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John Clarke

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“I would say to that being a soldier or a warrior hundreds of years ago is probably what started the marriage between martial arts and philosophy. If you're constantly under someone else's charge and you're told to go out and walk in a line and, you know, overtake some Germanic tribe somewhere and that happens all the time.”
2020-12-06 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #143 – John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, it did not even enter my mind in my early 20s that anything that I was doing at that point could reverberate for the rest of my life. I think part of me didn't even think I'd make it this far. And so I was not interested in like the long play. I remember thinking like, why should I be acting now in a way that might impact a point in my life I never reach?”
2020-12-06 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #143 – John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I had no concept of consequence. I probably had talked to plasmosis. I had literally no concept of consequence. Immediate gratification was all I cared about.”
2020-12-06 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #143 – John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A turning, it potentially could have been a turning point in our lives had we not made enough money to continue going east.”
2020-12-06 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #143 – John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Were some impactful moments. On the beginning of our road trip, where we had no money. And as a couple of kids who knew nothing, we literally had to, we stopped in Vegas and we went to circus circus. At the time, they had $3 blackjack and we had like 12 bucks. And my buddy was a kind of a degenerate gambler, so he knew what was up. I was just like kind of stuffing chips in my pockets, making sure we could pay for the gas. And just being at a point, which is like a starting line. And like we drove from LA to Vegas, which is only about four hours. And being at the starting line and realizing like we may not even like get off the starting line here. And if we don't, what are we doing? We're going to be two guys stuck in Vegas. We have no money. We can't go west because you're going to get pinched. We have no money to go east. What the hell are we going to do? We're going to wind up in Vegas. So, you know, that was kind of a profound thing where you just.”
2020-12-06 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #143 – John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I want to be able to retell this. And it's got to sound cool I don't want to retell a story about, yeah, and then we drove through Alabama and they've got a lovely library and I checked out this book and I'm not interested in retelling that.”
2020-12-06 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #143 – John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Probably more to the point of the friend that you drove with. We were more about racking up experiences, whatever they were. I want to be able to retell this.”
2020-12-06 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #143 – John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think anytime you spend that much time in a small space with another person, you're going to have the different parts of the relationship manifest themselves. You'll have the periods of closeness. You'll have the periods of vulnerability where it's like maybe you're driving through Denver and it's three in the morning and you talk about something you might not have otherwise talked about. You'll have the periods where you don't want to see that motherfucker ever again, right? And depending could be because of anything. But the guy that I drove. We are still in contact. We're still buddies. We have very different goals also. But at that point in our lives, we never even contemplated the meaning of life. We were about.”
2020-12-06 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #143 – John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I was young. I was like 25. And I thought the coolest thing in the world would be to be such a citizen of the world that you know these quaint little spots around the corner in like all these great cities. Like I know where to get this great chicken sandwich in Argentina. I know where to get this great meal in Costa Rica. I know where to get this super local egg in another country. I always thought that that was really cool. The ability to do that anywhere in the world.”
2020-12-06 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #143 – John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And then we had an unbelievable trip, mostly because we didn't really have a destination. We didn't really have a time frame. Thank goodness, because he got arrested again in Pennsylvania. So we got kind of stuck there. And then, you know, and then we drove back to LA when he got out in Pennsylvania. But all the stops along the way were kind of like weird things like you have no money, right? So you're finding that a little diamond in the rough place to eat the diner you talk about, like that place. I once was in, where was I? I think I was in Buenos Aires. And the guy that I was with, he said, I know this quaint little spot around the corner.”
2020-12-06 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #143 – John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, alleged. Yeah, allegedly. We were trying to get out of LA because he was going to have to go away for a little while. So we drove from LA and we just, you know, we were young kids. We had no idea what we were doing. And we drove east”
2020-12-06 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #143 – John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So I've driven up and down the East Coast several times. When I drove from LA to New York, my friend was on the run from the cops. So we were trying to get traffic.”
2020-12-06 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #143 – John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think in the context of a road trip, I think it's like hyperlocalization. And I think it is those experiences along the way with people. People that you're with will color the experiences differently depending on the person”
2020-12-06 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #143 – John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I prefer at a time of like a mom and pop store, not a fabricated gastro pub that could just be on a four-lane superhighway on your way out of Epcot Center. And it's actually owned by some conglomerate.”
2020-12-06 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #143 – John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think you're probably right, but isn't there some sort of theory about? The point that there's like a certain age in your life where things resonate differently to you. Like, I think they've done studies where most people stop searching for new music after age 19. Most dads you see, like wearing super old clothes, like that's the style of the time period of the last great part of their life. So like there's an evolution in people and it could also be the memories of where they live. When I was 17, of course, my neighborhood was the best then because I was having the most fun. And we always kind of look at things through that tint, I think. And you're right. And I don't think there's anything wrong with the way cities are evolving now. It's just not.”
