Andrew Schulz and Akaash Singh dissect the LA comedy scene's #MeToo crisis, analyzing Brian Callan's rape accusation and the financial fallout for advertisers. They debate LeBron James' XFL investment, Eminem's feud with Trump, and Bill Gates' potential TikTok acquisition strategy. The conversation shifts to futuristic predictions, where Schulz aggressively refutes Akash's claims that self-driving cars, 3D-printed buildings, and a cashless society will dominate within two centuries, arguing humans will retain control over vehicles for half a millennium while mocking the idea of AI replacing Indian workers. Ultimately, the episode highlights the tension between technological optimism and human resilience in an uncertain future. [Automatically generated summary]
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LA Comedy Scene Hits Hard00:03:36
What's up everybody Sheltie here Akash Sing Alex Media Mark Gagnon another episode of Flagrant 2.
We got a lot of things to talk about man A lot a lot of things happening in the comedy world LA comedy scene taking yet another another hit bro Yeah, dude.
There's like a Corona Me Too virus going around They need to put the LA comedy scene in the bubble, bro Shit is getting harsh out there, man.
Yo, Rogan got out just in time.
Rogan was like, fuck this.
I'm not sticking around to watch this shit sing.
It's crazy.
Listen, it's crazy what's going down.
I mean, I want to get into it.
We'll probably get into it a little bit later.
But my man Callan, man, LA Times caught up.
Yo.
I mean, this chick accused him of rape, bro.
It was hard to read.
I thought it was really easy to read.
It was beautifully written.
Oh, it was hard to read.
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
I thought you were criticizing the girl's writing.
Wouldn't that be some shit?
Man.
Yeah, if you're going to accuse her rape, at least, you know.
Put it eloquently.
Son, this girl wrote a law and order SVU.
I think she even had the dunk guns in the middle of the middle of the paragraph breakdown.
Bro, it was insane to detail it.
Like, the detailing was so, so good.
Like, I was like, was she in entertainment?
I was like, she had to be part of the industry.
There's no way.
There's no way.
I have never agreed with a trigger warning until now.
What do you mean?
Because if I went through that shit and then I was reading about it, I'd be like, yo, this is exactly like what I went through.
This is entirely too descriptive.
Yo, this is horrifying to relive.
Bro, it was.
We got to contact that writer.
Like, that writer need a book deal, bro.
That writer need a book deal.
That writer need to write the Ellen DeGeneres for a biopic or some shit.
We're going to talk about Ellen too, but, but yeah, man.
So I called Callan.
I was like, bro, just break this down to me.
Like, what's going on?
Please tell me.
Yeah, I want to hear this.
I don't want to say anything until I know what Callan is saying.
Yeah, he's like, nah, dude, it's bullshit.
You know, it's completely, he's like, he knew the girl.
He knew the girl for five years before that.
They went out on a date.
She had a boyfriend.
He didn't know that she had a boyfriend.
This is what Callan said.
It's not what I'm saying.
This is the only information that's out there.
And, you know, they were hooking up, whatever.
And then, you know, she felt, I guess, she didn't want to, you know, keep hooking up.
He said, okay, that's cool.
That's fine.
Stopped.
Everything's good.
Later on, they talk.
She auditions to play his wife on a show.
He reads with her.
Chemistry read, not just audition.
Chemistry read means if you get the role that day, you've already signed the contract for seven years that you're going to be...
Now, I'm not saying that that doesn't mean it couldn't have happened.
Everybody wants opportunities.
It's a small business.
You got to take the opportunities that you're given.
Yeah.
100%.
That being said, like in his mind, he was saying to me, I'm so blown away by it because we continue to talk.
Like, there are plenty other times where we met at auditions, hung out.
She was auditioned for his show.
There are all these other times.
So to him, it was like, this is crazy.
Obviously, he put out his piece and I thought it was good that he put out a piece.
I didn't see his piece, actually.
Oh, yeah.
He put out a piece.
Chemistry Reads and Contracts00:15:42
I saw a statement from him.
Is that what you meant?
No, he put out Instagram.
Oh, shit.
Okay.
Yeah, which I think.
Here's the thing that I think a lot of people get fucked up about this stuff.
And again, I don't know anything.
I can only share with you guys what Callan said to me.
Right.
He said, not even, no chance.
No, absolutely not, et cetera.
Which is obviously what you're going to say.
Yeah.
Some people are a little quiet, and that can read guilty, whether it's real or not.
Some people are very quiet, and you're like, whoa, you're being a little quiet about being accused of some heinous shit.
So that's what I'm saying.
The fact that he went out and did a video.
He did a front-facing video.
We can even get it up.
And yeah, show his new eyelids.
He did eyelids.
Maybe that's why he did front-facing cancer.
Everybody else did a written.
Everybody else did like a written.
In front of one of those fucking lights on the Instagram influence and green lighting.
The whole time he's like, I am not at all guilty.
He's like, please cry.
There's some fucking water on these things.
The right lid is a little tight.
They took a little too much off the right lid, in my opinion.
But I told you my theory.
I think he tried to get in front of the story by doing a cartel thing where they changed their face up.
Do you need to get a new Apple face?
Do you need to redo face ID if you got new eyelids?
I wonder.
Because they might be like, yo, who's this big eyelid motherfucker coming around?
Yeah.
Yeah, that's interesting because with the mask, your shit doesn't work.
Nope.
It's a possibility.
Anyway, so he does this video.
It's too long for us to watch the whole thing.
But do you want to watch any of it?
No, not really.
I don't care.
You should have watched it.
And he says I didn't do it.
That's what he said.
He says I didn't do it.
And it's like, why the fuck is he the first person to come out with the video that's like, I didn't do it?
I don't know.
Why everybody should everybody comes out with like, like, Louis had some stupid fucking written apology.
That's the thing.
He said it was, yo, my bad.
If somebody accuses you of rape, bro, I'm on your Instagram live.
I'm on your Instagram.
I'm calling Takashi like, yo, what's like, you need to do a music video?
How I did rape?
Like, everybody's going to find out.
Not only that, you're getting sued.
Your mother's getting sued.
Whoever you did the story with is getting sued.
If you ever accuse me of some shit I did not and then take everything from me, because that's what essentially this is going to do.
You're going over the top.
Over the top.
Hey, now you listen to the cycle.
Real talk.
So it's like, finally, someone came out and they were just like, yo, you cannot do this.
That's funny.
I thought she was peeing.
We're good.
You cannot do this.
Don't let her distract us.
You cannot just throw dirt on someone's name.
I loved how Bieber came out and Bieber was like, here's all the information I got you.
Into it, yo.
And sued them motherfuckers, as you should.
Yeah.
So the tricky thing about suing people is it costs mad money.
Yes.
If you were to sue the LA Times, apparently, that's $3 million.
It's going to cost you a legal fees.
Apparently.
Now, I'm not a fucking lawyer.
I don't know.
I think I just sue him myself.
Do you need a lawyer?
Can't you just be like, I'm suing you?
Like, you can't go to the.
So why do you sue the LA Times?
Can't you just sue the person?
I'm suing everybody.
But they put out the piece.
They put out the piece.
If they were lied to and they were misinformed, like, you can do it.
Then you get sued for that.
You don't get lied to so much.
Okay, let me do it.
Let me say this.
So somebody says some girl, some dude tricked your girl out of some pussy, right?
You gonna sue her?
What?
What y'all even talk about this early?
No, you just said.
Some dude tricked your girl out of some.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Your girl's LA Times.
Some dude's got a fake story.
She buys the fake story.
Yo, yo, yo, yo, it's too late in the afternoon for y'all.
It's too late in the afternoon.
You're going to be a great lawyer.
Ooh.
And then you need a new name for it.
You got a me oops.
Me oops.
I was saying they should have called Delia's a me pre.
Me pre-pup.
Me pre-teened.
Oh, that was the joke I had.
This is this.
Don't cut that.
No.
That was the joke I had.
That was the joke I had.
Free Chris, by the way.
Free Chris.
From everything that came out, he's innocent.
Let me tell you something about Chris.
He's free.
He's free?
He got all the time.
He got all the time.
My man's appointment book is empty.
Yo, but yo, he needs to do the front facing video, though.
Real talk.
He should do it on TikTok.
I mean, what do I edit here?
Leave it in.
That's going to be the new saying.
Leave it out.
Oh, don't.
But that should not be the same.
I had a fucking fire ass joke, and I didn't put it out because I got restaurants.
Well, I'm going to say now because the joke was fire.
All right, hit it.
I get to text.
Mike Feeney informed me about what happened to Callan, right?
TMZ Feeney.
That's what her name is.
TMZ Feen.
TMZ Feeny hit me.
TMZ is just waiting.
I'm not TMZ.
Feeney's just waiting for motherfuckers that are doing better than him to fall.
He's having the scoops.
Yo, he likes half my Alex.
Yo, one scoop.
You want a Feeney?
He's there.
Feeney was there the second he found out.
What, Hannibal's got some shit happening because of Bill Cosby?
Got you.
So Feeney messaged me.
I'm like, oh, no, Callan went down, right?
And then, and it was for the accusation was rape, right?
Which he denies.
I mean, on the phone with me, tons of other things in the conversation that I cannot share, but very convincing to me.
Again, we're not saying anything about this girl.
Every girl should be able to, you know, have their voice, and nobody's trying to silence your voice.
Whatever the thing I have to say, so you don't think I'm a bad person is.
Daddy and Martin.
Daddy and Mark.
Martin Martin.
Whatever happens in the lawsuit is what it should be.
Well, I don't think there will be a lawsuit.
I think it's too expensive.
And I think that if you have, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars, you can actually do that.
But I don't know.
The point is, I have this joke, right?
Callan has this rape accusation, right?
And obviously, Dahlia and I go, if Dalia and Callan's accusers had a podcast, they could call it the fire.
I was going to ask if that's why Dalia and Callan were so close because he's the kid, right?
No.
No.
Now, I'm like, I can't put that out because that's too fucked up.
And I don't want to put any dirt on the man's name.
He's already going through a hard time.
You can't put that out.
I can't put it out, son.
Hundreds of thousands.
I can't put it out.
It's half a million.
I'll just get it right.
You know, it's the biggest podcast.
To be fair, his pieces get about a million.
So he's doing that.
He's doing a nice deal.
I was talking about a flagrant episode.
You know, it is what it is, though.
It's okay.
You know, fast-growing podcasts on the planet.
It's no big deal.
So, so, but the only reason I say it right now is because somebody fucking put it out.
Someone like commented it on Reddit or like Instagram or some shit.
And it went viral.
And I was like, that's my fucking shit.
Could have been you.
I know.
It could have been me.
Could have been you.
Nah, but in all seriousness, but in all seriousness, you know, Callan's got literally, that's everything going.
It's, it's, yo.
Here's what's also rough.
Go, go, because father, and there's no, you shouldn't, if something happened to you, you got to say something, whatever.
Just what sucks is if you're innocent and you are Brian, you have kids who forever have to look at you with that accusation.
And he's single.
I was saying the kids was worse, but yeah, sure.
I thought we already did that.
I thought we already talked about it.
What does being single have to do with this?
Like dating after you got the rape accusation.
You said nothing.
You went straight to and new pussy.
I thought you covered it.
I'll be honest.
The way I thought you covered that shit like a double stuffed chocolate Oreo, bro.
That's how I thought you had it completely smothered, bro.
Completely smothered.
