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Josh Barnett

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first: 2021-03-01
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“I have a friend who she said, do you know Lex Friedman? Have you gone on Lexis content? I go, yes, I know Lex Friedman is. I've sadly been way too long in contact without making it happen for too long. And yes, I will 100%, I even cut a shirt at the beginning of the pandemic to make my own little mask at one point due to the Lex process. And hello, like, I can't really hear you, but I'm demonstrating See it through. But no, this has been a blast. And next time I come back.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Reduced the last interaction between sugar and what's his face is life when he finally finds her. And she's like, you don't have to do this. And he's like, yes, yes, I do. This is the way it is. You can think that your life. You know, the fact that I'm here is the end of it, and that's that.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Anton Chigger is the most pure human being in that whole book. Well, that guy's the villain. I go, ha ha, is he evil? He's the one he lies to no one. He does everything he says he will do. He always follows his word. And on the rare occasion, he allows fate to make a decision as he figures like, well, whatever all led us to here will lead us one way or the other. And if we're at this crossroads, how is there any better or worse way than to do it over a coin flip? And so that whole scene where the guy is going, well, what am I putting up? And he goes, everything, you've been putting it up every day of your life. And that's true. Everything we do is a decision, as a calling, is a choice. And then it bummed me out that they.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It is John Borman's second film in Hollywood, his first one being point blank with Lee Marvin, which is also on top, one of the upper echelon movies on my list, derived from a book called The Outfit by What is his name? I forget, but Darwin Cook, the comics illustrator, Donald Westlake wrote. So Darwin Cook does an amazing comic book send up of Darwin Cook's novels. And they are fucking incredible. So anyways, but point blank with Lee Marvin, you know, it's a man driven by... Purpose, revenge, but also by really pure motivations he wants his money. He was betrayed and he wants his cash because this is what he agreed to do the thing for and this is, which also is part of the reason why I like No Country for Old Men so much, which I felt was a great movie, even better book. But I remember talking to my friend and I go, you know.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Caliber is about Arthur becoming King of the Britons and his love of his country and his love of Guinevere. But eventually, yeah, it becomes more of about... The necessity for the king to love, to hold excaliber, to stay, and to realize that while if you're the king, you can love your wife and you can love your best friend. And they may fuck each other behind your back as they fall in love too. But at the end of the day, your love has to be to the country and everyone else first and not your own personal wants, which, you know, made a much more interesting story when you have Carmen Berenna and... Oh, oh, what is that one? It's a German opera. But horses and slow-mo and sword fights and an epic death scene between Arthur and his son.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, hell, Takashi Mika's films are all about family. Of all things. As bonkers as those movies are, the general theme is family almost entirely in all of his films.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But yet, there is this aspect you could see of him, of him wanting to try and actually be able to be in the world and have love and have Feminine companionship to go with his masculine aspect, but he had no way of understanding how to really make that happen. And he had a complete negative connotation to the feminine. His struggle with. And there's a little Heart in the movie where he somehow comes across this model or something and they actually, he starts to feel like maybe he might be able to actually have a relationship with somebody It goes somewhere, but yeah, even the Elijah Wood remake I felt was really well done and captured most of the essence of what the movie was about, but I still feel like the original by William Lustig is the best.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, like Blazing Saddles is on there, Raiders of the Lost Ark. Valhalla Rising by Nicholas from Winding Refeniac by William Lustig. It's a 1980. Gnarly video nasty horror movie. About a serial killer who murders women and scalps them. And it's gnarly as hell and very brutal and very bleak and very... I mean, it's the kind of thing that a lot of people would have a real hard time watching. But one, again, I like things that are dark. But two, I thought the performances were fantastic in this film. And they really got out, I think the underlying thing was, and it was a guy who was. Basically, just like run amok by the overbearing mother, Jungian archetype. And she was, she imparted to her insanity into him. And he”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Is a good movie, but no, that's not in my top. It's a good flick, but it doesn't really do it for me. If people really want to get into this a little more, I did make a hundred a list of a hundred hundred of my favorite movies on my Facebook fan page.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“With his passing, will no longer exist, especially if he hasn't had a chance to put that flame into another torch, so to speak. If he hasn't written them down, if he hasn't passed them down to somebody else. Gone like tears in the rain.