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0:00What do you think elites believe is the
0:03secret to living forever?
0:07Okay, so
0:10um the elites are actually obsessed with
0:13living forever. Um and there are
0:15different reasons why this is the case.
0:18Uh some have speculated that it's
0:19because they in their hearts know all
0:22the e evil they've done. So they're
0:23afraid of like the reckoning when they
0:25face God.
0:27um they're afraid of like take like
0:31being held accountable for their
0:32actions. So that's one possibility.
0:34Another possibility is they're just
0:36really happy with the life they have
0:39here. So they want to maintain that.
0:40They're afraid of like when they die
0:42they lose everything. Um so I think both
0:44are are possibilities.
0:46But I think that
0:51um the body is not the secret to
0:55eternal life. So you look at someone
0:57like Peter Aia. I'm not sure if you've
0:59seen his work, but he talks about how to
1:02live longer and healthier, right? He
1:06he's very expensive. I mean, um you
1:08know, he'll charge someone I think
1:09$100,000 a year just to consult on how
1:12to um live a lifestyle that allows for
1:17maximum uh health uh in in in the long
1:20term. Okay. So people like Peter Tia,
1:21you people like Brian Johnson who is
1:25trying to live uh for as long as he can.
1:27There's a lot of money put into
1:29longevity research, but I think it's all
1:31the wrong approach. I think the secret
1:32is not the body, the secret is the mind.
1:36Right? So
1:38I go back to Donald Trump because he's a
1:41very interesting case study for me where
1:44we've never had someone who's been able
1:47to capture global attention for so long.
1:52Right before you might be famous in your
1:55community but that was it. But now with
1:57movies, with the internet, with with
2:00digitization,
2:02Donald Trump lives rent free in the
2:04minds of billions of people, there are
2:06people who like literally wake up every
2:08morning and they're like, "Oh, what what
2:09is Donald Trump doing today?" So they go
2:11online and they read the news. They are
2:14fascinated with this guy. They think
2:15about think about him all the time. And
2:18so we've never had a time when so many
2:20people were focused on one person.
2:23And my question is,
2:27will Donald Trump home ever die? Because
2:30I understand, yes, he eats McDonald's
2:32every single day. I understand he is fat
2:37and old. But we never had had a
2:41situation where the entire world is
2:43focused on
2:46every second, the speech, the movement
2:49of one person. You just look at how he
2:51spends his day. It's always with the
2:54press, right? It's always either on true
2:57social or giving a press conference or
3:00talking to a reporter. It's amazing how
3:02reporters in Washington DC are like, "Oh
3:04my god, I can call up the president of
3:05United States and he'll talk to me for
3:06an hour." It's like literally like any
3:08journalist in Washington DC could do
3:10this. You can get his phone number and
3:12he's the president of the United States
3:13and call him up and he'll tell you, you
3:15know, his thinking and all that. So,
3:17it's a very strange situation and you
3:20ask ask yourself, why is he doing that?
3:22Well, I think he's doing that because he
3:23craves the attention because he wants to
3:27live in a consciousness of the whole
3:30world. We've never had someone like that
3:33like that before, right? So, so let's go
3:35back to the um idea that
3:40consciousness is creating reality. But
3:42what this means is that we create our
3:44own individual reality naturally. Okay.
3:49But
3:50if
3:52we all have Donald Trump in our minds,
3:55then Donald Trump becomes the
3:56convergence of all individual realities
3:59on planet Earth. And this convergence is
4:02what we call God. So, is it possible
4:06that by constantly thinking about Donald
4:09Trump all the time,
4:12by giving him our psychic attention,
4:16are we basically manifesting God
4:21into Donald Trump so that his
4:24consciousness becomes eternal locked in?
4:26because we make it eternal because we
4:29cannot perceive or imagine or desire a
4:32world without him. There's a certain
4:34addiction to Donald Trump today, right?
4:38Imagine how remember how boring Joe
4:39Biden was. Right? We had Donald Trump
4:42and was like, "Oh my god, oh my god,
4:44please go away. I don't want to think
4:46about you anymore." Then we had Joe
4:47Biden like who who no one remembers what
4:49happened during Joe Biden, right?
4:52And now with Donald Trump, which is like
4:53we're back to constantly fretting about
4:57the world, constantly cursing him, we
5:00constantly think about him, giving him
5:01all the our attention.
5:04And my question is,
5:08will he die? And I I fear that he won't
5:12die.
5:14I think that's a secret to longevity
5:16where you are able to implant yourself
5:18in the consciousnesses of so many people
5:21that their consciousness creates a
5:24reality in which you can inhabit
5:26forever.
5:27It's really fascinating if you look at
5:29the history of memes. uh I think it was
5:32Richard Dawkins
5:34that had proposed like mimemetics in the
5:37first place and Trump is the greatest
5:39meme of all time and you know this
5:41because what was the biggest meme coin?
5:44Trumpcoin. Uh so it signals I don't know
5:48it's what really gives a god power when
5:50you think about it. Do you think the
5:52answer is just attention your active
5:54consciousness?
5:55>> Yes.
5:58He he's a psychic demon. Okay. And you
6:01feed a psych psyched demon food intense
6:03emotions. And there's so many intense
6:05emotions surrounding Donald Trump.
6:07People either hate him or love him. He
6:09doesn't care because it's all emotions
6:11that that empowers him, right? For him,
6:14hate love is the same thing. H
6:19So, so again, this is a thought
6:21experiment, but the question is, is he
6:24going to die? Because he's not going to
6:26go away. Okay? As long as he can stay in
6:27that office, he's not going to die.
6:31And like quite honestly, there's no way
6:33to get get rid of him now.
6:35>> Do you think the elite believe they're
6:38from sacred bloodlines?
