Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2235 - Mike Rowe
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Joe Rogan Experience #2235 - Mike Rowe

Joe Rogan podcast check it out the Joe Rogan experience train by day Joe Rogan
podcast by
night all day we got coffee we got Mike Rowe we got Carl's over there snoring
so what were
you doing on QVC what are you selling that was the greatest line from Blazing
Saddles by the
way when Gene Hackman he says cigars remember Peter Boyle has come he had just
left and Gene
Hackman is there after getting the soup spilled in his lap and he's basically
saying I had cigars
as the creature stomps off in Frankenstein I don't remember that it's been too
long since I've seen
that movie best uh he's a little bit of a fucking distraction can he calm down
drank him we hear him
because we don't have our headphones on maybe we should put our headphones on I
thought you were
talking about me no Carl for an awful moment like we we wore him out Jamie was
throwing the toy for Carl
and now he's he's such a great dog he's got I mean he's adorable I mean it's it's
such a personality
thing at that for me with dogs and pets in general you know like you know right
away if this thing has
a personality oh he's got a lot of Carl's got a lot of personality yeah there's
no doubt about that
yeah and he's like a little kid and a person name which I think is super
interesting mine's
Freddie he's a terrier but I like a dog with a person yeah me too like Fido
what the fuck is a
Fido no one knows well that's well actually oh no that's Philo I was thinking
of Clint Eastwood
in every which way but loose he was Philo Beto could also be Philo Farnsworth
who created the
television for real yeah did only one guy do it was one of those like light
bulb type deals where
like a bunch of people are scrambling for it and what do they call that like a
like a hive
mentality right right right like that happened with the integrated circuit
right when uh Kilby
at Radio Shack was doing the same basic work I think that uh Robert Noyce was
doing for Intel
and one was here in Texas and the other was in California and they had never
met and they had
never compared notes but the work on the circuitry was so close that they wound
up sharing the Nobel
prize oh that's interesting super super strange but that you know I don't know
common thing with human
beings in and it's this concept of uh morphic residents have you ever heard of
that concept
uh Rupert Sheldrake he wrote about this and the ideas and it's based on some
actual facts too about
there's um some real statistics about rats like if you teach a rat how to run a
maze in
on the east coast a rat on the west coast will run it faster it's like they
learn the pattern somehow or
another it's very bizarre there's like information that's apparently shared
across species and the idea
is that somehow or another they're quantumly entangled like that the entire
group of these specific types of
animals are quantumly entangled or it's entangled in some way that we don't
understand so it's a kind
of I mean I would think biological evolution might might flirt with that I read
a paper a guy wrote name
was Patrick house he this was his phd and he was talking about toxoplasma gondii
and histoplasmosis and
it was a crazy paper his his real premise was trying to understand the
phenomenon of the cat lady and why
like why why why every culture like this isn't unique to america in in every
culture you can find a woman
who you know two cats three cats maybe but like went all the way to 38 right
and just was like this perfectly normal so
his paper was what happens to a person's brain to tell it it's normal to have
38 cats and then it gets
super complicated because he identifies a gondii that lives in the cat's gut
and and basically breeds
there and what he learned was when the cats were uh crapping the the gondii
would would come out and then
the rats and the mice that ate the cat crap something was happening to their
brains on a neurological level
this gondii basically disabled the part of the brain that would tell an
otherwise sentient rat to run
from the cat but suddenly they weren't running they became prey and they became
docile and the cats started
obliterating the mice and rat population because this thing
that was breeding in its ass
was
effectively making its prey easier to catch so dr house thought well
you know we've all heard about why pregnant women should stay away from cats
because
that that can have an effect and a rat's brain and a human brain have a
surprising
number of of parallels so he basically postulated that you know doris the cat
lady was living a
fairly normal life until she got just a little bit of cat on her fingers and
and ate it and the
gondii disabled the part of her brain that said hey maybe two cats is not it's
worse than that
it actually makes the rats sexually attracted to the smell of cat urine exactly
right yeah it
actually makes them aroused yeah yeah now i don't know if doris went that far
have you ever seen
them like run up to cats the toxo infected rats it's bizarre yep they run right
up to them the cats
like what the is going on the cats like bounce away from the rat no it's like
it's like watching the
beatles at the ed sullivan theater you know people like what are you what's
wrong with you people
why what's happening that is psychosis yeah yeah that's super interesting you
know there's also a
disproportionate number of motorcycle victims that test positive for toxo they'd
know it yeah it makes