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Cyberpunk is kind of number one. It's an environment I love, but at the same time, Conan the Barbarian by John Millius is one of my favorite films of all time. And that's such a pure film in a way. Like the motivations are pure. They're very... Easy to follow, but not lacking in depth. You know, it's not. It's not just explosions and teal and orange. It's more on the human condition. And I love it. And it's shot incredibly well. It's got incredible soundtrack. How does this relate to if you can make it and you can tell it what to do at what point is it like you should or you shouldn't? You know, why do you get to determine what's alive and what's not? What's a life that should be allowed to live and what isn't What would be the strain of being Roy Batty and seeing all these incredible moments that”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Perhaps, and there's also the aspect of rebelliousness usually, like there was, I was never one to want to just do what somebody told me to do. I'm not sitting around trying to always be such a radical individual that I can't take orders. No, in fact, I'm more than willing to take orders from somebody that I feel is competent and has merit and reason behind what they're doing and makes like, okay, yeah, yeah, I'm 100% for it. Not only can I take orders, I will help you achieve whatever it is if I think it's worthwhile, even at my own expense. But to get to that point is a rarity. It's just not a given. And so you can even imagine being a grade school teacher and this kid doesn't respect you and he doesn't really think you're that smart. Don't really appreciate that, but”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, it's, I mean, the cyberpunk universe is part of it on the surface. I have always tended towards dark subject matter, like things that are of the dark, so to speak, are things that I've always been gravitated towards. I think maybe part of it is that things that are darker are more accepting More up front with death. And perhaps I think that maybe that is what was”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“As a kid, I just thought it was so cool. There was something about that really spoke to me the whole cyberpunk landscapes and this guy chasing down rogue androids, replicants.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But the point being, I need to find a way to, like, this is definitive. You don't get to say shit about it because I'm the only one who can stand right now. That's the way it's got to be. Anything less than that is not good enough. And even if I achieve that, then I got to figure out, okay, it's not a given. How did I get to this point? How did I make that happen? Was it simply bent because of his own mistakes, or was it because of my successful action?”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And this even came up. So, one of the coaches in the back was, Oh, you did great. You know, don't feel bad. You know, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I go, no, fuck that. I didn't finish them. I allowed the referees to make a decision that I think is incorrect and bad. But that came because I didn't take him out. You know, fuck that. No. No. He won. He's going to get more money. He's going to get more recognition. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I accept all this. And it's not okay. And I need to, if I when I get a chance to fight him again, I got to figure out how to take this guy out. I don't want to say forever. I'm not trying to put him six feet underground. Well, when I fight, yes, I am.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right. And so that's usually the only time people again calamity is the impetus for them to actually turn around and go, who the fuck am I? What am I doing? And why am I doing it? Instead of naturally going, hmm, okay, well, I won. Why? What was it that caused? And so I think part of my success is that when I win, I'm brutal. When I lose, I'm brutal. And there is no in between. So I remember losing. The rematch against Nogara. And I still feel like it was a bullshit call. Like I feel like I won that fight. But my opinion is that.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“About it. I mean, if you really think about it. What makes you want to actually in detail go over what happened? Oh, it's the time when you didn't get what you wanted. It's a time when you gave it everything you had and you came up short or failed miserably.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I agree I agree. It makes complete sense to me. It just anything that has a goodness in its purity can also have a detriment in its perversion.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, it's being in an environment, hopefully, that is as true as possible a starter. So it's hard to be a bullshit person when you're literally trying to tear each other's arms off. You really sort of see who somebody is. I also feel like you really get to see somebody who, there are a couple instances where you really see who people are. The mats and in the bedroom, so Even the aspect of self betterment. Growth along a path? I mean, hell, that's part of the divisive capture for martial arts as a business. Give you a belt. Put a stripe on your belt. Each of these iterations costs 20 bucks.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It really depends on the person, right? I mean, there's some people that really love the fact of. Feel like they're growing right will power. You're growing, growing stronger, growing better. The idea of eliminating weakness to which I'll quickly define weakness as like things that weaken you. Not like being physically weak. Sure, you can call that weakness, but maybe you're not meant to be a super strong guy. Choosing to be weak is really a different story other than just like we're all deficient in some way or another. So that's neither here nor there. It's a matter of what you decide to do with it. And that's it for me strength and weakness, at least the way I look at it. Like strength is choosing regardless of the difficulty to make improvements, to strength is even choosing to acknowledge that you do lack and accept it and then make a decision what to do with it.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I mean, really what it comes down to is do it because you love it. Do it for that reason and that reason alone. Most people that get into this and attempt to make any sort of professional inroads with it, you are not going to be the world champion. You probably will never even fight for a belt and you're probably not going to net make money at this. So don't do it for those reasons. Do it for the reason of the passion. Do it for the reason to be the absolute best that you can be, whatever that ends up being. You might at best only be mediocre, but you won't even be mediocre if you don't do it like you really mean it.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Would you want to fight I mean, it was way easier picking fights than it was, you know, getting a girlfriend. Just, you know, path least resistance.