Barry Weiss
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976 appearances
13 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Mar 2025
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I mean, the idea of outsourcing fights to AI with my wife seems like a good idea, but I guess I'm left wondering, and maybe we'll wind up here, but if any of that is a life worth living, if AI is doing everything for me,
But I think what I'm responding to, and maybe I am having exactly the response you're saying, but I think maybe the deeper read of it, or another read of it, rather, is that the idea of being free to choose is the thing that makes us human. And if what you're saying is we can just outsource everything to a super intelligent machine...
Like, at least in my worldview, that choosing and that discerning and that even the ability to fail miserably is like at the very, very core of our humanity. But maybe that's just an old idea and a different worldview.
What do you think I think the idea of being human is?
What do you think the idea of being human is?
Brian, do you think being human is a social construct?
More with Brian Johnson after the break. Stay with us. Brian, we're in a really interesting moment where I think people understand at a more broad level than they did certainly 10 years ago that whatever is going on right now with health in America and maybe the West more broadly is bad.
And they're open to pretty wacky or alternative or unconventional ideas because they see whatever our habits are, whatever's going on, they're leading to widespread obesity and heart disease and cancer and sickness.
And one of the core manifestations of that openness to alternative health ideas showed itself very powerfully in this last election cycle with the Maha movement, with the Make America Healthy Again movement. And I wanted to ask you what you think about it.
Just to draw a line under it, there was a guy, I'm blanking on his name, but who did a study of microplastics in like all foods. This came out in the past week. And I think it made people feel very betrayed that like the Whole Foods grass-raised beef had the most microplastics.
And so it was like even the people that are spending so much money to get the healthy meat felt betrayed. So it's kind of like everywhere. It feels like nothing is safe.
Wow. What does that mean?
Maha, I would say, is particularly focused on a few things. And I'm curious just your quick takes on them. We hit on microplastics. Obviously, you think that's an enormous priority, given what you just told us. Seed oils overstated in their badness or as bad as people are saying?
So like most infamously in the cultural debate is that McDonald's uses seed oils. RFK wants to bring tallow back. This is like a whole micro debate. But you're saying seed oils themselves aren't that bad. It's the way they're used.
Vaccines.
Are you fully vaccinated?
On everything other than COVID.
So let me make it personal. Do you get a flu shot every year?
Did you get vaccinated for COVID?
Do you regret getting vaccinated for COVID?
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