Supplementary Material 31: Aquatic Nightmares, Strategic Obliviousness, & Race Realists

Decoding the Gurus

Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne

Science, Leisure, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

We venture into the darker corners of the gurusphere and marvel at some very, very brave individuals, their valiant efforts to play devil's advocate, and some world-class discourse surfing skills. Join us, won't you?

Supplementary Material 31: Aquatic Nightmares, Strategic Obliviousness, & Race Realists

00:00 Introduction & Ol Squeaky Cameo

02:57 Matt's Aquarium Trauma & Stress Dreams

09:45 RFK Jr's war on science continues

11:17 Robert Malone & other 'Covid Contrarians' rewarded under Trump

14:35 The LA Protests, Riots, and Anti-Immigrant Narratives

20:12 Flint Dibble calls out Joe Rogan

25:24 Joe Rogan is a polemical ideologue and anti-vaccine advocate

27:34 Cassandra Kavanagh?

32:37 If Books Could Kill on Lab Leak

35:10 Popular Perceptions of the Covid Pandemic vs Reality

38:38 Debating COVID-19 Measures

38:59 Clarifying the Role of Sam's Manager

42:56 Discussing Trump, Musk, and DOGE's Political Impact

47:12 The Meaning Crisis and the Comfort of Religion

50:35 The Effects of Social Media

53:15 Matt and Chris Friendly Shadowboxing

56:19 The horror of directly stating your opinions

58:14 Sam Harris' Preparation for Conversations

01:05:02 Strategic Obliviousness

01:12:26 A little bit of TRT Discourse

01:16:17 Lex's Insufferable Tweet: Celebrating Humanity and Responding to Critics

01:18:46 The Bravery of the All In Podcast Besties

01:20:33 Elon Musk and Donald Trump: A Complex Relationship

01:23:42 Mike from PA and Dunking Safely Online

01:26:10 Scientific Racism and Controversial Podcasts

01:34:02 Paul Bloom and Subjective Redlines

01:41:10 The Neo-Nazi Smoke in the Race Realism World

01:48:36 Daniël Lakens on Bryan Johnson on Mortality Salience

01:50:16 Matt's Foodie Corner

01:52:21 Outro

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0:00.0	I'm
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0:07.0	. Hello and welcome to Decoding the Guru's supplementary material, an offshoot for the main Decoding the Guru's decoding episodes with me, cognitive anthropologist
0:41.8	Christopher Kavanaugh, with him, psychologist Matthew Bryan.
0:46.2	Good morning, Matt.
0:47.7	You have a new haircut, I see.
0:50.5	It's not that new.
0:51.8	Do you know what's different?
0:52.8	Can you spot what's different about me?
0:54.5	Why does my hair look different, maybe better?
0:57.8	Why do I look different?
1:00.9	You styled it in a particular way?
1:04.0	No, you're missing it.
1:07.2	Look, I'm not wearing the big wraparound cans.
1:11.2	I'm wearing the little up on, so my hair can look, can be natural and normal.
1:16.3	How about that?
1:17.6	Well, that's very good, but as you wiggled around there, I noticed old squeaky and
1:22.2	I've said, present.
1:23.0	So as is the traditional ritual for the podcast, just get invited there.
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