A podcast that’s blowing my mind (about multiverse and simulation theory and more)
Rizwan Virk, a recent guest on Joe Rogan’s podcast, is an author, entrepreneur, investor, video game expert, and computer scientist. He’s subtly smart mainly due to the breadth of his knowledge across so many fields. He also strikes me as the kind of person who researches far and beyond the average and soaks up knowledge along the way.
In this episode, he speaks on several topics bringing in beliefs from Judeo-Christian as well as eastern religions, near-death experiences, the multiverse and explained how it’s possible, even likely, that we are in fact living in a simulation. Like a very realistic video game, and we’re all in it. He even talks about how some of these other “players” might be computer-controlled sims, and not even another person behind them. Remember the Berenstein Bears? Well, they’re not the Beren_stein_ Bears but the Beren_stain_ Bears; even though we all seem to remember it incorrectly. This and other Mandela Effects Rizwan attributes to multiverse threads being changed, or a simulation being updated, like the famous “glitch in the Matrix” déjà-vu effect.
I can’t honestly tell you I buy it all, but it is fascinating to imagine. And Rizwan offers profound insight into how and why this is, as he says, probably the case.
This is Rogan so you can expect the standard warning: profanity throughout, and Rogan has a way of ruffling the feathers of those whose feathers are easily ruffled.
Watch me get my butt kicked for $25 (tax deductible, too!)
Tap Cancer Out (TCO) is a fun event with a phenomenal cause. A Connecticut-born nonprofit, TCO hosts Brazilian Jiu Jitsu tournaments all around the US to raise money for a variety of organizations across cancer research, relief and awareness. Since its inaugural tournament in 2012, (and its heart-wrenching inspiration 6 years earlier) TCO has donated more than $6.25M and hosted dozens of events across the country.
I have decided to enter one such tournament to be held on June 22, and have set a donation goal of $1,250. If you want to watch me kick butt or get my butt kicked, you can follow along for the updates here. And a lucky one among you could be the first to donate → on my TCO donation page. I will be posting some training updates there so it will be worth it to at least follow along, no donations necessary. (But they are tax deductible, so…)
Heurigen – yet another thing the Austrians do better
Wine enjoyed at the vineyard is both a natural experience and offers a favorable imbalance between quality and price. For about 40-50 EUR all-in ($45-60) a whole family can enjoy deliciously prepared plates of cured and smoked meats, breads with hearty spreads, and wine from grapes grown just behind the Heurigen, where you’d find yourself seated.
A Heurigen (pronounced hoy’-ri-ghen) is a traditional Austrian wine cellar-cabin where local winemakers serve this year’s wines alongside delicious homemade foods. It’s all about relaxing at the Heurigen; you’re even likely to bump into some familiar faces – if you’re a local, that is. Heurigen can range from just a lockable door to an underground cellar, all the way to second-home-classy tavern resorts with multiple areas for seating and ambience. My favorite are the traditional fancy ones, with only a basic kitchen inside and your typical hustling Kellner (server) scrambling to keep up with his patrons’ steady ordering.
If you visit Austria in Summer, I highly recommend you modify your plans to visit a Heurigen. (Note that if you are visiting Styria, Austria, they are locally called Buschenschank, not Heurigen. There is a subtle distinction between the two, I don’t know it, but it’s one of those things you shouldn’t assume they are the same. (They’re the same.)
Bonus: Walmart Rockstar
Check out this dude shredding a Cars kid’s toy guitar. (Facebook)
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