Then I brought in a new thing, which was dating with the accusation.
That's got to make a girl a little bit.
Bro.
I mean, the man just got his eyelids done, for fuck's sake.
Imagine all that pussy he gets to see nothing.
What a Morley Times cosmetic surgery.
Like, now you wish this shit was drooping.
I got to be killing him.
Okay.
Anyway, back to what we're saying.
This is why this shit is really tricky.
Just the accusation.
No criminal charge, just the accusation.
He can't be on the podcast.
Nope.
Because, of course, advertisers are going to get spooked.
100%.
And low-key, this is why, and every single person here who's part of the Patreon, I just want to say thank you.
I'm sure Akasha is eternally grateful as well.
Everybody here is eternally grateful.
This is why.
I'm not knocking any advertisers.
The advertisers that support this podcast are absolutely amazing, but they also have a business that they have to protect.
Yes.
So I understand when they have to make these tough decisions, like removing advertising from a show that they fucking love and show where they believe the person is innocent because of the public scrutiny surrounding it.
They're protecting their brand.
The only reason why they're part of the podcast is to grow their brand.
And if that could detract from the brand, then it's not going to help them.
But having a Patreon protects us from those situations where a complete, somebody that you, that you do not know, some random person could completely lie about this.
And time will tell what this situation, but someone could completely lie about you, about me, about Alex, about Mark, and then take away everything that the podcast has built.
Dude, it's rough.
It's insane.
Anyway, it is, it's sad, man.
It's fucked up.
And it's sad that these things can happen, bro.
That's the allegation is true.
That is a piece of shit.
Yes.
100.
Look.
I feel sorry for the woman.
Absolutely.
100%.
100%.
Again, I can only speak.
I know Brian.
So I can't speak on something.
If I have someone's phone number who's involved and I speak on something without talking to them, then I'm stupid.
I'm false.
I'm a fraud.
And you shouldn't even listen to me on this podcast.
Yes.
If that's the case.
If I'm not calling the source to hear about it.
But I don't have Shorty's number.
And I'm not an investigative journalist.
I can call my boy and say what my boy says.
And I know that there are certain people out there.
There are certain podcasts.
And I'm not calling out specific podcasts, but I know when you're in the Hollywood Matrix, you have to do whatever you can to protect yourself because you want to get the job.
You want to be on the sitcom.
You want to be on the show.
So you can't even comment about things like this because you could lose the job.
You could lose the show.
You could be spun in an article.
You know, his friends are doing all this shit.
That's not what we're about.
That's not what we're trying to do.
We're literally just trying to have truth out there.
And if that's what he says, if she's absolutely entitled to what she says, but he should also be entitled to what he says.
And please believe LA Times not writing any article about him.
Yeah.
And if something comes out about her lying, it's not going to be as big of an article.
It just won't grab the same headlines.
So this guy's got to carry that with him.
And I don't even, I understand people who will make the business decision.
I'm getting older.
I get it.
But we didn't want to do that.
And that's, again, where the Patreon is so fucking amazing is we can speak as honestly as possible without worrying about sponsors pulling out or whatever.
Like we have that.
Thanks to you guys.
It's amazing.
Yeah.
So anyway, thank you guys so much for supporting the Patreon, man.
We really appreciate it.
Patreon.com slash flagrant2.
This was all advertisement for our Patreon, to be honest with you.
This really had nothing to do with Brian Callan.
The whole thing.
In all seriousness, I really hope.
I mean, this is the weirdest.
This is the weirdest thing.
It's like, I hope more than anything, everything that Brian said to me is 100% honest, 100% true.
That's what I hope.
And it's the weirdest thing when you talk about this stuff because you also got to hope Brian's right because then a girl didn't get raped.
Yes.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, nobody should be hoping that what happened is what the girl said.
Yes.
Because now you're hoping that a girl got raped.
Yes.
And it doesn't look like there's any criminal charges or anything going.
Yes.
So it is a fucked-up situation.
I hope what Brian is saying is 100% true.
And if that's the case, I hope he gets his life back.
And I hope he gets back to doing what he loves to do, man.
I really do.
I just hope whatever happened.
I hope justice is served.
That's it.
That's all we can hope.
Absolutely.
On either end.
Absolutely.
Talking about dressing in a way to LeBron James.
Wow.
Segway King of it.
It's LeBron James.
LeBron James is out here without confidence, bro.
This different level of confidence.
He wore, he brought a purse, and y'all were making fun of my man's satchel.
Do you remember that?
Yeah.
Yeah, I do.
And now what?
Keep that same energy.
You think I'm going to defend LeBron's purse?
No, it wasn't worse.
This is worse.
But you think I'm going to defend LeBron's purse?
Y'all could both be gay.
Yeah, both your purses were tracked.
Yo, can I have a little conversation with y'all?
And it's just the four of us and everybody listening, but hopefully not my girlfriend.
My girlfriend watches this show, RuPaul's Drag Race.
Okay.
Oh, fuck.
I'm watching this show with her.
Oh, no.
She didn't drug you into a little race, too.
Yo, real talk, bro.
She being passive-aggressive to me through the show.
Okay.
We'll be watching the girls drag race or not the girls, the guy, whatever they are, the drag queens.
Yeah.
And she'll be like, oh, yeah, that one looks like that girl you used to hook up with.
Oh, yeah.
Every one of the girls resembles one of the girls I used to hook up with.
And now what am I supposed to do?
Who cares?
Yeah, you're right.
Here's the thing.
But then you get disrespected.
Now I'm disrespected.
Fuck that.
So I said one look like her.
And then, yo, that was not the right thing to do, guys.
That was not the right thing.
Is that why you posted a picture of her doing this fucking insane workout?
This 300-ass Spartan ass workout where she doing burpees jumping straight into a pull-up.
We were going through it a little bit.
We were going through it a little bit.
Yeah, we're going through it a little bit.
She was killing it, yo.
I tried to add some humor to make it seem like that wasn't the reason.
You know, you know, your boy posts a picture of his girl, like, I love this girl so much, you just apologize.
So I had one of her doing a pull-up, and I just had a heart on it.
And I was like, man, how could I flip this so people don't know that I'm doing this because we got in a little fight?
So I was like, she does a pull-up by herself.
And the caption I wrote was like, never helping her get her bag down from the overhead pin.
I was grasping his straws, bro.
Cookie just left the room.
She's like, I don't want to hear none of this.
I don't want to hear none of this slander.
He don't want another fight.
But no, it was.
Yeah, that's for real.
You picked up on that, huh?
I did.
Now I did.
Yeah, she was working out angry.
Look like she was mad at you.
Yeah, she was pulling up.
She's killing it, yo.
No, but she's nice with that pull-up for a girl?
She can't do that.
Burpee into a pull-up was crazy.
With the ankle weights.
With ankle weights.
You know what I mean?
That's the fucking thing.
Remember the video, the workout that Alex used to do with his dick out?
Oh, yeah.
It was like one of those.
You still remember that pull-ups.
I think about paraplegic workout that he would do.
People thought I was Professor X, like Malcolm X. Professor X and two X's?
Yeah, two X's.
Hair Loss and Gym Drama00:02:29
I was wondering how to blacken it up.
But literally, he would only do these upper body workouts.
And it was like the, what are those things called?
A wheelchair.
Nah, it looks like it.
What is it?
Tricep dips.
Oh, it's dips and pull-ups, right?
Yeah, bro.
Still, still only upper body.
Yeah, you still got the upper body.
I don't know.
How'd we get here?
Oh, yeah.
My girl said I like trannies.
She's RuPaul Drag Race.
I'm not gonna lie.
The one that my girl said that.
Nah, bro.
The one my girl said that it looked like a girl that I hooked up with.
Before she was saying that, I was literally about to say, and thank God I didn't say this.
I was literally about to say, I was about to go, yo, that one kind of fine.
I'll tell you, bro, there was one.
It was cute.
Yeah.
It was cute, bro.
It was cute, bro.
Hey, bruh.
It would have gotten me.
It's funny.
I thought you were mentioning this show because I thought she was getting your, like her fashion recommendations for you from the show.
That's what I thought.
That's what I thought.
It would make so much sense.
I recognize that blouse.
The purse.
She got that shit.
Short short.
TV on the shot.
The booty shorts.
That's a good point.
Now, that show is spectacular, though.
Structurally, it is spectacular.
So it's just a bunch of people racing while dragging stuff.
Like, I don't care.
All right, guys, we're going to take a break for a second.
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Let's get back to the show.
But while we're on the sports, I want to hit one more thing.
I think if you guys saw this news, The Rock bought the XFL with his investors for $15 million.
It sounds like nothing.
I don't know the details of this, but I think this is potentially a genius acquisition.
I agree, but I don't know how it's going to work out.
I have an idea.
I have a theory.
The NFL will not operate in the bubble for whatever reason.
Maybe there's too many teams.
Maybe there's not enough facilities to function that many games.
Maybe it's just too big.
Maybe the teams can't make enough money without the revenue from the stadiums.
Who knows?
But it looks like they're not going to operate in the bubble.
And the sports that are not operating in the bubble seem to have a lot of difficulty stopping the coronavirus spread.
Baseball, you're seeing people drop like flies.
That's how much baseball sucks as God is like, shut this shit down.
Even baseball players are like, I'm opting out.
Right?
Like, you barely have to opt into baseball.
You just sit around a whole fucking game.
Anyway, I think The Rock and his business partner have an amazing opportunity to eat up some real estate from the NFL of the game of football because they can operate in the bubble.
If they do eight teams only, think about it.
That's four games a week.
Yep.
Right?
Eight teams only, four games a week.
Matter of fact, if you want to bring it down to like the bye week or whatever like that, you could even limit maybe more.
Who knows?
I don't know the exact math, but let's say four games you could do.
You could easily do four games in one stadium.
If you have two stadiums, you know, some of these places have like a practice facility and the main stadium next to each other.
You could easily run that.
Eight teams, bubble for football.
NFL shuts the season down because all the players keep catching Corona and they don't want to spread it anymore.
The coaches are old and overweight.
The amount of overweight.
Andy Reid catches Corona.
He's fucking dead.
Well, I mean, even yet, just overweight players.
All linemen are overweight.
Yeah, but maybe they're in such good shape.
Maybe.
That's the only thing I thought about.
But the coaches aren't.
Coaches look like shit.
Yeah.
Coaches are the same weight.
Just no, yeah, yeah, yeah.
No one wants nothing.
So I think they could eat up some real estate for football.
And here's the thing.
Rapper Antics and Authenticity00:15:47
If they do, the upside is hundreds of millions.
If they don't, the downside?
It's a few million.
15 million.
And if you're the rock, you're a partial shareholder with your business partner who's his ex-let them take all the costs.
You're the face of the brand.
You're synonymous with wrestling in and of itself.
You come out there, do some opening intros or whatever it is.
This is the XFL.
You do everything Vince McMahon couldn't pull off.
I think that they could make a lot of money.
And if they don't, the risk was $15 million, which sounds a lot to the four of us and to everybody listening.
But to The Rock, who's probably worth half a billion dollars.
Yeah, he's 15 million is worth the risk.
The Rock is like the most bankable star in Hollywood.
He's like the only star that's never had a flop.
Was Will Smith.
Now it's him.
I'm sure he was the producer on his football show, whatever the fuck that was.
Playmakers, whatever, ballers.
I think he's this to him is like very low risk in terms of like 3 million or whatever he's putting in and very high reward.
