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Chapter 1: What are the challenges of sex in space?
the joe rogan experience train by day joe rogan podcast by night all day so jim what was your question
It was two leks, but it was really like, because see, I wouldn't know. Hardcore science question.
Yeah. Based on physics. Okay. In theory, if you were in space and you maybe ejaculated, is it possible that the ejaculate would propel you backwards? Like send you, you know, like is it propulsion? Is there enough power in there to propel you? There's only one way to find out.
It depends on how long you hold it in for. Right? Like, if you didn't jerk off for, like, four months, and then you had, like, the mother load.
I mean, you need something to go one way, so you go the other way. Yeah. And Lex had an answer, but I don't know. What's the answer? He had a thought, I guess.
What if you blow out at the same time?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think in space the biodynamics of the liquids is different. Oh, yeah. I think it's actually difficult to have sex in space and to get people pregnant in space.
Has anybody ever gotten pregnant on the space station? Are they allowed even to have sex?
No, nobody has officially had sex in space. Officially? Officially, but unofficially, of course, people have tried. I wonder if they have. I mean, how monitored are they? There is a Wikipedia page about sex in space, and it's actually pretty detailed.
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Chapter 2: Is there a possibility of getting pregnant in space?
So I should say I went to Ukraine twice after February 24, 2022 invasion. And... Maybe it's good for me to also say where I come from because it's surreal to be there for me.
Sure.
Both my parents are from Ukraine, from Kyiv and Kharkiv. These are towns in Ukraine, cities in Ukraine. I've been there many times. I myself was born in Tajikistan, speaking of Genghis Khan. And I lived there in Tajikistan. And by the way, I'm regretting it. defending Genghis Khan in this conversation for fun.
You didn't really defend.
Yeah, I want to be sort of say that over and over again. War is hell. And it's almost a tension between how much Roman Empire, Caesar, and these folks are venerated. And Genghis Khan is seen as this barbarian that was just destroying and raping and so on. They're all horrible, vicious warmongers. All of them.
Yeah.
Yeah. Anyway, Tajikistan and I lived for a time in Kiev and I lived for a time in Moscow. I have family in Ukraine. I have family in Russia. And so and I should say in World War Two.
A lot of my family was slaughtered in Babi Yar, which is a ravine in Kiev, where they gather people around, the Nazis, and they just put them in this ravine and just shot them and put another layer of humans, told them to get naked and face down, lay face down and slaughter and slaughter like this. It's mass, mass, mass graves, mass slaughter. And my grandfather fought the Nazis.
He's a machine gunner, which he's one of the few that survives, which is the reason I'm here, that they basically tried to hold off the Nazi armada. And the surreal aspect of all this is the same land. I just still remember the song. It's 22nd of June. At 4 a.m., the bombing of Kiev began. So this is in 1941, June 22nd. Just imagine, speaking of Genghis Khan, complete surprise.
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Chapter 3: What are the historical perspectives on Genghis Khan?
Yeah. Yeah. And even when it's unfounded. You know, even like I'm watching the Pete Hegseth, the confirmation hearings. And these ignorant people are going after his tattoo. Yeah. Not even knowing what the tattoo is and trying to pretend that it's some sort of radical, hateful tattoo when it's just an ancient Christian tattoo. It's so strange. I mean, that tattoo's in churches.
That's symbols in churches. That symbol's been around for a long fucking time. It's just a Christian tattoo. And I was watching the Piers Morgan show, and Piers Morgan had Michael Knowles and these two super whack—and Dave Rubin and two super wacky leftist people that didn't know what the tattoo was— and they were criticizing it, and Piers Moore kept going, what is the tattoo? What is it?
Tell me what it is. And the guy would go, you're not answering the question. Go back to it. What is it? Well, let's look it up. He's like, no, no, no, don't look it up. I want you to tell me if you're saying it's offensive. And so then the woman chimes in.