6:41>> Oh, absolutely.
6:43>> Is it all the one bloodline or is it
6:47like multiple bloodlines?
6:48>> Yeah, they say 13 bloodlines. So I mean
6:51I I think it's this game theory where
6:53you're born into power and privilege and
6:56you go to places like Andover, Yale,
6:59Harvard Law School, and you meet people
7:01who are smarter than you are. So how can
7:04you explain to yourself why you're more
7:05powerful than these people? And the
7:07answer is my blood is better. My blood
7:10is pure. I have dragon blood. I have
7:13divine blood from Hercules, from
7:15Achilles, from Max the Great. That's why
7:18I should rule the world because I'm not
7:20going to give up my precision. I'm not
7:22going to admit that this other guy is
7:25better than I am.
7:27>> I should rule. And the best explanation
7:29for why I should rule is because I've
7:31always ruled because I I'm a
7:32reincarnation of a divine being on on
7:36Earth,
7:38right? And that's something that Jeffrey
7:39Epstein believed.
7:41That's a fascinating one. I'm sure you
7:43could look at the history of like these
7:44ancestry.coms and 23 andmemes and I'm
7:47sure it's strange, but uh cuz how else
7:50would you determine the bloodline
7:52without the DNA test? Uh and you
7:54shouldn't actually participate in in any
7:57of those things.
7:58>> Why? Because um a conspiracy theory,
8:01okay, I I'll just throw this out there,
8:03okay? But a conspiracy theory is that um
8:07they want certain bloodlines and they
8:08use these websites to find certain
8:10bloodlines. So if you're in that
8:12bloodline,
8:14bad things could happen to you.
8:16Why is there so much human trafficking
8:18in the United States?
8:22They care a lot about blood bloodlines,
8:23right? So if they believe that they are
8:26divine of divine bloodline, they would
8:28also want to prevent others from of
8:30divine bloodline from accessing power,
8:33right? They want to they would want to
8:35step out other bloodlines. They could
8:36also drink the blood of other blood
8:39lines to increase their own bloodline.
8:43>> You know, again, this is a conspiracy
8:44theory. I have no evidence this is the
8:45case. But if you if you you if you were
8:47to actually examine how these people
8:49think, you know, and these people are
8:51like insane,
8:53this makes sense. So, what bloodline
8:55would you have to be for them to
8:58would you have to be of that 13 families
9:00or would you be of just not that? Um, so
9:05I think that it depends on the group
9:07that you're in. I think there's
9:09something called the 13 bloodlines,
9:11>> which traces um themselves back to the
9:14Roman Empire basically. Um, but then you
9:17have the Sabine Frankus.
9:19>> Mhm.
9:19>> Who are maybe about few hundred families
9:23um and Jeffy Epstein was of the
9:25bloodline of the Sapian Frankus.
9:27>> So there's overlap, but there's also
9:29some distinctions. So, you know,
9:31honestly, I have not done that that much
9:33research into these bloodlines because I
9:35think um it's not really helpful. I'm
9:37more interested in ideas. Um because
9:40these people are not smart and their
9:42behavior is sort of pre-ordained. You'll
9:44know exactly how how they will behave.
9:46Um I'm much more interested in people
9:48like Donald Trump who
9:51regardless of what you think about him,
9:52he actually has an imagination. He
9:54actually has a connection to the divine
9:57perhaps.
9:57>> He thinks he does. Yeah. And he probably
9:59does.
10:01>> Yeah. Something I found fascinating from
10:03our conversation yesterday when we'd had
10:05a chat was that your belief that you
10:08have a belief that there isn't like uh
10:11one most powerful person in the world.
10:14>> Yeah.
10:16>> And that logics out to me. Uh and it
10:19also logics out to me that we'd be
10:20allowed to say it because uh the person
10:23who thinks they're the most powerful in
10:24the world would want us to say their
10:26name.
10:26>> Exactly. Exactly. That's exactly right.
10:29>> And the person uh
10:32>> Yeah. I I don't think anyone wouldn't
10:33want us to say their name. That makes
10:34sense.
10:35>> Yeah.
10:35>> Um so so I mean they say like these
10:38these secret societies are promoted by
10:40secret societies, right? So go going
10:42back to the example of the Illuminati.
10:45Okay. Illuminati was founded at the end
10:48of the 18th century by Adam Weisshop who
10:53was formerly a Jesuit and the Jesuits
10:55are crypto Jews and he aligned with
10:57Jacob Frank and Mayor Rothschild and
11:01they formed the Illuminati.
11:04And when you ever for whenever you form
11:06a secret society, okay, your major
11:07problem is actually recruitment. How do
11:09you get people to join your um
11:13organization? And Adam Weisshoff um was
11:16able to grow the Illuminati because he
11:19was he was a master media media
11:21manipulator. Okay. So he created the
11:23myth that there are these people who are
11:26seeking to conquer the world and they're
11:29infiltrated throughout Europe in all the
11:32major noble lineages and they've
11:34infiltrated the Freemasons as well and
11:36they're conspiring to overthrow
11:38um these dynasties of Europe, right? And
11:42so he was the one who was promoting this
11:43myth because if you're just this average
11:47Joe and you read about these guys,
11:48they're like, "This is actually pretty
11:50cool. Yeah, I should join these guys."
11:52And it gives it gives it much more
11:54political leverage, right? So So, so
11:57that that's what people don't really
11:58appreciate about the illuminati. It's
12:00actually more of a PR um campaign than
12:03than is actually a powerful force in the
12:05world. But but again remember this goes
12:08back to Donald Trump and Plato's cave.
