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Jordan Jonas

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1257 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

You're in an interesting context when you're on trains, because the trains always end up in the crappiest part of town. And you're always outside interacting. Oh, the interesting things. Every once in a while, you'll have to hitchhike to get from one place to another. One interesting thing is you notice you always get picked up by the poor people. They're the people that empathize with you. Stop.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

You're in an interesting context when you're on trains, because the trains always end up in the crappiest part of town. And you're always outside interacting. Oh, the interesting things. Every once in a while, you'll have to hitchhike to get from one place to another. One interesting thing is you notice you always get picked up by the poor people. They're the people that empathize with you. Stop.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

Pick you up. You go to whatever ghetto you end up in, and People are really, oh, what are you guys doing? Real friendly and relatable. It kind of broadened my horizons for sure from being just an Idaho kid and then meeting all these different people and just seeing the goodness in people and this and that. It's also a lot of drugs and a lot of people with mental issues that you're โ€“

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

Pick you up. You go to whatever ghetto you end up in, and People are really, oh, what are you guys doing? Real friendly and relatable. It kind of broadened my horizons for sure from being just an Idaho kid and then meeting all these different people and just seeing the goodness in people and this and that. It's also a lot of drugs and a lot of people with mental issues that you're โ€“

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

Pick you up. You go to whatever ghetto you end up in, and People are really, oh, what are you guys doing? Real friendly and relatable. It kind of broadened my horizons for sure from being just an Idaho kid and then meeting all these different people and just seeing the goodness in people and this and that. It's also a lot of drugs and a lot of people with mental issues that you're โ€“

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

friends with, dealing with, you know, all that kind of stuff. Any memorable characters? Well, there's a few for sure. I mean, a lot of them I still know that are still around, but Rocco was one guy we traveled with. He's become like a brother, but he's, he was, he traveled with my brother for years because they were the two sober guys kind of.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

friends with, dealing with, you know, all that kind of stuff. Any memorable characters? Well, there's a few for sure. I mean, a lot of them I still know that are still around, but Rocco was one guy we traveled with. He's become like a brother, but he's, he was, he traveled with my brother for years because they were the two sober guys kind of.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

friends with, dealing with, you know, all that kind of stuff. Any memorable characters? Well, there's a few for sure. I mean, a lot of them I still know that are still around, but Rocco was one guy we traveled with. He's become like a brother, but he's, he was, he traveled with my brother for years because they were the two sober guys kind of.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

He, rather than traveling because he was hooked on stuff, did it to escape all that. And so he was kind of, Sober and straight edge and he always five seven Italian guy that was always getting in fights and he has his own sense of ethics that I think is really interesting because he's super honest, but. but he expects it of others.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

He, rather than traveling because he was hooked on stuff, did it to escape all that. And so he was kind of, Sober and straight edge and he always five seven Italian guy that was always getting in fights and he has his own sense of ethics that I think is really interesting because he's super honest, but. but he expects it of others.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

He, rather than traveling because he was hooked on stuff, did it to escape all that. And so he was kind of, Sober and straight edge and he always five seven Italian guy that was always getting in fights and he has his own sense of ethics that I think is really interesting because he's super honest, but. but he expects it of others.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

And so it's funny in the modern context, the thing that pops in my head is when he got a car for the first time, which wasn't that long, you know, he's in his thirties or something. And he registered it, which he was mad about that he had to register. But then the next year they told him he had to register again. And he's like, what did you lose my registration? Went down there to the DMV.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

And so it's funny in the modern context, the thing that pops in my head is when he got a car for the first time, which wasn't that long, you know, he's in his thirties or something. And he registered it, which he was mad about that he had to register. But then the next year they told him he had to register again. And he's like, what did you lose my registration? Went down there to the DMV.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

And so it's funny in the modern context, the thing that pops in my head is when he got a car for the first time, which wasn't that long, you know, he's in his thirties or something. And he registered it, which he was mad about that he had to register. But then the next year they told him he had to register again. And he's like, what did you lose my registration? Went down there to the DMV.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

chewed him out that he had to re-register because he already registered where's the paperwork and but just kind of views the world from a different lens i thought but on everything he's the character now he just lives by digging up bottles and finding treasures in them but he uh notices the injustices and he notices in a very interesting and speaks up and he's always like why doesn't everybody else speak up about their car registration and and then there was like you know devo comes to mind because he was such a unique character as far as just

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

chewed him out that he had to re-register because he already registered where's the paperwork and but just kind of views the world from a different lens i thought but on everything he's the character now he just lives by digging up bottles and finding treasures in them but he uh notices the injustices and he notices in a very interesting and speaks up and he's always like why doesn't everybody else speak up about their car registration and and then there was like you know devo comes to mind because he was such a unique character as far as just

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

chewed him out that he had to re-register because he already registered where's the paperwork and but just kind of views the world from a different lens i thought but on everything he's the character now he just lives by digging up bottles and finding treasures in them but he uh notices the injustices and he notices in a very interesting and speaks up and he's always like why doesn't everybody else speak up about their car registration and and then there was like you know devo comes to mind because he was such a unique character as far as just

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

For one, he would have lived to be 120 because the amount of chemicals and everything else he put into his body and still, hey, man, you know, one of those guys. You can always get a dime, you know, always spare dime, spare dime, and you have bum change. And I...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

For one, he would have lived to be 120 because the amount of chemicals and everything else he put into his body and still, hey, man, you know, one of those guys. You can always get a dime, you know, always spare dime, spare dime, and you have bum change. And I...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 โ€“ Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

For one, he would have lived to be 120 because the amount of chemicals and everything else he put into his body and still, hey, man, you know, one of those guys. You can always get a dime, you know, always spare dime, spare dime, and you have bum change. And I...