Feeding Curiosity

Erich and Joe are joined by first time guest and good friend Jordan Criss. This all started with a question of whether a person has a public face, which, in this case, a musician can be separated from their work and the character of that person. From there, we meander to other topics on life and how Joe found his interest in deep philosophy. We close out with some books and podcasts.

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In this episode, Erich, Joe, and Mike sit down and talk about Mike's recent travels. Then we tangent into some of Joe's more recent philosophical meanderings. It gets a bit wordy, but worth the listen since Mike has never waded into these topics before.

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In this episode, Erich and Joe have a conversation about how they started working out and getting themselves into a healthier place. This episode was an attempt to have a bit of a more structured conversation around our views of fitness and topics closely related. 

Show Notes:

(0:00) Introductions

(0:38) Joe's intro to fitness

(1:39) Joe's workout routine

(2:42) Marine Corps Fitness

(3:29) Joe's motivating vision for working out

(4:29) Startup mentality for getting into working out

(5:10) Erich's fitness origin story

(7:20) Erich develops Automatic Habits

(9:08) Muay Thai

(10:17) Is the Joe Rogan Experience a comedy podcast?

(11:47) Erich's first Tough Mudder experience

(12:16) Joe thinks Tough Mudder was like MCT

(13:19) Mental Fitness

(14:49) Breath like a Navy Seal

(15:28) Diabetes

(16:40) The power of teams

(17:40) Do we need a right of passage?

(19:44) Experimental Mindset

(20:06) Joe isn't a Vegan's type

(20:48) Joe Rogan on hunting

(23:49) Lessons Joe learned in the Marine Corps

(25:20) Frustration

(26:12) Being vulnerable

(26:40) Power of Endorphins

(27:12) Times to work out?

(27:56) Tire Flips

(28:32) Hitting your workout wall

(30:21) Leaving the comfort of home

(30:58) New Skills

(31:38) Learning through social cues

(32:16) Branching out

(34:12) Being autonomous, not pigeon-holed

(35:24) Short term and long term goals for the podcast

(36:59) Wrap-up

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In this episode, Joe and Erich have a conversation starting with Yuval Noah Harari. From there the conversation branched into recent philosophy topics Joe has been working with. Finally, we transitioned into a more general conversation on the direction of the future and other ideas related to that.

(00:00)  Catching up with Erich, Joe, & Nick

(01:12)  Yuval Noah Harari on Under the Skin Podcast

(02:26) Intellectual Dark Web

(02:39) Harari's definition of Humanism

(04:12) Humanism, Empiricism, and Determinism

(05:32) Newtonianism

(08:03) Russel Brand's religious vibe

(09:19) Russell Brand & Jordan Peterson

(10:08) Materialism and Darwinian Philosophy

(11:50) Today's news is not interesting

(13:52) The Default Position

(14:57) Emotional Arguing

(16:10) Lessons about stating your opinion on Facebook

(17:37) Examples of philosophical discourse

(19:00) Fundamentalist

(21:02) God Dilemma

(22:42)  Single Infinite Mind & Collective Unconscious

(24:48) Berkeley Spark Notes

(25:39) Berkeley's cup explanation

(27:07) Coastline Paradox

(29:23) So does this matter?

(31:16) Reflections on subconscious growth

(33:08) The value of a five-year plan

(34:18) Resisting change / Comfort Zone

(35:26) Becoming obsolete and evolving

(37:45) Predicting the future of self-driving cars

(39:40) Daniele Bolelli reflecting on virtual communities

(38:20) University system constraints

(40:32) Education evolution

(41:58) VR Universities

(43:12) Overspecialize

(44:22) Real-life Idiocracy

(47:12) What if idea #2 Egypt as a modern society

(47:48) First computers

(48:38) What if humanity was lost forever?

(50:09) Humanity's resilience

(54:14) Is what survives major catastrophes ideas?

(56:05) Predicting the next Google

(56:56) Brain-machine interfaces

(58:47) People seem to be more pessimistic now

(59:56) Is social media the root cause?

