The Untold Life of Randall Carlson

[Music] I never knew you were in a band. This is the whirling dervishes. >> The whirling dervishes. Yeah. This guy was a whirling dervish. >> Okay. >> We got some found some big heavy clubs and we're crawling through the brush where you think we're a bunch of peaceful hippies, right? Well, I came up >> more fights than I could count. Now, when I was 18, I got busted by a couple of corrupt cops and one of them planted a joint on me. It was my first crush ever. I've got some of the original the last of the original purple hayes. And they would come with the rattlesnakes, drop them in the gun. He's saying my uncle would say, "Now don't let those snakes out." You know, >> I think what's so amazing about these stories is how it seemed so how easily you lived outside. >> I spent the whole weekend till Monday morning stoned in that jail cell. The eastern tradition is more about the inner world and withdrawing and and going into the the monastery and all. The Western world is more actionoriented. >> Randall Carlson is a man who needs no introduction. He's been on the Joe Rogan Experience eight times, including one that was never even aired due to very controversial geopolitical issues. So, when we came into this conversation with him, I thought we were going to be talking about all the topics he's so wellversed in, like ancient archaeology, sacred geometry, the moon. Uh, but when we started asking him about his life, it just started unfolding like a movie. He's been at some of the major political rallies protesting the Vietnam War. He has been arrested while a cop plants a joint on him and he spends the weekend in a prison cell. He's a master mason and he's been working with wood and stone since he was 15 years old. And he's mostly been in construction before he became famous. So he he was in a band that played Middle Eastern music and you're going to hear him play the drums. uh he's experimented with being a whirling dervish, which is where you put your hands out to the side and you spin in a circle for hours on end and it induces this altered state of consciousness. I mean, his stories just continue and continue. In fact, he has an idetic memory. What that means is that his ability for recall in names, places, dates, all of those kinds of things is nearly perfect to where he'll tell these stories from when he was a teenager in his 20s as if it was yesterday. So, we talked to him for about three and a half hours and we cut it off at 1:00 a.m. But the truth is is we continued to talk to him until 7 in the morning. He continued to regail us with more stories and more photos. And you're going to see a lot of these photos. In fact, we had to cut it off at 7 a.m. because we had a 9:00 a.m. flight that we had to go catch and we just had to get out of there so we wouldn't miss our flight. So, I'm so grateful that we got to have this conversation with him and I'm grateful that we get to share this with the world. He does have a YouTube channel with about half a million subs and he gets millions of of of views every month and you can go there to see what he's an expert in. But this I've never heard these stories from Randall and I'm so grateful that we got to have him. Please, if you do like what you're seeing, please like and subscribe. We're still under a year old and all of these subscribes really help us with the algorithm and I really appreciate it. We enjoy having these conversations and we enjoy speaking with people that are seeking truth and are curious about the world and want to have these types of conversations. So, I really hope you enjoy it. Welcome to the Austin and Matt podcast.