So he take that risk.
Great business decision.
Yes.
While we're talking about great business decisions, let's talk about the king.
Talk about the king of New York.
Takashi 6'9.
He really is.
No other rapper in New York should even mention themselves as the king because they know they can't beat him with numbers.
They know that the people don't care about their street credit if that's what you want to beat him on.
And the people don't care enough about their raps to discredit Takashi for how whack he is at rhyming.
Right.
Right?
Like his antics swallow all them whole.
And his songs, even though I don't think he can rap, his songs slap.
No, he got a good ear.
I'll give that to him or his producer, whoever he works with.
He's got a good ear because the songs are catchy.
And this one was marketed brilliantly, specifically.
Obviously, his first, I think it's first day out, Al.
Yep.
First day off house arrest.
First day of house arrest.
He's in bedstead.
He's crossing the Williamsburg Bridge.
Maybe it was a Brooklyn Bridge.
I'm not sure.
He's walking around a tech.
It's his basically way of saying, hey, I'll do whatever I want.
My first day out.
I'm not hiding.
Now, granted, he's hiding.
No one knows who the fuck he is right now.
But he found a safe way to go.
I'm not hiding.
Not untouchable.
I'm going to troll all the gangsters that said I wasn't going to walk around.
You come to the hood, went to the hood, shot the video in the hood, right?
He does subtle shit that's fucking brilliant.
In the video, he has this bandage on his neck, right?
Yeah.
I thought it was a mask, but it's a bandage.
The last scene of the video, he's driving in a car and a bandage gets caught in the wind, it throws off, and then it stops.
I thought he ripped it off.
Yeah, it comes off a little.
He rips it off.
So now I'm going, well, what the fuck was under the bandage?
Now I got to go to your Instagram and I got to see if you have any pictures of your neck, if it's a neck tattoo or whatever the fuck it is.
I got to see.
Now while I'm on your Instagram, I'm like, all right, it's on and popping.
I might as well follow this kid.
He's marketing on another level.
He's not doing the classic, like he includes the stupid money thing.
Yeah.
The stupid chain shit, like the low-hanging fruit of rap PR.
Look, I've got money and it's folded up.
He does do it more obnoxiously, though.
And it's like more, it works better, I think, because he's so obnoxious with it.
don't understand is like why at what point will other rappers stop at what point will other rappers stop hating and start learning it's gonna take a long time it took people a long time with you with comedy fair enough fair enough yeah it's a lot of this ain't working this isn't the way tv's still a thing it's not going away for 20 years and then it works enough enough times you get enough million video views and you're just people like all right man i guess this is what it is So rappers just aren't there yet.
They're not there yet.
They haven't figured out that like antics sell and we don't need you to be truly authentic because that seems completely counterintuitive.
Right.
I kind of disagree, guys.
Go.
I think the antics are starting to not work.
Like he had the biggest drop ever in terms of billboard with his last song that he came out with.
Like it was like number two in the country and then the next week it was number 125 like some crazy drop.
Right.
Like I think when you play that antics game and people start to realize, oh, you're just the antics guy, that gets old.
I'll say this.
I don't think that he makes songs to last forever.
That's more than a week.
No, no.
I really don't think that they do.
I think his goal is actually to treat the songs as throwaways.
I'm going to surge with interest on one day.
I'm going to spike all the interest into one day and shoot it far up to the charts, maybe get number one.
And then there'll be zero interest the next day because there's no real like nutritional value there in the music.
But it doesn't matter because I got my number one on to the next one.
And he can keep on creating number ones that people are bored of the next day.
It doesn't matter because it's low-hanging fruit content.
Like it's not like he works on the bars like Kendrick Lamar or an Eminem or Jay-Z is like really crafting these songs.
He's just throwing out some making money.
I would also draw one more parallel to Schultz if I gas you one more time.
Go.
Before comedy, there was YouTube stars, social media stars, antics.
The talent isn't really there, but they got the antics and they spike.
They ebb and flow.
They have their, you know, great video, whatever.
Takashi, we said it.
He's not a skilled rapper, but he's gotten this far off just antics.
And then when somebody's going to come around and combine skill with antics, then it's a game changer.
And that's what it's going to take for things to completely flip.
It's going to take one guy who's going to say Kendrick Lamar or J. Cole or whoever who can rap and be like, nah, you could be, I'm going to have antics that are less ridiculous, but still antics and then be true to the craft and be a good rapper.
And I think then people are going to be like, oh, this is a lot of marketing and smoke and mirrors as much as anything else.
Yeah, I think I agree with you.
It's like, and I'm doing that because you're complimenting me.
But yeah, you're saying that like I brought quality jokes to the internet where people were fine with like stupid sketches where like guys put on wigs.
Yes.
And then we like put high quality stand-up on there and people are like, oh, this is fire.
Yeah.
You know, and same thing that we're doing to monologues in a way.
It's like, it's like, I want to make everybody feel, I want everybody else to feel like the condom is on.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Like I want when you watch our monologues to be like, yo, this is raw sex.
And then you go watch some of the competition and you're like, yo, this is sex with a condom, right?
And that's what it looks like.
And that's what I think Akata's point is really brilliant.
It's like that, that could happen if the next generation of rapper understands what a Takashi does and then uses that, but also comes through with real content and real songs and fire bars.
Like imagine your favorite rapper lyrically had Takashi's PR mind.
Bruh.
I think that used to be Kanye.
Yeah.
That's a fucking great.
That was Ye, right?
It was like a guy who was decent at rap, but great at PR and great at like musical ear making the music himself himself.
Yeah, that's fucking so true.
So we just need the next version of Ye to come up.
I don't know who that is.
And that's why Live of Pablo was so big.
It was probably not his best rap, but like antics were high.
And then this album sounds amazing, got a couple songs to slap.
His bars are kind of whatever, but like, dude, this album is great.
And with the antics, it's a different, it was like, I remember everybody going nuts over Life of Poplar.
Yeah.
That's interesting.
Who do you think the next will be?
Mark, you're in on these young rappers.
Oh, yeah.
Jack Harlow?
Jack Harlow.
Do you think he's got the antics, though?
Nah, I'm not really.
He's too authentic.
He's too real.
Yeah, he's too real, bro.
When you're from the streets, you can't really take it out of someone like that.
I get it.
I get it.
Jack is a tough guy.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I mean, maybe like Roddy Rich.
Like, I don't know if he has the antics like that, but as far as the star power behind him, he's got every cosine.
Like, everyone's gassing him.
But then rap.
But does he understand the game?
Does he understand the flex?
Does he understand not the troll?
Does he understand like how interest is drummed up now?
I don't think so.
Don't got it.
Is it possible those two things can even go together, though?
Because if antics requires, if it's like necessary.
It's a tough needle of the thread.
That's what I'm saying.
Like, if it's necessary for antics to be like, oh, I'm belligerent and like obnoxious and loud.
Yeah.
And then quality to be like, I'm thoughtful, introspective, and delicate.
Yeah.
Are those two things like necessarily even compared?
What you're describing is Steph Curry.
It's like never has somebody who could shoot the ball so well been able to dribble so well because there's no need to do it.
Right?
Like if I can shoot from anywhere on the court, I don't need to learn how to dribble to get by you.
And pass.
Right?
Like, yeah, it's just, it's redundant.
And like, I don't need to get by you because I'm going to shoot from 35 feet and I'm wet.
So I don't even need a crossover.
Right.
And if you do come out and play D at 35 feet, I could probably get by you with one or two moves.
It's not that I don't need every single move, which is what Steph has.
So then you have that super unique talent, which can do both on the basketball court, right?
That's also going to transcend to art in any way.
Stand-up.
Like stand-ups now, because of what we did, every stand-up is going to need to know how, at least when they start, to edit videos, post clips, do all this.
That's just baseline for stand.
Know how to operate a camera.
Know how to use final cut.
That's bare minimum if you're a starting stand-up.
If you're someone who's established, you could pay someone to do it.
But bare minimum, they're going to have to learn how to do it.
So we created a new game where marketing is part of the fucking game.
I'll say the person that was closest within rap, I think, is Tyler the Crater.
Oh, yo.
When he first came out, he was like, he had legit raps and he was like trying to say something.
He had like an actual message and a POV, but he was also going on like SNL and like just fucking around and like running off stage.
That's his first video with him eating the fucking bug or whatever.
Yeah, exactly.
It set the internet off.
Yeah.
Yo, that's a good one.
Tyler is interesting because Tyler understands what it takes to make a moment.
Yeah.
Like a lot of people would go on the Funk Flex freestyle shit.
Oh, yeah.
And they try to do their most fire freestyle so that Flex would go, oh my God, you're the shit.
And then that goes viral.
And then Tyler goes, nah, you know, it'd be funny if I say some gay shit and make him feel super weird.
That's going to go viral.
Tyler understands the value of interest and eyeballs, but he's fine on his own island.
Yeah.
And Lil Dickie does it a little bit also.
Like he's decent at it where like he'll make these videos that pop.
Yeah.
But the songs are actually pretty good.
And like some of his other songs have like actual bars.
It's just you're trying to find the compatibility between like someone that's intelligent and smart enough to know how to market and like write really well, but also like tortured enough to be an artist.
Exactly.
Tortured enough to be willing to like let themselves be like and willing to sacrifice a bit of the art maybe potentially.
I mean, there's probably a way to do both, but potentially sacrificing the art for the antics.
It's a really rare person.
And within rap specifically, I think it's hard.
Best person who probably did it was Eminem.
Yo, I was going to bring up M.
It's a different time, but his marketing was crazy.
Yeah.
The music and the marketing were.
The music was up there.
The music was fire.
I was just listening to Eminem recently.
The music was fire.
Like, skill-wise, regardless if you like Wagson rappers or not.
No, no, he's the one.
He's an incredible rapper.
The skill of rap.
Yeah.
And I know people now, it's fun to look back and be like, he just goes him and the him and the him and that.
The dude had fucking bars.
And he got respect for a reason.
Yeah, absolutely.
Jay-Z not putting anybody on his album.
Right.
But you're right.
He knew how to drum up the interest.
He knew how to poke the right people.
Yeah, dude.
He knew that teeny boppers is brilliant.
Hells, especially when it was like, it was like the teeny bopper Olympics back in the day.
He was like a new boy brand or a new girl singing every other day.
And he kind of cut through that with like authenticity.
Now it seems almost a little fraudulent.
But back then, his videos were dope.
His live performances were dope.
Like he would always make a moment wherever he was.
No, no, I remember.
He knew how to make a fucking moment.
MTV Music Awards where he's like, like me was his song.
And he had a lot of fun.
And he had like 300 people, white kids with platinum blonde hair and the white t-shirt and the baggy jeans all walking in a line.
He fucking got it.
Sorry, real quick.
I also remember he gave an award speech one time.
He got an award, same MTV shit.
Goes up and everybody's dressed up.
He's got on his fucking tracksuit, baggy ass pants.
He's like, yo, I got a speech somewhere.
And then he reaches into his pocket.
And I didn't even get it because I was like 13 and mad naive.
And he just, like a thousand pills fall out of his pocket.
And he was like, oh, my bad.
And then he just walks off stage.
It's like, yo, he gets the fucking moment.
Yeah.
Yo, I'm pretty sure I think it was him or Steve-O.
I can't remember.
But someone's telling me like a merch story where I think it was him.
He used to sell urinal cakes with his face on them as like concert merch.