12:11Consciousness is reality itself. If you
12:13can make enough people believe this to
12:15be true, it becomes true. You've talked
12:18about various secret societies. You've
12:20talked about various scops uh
12:24made different predictions about the
12:26system. Is there anything that you,
12:29Professor Jeang, are allowed to say?
12:34I think that if you refer to certain
12:38individuals
12:40and their actions,
12:42they would come after you because as
12:45long as you talk in the abstract like,
12:46okay, this is how secret societies rule
12:48the world, that's fine. They don't care.
12:50No one cares. You talk about how
12:53Jeffrey Epstein is connected to this
12:55person and it's this person that
12:58financed certain parts of his behavior.
13:01um this would create problems for him
13:02and then it would come create problems
13:04for you. So I think um naming names
13:08going into specifics is a problem.
13:12Another problem is let's just say I had
13:13access to confidential information that
13:15someone shared with me
13:16>> and I were to if I were to reveal that
13:18to you well that would be a problem
13:21because then I would have betrayed that
13:22person,
13:22>> right?
13:23>> Um and I don't do that because I don't
13:25know any powerful people and no one's
13:26ever told me any secrets, right? So a
13:29lot of things I do is based on
13:30speculation, based on analysis and no
13:33one cares if you do that. But again, if
13:35you name someone powerful and you reveal
13:40certain of his behavior, that can be um
13:43that that can be used as legal evidence
13:44against him that can cause for
13:47incrimination against him. uh that would
13:50be a problem if you had information
13:52revealed to you by a confidential source
13:54and you were to reveal this confidential
13:56information to other people and make it
13:58public. Um that that would set you up
14:00for retribution as well. So I would say
14:03these two things. Most of your critics
14:05say that what you're doing is
14:08technically illegal in your home country
14:11and the only reason you haven't gotten
14:12trouble is because you're a CCP asset or
14:16a CIA asset or an MI6 asset.
14:21Professor Jeang, are you a spy? Okay,
14:24sure. So, let me respond to the
14:27question. How am I allowed to do what I
14:29do in China? And the reason is that I'm
14:32actually not part of the Chinese system.
14:35>> So the Chinese system is set up to
14:37control the behavior
14:40of Chinese citizens.
14:43Um and so it's a very complicated
14:45bureaucracy. I'm not a Chinese citizen.
14:49I'm not a participant in a Chinese
14:50system. I'm a foreigner hired to teach
14:55English at a private school. That's my
14:58identity. That's my role in China. And
15:01foreigners are given a lot of leeway in
15:03China. Like we operate in a gray zone
15:05where we don't really matter and we're
15:07sort of like tolerated, but we don't
15:10really matter. Okay. And so an example
15:11of this is um if you're if you have a
15:14Chinese ID, then you're part of the
15:17Chinese AI surveillance grid, meaning
15:19that everything that you say is
15:21monitored. Everything that you do is
15:24monitored. um when you use any Chinese
15:29payment system that information is
15:31always stored online and the database is
15:33constructed to profile you okay but it's
15:36a system designed for Chinese citizens
15:39and why you do that is you're not
15:42interested in individual behavior you're
15:43interested in collective behavior so
15:45you're trying to figure out this
15:46person's social network and then you can
15:49profile this social network and then use
15:51mechanisms to manipulate that um social
15:53network does that does that make sense
15:55to Yeah. Okay. In other words, I don't
15:56matter. I'm not part of the system.
15:59Whatever I do does not impact how the
16:02system is run and managed. Okay. The
16:05system is meant is meant to control the
16:06people inter internal to China, not
16:10external to it. China has absolutely no
16:13desire to conquer the world because it'
16:14be a pain in the ass. Right. So, um
16:18that's a lot. That's why I'm allowed to
16:19do what I do as long as I'm not on
16:23social media in China. As long as I do I
16:25do not do public speeches in China, as
16:29long as I don't talk to Chinese
16:30reporters, I don't matter in the system.
16:32Okay. But the moment, okay, and and this
16:34is a caveat. The moment I I decide, you
16:36know what? I I want to be famous in
16:38China, I want to set up set up a social
16:40media account, I want to give speeches
16:43and generate income, now I'm a problem,
16:46right? So I I make that this that
16:48distinction where I choose freedom
16:51but I also choose not to um engage in
16:55lucrative opportunities in China.
16:59>> But if I were to engage in in lucrative
17:01opportunities then then I would be
17:04expected to say certain things that
17:06promote the party line in the world and
17:10in China. Hm. Like if you saw an
17:13American influencer perhaps speaking
17:15Chinese to a classroom of American
17:18students and they were talking about the
17:20topics you're talking about, but like
17:22for China, like what would you think
17:25that is going on? I would have actually
17:27no idea what's going on. I'd be like,
17:30first of all, who is this guy and where
17:32is he getting his information? Second of
17:34all, I'd be like, why is he allowed to
17:36teach his stuff to students?
17:39I mean, like there doesn't have a
17:40supervisor, isn't there? like this high
17:41school principal that oversees the
17:42curriculum. And then third of all, it's
17:45like what motivates this guy? Why why is
17:48he doing what what he's doing? Cuz like
17:50this is not going to help kids get into
17:52college. It's not going to help them uh
17:54do well on the SAT. This is all just
17:56silly. I would have absolutely no idea
17:58what's going on. I'd be completely
18:00confused. I'd be fabric flabbergasted by
18:02by this guy. I I would have absolutely
18:04no idea who he is. I would not know why
18:06he's doing what he's doing. and I'd be
18:09confused as to how he's able to get away
18:11with this crap.
18:12>> And do you feel like your answers so far
18:14have answered that pretty fully?
18:18>> Um,
18:20if you just go in my history, I do all
18:23sorts of strange things.
