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Years before his death, Chester Bennington described the voice inside his head that never stopped trying to destroy him.

“I have a hard time with life sometimes.”

“I keep finding myself trapped in the same patterns over and over again.”

“Inside my own head… it’s a bad neighborhood.”

“I should not be in there alone.”

“There’s another Chester in there that wants to take me down.”

“If I stay inside my own head, I become a mess.”

“I don’t say nice things to myself.”

“But when I get out of myself… being a dad, a husband, a friend, helping other people… I’m okay.”

“I realized I was creating so many of my own problems.”

“The moment you can step back and see what your mind is doing… you can finally do something about it.”

“A lot of people think success makes you happy.”

“It doesn’t.”

“The only difference is I’m in Linkin Park.”

“What goes on inside my head has always been there.”

“When I stop working on myself, my life gets messy.”

“The hardest experiences can make you more compassionate.”

“You come out the other side a better person.

“Keep hope alive.”

“There is always another way.”

– Chester Bennington

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Jon Bernthal explains why toxic masculinity comes from insecurity, not strength.

CONAN O’BRIEN: “You talk about masculinity in a way that gives you an authority other people don’t have.”

BERNTHAL: “I’m not an authority.”

“I’m just a father of two boys, and I know the kind of men I want them to become.”

“They practice martial arts.”

“They know how to defend themselves.”

“I think discipline, strength, and being able to protect yourself are incredibly important.”

“But being kind is just as important.”

“Stand up for the person with fewer rights.”

“Stand up for the kid getting picked on.”

“Have the courage to be empathetic.”

“My friend, a Navy SEAL, taught me that the Samurai weren’t just warriors.”

“They also learned calligraphy, cooking, gardening, and dancing.”

“That’s what made them complete.”

“When masculinity becomes about bullying people or saying, ‘It’s my way or the highway’…”

“That reeks of fear and insecurity.”

“In every boxing gym, the loudest guy is usually the one you don’t have to worry about.”

“The guy who quietly smiles, shakes your hand, and says, ‘You want to move a little?’”

“That’s the guy you should pay attention to.”

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Jon Bernthal explains why toxic masculinity comes from insecurity, not strength.

CONAN O’BRIEN: “You talk about masculinity in a way that gives you an authority other people don’t have.”

BERNTHAL: “I’m not an authority.”

“I’m just a father of two boys, and I know the kind of men I want them to become.”

“They practice martial arts.”

“They know how to defend themselves.”

“I think discipline, strength, and being able to protect yourself are incredibly important.”

“But being kind is just as important.”

“Stand up for the person with fewer rights.”

“Stand up for the kid getting picked on.”

“Have the courage to be empathetic.”

“My friend, a Navy SEAL, taught me that the Samurai weren’t just warriors.”

“They also learned calligraphy, cooking, gardening, and dancing.”

“That’s what made them complete.”

“When masculinity becomes about bullying people or saying, ‘It’s my way or the highway’…”

“That reeks of fear and insecurity.”

“In every boxing gym, the loudest guy is usually the one you don’t have to worry about.”

“The guy who quietly smiles, shakes your hand, and says, ‘You want to move a little?’”

“That’s the guy you should pay attention to.”

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Tom Hardy says the best breakup advice he ever received came from Britain’s most infamous prisoner, Charles Bronson.

“I called him after a breakup.”

“I told him I kept repeating the same pattern in relationships and didn’t know how to break it.”

“He asked me, ‘Do you remember the boy who got his foot stuck in a grate during the floods?’”

“I said, ‘Yeah. He drowned.’”

“Bronson said, ‘That wouldn’t have happened to me.’”

“‘I’d have cut my foot off.’”

“Sometimes you’ve got to cut a little piece of yourself off.”

“No matter how much it hurts.”

“In order to grow.”

“In order to move on.”

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Tom Hardy says the best breakup advice he ever received came from Britain’s most infamous prisoner, Charles Bronson.

“I called him after a breakup.”

“I told him I kept repeating the same pattern in relationships and didn’t know how to break it.”

