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🗓️ 20 November 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Do I come across as 510? |
| 0:39.2 | I'm actually, I actually, I'm like shrinking prematurely because I have scoliosis. Your body's catching up to your personality. Well, now it doesn't matter because I'm just a married old man. It's like kind of irrelevant, you know? My whole, my whole aura is kind of gone anyway. I will say numerous people have clocked me as 5'6. without me having said that on the show. I think I have like very five six energy. I think five six is just a placeholder height because five seven is like, that's a short man. Five six is where it starts to get funny. I also, I just don't, sorry if this is homophobic. I don't think it's relevant for game men. If anything were, we're, like, I'm pretty discriminatory against people over, like, 6-1. |
| 0:41.2 | I don't need redwoods in my home. |
| 0:43.7 | Okay, let's do this, Peter. |
| 0:44.2 | What do you have? |
| 0:46.9 | I know it's going to be something about homo erectus. |
| 0:50.1 | We'll just get whatever you need to say, just fucking get it out now. |
| 0:51.1 | I think I've got something. |
| 0:55.3 | You're ready? Okay. Peter. Michael. What do you know about sapiens? |
| 0:57.9 | All I know is that I should have done that book. |
| 1:00.2 | That way I could have started this off with, |
| 1:03.8 | you bring the homo and I'll bring the sapiens. I'm going to saypians. The full title of the book is Sapiens, colon, a brief history of humankind by Yuval Noah Harari. |
| 1:25.9 | It was published originally in Hebrew in 2011 and then in English in |
| 1:29.8 | 2014. It has sold, as usual, we don't know the numbers, but I've heard 12 million, I've |
| 1:35.7 | heard 40 million. It has sold numerous copies. Forty million cannot be right. I know that I feel |
| 1:40.7 | like people just like say shit. It was a huge hit among the Davos set. |
| 1:45.2 | Bill Gates wrote an entire blog post about how much he liked it. |
| 1:49.4 | Like, everyone should read this book. |
| 1:50.8 | Barack Obama compared reading the book to visiting the pyramids of Giza. |
| 1:56.0 | This book was also in Mark Zuckerberg's book club, which was not something I was aware of before. |
| 2:00.7 | But he did a very long, like one-on-one interview where he interviews Yuval Harari about the book. And it seems very clear that, like, Mark Zuckerberg found this very influential. This was right before they facilitated a genocide. This was mid, I mean, depending on the genocide, it's hard to say. I'm afraid you'll have to be more specific. But also, like, if you go to |
| 2:19.8 | Harare's Twitter feed, it's all like, I'm speaking today at the AI summit in Singapore. And he's |
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