18:26Um, people who know me aren't surprised
18:29by what I do. They're surprised by how
18:32famous I become,
18:34but they're not surprised by what I do.
18:36I'm I'm I'm just a strange guy, right?
18:37because I went to Yale and I come to
18:40China
18:42and I spend my entire life here just
18:44teaching and I'm like impoverished
18:49as compared to my Yale classmates,
18:50right, who've become lawyers and doctors
18:52and who live very respectful lives on
18:54the Upper West Side in New York. Um, so
18:59when I first got into Yale,
19:03all my cousins hated me because now
19:06they're under pressure to get into the
19:07Ivy League as well. Then like 10 years
19:09later,
19:11um, I hear a story of how my cousin got
19:14into a fight with his mother and his
19:16mother said to him, "You have to work
19:17harder because you you want to be like
19:19Uncle Jang and get into into Yale." And
19:22then the cousin was like, "Yeah, mom,
19:25but he went back to China." And that
19:29ended the conversation. I was never
19:31mentioned again in that household. Like,
19:33so so, so I mean my my my entire my
19:36relatives, my family is shocked by how
19:39strange I am. Like you go to Yale. Like
19:43you win, you win the lottery and you
19:45decide, you know what? I'm gonna just
19:46throw foot away and go to a place where
19:48my my degree doesn't really matter where
19:52I I can't become a doctor or a lawyer. I
19:54can only be a become a high school
19:56teacher. So, I'm just a strange person
20:00in general. And then, you know, like,
20:02you know, um in 2008, I built China's
20:06first public school international
20:08program
20:09to send Chinese kids to America for
20:12college. And at that time this was a new
20:15field and everyone knew it it was like a
20:18rocket ship. I could become a
20:20millionaire just helping Chinese kids
20:22apply to university. A lot of people did
20:24become millionaires.
20:26But after a couple years of doing that,
20:29I walked away because I didn't want to
20:32do this for the rest of my life. I
20:33didn't want to become a business person.
20:35I didn't want to make millions of
20:37dollars getting rich kids into Yale and
20:40Harvard. I walked away.
20:43I worked for United Nations in 2006. And
20:46look, when you work for United Nations,
20:48it is the cushiest,
20:50easiest life anyone can live. Okay? It
20:55is the silliest thing ever to exist. But
20:57like I literally was making six figures
21:00doing nothing every day, just sitting in
21:02my office and pretending to type on uh a
21:05keyboard. And I and like if I had a
21:07family, every one of my kids would be
21:09given free international schooling. If I
21:12flew around, it'd be business class. I'd
21:14be given a pension after 10, 20 years, a
21:17full pension.
21:18I was treated like royalty wherever I
21:21wherever I went because I'm the United
21:23Nations.
21:24Um, and I walked away because like
21:26because I didn't I thought it was a
21:28meaningless existence.
21:29So,
21:32I'm often confused by
21:35myself. Um, people think, you know, my
21:38friends tell me, you know, they don't
21:41they don't understand why I do what I
21:44do. Um, so,
21:48uh, it's led me to this point.
21:51And again, like people, my friends are
21:53not surprised by what I do what I do,
21:56which is, you know, teach conspiracy
21:57theories in high school. Like that's
22:00just part of my personality, but they're
22:03kind of surprised by I have like two
22:06million followers right now on YouTube,
22:08right? They're kind of surprised by
22:10that. It's like and and like these are
22:12Yale Harvard people, right? So they
22:13they're very conservative. there they
22:15have a very rigid worldview and they
22:18don't understand how I'm able to
22:23teach this and be so popular um in the
22:26world.
22:28>> Did you manifest this?
22:31>> That's a really good question. Um
22:36the short answer is yes, but the real
22:39answer is I imagine this possibility,
22:42right? I
22:45um but you know the the thing though is
22:48that I am a writer by training like I
22:52write books and so I imagine things all
22:54the time and I imagine that this could
22:56be a possibility one day
23:01>> and I position myself I maneuver myself
23:06into
23:08um this position. So 5 years ago during
23:13CO I was so upset about CO. It really
23:16annoyed me how the entire world just
23:19shut off its brain, right? Just like
23:21okay well you know this vaccine well we
23:24don't know if it works but some
23:26scientists said it works so it must work
23:28so I'll just put it in my body and hope
23:29for the best. I was it was just insane
23:31to me. I I've been fascinated um by
23:34social media uh by the internet. So I
23:36was watching a lot of Joe Rogan. I was
23:38watching a lot of Jimmy Door. I was
23:41watching a lot of alternative media and
23:44I I became drawn to alternative media
23:50because like I like debate, I like
23:52conversation. I like exploration. And it
23:55seemed to me like people like Jimmy
23:57Door, Joe Rogan, uh Brett and Eric
24:00Weinstein,
24:02um Tucker Carlson,
24:05these were people that was that that
24:09were trying to seek the truth, that were
24:11really questioning the world. And I was
24:14like, you know, I would one day like to
24:18be on their show.
24:20You know, I I feel that's the direction
24:22I could go. And so then I asked myself,
24:27okay, if I want to be like them, because
24:32only by being like them can I appear on
24:34their show, right? They're not going to
24:36like ask a random high school teacher to
24:38be on their show. What can I do that
24:41makes me so distinct
24:44that
24:45I might be popular on social media?
24:48And my solution was I'm going to make
24:51some stupid predictions and hope they
24:54turn up correct. And if they aren't
24:57correct, I'm going to be a laughing
24:59stock for the rest of my life. But if
25:02they are correct, then I might uh get on
25:05Taco Carson,
25:07right? So that was my strategy and
25:11planning when I start the YouTube
25:14channel.