Oh, I think that was Steve-O.
Was that Steve-O?
Yeah.
I remember being Eminem because I think Eminem heard about it.
It was like, oh, that's genius.
Yeah.
So it's like Eminem co-signed it.
Eminem had a really interesting thing.
We need to go back and like look at his PR because he had this super balance between like roasting everybody and also humility, like self-hatred.
He was Charlamagne talks about it in Black Privilege.
He roasts himself.
Like he would always get to me before you can get to me.
And then I roast you and I roast me too.
Who gives a fuck?
Yeah, it creates a really interesting authenticity.
And like you just feel as if you're hearing something truthful.
Yeah.
You're like, oh, this guy's not only calling out himself, he's calling out his audience.
He's like, well, yeah, you guys want to be like me because I curse a lot and do fucked up shit.
It's like, there's no fourth wall or whatever.
And the artists that can do that or the comedians that can do that, the people that can do that tend to transcend their peers in that time.
Right.
And it's hard to not look at them.
You're like, oh, wow.
He's saying whatever.
She's saying whatever.
Yeah.
In this room full of people who are worried about every other word that comes out of their mouth.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I got to at least listen.
He's Kefling.
I mean, I think making fun of yourself, there's something we admire in that.
And probably, too, for me, it's like aspirational almost.
Like when Charlamagne shits on himself, I remember some Vlad interview years ago before I even met him where he was like, I got a lisp.
I got the fucking black marks.
Who cares?
Whatever.
Say whatever you want about me.
I've heard it all.
And I was like, oh, that's dope.
I wish I was that confident.
Like, yeah, I got this thing, that thing, that thing.
So I think there's something with Eminem that was also that, which is.
His one fuck-up marketing-wise that I saw in his whole career when he tried to go at Trump.
And I'll say why.
He didn't do it as if that person meant nothing to him.
The way he made fun of everybody was like, I'm going to be the guy who is the puppeteer.
I have everybody on my string.
You know what I mean?
Oh, you're a man made fun of.
You're the Backstreet Boys.
You're in sync.
You're Britney Spears.
Everybody's getting these bars.
With Trump, he actually seemed angry at them.
He never seemed angry at Britney.
He never seemed angry at NSYNC.
He never seemed angry at any of these people he made fun of.
But when he did that thing, he's like out of breath.
He's like fucking breathing heavy and shit.
It was like watching Michael Blaustein make out.
He was really, he was really like angry.
And you could tell he was affected, not the one doing the affecting.
And there's never anything funny about that.
I feel like in his rap, like whenever he would go out a rapper, he would take that shit super personally.
Like when he went at Ja Rule.
Him, 50 Cent, and whoever was on that in Buster Rhymes, I think.
He went at Ja Rule.
He just seemed fucking angry and vicious.
When he went at like Benzo, wherever the fuck that guy's name, Benzino, destroyed that motherfucker.
Dementia Rumors and Anger00:03:58
When he would go at rappers, he treated Trump like a rapper.
And maybe that was the fuck up.
But I also just thought, like, man, if he just quit after detox, I'm sure he's having fun, but his legacy would be crazy.
Yeah, but he fucked it.
In my opinion, it would be crazy.
You're right.
He stayed in the game too long.
Maybe some Roy Jones Jr. shit.
Yeah, and he's having fun, so I want to knock it, but it ain't the same.
Do your thing.
That being said, he had the perfect opportunity to inject himself back in like mainstream rap culture because nobody bullied Trump.
Yeah.
Yeah, he took it personally.
He didn't bully him.
Exactly.
He had the opportunity to bully.
Bullying's not personal.
It's not.
It's just, I'm an asshole.
You're just going to, you're the victim.
You're going to be the butt of the joke.
And he should have, well, we always joke around and say he should have fucking rubbed his hair and poked his belly.
He should have teased him.
He should have little bitched him.
Yeah.
If he wanted to play that role, if he really wanted to antagonize Trump, he should have, he should have little babied him, a little broad him.
And who's better at that than Trump?
He's the king of a little baby.
Do you think it didn't tear Eminem apart that Trump didn't respond?
Oh, yeah.
It tore him a fucking part.
Everybody who's ever spoken to was bothered.
And then Trump acted like it never even happened.
Yeah.
Who's the guy that can do that to Trump?
Trump has to care about your opinion, or he has the person who is doing that to Trump has to convince Trump's following of what they're saying.
Yeah.
So Trump only cares about the opinion if the masses care.
Yeah.
Right?
So he's just playing to the masses.
If the masses don't care about it, you don't get.
I think he's bothered by SNL, but he knows that his base hates SNL so much.
He's like, okay, I can live with it.
I could discredit him.
Because also SNL cares and it doesn't seem as effective.
The most brilliant thing he does is crooked Hillary, boring Jeb, or whatever.
Always something.
What would you call Donald to fuck with them that can undercut him with everybody and be like, oh, yeah, I guess.
The only thing I can think of is Dementia Donald.
That's guy's clearly got dementia.
That's Dementa Donnie.
Dementia Donnie.
Dementia Donnie.
I call him poor Donnie, bro.
Oh.
I go poor.
I'm not poor.
You go, yeah, you are.
I think Cuban is the one guy.
That's why I think Cuban could have beaten him maybe because Cuban can bully him with his wallet.
Bro, that was a trash talk I used to do in soccer.
Anytime we were playing, no matter what the score was, I would just say scoreboard.
And they go, yeah, but you're losing.
I go, scoreboard.
And they would lose their fucking money.
It's the all-time best trash talk.
You just go, yeah, scoreboard.
We're winning.
You go, no, you're not.
You go, I'm.
What?
You dumbass you play soccer with.
You can't argue with a crazy person.
So if you just go, yo, Trump, you're poor.
He goes, no, I'm not.
You go, yeah, you are.
But you're not getting under their skin.
Yeah.
No, because he hates being called poor.
If he's actually.
Remember that horrible point I tried to make on Patreon?
This is that.
Son, this was really bad, bro.
I thought you were about to hit us with some fire.
I thought you thought it strong.
I really thought you were going to say when you were playing these schools, you would call them poor.
That's what I thought.
I was like, that's hype, dude.
Yo, you're about to be the new Jack Harlow of this bitch.
Popping.
No, what is it?
I think dementia Donald is good because it just gets it gets in his head.
So anytime he fucks up anything, is that the dementia?
Is that the dementia?
And any of his followers could be like, oh, shit, does he have dementia?
Crooked Hillary, you're like, that's crooked.
Son, what they did to Hillary was genius.
Who was it?
Was it you I was talking to about this, Mark?
What about when they made her look sick?
Oh, bro.
No, I was, yeah, that's the guy that came at me on Twitter.
He said that.
Yeah.
It was in his documentary or what?
I heard it on.
Yeah, it was Dax's podcast.
He was talking to Andrew Morant.
Okay, yeah.
Yeah.
He's like an all-right investigator journalist guy.
Okay.
And basically, he was, if you want to explain it, he met this guy who turned out to be Mike Cernovich.
This guy.
Oh, yeah, Cernovich.
That guy said, I'm going to make Hillary lose the election.
I just don't like Hillary.
I'm not super pro-Trump.
I just don't like Hillary.
So, what he would do, and Andrew was like, and Morant's like, I saw this happen.
He would get on like Periscope and watch the latest Hillary press conference or whatever.
And with like 100 or 1,000 people or whatever, he'd be like, what can we pick at here to make it seem like she's ill?
Because he said, especially with women, but with anybody, if you make a person seem sick, you're just not going to want to vote for him.
You're just very put off by that person.
So she would like to blink a few times and be like, let's say she had a stroke right there.
Political Manipulation Tactics00:03:18
Let's do it.
And then those people would all tweet it.
And he knew if those people tweeted it, it would hit this reporter and that reporter would tweet about it.
And if that reporter tweeted about it, then this reporter would tweet about it.
And then enough of that happens and it starts trending.
And now just the idea is planted in people's brains.
Maybe Hillary is sick.
And that's enough to make it wild.
You saw her fallen.
Remember when she stumbled as she was going to the car?
And you think about this six, five years ago, whatever it was, you're like, oh, fuck, I remember all of this trending on Twitter.
Having to defend Hillary not being sick, or people being like, yo, Hillary's sick.
It was crazy.
One guy just floated the idea out there.
It'd be great if he used that to stop Bill from fucking children.
No, I think he's been super against that.
I think he's been calling that out.
I think Cernovich has been all over the Jeffrey Epstein thing.
Guy got me death threats, but whatever.
You know what I mean?
Listen, great people can do bad things.
Just ask Bill Clinton.
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Tech Giants and Conspiracy00:14:21
Trump wants to ban TikTok.
Ooh.
Not only does Trump want to ban it, now he might back off because Microsoft wants to buy it.
This is the craziest shit.
Boy, this Bill Gates a bad motherfucker.
He's a bad motherfucker right here, bro.
That Bill Gates, a bad motherfucker.
Why is he a bad motherfucker?
Listen, I don't have any proof to this.
This is just like what I'm assuming.
Okay.
This is pure speculation conspiracy.
Bill Gates does not have a social media platform.
He has LinkedIn.
But LinkedIn, I don't see his social media.
It's like, it's not, you can't move culture with LinkedIn.
You move culture, sway elections with social media platforms.
Fastest growing social media platform on the planet.
TikTok.
TikTok.
You get America's youth with the TikTok, right?
It's like Facebook was the young people's app, right?
Then Instagram came out and now Facebook is like, oh, this is old people on Facebook.
Now TikTok is out and eventually Instagram is going to be looked at like the old shit.
Yeah.
So here, Bill Gates, this is the conspiracy that I'll just make up.
Bill Gates gets Trump and other people to say that TikTok is being used by the Chinese government to mine our data, right?
It's not owned by the Chinese government, but any company that operates within China and is a Chinese company is owned by the Chinese government.
In other words, at any point in time, can they be like, yo, we need the data, et cetera.
Some people are saying that what they're using is they're using the kids to see what their parents' politics are.
Oh, interesting.
So like if the kids are doing like cool Trump posters or cool, you know, Hillary or cool Biden like posts, et cetera, dances, you find what the political views of the parents are because when you're a kid, your politics always reflect your parents.
Right.
Always.
Yeah.
Right.
You go to college, maybe shit starts to get mixed up.
When you're like 14 years old, it's like, oh, dad likes Trump.
I like Trump.
It is what I think Gates is like, I need to be in the social media game.
Yeah.
Or the people who run Microsoft, if it's not Gates Day today, we need to be in the social media game.
Go say that China's using this data against us, you know, some nefarious purposes.
And they could be, very well could be.
They can't own this company and have it be this popular in America.
Make sure China leaves this company, divests from the company, or at least the U.S. part of it, and then I'll buy the company.
Now, this is where it gets really good.
Who was just in front of Congress recently?
All the heads of...
Except him.
Except Bill Gates.
Why is Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, the Google dude?
Who else?
There's one more of them there, right?
Yeah, I can't remember.
It was Amazon.
Jack Dorsey?
Maybe not Jack Dorsey.
It was Amazon, Google, Facebook, and one other guy.
I can't remember who.
Doesn't matter.
Bill Gates is not there at all.
Yeah.
Nobody more entrenched than Apple.
Oh, yeah, Tim Tilco.
Nobody more entrenched in tech than Bill Gates.
Why is Bill Gates not there?
Busy making a vaccine or some shit?
Why is he not there?