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Through a connection to an old wrestling coach I had. And I just gathered up with all my old martial arts instructor that I had worked with. Grappled in his apartment, we did tie pads in the park. I ran a couple miles every day. And then, all right, boom, show it up, won my fight by front joke in two minutes. And then Matt goes, okay, well, hey, you did really great. We'd like you to come back and fight again in the summer. What do you think? Okay, go back off to university. And then I think, hmm, well, that fight didn't go exactly as how I wanted it to. I got to find a way to get more experience. I would literally fight people in the university rec center on the old wrestling mats as they didn't no longer have a wrestling team. I would find anyone doing martial arts, anyone talking about getting into street fights, anyone, whatever, and just basically go, oh, ever watch UFC? Yeah, yeah, that stuff's cool. What do you think? Oh, man. I'm super into it, man. That's badass. Rad. So.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Folks were kind of like, I don't know about that. The guy I was going to fight was he finally figured, he finally gets information on who I actually am. And I was undefeated at the time. I think I had fought. Super Brawl 13 already won that tournament. And so he's like, Yeah, I had no clue. I'm so glad we didn't fight. You would have murdered me. What a setup. And eventually Matt had to strong arm the guy and get our money that we were supposed to all get and drive back. And because his whole position was, well, there ain't no fucking way. We drove all the way out here for free. This is all on you. You fucked this up. Not my problem, but what is my problem is the lack of cash in my account. So fix it. You know, or me fighting my first organized fight against an AMC guy on 11 days notice.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“100% like, well, okay, so we at AMC got. Connected to somebody that was thrown an event in Nampa, Idaho, and we all piled into this. And Matt Hume's Subaru Wagon and we jammed out and we left Kirkland and we headed over to Idaho only to find out that there was nothing really put in place. It was absolute disrepair and chaos. They didn't have a ring. They didn't have this. It was such a bullshit adventure. We were like, well, you know, there's hardly anywhere to fight. It's tough to find these opportunities. So, okay, well, how about this? Whoever is here to fight and is willing, all right, well, since there's no venue, there's no this, whatever, we all got gloves, we got mouthpieces, we'll just go to the park as long as you still get paid. And so”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Let me tell you the day of high adventure. Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun Yeah, it is it was so much fun and it made you feel absolutely like you were a part of A novel, a comic book. I mean, I would love to transcribe my experiences as what I consider a second generation MMA athlete. Except I'm way too sensitive to anybody's personal any things that are not even to, you know, I'm not a gospel person. I really do believe that like small people talk about others. Big people talk about ideas. But there's some stories that just can't tell without telling the whole story. And there are so many amazing stories that could be told.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Without even the rules being broken. And once that's figured out, you need to make an adjustment. No adjustments have been made. So the game just appears to be the same game over and over and over and over and over again on ESPM+, on whatever, on whatever, on whatever. It doesn't really matter which night you watch. It's the same game constantly. That's not because the athletes are worse or better. It's because they have had that game structure long enough that they figured out what do you do to be the most successful at it? What is the highest percentage way of approaching it, essentially, even if you're not thinking of percentages?”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Gets the shit for that You already have the violence. Yeah, people, given the opportunity for. Yeah, yeah. The bigger things get, the more I love the fact that fighting has opened up to such a degree that the career business side of it, because I absolutely distinctly separate the two. The business side of it has opened up to give me far more possibilities, opened way more doors for me than I ever intended it to. Whereas The athlete side of things has, if anything, just gotten substantially worse, I would say. And some of this can be, some of this is due.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Top 10 of all time in terms of Competitors is capable. I don't know. I'd have to think about that. Maybe not, but Gracie as like pyramid level, like, wow, dude, what an amazing man. He's so important, absolutely incredibly important.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And the rules that they fought under, you know, someone got like Iagervov Chenchin won a 32 man tournament or something like that. I go, okay. Steep Anne, Daniel Cormier are awesome. And they will for sure be revered for their careers. 100%. Can you say that they're particularly even better overall than eager vote of Chenchin? Well, maybe one of them could have beat them. Maybe one of them wouldn't have. Maybe Eager would have fucking got him with the knuckles right away. Well, maybe if they fought him in pride, they wouldn't have won. Maybe if they fought him bare knuckle, they wouldn't win. I don't know.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Hair is greater than yours. My facial hair is creating its own legacy, but it is not Dan Severin mustache level. Or Don Fry mustache. So Don Fry Mustache, Dan Severn Mustache, now you have like Shia versus Sunni.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Exactly. But also there's a huge misconception there, and that is that I could bring maybe I could bring Dan Severin down to my level, but I couldn't bring his mustache down to my level. It is of mythic proportions.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I did beat Dan Severn. That was killing an idol, so to speak. Although I didn't really kill him because I still love him. He's still an idea. I mean, he's still responsible for inspiration. Along this whole pathway, you know, it's meeting your God. Putting a knife in it, I guess”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Go back a little further and go, like, what about the guys that used to Dan Severin fought bare knuckle, head butts the whole nine?”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There is some context also in that where did Alistair Overing fight? Oh, we fought in pride where you could soccer kick people and stomp their heads and this and that. And so the game environment is actually different too.