25:15It sounds so silly, right? Are are are
25:17you telling me that you didn't believe
25:19those predictions? So I believe my
25:22predictions. I believe it would turn out
25:24the way
25:26um they did very strongly because
25:30remember I had to first of all explain
25:33my predictions and justify my
25:35predictions but I also tip myself and
25:38put on YouTube right which means that
25:41now there's a historical record that I
25:43made these predictions and I would only
25:44do that if I truly believed in them but
25:49what happened was that um for the past
25:51five six
25:54I was having conversation with friends
25:55and we'd have these silly arguments
25:57about geopolitics. Like
26:00I w we argued about who the Democratic
26:03nominee would be in 2020 and and I was
26:05like why are we having this stupid
26:06argument? It's going to be Joe Biden.
26:08Okay. And like they there was a lot of
26:10push by says no no it's going to be Pete
26:12Buddhajette. It's going to be Kamala
26:13Harris because we want a younger
26:15candidate. And I'm like it doesn't
26:16matter what you want. It's m it matters
26:19how the world works and Joe Biden's
26:20going to be the nominee. Um, I also
26:22predicted that Trump would win in 2020
26:25and beat Joe Biden. Um, and then the you
26:29and then there was talk of Putin
26:32invading Ukraine, attacking Ukraine. And
26:35my friends were like, "It's not going to
26:36happen. There's no way. It's too
26:38dangerous." And Putin would lose. I'm
26:40like, "Oh my god, this is so silly. This
26:44is all obviously going to happen." And
26:46for whatever reason, all my friends
26:49believe the complete opposite. and I
26:51can't talk to my friends anymore. It's
26:52just pointless. These are Yale Harvard
26:55people who are supposed to be like the
26:57some of the smartest people in the world
26:58and they have like these thick skulls
27:01and like it's almost impossible to relay
27:05obvious reality to them. So screw this.
27:07I'm I'm I'm going to make my own YouTube
27:08channel and uh just speak my heart
27:12basically.
27:14Do you think the reason you're able to
27:16nail some of these predictions is
27:18because you went into Yale as a poor kid
27:21and just saw how these rich like elite
27:25that type of consciousness that group
27:28identity like how they behave and how
27:31they win games and like you're just able
27:33to see it for what it is and they're so
27:35stuck inside of it that they can't see
27:36it. They're too biased.
27:38>> Okay. So, um, the thing about Yale is
27:41when you're a poor kid and you get in a
27:43place like Yale, which is like I mean
27:46the height of elite power, okay? Um,
27:49you're traumatized by the event.
27:52All my time at Yale, I felt like an
27:53imposter. Like I don't really belong
27:55here
27:56and you're traumatized by the alienation
27:59because you don't belong here because
28:00you're not because you're not rich and
28:02they don't they don't want they don't
28:03want actually want to talk to you. Um,
28:06and so Yale was an alienating and
28:09traumatic experience for me. And when
28:11that happens, you go you you you
28:14disassociate, right? So I wasn't
28:15actually observing how power works
28:18because because I was never invited to
28:20their parties anyway. And I was not
28:22friends with them. So I never I didn't
28:24understand how power power works. Um,
28:27and so I developed a very naive
28:28understanding of the world, which was
28:30that the world was a meritocracy, which
28:32is like the best ideas will always win
28:34out. So it didn't matter if I didn't
28:36have any friends. It didn't matter if if
28:38I didn't have any money, it didn't
28:40matter if I didn't have any connections.
28:42All mattered was if I just did the best
28:44job possible, whatever I did, I'd be
28:46successful. And that was my
28:49understanding leaving Yale. And so I go
28:52out into the world and I try many
28:54different things. I tried being a
28:56journalist. I tried being a documented
28:58filmmaker.
28:59And no matter what I did, it was failure
29:02after failure. And I didn't I didn't
29:04think that the people who are my
29:06colleagues in these industries were
29:08necessarily better than I was.
29:11And I was sort of surprised by this and
29:13I became very angry at myself for not
29:17succeeding because I thought the entire
29:18point of going to Yale was to be
29:20successful and I was not succeeding. So
29:22um I became very anxious. I became very
29:26depressed and for many years I sunk into
29:29a deep depression
29:31and no matter what I did I couldn't
29:34escape my uh depression. And then in
29:392008 I got a job
29:43building and managing China's first
29:45public school study abro.
29:49But the process of building the program
29:53um left me traumatized because I spent
29:55my entire heart and soul into building
29:57the program to validate myself and I
30:00couldn't control myself emotionally and
30:03I got into a fight with my boss and so
30:05he fired me or I quit whatever you know
30:09um but
30:11um after that I was like clearly there's
30:14something wrong with me clearly I need
30:16to think about who I am how I got to
30:19this point and how I can how I can
30:21improve myself. So, I wrote an article
30:24at that time called
30:28three things Yale didn't teach me and I
30:32listed three fundamental problems with
30:35my education, my own psychology. The
30:39first problem is I thought that IQ
30:43was the endon be all. So if you're able
30:47to articulate yourself clearly, if
30:49you're able to do math, well, you should
30:51be president of the United States.
30:54Whereas if you are not able to
30:55articulate clearly, then you should be a
30:57janitor. Okay? So I saw the world
30:58through the lens of IQ. I didn't
31:00appreciate that the world was much more
31:02diverse than I than I uh um believed.
31:08That's the first issue. Second issue is
31:11I believe the world was a zero sum
31:14competition. So, I'm on YouTube and so I
31:18need to have the most YouTube views. I
31:21have the most YouTube um subscribers
31:24otherwise I'm nothing.