They're worried about monopolistic practices from those companies.
Apparently not Microsoft.
So now Zuckerberg can't even go say, I'll put in a bid for TikTok because you were just in front of Congress for having monopolistic practices.
So if he's really playing this level chess, where he gets Zuckerberg to look like this big monopolistic motherfucker, so he can't make the pitch for TikTok.
And then you come in and then save the day?
Yeah.
None of those other big companies that could easily afford TikTok can go buy it because now they might have too much market share or whatever the fuck it is.
They just got to lay low for a second.
So he spoils their meal and then goes scoops it up on the low potentially.
One thing that I please poll calls.
Pull calls.
Yeah.
India also banned TikTok.
India's been on TikTok.
Weirdly, America copied India, which is rare.
But India banned TikTok for that exact same reason.
Chinese government, too much data.
We're not doing it.
It's out.
So doesn't that lend some kind of credence, you think, to the idea that it's not just America doing this?
It's also happening with other countries.
I think I agree with you 100%.
And I think the illusion with American social media platforms is that they don't share the data with the government.
Right.
But I think that is a complete illusion.
I think they share with everybody.
I think they share it with the American government, not everybody.
But like, for example, Facebook.
Oh, I think they'll also sell it is what I'm saying.
Oh, they can sell it to advertisers, maybe.
But like...
I think it operates in a little bit different way because I don't think the advertisers are doing so much like, you know, sway an election or that kind of stuff.
Correct.
Whereas like America might give Tim Cook a call and go, yo, we need some data on the Apple Music shit.
Yeah.
We know who's buying what, this, that, for whatever reason.
Who knows why?
I don't know how you even manipulate an election yet.
We got to do some research.
I don't know how you do it with that data.
That being said, I think it's entirely possible that they're using it to data mine.
And I think it's entirely possible that they don't want China to have all that data.
Yes.
I think that's possible, plausible.
I think that's a fact.
And my theory is I don't care how much money you're giving away after you die.
If you are at any point in your life the richest person in the world, you got some sociopathic shit going on.
You enjoy being the top dog on all fronts.
Bill Gates has fallen pretty far in that race.
Bezos is the guy now.
And I think on some level, if you're a tech giant who was for years the richest person on earth, you're looking at this like, I don't know what the fuck you guys think this is, but don't think I can't just come shut shit down also.
Cook, jobs, whoever.
I'm the fucking guy.
Don't forget that.
So as soon as he sees this shit starting to pop off in India, I think he's like, okay, let's start lining up the chess pieces.
Let's start.
What is it exactly to your point?
What will get us a ton of market share in the same way Zuckerberg bought Instagram?
What's the next closest move I can do to replicate that?
Let's buy TikTok.
These guys are all going in front of Congress.
They did put decades ago, I think Microsoft was under the microscope for monopolistic practices.
They had to back off.
Let's go.
We're back in the game.
It's been 20 years.
These guys are all under the microscope.
Let's fucking go.
I'm going to be top dog again.
Don't fucking think I've backed out of this game.
I'm the guy.
That was my thinking.
It was like a sociopathic, like some ego shit.
Yeah, some ego shit.
Yeah.
I don't give a fuck if you're not.
Because what I didn't understand is why Microsoft was the only one that was going to buy them.
It's like, why couldn't any company was willing to put up the money to buy them?
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Let's just understand.
Like, why just Microsoft?
And why did the article specifically come out like that?
Why wasn't it TikTok up for purchase in the States?
Let Trump buy it.
Well, not Trump, but like let what's your man's name with the Mavericks?
Let Mark Cummin buy it.
Like, why can't any other billionaire just buy it?
Oh, it's true.
Why does Microsoft specifically have to buy this thing?
They can't be the only people interested.
Now, it could be, and now we're getting real conspiratorial, it could be that Gates has a certain relationship with the U.S.
And that's why they let him making the fucking vaccines or whatever it is.
Isn't he like on the board for the vaccine research for I think for the pandemic in general, like the pandemic response, I think he's like involved with, and that's tied in with the vaccine.
And there's the thing, it's like, and I think I was talking about this on Rogan.
It's like, you reach a certain level of business in the United States of America where it's too big for you not to be in bed with the government.
Right.
It's too big.
And I like it that way.
I don't want Google to be on its own.
I want them checked by the government so that someone in Russia can't compromise the head of Google and then all of a sudden Google starts feeding all that data and information back to Russia.
I like that you reach a certain size and a certain amount of success.
I'm not talking about a little hundred million.
I'm talking about hundreds of billions of dollars in business.
Yeah.
And I like that the government knocks on your door and they're like, hey, we just want to let you know that if you want to keep doing this, that's awesome.
But we have an agreement now.
Yeah.
We're not going to take any money from you.
We're actually going to let you get away with a lot more than other people get away with, but we might need to lean on you for some shit.
Because if it's really a problem, monopolistic practices, Facebook has dominated social media for 10 years now.
Since the second they bought Instagram, it's been a fucking thing.
Amazon, who's buying anything anymore?
For years, Amazon has been the only place you'll go shy.
Well, that was a conversation that I think Robbie even brought up about the culture war.
Was it you that brought up?
Robbie was saying that like we've been having this conversation with like what America would always do is we would always dictate what the culture is, right?
Especially through social media.
We create these social media apps and they go to the whole world.
Right.
And this is the first social media app not created by us.
And it's fucking incredible.
Like if you go on it, it is addicting, non-stop, swiping through.
It's hard to even get out of the app.
I don't know how to get out of it.
I just delete it every time.
Not delete it, but like do the thing where you like.
You can close it out.
Yeah.
Like I don't know how to just get to the main screen because there is no main screen.
It's just video.
I hate it, but my girl can watch for it.
It's so funny.
Swipe, swipe, swipe, laugh, swipe, swipe, swipe.
I deleted it off my phone.
He had to.
You were non-stop.
It's like you just, all right, you fall in the warmhole and then two hours later, it's like the warm hole.
But yeah, so it's an interesting time in history where we're not making the coolest app.
Yeah.
We're not making the thing that everybody's on.
And that's a culture war that you start to lose.
You start to lose a culture war.
You're like, we're not going to let this happen.
Like, that's almost like this is not the same thing, but you see communism start to spread into Asia.
And then the American government was like, I might have to go to war in Vietnam.
Yeah.
Right.
It's not because they cared about the South Vietnamese people being oppressed by communism.
It's because they're like, we're not going to let that shit get no further.
I don't want people over here in America hearing all this talk about everybody makes the same amount of money.
Because if you got no money, the same sounds very good.
Yeah.
And most people got less.
Yeah.
The only thing I find a little troublesome about this is like, how can the American government just force a company to sell itself?
If you want to continue to survive, you have to sell your company to us.
I mean, they don't have to.
No, you just could not operate.
Yeah, and then not, but that's what I'm saying.
Like, now, what if other, what if China retaliates?
Like, it says what?
Like, oh, Google, if you are Amazon.
Well, they don't.
They do that.
That's what I'm saying.
So that's the thing.
Facebook isn't in China.
They don't got it.
You're talking about China.
They don't have a lot.
They don't have Google.
They have their own Chinese freedom.
Like, if you think China is America, it's not.
It's not.
Oh, any company, come on over.
Your search is very specific.
You're not allowed to search certain shit.
Russia was the same thing.
When we were in Russia, they were telling us they were developing a YouTube, a Russian YouTube.
Yeah.
And they were just going to make that the version.
Then they can control it.
They didn't use Google.
They used Yandex.
I think it was called.
Oh, that's.
Yeah.
So all the superpowers, all the superpowers control their data and control their information.
Right.
And part of the reason I think Trump wanted to ban TikTok, and I think part of your theory was that him and Gates were involved together.
Is that what you were saying?
Or it could be a manipulation tool.
It could be like, I'm going to make this, or Gates could be going, I'm going to make this story so hot, Trump has to address it because he's hard on China.
Right.
You know, I mean, if he's that manipulative.
I kind of think more that way because there's a ton of articles about TikTok censoring Trump and like pro-Trump TikToks.
And that there are certain like conservative TikTokers that get their stuff pulled down all the time.
So once Trump hears about that, he's like, what?
This Chinese company?
He's going to affect my re-election odds.
You out of here, bro.
We think it's all little kids, but there's people that can vote on TikTok.
Yeah, I saw some redneck-ass dude, guns in his TikToks all the time, like crazy following too.
Yeah.
Hundreds of thousands.
50-year-old guy.
There's a ton of conservative voices on TikTok, and apparently a lot of them get censored.
It is crazy how much we have no idea.
We're all just in our own echo chamber, and we think that's the world.
Yeah.
I don't remember what's going to ask about TikTok, but oh, yeah.
Would Bill Gates allow the he would allow all the pro-Trump stuff to not get silenced?
Like, do we know what his policy would be?
No, I mean, I think in America, there's more of like a feeling of like, you know, bipartisanship, and we let all information fly.
But like, China specifically was like, I think they banned anything Hong Kong related also.
Right.
Like they were pretty strict with the censorship, and it was actually built into the policy.
It wasn't some sort of like hidden agenda like some of the other sites.
But that's the discussion that is going to be very interesting.
Whereas we've become complacent with the government using our data and taking our data and marketing stuff to us with our data.
Right?
At first, when it happened, it's really interesting to see the change.
Do you remember when it first happened when you would get ads on your phone that were about something you talked about?
Yeah.
Remember how terrifying it was initially?
You're like, yo, are they listening?
Yeah.
Are they listening?
And now I literally was telling Mark earlier today, I got an ad within three seconds of talking about something.
My girl said the word Artemis, and then Artemis fucking furniture or whatever came up on my phone.
I went on Instagram and I scrolled and it was there and I could not fucking believe it.
I'm like, I literally go, yo, this is crazy.
Not terrified.
Yeah.
I'm like, it is true.
Never did we have a conversation where they were like, yeah, we're listening to your shit and then pitching you ads.
That being said, the ads are fire.
Yeah.
Oh, they're perfect.
The ads are amazing because they exactly did exactly what you want.
So I think one of the reasons why we don't give pushback is when they listen, so far, our lives have only gotten better.
Yeah.
It's going to take a case for someone to get silenced.
And it's going to be like if a lot of people get silent.
We're not going to give a fuck about one person.
No, if it becomes a story, like I like hypothetically, there's one guy and he's like running a pedophile ring and he says something about pedophile shit.
And then the authorities are like, oh, we listened in.
We accidentally heard.
Like our AI told us that this guy was talking about pedophile shit.
And then we had to go take him out.
So it actually worked out for the better.
And that people are going to be conflicted because they're going to be like, oh, well, they took out a terrible guy.
But they also like.
That's really interesting.
You hear what I'm saying?
Breach the security.
Like, it's going to create a really ambiguous thing if that were to happen.
That I think my assumption is, ooh, that is really interesting.
What they be honest about, it was the AI.
Hold on.
This is really important that everybody got what he just said.
What right now?
Let's assume they're listening.
Yes.
Right?
Not listening, a guy with a fucking phone.
There's an advanced algorithm that picks up certain words.
And you ask the algorithm to target certain words.
So let's say you have a basketball sneaker company.
Anytime anybody says anything about sneakers or whatever, like that, it gets filtered into a folder.
And that person happens to be talking about sneakers for playing basketball because they're also talking about basketball games and these other words.
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And they all get filtered.
And then you send them ads.
What Mark is saying is, what if the same thing happened for murder, rape, pedophilia?