“He asked me, ‘Do you remember the boy who got his foot stuck in a grate during the floods?’”

“I said, ‘Yeah. He drowned.’”

“Bronson said, ‘That wouldn’t have happened to me.’”

“‘I’d have cut my foot off.’”

“Sometimes you’ve got to cut a little piece of yourself off.”

“No matter how much it hurts.”

“In order to grow.”

“In order to move on.”

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Mel Gibson says he stopped moving with security because he believes, “If something’s gonna happen, it’s gonna happen.”

Joe Rogan: “I have some friends that have a place in Mexico. I’m always like, don’t you ever worry?”

Mel Gibson: “I worked in Mexico a couple of times.”

“They said, ‘You’re crazy going for a walk. You’ll get kidnapped.’”

“I said, ‘I’m not gonna get kidnapped. I’m the guy that pays.’”

“‘You’re gonna get kidnapped.’”

“‘And I’m not gonna pay your ransom.’”

“I used to watch guys who do what I do for a living, and they had a phalanx of bodyguards around them.”

“I used to have that stuff for a little while.”

“Meh… doesn’t make any difference.”

“If something’s gonna happen, it’s gonna happen.”

“You’re gonna be okay… or not.”

Joe Rogan: “Everybody’s gonna be okay until they’re not.”

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Joe Rogan asks physicist Brian Cox one question that completely changes the way you think about humanity’s place in the universe.

What if…

We’re the only intelligent civilization in the entire Milky Way?

ROGAN: “Do you ever entertain the idea that we are the only intelligent life?”

COX: “I think it’s possible that, at this moment, there’s only one civilization in the Milky Way and that’s us.”

ROGAN: “Wow.”

COX: “If that’s true, then meaning may only exist here.”

“We are incredibly rare configurations of atoms capable of asking questions about our own existence.”

“If we’re the only place where intelligence exists in this galaxy… then we’re also the only place where meaning exists.”

ROGAN: “That’s fascinating.”

COX: “That means we have a responsibility.”

“It exists in us, and only for a very short period of time.”

“So we’d better make the best of it.”

ROGAN: “But it’s so compelling to imagine another civilization that’s millions of years more advanced than us.”

COX: “I think there probably are civilizations elsewhere in the universe.”

“But the universe contains roughly two trillion galaxies.”

“They may simply be so unbelievably far apart that we’ll never meet.”

ROGAN: “Or maybe they’re already here and they’re treating us the way we treat uncontacted tribes.”

“Why would an advanced civilization reveal itself to a species that’s still dropping bombs on each other?”

COX: “That’s possible too.”

“A civilization millions of years ahead of us might use technology so advanced, so tiny, and so efficient that we’d never even know it was there.”

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Joe Rogan and Annie Jacobsen questions whether one habit millions of people adopted during COVID is actually making us less healthy.

ROGAN: “Do you remember how much hand sanitizer was everywhere? Everyone was squirting that stuff.”

JACOBSEN: “Absolutely. And I still see people using hand sanitizer all over the place. Bottles of it in corporate places.”

ROGAN: “Your skin is an organ, and you’re taking this stuff that just nukes all of your skin flora.”

“You’re just wiping your hands with it and rubbing it all over.”

“There’s nothing good about that.”

“Wash your hands. Use soap.”

JACOBSEN: “It seems like the common sense part of health has kind of gone out the window.”

“I grew up in rural Connecticut. Our playground was dirt.”

“You got dirty.”

“Now everything is fake turf.”

“I came across research suggesting that dirt is actually really good for you.”

ROGAN: “We’ve evolved by dealing with germs.”

“That’s why kids are always putting things in their mouths and touching everything.”

“It’s probably good for them to be exposed to different bacteria and microbes because it strengthens your immune system.”

JACOBSEN: “It’s kind of common sense too.”

ROGAN: “A certain amount of exposure does strengthen your immune system.”

“Kids that grow up in completely sterile environments… you have to wonder if their immune systems become weaker because they’re never forced to battle anything.”

“We’re terrified of what we don’t know.”

