Supplementary Material 17: American Dreams, YouTube Algorithms, and Poisonous Plastics
Decoding the Gurus
Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Chris and Matt open the lid on Matt's adventures in America. Basking in the land of the free, Matt is forced to consider YouTube dynamics, indulgent podcast conversations, potential Russian influence campaigns, and the environmental toxins that sound him.
We will return soon with another SM election special and a better mic for Matt!
Content
00:00 Introduction
03:20 Matt's American Insights
10:41 Flint Dibble, Graham Hancock & a silly racist
19:21 YouTube & Audience Capture with Andrew Gold
27:35 Justin Trudeau accuses Jordan Peterson of being Russian Funded
34:29 Bernie Sanders & Lex Fridman: What's the point?
47:24 Huberman's Latest PSA
52:20 Environmental Toxins and Modern Health Concerns
58:58 Outro
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Links
- Express article on Hancock's work being used by racists
- National Post article on Peterson's response to Trudeau's accusations
- Huberman's Twitter PSA on microplastics
- Bernie Sanders Interview | Lex Fridman Podcast #450
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Hello and welcome to coding the guru's supplementary material number 17. |
| 0:35.0 | Can you believe that 17 of days have passed? And I am Chris Kavana, the anthropologist |
| 0:41.4 | from Northern Ireland in Japan. He is Matt Brown, the psychology professor from Australia |
| 0:47.8 | in America, if you can believe it. He's not in his natural environment. It's a roving correspondence episode with Matt in a hotel room, still unable to locate a dungal, |
| 1:02.0 | which would give him access to his microphone. |
| 1:04.6 | So he's logged his nice microphone halfway around the world and then cannot plug it into his PC. |
| 1:10.3 | And you have to bear with him |
| 1:11.9 | because he's only in America where it's very, very hard to find dongles in America. It's not a civilized |
| 1:18.4 | country like where I'm from, where you are, Chris. No, I look, it's true I didn't find a dongle |
| 1:23.5 | today, but in my defense, I was quite hungover and I didn't. You didn't work. I also didn't look, but I was a dongle today, but in my defense, I was quite hungover and I didn't |
| 1:28.3 | work. |
| 1:29.3 | I also didn't look, but I wasn't really, I didn't really feel capable. |
| 1:33.3 | My brother did go into a Best Buy or some kind of, um, a Walmart where, you know, there |
| 1:39.3 | were lots of guns. |
| 1:40.3 | He did see, he did lots of guns, but no, he didn't see any dongles. |
| 1:43.3 | At least he didn't tell me about them. |
| 1:45.5 | I did my best. |
| 1:46.6 | I did my best, which was nothing. |
| 1:49.3 | Yeah, that's it. |
| 1:50.4 | So bad audio, ble mat, okay? |
| 1:53.8 | Emails to Matt, but this will give it more of the authentic, you know, |
| 1:58.5 | Roving Reporter vibe. |
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