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, don't be basically a bully piece of Which, by the way, Tom Arnold, you are a mental midget. You are never going to be able to compete even with Ben Shapiro in an argument on any level about anything.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Somewhere, yeah. And I just responded. And I tried to get him to clarify, say, hey, are you saying that you want to fight Ben Shapiro, that you're looking to actually, because I was waiting for him to say something, and then I can be like, okay, well, it's one thing to want to get into a fight with someone. It's another thing to go pick on a little tiny, you know guy like Ben who's much smaller than you and doesn't train or whatever, but if it's not me, I can find someone your size and you can go fight him.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I don't know Ben Shapiro. I don't really listen to Ben Shapiro not against Ben Shapiro. I'm not here to say anything particularly bad about him. Although I will say at one time, Tom Arnold was seemingly trying to pick an actual fight with Ben Shapiro.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You prefer facts and logic. It's like when I know, I mean, I like saying facts and logic because people, I also. I am not a materialist in that sense. I don't think that materialism can solve for everything, it's not enough. It's not robust enough. I'm sorry. If facts and logic or reason, as the Enlightenment scholars all thought, including Marx, was enough for people. Then we would never, we wouldn't have any religions Wouldn't have any, like there would be no, we wouldn't have narratives and myths and all this kind of stuff, it would not, it just, I'm sorry, there is no, there's nothing about history that supports the idea that rationality will over will overcome all.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Myth is greater than reality. And that is always the case. And so I understand that so very much. And it takes an asshole like me to poo poo on your myth. They at least get you at the end of the day. You're not going to abandon your myth. Perhaps temperate with the facts and logic.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What has he done over his career, K1 champion? He was a champion in. Dream. He strike force, blah, blah, blah, his overall record, the entirety of all the different opponents he's fought. And I just sit back and I go, okay, he's not the UFC champ. His accolades, his merits In some ways, actually stand up higher than Cormier's and Mochikas.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I made an argument. I was in it, I get an interview with an MMA outlet of some sort, and I can't recall who it was. But, oh, it was argument about will the winner of Cain Velasquez versus Stipe Miochik be the greatest MMA heavyweight of all time? And I said, fucking, no way. No, it's Cormier and Miochik. That's what it was. I said, absolutely not, not even close. And I said, these guys need a bit more time to see how things go and also how things go for some of their opponents. And like, there's more factors than just this one fight. It really is. And I go, and when you want to weigh these people, even if, let's say, we'll bring Alistair or, yeah, Alistair Over him into the equation. Okay, you judge him on what you know now, what he's done for you lately Which is a very myopic way of doing it.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I did an interview. I don't know about centuries, but that would help if we can keep accurate records and not allow too much bias to fall in, too much propaganda.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A cop out to some degree, I feel like we need a little bit more time, you know, so to see how this unfolds. Because you got to compare a lot of things. And I think I'm.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Also, the removal, I feel like it's the purest ways, purest honest, most honest places a person can exist. That line and fight club, you don't know really who you are until you've been in a fight. I mean, believe that And I've seen so many examples of people trying to portray themselves as one thing. And then in the ring, you see who they really are or even when they're trying to persuade themselves as one thing and they're winning, the crowd at times will see who they really are and still hate them. It's like, but I said all the good things. Don't work that way”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And that's the thing about even this going in there with the aspect of being with death and all that is that when that person is in there, they are my brother with me in this. And that so when you give me your best, even if I even if I win dominant fashion, but if you show up and you're as authentic and being here as I am, then I love you. And I'm glad for you to be here. And we're in this together. And at this point, your loss or my loss or whatever. Is no less deserving of veneration than the win. We're here in this. And so to be in the ring with Fyodor and to venerate him in win or defeat, to be in there with someone like that is, to me, So rare”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The person that I want to give my most to is a person that I respect, especially at this long career of mine and getting at this, this twilight years.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“100, and that's in a strange way, that's partially what makes it so elevated in terms of my sense of feeling by being able to Have death at my side, it feels good. And to be there and to think that. This could be the one like, why not? I'm not a religious person at all, even though I very much have to seem to bang on the drum about the usefulness or understanding the usefulness of religion for people. But, you know, if I got to do something, then yeah, put me in Valhalla, man. I don't want to be anywhere else. Nothing else seems like a good place for me to be. I want to fight all day long and feast all night. You know, it sounds great.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No way. There's no fucking way I'm going to lose this fight. And then there's even my last bare knuckle match, and getting in the ring and fighting bare knuckle boxing for the first time and just thinking this being in a great state and just looking so forward to seeing, I mean, I called someone. I was talking to them the night before and I said, yeah, well, I video called you because this face might not look like this when I see you next. And they're just like, okay.”
2021-03-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source