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Christmas Guru Special 2024 (Advance Release)

🕑 Added 2024-12-10 07:23:07 +0000 UTC

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ketracel-white

Hilarious 🙀 love you all. 2025 will be the year of Saad! 🍾🥂

Daniel Reed Miller

I’m amazed the guys somehow missed Tucker’s kink-daddy daughter-spanking insanity, but i guess that’s a perk of not being *entirely* trapped in the US news and social media cycle.

Linda Sears

I know this wasn't part of the game, but it would be fun to have a talk off (who can speak fastest semi-coherently) competition between Ben Shapiro, Russell Brand, and Destiny.

Dada de Broglie

I think The Genius Myth. Comes out next June.

Linda Sears

Did she say what the title is?

Amy S

I was dissappointed that Russel Brand was not on anyone’s team! He has a purple belt in Jiu Jitsu and can kick some ass with that. Yeah it’s not black belt but it’s good enough. He’s fit. Give him a cold plunge and set him out for battle and you’re golden! 🌟

Dada de Broglie

Excited to read her new book. Sounds interesting.

S Alexandra

Chris’ choice of Scott Adams is legit psychotic. If Dr K is anywhere on that island, immediate cult formation happening. BUT, maybe the presence of that many competing gurus with narcissistic personalities will cancel out the cult effect? More likely, it’s a mutually assured destruction kinda situation.

Linda Sears

I just want to remind us all that Matt won last year’s quiz with Helen. Chris got points deducted for some reason.

Scott Grande

This was fantastic!

rooftowel

Is this imagined fallout between Musk and Trump wishful thinking? Musk did not become the richest person who ever lived on paper through market fundamentals. And if Musk hasn't said it in private it's implicit he will double or triple Trump's net worth through some later scheme. That seems more predictive to me than imagined psychodrama. I would not be surprised if Musk went the Anduril/Palmer Luckey route. There's an opportunity there considering how well his investment in AI is going as a Johnny come lately with no novel ideas. DOGE or whatever is just another way to market to the public

Fiona St Clair

Now that would be something I would definitely watch!

Subodh Kafle

Surviving on the desert island with Eric as he loudly wonders what cabinet position Trump will give him once we get off

Tim Tripp

I think Musk lacks humility. He stands on the shoulders of others and appears to forget those who allow him to succeed, including academics toiling away on basic research. He appears to believe his own press and has let his ego get the better of him.

Emily

Some of his projects are funded by billions of taxpayer dollars. I think it’s only reasonable to hold him to a higher standard. Especially with the latest fiasco over the Indian Ocean.

Saksaas

Team Matt will surely be victorious. Unless it’s all a part of some sick reality show where they get supplies based on how entertaining they are. In that case team Chris will win hands down.

Linda Sears

Excellent points! He also has a good hat, so he must be prepared. Eric would be wearing his suit just in case, which could be uncomfortable when he’d refuse to take it off.

Subodh Kafle

Bret is a good choice for the island. Didn't him and Heather spend time in the jungle doing some sort of field work? And he wrote a book about how to live as a hunter gatherer so he's something of an expert.

Linda Sears

I wonder if he’d depress and/or bog down everyone with too much trauma talk. I’d like to see him and Dr. K in a room for a few hours and see how they’d diagnose one another after.

Linda Sears

He also literally owns a company that amplifies his ideas.

Jakub Tomaszewski

Destiny, Hasan and Doctor K. What a glorious therapy session that would be :D

Christopher Kavanagh

His promises tend to be more specific, more grandiose, and involve lots more money.

Ben Godek

When you were joking about Andrew Huberman and negative ions, I got the amazing mental image of him powering up like Dragonball Z character.

Alex A

Helen talks about how many of Elon’s promises are vaporware, but how many of academic’s research proposals never yield the the results as promised? I’m in the academic world of physical sciences and many research proposals have a similar flavor: promising to solve grand challenges but mostly not getting there. Why is Elon held to a different standard than other academics- or more broadly, to people trying to do hard/innovative things?

JustTheWorstEver

HOW has it been a year since the last Helen Lewis review? I missed her amazing voice.

