Do celebrities inspire cult behavior (Huberman, Diddy, etc.)?
50% Facts
Jim McDonald
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
We talked through the recent New York Magazine article about Andrew Huberman, the legal issues hounding Sean “P Diddy” Combs, and the arguably cultish support for them on social media.
Why do people look for heroes outside themselves?
Huberman article in New York Magazine: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/andrew-huberman-podcast-stanford-joe-rogan.html
Sebastian Brambila (@sebastian_brambila) ran the board and joined us for this one.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome. |
| 0:10.0 | Ostensibly, this is the 400th episode of this show, however, we're not celebrating |
| 0:17.6 | yet, because we have done about 11, you know, |
| 0:25.1 | rewinds, encores. |
| 0:27.9 | What do you call it? |
| 0:28.2 | Yeah, reruns, whatever you want to call it. |
| 0:30.3 | Do you feel like reruns is not a term no more? |
| 0:32.3 | Yeah, I know, because it don't really |
| 0:33.4 | exist anymore right but then like but people go back and watch game of |
| 0:37.5 | thrones yeah you're watching a rerun yeah it's a rerun but it's but but you're |
| 0:42.1 | doing the running, right? |
| 0:44.6 | Yeah, they're always there. |
| 0:46.3 | They are always always there. |
| 0:47.4 | The streaming age is a different time |
| 0:51.5 | for all of us. But yeah, so I don't know. We'll try to cook up something special. |
| 0:58.0 | Some actually special. Today is just us. Just us. |
| 1:03.3 | It's the boys. It's adult talk kids aren't allowed kids. No kids allowed. Yeah |
| 1:08.1 | Pete he did he's in Antigua. He did he's in Antigua. That is just like... |
| 1:13.0 | I don't know what's going on, man, my Twitter's crazy right now. I just can't even keep up. |
| 1:18.0 | Because in the like half of it is just allegations, not Didi. Obviously if you're getting rated by |
| 1:22.8 | homeland security probably something's going on I don't know I don't really know how |
| 1:26.3 | the back end on homeland security works and I don't even know is homeland security |
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