31:26And so I saw everyone as a competitor. I
31:29couldn't take pleasure in the pleasure
31:31of others. I when others were happy, I
31:34became very unhappy because like why
31:36were they happier than I was? Okay. So I
31:38saw I saw the world um through that
31:41lens. And the third problem is
31:44I saw failure not as an opportunity to
31:47grow and to learn but as a testament to
31:51my own deficiencies. So I was afraid to
31:55fail. I didn't want to lose. Um it was
31:58the most traumatic experience to fail
32:00and to to lose. And so I recognized that
32:05these three things were setting me back
32:08and I needed to reinvent myself. I need
32:11to die basically. I needed to um myself.
32:15And so what I did was this. I redesigned
32:18my Yale education,
32:20right? Y at Yale, you just went to
32:22school with the best and the brightest.
32:24You were taught by professors who are
32:25eloquent, who were um very scholarly.
32:30And so I said, I'm going to throw myself
32:32into the world. I'm going to interact
32:33with ordinary people and do ordinary
32:35things. Right? So I signed up for
32:36cooking school. And the first day I go
32:41to cooking school, I imagine I manif I
32:44met I manifested myself that oh in a
32:47year's time I will be the world's
32:49greatest chef because my classmates
32:52don't know Shakespeare.
32:54They never went to Yale whereas I did.
32:57So I'm superior to them. Okay. So at the
32:59end of this year my ambition is I'm I'm
33:01I'm going to have my own restaurant
33:02empire. I'm going to have like a
33:04thousand restaurants all around the
33:05world. I'm going to have my own TV show
33:07and I'll be the best cook in the world.
33:09Okay. And of course, I was a complete
33:11disaster
33:13in the kitchen. I didn't know anything.
33:15And I was like the worst student in the
33:19class. And these are like vocational
33:20kids, by the way. They were like 18, 19.
33:22They were working as like short order
33:24cooks in a airport bar. They were coming
33:28at night to take this class because they
33:31loved cooking. It was their passion. And
33:35um so at the end of each class when you
33:38cook three me three dishes you present
33:40it to the chef
33:42and then the chef would give it a grade.
33:46And I was so bad that the chef would not
33:49even touch my dishes. He like I'm not
33:53eating this crap. Go away man. I was
33:56like what is wrong you people? Don't you
33:58people know I went to Yale? Like what is
34:00wrong you idiots? Um but that was this
34:03disaster
34:05as a um cooking student. It and it was
34:09complete humiliation but it taught me
34:12that the world isn't the way you think
34:15it is. So I need to reexamine my own
34:18values.
34:20I also took Brazilian jiu-jitsu classes
34:23and
34:24um Brazilian jiujitsu is a weird sport
34:27because you you don't know anything and
34:29what they do is they beat you up for a
34:31year. You know, you go and like, "Oh,
34:33hey, uh we're going to roll." And you're
34:35like, "Okay, so are we going to train?"
34:37No, no, someone's going to come and beat
34:38you up for a year. And that's what
34:40happened. And like every day after
34:42class, I just go home and cry because I
34:46remembered when I was a um student in
34:49Toronto like in primary school and in
34:52junior high school and every day I get
34:54beat I get beat up by bullies and I go
34:56home and cry and was same was happening
34:59to me again taking Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
35:01The difference of course is like now I'm
35:03paying good money to get beaten up and
35:06bullied uh and cry. Um, I did stand up
35:10comedy and stand comedy was a revelation
35:13because
35:15um, all my entire life I was afraid of
35:17being laughed at. Like I I had to like
35:19prove myself and when I got up on the
35:22stage and I told jokes and people
35:25actually thought I was funny. Um, I
35:28recognized that when they laugh that
35:31made me feel good about myself.
35:34It made me feel good to be vulnerable,
35:36to expose myself, to humiliate myself in
35:40front of others, bring them happiness,
35:42brought me happiness. And so that so
35:45that was a revelation. Um, and so I I
35:47also learned not to take take myself too
35:49seriously like like the healthiest
35:52healthiest thing is just to be able to
35:53laugh at yourself. Um, I did rock
35:56climbing. Um, and rock climbing was also
35:58really important because rock climbing
36:01it's a social thing. It's not It's not
36:04like a competition. And at first when
36:09people in the gym were able to do much
36:11harder climbs than I was, I was kind of
36:14like
36:15angry and jealous.
36:19But, you know, when whenever I tried a
36:22hard climb and people around me were
36:24cheering me on, I recognized that, wow,
36:27if they can cheer me on, why can't I
36:29cheer them on? If they were able to find
36:31happiness in my success, why can't I
36:33find happiness in their success? Um, I
36:36did skydiving
36:38for a few months.
36:40Don't do that. Like this the dumbest
36:42thing you can do. Okay. Those guys were
36:44in drugs, right? Um, yeah, it was just
36:47dumb and like but but but I was trying
36:51different things. So, skydiving was
36:53like, "Yeah, just don't don't try that.
36:54They're all drug on drugs. They're all
36:56assholes."
36:58Um,
36:59and yeah, I tried everything. I I tried
37:01singing
37:03um because I was tonedeaf and I spent
37:06like $10,000 so that I can sing some
37:10notes like oh
37:14something like that. I can't sing. Okay.
37:15Like it just it was just a lot of money.
37:17And every day my teacher was just
37:19shouting at me and saying you're an
37:21idiot. you can't, you know, sing and
37:23like and um and that was also um a
37:26humiliating experience that taught me to
37:29be much more um to have much more
37:32empathy in in life. And so that
37:35experience was very transformative
37:38because I recognized that
37:40education is not about going to the best
37:42schools
37:44and getting the best grades. It was
37:47really about
37:49taking risk, trying new things
37:53and engaging in a process of
37:56self-reflection
37:58and um it was really about humility,
38:02empathy, resilience, and that taught me
38:04to be a better teacher as well as a
38:06better person. Um, and you know, the
38:09great thing about that experience is
38:10that it didn't really save me from my
38:14anxiety, from my depression, but it
38:16opened my heart to the possibility of
38:19being saved. In that I felt that I'm now
38:22worthy of being saved. I'm now worthy of
38:26sharing my life with another person.
