops, like American Amendment stuff. And it's totally true."