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The Joe Rogan Experience a lot of people that live in the city eventually wind up going the opposite they wind up going to like a [ __ ] house in the country I'm dying to get it I have yeah it's funny I feel like when I was I grew up in in Whitman's small town and I was obsessed with Springsteen like get out of this town Born to Run and I I did it and now I still listen to Springsteen and still get moved but now it's like I gotta get a home and with a with grass and you see the star it's like the same motivation but before it was to go to the city but now I want to be in the country yeah my friend Jeff has always been like this die-hard New York City guy I love the energy of the city he's lived there his whole life and then he got a place on Fire Island and he's like I couldn't live in the city if I didn't have this place now because I know it keeps you able I can stay in the city because I have my place yeah you get that decompression yeah that's what I found well I I moved to Colorado for a brief amount of time in like 2009 I lived in uh Gold Hill which is like 3 000 feet above Boulder like I went full out 148 Acres like wow log house the whole deal but my wife got pregnant and you can't like if you are a person who lives at sea level and you go to 8 000 feet and you're pregnant it's like you have the flu every day it was horrible yeah like she was wrecked and then we went back to LA for a few days and she was normal and then I realized ah [ __ ] so we had a bail can't do it yeah it was rough that was good man living up there was [ __ ] magical it was like everything just went well Human animals are were part of the earth yeah it's our home and cities are not natural right you don't see you're you're it's man-made lighting as soon as it gets dark it's man-made lighting everywhere and you have to turn off the lights to find Darkness you don't have this natural this thing of like you know uh the there's certain parts of the day where the breeze comes like if you live anywhere on a coast there's a sea breeze and then there's the hot part of the day and there's you know and it's it's and you're watching the grass go green and then gray you're watching the trees die it's part of it tells your brain how life works I think it makes you less afraid of dying that you watch
everything die and renew every year and you touch you get a sense of what speed you're actually supposed to be running at because the the city life and also the online life and the and the phone life is overworking everybody's brains and their systems people are texting right before bedtime and it's just but being out there in nature where it's like no it's getting dark cool off it's getting dark there's no sense of getting dark in the city it's you know yeah um you watch in the world go to sleep and then the different sounds you're hearing the birds go to bed and then insects come out all those things are like are reminding you how your system actually what's going on in your chemistry is connected to all that yeah there's also a thing about going into the woods and being around nature where it's like it's like a nourishment that your body is not normally getting it's like you feel like you're getting like a little something like oh yeah I need this like there's something in this that like your body is supposed to interface with yeah it's good for your physical health there's all these studies yeah not just your mental health well if people don't see the Sun for a certain amount of time they go insane so if you think about the original people they saw that six guys starts like that really full Sky Stars was normal for every human being to see that every night yeah and a lot of people never see it never see one star if you live in a city you don't see this the night sky unless it's Los Angeles you see stars everywhere there killing their wives and the guy I went to um Hawaii once went to the Keck Observatory it's on the big island and it's way up there you have to drive literally through the clouds as we were driving I was like [ __ ] it's cloudy this is gonna suck We're not gonna see anything and then you literally drive through the clouds and the image that you get because the Big Island uses all diffused lighting because of the the Keck Observatory so when you get up there the view where you're at you know like 13 000 feet or something like that the view of space is insane it you really feel like you're in a spaceship you don't feel like you're on Earth
anymore you feel like you're in a ship with a glass seal and you're just passing through the Milky Way I mean it's [ __ ] wonderful yeah because we're used to this perspective that you're standing on Earth and that's up but we're really looking across at other people and you're looking down at the Earth that like you're that you're tacked down to but in reality you're hanging upside down yeah and you're really hanging out into everything everything in the whole universe is it's not above your head you're look if you look like this it's really that's the really correct perspective yeah you know well that's why all these ancient cultures were obsessed with constellations and we don't give a [ __ ] about them first that's why they built [ __ ] like that to get up yes yeah and also built things that mimicked the constellations like the Mayans and the Egyptians this the way they've formulated their structures it all like aligned with certain constellations and it was very important to them well think about back when people were before there was like skyscrapers airplanes that you couldn't go up you could only go like six feet high right right and you could maybe build something that was like I don't know three like a a castle yeah that's kind of high but those pyramids and I know I sound like an idiot it's something you guys [ __ ] dropped acid while I was watching OJ but she's got wacky in here that was Hills there's mountains right yes mountains are high yeah but they're but they're high in you don't you're not you don't have like a drop but you're not really seeing right and also I I you know unless you lived in the mountains and that became normal right but the ability to go let's go the way the [ __ ] up there and see from up there and feel like where how where is the sky yeah it's also very humbling to people to be encountered to encounter like like uh undeniable Majesty like the insane Majesty of the universe like that's how people are like around mountains around the ocean things that are so epic that it's like it calms people down yeah in a way that's why people are so chill around beaches yeah like beach communities they're always like kind of relaxed yeah this thing is telling you over and over again
it doesn't give a [ __ ] it doesn't give a [ __ ] you're a speck and there's this Force this incredible Force when waves get high yeah you're just watching them crash and it's just telling you without you're even thinking about it intellectually [ __ ] okay I get it put it in perspective if you think you are very very important and then you're on a mountain you're like oh I'm not important at all no this means nothing and Nature's brutal yeah Nature's brutal