And Michael Knowles just clowns her, just absolutely knows the history of the tattoo, including like, you know, she's talking about it before it existed before Islam, you know, and she's criticizing what it is. And he's like, do you understand that Islam didn't exist when this tattoo, when this symbol existed? Like it's not an anti-Muslim symbol because Islam,
There was no Muslims when this symbol was created. Like, this is bonkers. And they are all in, digging their heels in, pretending, just trying to win this conversation, just trying to win. And Piers Morgan's doing that. He's like the Jerry Springer of political ideology now. He just has people get on the show and yell at each other. It's very entertaining, and he gets great sound bites out of it.
It's kind of genius in terms of, like, an engagement perspective. Yeah. If you looked at your show as just like, how do I get more engagement? Well, that's how you do it. You get some wacky leftists going to say nutty things. You get some right-wing persons going to say nutty things, and you get them all together yelling at each other.
I wish he did less of that. I should say that Piers Morgan, I think, is a great interviewer. Like, he's legit a great interviewer, but he also has... He can put on his Jerry Springer hat on, too.
He's making money.
Listen, I mean... I mean, he does both. He does do long-form great interviews.
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Chapter 4: How does one negotiate peace in modern conflicts?
Isn't that funny? But no, no, no. I think it's wrong. I think they're wrong.
You should get a violin. You should. But I think they're wrong, but it's a fascinating thing to make fun of the smart kid. Yeah. Especially math.
Look at that fucking robot over there. Science. Isn't that weird? But honestly, even in all walks of life, sports is a little better. We do celebrate great athletes, but there's still kind of the participation trophy thing. There's still a kind of sense where we want to help the people that aren't quite as good at a thing. That's only with little kids, though. Sports are what's there.
How little? Sports, once kids get into the teenage years, sports is a meritocracy.
Yes, but culturally, do we really say this is amazing that this person is winning?
Yeah.
We do get there.
I want to take you to a Texas football game. Well, Texas is different. I mean, Texas is Texas. This is what America should be. This is what America should be, that it should all be fired up. But not just about football. No, but all kinds of things. But about, like, everything, music, math. Here's the problem. Football, like, quarterbacks get laid. All right. That's a handsome guy.
That's what I'm trying to tell you. Okay, scientists used to be able to get laid. Physicists in the Soviet Union will get a lot of pussy. What about Feynman?
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Chapter 5: What is the impact of social media on public perception?
So was that a deal where they get a famous streamer and they say, hey, we're going to give you money to come over to this new platform and then they try to start the platform?
Yeah, that's a good idea. You buy everyone to come over and hopefully everyone sticks. Just didn't stick.
Just think about the resources you would have to have if you wanted to take on YouTube. Like, look if Elon had decided, like, okay, we need to turn X into the new YouTube.
Well, he kind of wants to do that, right?
Yeah. But if you wanted to start a separate app... Because Twitch, or excuse me, X is still mostly people exchanging information, mostly exchanging hyperlinks.
The closest thing it's to is like TikTok on the video. The short video clips is good. So I can see actually Elon buying TikTok. It makes total sense and integrating into X. Yeah. But in terms of long-form content, it's just not quite there because you have to implement all of these features. And it is engineering-wise really difficult to have That much video.
We upload hours at a time. Hours. So think about it. Each one of our shows is at least two hours, three hours mostly. That's so much fucking data. If you're letting everybody do that, how much are you paying for it? Like, what is that like? Cause it's free. And then you have to get ads and you have to like put, and then the ads like, Hey, we don't want anybody saying fuck. Oh shit. All right.
Put up a filter, get rid of all the fuck so that Paul Molliff can sell their fucking hand soap, whatever it is, whoever's getting upset at us. Oh, did someone talk about the vaccine? Yeah. You can't get an ad because we're trying to sell vaccine ads. So don't be a cocksucker. Don't ruin my giant business that I've created on your data.
But it is surprising that nobody's built a competitor. Not even close. And it just shows how incredible the teams are.
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Chapter 6: How do personal experiences shape views on war?