“And that’s part of the problem when experts have really flawed approaches.”

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Joe Rogan is fascinated by the possibility that giant snakes far larger than anything officially recorded could still be hiding in some of the most unexplored places on Earth.

FORREST GALANTE: “I believe there are 30-foot anacondas out there.”

GALANTE: “Take the Amazon out of the equation for a second.”

“Every tropical rainforest with huge amounts of prey has massive snakes.”

“The one place that doesn’t is the Congo.”

ROGAN: “Interesting.”

GALANTE: “During World War II, a highly respected colonel and two other men flew over the Congo and all reported seeing a gigantic snake.”

“They circled back twice to make sure they weren’t imagining it.”

ROGAN: “They took a photo of it?”

GALANTE: “They did.”

GALANTE: “The snake was estimated to be around 50 feet long with a head nearly 3 feet long.”

“They even claimed it rose up and struck at the airplane as they flew lower.”

ROGAN: “Jesus.”

GALANTE: “No snake that size has ever been scientifically verified.”

“But the Congo is still one of the least biologically explored places on Earth.”

ROGAN: “What’s the biggest snake we actually know exists?”

GALANTE: “Around 26 feet.”

“There are lots of stories about 30, 40, even 50-foot snakes, but almost none have been verified.”

ROGAN: “Wow.”

GALANTE: “I still believe there are giant animals waiting to be discovered.”

“Maybe not 50-foot monsters.”

“But I wouldn’t be surprised if there are 30 or even 35-foot snakes living in places humans have barely explored.”

ROGAN: “That’s fascinating.”

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Joe Rogan is left speechless after Annie Jacobsen reveals what a legendary CIA officer told her about negotiating with Al-Qaeda’s biological weapons program:

JACOBSEN: “I interviewed a legendary CIA officer named Ralph Mowatt-Larssen.”

JACOBSEN: “He led counter-WMD operations and would meet face-to-face with Al-Qaeda’s biological weapons makers.”

ROGAN: “What?”

JACOBSEN: “His job was to convince them, ‘You can’t do this. It’s going to kill all of us.’”

ROGAN: “Jesus.”

JACOBSEN: “He told me about meeting the top biological weapons maker for Al-Qaeda in Sudan.”

ROGAN: “Wow.”

JACOBSEN: “He said he managed to get them to agree to stop.”

ROGAN: “Really?”

JACOBSEN: “Temporarily.”

ROGAN: “…Temporarily?”

JACOBSEN: “Temporarily.”

ROGAN: “Ugh.”

JACOBSEN: “Sorry, Joe. This is the nightmare stuff.”

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Joe Rogan has never looked more disturbed when investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen leaks that the first woman to make it on the FBI’s most wanted terrorist list tried to create an airborne version of rabies and she currently lives in Texas:

JACOBSEN: “There’s this woman who’s an Al-Qaeda terrorist that they put in a mental institution here in Texas.”

ROGAN: “😳😳😳”

JACOBSEN: “She’s an MIT trained biologist who was leading the biological weapons program. This is according to the CIA.”

ROGAN: “Oh my god she was trained at MIT?”

JACOBSEN: “Yes and then after her training she went back to Pakistan.”

ROGAN: “How come they have her in a mental institute?”

JACOBSEN: “Because after they caught her she supposedly got ahold of a Marine’s rifle and started firing at the FBI agent’s interviewing her.”

ROGAN: “WHAT?!”

JACOBSEN: “In her handbag they found plans to create a genetically modified pathogen that mixed rabies with chicken pox.”

ROGAN: “😳😳😳”

JACOBSEN: “This would be an airborne version of rabies that would have a 100% death rate on Americans.”

ROGAN: “Woahhh. Rabies makes animals super aggressive where they start trying to bite and infect anything they can get their teeth on.”

JACOBSEN: “They got the top biological weapons maker for Al-Qaeda to stop his work temporarily.”

ROGAN: “Temporarily? Ughhhhh.”

JACOBSEN: “Sorry Joe. This is the nightmare stuff.”

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