So you hear somebody talking about a murder they committed.
You hear somebody talking about a rape they committed.
Yeah.
Now, whoever's listening can target those words and go, oh shit, this person is talking about that.
Yeah.
The quick, the tricky thing is, how do they differentiate?
We just talked about that right now, hypothetically.
How are they differentiating between actually something happening or a law and order SBU episode?
I mean, then you can just go in for like a personal review and listen and go, oh no, they're just talking about something innocuous.
And 99% of the time where people talk about that, it's going to be innocuous.
Yeah.
Especially with the Gill A. Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein.
You're going to hear the word pedophile every single day.
Yeah, exactly.
So I think it's tricky, but I understand it.
And the algorithm probably will get advanced enough.
And this is what we're talking about how good AI is getting to not even need a human being to come review it.
You're just going to review the whole thing itself and be like, no, this is fine.
And make a really accurate assessment, I think.
But like when people back in the day, like conspiracy theorists, like, oh, the government's going to be listening to you, they thought of it more in like nefarious terms.
Like they're, oh, they're going to be like surveilling us and like creating like punitive action based off what we say, like Gestapo type behavior.
Right.
And until that happens, no one gives a shit.
Exactly.
Right now, it's only benefiting us.
It's the same thing with Amazon.
They're tracking the same way.
Amazon only benefits us.
Yeah, they're a monopoly.
Yeah, they're taking out all these other businesses.
Yeah, they have full control, but everything's cheaper and everything's more convenient.
So we're just sitting back going, ah, do whatever you got to do.
Everything's good.
Eventually, we're going to get hit over the head by Amazon.
We're going to be like, whoa, whoa, what the fuck is going on?
And it might be too late.
And I don't know how you stop that as a human being.
You stop it before.
That's actually why you have government intervention.
You have the government come in.
So it has to be the government because it's so against human nature.
You're giving kids candy.
It's like, yeah, we want the candy.
Keep giving me the candy, but you need to be careful.
It's literally like your parents coming in and go put that down.
Yeah.
And you're like, fuck you, mom.
And then when you're older, you don't have type 2 diabetes.
You're like, thank God.
That's a white kid, I did the whitest kid version of that.
Yeah, yeah.
But now it's super interesting time because now we're at the place where they're listening to what we're saying.
Listening, I'm going to put in quotes, but they're marketing stuff that we fucking want.
I get all these cool scooters and shit.
Like everything cool pops up on the ads.
I was telling Mark earlier today, the ads on my Instagram are better than the posts.
It's like a game for me.
It's like, oh shit, they got me this time.
They got me dead ass.
I've been like, yo, I didn't know I needed one of those, but I guess I do.
Yeah.
That happens all the time.
They know exactly I'm the most predictable human to this algorithm because they know exactly what the fuck I want every single time.
It's great.
The listening shit, I don't think they're ever going to really catch too many criminals because I doubt pedophiles actually use the word pedophile.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm going to be doing some pedophiles.
But I'm sure they will talk about it in some capacity.
They will talk about it in some capacity.
They'll search for shit.
Like, there's going to be evidence and it's going to get to the point where it's predictive enough or like hatches you early enough that it's not.
But yeah, I don't.
I'm a capitalistic guy, but I was looking at these monopolies on trial and I was like, yeah, man, we got to do something about all these.
All of these are monopolies.
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Yeah.
Do you think it's possible that it's not listening to you and that the predictive ability of the algorithm is so advanced?
Yeah.
No.
It's definitely listening.
I think it's not.
I think there's too many instances where Artemis, and then within that second, you scroll up and Artemis.
Now, what I would argue for the Artemis thing, I think it was like furniture is that I've been looking at places.
Have you looked at Artemis specifically?
No.
Because there's a lot of times I'll Google search something and then it pops up on my ads non-stop.
And it's like, okay, I get that.
But there's also one or two, it hasn't happened to me as often as others, but like I'm talking about something, no reason for it to pop up on my phone, but it pops up and I'm like, whoa, this is wild.
Because some of these ads are mad as sultan, bro.
I swear to God.
What you got?
I got, do you suffer from premature ejaculation?
I swear to God, I got the wipes.
Have you seen those?
No, what's that?
It's like, what's the wipes?
It's like these like desensitizing wipes.
It's like, rub this on your dickhead.
What does it desensitize her to?
I don't know how that shit works.
How do you got to wear a condom when you do?
I didn't buy it.
Oh, my God.
I don't know, man.
It's a weird time.
Hey, say the name.
We might have a new sponsor.
I remember getting that condom that like numbed your dick.
Yeah.
Remember that one?
No.
Yeah.
That was the wrong guy.
I was like college, bro.
Oh, yeah.
Got that number.
Yeah.
That was fire.
You just fucking.
I mean, now I could never.
But back in the day, dude, when I just had boners for days, it was amazing.
It just made it completely numb.
You just pound away for as long as you want.
That's what's up.
You know what I'm saying?
Aykash?
I know exactly what you're saying.
Fellas, let's be honest.
Grooming sucks.
Shopping for every product, trying to impress women all the time, going to mad different websites.
All the products are trash.
Everything sucks.
There is now a one-stop shop for everything related to men's grooming.
The company is called Hawthorne.
H-A-W-T-H-O-R-N-E.
Go to www.hawthorne.co, fill out a survey.
This is what I'm looking for in shampoo.
This is what kind of deodorant I like.
If you're like, Mark, I don't shower very often.
You literally answer every question, and then they send you every grooming product you could possibly need: hand cream, face cream, cologne, deodorant.
Mark is finally wearing deodorant because of Hawthorne.
That's right.
Everything is legit, high quality, dead ass.
I used to have like rashes from some shitty body wash, started to use the Hawthorne.
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I'm good.
Dead ass.
It's great products.
The packaging is ill if you bring a lady over and you got the soap that smells good as fuck.
Yeah.
Body wash that looks beautiful.
You look like you got your shit together.
This is the grooming product that can get you pussies.
And by grooming, it's not just hair, right?
Hair, hand cream, smelling.
It's like all these things we don't even know the words for as guys.
But yeah, go do that.
Go to www.hawthorne.co.
Again, that's Hawthorne with an E at the end.co, and use promo code flagrant and you get 10% off your first purchase.
Love it.
Go represent the army.
Smell good.
Get some puzzle in quarantine.
Let's go.
Let's get back to the show.
All right.
Look, this is, we're coming back again.
Akash is coming out with his dumbass theory.
So Akash is super paranoid of AI, right?
Because he read one book about AI.
That's not true.
I'm reading one book about AI.
Let's be factual about what we're saying.
All right.
So you read this book about AI.
You're reading this book about AI.
And now everything is like AI is going to take over and everything, but you're very concerned about AI.
I think it's going to be lit for a little while.
Right.
And then it's going to rain.
And you think in 15 years, everything is AI?
I think flying cars.
Yeah, I legit think all.
You always add a couple more years.
You're like, within five years, it's going to be flying cars.
Maybe 10.
At least 15.
10 to 15.
Let's put money on it.
Let's put it.
Okay.
No, no, we have flying cars now.
They're called planes.
No, yeah.
What do you mean?
Like, shit flies.
I mean, you're going to travel via flying cars.
Via flight?
You mean people are going to travel via flight?
Exclusively.
Exclusively.
Why would I exclusively travel in flight?
There's going to be faster shit on the ground.
What if you had to walk to the ground?
Hyperloop.
Ground.
If it's ground, it's going to be Hyperloop or some other shit we've never seen.
You can't flip, son.
You can't.
Hold on.
I'm going to add a cameo.
Hold on.
Hold on.
If you travel on the ground, it's going to be something we've never seen before.
Everything in the future that's new is something we haven't seen before.
Within 10 to 15 years, nobody's driving.
Cookie just said enough.
He's like, I had enough of this, motherfucker.
Get out.
Nobody's driving ever.
Like, you're not allowed to drive.
10 to 15 years.
10 to 15 years.
You're not allowed to drive.
Do you forget what country we're from?
Bro, 10 to 15 years is class close, bro.
What are you saying?
It's dumb.
What do you mean we're not allowed to drive?
Explain that to me.
Because self-driving cars are going to be so good and so much better than regular people.
They're going to be like, yo, it's actually a risk for this person too.
Just because things are good and things are risky when we do it doesn't mean we're not allowed.
I don't think you're going to be allowed to drive.
Condescending tone of home.
Yo, but it's true.
And when you put your knee up, it makes it much more fun.
I was offended at listening.
No, because look, look, you could say, listen, there's no, people shouldn't walk.
You should just get on these conveyor belts.
We'll put on the street.
And that's going to be way better.
And then nobody will fall and then bump their knee and sue the city.
I don't think that applies.
I think that's just like a leap.
You can't use your little don't applies argument.
But we would try to do that with AI the whole time.
This is what you sound like when you argue.
But I'm actually right.
I think I'm right too.
But then you could be like, ah, theoretically, this, if this, if this, if this.
I'm just saying what it's going to be.
I agree with the point that I think.
What are you saying to all the homeless?
Let him make his argument.
What's this going to be?
Because this is what your prediction is.
Yo, in 10 years, it's going to be different.
But it's going to be future.
In 10 years, it's going to be 2030.
I think within the next years, you're not going to walk.
You're not going to sleep.
You're just going to fly all day.
Everything's flying time.
I think in the next 10 years, you'll see 10 to 15.
Let's say you'll see more change.
What are you going to be 10 to 15?
What about eight years?
How's it in eight years?
Just the same?
We're just walking around?
Exactly.
You're not going to chew your own food because you don't get happy.
You can choke on it and have to Heimlech maneuver you.
So they'll chew your own food and put it directly in your stomach.
It's not going to happen for at least eight and three quarters, just to be clear.
I'm saying 15 to be safe.
Yeah, let's be safe, though.
But I think 20 years.
This makes no sense.
I know.
Yo, you'll see more innovation in the next 10 to 15 years than we saw in the previous 100.
All right.
Bro, just don't put a timeline on it.
Yeah, why?
Why are you like, I understand you're saying something that's nothing.
So if you put a date on it, then you feel like you're being prophetic.
Like, you're predicting nothing, right?
Yo, there's going to be advancements in the future.
Well, yeah, no shit.
Hey, 10 years from now, all the advancement will happen within 10 years.
So in this book I'm reading, this is a situation they walk you through.
They say within 10 years, I think they walk through it.
I think that's why they fly you through it, bro.
It's not that far.
We're not there.
It's not the future yet.
In the sequel, though, fly, dude, fucking take me through it.
So you wake up.
Yeah, yeah.
You're hooked up to, your body's hooked up to enough sensors that they say, oh, this person didn't get a good night of sleep last night.
Uh-huh.
So as soon as you walk out the door, ready for work, a car comes and picks you up.
Since you didn't get enough sleep, fresh sheets on a bed that you can sleep in in a self-driving car that takes you to a Hyperloop station, takes you from DC to New York in 30 minutes.
Door-to-door time is like 50 minutes to go to work from DC.
What if my girl is the reason why I didn't get a good night's sleep?
And what if my girl also is going to DC in the same car?
How am I going to go to the next one?
16 years will have that lockdown.
16 years will have the answer to that for sure.
Now, I'm in my own car.
Yeah.
I'm in my own hyperloop.
What if somebody snoring loud in the hyperloop?
I don't know if you're in your own hyperloop, but you're in your own car.
But what if somebody's snoring loud in the hyperloop?
