Name: Joe Rogan Experience #722 - Tony Hinchcliffe (Audio Only)
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Joe Rogan Experience #722 - Tony Hinchcliffe (Audio Only)

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Boom. We are live in a hotel room in the middle of Melbourne, Australia,
and next door to us is some sort of a religious institution, cathedral-type
scenario,
some fucking bunk-ass bullshit old-world voodoo house that's got their fucking
bells ringing constantly.
They get to do that. Imagine if you lived next door to those assholes,
and it's like, they decided today it was a special time to ring the gong.
So we don't know what's going on. We thought it was like, maybe for Paris,
because as we're doing this, Tony and I just found out maybe an hour or so ago
that the Paris attacks had gone on. More than 100 people are dead.
It was inside some rock and roll show.
Yeah, death metal.
Yeah, some death metal show.
One more reason and never go see a death metal concert.
Already.
That's an interesting place to attack.
Yeah, it's pretty fucked up. The whole thing is pretty fucked up.
I didn't know they had death metal in Paris. It seems like it just wouldn't
even exist there.
Like, there'd be no base for that.
Turns out there was hundreds of people there.
I think more than that. I think there's thousands.
I think it's a big... I don't know.
Why would you think that death metal wouldn't be popular in Paris?
Paris just seems like they're a little bit too prim and proper for, you know,
death metal.
I think on paper they do.
Like, if we look at it from the past.
Yeah.
I don't think they're that prim and proper.
I think Paris is a lot of, like, drinking and fucking and Gerard Depardieu.
Like, I almost thought it stopped.
It did stop.
Now they're just slowly gonging.
One, two, three.
How long are you going to do that?
I don't know.
This is, like, the biggest cathedral I've ever seen, though, right?
This thing's huge.
It's over. It ended.
Yeah, it's pretty big.
The ones in New York City, I think, are probably bigger.
They're really old, though.
Those old, we were saying before this started, that those old religious houses,
those old buildings,
they don't make them like that anymore.
I wish they did.
This stuff's so cool.
With Game of Thrones getting more popular, you would think, like, there'd be
more of that type of architecture happening.
People wanting to create their own kingdoms and stuff.
I bet we do see more of it.
It's hard to create a kingdom today.
People are too hip.
Yeah.
They're aware of what you're trying to do.
Yeah.
Like, have you tried to make a religion today where all your leaders can't have
sex, like the Catholics have?
They'd be like, wait, what?
Right.
Get the fuck out of here.
Nobody would want to be the leader of that.
They're like, I'll follow, but I'm not going to lead.
Like, what are the laws?
Like, Scientology is, like, the most recent of all the religions, right?
Because that was started in the 50s or 60s.
Like, whenever I forget.
I'm reading the middle of this book.
I can't even, I can't finish it.
I read it, and then I put it down.
So the Lawrence Wright book, Going Clear, that they started that, it was the
beginning of that HBO documentary.
That's how it started.
And I've watched the documentary, and I keep getting into this book.
But it's so crazy.
That guy, L. Ron Hubbard, was so fucking crazy that the idea that this guy
could start this global movement that has, who knows how many fucking thousands
of people in it, and how many fucking millions, if not billions of dollars they've
earned in real estate, and how much they've pilfered from all these people that
are inside of it.
It's crazy.
It really is.
I think it really preys upon the people that, like, are the weakest.
I mean, how do you believe?
The guy was a science fiction author.
Yeah.
That should be enough.
Right there.
The first thing at the top of this guy's resume is that he was a big science
fiction author.
I mean, if George Lucas started a religion, well, I guess maybe that'd probably
be a pretty cool religion.
Oh, and everybody would join, so many dorks would be like, I'm in.
Fuck it.
I'm in.
And that's really the crazy part is I don't know, like, I don't, I mean, I don't
think L. Ron Hubbard really got that famous off of, like, his science fiction.
Maybe I'm wrong.
Like, I don't know.
But he, it was definitely no Star Wars.
Like, you would think that, and maybe that's why he did this.
Like, he's like, I haven't come up with a hit.
Maybe I'll just start a religion.
Well, he is the most prolific author ever.
He wrote more books than anybody that's ever lived.
Yeah.
Which is another thing that would be at the top of his resume that proves that
he's full of bullshit.
Just so much stuff.
He just kept writing.
Yeah.
Well, he's the most prolific bullshit artist ever.
And the other thing is that his work was, like, all first drafts.
It seems like he never did a second draft ever.
He just, whatever he thought, he wrote down and just slobbered.
Through the whole thing.
It's all, like, terrible, terrible, terrible writing.
It's all, like, and then the Thetans dropped the frozen volcano.
The people in the volcano.
And that's where your anxiety comes from.
The going clear is about releasing all of it.
Like, all of his ideas and principles of the ideals of Scientology, he outlined
in the science fiction stories.
Before he ever put them down as, like, the actual reality of Scientology.
He, like, you could see, like, if you go back over his older stuff, you see him
making this stuff up.
Mm-hmm.
And, you know, it's, like, on top of all that, on top of it being wild, they
take so much money from these people.
10%, right?
Is it a 10% thing?
And then, like, if you do anything bad, they, like, punish you and make you
give them more money and stuff.
No, it's true.
Like, I was reading this article about that actress, uh, she was in, like, Mike,
not Mike, Caroline Ray, I think her name is.
