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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 2610 The Five-Year Anniversary of the Madness (and Other Topics)

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Cognitive scientist Mark Changizi discusses the 2020 hysteria, the key insight to remember about AI, and the scientific explanation for why motorcycles are a thrill to ride.

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Book Discussed:
Motorcycle Mind: The Secrets Behind the Coolest Invention Ever

Guest's Website: changizi.com 

Guest's Twitter: @MarkChangizi

Show notes for Ep. 2610

Transcript

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0:00.0

Get ready to take a flamethrower to the official narrative and learn what the elites don't want you to know.

0:08.8

You're listening to The Tom Woods Show.

0:18.6

Hi everybody, Tom Woods here. It is episode 2610 of the Tom Woods show. And I couldn't be happier to be joined today by Mark Changizi, who is a cognitive scientist with a great many fascinating things to say about a wide variety of topics. The only overlap, I would say, between the kind of output Mark has and the kind of output I have, is that we are too interested in too many things to stay focused on one narrow area of expertise. That would drive me crazy and bore me to debt. And so, for example, Mark's most recent book, it just seems out of left field.

0:56.4

It's called Motorcycle Mind, the Secrets Behind the Coolest Invention Ever. And yet he's written on a vast

1:04.0

array of topics. So just my kind of guy. And wouldn't you know it five years ago, because here we are,

1:12.5

gosh, at just about the five-year anniversary of all this craziness he suddenly became a freedom fighter like you and me because all decent people

1:18.3

had to be pulled into this struggle that we all had so i've been following him on twitter for years

1:23.3

and thinking boy this guy would make a fascinating guest and I never approached him.

1:28.9

And then he approached me.

1:32.2

That's sometimes how things have to happen at the Tom Wood Show.

1:32.9

Welcome, Mark.

1:34.1

Great to get here, Tom.

1:34.9

All right.

1:37.7

So I absolutely want to talk about this motorcycle book,

1:40.1

but I want to prime people for it by first introducing them to you through some topics

1:43.7

that are more familiar

1:45.0

to the Tom Woods show. So here we are, as we record this, we're getting toward the end of February

1:50.5

2025, which means five years ago was the end of February 2020. And I look back on that, Mark.

1:56.7

February 2020, I was in London at a dream theater concert at the old Hammersmith, Odeon.

2:03.0

It's now something else, the Apollo or something.

2:05.9

And I have that photo of the audience with their phone lights.

2:09.3

They're all turned on.

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