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Joe Rogan notes Stephen King's early struggles with cocaine and alcohol led him to write bestsellers he doesn't remember, like *Cujo* (saved by his wife) and *Carrie* (which he threw away).
Joe Rogan connects Tim Robbins' show *Silo* to Derinkuyu, a massive underground city in Turkey rediscovered in 1963, capable of housing 20,000 people and livestock.
Derinkuyu spans 18 levels, reaching 85 meters (280 feet) deep, featuring stables, presses, chapels, and half-tonne stone doors, suggesting defense against hostile forces. Only 10% is accessible today.
Tim Robbins attributes his successful career to strategically declining roles, turning down a $1 million comedy (*Folks*) for Robert Altman's *The Player* despite needing money for his first child.
Tim Robbins declined multiple offers to play idealized CIA figures, heads of FIFA, and Chilean mining executives, terming this "oligarchical cinema" where the powerful manipulate their public image.
Joe Rogan recalls Oliver North's Iran-Contra scandal in the 1980s and the irony of his later role as a Fox News war analyst, noting those who "got it wrong" often received promotions.
Tim Robbins, one of five famous people to oppose the 2003 Iraq War publicly, faced severe personal attacks and cancellation, unlike the more accepting response to his 1991 Gulf War opposition.
Joe Rogan and Tim Robbins criticize the disingenuous portrayal of Ivermectin as "horse dewormer," noting its Nobel Prize for human use and presence on the WHO Essential Medicines list.
Tim Robbins and Joe Rogan identify a "sophisticated propaganda machine" during COVID-19, leading to "mass formation psychosis" and suppression of dissent, even from MIT and Harvard experts.
Tim Robbins' Los Angeles theater, The Actors' Gang, remained closed an extra six months rather than enforcing vaccine passports, which would have excluded "a third" of their audience and betrayed their purpose.
Tim Robbins describes Romania's low 40% vaccine uptake as rooted in its Soviet Union past, teaching people to "look like we comply when we're not," and likens "cancel culture" to Soviet tactics of discrediting dissidents.
Joe Rogan questions if freedom of speech exists when expressing dissent, like Susan Sarandon's comments on the Israel-Gaza conflict, threatens one's job and career, leading to public blacklisting.
Tim Robbins' nonprofit, The Actors' Gang, runs a 20-year-old prison program using theater to help incarcerated individuals express suppressed emotions, moving beyond anger to foster cross-gang bonds.
The Actors' Gang program operates in 18 California prisons, teaching participants alternative emotional responses and helping them understand they are "more than the worst act that got them there."
Tim Robbins praises *Obsession*, an original and acclaimed film by a young, unknown creator, as an example of the "accident" and non-formulaic art that audiences crave, unlike Hollywood's risk-averse approach.
Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke endorsed a tax-tiered voting system that would remove voting rights from non-income taxpayers and reclassify pension recipients as dependents, arguing for representation based on tax contributions.
Emily and Krystal Ball contend that tech oligarchs seek greater control, believing they are superior and that concentrated power in their hands is inevitable and beneficial, leading to anti-democratic proposals.
A new poll for the Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial primary shows DSA-aligned candidate Francesca Hong leading with 44% of the vote, with David Crowley at 15% and Mandela Barnes at 14%.
DSA-aligned candidates, including Francesca Hong, Mi-Lak Kiros (Colorado), Troy Jackson (Maine), Peggy Flanagan (Minnesota), and Abdul El-Sayed (Michigan), are finding success by offering moral clarity and clear policy stances.
Lindsey Graham's relationships with figures like Donald Trump were strategic, with golf playing a key role in allowing Graham to influence the President on policy matters.
After October 7th, 2023, and Israel's subsequent actions in Gaza, popular opinion turned against Israel, intensifying what AIPAC had feared since 2018: a growing anti-Israel movement in Washington.
Rachel Abrams and Jonathan Mahler discuss that criticism of AIPAC's influence, though measurable, often attracts more scrutiny than other groups and can intersect with long-standing anti-Semitic tropes concerning Jewish wealth and political power.
Emergency workers are racing to find survivors of a powerful 6.8 magnitude earthquake in southwestern Japan, which caused fires, damaged buildings, and left at least one person dead and dozens injured or missing.
The CHP's support has declined to single digits, and a July 25th ceremony to welcome new members notably used paid extras who received $20 each.
Tom Wainwright states AI is making the job market more difficult for Gen Z graduates, as AI-powered HR departments reject AI-assisted applications.
Todd, drawing on effective altruism, suggests donating 10% of an average American salary to a malaria charity could save 20 times more lives than a doctor over a career.
Anthropic extended access to Fable 5 on paid plans through July 12th, originally set to end earlier. Andrew Curran suggests this extension fosters a "heroic aura" after many users had already maxed out their usage.
Gallagher states the primary cause of the American Civil War was the issue of slavery's expansion into federal territories, not its immediate abolition in existing states, driving deep divisions between North and South by the 1850s.
By 1860, the white South, feeling beleaguered as a minority section, saw Lincoln's election and the Republican platform against slavery expansion as a direct threat to their institution, prompting seven slaveholding states to secede.
Gallagher notes that by 1860, nearly four million of the 31 million Americans were African Americans, mostly enslaved, while the free states were over 98% white, with pervasive prejudice against Black people even among many abolitionists.