She was in, like, some show with, like, Mike or Molly, one of those.
You talking about Leah Remini?
Yeah, that's who I'm talking about.
She's in the King and Queens.
Yeah.
She was in the Kevin James show.
Kevin James.
That's right.
I always get Kevin James and Mike from Mike and Molly confused.
Big sitcom guys.
Um, but I guess, like, I guess she went to Tom and, uh, Tom Cruise and Katie
Holmes' wedding and, like, said some stuff and everybody got mad at her.
And they charged her, like, a hundred thousand bucks for it.
Like, something crazy like that.
Well, they didn't just charge her.
They made her go through hours and hours of retraining and auditing.
You know, they go, you go through this auditing thing where you have to sit
down.
You go through every single last detail of everything you said and what you did
during the wedding.
And she had to apologize to Katie Holmes for ruining her special day.
And I can see Leah Remini fucking it up, though.
She's, you know, she's a bold woman.
Yeah, she seems like a little party machine.
She gets a few champagnes in her or something.
She seems like she drinks and just starts auditing out loud, you know.
Do you think this podcast is going to get fucked up by those gongs in the
background?
I think maybe it sort of gives it, like, a vibe.
Like, sort of a tone.
An annoying tone.
Like, if you're listening to this right now, you'd be like,
Are they fucking really going to do this with the gongs in the background?
I don't know if there's a way in this room we could get away from it.
I think that's, like, the reality of where we are.
Yeah, you're on the...
That is unbelievably annoying.
Yeah.
If I lived here, I'd be so pissed.
If I was trying to take my afternoon nap, and this shit is going off.
Gong, gong, gong, gong, gong.
Jesus Christ.
Once upon a time, walked upon the water.
Gong, gong, gong, gong, gong.
I think it's because of the France thing.
But there's people going in there.
It looks like a wedding.
You know what I was just thinking about?
Because I was reading all these tweets on Twitter about the Paris-France thing,
like, as it's happening.
And so many people are tweeting the same thing.
They're all going, like, you know, pray for France, pray for France.
And I'm just thinking to myself, like, I started thinking about prayer and what
it is.
And it just seems like it's something that people do to make themselves feel
better.
Well, it's definitely something people do to make themselves feel better.
But the idea is that somehow positive thinking can correct things.
Yeah, can you imagine if there was, like, a, if, can you imagine if there was
studies that showed that praying did something, what would happen?
Well, what is the placebo effect, right?
The placebo effect is you believing that something is happening, even though
there's no real chemical, like, you're taking a sugar pill.
And just believing that that sugar pill is some miracle pill, you can somehow
or another enact a physical effect on your body.
Like, the power of the mind, it's real.
Like, there is, there's real healing powers of the mind.
And if you apply that to prayer, like, if you think that prayer really does
help, if you actually believe it, it probably would have a similar effect, at
least physically, to the placebo effect.
Yeah, on the person praying.
On the person who believes.
Like, if somebody prayed for you, if you had something wrong with you, and
someone prayed for you, you might, it might happen.
It might have a physical effect on you if you actually believe they could do it.
Like, if you were, if you had some Gandalf motherfucker hanging around with you.
Oh, I see.
So, if you believe that prayers work, and somebody prays for you, and you're
like, oh, man, these people are praying for me.
Yeah.
Okay.
I think that there's probably all these untapped ways that we can help our body,
that we can, like, power up our immune system or overcome, like, certain things
that are happening to our physical body just because our mind believes it.
Mm-hmm.
You know, they've shown it with the placebo effect that it's a real effect,
that there is really something going on, but we don't know how to, like,
voluntarily use that without tricking ourselves, for the most part.
Yeah.
You know how this guy Wim Hof on my podcast?
Fascinating fucking dude.
And he's, he holds, like, 26 world records.
He summited Everest in his shorts with, like, sandals on, fucking ice cleats
under the sandals.
Oh, my God.
And he ran half a marathon in minus 40-degree weather with shorts on and no
shirt, barefoot.
Wow.
Yeah, he swam 100 yards.
It was supposed to be 50, but he couldn't figure out how to, it was under the
ice.
He swam under the ice, and it was supposed to be 50 yards, but his retinas
froze because the water was so fucking cold, so he couldn't see where he was
going.
So he wound up going twice as far.
With one breath, he wound up swimming 100 yards under the ice before they
pulled him out.
Oh, my God.
Because he couldn't find the hole in the ice.
He's, he's, he's got 26 world records, and a big part of his, like, his
methodology is about breathing and about over-oxygenating, like, like, oxygen
loading on your lungs.
But he's able to achieve these crazy states, like, that he had a Dutch
university, or a hospital, or university hospital, inject him with a mycotoxin.
A mycotoxin?
A biotoxin.
And this biotoxin that he, like, he showed that he could activate his immune
system with his own mind, things that we thought were only autonomous sort of
systems, like your immune system.
Like, he's able to actually physically activate it with his own mind.
So I think there's all sorts of different areas of the human body that are, we
haven't really tapped into the full potential of.
And that's probably what the, the, that's probably what the placebo effect
shows.
It shows that we just don't know how to stimulate, like, the average person
doesn't know how to stimulate those, those systems.
But it is possible.
We just don't know how to do it.
Yeah.
You know?
Hmm.
That's some interesting stuff.
Well, it's interesting because we know that certain states 