They don't know that.
That's just snoring loud.
I can't sleep.
I'm supposed to be asleep.
Well, you guys sleep in the car, right?
Huh?
That's where you get to sleep is the car.
But we don't know.
There could be construction.
What if there's construction?
What if they're building a double decker to the Hyperloop?
Do you think there's going to be no jackhammers in the future?
3D printer is going to be mad quiet.
I actually don't know if there'll be jackhammers in the future.
So you think they'll...
Hey, dude.
Do you think they'll 3D print it?
Hey, do you think in the future they'll have 40 printing?
Is that possible?
They might get to 60 if we're being realistic.
Okay.
Okay.
So, Kuno, give us more.
Can we ask you questions about the future and then you tell us?
Yeah.
As I read more of the book.
No, no, no, no.
You got it now.
I got you.
You got it.
Just trust your gut and all the bullshit you don't know.
All right.
Just answer this question.
No, you got it.
You got it.
What will food look like in the future?
3D printed food, bro.
Really?
They're already doing that now.
Are they already doing it?
Yeah.
KFC doing 3D nuggets.
Is that right?
You know, this is a story.
How crazy would I have sounded two years ago?
I'll be like, yeah, KFC is going to 3D print nuggets within the next few years.
I would believe it.
Okay.
I believe if you said the next three years, we would have believed it.
Yeah, but then the next three.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
I would have to say that.
If you said one to two, I'd have been like, dude, this guy's crazy.
This guy's crazy.
All right.
What will planes look like in the future?
Ooh.
Apparently, there will be capability to take you internationally via rocket through SpaceX.
So you can go to Australia in like an hour.
Why would you go all the way to space to go to Australia?
I don't think it'll actually leave the Earth's orbit.
It'll just be more similar speed-wise and sonically or whatever.
But it doesn't make sense to go all the way to space if you don't want to go there.
I don't think you've got to go to space.
I think they'll just call it a spaceship.
It'll be similar to a spaceship.
What about a space boat?
That would be sick.
I think they'll get there.
Will it not?
I think they'll get there.
Will it not?
That may go underground all the way out of Earth's atmosphere.
Yo, it's talking about our space rope.
If you were smart, if I was SpaceX, they're trying to figure out how to get to Australia.
Pulley system.
Just go up, wait for the Earth to come around.
They come back, bring it down.
Shit back down.
Shit, use after fuel.
That's what it is.
Dude, and then you don't have to use any fuel to come down.
You just use gravity.
Yeah.
You know what's right next to Australia?
New Zealand.
What?
I thought we were being real.
No, water is right there.
That's where you landed.
All right, Al, do you have any scientific questions in the future?
What does childbirth look like?
Yeah.
What's the future of childbirth?
What's the future of childbirth?
Answer that, you fucking schmuck.
I think at some point we're all dead, so it won't matter.
Oh, no.
But that's not 10 to 15 years.
10 to 15 years.
What does childbirth look like?
Out of the pussy?
Yeah, is there still some vaginas?
I think so.
Or do you think a robot hate them?
I think a robot is delivering the baby.
Like, Uber Eats?
Why would the robot deliver the baby?
Because why would you need a human when AI can do it better?
Just like surgery is done.
It might be overseen by a human or something, maybe.
But they have robots doing surgery.
No, they don't have robots doing surgery.
100%.
They don't have robots doing surgery.
No, they don't.
Look at that.
What surgeries do they do?
I don't know.
Look it up, though.
It's a thing.
I don't know the specific surgeries, but look at it.
Look it up.
Do they have a robot?
And Al would know.
I'll be knowing shit like this.
I don't think you know there's at least one robot that wants to someone.
I don't think they're doing surgery.
You've had a robot surgery?
They do.
Is there a surgery where they could remove the dick from your throat?
I want to keep it there as the thing.
I'm sure there wouldn't be if I didn't want it there, but I like it there.
No.
Okay.
Okay.
Do you think in the future there will be skateboarding for recreation?
You know what I mean?
Will they allow people to recreate?
Yeah.
I think if it can just endanger you, it's fine.
But if it can endanger others, no.
They're going to allow people to recreate in the future.
I think recreating will be allowed.
Yo, if all the doctors are robots, is that like.
I mean, you already got Chinese doctors.
This is the next level.
I mean, just a little bit more robotic.
Are you concerned as Indians?
Yeah, how are you going to make your parents proud?
We should be.
I think that's why we're going to tech because we see where it's going.
That's why Indians are so mad about AI because you guys are the I right now.
Yeah, yeah, yes.
We're the NI.
Yeah.
Natural intelligence.
Oh my God.
So you guys are going to.
I thought that was going somewhere else.
All right.
My bad.
Mark.
What?
Did you almost spell a word we're not supposed to?
No.
Holy moly.
Okay.
Now, do you think?
I feel like I'm in the Snitz.
You're in the middle.
When he said NI, right?
What is it?
Natural intelligence.
Got to get everybody.
What?
Hey, Cruz, chill.
Yeah, you're right.
My bad, doctor.
Come on.
We got to come out our own opportunity.
What is it?
Negativity is.
Conquer our own negativity.
Conquer our own negativity.
Yeah.
Okay.
Akash, I want you to have more faith in humanity.
I don't, yo.
I don't.
You don't?
I don't.
It's over.
You really think?
How many more years do you think the human species has left?
50?
Come on, son.
I'm wilding with that.
That's people.
Akash, this guy's fucked up.
We'll be alive in 50 years, bro.
Nah, you guys are all dead.
Come on, bro.
I think it's a rabbit in 50.
Okay.
That's me.
That's just my own.
Like, I haven't read nothing.
I'm just like, oh, 50 years is old.
We're wrapping this up right now.
Wrapping this up right now.
Akash is beating your wild take.
Listen, we're wrapping this up right now.
You're going to give me any future take that you have, and I'm going to tell you why it's not true.
Okay.
Just go.
Any future take you have.
And the dead be dead serious that you truly believe in the future.
Robots doing surgery.
Say again.
Or a 3D printing food.
One of those.
Not going to happen.
Okay.
Go ahead.
You can't 3D print certain foods.
Which foods?
Priest's pieces, peanut butter cups.
Can't do it.
You can absolutely print.
You can't get the peanut butter in the cup.
Yeah, you can make the cup.
You make peanut butter.
But you can't do it together.
And what's the name of it?
Reese's peanut butter cup.
There we go.
You need Reese's peanut butter cups.
You need both.
Nah, the only thing you won't have is the Reese cup.
Everything else is going to be there.
Go.
Anyway, that's next.
Keep going.
Next.
Next thing in the future won't happen.
Go.
Darry.
I want to take all his takes, put it in a time capsule, and then bury it in 10 to 15 years.
Open up for the dumbest be like, stupid.
He's got to read everyone.
Scoreboard.
Scoreboard.
Okay, go, go, Akash, go.
Go, go.
Self-driving cars.
Self-driving cars.
What about it?
That's now.
That's not the future.
Wrong.
No, every car is going to be self-driving.
Wrong.
Or the majority of cars will be self-driving.
No, that's a stupid one.
Why?
Because the majority went from everyone.
Because if somebody said to you in 10 years.
You said every car.
If somebody said to you in 10 years.
Say every car.
Stick the landing.
Don't be like a little bit of this.
Of course, you can always make that go.
Every car is self-driving.
In 10, 15 years?
Wrong.
Why is that?
Because I could keep my car.
Do you have a car?
Do you have a car?
I do.
What's the car?
It does.
I do.
It does.
I do have a car.
What kind of car?
I have a Tesla truck.
What feature does that Tesla truck have?
As a feature, but it's not only that.
I can also do natural driving.
You know what that was?
What was going to be your plan?
You know what that was?
What was going to be your plan?
That was a girl really liking that logic.
I just fucked up.
I was just relying about everything.
What features does that car have?
Consent.
That was consent, bro.
Go, Next one.
How are you going to get around your Tesla truck?
What was your plan for parking?
Sorry?
What was your plan?
Are you ever going to have it park?
Are you just going to have it move around and self-drive while you like a shark?
Yeah.
While you do work and then come back to the car.
This is your idea.
I'm never going to park in your car.
Are you going to have it self-drive?
You're picking the future and I'm telling you why it's not?
Or is this a different game?
I just flipped it.
Oh, now it's the flip.
Okay, okay.
That's a good point.
That's a good point.
That is a good point.
Okay, listen.
That's not the game that we're playing, so let's go back to the original.
Flipped it back.
Okay.
Over the top.
So, no, another prediction.
Go.
Any prediction you want for the future, go.
I've already knocked both of those out the park.
You went to it.
First, you said all cars are going to fly.
And now he's got to self-drive and like, let's go.
All self-driving, flying cars.
Yeah, pull the dick out, son.
Wheels all together.
No more wheels?
No more circular shits?
You know what I mean?
That's a good question.
No more circles?
How are you going to find those dots to put on your legs for?
Let's go.
We're going to have the dots.
For as long as we're around, we're going to have these dots.
Okay, go, Next prediction, go.
3D printing as opposed to construction.
We're just building buildings, 3D.
What?
That already exists again.
No.
Yeah.
No.
No.
I got him.
I got him.
No.
No, it doesn't actually exist.
It doesn't exist.
What they can 3D print is bricks or little pieces of the building and you got to put them together.
You can't just 3D print a building.
You can't just.
Hey, Mark.
Hey, Mark.
Hey, get in there.
We spin whatever we say.
I don't want to spin like that.
Future Predictions and Robots00:12:00
Stop, stop, y'all.
Hey, stop.
Look it up.
You guys are in there.
They're 3D printing.
You had the same reaction to Rollins doing surgery.
They're 3D printed parts of the other thing.
They're not 3D printing the whole thing.
Right.
What is the whole thing?
The whole fucking structure of the building.
And you don't think it's going to be a good thing.
It's got to be construction than just going to.
Yeah, I think it's going to be 3D printing.
Yeah, that's a lot.
I think it's going to be all 3D printing.
No.
Then how do you put it together?
There has to be some construction.
How do you put the doorknob on the door?
3D printing, yo?
No.
Okay, how do you do this?
I got him out.
I got him.
How do you do this?
How do you put the thing where you fold a towel after you use it in the bathroom?
I don't got him.
You know what would have been a good question?
You had him, son.
You know what?
I thought.
No way you can freeze.
That shit needs to be screwed in.
So you really trusted it all on the buzzer beater.
That needs to be screwed in the whole time.
You lost everybody.
No, no, no, no, I won't take this.
I won't take this.
You got some shit you thought slapped.
You got the wall and you got the thing that holds a towel.
You can't print that as part of the same fucking thing.
I feel like I just gave the ball to J.R. Smith.
He's running away.
Yo, JR, what are you doing?
What the fuck?
You're LeBron.
Look at it with your hands up.
That shit is impossible to put on, even by myself.
You couldn't even install a bidet.
I didn't try.
Wait, did you not install it?
No.
Bring that shit.
Let's put it in here.
Yeah.
I could.
You got to put it in the public bathroom?
Yeah.
We all should there.
Honestly, I don't think that's a good idea.
That's a great idea.
What if you pee on the part where the water shoots out?
Because then the last guy's knee is going to hit your ass.
It self-cleans.
I don't know if I believe all that.
Yeah, it's self-cleans.
How does it self-clean?
How's it self-clean, you fucking one?
We needed to get out one.
All right.
Listen, I gotta go.
All right.