people more impulsive it makes them more uh reckless and impulsive and um
countries that have high
rates of toxoplasma have more successful soccer teams i read and i think i got
more of these
i don't want to compete i'm going to lose but you'll love this you probably
already know it um
homeostatic risk and risk equilibrium and the unintended consequences
especially with motorcycle
riders that emanate from safety protocols gone too far really yeah so like
every like if you study
the way you drive your motorcycle like you measure every decision that you make
in terms of cornering
and speed and braking and all that stuff uh and then you measure the same
things with all the safety gear
employed including a helmet especially a helmet you drive faster you corner
tighter you take more chances
because the risk equilibrium that we all have in our brain is different from
one person to the next but
what's the same is our desire to compensate for the environment around us so
compensatory risk and the
subconscious decisions that we might make behind the wheel when we're buckled
up versus not buckled up
when we have abs brakes as opposed to not having them they did a big survey in
berlin years ago where they
took half of the taxis and they put in state-of-the-art braking systems and
half of them and left the
others the same and then they hooked up the the cars to monitor every driver
decision and in virtually every
case the drivers with the better safety gear took more chances because their
brain is subconsciously
compensating right it's it's the same sense it's yeah i mean it's it's
controversial but i i understand
it it's it's why the most dangerous intersections have signs that tell you when
to walk and when not
to walk and have crosswalk because you it the little man is walking it says go
so you step off and there's
the big blue bus and then and then you're spattered so yeah the unintended
consequences of following
traditional safety protocols you know has always really been interesting this
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the smartest way to hire well it completely makes sense if you have a vehicle
that's more
able and capable you're going to probably drive it faster right and you're
probably going to take more
risks because it can do stuff like i used to think i used to have a lexus suv
this big
boat lex and you know what i loved about it i drove slow in it i was just like
real because it doesn't
stop that good it's not that fast but it's just it's big and comfortable and it
just chilled me out
and then i had an m3 i had two cars at the time and my m3 was a zippy little
thing and i was flying
around that thing i was like why do i drive different in this car than i do in
the big car
the big car would just chill me out i just get in that big old boat and i just
sure the world was like quiet out there it's nice and relaxed i think it's a i
think it's a slightly
different analysis like if if you're going to adjust your behavior consciously
to adapt to the uh to
the externality right like you know you're going to drive faster if you have a
fast car because you
know that's why the guy built the thing right and it would almost be rude right
it would be rude to
drive a hot rod like a boat you know it's the unconscious things that you do uh
when you
assume or mitigate risk as a result of employing an externality that i think is
is just super interesting because it is interesting well because if it's right
joe if it's right
what it does is it turns all the safety first protocols not necessarily on
their head but this
happened in dirty jobs i did a whole special called safety third because
because safety isn't really first
not really ever and because if it was you would never get a lot of things done
well you'd never
get out of the studio you would definitely never do construction heck no no you
wouldn't do anything
yeah you wouldn't do anything it's uh you know i how you gonna move steel girders
if safety's first
you'd be like first thing we should do is not move this fucking girder that's
right this thing's too
big that's right look i mean for me it was really uh it it took two years to
kind of puzzle
it through because on dirty jobs for the first two years nobody got hurt you
know we were and we sat
through probably 50 mandatory safety briefings whether it's mines or confined
spaces or high spaces
or you know lockout tag out all those protocols and procedures were super
intense and we were really
really focused on coming home alive and in one piece so we like really paid
attention but after two
years of these mandatory compulsory meetings and all of these procedures um we
all started getting hurt
i mean not nothing serious but broken fingers and you know cracked rib and singed
off my eyebrows and my
eyelashes and and mild concussions and things like that i was like what the
hell's happening what was
happening is the the safety experts in all of these mandatory meetings started
to sound like remember
charlie brown's teacher yeah mrs othmar we were just falling asleep right so it
was like holy crap we're in
compliance but we are not out of danger got it and so that begs the question
what you know what happens
to a normal person who actually comes to believe either on the job site or or
just in life that somebody
else cares more about their well-being than they do and it's like that's when
complacency rears its ugly
head so on dirty jobs we just it was just shorthand among the crew but it was
always safety third which
meant heads up man keep your head on a swivel you can be and you can be as
compliant a