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John Regalado

πŸ‘€ Speaker
630 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

Surrounded
Why Are Vegans So Annoying? | Jack Symes Surrounded Follow-up

That's where I start to feel that intuition that you're saying, where it's like, okay, that starts to feel like a pile to me.

Surrounded
Why Are Vegans So Annoying? | Jack Symes Surrounded Follow-up

Yeah.

Surrounded
Why Are Vegans So Annoying? | Jack Symes Surrounded Follow-up

It's interesting kind of building on this narrative element is, you know, I think Gerard was being really clever in building that narrative around the human because that amplifies the sense of suffering.

Surrounded
Why Are Vegans So Annoying? | Jack Symes Surrounded Follow-up

Because if you were to kind of concede, yeah, like I think one Jewish person suffering in Auschwitz equals 3,000 cows.

Surrounded
Why Are Vegans So Annoying? | Jack Symes Surrounded Follow-up

Yeah.

Surrounded
Why Are Vegans So Annoying? | Jack Symes Surrounded Follow-up

You know, that amplifies this idea that you're diminishing that suffering because we tie so much tragic weight to that anecdote.

Surrounded
Why Are Vegans So Annoying? | Jack Symes Surrounded Follow-up

Okay, so the last clip I want to pull up and then we can kind of just...

Surrounded
Why Are Vegans So Annoying? | Jack Symes Surrounded Follow-up

I want to talk about my own journey a little bit with you, because I do find this very compelling.

Surrounded
Why Are Vegans So Annoying? | Jack Symes Surrounded Follow-up

So you asked, I think his name is Vidur, back to the center at the very end.

Surrounded
Why Are Vegans So Annoying? | Jack Symes Surrounded Follow-up

And he was the closest person.

Surrounded
Why Are Vegans So Annoying? | Jack Symes Surrounded Follow-up

He had tried being vegan previously.

Surrounded
Why Are Vegans So Annoying? | Jack Symes Surrounded Follow-up

He wasn't successful at sticking with it.

Surrounded
Why Are Vegans So Annoying? | Jack Symes Surrounded Follow-up

And you really just kind of put him on the spot at the very end, like, come back.

Surrounded
Why Are Vegans So Annoying? | Jack Symes Surrounded Follow-up

And it's this really interesting moment.

Surrounded
Why Are Vegans So Annoying? | Jack Symes Surrounded Follow-up

I like the way he responds to you, though.

Surrounded
Why Are Vegans So Annoying? | Jack Symes Surrounded Follow-up

So let's just watch this.

Surrounded
Why Are Vegans So Annoying? | Jack Symes Surrounded Follow-up

I'm not going to go vegan, but I don't want to leave you hanging.

Surrounded
Why Are Vegans So Annoying? | Jack Symes Surrounded Follow-up

you were close but but not quite but i i really appreciate his intellectual honesty you know he's like i'm not because a lot of times what we have is people come on this show and they're just super performative and they're just trying to you know dunk on somebody so that millions of people will will will see it and he's doing the exact opposite you know he has this moment to sort of

Surrounded
Why Are Vegans So Annoying? | Jack Symes Surrounded Follow-up

project his values and virtue signal.

Surrounded
Why Are Vegans So Annoying? | Jack Symes Surrounded Follow-up

And yet he's saying, Hey, you know, I just gotta be honest with you.