2020-12-06 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #143 – John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But I think you're hard pressed to find the charm that people think of when they think of old Boston and old New England City.”
2020-12-06 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #143 – John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I think I don't want to pinpoint this on Boston because it's happening in all great cities. As these areas become gentrified, what's happening is the personality and the character of the neighborhood is just being run out. And I have nothing against people coming in and making money and things like that. But when you do it at the expense of the culture, the character, and the personality of the neighborhood, I mean, you're kind of standing on the shoulders of giants. These are the people that came here and built these areas up. And it happens here in Boston. It happens all over New York, happened on the West Coast. What I love about Boston is not nearly as romantic as what it might have been 15 years ago and what I used to love about New York. What I love about Boston is that it's walkable. The food scene is on the rise here.”
2020-12-06 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #143 – John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I came here right at the end of like what was South Boston. So when I got in my gym is in South Boston, the neighborhood was just starting to change. So I think As gentrification happened, and they started building more luxury condominiums, they were buying all these old businesses out, all the mom and pop businesses. And I think that kind of changed the makeup of the community. And it wasn't only because there was an influx of new young people with disposable income. It's because there was an exodus of the older people who kind of grew up and raised their families there because they were being offered humongous sums of money for their homes that they had bought like in the late 70s and early 80s so that they could develop those areas. So you have a combination of the influx of new people and the exodus of the old and now you just got this.”
2020-12-06 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #143 – John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, it's in the downtown area. I don't know what the neighborhoods are called here, honestly, because they have an area called downtown Boston. And I don't even know what the hell that means. And they used to near the financial district.”
2020-12-06 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #143 – John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The people, and then you can experience that town the way that they experience it, even in a city where there are tons of tourist attractions, locals probably visit the same tourist attractions when they have visitors come from out of town. You want to see how they view those places and how they visit them. And you want to go to eat where they're going to eat. Like, you know, you're going to for the most part, the north end is not a place where I would take someone and say, hey, this is Boston's the pinnacle of Boston dining because it's very touristy. There are a handful of really good restaurants there. But I want to know where the, I want to go to Bogey's place. I want to know the down low spots where...”
2020-12-06 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #143 – John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Cool night of things to do. But in general, whenever I'm in a new city, I try not to pay attention to Google and I try not to do anything that I find on a travel site. The best thing to do is to walk out of your hotel or wherever it is you're staying and find the most normal looking bar, have a drink, and talk to a bartender.”
2020-12-06 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #143 – John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, I'm going to answer that in two parts. A few years ago, I had an opportunity to move out of Boston. And the thing that kept me here, no question about it was the fact that I felt like I had a contract with my students. And I did not, I felt like a great many of them took a leap of faith by joining my gym and like, you know, asking me to teach them what I know. And when I had an opportunity to leave Boston, I thought of those people. And I thought, I want to fulfill my obligation to them. So because I made a decision to stay here, I then that summer made a decision to endear myself to the city of Boston and I tried to find lots and lots of different things to do. I can tell you that the coolest thing that I found to do in this city is the MFA where they have like on Friday nights they'll have like different exhibits and stuff and they'll have like little beer carts and food tents and you can like do a painting class off in the on the side.”
2020-12-06 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #143 – John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I can appreciate that. But on a trip like that, I feel like A trip with deadlines is for a different point in your life. And at this point in my life, I don't want any of the deadlines because it's not about meeting someone and disappointing them in St. Louis. It's about me not disappointing myself. You want to have enough time in what you're doing to make sure that you get the full breadth of every experience that you encounter.”
2020-12-06 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #143 – John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Plans change all the time, exactly. But if we're talking about having a mission or the type of road trip, I just think it would be best to have it as loose and flexible as possible.”
2020-12-06 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #143 – John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think having a loose deadline is good, but that's a beginning and an end point. And what I mean is I don't want to have to be, all right, we're leaving, say, Boston on Sunday night. Let's get to New York by Monday morning. And then from New York, we're going to go to Philly, and we've got to be in Philly at four. A vague beginning and end is fine, but I think having very strict guidelines in between will rob you of certain experiences along the way. If you have a time frame to get from Philly to Indianapolis in some awesome shit starts to happen in Philly, do you really want to have to cut it short because you got to be an Indianapolis by sun up?”
2020-12-06 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #143 – John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think there are so many things that I've been lucky enough to see in the world that I now at this point in my life realize there are tons of things that I need to see here in this country. And a road trip could potentially be the best way to see them. I think to do it effectively, you need an amount of time where you can be as leisurely as possible. There's no deadline and there's no, I've got to make it from Chicago to St. Louis by sundown to get to this place at this time. I think you really need to be able to take your time and kind of like let the road take you where you need to go.”
2020-12-06 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #143 – John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I've done a handful of long distance driving trips up and down the east coast, but also from the west coast back to the East Coast and then returning to California. So I've definitely done my fair share of driving in this country.”
2020-12-06 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #143 – John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source