Snapshot · Modern Wisdom
After appearing on the Joe Rogan Experience, Bill Thompson received approximately 3,500 messages and personally responded to all of them over about a month and a half.
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The episode closes on a personal and warm note. Bill gives out SpartanForge.ai as the primary destination, emphasizes that he personally responds to every social media message every morning as product owner, and admits that after his Joe Rogan episode he fielded 3,500 messages over a month and a half [1] — Bill Thompson "3,500 DMs after Rogan appearance: After appearing on the Joe Rogan Experience, Bill Thompson received approximately 3,500 messages and pers…" 1:13:27 . Chris then receives a surprise gift — a custom bow assembled with help from Hoyt, Archery Country, and Dialed Archery — and the two make plans to go shoot together. Bill jokes that he was mortified to discover Chris already had a bow after going to the trouble of commissioning the gift. The episode ends with mutual appreciation, a riff on the phrase 'girthy part of the staff,' and a genuine warmth between two people who've spent 75 minutes going very deep into surveillance, human nature, government dysfunction, and what gives life meaning.
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