Special Episode: Interview with Phrost on Bullshido

Decoding the Gurus

Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne

Science, Leisure, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Matt and Chris are helped again by a guest in their endless quest to get the bottom of what the Hell is Going On and What It's All About.

Phrost describes himself as "the world's most dangeous nerd" and is not only an expert in the fighting arts (like, actual real fighting) but is also no slouch when it comes to combatting bullshit.

He identifies as a soldier, a scientist, and as a shill for "Big Reality".

And his site bullshido.net as well as his podcast The Art of Fighting BS comes up with the reality-based goods. Not only in debunking bullshit in martial arts but also with regard to miracle health cures, supplements, pop psychology, COVID and many other honey traps for the curious and the unwary.

Tune in as Matt and Chris compares notes with Phrost on how and why people delude themselves. Marvel at Phrost's offers to fight Alex Jones, Steven Seagal, and (gasp) Gwenyth Paltrow (for Science!). Matt himself accepts the the offer to fight Phrost, conditional on him being ensconced comfortably within a properly equipped Armoured Fighting Vehincle.

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0:12.8	Hello and welcome to Decoding the Guoeburos, the podcast where an anthropologist and a
0:16.0	psychologist listen to the greatest minds the world have to offer and we try to
0:20.1	understand what they're talking about. I'm Matt Brown, with me is Chris Kavanagh, and we have with us a guest today following in our great tradition of inviting people on who know more about these topics than we do.
0:32.8	And yeah, we're happy.
0:34.0	Would you like to introduce our guest, Chris?
0:36.6	Yes, so a great tradition of two previous interviews.
0:39.7	But I, you know, that's how traditions start. This is a new invented tradition on our part. But yes, so the guest today is Frost who you may know if you're on Twitter and you may also know if you've been
0:56.0	involved with martial arts or at least talking about martial arts online for his
1:02.3	website Bulchido, the art of fighting bullshit, I guess, in martial arts and more generally.
1:09.0	And there's also a new podcast with the same title. Yes, so welcome Frost. Nice to be here. Yes, and I should also
1:21.2	mention that is a username or pseudonym.
1:25.0	Like we have not got Jack Frost or somebody from it.
1:30.0	I haven't changed you.
1:31.0	Yeah.
1:32.0	And it's for us with a pH in case anybody is looking to stalk you online.
1:37.2	These are important ways that people can find things.
1:40.4	So we...
1:41.4	There's a long and nerdy history behind that, which nobody's interested in.
1:45.2	So we talked about the use of having pseudonyms online or just used to be user names and as we're both well aware
1:56.2	Matt has a pseudonym as a account on Twitter where he's our first he dend and
2:01.4	maintains complete anonymity and separation from his actual identity.
2:06.7	Yeah.
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