38:29Whereas before I was afraid
38:32and so I was able to let go my ego and
38:34fear. And I and so I I even today I tell
38:36people like the two your two greatest
38:37enemies are ego and fear.
38:41Your belief that you're alone in the
38:42universe and your belief that you will
38:45fail. Um so having let go of my ego and
38:49fear now have I've opened up my heart I
38:53was able to find the love of my life.
38:56Something I'd asked you last night was
38:59what was the moment that you noticed
39:01everything was an illusion? like what
39:02was the moment that you could see past
39:04the veil and see that all this was fake?
39:07>> Yeah. So, um I met my wife 10 years ago
39:12and
39:14um at first I didn't want to start a
39:16relationship because I had had I hit
39:18rock bottom. I had no money because I
39:21spent it all on skydiving.
39:23I was unemployed.
39:27Um I didn't have a house. I was actually
39:30working for rent.
39:32And um just by accident I met my wife.
39:37>> Where'd you meet her?
39:38>> Um I was um helping out a college
39:41program and she was also part of the
39:43team and she saw something in me and so
39:46she wanted to date me. So she took she
39:48took the initiative and I was kind of
39:51indifferent. Um, but we we went out a
39:55few times and
39:58we just connected, you know, we we we
40:00just clicked and we were we were able to
40:03be intimate with with each other. And
40:05so, one thing led to another and then we
40:06were married. We had our first child.
40:08Now, we have three kids. And for this
40:11time, I was afraid that this was just an
40:15illusion, that this was not real, that
40:18she'll eventually wake up and said, "Oh
40:20my god, why am I dating an unemployed
40:24um middle-aged man who's who might be
40:26gay?" Um why am I doing that? Um but but
40:29she never left me and we've been
40:31together ever since. And and it feels as
40:34though we were just meant to be to be
40:36together. It meant it was meant I feel
40:38as though we we're like soulmates like
40:40we are two sparks drifting in the
40:43universe and we wanted to find each
40:44other and so we were able to somehow
40:47navigate the messiness of this world,
40:51navigate the chaos and somehow find each
40:53other because we were looking for each
40:54other all this time. Like that's
40:56literally how I feel about her. Um, and
40:59you know, she saved my life. She
41:01transformed my life and she was able to
41:03bring structure and purpose and meaning
41:04to my life when none existed before.
41:06Before I was like, I just want to
41:07succeed. I don't know why I I want to
41:10succeed, but I want to succeed. Now it's
41:11like, I don't need to succeed. Now I
41:13just need to take care of my family. Now
41:15I just need to be a good role model to
41:18my kids. Now I Now I just need to spend
41:19as much time as possible with my family
41:22and enjoy my time here with with my
41:24family. And um
41:29just having that spirit, just by letting
41:32go, just by seeing the world as an
41:35illusion, seeing that success means
41:39nothing. It's family that matters.
41:42Strangely enough,
41:44um I became much more creative. Um I
41:47wrote a book that was published in
41:49China. I wrote a series of science
41:51fiction uh novels. It was it was just a
41:54time of tremendous creative output and I
41:56started to teach and when I teach I was
42:00not interested in just teaching English.
42:04I wanted to be a role model to my kids.
42:05I wanted to be like be able to teach my
42:07kids and so I started to teach a great
42:09books Homer Dante Plato Kant um and I
42:15had very very little exposure to a lot
42:18of these books and so I set myself on
42:20learning them as much as possible and at
42:24first it was kind of okay because you
42:25can always watch YouTube videos and just
42:27imitate them these professors who teach
42:30Plato and Homer. But then I got into
42:33Dante
42:35and for six months I was watching these
42:38YouTube videos about Dante Divine
42:41Comedy. I had no idea what they were
42:43saying. I was so confused. I was reading
42:46Divine Comedy like every single day
42:48because I really wanted to master it and
42:50I had no idea what I was reading. I was
42:53just so lost. I was so frustrated.
42:56And so I went to sleep one one one day
43:01and I woke up and I felt as though Dante
43:05had spoken to me and he he and I and his
43:08word was love. Focus on love. That's
43:13what divine comedy is about, love. And
43:15so I started to reread it again and then
43:17things started to unpack themselves. So
43:19they reveal themselves before me. And um
43:22it wasn't at once, but it was like as
43:25though before I just saw gray and now
43:28I'm able to see color slowly, piece by
43:31piece. And um and and then I recognized
43:36something which is the universe is
43:38divine. The universe is alive. The
43:41universe is conscious. And if you have
43:43the faith, if you have the love in your
43:46heart, it will speak back to you. It
43:48will guide you. It will lead you to the
43:52um to to the light. But first you have
43:55to open yourself to love. Love is the
43:59great secret of the universe.
44:03>> Right.
44:05>> Professor Jang, you've spent your life
44:08studying how powerful people enslave the
44:11weak. You know how war, religion, and
44:13debt are used to create fear and give
44:16them control. If all your lectures were
44:20deleted, every book, every article
44:23erased from history,
44:25what's the one truth about humans you
44:28would leave to the world?
44:31Um,
44:32look, if tomorrow, for whatever reason,
44:37all my lectures were deleted, it
44:39wouldn't change anything. It wouldn't
44:41matter because I feel as though I've
44:43ignited a spark in a lot of people. It's
44:47a spark that compels them to seek the
44:51truth for themselves. So, these videos
44:53are not to be are not meant to be the
44:55truth. They're not meant to be the
44:57Bible. They're not meant to be
44:59scripture. They're meant to be a
45:04uh way
45:05to inspire you to seek your own truth.