Okay.
So, last one.
Yeah.
I got no more, man.
I'm out.
I gave you all of them.
All of them I've read about.
The world ain't changing that much.
The world ain't changing, Arkash.
That's all I'm trying to say.
Get used to it.
Get comfy.
You're going to live in this for your whole lives.
Oh, I got one.
I got it.
Go.
This is one of the hot cars telling me there's a future where there's no more cash money.
Let me think about it.
Let me think about it.
Keep going.
You think money doesn't exist at all?
That's not what I said.
Cash money.
No more cash.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
Cash money does not exist at all.
What about all the cash that we currently have?
Pull it out of circulation.
Yeah.
And that money will be put into our bank accounts by the government?
Yeah.
Nah.
How a rapper's going to flex in videos.
Swipe that shit, bro, in a butt crack.
Cars, dog.
Yeah.
Takashi is going to have an extra Lambo in his video.
Self-driving ass Lambo.
I'm going to say in how many years?
Because his shit is 10, 15.
10 to 15.
Nah.
Nah, I don't know 10 to 15.
I don't know the time.
In 100 years?
Yeah, there's no more money.
It's stupid.
That's idiotic.
100 years.
What a fucking bitch-ass estimation that was.
100 years?
That's actually 300.
100 years.
You're going to estimate a time?
100 years this guy's estimating 100 years.
Yo, let's go back to 1920 and see how things were.
Just spinning, bro.
Hold on.
Just spinning though.
Son.
1920.
That's two World Wars, a Depression.
The motherfucking 80s.
Oh, you bitch.
You saw a new millennium in the last hundred.
Sounds like a scoreboard's coming up, dude.
Have some balls, son.
You added AIDS.
AIDS?
God damn, son.
Corona.
All right.
200 years.
I think it's 200 years.
I think in 200 years, there's no more money.
Actually, 100, I don't think.
In 200 years, America got a lot of money.
What a bitch ass prediction.
I didn't mean that.
What a big thing.
You think you're brave because you do these short predictions.
You don't know a single thing about the future of AI.
You just add five or two in front of me, and then you think you're smart.
There's going to be no more toilets in 10 years.
We're just going to take shit to the bottom.
America's not even 250.
And you saying 200 years is bad.
America longer than 250.
1776.
America's when we got here, bro.
America's when we got here, son.
America is when we got.
I didn't even do the math, bro.
I don't even do the math either.
If I landed on Plymouth Rock, me, I landed on Plymouth Rock.
When your boy laying on Plymouth's arc, he was like, oh, this feels very American to me.
I know you just took my word on the map.
You're American, bro.
What?
You just took my word on the math.
On the math?
Yeah.
Yeah, I know Drew's not great at history math because he accidentally said slavery was like 100 years ago.
Or no, he said 400 years ago.
I just did that because that's what Van Latham said to fucking Kanye West.
Okay?
I thought Van had his fucking numbers down.
I think that he knows about that more than me.
But then when was it?
I don't know.
That shit.
No, we was a little too close, bro.
It was, it was, yeah, we said 150, but it was 250, right?
Yeah, something like that.
Yeah, wait a minute.
Hold on.
No, we said 250.
We're like, yeah, it's mad long ago.
It was 250.
And you're giving just a little bit less time for a cashless society.
Yo, yo, yo, yo, you gotta be a little more aggressive with your predictions.
That's why I think that's what.
That's the thing.
You're not aggressive.
You think you're making some big predictions, but you're still 20 years.
I'm the opposite guy.
I'm the guy that makes no prediction.
You don't make a prediction.
No, I think it's not going to change.
AI, I don't think anything is changing.
We don't want to come up on it.
We don't wipe our butts anymore.
That's what he says.
Within the next two weeks.
A lot of change is coming up.
You got to double down on your shit.
I think the bad one.
No, you don't.
10 to 15.
You go 10.
Well, you add 50% on top of your fucking prediction.
I saw it.
But I'm the one saying it's not going to change their lifetime.
That's the most brave prediction.
That's not brave at all.
That's the most brave.
You're not going to be married to you.
It's the most brave.
But think about it.
Your shit is mad.
Your shit is dumber.
Your shit is dumber.
Your shit is not.
You're the dumbest.
Hey, listen.
Listen.
Yo, I just realized how brave I am.
Hey, Cookie, shut up, you dog.
Listen.
I just realized according to you.
This is how stupid you are.
You think you're going to get replaced by robots.
Stupid.
I was too excited.
I couldn't get to work right.
I was too excited to say it.
You think a little fucking robot's going to replace you, stupid?
That's how dumb you are.
You think, me, That's the point you're excited about.
That's the point you're excited about.
This is what I'm excited about.
This is bravery.
That's the point you're going to be.
Bravery is investing in humanity.
Your whole cow.
Cowardice is investing in technology.
Whoa.
Coward's going to win.
What?
Cowards be winning.
I thought by this time you'd be on my side.
I didn't think you're going to stay doubled down on that.
I'm investing in humanity.
You saying by 2220, shit going to be the same.
You stupid fucking.
What the fuck did he just say with that number?
200 years from now.
200 years from now.
I'm not going to be around.
Yeah, you're not.
You're going to be going to be the same.
But we don't know.
Nobody will be able to stay around.
Listen, how smart I am.
I just made a prediction neither of us could prove.
You said in 10 years, there's going to be no more oxygen.
That's what you sound like.
You sound like fucking Greta Thunberg, you stupid bitch.
I mean, let's stop using our food.
Oh, my God.
Yeah.
No more toilet paper, boys.
Seriously, end of next week, bro.
No more toilet paper marks.
Just watch.
That's all I'm saying, bro.
Your prediction way dumber than mine.
No, you have the dumbest predictions.
Yours is the dumbest in 2006.
Yours is the dumbest.
You can't even spell 200.
But for real, though, think about it.
You have to think about it.
You're not thinking.
You're like, the AIs do all the thinking.
That's what you do.
I'm thinking.
You need some AI to do your thing.
Listen, look, what I'm doing is I'm holding this up.
I won't even let this do AI for my mic.
Hey, sometimes you got to hit from all angles, bro.
You just got to hit all angles.
This is all I'm saying.
I'm going to wrap this up, though.
Cookie is struggling.
But don't let her hair get on the bottom.
I'm struggling listening to this nonsense.
For real, dogs.
For real.
Yeah.
I mean this shit.
Yeah.
This is serious.
You need to have some balls in your predictions.
Your shit is ballless.
Nah, nah.
Or dumber than mine.
My shorts got so short.
Yo, what's happening?
Look like Librarian.
Look at that.
Every now and again, I look down, bro.
I feel like I'm in a rescaling leotard.
Look like Libron, though.
If you go to the side, you have no pants on.
That's good.
Oh, my balls be a little squashed.
In all seriousness, dude.
Yeah.
You have to realize your predictions are cowardly, bro.
Your predictions are stupid and bitch-ass.
No, no, no.
200 years is mad time.
No, no, but here's the thing about my life.
I think we're going to go cashless within 100.
No, 200 years.
You pussy.
Listen, you said this.
Listen, pussy.
I think I'm believing.
I believe a cashless society will come.
I believe.
You're the one that's making these predictions.
I'm saying this, bitches.
You're the one out here.
We're going to fly.
Everybody's a car.
Wait till two centuries, and I think my prediction will come true.
Bro, no, that's not going to happen.
You're the one making pussy AI additions.
One word?
I don't know what happened.
I'm going to ask right there.
Give me this, please.
I'm so tired.
None of these officers are going to be spinning.
We're going to be spinning.
You're just going to fill a robust.
Philip.
I don't know what that is.
I know what Filipinos are.
Look, here's the thing.
Here's the deal.
Y'all heard that part?
Yo, look, here's the deal.
Listen, my prediction is pushing.
No, no, Back up, back up.
You're not even taking away cash.
Yo, no, no, no.
Listen, listen.
This is your prediction.
Your prediction is you're going to give up and let a robot fuck your asshole.
My prediction is humans.
Me, I know me 10 to 15 years.
I'm fighting for this.
I'm not going to let humans take over.
You're like in Terminator 2 when the robots were walking.
You just scooped into your asshole and you pulled it wide open for them to just fuck you in it, right?
That's why I'm saying mine is actually more brave.
Now you're shit.
Yours is more pussy.
Your shit is adorable.
I'm going to fight.
I'm going to fight to survive.
I'm going to fight for humanity.
You're out here just like, yo, do whatever.
Tell me what to do.
Government's going to do it.
That's what I'm saying.
You need to fight, bro.
You need to fight for your jobs.
You need to fight for your jobs in India.
Yo, podcasts are good.
No, but Indians.
I'm talking about Indians.
We're going to be fine.
We're all going to go to tech.
That's what we do.
I don't know, bro.
I don't know.
I think Indians, you got to stop.
White people aren't.
You got to stop selling out Indians, bro.
That's our most important thing.
Like, you got to stop selling out Indians right now, bro.
You got to stop.
No, there's We're going to go straight to tech.
White people aren't.
I'm going to be honest with you.
They're going to start taking your jobs.
They're going to start taking them fucking artificial.
We've already taken your jobs.
No, our job is to do it.
We're going to hire you.
That's our job.
That's our jobs.
So listen, they're going to start replacing the farms, the call center farms, with artificial intelligence, bro.
Who's going to program the artificial intelligence?
Indians.
Chinese people.
I don't know.
Indians, yo.
Listen, listen.
I'm just saying, you got to be on the side of your people, bro.
Yeah, AI.
That's the side of my people.
It's AI.
Whoa, dude.
They're going AI.
Y'all are all fucked.
Wow.
I'm sorry.
That's fucked up, bro.
You should have sold out your people.
That's fucked up.
How are you going to sell out your people, bro?
No, we're going to AI.
We know what India.
I got your back, bro.
Listen, I got your back, bro.
And you speak it, right?
I speak Urdu.
Yeah.
Say something real quick.
Yeah.
Hey, what'd I say, y'all?
Hey, what I say.
Hey, what I say, y'all.
Oh, my God.
Nah, in all seriousness, bro.
Anything you want to take back, bro?
No, I stand by all of it.
Anything you want to take back?
I do want to take one thing back.
Extending the Century Prediction00:01:46
What's that?
I think that I want to extend my prediction.
Oh, wow.
You're going to make it even more pussy.
I want to extend my prediction to one.
Is a century 100 years?
Yeah.
What's a thousand?
A gig?
It's a millennia.
It's a millennia.
Yeah.
I'd like to extend my.
I think human beings, bruh, are going to be driving whatever the fuck we're driving for the next half millennia.
How long is that?
At least 500 years.
Yeah, five cents.
I want to make sure you're new.
Five centuries, too.
Yeah.
Okay.
Do you know why it's century?
What?
Cent Is one.
And what is uri that's?
That's an Ordo word.
It's a famous wordie, is a famous Urdu word.
It's famous for 99, it's.
So it's just well.
It's actually yeah, century.
It's a hundred.
One plus 99 is a hundred.
Got you yeah, got you.
You know what that means in Urdu.
All right, we gotta stop this podcast.
We've gone on too long.
Uh guys, we love you uh, we appreciate you.
Um, I have nothing else to say.
We've said everything.
Okay Akash, is there anything that you'd like to say?
I stand by everything I said.
You know, when they're listening to this podcast, when in the future, yo factual, toilet paperless society, don't bail, toilet paperless society, don't beta, Don't fail about it.