***Official H&F LC Thread***

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Guys, controversial take

Lex's podcast is actually terrible like 95% of episodes. A handful of gems, and it's not because of Lex himself but just a good guest. I find the guy kinda cringe to be honest. I really don't like that guy and i can't put my finger on why. I'm kinda mystified he has one of the largest podcasts in the world because it's frankly just not that good really.

Fridman.

I give it an anti-endorsement. Do not watch or listen in general. Waste of time. Try to find the same guest on literally any other podcast.

My podcast list is limited to Australian Rugby League, NFL and then Plain English on the Ringer.

I'm not sure how much stock I put into the leftist tears that he's a "Mossad asset", but regardless of his status as an intelligence asset, good God does Lex suck incredible ass.

I listened to maybe 20-30 Lex podcast episodes around 2022-2023. I can't really put my finger on a specific reason why I lost interest. He's kinda boring and long-winded (episodes typically are 2-3 hours), doesn't really say anything I haven't heard before. I would put the guests into 3 categories:

1. People in super nerdy professions that don't interest me or go way over my head
2. Unhinged knucklehead politicians or political pundits (who Lex bends over backward to make sound perfectly reasonable)
3. The standard list of blowhards who go on 10 different podcasts a week and you can hear their same shtick anywhere anytime

rr,

With the benefit of hindsight, I wonder how jacked the woman in that movie was to the average woman. I'm of the firm belief that LH is relatively more jacked than Arnie in T2 given the time period. And its not close.

Krunchy boi,

Not gonna watch this derp, but how would you say those categories apply to pretty much all of these types of podcasters? I exclusively watch TV deep dives. I genuinely enjoy Joanna Robinson as the soft side of most of the pods I watch despite her being a morbidly obese gigantor. Much like many of us tolerated wongo obongo despite being a N.

Monte.

I find it ****ing wild (relevant to our discourse in the Guy thread) that you would even mention this absolutely ****ing insane tangent. Yes, a man named "Friedman" is a Jew. If he was named "Greengoldbergstein" would that make him more or less likely to be a Mossad agent?

Also, I will not listen to him in any way but I'm sure he sucks ass. Carry on.

I am also aware that I am calling you out for potential anti-J00 hate. Which would likely let me use the N word against you. Since you are 1) Not ethnically German (to my knowledge) 2) Not a know a known member of an actual Neo-Nazi org: This could be construed as a slur. But feel free to disabuse me of these notions. FWIW I will not listen to his pod because I think as you so eloquently and succinctly describe it as "ass".

I've been talked into getting a Hypoxi body scan on the weekend. Never heard of them before - any one got any insight into +/- vs a DEXA?

it looks like Hypoxi is some kind of snake oil 'fat reduction' method that is almost certainly total nonsense, so I won't put too much stock in the scan

Putting aside the fact that I am technically a member of the tribe (see any of my videos in my log for, uh, nasal evidence) and as such have the proverbial high ground in a cancellation war, I was just pre-empting some of the laziest criticisms of him from the usual corners of the Internet. Given he's grown in popularity as quickly as he has while being the personification of anti-rizz (Urban Dictionary that one, feels), I can at least kind of get my head around it as a fleeting missive, but I think "friends with Joe Rogan" combined with "useful idiot that will never challenge any of your talking points in any way, no matter how stupid they may be" probably gets it done in terms of "why the **** is this vapid charisma vacuum popular?"

That guest list profile is pretty standard for most podcasts that go anywhere near politics and social commentary.

I looked up this Joanna Robinson lady. You're not kidding about the soft part. Will not watch.

Have no idea what your last sentence means.

i'm a planet fitness member since i'm always on the road

no free weights, stupid rules like no flip flops

but otherwise super convenient as usually 24/7 and pretty much everywhere

use it more as a mental reset than getting swole, will spend more time in the "black card spa" than the gym itself getting massages and just resetting

but... along the way they have this thing called total body enhancement

you go in, take your clothes off, go inside and you get blasted with these non-uv lights (don't need goggles/sunglasses) and it shakes you a bit as the platform you stand upon jiggles back and forth

when you ask the staff they always say "i don't know, does something for your skin" but on googling it seems it helps with recovery with the jiggles kind of doing the same thing as a foam roller and the lights stimulate tissue growth supposedly (also why your skin is supposed to get better)

i'm normally super skeptical of this stuff, but this is literally my favorite thing in the world, definitely feel less sore after workouts when i do this and genuinely feel like my skin does improve dramatically when i use it regularly

could all be fake, non-zero chance of that, but even so, it's just a nice way to shut my brain off for 14 minutes

That’s a very long non answer of my question

sounds like copium from someone without access to total body enhancement down under

I like how "non-zero chance" in this case means 99%. Having said that, I really want to try one of them now, it's probably what my life has been missing.

I'll take the over.

Bump

Doug Polk with another 100k donk bet.

This time bodyfat from 22% to 11%!! The problem is this is DEXA. Ouch.

Gonna need steroids or 6' 145.

At the sports facility I went to they said they have never seen anyone below 12%. And they do professional athletes!!! Lol.

Hopefully he scouted a more lenient dexa machine. Doubt it, eyeball test I put him at 20%, yet Dexa had him at 22%.

Maybe he’ll cheat the DEXA like fat boy did?

oof, if even loco lazer eyes are putting him lower than dexa this one is going to be impossible.

Can you laser-eyes my recent updates for bodyfat estimate? I'm guessing minimum 16%, but possibly higher.

We were roasting him earlier, but I trudged through Lex Fridman's recent Jeffrey Wasserstrom interview because he's a China scholar and the topic is relevant to my life and immediate <5 year future.

Lex legitimately believes he's going to interview Xi Jinping. I'd put it at less than 2% probability and if we do get an interview with Xi targetted at western audiences I can't think of a podcaster I would LESS like to interview him than Lex.😡

Trump vs Zelensky destroyed any Chance of a Xi x Trump meeting most likely. And at a critical time when we really need it...

I'm about 55% sure everything will be fine, but I can't write too much given where I am.

Xi x Rogan talking about the latest UFC match would be pretty lul.

Polk needs to be banned from cut offs he looks terrible in them. He should have lifted some before this challenge because he’s going to lose all his muscle and look like a tard but then again it matches his personality.. CODE DOUG!! Corney and cringey dood 4 lyfe.

He might have been my biggest donator on FTP back in the day. Ripperoni MrsGrimstarr

is this some kind of joke or did he really pass? googled it and found nothing

also, was this indeed him or an imposter?

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/303/a...