Joe Rogan Experience #2569 - Bill Thompson
Spartan Forge founder Bill Thompson joins Joe Rogan to talk cars, pressure in archery and hunting, fasting, Jungian dreams, family addiction and AI, arguing people need hard tests to learn who they are.
The gist
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Thompson calms himself at full draw by silently reciting STAB: steady position, trigger squeeze, aiming and breathing, then shooting after a full exhale.
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Thompson does quarterly fasts of two to seven days, plus fasted hunts where food stays locked in a cooler until someone kills a deer.
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After reading Carl Jung, including the Red Book, Thompson writes down his dreams and says they show where he stands, like one about his legal fight.
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Thompson uses nicotine pouches only to focus on hard problems and takes two to three week breaks with nicotine-free Ultras; Rogan warns about kratom.
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Rogan predicts AI will wipe out many jobs within 10 years; Thompson expects people to crave human experiences like Rogan's phone-free comedy club.
"We had this acronym I learned in the military, which was STAB: steady position, trigger squeeze, aiming and breathing. So every time I'm at full draw, I say to myself very silently... and then any panic or anything kind of falls away and I'm just focused on the task."
▶ Play at 26:38"I usually do a quarterly fast where the shortest is usually two or three days and the longest I'll do is 7 days."
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See all on the Extended Fasting page"I started reading every Carl Jung book I could, everything about the collective unconscious, the Red Books, everything that he wrote."
▶ Play at 1:03:35"I do nicotine because it helps me think. It's the only thing that can make me focus... And then when this stuff came out, I was like, 'Oh, I get to get the nicotine without brushing my gums away. Sign me up.'"
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See all on the Nicotine page"I'll switch to, there's this one that I use that's got no nicotine in it. Ultras. Yeah. So I'll just do like that for like two or three weeks."
▶ Play at 1:27:36"I was telling my wife about your comedy club and I said, 'It's the closest thing to 1996 that I can get to.' You lock your phone away. You go in there. There's no worry about someone recording something."
▶ Play at 2:39:17What they recommend · 10 picks
Health & fitness
3 picks · Bill Thompson ·Bill's health & fitness →
"We had this acronym I learned in the military, which was STAB: steady position, trigger squeeze, aiming and breathing. So every time I'm at full draw, I say to myself very silen..."
"I'm convinced of it because I still document my dreams to this day. And when things are happening in my life, the dream will be telling me, 'Here's where you're at. This is what..."
"I usually do a quarterly fast where the shortest is usually two or three days and the longest I'll do is 7 days."
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"They're all fast. Every car is fast. If you want the bargain, this is like the absolute best cool car bargain: get a Ford Mustang GT."
"Like my Tesla is probably like 4,000 lbs, but it's like a time machine. I have the Model S."
"I've always been a Ford guy, so I've got a Ford Tremor, which I love. That truck."
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"I do nicotine because it helps me think. It's the only thing that can make me focus... And then when this stuff came out, I was like, 'Oh, I get to get the nicotine without brus..."
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"I was telling my wife about your comedy club and I said, 'It's the closest thing to 1996 that I can get to.' You lock your phone away. You go in there. There's no worry about so..."
"I started reading every Carl Jung book I could, everything about the collective unconscious, the Red Books, everything that he wrote."
Bill Thompson
8 picks · guest
"We had this acronym I learned in the military, which was STAB: steady position, trigger squeeze, aiming and breathing. So every time I'm at full draw, I say to myself very silen..."
"I'm convinced of it because I still document my dreams to this day. And when things are happening in my life, the dream will be telling me, 'Here's where you're at. This is what..."
"I do nicotine because it helps me think. It's the only thing that can make me focus... And then when this stuff came out, I was like, 'Oh, I get to get the nicotine without brus..."
Joe Rogan
2 picks · host
"They're all fast. Every car is fast. If you want the bargain, this is like the absolute best cool car bargain: get a Ford Mustang GT."
"Like my Tesla is probably like 4,000 lbs, but it's like a time machine. I have the Model S."
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