Fiona St Clair

I can’t believe no one chose Gabor Mate. He’s super skinny, so wouldn’t eat too much. He’s an actual GP type physician with decades of practice, so he could attend to injuries and illnesses. And finally, he could probably find some psychedelic plants for recreation. Oh, and the win for Matt. Love that he chose Sabine. I think she’d be a lot of fun to have around.

YellowDreams

Team Matt for sure. I think Scott Adam’s would literally melt in the sun Chris. Not to mention drive one inseeeeeen

Nancy Hale

Team Matt FTW on guru island. I think Sabine harbors hitherto unknown skills & do not underestimate the power of Talib’s withering insults to demoralize the competition. Safe travels and sane holidays to all!

Jen

I don’t know if you covered it but this is sooo funny!! Francis from Triggernometry tribute from Daniel Gilbert aka Bad Stats. 😂 https://youtu.be/DDT9-ISf1mM?feature=shared

Eric Quirk

Helen is simply an international treasure, and a lovely person to boot

Kimberly Beer

Helen is so funny! You guys giggling just cracks me up. Happy holidays, and thank you!

Jean-François Melançon

I island survivor team would be Jocko Wilink and the Redscare girls. I think Jocko and me can do all the survival work easily while the Dasha and Anna spy and gossip about the other teams.

Jean-François Melançon

Awesome idea!

Jean-François Melançon

Yeah, that's what I was gonna comment. Maybe it's just my personal disposition, but Jocko seems like someone that's very pleasant to be around.

Jean-François Melançon

I concur, Matt's team wins hands down!

Brink

If only podcasts had subtitles.

john statham

Did someone call one of the decoders ‘Quizimodo’?

Randy

"Matt, do you have anything you'd like to add to the brassiere?"

Mark Francis

Yes, Elon’s views are nothing like Tesla’s and everything like Thomas Edison. Edison was a deaf, anti social, anti union and staunchly conservative crank, with some brilliant inventions that are still in use…. In Edmond Morris’s book ‘Edison’ Morris’s point out that the YouTube lore about Edison and Tesla is not true. Morris points out numerous antidotal stories to show they were cordial and respectful to each other….Thanks for the entertaining episode!

Julie

“Thank you Matt…. good job on waking up..”. LMFOA.

Duncan

Sounds like "fish-eyed goo".

Chomagerider

Helen quoting Theo's cocaine bit during the Trump interview in a matter of fact style was hilarious!!! I really hope Theo doesn't turn more into a Rogan!

Kyle Wilson

My favorite holiday tradition. Helen is the best!

Jen

I’m saving this, it’s a present I don’t want to open yet. Thank you!!! 🎄🎅🏼

Linda Sears

Thanks, Helen, Matt, and Chris (ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future). I’ll let you decide which one is which.

Rod Hodges

“Fish eyed ghoul” made my day. God bless Peter Lorre

Kgar

Greetings DTGers, and Happy Christmas to our intrepid hosts!

Emma

I vote team Matt for the win! Two smarties and a muscle head, who is also sort of smart if nuts. What could go wrong.

Pixel-davis

New end of year ritual: the worse I do on the quizzes, the better I'll consider the year to have been for me

CrystalJade

Great episode. I do wish that the desert island question included a barbarian outsider guru that your choices have to keep your entire team safe from. I mean who wouldn’t want the chance to see gurus throw imaginary rocks at Andrew Gold for example!

Christopher Kavanagh

Fish eyed ghoul.

Andy

I’m taking Destiny, Rogan, and Jocko Willink (does he count?)

Penrice

What did the New Statesman call Konstantin? Rewound 3 times but can't get what Chris says.

Kurt Ressler

Matt picked the superior team, clearly. (just give it to him because he’s so poor at guru trivia)

Lord Brannigan-7

Hey, don't do yourselves down, even though it's true :)

Christopher Kavanagh

Helen is too busy and too famous for our poor podcast.

Kit McLean

Woohoo, Helen's back! One of my favourite Christmas surprises👏

Lord Brannigan-7

No audio issues so far but can we have more Helen and less Chris and Matt next year please? KIDDING! It does work well with the three of you though. Interesting thoughts about Walliams and Carr too, talk about what happens when you stop singing for your dinner and it becomes a whole 'nother game. About halfway through when I wrote this, and I'm not even Gen A...