Here I am with my fucking exhausted, sleep-deprived, translating, like, his exact words. I could put whatever words in his mouth. Like, I could have, the slap on the wrist thing, I, you know, let me just take responsibility, I guess. I fucked up, you know, it was three hours. It's very tough to, like. Right. But, like, I could have, you know, put in, like, I like dicks in there. Just throw it in.
Just throw it in there, you know, just for fun.
Yeah, that's kind of crazy, right?
Yeah, and there's a lot of people that believe, like, okay, this is what he's saying.
Right.
So, I mean, there's a huge responsibility with that, and I think that's why people trust a particular podcast and so on. Like, you're not going to fuck with that responsibility. Right.
No, you're very aware of it, and you take it very seriously.
Yeah, but it's still hard to decide who and how to talk to. It's really, really difficult to think through the Zelensky conversation. It's difficult to think about whether to talk to Putin or not and how to talk to him. It's difficult to think about Benjamin Netanyahu, to talk to him after October 7th. He's one of the most universally hated people on the planet now. Right.
And it's like, okay, so how do you talk to him?
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of AI on society?
Right.
Well, this is one of the big reasons why people love to dive into the false flag narrative because they find an incentive for people to allow something to take place because if you allow something to take place and you sacrifice a certain percentage of your population, you have now new rules and you have much more power and you have a society that's behind you now because there's a reason why they want to fight.
And this is why any time there's anything that ever happens, there's a bunch of people that think it's a false flag. A bunch of people think 9-11 was a false flag. And then there's real ones that we know about, like Operation Northwoods. Didn't happen, but they really did sign. The Joint Chiefs of Staff signed a proposal where they wanted to blow up American airliner and blame Cuba.
We wanted to arm Cuban friendlies and attack Guantanamo Bay. And they wanted to invade Cuba under false pretenses of a false flag. We really do stuff like that. And I say by we, I mean humans. Humans in power. Nero burned Rome. Hitler burned the Reichstag. There's false flags. They create these situations to force people to fight. And that's a real thing. But it's also...
It's also like people get caught with their pants down, too. So it's hard to know what's what.
It's hard to know what's what. But the same organization that did the whole pager thing, the sophisticated intelligence required for that, somehow missed an obvious breach of a... Right.
And they were warned by Egypt. The whole thing is very, very, very tragic.
Jamie, just quick request. Are you tracking the Starship launch?
I know you want to watch. We've got five minutes, I think. Okay. Four minutes. It's 3.56 right now. Fuck yeah, I want to watch it. Yeah, I know you do.
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Chapter 8: How do historical events influence modern politics?
That's not NASA's channel.
You know what? SpaceX might have just closed their YouTube channel, I'm guessing, because they want to do it on X, right?
Yeah, that makes sense. So I went to there, and that's what it is. Oh, how weird. It's not showing anything yet. How weird. It just went up three minutes ago.
So it's just a bunch of fakers pretending to be SpaceX. SpaceX live like that? You're not SpaceX. You're tricking me into looking at your channel.
They're boosting the algorithm. I guess. So this is it. This is an older one, I think. Oh, this is old?
Some of them. Everyday Astronaut is really great. I recommend people stream him. He's great. Wait, I feel like, have you talked to him? I'm not exactly sure. But he went after Bart.
uh what is his name yeah yeah did he he's really i mean and not went after i should say just he's the opportunity to educate like he like has this really long um gotta get the two of them in the same room yeah for sure that's what he wants he keeps being on my case like because i want to debate him did you ever have bart on your podcast no but bart wants to debate him i was like hey do i want this right of course you do no shut the fuck up do it i think
i think there's a yeah it's it's uh something that happened in the past like what are we going to learn from it say it was completely fake right what's the i i would rather focus on modern day conspiracies what you don't want to know if they fake the moon landing are you crazy no i do want to know but like okay to me how does your life change a lot a
A lot. This is how. Because you know that the government is able to fake the fucking moon landing and to get people to shut their mouths and a bunch of people disappeared. The story is nuts, dude. Do you know the story about, God, what was his name? I don't remember, but he was a journalist. What was he assigned to do? The one that got murdered? He was assigned to do an audit of NASA.
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