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The Joe Rogan Experience

#1274 - Nicholas Christakis

The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan

Comedy

4.6228.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2019

⏱️ 142 minutes

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Nicholas Christakis is a sociologist and physician known for his research on social networks and on the socioeconomic, biosocial, and evolutionary determinants of behavior, health, and longevity. He is the Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University, where he directs the Human Nature Lab. He is also the Co-Director of the Yale Institute for Network Science. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

My gay folks took over the rainbow.

0:03.0

Four, three, two.

0:07.0

Will it work today, Jamie?

0:11.0

Yes.

0:12.0

Hello Nicholas. Hey Jill, how are are you man? Great to meet you. It's really good to meet you too. I became aware of you like many people did with the infamous Halloween costume incident at Yale where explain that for people who

0:26.7

don't know what happened because it was kind of a crazy scene it went national yes

0:31.9

it was a moment when around the country many students were

0:35.9

struggling with how to balance conflicting sort of needs and is that a little bit

0:42.1

close to your face there you

0:43.2

conflicting needs how on the one hand to create an environment in schools where

0:50.4

everyone sort of felt welcome as we've democratized admissions to our

0:55.2

American universities as I think we should have people from all walks of life

0:59.1

have started moving into these institutions claiming them for their own which I think

1:02.4

is appropriate but at the same time these institutions claiming them for their own which I think is appropriate.

1:03.8

But at the same time these institutions had wonderful heritages of commitment to free expression

1:08.6

and open debate and reason as a principle for resolving our differences.

1:15.0

And some of those values came into tension.

1:18.0

And so around the country there was a lot of heat about this,

1:22.0

and I happened to walk into a propeller myself and and wound up in some

1:29.3

challenging circumstances and you know I it was not it was not the worst thing that's ever

1:39.8

happened to me but you know it was in the top 10 challenging moments I've had in my life let's say.

1:44.4

Yeah that's a very lawyer like way of describing exactly what happened.

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