45:09And I think there's a global awakening
45:12happening. I think I've started a
45:14movement of sorts. I I I mean I mean I
45:18come to Hong Kong and it's amazing how a
45:23lot of people recognize me and they come
45:25up to me and and tell me how much they
45:27love my lectures.
45:29And
45:31I was at breakfast this morning, my
45:34hotel,
45:35and one of the hotel staff, this young
45:40Filipino lady. And I would expect, this
45:42is like the last person to watch my
45:44videos, right? As I was getting to
45:47leave,
45:49um, she said to me, "Goodbye, Professor
45:52Diao." So she recognized me and like
45:54this is a you know Filipino lady working
45:58as a waitress in a hotel in Hong Kong.
46:03So it's amazing
46:05the impact I've had already.
46:09And I think that once you ignite that
46:12spark in people,
46:14it changes just the entire way they see
46:16the world. You can never you you can
46:18never go back.
46:23I guess what's the best piece of advice
46:25you've ever received?
46:30Don't chase
46:33So, I'll tell you a story where I was a
46:36young um teacher,
46:39aspiring journalist in Beijing. This
46:41year, this is about the year 1999 and I
46:44had just graduated from Yale. This is
46:46the autumn.
46:48And um a journalist friend calls me and
46:51says, "So there's this famous American
46:52writer, Gay Tiss. You probably haven't
46:55heard of him. He's like 94 this year."
46:56Okay. He's a very famous writer. Uh pro
47:00probably like the last
47:02um great living American writer.
47:05>> He he he was off the um Kurt Vonagget um
47:08Tom Wolf Hammerstein generation and
47:11they're all dead. He's still alive. And
47:14I was his assistant for six months
47:17because he needed a translator. And so I
47:20follow him everywhere and I was
47:21translating for him. And
47:25he saw me as a son. He saw me um as a
47:30prodigge. He was very supportive. And
47:32we've stayed in touch all these decades.
47:34We email we email each other now and
47:37then.
47:38And the best advice he gave me which
47:41still sticks in my mind is don't chase
47:43Um because
47:47first of all he's a very attractive man
47:49who's
47:51you know um had many many uh
47:54relationships
47:56in the past. So the turning point in his
48:00life is he's married to a woman named
48:02Nantis and she is a very famous editor
48:05at random house and in 1970s
48:11they were walking
48:14um in Time Square
48:17after dinner. Gay goes out every single
48:19night and he hangs out with like the
48:21most famous people in New York like
48:23people like Truman Capot um George
48:26Plimpmpton they're all they're all like
48:27very good friends and
48:30um he got interested in the massage
48:32parlor which was basically a brothel
48:35and he went in and and they started his
48:38book called Thy Thy Neighbor's Wife
48:40which is which is looking at promiscuity
48:43in
48:45um
48:46America and to do to research the book.
48:49He participated in sex orgies in
48:51California. He became a brothel manager
48:54in New York. Um he participated in sex
48:59cults. So So um he did all that. The
49:04problem is that his wife Nentles would
49:07find out about this because every Sunday
49:10she'd read the New York Times and
49:12there's an article about him having an
49:14origgy in California
49:16and that sort of um u ruined their
49:20marriage as you can imagine. They're
49:22still married actually. It's really
49:24interesting how they're still married
49:25after all that. And this was the 1970s
49:28by the way. Um, so that's just the power
49:31of love. But I would not want to do what
49:35he did. I would not want to participate
49:38in a sex cult or start a sex cult, by
49:41the way. Um, and then have my wife find
49:43about about it online because some some
49:46guy, some YouTuber made a video about
49:48it. Um, you know. So, um, yeah. Don't
49:51chase
49:58And then I guess I'll just add this at
50:01the end. If you wanted
50:04if you could recommend one book to
50:05everyone, what would it be?
50:07>> Well, I mean, Divine Comedy is the
50:10greatest book ever written,
50:13um, it is literally,
50:16um,
50:17a word from God. So Dante was channeling
50:21the universe when he wrote that. So
50:23that's the one
50:26book that everyone must read. Um,
50:31but it's really hard. I I I spent a lot
50:34of time researching it and I'm still
50:36trying to decipher its full meaning
50:38because it's so intense. It's truth
50:40itself embedded in in in the in the
50:43poetry.
50:45But if people are just looking to read a
50:50really good book, then um it has to be
50:53Homer the Iliad.
50:55>> I've taught that many times. And it's
50:57amazing how these high school students
50:59in China who have abely no exposure to
51:02Western culture and who themselves don't
51:04actually speak that good English, they
51:07just love the Iliad. Even today, many
51:10years later, they still rave about the
51:12Iliad and it just stays with you. It's
51:15easy. It's an easy read. It's a long
51:17read, but it's an easy read. It's a fun
51:18read as well. And it just forever
51:20transforms you. So, the Iliad.
51:24Beautiful. Uh,
51:27well, everyone, this has been your
51:28guest, Professor Jeang. This is the Jack
51:32Neil podcast.
51:34Where can people find you?
51:36>> Um, I happen to be everywhere now, so
51:38it's pretty easy to find me, but the
51:40best place is u my YouTube channel,
51:42Predict Predictive History.
51:44>> Right. Yeah,
51:44>> you also have a substack as well,
51:46>> right? So, if you're interested in
51:47geopolitics because I write about
51:49current events and try to put it um in a
51:52larger structural lens, uh my substack
51:54is predictive history.substack.com.
51:57>> Perfect.
51:59Awesome. Well, I appreciate you coming
52:01on. Thanks for inviting me, Jack.

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