Episode Transcript: #1114 - Matt Taibbi
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5, 4, 3, 2, that countdown gives me anxiety. I gotta stop doing the countdown. See look, I spilled my fucking alpha brain. God damn it. What is alpha brain? It's brain juice. It's like a cognitive enhancing supplement. Really? Yeah, you ever fuck with
Neutropics, you know what Neutropics are? No, do you have an extra one? Can I try? Yeah, sure, for sure. Neutropics are essentially the building blocks for human neurotransmitters. They improve your memory. Not too radically. Not like you're fucked with
Madafino or any of that stuff? No. No? No. Madafino is like ProVigil. They give it to fighter pilots. You know what I'm talking about? It helps keep them awake. Oh, I have a doctor, so yeah. You have a doctor? Yeah, my wife is a doctor. Oh, your wife's a doctor. Oh, that's perfect. So she knows about all that jazz. But there was just an article recently about it improving cognitive performance. You're gonna probably have to bite into that. You got it?
It's good to meet you, man. I've enjoyed your work. Nice to meet you, Joe. I've been a fan forever, so. Thank you. Me too. Looking forward. I've enjoyed your writing, for sure. And did you get that? You got it there? I don't know. Do I have to bite it? Yeah, there we go. Man. Ew, he got scissors. Got it.
I got it. I got it. There we go. So let's talk about what we were just talking about. You wrote a book with a guy about drug dealing and he was gonna come on wearing a mask. Yeah, he wanted to come on wearing a Barack Obama mask, actually.
It's actually really funny. The whole story is really funny. I'm writing this book. I spilled it too. It's called The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing. You can find it at businesssecretsofdrugdealing.com. And I'm serializing it. But basically, somebody I knew for ages in a completely different capacity sort of came out to me like,
you know, last year and said, you know, I've been a high-level drug dealer for a long time, basically my whole life. And wanted to tell a story about, you know, sort of the whole progression of his life. What kind of drugs?
Only things that grow out of the ground. So he started off, this is an African-American guy, he started off, blue or not selling mushrooms. He sort of grew up half in the projects and half in an upscale suburb. And he, in the upscale suburb, he sold mushrooms, which he basically got through mail order at a time early in the sort of
history of the internet when there were some loopholes about things.
You get spores, right?
Yeah, well, actually, you could get the actual...
Really?
Yeah.
Wow.
So he ends up having this whole career, and he wanted to sort of explain to me what the rules of the game were and do sort of a book version of the Ten Crack Commandments.
And so we sat down and we couldn't quite figure out how to do it at first, but we ended up essentially doing a sort of fictionalized version of his life.
And the progression is amazing because he goes from being a dealer in all these different parts of the country and different social spheres. He's in college, he deals to rich white kids, he deals on the street in tough urban neighborhoods,
and then ends up sort of in the legal business in this state.
As a lawyer?
No, no, no, no, no, no. He's legal marijuana.