(01:02:34) Creating AI to replace God

(01:03:57) Modeling philosophical ideas for holes

(01:05:24) Closing thoughts

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Erich and Joe sit down for an in-depth discussion on the recent film Annihilation. The first half is spoiler-free so that all listeners can enjoy it, and we give fair warning when we cross into spoiler territory. If you want to remain spoiler-free, go watch the movie and come back to finish the episode is highly recommended!  

Annihilation is a 2018 British-American science fiction horror film written and directed by Alex Garland, based on the 2014 novel of the same name by Jeff VanderMeer. It stars Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny, and Óscar Isaac. The story follows a group of explorers who enter "The Shimmer", a mysterious quarantined zone of mutating plants and animals caused by an alien presence.

Show Notes:

(00:00:35) Alex Garland and Previous Films

(00:02:49) Going back to the book

(00:04:14) Basic Plot

(00:08:07) Characters

(00:16:11) Spoilers Start

(00:23:14) The first dead body

(00:25:29) The zombie bear scene

(00:29:30) Watching Panic Spread

(00:31:47) Plants that take on the shape of people 

(00:35:49) The Lighthouse

(00:42:56) A Jungian Story

(00:49:51) Confronting the Shadow

(01:00:11) The Takeaway

(01:05:53) Wrapping up

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Welcome to the first-ever random show of the podcast. Joe is home on spring break, so we decided to grab a few beers, sit down and have a candid conversation about what's going on in our lives.

Show Notes:

(00:03:38) How were the midterms?

(00:06:22) Culture Shock at University of Michigan

(00:09:45) Industrial Org Psych

(00:11:55) Coding and Introverts

(00:13:10) Openness Personality Dimension

(00:14:29) Testing Taking

(00:16:46) Biopsychology Cognition and Neuroscience

(00:18:12) Descartes

(00:24:27) Late Night Talk Shows

(00:25:52) Where is mainstream media heading?

(00:34:52) Education and Accreditation

(00:41:49) Weeding out process in gen eds

(00:45:00) Switching Degrees

(00:46:32) You can choose not to get higher education

(00:48:26) Mike Rowe and Blue Collar

(00:50:51) Making jokes

(00:52:44) Talking in accents

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Erich is joined by his brother Nick and his good friend Joe. Joe attends the University of Michigan in the psychology program. He wanted to talk through some of the stuff he's been studying and bring everyone along for the ride.

Shownotes:

(00:02:14) First remote recording

(00:04:29) Discussing Descartes

(00:06:09) Where did the philosophers get their ideas?

(00:08:07) Psilocybin and openness

(00:10:51) Creativity and walking

(00:12:49) Big 5 personality test

(00:13:38) Tribe of Mentors

(00:17:02) Gateway courses

(00:17:54) Developmental psychology

(00:19:07) Social Smiles

(00:21:23) Social referencing

(00:27:30) Primary Psycho-social conflicts

(00:30:38) Upcoming Research

(00:32:21) Culture Code

(00:33:29) Labs at U of M

(00:35:12) Brain Machine Interfaces

(00:39:28) Savants

(00:41:42) Woke up from a coma speaking another language

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Erich and Mike discuss the recent Falcon Heavy Launch and how the launch can inspire all of us. 

Show Notes:

(00:00:13) Why does this exist?

(00:01:40) Falcon Heavy launch

(00:04:46) What makes the launch so special?

(00:08:57) What is the technological process scary?

(00:10:43) Making a statement

(00:11:55) Standing for something

(00:15:06) History of Elon Musk

(00:17:19) Paypal Mafia (Corrected from consortium)

(00:19:03) Some perspective on Elon

(00:21:07) Dealing with setbacks

(00:21:54) Tim Urban and Wait But Why

(00:23:33) Making dreams reality

(00:27:05) Passion is overused

(00:30:40) What blocks people from achieving their dreams?

(00:33:55) Creativity is misrepresented

(00:37:11) Learn, unlearn and relearn

(00:39:53) Negative criticism

(00:41:18) It's about team humanity

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